The Tomorrow People

The Tomorrow People was ITV's answer to Dr Who, except with even less money for special effects.
For those who weren't in the UK at the time, The Tomorrow People were basically the X-Men, except they all had the same powers. They were a group of teenage mutants who were the next step in human evolution due to their telepathic skills and ability to 'jaunt' ( teleport ) and who'd taken it upon themselves to protect us 'saps' ( Homo Sapiens ) from all kinds of threats.
As the self-appointed best representatives of Humanity, they were also the first point of contact for any nice aliens out there, and were always jaunting off on adventures to other planets.
Too, they spent a lot of their time helping new Tomorrow People 'break out' and discover their true nature ( subtext much? )
The reason that, even if we'd realised, we didn't care about the lame special effects was a) we were too busy jaunting around the playground and b) that incredibly trippy and spooky opening title sequence:

Luckily, the inevitable Look-In comic strip had unlimited special effects, AND John M. Burns. Here's a killer story where the People go all Dennis Wheatley, and face off against the Devil, something that never happened in the show, more's the pity.
Not only is Burns artwork as wonderful as always, but the writer, presumably longtime Look-In scribe Angus P. Allen, makes the effort to use lead Tomorrow Person John's incredibly posh school-teacherish speech patterns.
The only thing wrong with this strip is that it reflects a later roster for the gang, and not the team from the first series ( and on the cover above ), thereby missing out on one of the show's best unintentional running gags.
Throughout the first series, the character of Kenny was played by a young lad with no acting experience, who turned out to be so bad that each episode has a scene where the People are off on another adventure, and Kenny starts to come with John, Carol & Stephen, before one of them invariably says: 'Er, no, Kenny, you stay and look after the lab'
Honestly, check out a couple of episodes on youtube, it happens every damn time.

More Bionic Woman

Karl's been on, following yesterday's John M. Burns' Bionic Woman greatness, asking to see Jaime Sommers' debut appearance in Look-In. Well, if we don't have something here at TBAOB, we'll try to locate it, and who am I to deny someone who's waited 38 years to see the conclusion to a story? That's an itch that's just gotta be scratched.

John M. Burns' The Bionic Woman & Smuggler

Courtesy of Sean Philbo Phillips,  friend of this blog and the man with more issues of Look-In than you, here's a double dose of the mighty John M. Burns.
With The Bionic Woman strip, John ( as always ) elevates a fairly blah script into the most exciting visual reading experience a kid could ask for, with figures literally bouncing around the page, as well as Burns taking every opportunity to show off Jaime Sommers' ludicrously long legs.
Check out also, his incredible use of colour, right up there with Gray Morrow's, using combinations and palettes that really shouldn't work, but somehow always do.

And to prove Burns is no slouch at Black & White or more detailed work, here's the long forgotten Oliver Tobias vehicle Smuggler ( even I struggle to remember this one! )

As far as I'm concerned, Burns is up there with Frank Bellamy & Leo Baxendale as legendary British cartoonists, so I'm just gonna keep posting his stuff until he gets some kind of lifetime acheivement award or something.