I was about ten or eleven when I was first exposed to the writing of the recently deceased Steve Moore in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly. He and Alan Moore (no relation) wrote back-up stories in the magazine. Some of the ones that first caught my attention were the tales of the Cyberman who still retained his emotions – Kroton. But, the one that really caught my imagination and stuck with me for years afterwards was this four page chapter in one of the Star Tigers stories featuring Abslom Daak — Dalek Killer. I encountered it completely out of context of the rest of the story, in stark black and white art by David Lloyd (who would later illustrate V for Vendetta). There were so many ideas here that were so new to me… I used to xerox these four pages and hand them out to friends and insist they read it. Make sense of this! There was only one other comic I did that with back when I was barely a teen – an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” by Alberto Breccia in the October 1982 issue of Heavy Metal.
About Marc Arsenault
Bay Area artist, musician, writer & editor
Proprietor of Wow Cool Alternative Comics
Half of Rebel Sound System SF
Member of Brown Cuts Neighbors
Good with tools and animals.
Proprietor of Wow Cool Alternative Comics
Half of Rebel Sound System SF
Member of Brown Cuts Neighbors
Good with tools and animals.