Death announcements for persons of note

[pjknibbs]

Rainbow's Geoffrey Hayes dies

I just came on here to check if anyone had posted this. Sad news--more bricks and mortar from my childhood crumbling away!

[apogee]

Judge Dredd co creator Carlos Ezquerra has gone too.

[muppetts]

Judge Dredd co creator Carlos Ezquerra has gone too.

He was a Legend, still got my 1-500 2000 AD's wrapped boxed and on ice!

[pjknibbs]

I think he undoubtedly produced some of the cleanest "grown up" comic art I've ever seen--you always recognised Ezquerra art when you saw it.

[pjknibbs]

Oh, wow, missed this one--Ben Daglish, who composed numerous game tunes back in the 80s, has died:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... sic-legend

[korio]

Montserrat Caballe, spanish opera singer, she was 85 years old.

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-4576 ... ow_twitter

[Redvers Ganderpoke]

Ray Galton, probably better known to the older persons on the forum. Best known for Steptoe and son.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Galton

[Terre]

Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen has died aged 65.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45871379

[Alee Enn]

RIP Stan Lee

[Hank001]

Stan Lee: Marvel Comics co-creator dies aged 95

Goodbye Stan.
You're comics were staples of my youth and movies staples of my present age. I'll miss your cameos.

[pjknibbs]

Godspeed, Stan--you were one of a kind.

[X2-Illuminatus]

Sad to hear. But oh boy, what a life!

[Hank001]

CNN on passing of Stan Lee:

Stan Lee Dies at Age 95

[Observe]

If Stan Lee is reborn in his next life as one of his superhero's, which one do you think it would be?

[Hank001]

Observe asks;
If Stan Lee is reborn in his next life ... would be?

He was on record as saying Spiderman was his favorite character. I'd like to thing he's up there practicing his web slinging and wall crawling...

[Alee Enn]

Before Stan Lee overshadows everything else ....

RIP Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/doug ... e-comments

[Hank001]

Sorry to hear about Douglas Rain.

I looked him up on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rain

Quite a filography. Was the compter voices in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" too.

[Morkonan]

Godspeed, Stan. "Excelsior," always. As a boy, there was a tired wire rack full of dreams that I selected from every weekend. I am ever so thankful that I found yours.

And, Douglas Rain, your voice will never fail, never grow old, and never tire. Thank you for being the perfect HAL and reminding us of the power of the human voice. And, thanks for lending me your voice so I could replace all my system trigger sounds... Nothing says "Science Fiction Fan" like a "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" critical error message.

[felter]

Just read about Stan Lee's passing. The Marvel films will never be the same without him making his cameo appearances in them.

R.I.P. Stan

[Golden_Gonads]

Goodbye Stan.
You're comics were staples of my youth and movies staples of my present age. I'll miss your cameos.

He was half a dozen cameo's ahead a while back as he knew he could swing off into the sunset at any time, so you'll see him a few more times.