Main Menu
Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Messages - Lobo Baggins

#1
General / Re: Hivemind query: Name that story
12 January, 2024, 11:16:40 AM
That's Judge Dredd "The House on Runner's Walk" by Wagner and Grant with art by Ian Gibson from prog 365 - it's in The Complete Case Files 7.
#2
Announcements / Re: Dave Evans, R.I.P.
07 May, 2021, 02:54:39 PM
Absolutely devastating and heartbreaking news. Over and over again, Dave proved himself to be an incredibly patient and generous man, a great editor as well as a talented artist and amazingly prolific letterer. He even admitted to chuckling at some of my terrible jokes. I can't believe he's gone.

I was only emailing him the other day! How can this be?
#3
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
26 January, 2021, 03:40:26 PM
"Robo-Hunter isn't funny"

Oh, don't worry - it never occurred to me that it was even supposed to be funny until someone described it as a 'comedy strip' well over a decade later on this forum.
#4
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
09 November, 2020, 08:04:08 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 November, 2020, 03:46:23 PM
Blimey. That's quite the prize. £800+ and counting.

It included the statues and all the other bits and pieces as well (including stuff that wasn't on the original offer, like the covers collections), so I think the most recent delivery actually pushed it to over a grand!
#5
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 November, 2020, 03:41:38 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 November, 2020, 12:35:59 PM
What prize is that? Did you get a free sub?

Yeah, I won a Facebook giveaway thing (I was the first to say 'Borag Thungg!' correctly I think) back when it was announced.
#6
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 November, 2020, 12:33:00 PM
Following an unexpected delivery yesterday, it seems my prize is going to include the extension as well!

Yaroo!

Right, going to need more shelves, but to do that I'm going to need a bigger house...
#7
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
21 September, 2020, 04:01:22 PM
Often in the 90s it felt like I'd missed an episode of a story between progs - Dry Run is the only story that made me feel like I'd often missed an episode between panels.
#8
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
11 August, 2020, 02:09:11 PM
Wow, I can't believe you've got to the adventures of Big Guy, Mean Guy, Busty Gal Guy, Other Guy, and Other Other Guy already!

I also find it hard to believe that it started before Necropolis and was still hanging around until just before The Pit began.
#9
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
04 August, 2020, 03:38:26 PM
Thomas the Tank Engine is definitely real - he lives in a train yard next door-but-one to my sister's flat.

He often ventures out in the dead of night on the back of a flatbed truck, peering out from beneath a tarpaulin.

The reasons are obscure.
#10
General / Re: how to do a prog slog
17 July, 2020, 03:25:28 PM
The co-host on Heartline in the Graveyard Shift is based on Irish interviewer and presenter Eamonn Andrews, I think - same weird grin and 'ironed' hairstyle.

Stewart the lonely guy seems to be based on Dave Gorman (including clothes sense), which is weird as he would have been about 12 or so at the time...
#11
Quote from: sheridan on 07 July, 2020, 10:23:23 AM
While we're talking about re-writes, The Hundredfold Problem also got rewritten without Dredd.

That shouldn't have taken long - I think you'd just need to change three names and all traces of anything Dredd related would completely disappear. Bloody awful book...
#12
General / Re: The comic that 2000AD killed
07 July, 2020, 07:58:50 AM
Circumstantial evidence points to it being Tammy - in the prog before the strike halted things (prog 376, dated 7 July 1984), KP were running a free comics promotion for their fizzy polystyrene flavour snack, Skips, which included a list of comics running the promotion (Buster, Whoopie, Tammy, Whizzer and Chips, 2000 AD, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, and The Eagle).

In prog 377 immediately after the strike the following statement appeared:

Because of an industrial despute, some of the comics which carry tokens for the KP Skips Free Comics Offer have not been published in the last few weeks.
Once it becomes possible to publish these comics again each comic will print more tokens for you to collect.
Unfortunately TAMMY is no longer being published. We will therefore accept tokens from any of the remaining eight comics - you do not have to collect tokens from different comics. The publishers are very sorry for the trouble this has caused.


This is, I think, the only mention of the strike in the prog itself.

So, the industrial action seems to have started sometime during late June (prog 376 would be on the shelves on the 1st) which would fit in with the last Tammy appearing in June.
#13
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
06 July, 2020, 03:17:01 PM
Argh, I'd either didn't know or had erased from my memory that Jive Bunny had also massacred March of the Mods along with all the other stuff...

Is there no end to that crudely drawn cartoon rabbit's evil...?
#14
General / Re: how to do a prog slog
30 June, 2020, 03:42:17 PM
Only Arthur Ranson's decaying New York from Anderson: Psi Division rivals Steve Dillon's version of the Undercity, IMO.
#15
Links / Re: Youtube Gold
26 June, 2020, 07:40:30 AM
American comics reviewer Linkara from Atop the Forth Wall takes a look at Dan Dare - Voyage to Venus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhBeF1wQ_ms&t=14s

I've been hoping that he'll do the Judge Cal saga at some point - apart from the Trump parallels, Linkara is a rather large guy in a hat who's prone to occasionally breaking into a tuneless version of 'Put on a Happy Face'.