Showing posts with label mind games. Show all posts
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Sunday, 17 March 2019

John Allison's Mind Games



John Allison was all over Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction, in a good way. John's since gone on to become a special effects artist ( and apparently worked on the never-made Silver Surfer movie ), but back in the Bronze Age, he was trying to get work in comics. He sadly didn't get much published, but Roy Thomas clearly liked his stuff as much as I did, noticing him in the Canadian 'zine Orb alongside Gene Day & Ken Steacy. Here's my favourite of his from UWOSF - yes, it's the kind of shaggy dog story beloved by Epic & Heavy Metal, but Allison's Brunner-like art is irresistible, and the scene where God appears is breathtaking.