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Discovered a marvellously funny webcomic called simply '''''1977''''' (subtitled: A Rock & Roll Comic by W.Byron Wilkins). There's no direct Pratchett-related stuff, but one of the characters is a slightly embellished Bearded Lizard called Poco, who will eat ''anything'' and when alarmed breathes fire. The way he is drawn is pretty much how I'd visualise a small pet swamp-dragon! | Discovered a marvellously funny webcomic called simply '''''1977''''' (subtitled: A Rock & Roll Comic by W.Byron Wilkins). There's no direct Pratchett-related stuff, but one of the characters is a slightly embellished Bearded Lizard called Poco, who will eat ''anything'' and when alarmed breathes fire. The way he is drawn is pretty much how I'd visualise a small pet swamp-dragon! | ||
Try it and see: [[http://1977thecomic.com/1977-comics/cat-fever/]][[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC) | Try it and see: [[http://1977thecomic.com/1977-comics/cat-fever/]][[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC). And [[http://1977thecomic.com/1977-comics/money-thats-what-i-want/|here]]. | ||
I'll see if I can email or contact W. Byron Wilkins for permission to copy a few pictures of Poco here. As I say not Pratchett-related, so not main page material, but wonderfully evocative! [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC) | I'll see if I can email or contact W. Byron Wilkins for permission to copy a few pictures of Poco here. As I say not Pratchett-related, so not main page material, but wonderfully evocative! [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC) | ||
:Cat-flaming is one of the most endearing qualities of the dragon. They can also be useful in other types of pest control.<br> | |||
:Interesting that "A Rock & Roll Comic" is named after the year of, or after, the Death of Rock & Roll. I wonder what was intended. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:41, 3 March 2014 (UTC) | |||
here's another. Classic. [[http://1977thecomic.com/1977-comics/oh-no-there-goes-tokyo/_swamp_dragon_when-nasally_irritated]][[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 15:08, 3 March 2014 (UTC) | |||
[[File:Terrible grimace and purposeful sound.....jpg]] | |||
Or is it "with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound"? No matter. Poco, the Roundworld version of the swamp dragon, saving his master from a bar fight. | |||
Full permission for reproduction granted by Poco's creator W. Byron Wilkins who wrote to me thusly: | |||
"Sure, go ahead! I’d be honored! A good friend of mine used to edit Pratchett’s newsletter or something along that lines, so I’m semi-familiar with his works." | |||
The other half of the bargain: For more of Poco's adventures with the rock group ''Plan 9'', go to the wonderfully good webcomic '''''[[http://1977thecomic.com/ 1977: The comic]]''''' and be entranced and amused. Warning: definitely NSFW in many places but all the better for that. | |||
And - thanks, Byron! [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 15:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 15:23, 3 March 2014
Who's sanctuary is it anyway?
"Lady Sybil aids Rosie Devant-Molei's Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons"
Where does this information come from? I always thought Sybil was the main person behind the sanctuary. --Sanity 00:26, 19 August 2006 (CEST)
Discovered a marvellously funny webcomic called simply 1977 (subtitled: A Rock & Roll Comic by W.Byron Wilkins). There's no direct Pratchett-related stuff, but one of the characters is a slightly embellished Bearded Lizard called Poco, who will eat anything and when alarmed breathes fire. The way he is drawn is pretty much how I'd visualise a small pet swamp-dragon!
Try it and see: [[1]]AgProv (talk) 23:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC). And [[2]].
I'll see if I can email or contact W. Byron Wilkins for permission to copy a few pictures of Poco here. As I say not Pratchett-related, so not main page material, but wonderfully evocative! AgProv (talk) 23:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- Cat-flaming is one of the most endearing qualities of the dragon. They can also be useful in other types of pest control.
- Interesting that "A Rock & Roll Comic" is named after the year of, or after, the Death of Rock & Roll. I wonder what was intended. --Old Dickens (talk) 00:41, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
here's another. Classic. [[3]]AgProv (talk) 15:08, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Or is it "with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound"? No matter. Poco, the Roundworld version of the swamp dragon, saving his master from a bar fight.
Full permission for reproduction granted by Poco's creator W. Byron Wilkins who wrote to me thusly:
"Sure, go ahead! I’d be honored! A good friend of mine used to edit Pratchett’s newsletter or something along that lines, so I’m semi-familiar with his works."
The other half of the bargain: For more of Poco's adventures with the rock group Plan 9, go to the wonderfully good webcomic [1977: The comic] and be entranced and amused. Warning: definitely NSFW in many places but all the better for that.
And - thanks, Byron! AgProv (talk) 15:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)