#dan dare: pilot of the future

[all-action-all-picture]

Eagle No. 123, dated 28 July 1984. Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future cover by Carlos Cruz. Treasury of British Comics | The Dan Dare Corporation.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[transdandare]

Oh wow what a cool bio for Pierre and Hank-- wait what was that

✨ "Hank's special pal" ✨

It's giving ✨ "Ken's special friend" ✨ 🏳️‍🌈

[avenger09]

Dan Dare - The Mekon Among Us

One of the many episodes that where not released on dvd.

 If like me you grew up with the show thos is a godsend. 

I also found Journey to the Centre of The Sun.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFPGwUMf8_Y&pp=ygUMRGFuIGRhcmUgc3Vu

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJiPjef2k8&pp=ygUMRGFuIGRhcmUgc3Vu

[coloneldandare]

Redbubble have 30% off right now!!!

[allforthepack]

I think having Dan Dare merch would fix me

[alchemypanda]

Small screen and headphones for best experience (added caption for the voicelines)

AH!!! I'm finally done this took way longer that I wanted…and I kinda rushed the story near the end there.... This vid is kinda very Lucas centric (most of the story is from his timeline) so I wanna do a more Skye centric at some point….in the future...one day.. Open to interpretation but you can check the video description for the story I badly wrote.

Shows/movies: Terra Nova, Underbelly: Squizzy, A million little things, Dan Brown's the lost symbol, Succession, Incorporated, Salamander (unaired pilot), Fear Street, Manhattan, The Code (Australia), Blood the last vampire, Agents of S H I E L D, Hemlock grove, Truth or Dare, Cold Case. Song: Daylight by David Kushner

Check out my vid page here or youtube

[orinoxide]

This year's ConFuzzled is multiverse-themed, so here's an alternative Orin - Intrepid Rocketship Pilot from the Thrilling Space Future of 1995.

Based on the Dan Dare comics of the 1950s. :D

[zippocreed501]

Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future

Art by Frank Hampson

[zephyr-paladyn]

baiheng and dan feng rambles

ik a lot of the evidence points to the main dynamics being xingyue + liubai, but irregardless of if the "beloved" was yingxing or baiheng (it's probably yingxing honestly). i think fengbai would be an interesting dynamic to explore especially with the context of dan heng + bailu in the future. the fact baiheng was a nameless and saw countless sights; had freedom in the skies as a pilot. while dan feng was confined to the luofu and his duties, but wanted to break free. beyond that, we're not entirely sure what kind of person baiheng was in relation to dan feng and the rest of the quintet -- she's still a bit of an enigma, but we can probably extrapolate based on bailu and what dan heng thinks of her.

baiheng probably had an outgoing and headstrong personality to match with her theming of being a nameless; a traveler -- traits that dan heng believes will serve bailu well in holding her own as the high elder. there's a lot to be said about how expectations and duty shape the person you're supposed to be -- for both dan feng and bailu as the high elders, as opposed to freedom and travel through baiheng and dan heng. (worth noting the "heng" in their names isn't the same character, btw. they do have the same tone, though -- rising tone.) the freedom that baiheng has is probably something dan feng envies -- the restriction that bailu has is something dan heng wishes to alleviate for her.

dan feng definitely must've felt a lot in regards to baiheng -- and the whole high cloud quintet in general -- to have revived her as bailu. jing yuan talks of how dan feng was never known as a person with feelings, but only a legendary or infamous figure. whatever feelings dan feng felt for baiheng and yingxing were just... so much, that he couldn't bear losing them. the high cloud quintet probably was the only group who saw dan feng as a person, and not just the high elder.

(sidenote: also baiheng used a bow/arrow, march does too, they were both nameless? danmarch precursor anyone (JOKE)

the emotional conditions dan feng suffered as a high elder in contrast to desiring freedom evidently took a drastic toll on him. it makes me wonder if no one treated him with kindness and humanity as a child. this is an opposition to bailu, in which jing yuan and dan heng both wish her well and try to make an effort to connect with her. there's only a few times dan heng speaks in higher emotions, like in the animated short declaring his right to his future, or in his companion quest expressing hope and surprise that bailu truly has the power of the high elder to seal the abundance power. and dan heng even starts learning medicine from bailu!! and he wants to learn how to heal -- despite not knowing any cloudhymns that can heal. the two playable foxians we have follow the path of harmony, so it's possible baiheng also had a similar power -- another opposition to dan feng/heng's power of destruction. bailu is someone dan heng is really passionate about caring for and ensuring she lives a happy life. he grew up in the shackling prison, enduring the weight of sins of the previous high elder -- he wouldn't dare wish that suffering onto bailu, his successor.

in the aftermath of tragedy, it's really nice that bailu has dan heng and jing yuan to look after her. the themes of humanity and connection therein are important between those three... aough

[downthetubes]

WebFind: Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

WebFind: Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

Mark Gorton offers an entertaining profile of Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson, comic artist and writer Dan Dare, in this 2018 article, “Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future”, exploring the genius of two men who turned the seaside town of Southport into the centre of the universe. “This is the story of how and why,” says Mark, who includes a photograph of the two men at Bayford…

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Eagle and Scream! No. 134, dated 13 October 1984. Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future cover by Ian Kennedy. Treasury of British Comics | The Dan Dare Corporation.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[transdandare]

A playlist on YouTube of the whole series!

[fallingskywaterr]

So many bad CGI cartoons, but the plots were EPIC back then… I don’t even know how many people grew up watching Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Xcalibur and the Captain Scarlet CGI ‘remake’, but those shows were a core memory of why I used to wake up early every single Saturday morning. Such a shame it’s so hard to get the full series on DVD.

[coloneldandare]

Thinking about a Dan Dare and Doctor Who crossover