Vargr Corsair model

[ElHombre]

okay, i don't think this was what he meant to build but the resemblence is uncanny.

link

 

[jfetters]

Huh.

I dunno. I may not be that old, but I am old enough to know if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

The colors and style are just TOO close...

 

[mike wightman]

The Blitzspear first appeared in a 2000AD story called "The Terror Tube" that introduced the whole world that was to become the Nemesis the Warlock.
That was 1980.

When was the first image of a Vargr corsair printed?

 

[Border Reiver]

I don't think there is anything earlier than 82.

I'll need to check my 2000ad collection (all being sold on ebay) but I don't think the Blitzspear was shown in colour until 83.

 

[Pickles]

I always thought the Scorpio (Blakes 7) looked quite a lot like the Blitzspear ...

Going underground, I'm going underground, lalala ...

 

[mike wightman]

Prog 167, July 1980.

The Blitzspear is on the cover.

http://www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/nemsyn1.html

 

[Border Reiver]

Damn that's right, flying down the margin. Well the Keith's always were derivative.

 

[jfetters]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Prog 167, July 1980.

The Blitzspear is on the cover.

http://www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/nemsyn1.html

It took me forever to see the thing, as I was having issues with the image coming up in my browser. Interesting!

So, I am guessing this 2000AD thing is a British comic? Ah, yes, I see. Judge Dredd...

Hey, wasn't that played by an American in the movies?

(GD&R)

 

[mike wightman]

Mega City One is the American Eastern seaboard more or less, I'd expect Dredd to be played by an American.
If Sly had kept the helmet on the film would have been much better.

As it is, I always thought the film was a pretty good stab at a Dredd story.

I'm hoping for a sequal, with Judge Anderson and the dark Judges...

 

[Pickles]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
If Sly had kept the helmet on the film would have been much better.

Yep. My peers and I thought he'd be ideal for the part back around Prog 500 of so (Halo Jones book 3 time, it was). We were right, too, but he really should have kept his helmet on. I mean, if deNiro did it in Brazil ...