>He's not any hero. He's an English Hero.
The future has come and gone.
But the man called Dan Dare is here.
Retirement never looked so good for one.
Sometimes the past will just not let you rest.
This is-
Ennis & Erskine's Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
>white
>male
>straight
Who cares?
And here we go...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sO293Q_VKw
What a nice place.
That's only a tad offsetting Dan
Oh that's bad
Pretty handy of them
Part 2:
wherein you can't go off like that
What a nice bunch of citizens
Go Dan, Go!
Damn it and he seemed like a stand up guy haha
Part 3:
wherein hold the line fellas
Alright, that's pretty hilarious
>>78304157
Cool. Do you have the original series as well?
>>78305003
Nope, I've seen some torrents around but I don't know if any of those are comprehensive.
That's some nice explaining
I think they got this.
Do it for the gipper, Dare.
Part 4:
whereing the jig is up
The laying on the floor thing is so undignified
The Mekon does think out of the box
Hot damn that's luck
Part 5:
wherein suit up and ship out
Part 6:
wherein nothing says welcome like old friends
Damn it Dare haha
That wasn't very nice at all.
Final Part:
wherein this is our double sized finale
Planes of the future
Are you really confused Mekon?
Cool as a cucumber
Your own fault Mekon
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
Can't put a good guy down, not for long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4
THE END.
As always I hope someone out there enjoyed this/
I did, see you around.
>>78304157
Isn't this Smasher's Grandpa?
Grant Morrison's and Rian Hughes' Dare was fucking fantastic...anyone have a link/care to storytime it? I'd love to re-read that, very under-rated part of Morrison's canon...and Rian Hughes "Atomic" ligne-claire, pre-digital era art looks FUCKING FANTASTIC.
People tend to forget that Ennis has done a lot of really obscure shit like this and some of it's reasonably solid.
>>78304350
>>78304379
Whoa, he lives in an AI simulation so advanced that it can ask itself about him?
>>78309006
They retconned that unfortunately:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/11/smashers-grandfather-is-no-longer-dan-dare-marvel-amends-the-avengers/
Wish someone would reprint all the original Eagle stuff. I used to have an old Dan Dare annual when I was a kid and it was a glorious technicolour thing - a lot like the Trigan Empire stripe in the equally-as-old Look and Learn magazine.
When 2000AD first launched the flagship strip was a rebooted Dan Dare and they took a lot of liberties which pissed an awful lot of people off - it sank in quality so damn quick. Luckily there was that new guy on the fancy bike with the fancy gun in the dystopian Mega City One who took over as the main character.
>>78304157
>>78304157
Based OP
>>78304659
>When Winston was at the Admiralty, the Board objected to some suggestion of his on the grounds that it would not be in accord with naval tradition. ‘Naval tradition? Naval tradition?’ said Winston. ‘Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.’
>>78305191
>Fix bayonets
Yeah, that'll sort 'em.
>>78305191
>Fix bayonetts.
Be still my throbbing boner.
>>78305480
>Ginger leader
Nice Space-Spitfire.
>>78306166
Best. plan. ever.
>>78306378
Fuck, did they leave their extra ammo back in the fleet?
>>78306791
Would it be most appropriate to play God Save the Queen, Heart of Oak or Do You Remember Love in this scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXFCDgyanA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxahwxY_5jg
>>78305191
I only ever found the first collection and it ends right here. Thanks, Dave!
>>78313035
Apparently Ennis grew up with the 2000AD Dan Dare stuff but when he got on to write this he reaiized that no one would want to read that stuff
>>78313772
How was 2000AD Dan Dare different from dis?
>>78313788
lot more action packed and schlocky
>>78313795
Less of a heart-felt love letter to Britain?
>>78313814
They chopped off his hand and gave him a gauntlet which shot laser beams; he dressed like a 70s bloke; talked like TV hard-man Lewis Collins; and generally wasn't a Mar-vell-esque embodiment of his previous ideals. In short it was like a preview of what happened to most characters in the 90s: x-treme! x-attitude! - less a well loved character and more a product of its time.
>>78313846
Ah, so the exact opposite of this.
>>78313866
and this is a good approximation of the OG stuff
>>78313846
Dave Gibbons did some good early work on it, though. It's cool to see older Anons commenting! Well, I assume you're past your mid-thirties? That's the vibe I get from your posts.
>>78313788
Much more of a generic scifi action adventure, closer in tone to star trek than this.
for a manlet in a hoverchair, the Mekon is pretty threatening
aww I was hoping the sub-Lieutenant qt would make it
>>78314980
Yeah, but that's how war is
Thanks, OP.
>>78304157
Thanks Designated Dave.
>>78305030
If this was an American character Ennis would have mocked this sentiment completely.
Fucking hypocrite.
>>78320906
Dan is like Superman, he's above reproach
>>78304157
>Dan Dare
Oh, I had the original one, it was great. Classic pulp sci-fi.
>Garth Ennis
>[worrying intensifies]
>>78324081
Outside of some jabs at military bureaucracy, it's fine.
