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Hibernia already reprinted some of it, I'm not sure if that was before John challenged DDC over it though.

Not the Photo-strips though, I vaguely remember something about model release forms could be an issue (not necessarily for Doomlord but in general)

Or reproducing them was more of a headache/questionable popularity than the drawn strips?

I think it was something John said in relation to Doomlord, that DDC said they had the rights but couldn't offer any proof, but it was more bother than it was worth trying to settle the issue.

(Apologies if I'm mistaken)

It might have been expanded upon in the Fleetway Files - there's a brief mention of rights in this article at the bottom, but in this case it's slightly different and in relation to Dan Dare

Down the Tubes Dan Dare

TB is OK, but I preferred the Royal Armouries

Honestly, I don't — I always felt like something was going on elsewhere that I was missing when TB was in Leeds. Harrogate is engagingly compact... everytime someone messaged me to say they're in 'X' pub/bar/restaurant/hotel I'd Google-Map it and it'd be a five minute walk. The convention itself is well-organised and uses the layout effectively.

TL;DR — I much prefer the Harrogate incarnation. Hopefully, I'll see some of you there this year!

Fair enough - Harrogate is more central, but that extra distance from SW London + not having the central area to escape to swung it for me

I'll be there Saturday only - hotel's are getting expensive...

Comparing the two is a bit tricky for me as I've tabled more at TB than Lawless/Lawgiver

Lawless is full-on 2000 AD, with a smattering of other stuff, it's small but it's more like a mini-40th event

TB is OK, but I preferred the Royal Armouries

There has been no official update.

It's the same as it has been for a few years - the original deal with IM Global hit the rocks after they had a boardroom takeover not long after the announcement in 2017.

The producer at IMG, Mark Stern took the project to his own company, Fearless Media Group where it was on his roster of projects that he was trying to drum up backing for.

It then disappeared from that site, and went back to Rebellion - then we had a pandemic.

As far as I can work out the official position is something along the lines of 'these things take years, we're open to offers, but we're not going to sign away the rights just to get something made'

for the unofficial side - I guess they could be looking to see how the method being used for Rogue Trooper works out.

I was also told by someone that people who had been working on a live-action Dredd pitch had chatted to Rebellion fairly recently.

If there's any concrete info, they'd certainly be talking about it.

I think it was a run of 500 inc the KS backers.

Anyway, they've been discounted due to low sales, and storage costs - now £130 inc shipping

Here's a pic I took when I met up with a friend in a nearby pub...

SD Statue Page

There's a sonic fan called Daniel Ratcliffe (not that one) who has done a great job making case files versions of the sonic comics as a personal project (he's up to vol. 3)



@dantwohundred over on twitter

Yeah, I'd forgotten about it - but at the time now remember thinking it didn't look much like Steve's work - I don't know the story behind it, if it was a commission or him trying something new...

It was in the Dillon exhibition at Lawless

Steve Dillon Exhibition

For those who didn't know, this became a Tomb Raider experience in Camden

Anyway, that's shut down now after 18 months...

Tomb Raider Live Experience shuts down

If the landscape and tanks and hoppas and gun emplacements etc are being generated using Unreal, does that mean there will be Unreal files capable of being used to create a new RT computer game? Perhaps they have to be ported/stepped down in some way from the 'movie scenery' Unreal to the 'generate a game world' Unreal, but could it work?

I think Rebellion would be smart to have a game ready to capitalise on the success of the movie.  Rather than revamp the graphics of the Gordon Rennie scripted game yet again, they'd be better off creating a sequel.  And by sequel I really mean something that is like some extra chapters in the middle of the original game (just like recent RT is set in the midst of the hunt for the Traitor General) so that there's a tie-in factor and not "What is all this Horst stuff?"

Asset creation is only a portion of it, they would almost certainly need dumbing down to be usable in whatever Rebellion use these days - although Unreal's a real-time engine, it doesn't necessarily follow that they actually render everything out in real-time (more taking 10 secs/a frame rather than 30 frames/sec

There's still game and level design, voice acting, branchable animation, play-testing etc.

I don't think Redux did particularly well (and it was 10 year old gameplay and animation, with a few new models by that point)

I wouldn't hold your breath.

I'm not sure how many free gifts there were beyond the first 3 - bar a couple of badges and a pencil?

I was thinking of those tiny booklets you were encouraged to cut out the comic - Flesh guide to Dinosaurs, Robot Guide, Mini-Prog 1, Cursed Earth boardgame. So yes my definition of 'free gift' is a bit loose. There's so much love for the posters/cutaways. I guess cos some people could have stared at them on bedroom walls for years.

Just found a free gift list - you're right Steve! https://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=freegifts

Gotcha, yeah there's a bunch of things that don't get collected

How would you do it though? Bound into the book, or loose to be assembled if you wanted to?

I'm not sure how many free gifts there were beyond the first 3 - bar a couple of badges and a pencil?

I know people have asked about nice repros of the multi-part posters, like the Cursed Earth one, the Future Worlds and Total War ones

I loved seeing Steve Cook's rescued proofs of colour covers + spreads + Robin Smith's layouts - it was interesting seeing the inner workings of the Nerve Centre

I'd say that habit going away at the other end applies too.

I recently got rid of around 20 years worth of progs and megs, and it felt cathartic if I'm being honest.

I'd fallen out of love with, if not the prog, the ritual of reading a 6/7 page story a week and once that habit is broken I didn't feel the need to jump back in (and it's tricky even if I wanted to)

I've wondered if a monthly or longer fewer stories would scratch that itch, (I stuck with the Meg longer than the prog), but I think the days of me buying the prog and picking up collections are over - I'll pick up the collection occasionally, but space, money and inclination are all factors for me.

It just strikes me that if someone who got through the 90s is struggling with it, what an uphill struggle it must be to find new readers

I've no idea how it's going to work, publicity wise

They haven't mentioned how it's been financed, if any main studio has picked it up - Rebellion do have their own distribution company called Central City Media, but it's mostly films you won't have heard of going to digital platforms like Apple, Amazon, Google Play store

It mentions theatrical but it might be one of these limited release deals - then onto digital.