Max Overload issue 2

Previously I've looked at Max Overload (1994, from the relatively short-lived publisher imprint Dark Horse International) - the 2nd issues, dated April 1994, has now arrived. There is no 3rd issue - due, according to this link, to Dark Horse International going bust in 1994.

Anyway, good luck tracking down this rare comic & gaming magazine mash-up...it's got 32 pages of comics content in a 64 page magazine so that's a pretty good ratio as far as I'm concerned.

Woodrow Phoenix draws the cover

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom [8 pages]

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield [8 pages]

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout [8 pages]

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney [8 pages]

And here's the day when a camera crew turned up for filming...Anne Caulfield and Woodrow Phoenix looking very relaxed there...

Here's the back page advert for issue #3 - cover at by David Lyttleton

Max Overload! from Dark Horse comics

To me Max Overload! was a completely unknown entity until quite recently when I started listening to the Sonic the Comic podcast. In one of the early 'pods' this magazine got a shout out so I went off to track it down...

First up, while it's produced by a comics company (Dark Horse) this isn't a comic, it's a games magazine. However it has got a lot more comics content then you'd expect to see in such a magazine. Anyway, let's see what's in it...

Cover by Dave Pether 

Some lovely photos of our contributors

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout 

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom

Back over

well there was an issue 2 but it seems even harder to track down than issue 1 - there wasn't a 3rd issue.
 

Space Precinct 2040 - part 2

And now we have issues 4-6...

Cover by Mick Austin
story one - The last Warrior (writer Ian Carney; Art by John Erasmus; letters by Annie Parkhouse)
story two - Christmas spirit (writer Stephen Jewell; art & lettering Gary Chaloner)
cutaway drawing (by Graham Bleathman) of Slomo (robotic secretarial assistant)

Cover by Tony Luke
story one - True believers (writer Simon Jowett; Art by Graham Manley; letters by Annie Parkhouse)
story two - Timebomb (writer Cory MacRae; art Andrew Currie; inks Graham Higgins; colours Nigel Parkinson; lettering Peter Nichols)
cutaway drawing (by Graham Bleathman) of inside the space hopper 

Cover by Colin MacNeil
story one - Cruise control (story by Paul Grist, art by Colin MacNeil, colours by Nigel Parkinson; lettering by Elitta Fell)
story two - True believers (writer Simon Jowett; art by Graham Manley)

Roleplaying comics (3) - 2000AD's Dice Man issue 2

2000AD's Dice man issue 2, front cover by Glenn Fabry

Story one - The ABC Warrior vs. Volgo, the ultimate death machine - art by Steve Dillon, story/game by Pat Mills, lettering by Kid Robson

Story two - You are the dice man - art by Graham Manley, story/game by Pat Mills, lettering by Mark King

Story three - Slaine in Dragoncorpse - art by Nik Williams, story/game by Pat Mills, lettering by Tom Frame

Later re-printed in the Titan Books Slaine title.