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sunday fantasy # 390: The Marvel Family #83, 1953 (via)

sunday fantasy #366: Frank Tinsley (via Dieselpunks)

sunday fantasy #362: “Pilot Marko”, from the brains of Warren Ellis and Kev Walker, Secret Avengers #17
(released before the death of Steve Jobs, just to be clear)

sunday fantasy #361: from Ministry of Space #3, Warren Ellis and Chris Weston

sunday fantasy #360: From Scarlet Traces: The Great Game #1, by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli

sunday fantasy #359: from Dan Dare #1 (Virgin Comics), Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine

sunday fantasy #356: Josh Siegel (via Superpunch)

sunday fantasy #350: Enemy Ace. Art by Joe Kubert

sunday fantasy #345: Geoff Darrow

sunday fantasy #326: Frederick Blakeslee

sunday fantasy #320: Russ Heath (via)

sunday fantasy #299: “A Flying Wing Jet Air-liner of the Future”, from The Eagle

via this great Flickr set by modern_fred

sunday fantasy #275: Torumekian armored corvette, from the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga

sunday fantasy #273: page from the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga

Illustrated and written by Hayao Miyazaki, and serialised between 1982 and 1994, this for me is the pinnacle of his work. The 1984 movie constitutes less than a quarter of the content of the finished manga, with a very different storyline.

Although it does well depicting the post-apocalyptic poisoned world - filled with giant insects and the crumbling wrecks of starships and giant cyborg “god warriors” - watching the movie feels a bit like having read The Lord of the Rings - and finding out that the film version pretty much starts off the same, before turning into Krull, then ending just before the Balrog bit..

sunday fantasy #256