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Yes the Guardian's certainly the most irrational paper in Britain today. No doubt about it. If I was going to make fun of a
newspapers being hives of hyperbole I'd aim it straight at that one. No doubt. Oh yes sirreee bob. Damn those left-wing beardy types with their sandals and their opinions. Them and their comics and message boards. Damn them all to hell.

oh so it was a question of plagiarism was it? GOD FORBID someone else in the UK come out with a science fiction comic Mr Moorcock. I admire you're lyrical contributions to infinite wonderbands such as BOC and Hawkwind but you come 'round here thirty five years ago and speak ill of the galaxy's greatest...it's just not on. I'll warrior on the edge of time you in a minute.

Amazing angle/shading/dog. More fiddly shading I say. Eternally more!!

I was not aware that Moorcock had said anything. But if he poo-pooed the galaxy's greatest he's in urgent need of sonic attack.

I had assumed it was outside 2000ad Wagner. But if inside then definetly Button Man. When I first read them they broke my brain. It was a wonderful day. Also all his new Strontium Dog stuff is fabulous.

I heard this yesterday and wept with joy. Anyone seen Brian Blessed on Stars in Their Eyes - ?

Seek it out on youtube it's amazing. "Has anyone tried shoving a shetland pony?"

...and probably the reason for it not making a great deal of sense.

However yes, when I was younger I used to say 'Drokk' or 'Grud' in alarm. As I had years before said 'smeg' in alarm during my Red Dwarf phase. Now I say blork. I don't know why. - - and no meds either. Not yet anyway.

now THAT would be a fearsome game.

It's always easier (as Star Wars has proved time and time again) to stretch a universe around a pre-existing engine. If so, surely Fable II's engine would be a sodding good base for some game. Strontium Dog would be damn good in that sense. Third person - open-worlded, roaming planets for bounties and suchlike. Dante could also work beautifully like that.

You could always play the long game and start from here

//http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1904265790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243944568&sr=8-2

and get every one. Or you could cut to the chase and get through the mega epics; The Cursed Earth, The Apocalypse War, Necropolis, Judgement Day, The Pit yadda yadda.

They should all be available on Amazon or through eBay - not sure about their distribution in america but I should imagine they won't be impossible to find.

I've not seen the film of AVOH - but the book is very readable. Picked it up at a festival last year and remarkably read all of it by torchlight in a tent. Very brutal, very focused. Damn good comic.

It's all part of the grand 2000ad tapestry surely. Get over it.

You've got your cartoony artists like Ian Gibson, Steve Roberts, Boo Cook etc etc and you're incredibly serious artists. It's the variety in creators that's kept 2000ad going for seven billion years. It's what got me reading it, my first issue had Henry Flint, Colin Wilson, Carlos Ezquerra and Colin MacNeil in it. All very distinctive styles of art - and you've always got these nuts fellas with amazing individual styles and I lap it up. If one looks more cartoony than another it's not really relative. It's always been to me more about the artists themselves.

That's what makes 2000ad a thousand times better than American comics. I can't tell a single Spider-Man artist apart. Aside from the occasional 'breakthrough' oddity which they then spend years getting boring artists to imitate it's all bland and by-the-numbers.

so - 2000ad is more about the artist themselves over their 'type'. You don't go "I loved the cartoony guy and the life-like guy on Dredd's early epics" - you say "I remember Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland".

I'm fairly cartoony as an artist. More cartoony than some, less cartoony than others. Or maybe not 'cartoony' at all maybe I just draw as I've learnt to draw.


- - oh and thanks for that reassurance Worley, the new man has yet to make my brain dance

I'd certainly buy it - I always loved those cover features.

...and the covers. When I was younger I used to trawl around Wake's 2000adonline for hours just staring at all the covers. Good plan. If Storm Thorgeson has seventy album cover coffee table books surely there's room for another.

"An artwork by PJ Holden, who has turned professional as a comic artist"

There's something very odd about that phrasing. I can't figure out what though.

Brilliant stuff, and guaranteed if I had an iPhone I would be dishing out the cash for digital Holden

Sitting near me ready to be consumed is a weighty hardback copy of Michael Palin's Diaries that I managed to pick up for £3. What a summer it shall be.

I prefer him that way. He's like the Dave Mustaine of 2000ad.