"Green Brother"
For those of you who own (or in Paul Miles' case are in) Weird Business, be sure to check out the John Lucas-illustrated adaptation of "Green Brother" from Howard Who?
A little side note about Messrs. Miles and Lucas, in the 90s they produced (Miles wrote, Lucas drew) a serialized strip for the XLent, the weekly produced by The Austin-American Statesman. For the life of me, I can't remember the strip's name but it ran 8-10 weeks. I seem to recall it being a full page strip. I'm sure Paul could fill in the info gaps.
Rick
A little side note about Messrs. Miles and Lucas, in the 90s they produced (Miles wrote, Lucas drew) a serialized strip for the XLent, the weekly produced by The Austin-American Statesman. For the life of me, I can't remember the strip's name but it ran 8-10 weeks. I seem to recall it being a full page strip. I'm sure Paul could fill in the info gaps.
Rick
Labels: Green Brother, Howard Waldrop, Howard Who?, John Lucas, Paul Miles, Weird Business, XLent
posted by Rick Klaw at
12:21 AM
3 Comments:
The only thing I remember about the XLent story is that my original idea had been to do six issues and leave on a big cliffhanger with no intention of finishing it. And that part I thought was pretty good. Then the editor asked gave us additional pages for the "rest" of the story, which, of course, I hadn't even bothered to think about. So the second half of the thing was terrible, though people probably didn't notice because Lucas' art was so good. I've always regretted not sticking to my guns and ending it with the cliffhanger.
But was the name of it? I seem to recall that you used a Lucas character.
Somehow, I doubt John would agree with you about the art. He seems to hate everything he did from that period.
His character was called The Red Scarab. The story had to do with Nazis and robots and secret islands and other such nonsense. I personally don't even have a copy of it. Although, back in the day, my mother had each page framed and they are up on the wall back at the house.
I think he's wrong about his art. IIRC, his line was much thicker than it is now and more cartoonish.
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