Duke Rogers

@dukerogers.bsky.social

Author of novels, short stories and the upcoming space opera parody THE MUNDANE ADVENTURES OF JOHN RAMSEY.

"I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes and this thing… gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice." My take on a scene from The Thing featuring the brilliant matte painting art of Albert Whitlock.

Painting, three people stand at the edge of a snow covered crater looking down on the remains of a crashed saucer like craft.

what is the book of the week, you ask? the answer can be none other the revelation of Juan José Ryp’s Boba Fett … what’s that, you say? how can such a thing be? I tell you: it is so. dude wrecks a gang of b’omarr monks. starring the cool guy from our imaginations, not the scrub who fell off a barge.

Star War Boba Fett Black White and Red #3, cover by E. M. Gist. My god. We used to worship this blorbo. The toy just looked so cool. They made a cool toy and that version of Boba Fett is the stuff of murals.Star War Boba Fett Black White and Red #3, by Ethan Sacks and Juan José Ryp. I mean, look at this: look at how much we all loved this man. When he was just an idea? The children would have erected temples, from 1980-1983. Afterwards, well, the reality of RotJ made the character a little less formidable, but the phantom version of Holiday Special cartoon and toy looms large still. Star War Boba Fett Black White and Red #3, by Ethan Sacks and Juan José Ryp. Look at how much this man loves drawing this. the book is full of this kind of side-of-the-van metal imagery. fantastic stuff. more than a single issue of this approach  would probably be like eating too much candy, for all concerned.  Star War Boba Fett Black White and Red #3, by Ethan Sacks and Juan José Ryp. Look! Boba Fett facing off against an army of those weird spider things from the first couple minutes of Return of the Jedi. This is the coolest thing in the world by the standards of who we were in 1983, we stand and honor the pureness of execution.

Ezquerra's Dredd is like a force of nature, which is great for the epic stories, but I like Cliff Robinson's Dredd. Something spit-and-sawdust about him; always seems like a guy wearing a uniform, rather than the uniform being part of him.

Judge Dredd as drawn by Cliff Robinson.