Extreme 26: Balls of STEEL!

[Peter Wolf]

 After reading those posts i dont feel like a voice in the wilderness any more.


 I have always highly rated Ron Smith and rate Belardinelli even higher than that.


 Belardinelli has inspired me to learn to draw and draw characters.He is dead but i cant thank him enough.

 Ron Smiths artwork just seemed a bit too advanced and technical to take on as a beginner but there is something in Massimos art that i can get my head around and learn from.He just draws the way i imagine how comics should be drawn.

 They are both geniuses and i cant get enough  of them even after 25 years.


 Wonderful stuff even Ace Trucking that i only really like for the art.

[vzzbux]

I've not long re-read Graveyard shift and forgot how great it was and how it still would stand against most modern Dredd stories in art. Ron Smith is my fave Dredd artist as I started collecting at 333 and round that time he was the current on Dredd thus moulding my image of the man.





V

[Hoagy]

Train journey to the nearest EE.

FFS.

[satchmo]

Why is the EE so hard to get hold of? It's ridiculous. For the casual purchase by lapsed fans it would be the top choice I would say.

Ron Smith is a genius!

[Peter Wolf]

 I have said this before but there are 8 different shops here that sell it.

  Its all a bit odd how its distributed but i dont really know why that is.

[Hoagy]

Actually Satch, to my embarrassment, I think it goes on the shelves tomorrow.

Sorry, I was being alarmist.

Incidently, the man who was too clever is an old FS, yes?

When futureshocks are mentioned, this is the story I always think of.

[Buttonman]

"The man who was too clever"

Pretty sure that's 'Benny's Tale' from the 1979 annual, which incidentally had one of the worst covers ever - blue helmet Dredd.

The Future Shock is a goodie but why oh why didn't they programme the how to use knowledge first rather than last?! Madness.http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/specials/mediumres/2000ad80.jpg">

[Buttonman]

er, the 1980 annual which was of course issued in 1979.

[Huey2]

Ron Smith as well as doing a huuuge amount of Dredds from 100 up to 400 also did all the early Dail Star Dredds. If your first contact wih Dredd was between '79 and '87 chances are Smith was at the controls.

I think in some ways he suffered from not being established with another character. Gibson had Robo-Hunter and Halo Jones, Ezquerra had Strontium Dog and McMahon had the Warriors. There's never going to be a definitive Dredd artist but you can still be the best on another character.

[Hoagy]

Incidentally, ah, I love that cover.

My first jumble hunt, find.

I think it says it all about defining the comics grasp of more than singularly dealing with sci-fi. I like that it gave me ideas of Dredd in alternative universes. I'd say putting comic characters into alternative universes in nineteen  seventy nine was a bit ahead of its time. I don't think it was saying that. I have thought about it since.

[Hoagy]

Nope.

TT to EE, FFS...ISS.

[MIKE COLLINS]

Blackhawk-- I own a couple of pages of that-- gorgeous stuff... whenever I think I've done something good, I'll look across at the Belardinelli art and realize I've still got WAY far to go...

On the subject of this EE, I'd forgotten just how good Steve Dillon's work was here- really influential on my early art too!

[satchmo]

A question about Blackhawk:

Does anyone know how come Joe Staton drew the episode of Blackhawk in prog 133?
And was he the first American artist to work on 2000AD?

[paulvonscott]

I sat down with mean team and a curly wurly earlier, really enjoying it (though I've read it before years ago).  Seems to be a future sport story that works.

Good old Tom Tully.

Having strained my thumb the other day, I couldn't help but envy Matt Tallon's cyber-digit.

[Peter Wolf]

 At thye risk of offending someone i will say that i dont like the cover art  mainly because facially he looks nothing like Matt Tallon  as i remember him.