Bleeding Cool is running an article about the possible return of Deadline.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/02/17/the-return-of-deadline-magazine/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/02/17/the-return-of-deadline-magazine/)
Though quite how related to the original this will be is still not too clear. Interesting one to watch.
Wellwellwellwellwell!!! This could either be rather brilliant or a slight miss fire, seeing as Deadline was a bit before my time (I was 1 when it got axed, feel old chaps?) but it was basically the hybrid of 2000AD and Kerrang! i've always wanted and dreamed of, so i'll be giving my money's worth and let's see how it goes!
Maybe more Warrior and Select? It was very unKerrang I'd say.
Herm, was it now? Thats just word of mouth as I say, long before my time. Where there any other comic book and music orientated antologies on the market? I've never heard of Select before....
EDIT: And no wonder why! Another music mag that went under before my time, but was probably very much in many readers circles.
Given that the original Deadline never made a penny in profit in its entire run, this would seem to be a bold move...
Just nobody let The Senseless Things reform.
Quote from: BPP on 18 February, 2016, 09:12:37 AM
Just nobody let The Senseless Things reform.
What are you on about? That was Jamie Hewlett's best work.
Dead within six issues.
A1 got re-launched about ten years after the original run (by a different company and presumably with no involvement from the original editors other than the brand). Can't remember how long it ran for, but I don't think it was long...
Having looked at the their FB page bar the word Deadline in its title does this new creation have anything to do with the old Deadline?
Or is it another Bleeding Cool non-story?
Dunk!
(http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/942849_1015253918524484_4096579018028142342_n-600x450.jpg)
A magazine layout in RGB using Photoshop and seemingly without bleed...? That's not going to end well.
Deadline was very much of its time. I'm doubtful that there is a pent up demand for its return.
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 18 February, 2016, 07:52:23 AM
Wellwellwellwellwell!!! This could either be rather brilliant or a slight miss fire, seeing as Deadline was a bit before my time (I was 1 when it got axed, feel old chaps?) but it was basically the hybrid of 2000AD and Kerrang! i've always wanted and dreamed of, so i'll be giving my money's worth and let's see how it goes!
IMHO Deadline was at the opposite end of the cool chart/scale/spectrum from Kerrang!: Tank Girl, Wired World are the only two I remember of the top of my head, and even that could be misremembered!
I enjoyed it at the time, but it was very much of its time.
Things do go in cycles so perhaps someone decided to gamble on the old nostalgia effect. Print rather than digital? I assume both versions will be available but it is a risk. Wonder who it could be behind it? Must be some big names, some brave start up group or some comic fan with deep pockets. Still any new comic gets my vote so Viva Deadline!
Quote from: Banners on 18 February, 2016, 01:23:20 PM
A magazine layout in RGB using Photoshop and seemingly without bleed...? That's not going to end well.
Haha. I had much the same thought. If you're setting type in Photoshop then you're Doing It Wrong.
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: Dunk! on 18 February, 2016, 01:01:25 PM
Having looked at the their FB page bar the word Deadline in its title does this new creation have anything to do with the old Deadline?
just comic with same name as different comic from 90s
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/ukcomics/images/1/19/Toxic_No_1.gif/revision/latest?cb=20101130151301) (http://www.bubbleguminteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Toxic-UK-Magazine.jpg)
Lettering nerds are the absolute worst. Maybe it's just the designer's workflow to tinker in PS before changing the colour profile and exporting the PSD file directly into Illustrator for print?
I have to agree I think it was more of it's time, but you never know I always enjoyed it's diversity.
Here some images of my small collection bought at the time from Smiths.
Even though the music stuff in Deadline is very dated, some of it was written by the late, great Steven Wells. Even his stories about bands I never heard of before are excellent reading, which is why I always pick up a Deadline if I see it in a box of beat-up magazines in Great Escape or that place in Knoxville where I always find neat things.
This is apparently still happening, whoever is behind it certainly very ambitious. It's odd that the article doesn't name any names though...
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/31/bringing-back-deadline-magazine-summer-music-festival/#.WJBcKc-F0wI.facebook
As long as the mag isn't filled with too much "indie wank", as I like to call it, I'm sure I'll pick it up! :)
If there's not a feature in this about Ride, Curve, Lush or Cud (but especially Cud...) then it's no business calling itself Deadline.
Quote from: GordonR on 31 January, 2017, 03:07:35 PM
If there's not a feature in this about Ride, Curve, Lush or Cud (but especially Cud...) then it's no business calling itself Deadline.
Arh my late teens, early 20s right there!
Quote from: Professor Bear on 18 February, 2016, 05:39:17 PM
Lettering nerds are the absolute worst. Maybe it's just the designer's workflow to tinker in PS before changing the colour profile and exporting the PSD file directly into Illustrator for print?
You've done many obnoxious things on this board before Bear, but this time F**K YOU. REPORTED.
-pj
Quote from: dweezil2 on 31 January, 2017, 02:42:47 PM
As long as the mag isn't filled with too much "indie wank", as I like to call it, I'm sure I'll pick it up! :)
We have hipster cafes to experience this in person now, we don't need mags as such to fulfill the worlds quote of obnoxiousness.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 31 January, 2017, 06:24:00 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 31 January, 2017, 02:42:47 PM
As long as the mag isn't filled with too much "indie wank", as I like to call it, I'm sure I'll pick it up! :)
We have hipster cafes to experience this in person now, we don't need mags as such to fulfill the worlds quote of obnoxiousness.
Good point! :) :thumbsup: