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#1531
Quote from: Lee Bates on 27 February, 2012, 01:57:06 PM


By your rationale, if the Meg printed 15 pages of a poorly drawn stickman saying the words 'modern society is rubbish' over and over again, you would back that as a valid endevour as "it's only stupid comics anyway".

To be fair, it would be cheaper for Rebellion just to license that sorta thing off Fantagraphics circa 1990.
#1532
Megazine / Re: Death Planet
27 February, 2012, 12:33:12 PM
Universal Solider, Tao De Moto and Moon Runners have great art, Hap Hazzard is Steve Dillon so there's a whole heap of fans for that, Bradley and The Clown I never liked but clearly SOME people liked Bradley as it would never not be in the Fxxking prog.

Armoured Giddeon wasn't my cup of tea, just never liked the rubber-faced humans and inking style of Simon Jacob.

Sooner or Later, thats what we want gang, right?
#1533
Megazine / Re: Death Planet
27 February, 2012, 12:22:39 PM
there is absolutely LOADS of material. 100s of excellent Future Shocks / Terror / Twisters etc, Sooner or Later, Universal Solider,Tao De Moto, Moon Runners, a collected Hap Hazzard, The Clown, Bradley, plus I wouldn't be surprised if non-GN stuff from 5-6 years ago starts cropping up - Synnamon, American Gothic, A.H.A.B, Avatar etc.

If they have decided they are no going to do more collected Lobster Random and Red Seas then I'd love to see those in the floppies. Since Harry Kipling is coming up soon its clear more recent stuff is up for grabs.

Rebellion should pump some strong recent material (from both Meg and Prog) in to the floppies to capitalise on the US Barnes & Nobel push.
#1534
Boy, you may not like AR but you sure like saying how much you don't like AR.

(btw - the comics/page count in the Meg went up with AR, the other 3 strips getting the same page count as before so to gripe that its taking up a lot of your comics pages is a bit off as I'd imagine there is a fair chance to total number of comics-pages will go back down with the replacement strip. Clearly AR is designed to be read in larger chunks than the tradition prog/meg 5-6 page batches (or 12-13 pages for Meg Dredd) and so the  comics page count with its presence was hugely increased to facilitate).

Personally I thought it was great, not 10-star Pat Mills but good stuff. Can't complain about Clint's future-cheesecake either. Hopefully Rebellion are in on the reprint rights too as collected Mills and Langley clearly shifts units. There is a reason for Slaine and ABC Warriors being the only things getting the hardback treatment and I doubt its 'be nice to Pat'. 

But what do I know? I LOVED Death Planet.
#1535
News / Re: City of Dredd (2134 Edition)!!
26 February, 2012, 05:58:58 PM
Hi John

was wondering what happened re Amazon seemingly printing up copies of City of Dredd without permission? I was talking to a colleague who is a german lawyer and he said that he had noticed the same thing happening with obscure legal textbooks. Fascinated to learn if you corresponded with them and what happened?

#1536
News / 35 Years - Forbidden Planet Blog
26 February, 2012, 05:54:23 PM
The ever-entertaining Forbidden Planet blog has a slew of posts on the 35th anniversary of 2000AD up this weekend, including an entertaining piece on Zenith and a very interesting start to a 'I am going to start reading 2000AD' regular series. Oh and they plug that auld futureshockd blog a bit. The FP blog is a great interface with the rest of the UK comics scene so am sure any comments and enthusiasm from the old hacks ( ;) ) here will help with building the support of the comic.

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/
#1537
Other Reviews / Re: The Comics Journal - Metalzoic
04 February, 2012, 04:22:11 PM
More 2000AD appreciation, this time the work of  John Hicklenton gets major approval in almost-weekly praise of 2000AD fest that is 'this week in comics. Warning - contains really large Hicklenton panels that may make some 'haters' reassess their views. Bloody gorgeous art that could do with an oversize collection.

http://www.tcj.com/this-week-in-comics-2112-the-groundhog-will-see-savings-on-thursday/

(thats Hicklenton, Shakey Kane & David Hine, Judge Anderson Psychic Files, Chris Cunningham's Dredd, Mazeworld, Dredd Casefiles 04 (S&S editions) & McMahon's Tank Girl that have all had approving 2000AD related publicity in 2012 so far).
#1538
Think BrianTM hits the nail on the head. The question is piracy its making the next generation aware of what comics are and making parents value their creative and educative importance. As industrial policy was wound down in the west its odd that the emphasis on the knowledge and creative economies didn't involve one of the key creative learning devices, comics.

Most people here will have come to comics via parents buying them for a mix of distraction-effect and weekly treat. The distraction-effect (buying a comic to get a kid to shut up a while, beautifully rendered in Nelson, is largely gone - there are way too many other things to distract your kid now. Its superficially cheaper and easier to bung on a DVD or a game. The weekly treat aspect is probably gone too, it was largely a function of the distraction-effect for kids that had subsequently gotten into comics. So now the challenge is getting parents to understand comics are important as much as it is to get kids to read them.  If kids are introduced to comics they'll buy them, sure they'll also pirate them but then they always did - my first exposure to 2000AD was the kid up the streets box of 50 progs...

Cash is always limited, especially for kids, so getting them to value and want comics is the key, worrying about piracy and lost sales is very much a subsequent problem that can always be overcome with a mix of acceptance and ease-of-access for monetized formats. Issues of print/digital, day-and-date, comic shop viability, piracy etc.. thats all secondary. Get the little fxxxers to love the concept of comics and the rest will work itself out.

#1539
Issue 3 is a real step up in quality - even though it has no PJ in it (not connected). The new story (Devils Heritage) is a bit random (that 'next month' reveal had me laughing) but it is bloody lush to look at. Really lovely stuff. Warpaint needs to move on from the mystical origins stuff - thats 2 episodes in a row of made-uppy backstory - although McCrea's art is just lovely. Great colouring too. Having 2 solid chunks of Nick Dyer art really added to the package too. I love his twist on Cam Kennedy. Ridgeway has never been my cup of tea but clearly its classy stuff.

Thats a real solid package of comics, seems to be aimed at the 'dad and sons' market (no kid is going to want to read that really good article on Starlord are they?) which in a way seems quite smart.

When's number 4 out eh?

(oh btw - Forbidden Planet Belfast had a whole 2 copies of number 2 when it first came out, they have since got a load on re-order. I think they had no idea about it at the start (certainly never heard of it when I asked it to be put on the grab-list about 2 weeks before first issue shipped) but are slowly getting behind it. Would be great if it could get into the newsagents with a jump-on issue. 
#1540
Personally I've enjoyed A.R. Its an attempt to change style and pace of a 2000AD tale. Not much point in saying more as there are so many axes being ground in this tread I doubt even Slaine in full warp-spasm would escape unscathed.

Amazed at the slanging at Clint Langley tho. There are regular prog artists who struggle with basic anatomy who get adored on here yet Langley just seems to attract people who think that sneering at his art is acceptable.
#1541
General / Re: Pat Mills - Interview 2012
23 January, 2012, 11:22:43 AM
ask him about his Professorship and what it has entailed etc.

Oh and is he aware Ireland gives writers the first 40,000K tax free... does he want to relocate?
#1542
General / Re: Mazeworld missing pages ??
19 January, 2012, 09:33:25 PM
I think those Pat Mills hardbacks had a lot of production problems - on BK II of the Volgan Wars I first of all got a copy where the pages were all inked together (yeah yeah, Langley haters... 'looked better that way') and the replacement came with the contents not only back-to-front but also upside down.  If it hadn't been a gift for someone else I'd have definitely have kept it.
#1543
General / Re: Mazeworld missing pages ??
19 January, 2012, 06:14:49 PM
Ltd edition innit. Edited by Al Ewing. After all it is Mazeworld....
#1544
Megazine / Re: The Soul Sisters Revisited
18 January, 2012, 07:06:26 PM
don't fret Dave, you can log-in in ten years time and ask 'why didn't people like The Red Seas? Steve Yeowells art on it is amazing.....'

#1545
Megazine / Re: The Soul Sisters Revisited
18 January, 2012, 01:03:02 PM
Just an observation, I certainly notice more digs at Yeowell & The Red Seas on here than just about any other artist. Personally I thought the Red Seas latest instalment was lovely. About the time it moved to the Hollow Earth stuff he seemed to move from detail to fluidity and suggestion and I think it works beautifully. Maybe drawing that 'huge fish chasing a galleon' in detail knackered him.

People do seem to like detail-for-their-buck Interestingly Shaky Kane's revival seems to have come with him returning with a much more detailed style. As much Geoff Darrow as Jack Kirby. His Elephant Man stuff was great.