Saturday 25 June 2011

Happy Smurf Day!


Just found this over at article on the Smurf film and apparently today is 'Global Smurfs day'!

Lets have a Smurfin' day!

Friday 17 June 2011

Sisters of Mercy - Mariah



Back in the late 90's Poison drummer Rikki Rockett teamed up with his good friend Mark Williams and created a set of comics through Rob Liefeld's Maximum Press (an imprint of Image Comics).



Soon after this they launched under their own banner of 'No Mercy Comics'. The titles they produced were a fun, interesting and typically Image-styled comic art. Three titles were produced including "Nightshade", "Coven 13" and my favourite "Sisters of Mercy".


"Sisters of Mercy" was a post-apocolyptic tale of two sisters - Malina & Mariah - living on an ark-like island filled with the last remaining animals on the planet. There are other survivers of whatever has happened to the earth and they live on other islands away from the animals.


The title encapsulated horror, fantasty, animal protection, adventure and a bit of cheesecake. All in all a fun read and a pity they never eleased the next series of the title.

Unfortunately Mark Williams died in 1998 (he did special effects work on Aliens, The Abyss & Terminator 2) - read his bio http://www.answers.com/topic/mark-williams-horror-children-s-family

Here's my sketch of Mariah - martial artist/warrior.
Cheers,
Rob.