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Those treats are these: American Ninja 2, Creepshow 2, The Gate, Ishtar, Personal Services and Beverly Hills Cop II.
I think the only one of those I've ever seen is The Gate. Therefore, I shall list that as my Film of the Month.
And what of sport?
It was the month in which Vienna's Prater Stadium saw Porto best Bayern Munich 2–1 to win that team's first-ever European Cup.
Also flying high - but then landing - was 18-year-old West German Mathias Rust who managed to dodge Soviet air defences, and land his plane in Moscow's Red Square before being arrested for the feat. Fortunately, he was released from custody in August 1988.
On the adjacent album chart, the month arrived with Curiosity Killed the Cat's Keep Your Distance on top before that was dislodged by Swing Out Sister's It's Better to Travel which was then dethroned by Simple Minds' Live in the City of Light.
Fab. But what of the Galaxy's greatest comic?
It was an exciting time for all lovers of high culture because the publication was celebrating its tenth birthday. And it did that by giving us such old warhorses as Anderson PSI Division, Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd, Nemesis, Strontium Dog and Tharg's Future-Shocks.
We did, however, get one newish feature, in the form of Prog 253's one-page strip that bore the title Tales from Mega-City One.
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I’ve never seen any of those films, but if I was stuck on a long flight and those were the only in-flight movies available, it’s entirely possible that I would actually choose to watch THE GATE.
Whitney Houston’s delightfully infectious “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” deserved to be a worldwide smash.
O’Neill’s Prog 523 cover is so, SO gross — and also the most striking of this batch, by far.
b.t.
The only one of those films I’ve seen is ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’, which is rubbish. I’ve started ‘Ishtar’ but not gotten very far. I have to finish it off because Jonathan Rosenbaum really rates it. I’m dubious.
I really liked / like that Whitney Houston single as well.
Such a strong start with the covers: a McCarthy and an O’Neill! Then it goes downhill badly with a Smith, a very boxy and lifeless Higgins - couldn’t they have got someone better for the 10th anniversary prog?! - and in between a wall-eyed Anderson by a bad artist whose work I don’t recognise.
We’re supposed to believe that “NOW THAT’s WHAT I CALL MUSIC,” is not top of the charts?
Prog 520 was a favourite of mine featuring Barry Kitson on Judge Anderson, Garry Leach on Judge Dredd, Kev O’Neil on Torquemada, Steve Dillon on Rogue Trooper and an on-form Carlos Ezquerra on Strontium Dog. Other than Leach, all of the artists completed full story arcs, and Delano and Davis add the single-page D.R. & Quinch agony column in prog 525. The title also changed, physically, moving from the traditional IPC square format to a an over-sized take on the US format. I guess it meant they could simply shrink the page size for future US reprints, rather than re-formatting the art. The paper also improved and so did nicely feature the better art. Leach and O’Neil were well-served (from memory).
The covers were a bit duff (compared to the internal art) but most featured full-colour posters (again O’Neil, Davis etc) until D.R. & Quinch started.
DW
Full-colour posters on the back pages…
DW
Ah yes - I remember the better paper kicking in now. Was it with the anniversary issue?
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