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Title: Which other old 2000 AD characters would you like to see reappear in new strips?
Post by: norton canes on 08 August, 2018, 03:50:40 PM
Following the shock reappearance this week of [redacted] in [redacted], which other characters from 2000 AD's past should make a shock reappearance in current stories?

I'd quite like to see Rick Random make a shock appearance in Skip Tracer.
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Post by: I, Cosh on 08 August, 2018, 04:33:16 PM
Bonjo in Grey Area.
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Post by: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 05:14:38 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 08 August, 2018, 04:33:16 PM
Bonjo in Grey Area.

Skizz in Rogue Trooper :-)
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Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2018, 05:29:03 PM
T-Bone in Skip Tracer.
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Post by: WhizzBang on 08 August, 2018, 05:34:22 PM
I haven't read this weeks prog yet (being a digital it has only been released today) but I would like to see Ampney Crucis return to the prog. I wasn't a reader when he was in it but I picked up the collection duringa visit to London and thought it was superb.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 August, 2018, 06:40:39 PM
By the way anyone avoiding spoiler avoid the Thrillmail until you've read this weeks Prog!

Anyway I know tongues are firmly in cheeks here BUT I always seriously liked the idea of some sort of Edginton-verse crossover set in The Library.
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Post by: Richard on 08 August, 2018, 07:11:32 PM
Whizzbang, we're talking about crossovers, not just characters we want to see again.

E.g. "I'd like to see Ampney Crucid show up in Absalom."
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Post by: broodblik on 08 August, 2018, 07:42:08 PM
Nemesis in anything maybe in Defoe
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Post by: The Adventurer on 08 August, 2018, 08:00:39 PM
Tyranny Rex in Indigo Prime. Though Smith once cryptically told me on facebook that she was in fact on page one of the most recent series just before he was replaced by Kek-W.

Which just raised a whole bunch of questions.
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Post by: Woolly on 08 August, 2018, 08:17:33 PM
Brigand Doom in Dredd
Nemesis/Shakara team-up
Luke Kirby in Absolom
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Post by: Frank on 08 August, 2018, 08:22:05 PM

The Corp's space marine Tarantino in Lawless

Shadows' Nina Coltrane in Brink

Former Judge Barry Kurten* in The Returners


* and Mo
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 August, 2018, 08:43:12 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 08 August, 2018, 08:00:39 PM
Tyranny Rex in Indigo Prime. Though Smith once cryptically told me on facebook that she was in fact on page one of the most recent series just before he was replaced by Kek-W.

Which just raised a whole bunch of questions.

Huh... what... that does sound interesting. Mind does it count as a cross over as she's always had Indigo Prime connections.
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Post by: Woolly on 08 August, 2018, 08:46:27 PM
It'll never happen now, but...
[spoiler]Armoured Gideon[/spoiler] in ABC Warriors
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 08 August, 2018, 08:47:54 PM
ooh. Luke Kirby in Absalom is a good shout.

Devlin Waugh in Cabblastics

The Mean Team in The Mean Arena




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Post by: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 10:06:30 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 08 August, 2018, 08:47:54 PM
The Mean Team in The Mean Arena

I think Mean Team and Meltdown Man may make a better match.

Or Dead Meat and Meltdown Man for that matter - all those yujees must have come from somewhere...

Still not sure what I'd match Nemesis up with - maybe the far future Durham Red?
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Post by: The Monarch on 08 August, 2018, 10:39:16 PM
canon fodder in anything....go on kek w put him in fall of deadworld i triple dare ya :lol:
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Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2018, 10:45:16 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 10:06:30 PM
Still not sure what I'd match Nemesis up with - maybe the far future Durham Red?

Grey Area
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Post by: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 10:48:23 PM
Quote from: The Monarch on 08 August, 2018, 10:39:16 PM
canon fodder in anything....go on kek w put him in fall of deadworld i triple dare ya :lol:

A catholic priest from an early 1990s story who looks like they hit the gym often and is very conversant with various weaponry?  Canon Fodder teams up with Devlyn Waugh!
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Post by: The Monarch on 08 August, 2018, 10:57:42 PM
oh fuck thats good
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Post by: Magnetica on 08 August, 2018, 11:00:17 PM
Freely in Lawless.
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 08 August, 2018, 11:10:24 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 10:48:23 PM

A catholic priest from an early 1990s story who looks like they hit the gym often and is very conversant with various weaponry?  Canon Fodder teams up with Devlyn Waugh!

Time slip to Defoe...
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Post by: Tjm86 on 09 August, 2018, 06:24:35 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 08 August, 2018, 11:10:24 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 08 August, 2018, 10:48:23 PM

A catholic priest from an early 1990s story who looks like they hit the gym often and is very conversant with various weaponry?  Canon Fodder teams up with Devlyn Waugh!

Time slip to Defoe...

.... then side step to Torquemada.
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 09 August, 2018, 06:33:31 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 09 August, 2018, 06:24:35 PM
.... then side step to Torquemada.

...But it's the Elfric thrust that really drives them insane.
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 09 August, 2018, 07:58:10 PM
Hitman and Bear from Gibbons era Dan Dare in an episode of Sinister Dexter as rival/fellow kill team. If Dave Gibbons agreed to draw it, well I'd kiss a skunk.
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Post by: Woolly on 09 August, 2018, 08:42:47 PM
Dan Dare and ACE Trucking
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Post by: Woolly on 09 August, 2018, 08:44:07 PM
The Bad Man from Armageddon in Strontium Dog
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 August, 2018, 09:22:50 PM
Quote from: Woolly on 09 August, 2018, 08:42:47 PM
Dan Dare and ACE Trucking

Oh momma that one works!
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Post by: TordelBack on 09 August, 2018, 10:59:28 PM
Dandridge in Absalom.
P45 in Insurrection.
Mary in Aquila.
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Post by: sheridan on 09 August, 2018, 11:23:34 PM
Defoe meets Shaun of the Dead
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 09 August, 2018, 11:37:50 PM


Luke Kirby & Wolfie Smith v Hauptmann Costanza (Fiends of the Eastern Front)

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Post by: Richard on 10 August, 2018, 12:44:00 AM
Diceman in Hope For the Future.
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Post by: gameluvah on 10 August, 2018, 01:00:19 AM
Tempest in Dredd or any of the satellite strips.
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Post by: Judgedreddrocks on 10 August, 2018, 07:59:07 AM
FINN!!!!!!
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Post by: Woolly on 10 August, 2018, 08:56:03 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 August, 2018, 10:59:28 PM
P45 in Insurrection...

I agree, sack the lot of 'em!  ;)
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Post by: norton canes on 10 August, 2018, 10:35:21 AM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 09 August, 2018, 07:58:10 PM
Hitman and Bear from Gibbons era Dan Dare in an episode of Sinister Dexter as rival/fellow kill team. If Dave Gibbons agreed to draw it, well I'd kiss a skunk

With 'Pilot' Polanski as the getaway driver!
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Post by: Mudcrab on 10 August, 2018, 01:44:25 PM
I'll just leave this here before scuttling off again...

Big Dave in Sinister Brexter

:-\
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Post by: Lobo Baggins on 10 August, 2018, 06:03:11 PM
City of the Damned Vamp Hershey vs Devlin Waugh and/or Durham Rad.
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Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2018, 06:24:30 AM
Dash Decent in just about anything.
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Post by: AlexF on 22 August, 2018, 09:23:56 AM
Harry 20 in Skip Tracer. Although I guess after all the time that's passed he'd probably have to look like Ben 90.

I have to say, Skip Tracer was so bland I thought it had to be one of those 'surprise, it's really an Indigo Prime story!' strips. So for Tharg to sneak Armoured Gideon into the Order was double tricksy.
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Post by: BPP on 22 August, 2018, 11:24:05 AM
The stainless steel rat in strontium dog.

Swifty in Max Normal.

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Post by: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 11:47:54 AM
Quote from: AlexF on 22 August, 2018, 09:23:56 AM
I have to say, Skip Tracer was so bland I thought it had to be one of those 'surprise, it's really an Indigo Prime story!' strips. So for Tharg to sneak Armoured Gideon into the Order was double tricksy.

So true.  When the Yugee-alikes showed up in Skip Tracer, I was sure there was going to be a dimension hopping crossover with everyone's favourite SAS hippy.

Actually, Harry 20 in Brink could be cool. 
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Post by: sheridan on 22 August, 2018, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 11:47:54 AM
Quote from: AlexF on 22 August, 2018, 09:23:56 AM
I have to say, Skip Tracer was so bland I thought it had to be one of those 'surprise, it's really an Indigo Prime story!' strips. So for Tharg to sneak Armoured Gideon into the Order was double tricksy.

So true.  When the Yugee-alikes showed up in Skip Tracer, I was sure there was going to be a dimension hopping crossover with everyone's favourite SAS hippy.

Liana, T-Bone and Gruff in Skip Tracer?  Nah...
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Post by: GordyM on 24 August, 2018, 03:12:58 PM
Considering the current climate now's the perfect time to bring back Big Dave.
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Post by: Pyroxian on 24 August, 2018, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: GordyM on 24 August, 2018, 03:12:58 PM
Considering the current climate now's the perfect time to bring back Big Dave.

True - he'd sort the EU out into giving us a good deal.
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Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 October, 2018, 09:17:13 AM
Slippery Jim Di Griz vs Judge Dredd.

Go on. Mike Carroll. You know you want to.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 05 October, 2018, 10:08:02 AM
There was a version of Slippery Jim in Dante, or at least Nikolai references being trained by a 'DiGrizov'.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 October, 2018, 12:37:43 PM
Quote from: GordyM on 24 August, 2018, 03:12:58 PM
Considering the current climate now's the perfect time to bring back Big Dave.

I'd pay money to see that.  Sadly, though, bigoted boors like Dave are being venerated and elected these days, and I can imagine a certain type of person reading it as an irony-free political manifesto.

As for Dante, the strip always absorbed versions of old characters. I wasn't quite on board with the strip when the PC Sláine and gay Sinister Dexter appeared, and I must say I didn't like it - for me, Dante was a far less established and enjoyable story and was messing about with its elders and betters.  Never thought I'd grow to love Dante, but I did.

I'd like to that time Sinister and Dexter arrived in MC1 again, but in the Dredd strip, from the opposite POV.
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Post by: matty_ae on 05 October, 2018, 12:39:38 PM
Quote from: Mudcrab on 10 August, 2018, 01:44:25 PM
I'll just leave this here before scuttling off again...

Big Dave in Sinister Brexter

:-\

Big Dave in Sinister Brexit-er?
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Post by: matty_ae on 05 October, 2018, 12:42:18 PM
I'd like to see City of the Damned from that Dredd's POV
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Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2018, 01:02:35 PM
Quote from: matty_ae on 05 October, 2018, 12:42:18 PM
I'd like to see City of the Damned from that Dredd's POV

I'll draw it!  Finally something my artistic talents are equal to!  Here's my rough-out for that great crawling-through-hell splash (it'll look better with some lettering):

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8mVof09k2s/TsskSyoigDI/AAAAAAAAAQY/DpNwmgg893w/s1600/Black_rectangle.jpg)

Oh,  you meant Judge Drokk, didn't you?   :(
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 October, 2018, 01:39:07 PM
 :lol:
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Post by: Lupianwolf on 05 October, 2018, 08:23:01 PM
Max from 'The Thirteenth Floor' shows up causing a fuss in Dredd's world. Eventually you find out Max has taken over Walter the Wobots body. Both have tv screen faces so I think that could be fun.

I'm still new to 2000AD so I don't know if Walter is still around or not.
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Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2018, 09:18:55 PM
That's pretty brilliant,  Lupianwolf!  Great first post, welcome.

Walter is indeed still active,  currently in the service of Mrs Gunderson,  Judge Death's doddery-but-indestructible former landlady.
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Post by: sheridan on 06 October, 2018, 10:47:52 PM
Quote from: Lupianwolf on 05 October, 2018, 08:23:01 PM
Max from 'The Thirteenth Floor' shows up causing a fuss in Dredd's world. Eventually you find out Max has taken over Walter the Wobots body. Both have tv screen faces so I think that could be fun.

I'm still new to 2000AD so I don't know if Walter is still around or not.

Only thing missing there is Evil Edna (http://www.jedisparadise.com/4/Willo_the_Wisp.htm)

(http://www.jedisparadise.com/4/index_htm_files/15417.jpg)
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Post by: rogue69 on 07 October, 2018, 02:26:04 PM
Bradley &/or Bek & Kawl  in Survival Geeks
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Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2018, 02:38:11 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 07 October, 2018, 02:26:04 PM
Bradley &/or Bek & Kawl  in Survival Geeks

Now those are genius-level ideas. Might I add Trace, Bertie and Hermann Goering from Time Flies. Get Philip Bond to guest on art!
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Post by: Greg M. on 07 October, 2018, 03:12:08 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 07 October, 2018, 02:26:04 PM
Bek & Kawl  in Survival Geeks

It's like you've discovered a secret formula for what would be my least favourite story of all time.

(Actually, that's a bit harsh on Survival Geeks - it's very far from being the sort of thing I want to read, but I don't actively hate it or anything. It's just not for me. Bec and Kawl, on the other hand...)
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Post by: broodblik on 07 October, 2018, 03:30:21 PM
I was rereading the Stainless Steel Rat by the great Carlos, I would like mister diGriz to grace the pages of the prog again.
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Post by: dweezil2 on 07 October, 2018, 04:09:12 PM
Quote from: Judgedreddrocks on 10 August, 2018, 07:59:07 AM
FINN!!!!!!

Finn would of fitted in pretty well to Greysuit!

Also Halo Jones in Halo Jones!  ;)
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Post by: AlexF on 10 October, 2018, 07:54:14 PM
Skizz in Grey Area.
You know it would all end in tears.
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Post by: rogue69 on 10 October, 2018, 11:33:23 PM
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Post by: sheridan on 11 October, 2018, 12:01:57 PM
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Post by: sheridan on 11 October, 2018, 12:03:31 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 10 October, 2018, 11:33:23 PM
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On second thoughts, considering your name and userpic maybe you'd just like to see Helm in another strip?
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Post by: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2018, 12:09:31 PM
Rogue Trooper in Jaegir