Hey guys, great podcast.
Really enjoyed the Christmas show, I've been meaning to post about it since before Christmas now. Was great to hear such a large part of the show dedicated to an issue of the UK comics. I have great memories of the UK comics from my childhood, but one thing you have to remember if your reading the UK comics for the first time as an adult is that comics in the UK are aimed at a much younger audience then they are in the USA.
I just listened to Ep8 last night. Thanks for the advise on assembling Granamyr. I'm still waiting for my Granamyr to arrive but will definitely use this advise when I come to assemble him.
Origin stories tend to be my favourite stories so now I can't wait for your next episode
The UK comics did quite a few origin stories, now most of these were fleshed out versions of origins from the Style Guide, but whats interesting is that in most cases these were the only two sources that covered an origin for many of these characters.
You say your dong Rio Blast and Snout Spout first. While I'm sure you already now this, Rio Blast's origin is covered in #65 and #28 of the UK comic and Snout Spout's is told in #26, there is also a good story in #41 where Snout Spout gets the chance to turn back into a human.
If you looking for some suggestions on other origin stories then here's a few others that are featured in the UK comic:
Moss Man's in #67 and Sy-Klone's in #71 could make quite an interesting topic as both are very different from the their MYP and MOTUC origin's.
Grizzlor in #62 is interesting as his MOTUC bio was based on it.
Modulok in #64 as some similarities with his Filmation origin, as he is a scientist called Galen Nycroft, but other then that its a very different interpretation of his Style Guide story, which as I'm sure you know is
very different to his mini-comic story.
The Snakemen's origin in #27 is again similar to their other origin stories (as I'm sure they were all based on the Style Guide origin) but not exactly the same.
Ninjor and Scare Glow's origin is #9 of the Adventure magazine is a great story, with some similarities to the mini-comic.
But one of my favourites is the origin of Dragstor (real name: Theydon) and Extendar (real name: Doodon) from #31 and reprinted in full colour in #28 of the Adventure magazine.
All of these issues are available in the publishing section of the Org, but they are hard to read on-line as the pages are all out of order, so it's best to save each page then read the issue off-line,
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