Its one of those prints - photos don't seem to do it justice for some reason.

Looks great in the flesh

Agreed, danvnuk. If I haddn't have bought one from Frankie, I'd have snapped up the one that ended up on eBay. There was no way I wasn't going to get a copy somehow!

would have had to have been quick Hardcopy ;D, someone sabotaged the auction pretty soon after it was listed.

can the people who neg for a difference of opinion please get a life - pretty stupid if on a forum you can't discuss things and have varying view points

Legend has it that some have the Mantis stamp and some have the Campbarbara stamp....

Mines got the Mantis stamp

I could be wrong, but I think I've seen this image mocked up with a nuclear cloud sometime in the past.

Oooh I love legends. Mine's got the mantis stamp too but I'm intrigued now. Anyone with the CampBarbera stamp shout out......

.....maybe it's the AP's.

Nice find Nuart. Where's that from?

oooh wish i bought one now, arse

Can you imagine having a lifesize statue of that in your garden.

Genius!!! ;D

I've definitely seen this type of image a few other places.



Then again, its not often you find a really original image.

Nice bit of Google work Nu

barkowitz.wordpress.com/2005/08/28/ring-around-the-rosie/

It's weird to see all the different words to the rhyme here in England it's

Ring-a-Ring-of-Roses
A pocket full of posies
Atichoo! Atichoo!
We all fall down

from the BBC H2G2...

'Ring-a-Ring-a Roses' is a fine example of an apparently vacuous and harmless rhyme, sung by happy school kids perhaps ignorant of the song's central macabre topic - namely, the Bubonic Plague . The Bubonic Plague is more commonly known as 'The Black Death' and this horrific disease swept through Europe in the 14th Century, spreading from China, killing 25 million people in just under five years, between 1347 and 1352. Thereafter, the plague was endemic throughout Europe.

The rhyme details the effects of the plague on the sufferer. 'Ring-a-Ring-of-Roses' refers to the first sign of the onset of the disease. Before lesions would develop on the skin of those affected, small rings of red bruise-like marks would appear.

'A pocket full of posies' indirectly points to the fact that people didn't know that it is germs that cause disease, and not smells. It was a commonly-held belief that bad smells - so often associated with the open sewers of London's Thames area - were actually carrying the disease. As a caution therefore, doctors used to carry with them a pouch of sweet smelling flowers

I'm in the middle on the red/no red debate.

Now I've seen it in the flesh, I love it as a white/grey/black/black print and am leaning towards thinking that red would somehow now not quite give it the impact that it has at the moment.

Maybe I'd be swayed the other way if a red version was to come out, but I'm hoping Mantis and Frankie won't consider that now (even though I would want one). I hope this print is done now, thats it, leave it to gain urban legend.

But overall, the more prints I get sent, the more I realise what a brilliant package this is, yes the tube is great and the coa looks pretty, but most importantly the print is on great paper with funky deckled edges and the Mantis in the top left - and of course the image is stunning.

With all the excitement of getting Dface WWAF and Mantis AFD in almost the same week, I'm wondering if it can get any better in the near future? Barring Banksy and Micallef releasing through POW, I doubt it.