Tales from the past viewed through rose tinted glasses
Monday, October 5, 2026
Favourite comics: Captain Sternn by Bernie Wrightson
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I loved Captain Stern when I first saw it in the pages of Heavy Metal. Wrightson was already a fave, but this story won me over for good and all. The humor blended with the adventure and horror was instant gold. I don't have this in a collected form, perhaps I need to correct that oversight.
ReplyDeleteI loved Bernie's humour art when he drew some of Vaughn Bodes strips (some pages are on my blog if interested) but he drew these in Bodes style. Although they were really well illustrated, Bernie was just in another league with his own humour style that he used here on Captain Sternn. He was a wonderful and much missed talent.
ReplyDeleteI tried to leave a comment hours ago, but there was a blue bar saying 'sign in with Google', but I couldn't when I attempted to, McS. That's happened quite a bit with your blog recently. The usual nice Adams art, but the character doesn't appeal to me for some reason.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why that happened but I experienced similar earlier today with Rips blog . I love these type of humour strips and Wrightsons art for me is just brilliant.
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