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#1
Quote from: GordonR on 24 March, 2024, 06:43:24 PM"Joko-Jargo died on the way back to his home planet."


One can only hope, ey?


A DIY / Domesticated themed cover this week, Dredd looks like he's been doing a bit of painting the back drop and he's been using his big stick to stir the paint pot.

That funny looking fella at the bottom has been to the shops to get some knives and Rogue Trooper has a handy spanner or two hanging from his helmet, which is nice if his bike gets a puncture.

They all look like they are in some discomfort though, maybe Dredd's old enermy, Emma Roids is back to give him grief.
#2
Prog / Re: Prog 2374 - A World of His Making!
18 March, 2024, 10:13:38 PM
Crikey, Old Dredd's put on a bit of timber hasn't he?

Must be all those munce burgers and synthi sausage's...
#3
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 March, 2024, 06:04:05 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 14 March, 2024, 06:03:00 PM
Quote from: norton canes on 13 March, 2024, 12:06:51 PMKind of surprised there wasn't official confirmation in the Nerve Centre that Regened has come to an end (if indeed it has)
Having read all of this thread, are we saying it hasn't actually finished? :eh:

We're jumping to conclusions based on some circumstantial evidence.


Ah righto, sounds like the content of most of Social Media and indeed the current mainstream media.

Very good, carry on, as you were...
#4
Quote from: norton canes on 13 March, 2024, 12:06:51 PMKind of surprised there wasn't official confirmation in the Nerve Centre that Regened has come to an end (if indeed it has)


Having read all of this thread, are we saying it hasn't actually finished? :eh:
#5
Prog / Re: Prog 2371 - Smash the State
01 March, 2024, 11:45:19 AM
Quote from: norton canes on 01 March, 2024, 11:12:59 AMI wonder if we're already ramping up for an epic 50th anniversary story?


By Wagner?

That would be good.

Dredd gets piles & goes on an adventutre to buy some Preparation H and a nose hair trimmer
#6
Prog / Re: Prog 2371 - Smash the State
29 February, 2024, 09:14:17 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 29 February, 2024, 07:26:43 PM35 years ago Dredd's age was slowing him down, making him doubt the system and causing him back pains,  but here we are with our favourite geriatric in tight leathers still tearing round the streets on his motorbike

I think this is where I'm seeing my vested interest wain somewhat as we all advance in age. Sure, of course  people will want to see Dredd go on and on and on into his 80's, 90's and beyond.

I'm not sure I do without losing some credibility down the back of the sofa along the way.

Wagner had me with his doubts and inner monologue about the system, we got to know Dredd a bit with his narrative. As someone else mentioned, Dredd seems to be doddering about a bit these days.

What ever happened to Rico I wonder?
#7
Prog / Re: Prog 2371 - Smash the State
28 February, 2024, 06:22:06 PM
I remember Rob Williams once saying something like: "Don't get too attached to my characters in Dredd" and you can see why. I was gutted about Judge Sam and still am, I am.

Henry Flint mentioned in the Thrill Cast that there was a head in hands, moment crying out "Noooo!" and there it was.

It makes it somewhat hard to invest in a story and the characters, if one has this pervading sense of doom over them and it appears we are just waiting for 'that' moment. Why do the good guys always die? Or do we just feel it more when they do? Is that just life in MC1?

Apart from ol' Dreddy of course... although you never know with Rob around...
#8
I was wondering if Wagner was writing any future JD

I have a sense that there is one big storyline left with him and his Dredd. Something that's a culmulation of years of plotlines, epics, stories and John's very essence of the Dredd inner monologue and narrative over his past and where's he's at as an aging badge.

I always liked it when Dredd did the 'fit for duty?' storylines with Judges who were deemed to be past their prime and struggling to keep up with the rigours and demands of the role.

Is there someone waiting to conduct an assessment Dredd's way I wonder?

A 70 odd year old brain is still a 70 year old brain, no matter what malarky has been grafted into / onto his body... Brain cells atrophy and so then do the functions they carry out.

Unless they can grow new ones of course...
#9
Thrill-power reaches new heights!


Does it? Really?

What higher than Judge Dredd America, Stront Dog - Rage or even Zenith (a real high point - yok!)

Which begs the next question, if Lowborn High is the new Zenith and this is good as it gets - the creme de la creme what passes for the lower grade stuff?


I get it, it's a strap line. But I'm not sure 2000AD has been reaching new heights for a while. Or more likely I'm loosing my interest in the new style of art and story telling. There's a definate shift in the narrative these days and in my humble opinion, a lack of character development.

I'm getting old & grumpy and maybe it's time for me to leave the new heights of Thrillpower to the next generation now.
#10
Prog / Re: Prog 2322 - Corporate Carnage!
05 March, 2023, 07:35:41 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 March, 2023, 09:20:41 AMMills himself has repeatedly said that he took his foot off of the accelerator when it comes to 2000 AD. Joe Pineapples kind of represents the worst of everything that's happened to his 2000 AD output in recent years, and that's sad.


I think it's really sad and it might have been kinder to say something editorial before this godawful mess of a story was allowed to be published. I don't think allowing it to run unedited was the right thing to & it's a bit like trying to stop your mates embarrassing themselves when their trousers are round their ankles staggering around.

I thought Mills' best work is where he is obviously enjoying weaving in the research he did for the stories, the best of recent was Defoe which was great for the most part, lets just forget that last series when they went into space eh.

Good cover btw, reminded me of Steve Dillon
#11
Prog / Re: Prog 2320 - Birthday Blitz
22 February, 2023, 08:29:06 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 22 February, 2023, 02:34:12 PMTuesday Prog!

Dredd – This was an alright Dredd - interesting concept, but not especially funny or exciting in its presentation. Not bad, but not up to the usual Niemand standard imo. 



It was a bit clunky for sure. I'm really scratching my head as to why 4 judges would kick down the door, fire all their guns at once (at what?) whilst telling the perps to put down their weapons or face erm, the Judges opening fire on their perhaps now injured or already deceased arses...

#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2316 - Taking Liberties
25 January, 2023, 08:11:38 PM
Quote from: The Corinthian on 25 January, 2023, 09:06:14 AM
PAGE 1: Joe Pineapples moping because he'll never see the ABC Warrior again.

SUBSEQUENT PAGES: Inconsequential flashbacks showing us stuff the ABC Warriors did in more consequential, less mopey stories.


Or money for old rope... someones royaly taking us for a ride with this story and the way it's been written. It shouldn't have been published really, I realised I used the word 'story' then, my apologies...

Still we have that wondeful cover, a thing of greatness indeed. It's amazing how Cliff & Ken can still come up with new concepts to delight and keep Dredd's world looking fresh, no recycling of hackneyed & tired old ideas here thankfully...



#13
Prog / Re: Prog 2314: Out of the past
11 January, 2023, 06:55:05 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 January, 2023, 04:49:15 PM

JOE PINEAPPLES - this should never have been in the prog.


My thoughts too, it's dire. Would a new writer who delivered this godawful script get a run like this I wonder? Sue Banana's Tharg?

Why did the artist change after only 2 weeks and the big roll out with the return of the Biz? Did he get taken off it?

I know this is a tad strong, but the editor has made a mistake (you win some you lose some) and it's a bit of an insult to serve this up to the readership.

If this is the last Pat Mills wants to write for 2000AD it certainly shows and it's all a bit sad really



#14
Prog / Re: Prog 2310 - High Plains Shifter
08 December, 2022, 07:27:30 PM
Question is... will the Christmas prog arrive before Christmas?

...at this rate, 2 progs behind I wouldn't bet my house on it.

I reckon the subs progs are still in Oxford, in some great ark boxed up in miles of warehouse racking...
#15
Prog / Re: Prog 2308 - Knockout Blow!
18 November, 2022, 07:05:09 PM
Quote from: broodblik on 16 November, 2022, 03:44:22 AM

Hope – At last Mallory escape the nightmare house as we head into a mini-break. We will soon see the price that Mallory had to pay to free him and his unlikely companions.



"HOPE's back in Prog 23101"


Blimey, we are used to some long gaps between stories in the prog, but that's a stretching it abit!