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Title: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 01:24:09 PM

I thought I'd reboot this thread for next year.

Keep posting 2016 comments in the old thread: Click! (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=35334.2940)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 01:24:41 PM

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cadet-Anderson-Teenage-Alan-Grant/dp/1781085390) - Paperback, 128 pages.
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power! - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-ADs-Greatest-Celebrating-Thrill-Power/dp/1781085404) - Paperback, 112 pages.
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Aux-Drift-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781085285) - Paperback, 144 pages.
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Order-Die-Mensch-Machine/dp/1781085277) - Paperback, 128 pages.
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781085269) - Paperback, 304 pages.
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier

To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Molch-R Celebrates Five Well-written Product Blurbs

Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
"When the psychically powerful three-year-old CASSANDRA ANDERSON killed her abusive father, she was taken into the custody of Justice Department, who blocked the memories of her traumatic childhood. Inducted into Psi-Division as a cadet, where the Judges use telepaths, empaths, precogs and others with psychic abilities to aid the fight against crime, Anderson is thrown in the deep end as she faces up to the worst Mega-City One has to offer."

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Kyx_750_zpscwnrleye.jpg)

2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
"From humorously twisted Future Shocks to the dystopian escapades of Judge Dredd, 2000 AD has inspired generations of readers and has spawned some of the greatest talents in the comics industry. To celebrate the creative droids behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, a selection of writers and artists from across 2000 AD's forty-year history were asked to choose their favourite one-off story by a fellow creator and explain why they chose it. The result is this incredible anthology featuring work by Alan Grant, Kevin O'Neill, Rob Williams, Brian Bolland, Chris Weston and Steve Dillon selected by creators such as founding editor Pat Mills, celebrated artist Jock and recent newcomer Tom Foster."

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Greatest_750_zpsletczpf3.jpg)

The Order: Die Mensch Machine
"In 13th Century Germany, while reading the papers of her dead father young Anna Kohl uncovers a shocking secret – that defending Earth from an other-worldly menace is a secret cadre of warriors known only as The Order. Now she, and her father's rag-tag former comrades, must do battle with the sinister forces of these eldritch creatures! From Teutonic Knights with robot heads to gun-toting warriors in high speed pursuits on the streets of Elizabethan Engand, The Order is an incredible genre mash-up of medieval and Renaissance history, action movies, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, and Hammer Horror!"

[Amazon, do you have the right author bio?!?]

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Order_750_zpsyid5kykx.jpg)

Kingdom - Aux Drift
"In the far future, mankind has been all but destroyed and survivors are forced to hide from 'Them' – giant insectile creatures that have taken over the world – with only savage genetically engineered dog-soldiers like Gene the Hackman to guard them. Having travelled the Earth without his pack, Gene now leads a band of mongrel "aux" warriors known as the Wild Bunch. They live alongside some human survivors in The Kingdom. But 'Them' are growing in number and the Kingdom is getting harder to defend..."

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Drift_750_zpsaylzczvk.jpg)

Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29
"The war on crime gets tougher, as the Justice Department (after Dredd's approval) unveil the brand new Lawgiver Mark II firearm!"

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF29_750_zpsyjl3c259.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Fungus on 23 August, 2016, 01:45:20 PM

Some glorious covers there. I wouldn't usually consider an Anderson collection but Fabry is a hell of a salesman.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 01:58:46 PM

CF29 is entirely written by Wagner & Grant.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Trent on 23 August, 2016, 04:15:33 PM

What did Rafael Garres draw?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Andy B on 23 August, 2016, 04:35:19 PM

Rafael Garres drew 'Virtual Soldier', a Wagner 2-parter in the Prog that I do not even slightly remember

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 24 August, 2016, 12:54:03 AM

Duncan Fegredo only ever drew two stories in the prog The Bad Juve and The Runner (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=duncanf) - both Dredd tales. He did a few more for the Meg and some work in Crisis, but I think that's it for the House of Tharg...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 24 August, 2016, 12:58:25 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 01:24:41 PM
The Order: Die Mensch Machine
[Amazon, do you have the right author bio?!?]

The things you can find out from amazon...

Quote from: amazonJohn Burns co-pastors with his wife, Helen Burns, at Victory Christian Centre in Vancouver, Canada. They host the internationally recognized program Family Success and local program Pure Sex and Relationships. He is author of Can We Talk? seminars and numerous teaching series. He has coauthored with his wife The Miracle of Friendship and The Best of Marriage Series. John and Helen have enjoyed twenty-seven years of marriage and are the parents of three daughters, Angela, Dancia, and Ashley.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 August, 2016, 02:47:59 AM

That's why I questioned it - I think they've confused two different John Burns.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 24 August, 2016, 12:49:31 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 24 August, 2016, 02:47:59 AM
That's why I questioned it - I think they've confused two different John Burns.

Pretty sure of that myself, I was being facetious.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Robo-K33F on 24 August, 2016, 03:54:05 PM

There will be a Deadworld and a Lawless trade on the 2017 schedule.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Steve Green on 24 August, 2016, 04:04:35 PM

Nice one!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 06:03:04 PM

Looks like some great stuff! Definitely going to get Kingdom - Aux Drift, how many books of Kingdom are out if I want to catch up?

The Order: Die Mensch Machine sounds intriguing as well.

Also there is only volume 29 of Dredd CCF, does only one volume come out each year? Im slowly collecting all those as well.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 August, 2016, 06:17:22 PM

Quote from: Robo-K33F on 24 August, 2016, 03:54:05 PM
There will be a Deadworld and a Lawless trade on the 2017 schedule.

WAYHEY!!!!!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 24 August, 2016, 06:26:02 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 06:03:04 PM
Looks like some great stuff! Definitely going to get Kingdom - Aux Drift, how many books of Kingdom are out if I want to catch up?

Two: http://shop.2000adonline.com/categories/kingdom

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Mute77 on 24 August, 2016, 07:03:10 PM

Am looking forward to the Scarlet Traces book-I wonder if it'l have any extras like the Dark Horse editions did...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 07:27:33 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 24 August, 2016, 06:26:02 PM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 06:03:04 PM
Looks like some great stuff! Definitely going to get Kingdom - Aux Drift, how many books of Kingdom are out if I want to catch up?
Two: http://shop.2000adonline.com/categories/kingdom

Great, thanks! Ill pick those up for sure.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 August, 2016, 10:47:25 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 06:03:04 PM
Also there is only volume 29 of Dredd CCF, does only one volume come out each year? Im slowly collecting all those as well.

In 2016 they released three volumes - 26, 27 and 28.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 24 August, 2016, 11:06:18 PM

I hope we get Savage Book 3. Any chance?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 24 August, 2016, 11:06:51 PM

Double posted then. Ignore.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 24 August, 2016, 11:55:49 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 24 August, 2016, 10:47:25 PM

In 2016 they released three volumes - 26, 27 and 28.

Good to know, thanks. I hope they do the same in 2017, three a year is affordable.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 August, 2016, 09:59:06 AM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: -MikeD- on 27 August, 2016, 05:20:01 PM

TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front

:D

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Fungus on 28 August, 2016, 07:40:00 AM

IDW do seem to like those Dark Judges.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 October, 2016, 10:28:36 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 June, 2016, 02:07:38 PM
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill-Power Overload: Forty Years of 2000 AD (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrill-Power-Overload-Revised-Updated-Expanded/dp/1781085226)

Cover now up at Amazon UK. Note the original logo style "Redux".

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/TPO_Redux_750_zpsaad02z7t.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 November, 2016, 02:50:37 AM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 November, 2016, 09:44:49 PM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: credo on 24 November, 2016, 12:07:09 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 November, 2016, 09:44:49 PM
2017 AD

?? May 2017 - The Journal of Luke Kirby

Wait ... what? Excellent news if this happens!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Molch-R on 24 November, 2016, 12:27:31 PM

Quote from: credo on 24 November, 2016, 12:07:09 PM
Wait ... what? Excellent news if this happens!

http://www.2000adonline.com/post/1078

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: credo on 24 November, 2016, 02:17:28 PM

Quote from: Molch-R on 24 November, 2016, 12:27:31 PM
Quote from: credo on 24 November, 2016, 12:07:09 PM
Wait ... what? Excellent news if this happens!

http://www.2000adonline.com/post/1078

Brilliant!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 03 January, 2017, 05:02:59 AM

Any chance they will release Judge Dredd: Trifecta in paperback (instead of HC)? I like constancy and have been sticking to mostly softcover so far. I really want to read it so I may have to buy it regardless...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 January, 2017, 06:11:25 AM

I completely missed that (Summer Magic news). Great news for those that don't own it. Not many to go now!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 03 January, 2017, 01:02:34 PM

Presumably this means that MAC-1 has resolved issues he had. And hopefully that means we might possibly get some continuation in the future?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 03 January, 2017, 01:18:54 PM

Quote from: sheridan on 03 January, 2017, 01:02:34 PM
Presumably this means that MAC-1 has resolved issues he had. And hopefully that means we might possibly get some continuation in the future?

This has come up before. I'm pretty sure Rebellion are confident that their legal advice on Zenith holds true for Luke Kirby as well. ISTR some comment on FB from MacKenzie that the new collection was news to him...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 06 January, 2017, 02:06:43 AM

Si Spencer & Jake Lynch's Scando-thrill HAVN debuts in Meg 382.

Has anybody mentioned elsewhere that this is the very same Meg that sees the fruits of Rebellion's recent IPC purchase make it's presence felt in the floppy? First cab off the rank is The Lawless Touch by Kelvin Gosnell (aka Starlord) & Barrie Look Out For Lefty Mitchell from the pages of Tornado

Jumping on Prog 2023 sees the start of a run of Dredds by John Wagner (remember him?)
First up is Get Jerry Sing with Carlos, followed up by the Mechanismo story with John McCrea which is entitled Harvey.

Also beginning in Prog 2023 are:

Pat Mills & John Higgins re-unite for the final series of Greysuit: Foul Play
The Fall of Deadworld: Cursed by Kek-W & Dave Kendall
Scarlet Traces: The Cold War Book 2 from Edgy & D'izzy
Defoe: Die Hards courtesy of Mills & Colin MacNeill

Oh & the FCBD 2017 Prog features:

Judge Dredd: Forty Years of Hurt courtesy of Matt Smith & Phil Winslade
Anderson vs Trapper Hag by Dabnett & the wonderful Euro-stylings of Dani
A Blackblood solo story from Mills & Kel Zama
Hope by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton
The Dreams of Deadworld again by Kek-W & Dave Kendall

If there is nothing above that sends your thrill circuits abuzz then there is something wrong with you

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Fungus on 06 January, 2017, 02:29:56 AM

Dani is welcome.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 06 January, 2017, 02:42:06 AM

She was the stand out of last year's very fine FCBD prog, wasn't she?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: dweezil2 on 06 January, 2017, 03:37:56 AM

That's some remarkable thrills on the offing!

That FCBD has an excellent lineup as usual, putting all the others to shame!

Will be great to see Winslade on a Dredd tale, but all of it sounds like top draw stuff!!!!! :)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 January, 2017, 06:43:31 AM

Very excited and not entirely surprised to hear that the IPC stuff is being used to pad out the floppies. Tharg was getting low on the 2000ad stuff and not all of it will be commercially viable (I'm guessing) on its own and this is a wonderful way to get it out there and hopefully will have a bit of a boost for the Meg as well.

Good stuff Tharg and his minions.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 06 January, 2017, 06:56:07 AM

& fingers crossed that the reason why they haven't gone for The Leopard of Lime Street or New Statesmen (ahem) straight out of the gate is that Tharg is saving these gems for the trade. [/pure speculation]

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 January, 2017, 12:35:06 AM

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
21 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 3
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29
06 Apr 2017 - The Last American (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085447) - paperback
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
?? May 2017 - The Journal of Luke Kirby
04 May 2017 - Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085463) - hardback
13 Jun 2017 - The Complete Skizz (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Skizz-Alan-Moore/dp/1781085420) - paperback, 272 pages - Yay!
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
12 Sep 2017 - Survival Geeks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Geeks-Neil-Googe/dp/1781085544) - paperback, 112 pages
12 Sep 2017 - Brink: Book One (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brink-Book-One-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781085501) - paperback, 96 pages

To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009)
TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front
TBA - One-Eyed Jack
TBA - The Deluxe Leopard from Lime Street Case Files

Blurbs:
(All typos (c) Amazon UK: missing full stops, missing spaces, extra spaces, unmatched quotation marks etc.)

Brink: Book One
Humanity is on the brink in this atmospheric space-noir from hit comics duo Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard.
Late 21st century and Earth has been reduced to an uninhabited wasteland. What was left of humanity was evacuated into overpopulated space stations, or Habitats . A hotbed for crime and strange new religious sects, the Habitat Security Division has no shortage of work. No-nonsense Investigator Bridget Kurtis soon finds herself embroiled in a life or death struggle with a sinister cult and what she uncovers has disturbing implications for the future of the human race "

The Complete Skizz
The ultimate illegal alien! Alan Moore's out of print classic returns in a brand new complete collection!
When Interpreter Zhcchz of the Tau-Ceti Imperium crashed his ship into the small blue Hellworld -classed planet, the odds of surviving were stacked against him. Stranded in the polluted, hostile British city of Birmingham, 'Skizz' is befriended by Roxy, a plucky young local girl. But danger is ever present- from bad food to Prime MinisterThatcher s hostile government alien-hunters, this E.T. may soon be R.I.P!"

The Last American Paperback
Twenty years after a global nuclear war destroyed the world, Captain Ulysses Pilgrim is woken from suspended animation by three military robot aides. Selected by his superiors to survive the initial onslaught, Pilgrim now has one last mission; to scour through post-holocaust U.S.A. in the search for other survivors.

Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp
Albion, in a time of legend. Celtic warrior SL ÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland, before returning to being a wanderer. Now, having journeyed to the Isle of Monadh to rescue Sinead from the Drune Lords, he's discovered that they have been experimenting on their own creations — including the brutal, superhuman Primordial, whom Sláine has just learnt is his old friend Gort...

Survival Geeks
Survival Geeks, amedia-savvy sci-fi adventure! Aparody of contemporary geek culture, for fans of Fanboys and Scott Pilgrim.
When Sam wakes up in the house of a group of sci-fi fans, she becomes their reluctant new housemate... after the house turns out to be a piece of misfiring trans-dimensional technology!

The house takes them to places where no two-up two-down terraced house has gone before, from steampunk worlds to Lovecraftian elder gods. Armed only with their wits (and Star Wars trivia) the group of misfits must survive in whatever horrifying dimension or alternate reality they find themselves hurled into!

An affectionate parody of the most popular geek cultures, this quirky comedy adventure features steampunks, dark lords and cuddly Lovecraftian horrors.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 January, 2017, 06:55:12 AM

Interesting, if those page counts are correct (which we can never be sure of ) that Brink would seem to be released as one series in a the trade? Hope that means we haven't got a long wait for book 2?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: glassstanley on 09 January, 2017, 02:58:43 PM

Skizz - hopefully this will be complete. Titan/Best of 2000AD/RebellionDC reprints have all had either 1 or 3 pages committed. Where the missing pages were reinstated, amendments to the opening text of the following page remained edited. Given that this is a stylistic feature of much of More's work, I'd hope that the original text can be reinstated, as well as the missing pages.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Andy B on 11 January, 2017, 12:41:38 AM

Some more nuggets here:

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/10/2000ads-graphic-novels-for-2017-for-its-40th-birthday-including-something-a-little-harry-potterish/ (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/10/2000ads-graphic-novels-for-2017-for-its-40th-birthday-including-something-a-little-harry-potterish/)

Complete Future Shocks! MACH 1!

But still no sign of Savage Book 3...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Trent on 11 January, 2017, 04:35:42 AM

Lawless at 128 pages makes no sense which unfortunately calls into question other page numbers.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 January, 2017, 12:32:53 PM

40th Anniversary Special (https://forbiddenplanet.com/213093-2000ad-40th-anniversary-special/)

"To celebrate an incredible four decades of continuous weekly publication, 2000 AD marks its 40th birthday with a 48-page bumper special, packed with all-new stories from the cream of comics talent.

"There's a brand-new case for Judge Dredd courtesy of John Wagner and Steve Dillon; Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws take their revenge on Howard Quartz in 'Ro-Busters' by Pat Mills and Clint Langley; we return to the mad, mad world of Zombo by Al Ewing and Henry Flint; Nikolai Dante gets the party started in 'Devil May Care' by Robbie Morrison and Simon Fraser; a young Slaine shows that he's got what it takes to join the Red Branch, courtesy of Pat Mills and Simon Davis; plus much more!"

And look! Carlos Ezquerra has even drawn some dots around the guns for us!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 January, 2017, 01:13:52 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 January, 2017, 12:32:53 PMThere's a brand-new case for Judge Dredd courtesy of John Wagner and Steve Dillon

Wow!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Molch-R on 11 January, 2017, 01:30:23 PM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 January, 2017, 01:13:52 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 January, 2017, 12:32:53 PMThere's a brand-new case for Judge Dredd courtesy of John Wagner and Steve Dillon
Wow!

FP's listing is out of date - Steve sadly passed away before he could start work on the strip. I believe it's now being drawn by Carl Critchlow.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: blixab on 11 January, 2017, 05:57:54 PM

Very sad that there won't be a postumous strip.

How many variant covers are planned for this 40th Anniversary Special or will it just be the one?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 January, 2017, 07:46:23 PM

I somehow entirely missed Complete Future Shocks. Oh my. I so hope that gets enough purchases to warrant an ongoing collection.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 11 January, 2017, 08:20:12 PM

My nomination for a future reprint is Third World War from Crisis. (First book only.)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 11 January, 2017, 08:22:14 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 January, 2017, 12:32:53 PM
40th Anniversary Special (https://forbiddenplanet.com/213093-2000ad-40th-anniversary-special/)

"To celebrate an incredible four decades of continuous weekly publication, 2000 AD marks its 40th birthday with a 48-page bumper special, packed with all-new stories from the cream of comics talent.

"There's a brand-new case for Judge Dredd courtesy of John Wagner and Steve Dillon; Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws take their revenge on Howard Quartz in 'Ro-Busters' by Pat Mills and Clint Langley; we return to the mad, mad world of Zombo by Al Ewing and Henry Flint; Nikolai Dante gets the party started in 'Devil May Care' by Robbie Morrison and Simon Fraser; a young Slaine shows that he's got what it takes to join the Red Branch, courtesy of Pat Mills and Simon Davis; plus much more!"

And look! Carlos Ezquerra has even drawn some dots around the guns for us!

Sounds amazing.

A damn shame Steve Dillon never had the chance to contribute as planned.
Can I take a stab in the dark that the story will feature the return / final appearance of Judge Prager?
The Critchlow Droid was the only other artist to draw that character, and it just feels like something TMO would do.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 January, 2017, 08:57:12 PM

Quote from: Richard on 11 January, 2017, 08:20:12 PM
My nomination for a future reprint is Third World War from Crisis. (First book only.)

Careful what you wish for...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 January, 2017, 09:41:43 PM

In another thread I was discussing my desire to read Alan Moors collection of future shocks, however, the Complete Future Shocks might me a more worthwhile investment.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 January, 2017, 10:03:24 PM

The Alan Moore book is superb, and it's notable that a lot of it includes Time Twisters, too. (I suppose they might be in the FS volume, but who knows?)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 11 January, 2017, 10:56:39 PM

Huh it never occured to me rebellion outright owns tornado and starlord now and not just the stuff that merged into the prog. I am slow xd

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 12 January, 2017, 11:11:03 PM

So we can assume that the Mind Wars, Timequake & Starlord Stront in colour collections are scheduled for the 40th anniversary of Tooth's sister comic in 2018 then? ;)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8kOaK23HiWY/VUlAkNOB1cI/AAAAAAAAUrI/h44H4VJlFO4/s1600/starlord_1.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 12 January, 2017, 11:33:18 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 January, 2017, 10:03:24 PM
The Alan Moore book is superb, and it's notable that a lot of it includes Time Twisters, too. (I suppose they might be in the FS volume, but who knows?)

Considering I have little experience with FS and comments like yours, I think I'll get the Alan Moore book to begin with - thanks. I have not heard of Time Twisters, although I assume they are similar to FS if they are included.

Regarding that Starlord cover above, what kind of badge did it come with? If I was a lad in the late 70's that would have been very enticing!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 13 January, 2017, 08:22:35 AM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 12 January, 2017, 11:33:18 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 January, 2017, 10:03:24 PM
The Alan Moore book is superb, and it's notable that a lot of it includes Time Twisters, too. (I suppose they might be in the FS volume, but who knows?)

Considering I have little experience with FS and comments like yours, I think I'll get the Alan Moore book to begin with - thanks. I have not heard of Time Twisters, although I assume they are similar to FS if they are included.

Regarding that Starlord cover above, what kind of badge did it come with? If I was a lad in the late 70's that would have been very enticing!

My copy doesn't have a badge, but I believe they had one of six types of sticker, each depicting a different regiment of starlord troopers.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dpqdLjpRUe0/VUk_utAkaHI/AAAAAAAAUqQ/Lr5OFF4OskQ/s1600/starlord1_freegift.jpg)

With artwork by Kevin O'Neill, by the looks of it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: SuperSurfer on 13 January, 2017, 02:06:42 PM

Quote from: sheridan on 13 January, 2017, 08:22:35 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 12 January, 2017, 11:33:18 PM
Regarding that Starlord cover above, what kind of badge did it come with? If I was a lad in the late 70's that would have been very enticing!
My copy doesn't have a badge, but I believe they had one of six types of sticker, each depicting a different regiment of starlord troopers.

With artwork by Kevin O'Neill, by the looks of it.

So obviously by Kevin O'Neill.

I think that somehow I ended up with two of these. Robot regiment and Tank Commander. I drove over one with an armchair so it's a bit battered.

(https://2000ad.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/star-lord-badges.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 19 January, 2017, 02:42:34 PM

Thanks for posting the images of those badges - they are very cool and would make good t-shirt graphics. Who wouldn't want ro be a Tank Commander or Time Warden!? The B&W Photos dosent do them justice as they look much more vibrant in colour.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: norton canes on 19 January, 2017, 03:31:00 PM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 12 January, 2017, 11:11:03 PM
So we can assume that the Mind Wars, Timequake & Starlord Stront in colour collections are scheduled for the 40th anniversary of Tooth's sister comic in 2018 then? ;)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8kOaK23HiWY/VUlAkNOB1cI/AAAAAAAAUrI/h44H4VJlFO4/s1600/starlord_1.jpg)

I would be more than happy to have the excellent Mind Wars story bound in one lovely volume.

BTW never mind Kevin O'Neill's badges, who's responsible for the dreadful depiction of Johnny Alpha (at least I assume it's meant to be Johnny Alpha) on that Starlord no.1 cover?

Edit: Just checked Barney, it's Ramon 'Flesh' Sola. Hmm. He should have used line art.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Mike Carroll on 19 January, 2017, 04:56:34 PM

Back in 2015 I recoloured Johnny Alpha on that cover to more closely match the real thing... I also recoloured Wulf's beard!

(http://www.michaelowencarroll.com/pics/starlord01fixed.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 19 January, 2017, 05:03:40 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 12 January, 2017, 11:33:18 PMConsidering I have little experience with FS and comments like yours, I think I'll get the Alan Moore book to begin with - thanks. I have not heard of Time Twisters, although I assume they are similar to FS if they are included.

Same format, more or less – just more time-travel oriented. The Moore book includes all his shorts – Future Shock, Time Twisters, and a few other bits (such as the complete Abelard Snazz). If you can track down a copy, it's one of the best Rebellion volumes you'll find.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 January, 2017, 07:35:02 AM

A few more now listed on Amazon UK. Thanks also to Andy B for the extra nuggets.

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
21 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 3
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 (possibly now August?)
06 Apr 2017 - The Last American
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
04 May 2017 - Summer Magic: The Complete Journal of Luke Kirby (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085412) - paperback, 240 pages
04 May 2017 - Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp
13 Jun 2017 - The Complete Skizz
15 Jun 2017 - Lawless: Welcome to Black Rock (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085439) - paperback, 176 pages
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085455) - paperback, 112 pages
?? Jul 2017 - Anderson: The Deep End
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
12 Sep 2017 - Survival Geeks
12 Sep 2017 - Brink: Book One
?? Oct 2017 - The Complete Future Shocks, Volume 1
?? Oct 2017 - Scarlet Traces Volume 2
?? Nov 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 30
?? Dec 2017 - The Fall of Deadworld
?? Dec 2017 - M.A.C.H.1 – The John Probe Mission Files

To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009)
TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 2: Bionic Gran & the 6 1/2p Buytonic Boy meet MACH 1
TBA - Laser Eraser and Pressbutton and Laser Eraser - Ernie from "Jackpot" teams up with Mysta Mistralis after accidentally beaming Axel's button to Splod.
TBA - One-Eyed Jack (N.B., To avoid this making it on to the Things That Went Over Your Head thread, it's a playing card reference, right?)
TBA - The Deluxe Leopard from Lime Street Case Files

Blurbs:
(All typos (c) Amazon UK: extra full stops, missing spaces, extra spaces, sentences starting with lower case characters, etc.)
3/10 - see me after class!

Absalom: Under a False Flag
Inspector Harry Absalom is an old-school copper — curmudgeonly antiauthoritarian, he's been with the force for over forty years. Suffering from an inoperable cancer, he's also the head of a special squad that enforces The Accord, a diplomatic treaty made in the sixteenth century between the throne of England and the powers of Hell. Together with the psychotic Guv'nor, Harry uncovers a secret demon-killing cadre working on behalf of the church...

Lawless: Welcome to Black Rock
The backwater planet of 43 Rega has spent five years recovering from an invasion of aliens known as the Zhind. i[/u]solated and a hotbed for trouble makers, Badrock is an colony township desperate for a strong law enforcer to take charge. Enter Colonial. Marshal Meta Lawson. Tough, surly and determined, Lawson seems to be ideal for the role. But is this law-woman exactly who she claims to be...?

Summer Magic: The Complete Journal of Luke Kirby
In the summer of 1962, young Luke Kirby is sent to stay with his Uncle Elias(a man he had never met) in a British village called Lunstead, while his mother recuperates from an illness. Elias reveals himself to be a magician, well versed in the alchemical arts and eager to pass his skills onto his young nephew. But as the apprenticeship begins a new, bestial horror begins to stalk those unfortunate enough to wander alone at night in the woods. Will the burgeoning magician be powerful enough to confront the monster? To enter this world of wonder, childhood innocence must be sacrificed...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 January, 2017, 07:37:18 AM

Quote from: Trent on 11 January, 2017, 04:35:42 AM
Lawless at 128 pages makes no sense which unfortunately calls into question other page numbers.

Amazon UK's listing says 176 pages. Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085439)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 24 January, 2017, 05:26:38 PM

Are you keeping the long running vcs joke going even if it finally made the megs floppys?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 January, 2017, 10:10:33 AM

I'm going to milk it for all it's worth, like a dog with a bone in some kind of mashed up milk/bone metaphor.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 January, 2017, 10:44:02 AM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 27 January, 2017, 09:36:51 PM

Mind Wars definitely deserves to be collected.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 28 January, 2017, 09:23:30 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 January, 2017, 10:44:02 AM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/GFM_zps5zwu02ih.jpg)

Did I read somewhere that was going to be the last Grandville, or is that the next one to come out?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 28 January, 2017, 11:44:48 AM

Last one!!!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 February, 2017, 02:21:29 PM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 07 February, 2017, 04:48:04 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 February, 2017, 02:21:29 PM

Deviations: Beta
WWhat if your favorite stories and characters had entirely different experiences? Find out in Deviations, a special comic book event series featuring alternate takes on some of your favourite books!

Judge Dredd turned into a werewolf! Take a sideways look at one of the more celebrated Dredd stories, "Cry of the Werewolf."

In My Little Pony, imagine Equestria where Prince Blueblood becomes Celestia's star pupil, not Twilight Sparkle!

What if Earth wasn't home to Starfleet, but was instead a vast and brutal penal colony? What if everything that was no longer is because the Romulans defeated the Vulcans, destroyed the Federation, and rewrote history?

In a world where young Fox Mulder was abducted by aliens and never returned, another Mulder takes up the crusade against deception! Agent Samantha Mulder returns with Agent Dana Scully to investigate a shadowy figure who may hold the truth behind the disappearance of Sam's brother Fox.

Yeah, think I'll be getting that Judge Dredd 'Deviations' comic separately.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 07 February, 2017, 06:24:13 PM

Quote from: Link Prime on 07 February, 2017, 04:48:04 PM

Yeah, think I'll be getting that Judge Dredd 'Deviations' comic separately.

Yeah, you beat me to it, I was going to say the same. Dredd does not belong anywhere near some of those properties (My Little Pony...)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 07 February, 2017, 06:37:37 PM

Now your just giving people an excuse to post weird JD/MLP fanart.;)
Idk,Im 100% certain about Case Files.Skizz and Greysuit maybe.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 07 February, 2017, 09:19:06 PM

Quote from: Smith on 07 February, 2017, 06:37:37 PM
Now your just giving people an excuse to post weird JD/MLP fanart.;)
Idk,Im 100% certain about Case Files.Skizz and Greysuit maybe.

JD MLP fan art... does that exist? :o afraid to look...

Im sold on Lawless Kingdom and Case Files. Debating Scarlet Tracers

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 08 February, 2017, 06:12:50 AM

Knowing the internet,Im sure it exists.
Personally,cant say Im a big fan of Scarlet Traces.
Btw,anyone knows what is Greysuit actually collecting?Everything so far?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: James Stacey on 08 February, 2017, 09:07:52 AM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 07 February, 2017, 09:19:06 PM
JD MLP fan art... does that exist? :o afraid to look...

I looked. Theres tonnes of it :o

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 February, 2017, 01:03:15 PM

Remember, Sweeny Toddler did it first!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MLP%20Dredd_zpswnl61685.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 February, 2017, 01:04:46 PM

Quote from: Link Prime on 07 February, 2017, 04:48:04 PM
Yeah, think I'll be getting that Judge Dredd 'Deviations' comic separately.

It looks like this (unless there are variants):

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Deviations%20cover_zpssij3svnq.jpg)

"What are you? The station werewolf?"

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 08 February, 2017, 07:30:06 PM

John McRea again, this time for 2000ad (script by Wagner):

(http://i.imgur.com/ccwG8gA.png?1)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 08 February, 2017, 10:31:27 PM

McCreamanismo! That looks fabaroony.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: JOE SOAP on 08 February, 2017, 10:52:47 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/ccwG8gA.png?1)

Justice Dept. Big Wheels?

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6AFw4wH2Mko/maxresdefault.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 February, 2017, 10:59:04 AM

That's what the Lawmasters are lacking - streamers hanging from the hand grips!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 09 February, 2017, 04:19:17 PM

Quote from: Dash Decen=topic=43620.msg945229#msg94522exist at1486558995
Remember, Sweeny Toddler did it first!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MLP%20Dredd_zpswnl61685.jpg)

Wow that is scarier than Judge Fear himself. Truly a terrible sight! What is their target demographic for a cover like that... The other cry of thr warewolf cover, however, is awesome.

James Stacy - thanks for looking and confirming that crazy fan art exists. You are a braver man than I!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 09 February, 2017, 10:39:02 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 09 February, 2017, 04:19:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decen=topic=43620.msg945229#msg94522exist at1486558995
Remember, Sweeny Toddler did it first!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MLP%20Dredd_zpswnl61685.jpg)

Wow that is scarier than Judge Fear himself. Truly a terrible sight! What is their target demographic for a cover like that... The other cry of thr warewolf cover, however, is awesome.

James Stacy - thanks for looking and confirming that crazy fan art exists. You are a braver man than I!

I'm confused - that looks like a pig and a little crocodile - shouldn't there be, y'know, equines in if it's My Little Pony?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Max Headroom on 10 February, 2017, 11:22:14 AM

Anyone know when the 'Cry of the Werewolf' one-shot is out?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 10 February, 2017, 03:46:54 PM

Quote from: Max Headroom on 10 February, 2017, 11:22:14 AM
Anyone know when the 'Cry of the Werewolf' one-shot is out?

Its scheduled for a March release date. So next month!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 10 February, 2017, 10:34:18 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 10 February, 2017, 03:46:54 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 10 February, 2017, 11:22:14 AM
Anyone know when the 'Cry of the Werewolf' one-shot is out?

Its scheduled for a March release date. So next month!

Woo-hoo - the only thing not making me wish March come earlier is the 40th anniversary special (and all the progs, etc).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 05:41:51 AM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 09 February, 2017, 04:19:17 PM
What is their target demographic for a cover like that...

You realize a good chunk of MLP fandom are teens and young adult males, yes? Because the show is exceptionally well made apparently. I didn't get into it (ended up getting pulled in by Adventure Time, and Homestuck, myself) but the demographic is 'young adults'.

Personally I'm more concerned that from a casual glance at a distance, ol' Judge Pinkie Pie there looks like she's ejaculating. Clearly channeling Judge Dredd's more homoerotic side.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 05:41:51 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 09 February, 2017, 04:19:17 PM
What is their target demographic for a cover like that...

You realize a good chunk of MLP fandom are teens and young adult males, yes? Because the show is exceptionally well made apparently. I didn't get into it (ended up getting pulled in by Adventure Time, and Homestuck, myself) but the demographic is 'young adults'.

Personally I'm more concerned that from a casual glance at a distance, ol' Judge Pinkie Pie there looks like she's ejaculating. Clearly channeling Judge Dredd's more homoerotic side.

Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand. You can make the worlds best quality cartoon about little girl ponies or princess fairies or what have you, but I still wouldn't watch it. The subject matter is more important than how well made it is. I don't judge what others watch (that's Dredds job) but I personally don't get the appeal. The only cartoons I watch on occasion are the ones I grew up with, namely GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man etc.

I agree that, at a quick glance, the image does look as you described...but isn't that where glue comes from? :o

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 11 February, 2017, 07:20:21 AM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
... a man ...

Is there such a thing? I don't really care for MLP myself, but I enjoy plenty of 'cutesy' cartoons - the Tinkerbell movies, for example - so I can certainly see why others mighy. The 'subject matter' isn't really talking ponies (or fairies), it's friendship and family, perseverance in adversity, integrity and forgiveness, the ability to learn and change and accept change: much like all drama.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 07:23:44 AM

I doubt there was that much thinking involved.Probably somebody at IDW said: Hey,wouldnt it be funny...
But to get back on topic,Cry of the Werewolf is a bit of an odd place for deviation.Its an okay story,but not the most famous one.I guess they went for the cool factor.Or they figured that "What if Judge Dredd stayed a fungus" wouldnt be much of a story.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 07:31:02 AM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand.

Why would a grown man read children's comics?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 07:35:13 AM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand.
Why would a grown man read children's comics?

Probably better if we dont go there.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 07:58:19 AM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand.
Why would a grown man read children's comics?

To read or care about fantasy fiction in general requires a modicum of whimsy in a person's heart.

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM

Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand. You can make the worlds best quality cartoon about little girl ponies or princess fairies or what have you, but I still wouldn't watch it. The subject matter is more important than how well made it is. I don't judge what others watch (that's Dredds job) but I personally don't get the appeal. The only cartoons I watch on occasion are the ones I grew up with, namely GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man etc.

It's been 30 years since those glorified toy commercials aired, cartoons have grown up a lot and are more nuanced then ever. If I'm honest with myself, animation is the best it's ever been right now, at least in terms of writing. I'm not saying MLP is for everyone, but I I'm saying Stephen Universe is.

Quote from: TordelBack on 11 February, 2017, 07:20:21 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
... a man ...

Is there such a thing?

A miserable pile of secrets.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 08:04:37 AM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 07:58:19 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand.
Why would a grown man read children's comics?
To read or care about fantasy fiction in general requires a modicum of whimsy in a person's heart.

Er... Just in case my sarcasm is unclear: I deliberately posted this on a forum devoted to a children's comic from the venue for the 40th birthday party of a children's comic where I spent last night with other fans and creators of a children's comic.

Edit: Apple Has helpfully included apostrophes.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 08:24:06 AM

Everybody has some solid points and I don't disagree. Note the part where I said I don't judge what others like, but that I don't necessarily understand the appeal.

Good points Cosh - I have nothing against kids stuff, I read a ton of comics (and collect the odd toy) for gruds sake! The subject matter of the books i read, however, differs from ponies (more death, less ponies. not that ponies are bad). However, my daughter loves Pepe Pig and I watch it way more often than I would like!

Oh, and Happy birthday Tharg!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 08:44:38 AM

Quote from: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 07:23:44 AM
I doubt there was that much thinking involved.Probably somebody at IDW said: Hey,wouldnt it be funny...
But to get back on topic,Cry of the Werewolf is a bit of an odd place for deviation.Its an okay story,but not the most famous one.I guess they went for the cool factor.Or they figured that "What if Judge Dredd stayed a fungus" wouldnt be much of a story.

Maybe it's to do with honoring Steve Dillons recent passing? I think it was one of his more popular stories. And also yes, this was probably easier to sell than fungus Dredd...although I hear he's a funguy. Sorry...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Greg M. on 11 February, 2017, 09:17:59 AM

Quote from: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 07:23:44 AM
Cry of the Werewolf is a bit of an odd place for deviation.Its an okay story,but not the most famous one.

It's Matt Smith's favourite Dredd story - I don't know if that's raised its profile at all, but it can't have hurt. And no-one ever drew a better werewolf than Steve Dillon (not least on the terrifying cover of Scream! issue 8.)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 09:41:09 AM

Yeah,Steve Dillons art probably played a part in the choice.
IDK how much influence Rebellion has over things they licenced to IDW.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 10:19:45 AM

Quote from: Greg M. on 11 February, 2017, 09:17:59 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 08:44:38 AM
Quote from: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 07:23:44 AM
Probably somebody at IDW said: Hey,wouldnt it be funny ... Cry of the Werewolf is a bit of an odd place for deviation.Its an okay story,but not the most famous one.

Maybe it's to do with honoring Steve Dillons recent passing? [1]

It's Matt Smith's favourite Dredd story ... And no-one ever drew a better werewolf than Steve Dillon

Damn straight. Not sure Cry Of The Werewolf is obscure at all; outside the epics ^[2], it'd be first on most people's list of stories to read, alongside The Midnight Surfer, Pirates Of The Black Atlantic, and The Haunting Of Sector House Nine ^[3].

It's one of the stories even casual readers always remember, which is presumably why when IDW asked McRea how he fancied following up Mars Attacks, this is what sprung to mind.

Me and my pal laughed our wee heads off at the idea Dredd could have been stuck as a werewolf if they hadn't found the cure. We aren't creative geniuses, so I assume the same thing occurred to wee boys in Belfast too.

[1] Dillon died October 22nd. McRea's quick, but it would have to be a very quick turnaround for this to have been written, drawn, and published in response to that sad event.

[2] ... and PJ Maybe/Dark Judges, obviously

[3] My personal list of longer Dredd stories worthy of attention would include Crazy Barry/Banana City, Requiem For A Heavyweight, Revolution, The Executioner, Our Man In Hondo, The Black Plague, and The Alabammy Blimps

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 04:07:27 PM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 08:04:37 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2017, 07:58:19 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2017, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AM
Why a man would ever watch MLP I will never understand.
Why would a grown man read children's comics?
To read or care about fantasy fiction in general requires a modicum of whimsy in a person's heart.
Er... Just in case my sarcasm is unclear: I deliberately posted this on a forum devoted to a children's comic from the venue for the 40th birthday party of a children's comic where I spent last night with other fans and creators of a children's comic.

Edit: Apple Has helpfully included apostrophes.

Yeah, my post was intended to agree with you.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

@Frank The first part(somebody probably thought it would be funny) was about the MLP cover.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 05:30:42 PM

Quote from: Smith on 11 February, 2017, 04:26:48 PM
@Frank The first part(somebody probably thought it would be funny) was about the MLP cover.

Ah, right. Cheers, bud.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 06:25:05 PM

Good point regarding the turnaround time Frank. I naturally saw this as paying respects to Dillon but that would have been very quick. I would have liked if cry of the werewolf was longer as it was a fun idea and drawn incredibley well, but i suppose the fast pace plotting and high action is one of the reasons it is so great. Regardless, Im looking forward to this one shot! (Have we seen any interiors yet??)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 07:00:26 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 06:25:05 PM
I would have liked if cry of the werewolf was longer

Good news, everyone! * Out Of The Undercity (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1316), by John Wagner and Carl Critchlow (1313-1316)

(http://i.imgur.com/9m8a4eL.png?2)

* Sort of good news. It's okay as a nostalgia piece, but it was used as an excuse to set up the villain for another story where Dredd tussles with famous film monsters, rather than working as a story on its own terms. Case Files 34, in six years' time, Rogue Judge.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 08:12:07 PM

Quote from: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 07:00:26 PM
* Sort of good news. It's okay as a nostalgia piece, but it was used as an excuse to set up the villain for another story where Dredd tussles with famous film monsters, rather than working as a story on its own terms. Case Files 34, in six years' time, Rogue Judge.

As always Frank, I appreciate your detailed responses (and the links/images you include!). So much thrill power to look forward to!

According to this thread Case Files #30 comes out this November, 2017 (released at the rate of 2 a year). At this rate, shouldn't Case Files 34 should come out in two years (not six)?

Also, this cover by Ryan Brown looks amazing! If they are shipped in 50/50 quantities I will pick up Brown's cover.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 09:19:36 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 08:12:07 PM
shouldn't Case Files 34 should come out in two years (not six)?

I'm a doctor, Jim, not a calculator!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: JaHawkDroid on 11 February, 2017, 10:48:42 PM

Not sure if this would belong here or not, but Rob Williams and D'Israeli have a plan in place for a new Low Life story, which is just waiting on D'Israeli having enough time in his schedule to get it drawn.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 12 February, 2017, 03:17:16 AM

Just home from Forty Years of Thrill-power, and two art droids had covers to show for the IDW Werewolf, plus John McCrea had interiors sans dialogue. I tried to look through without paying too much attention to what was actually going on so it isn't spoiled for me when I read it with words! Looking forward to it even more - though it's anybody's guess which of the covers I've seen I'll actually end up owning, depends on which one IDW sends to my local comic shop.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Mardroid on 12 February, 2017, 03:54:54 PM

I don't tend to follow the IDW stuff much, preferring to stick to our 2000AD 'verse(s), as it were... I did get Matt Smith's year one stuff, and the Anderson stuff. I reasoned that as the a 2000 AD creator was on board, and the Dredd story covered a time period that hasn't been covered extensively in 2000 AD and the Megazine, than there was no reason the story couldn't have happened in both continuities. (Is that personal head canon?) And the stories were pretty good.*

I am intrigued by the werewolf story though, branching as it does from something in the 2000 AD continuity. I also remember after reading the original story, feeling a bit disappointed they hadn't spent more time with Dredd as a werewolf.

And I like werewolves. The big nasty ones with proper wolfish type heads like depicted here...

Hmm. I might get this...

*I guess another reason is that I'm so invested in Dredd already, reading 2 comics and the collections (mainly the Mega-collections in my case rather than the Case-Files, although I have a few of those.), etc. If I read other comics outside of 2000 AD, I'd prefer it not to be related worlds and characters, as a bit of variety is nice. I don't intend this as a criticism of those who want to read everything Dredd. (I can understand the obsession.) This is just a personal preference.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 13 February, 2017, 01:11:38 AM

Quote from: Mardroid on 12 February, 2017, 03:54:54 PM
I don't tend to follow the IDW stuff much, preferring to stick to our 2000AD 'verse(s), as it were... I did get Matt Smith's year one stuff, and the Anderson stuff. I reasoned that as the a 2000 AD creator was on board, and the Dredd story covered a time period that hasn't been covered extensively in 2000 AD and the Megazine, than there was no reason the story couldn't have happened in both continuities. (Is that personal head canon?) And the stories were pretty good.*

It's not just you - to me the Year One / Matt Smith Anderson are in our continuity, not IDWs.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 February, 2017, 02:35:58 PM

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AMI don't judge what others watch (that's Dredds job) but I personally don't get the appeal. The only cartoons I watch on occasion are the ones I grew up with, namely GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man etc.

I couldn't get through Transformers when I tried to re-watch it years back. Bar the movie, it's badly written crap. But now with mini-IP, I'm very much taken by a small number of shows for kids. Frankly, anyone who's not watching the truly superb Hey Duggee is missing out, however old they happen to be.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: GordonR on 13 February, 2017, 02:42:10 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 February, 2017, 02:35:58 PM
Quote from: Rogue Judge on 11 February, 2017, 07:03:59 AMI don't judge what others watch (that's Dredds job) but I personally don't get the appeal. The only cartoons I watch on occasion are the ones I grew up with, namely GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man etc.
I couldn't get through Transformers when I tried to re-watch it years back. Bar the movie, it's badly written crap. But now with mini-IP, I'm very much taken by a small number of shows for kids. Frankly, anyone who's not watching the truly superb Hey Duggee is missing out, however old they happen to be.

Fans of the GGC and CBeebies will have course noted that The Twirlywoos - and we've one big fan of that in our house - is Steve Roberts,, former artdroid on Bec & Kawl, among other thrills.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 February, 2017, 06:22:16 PM

Who also did Dib Dab with my eldest (now 7 and far too 'cool' for cBeebies) was a BIG fan of.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 13 February, 2017, 07:49:11 PM

Steve Roberts did Dipdap?! I love that programme!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Rogue Judge on 13 February, 2017, 11:13:55 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 February, 2017, 02:35:58 PM
I couldn't get through Transformers when I tried to re-watch it years back. Bar the movie, it's badly written crap. But now with mini-IP, I'm very much taken by a small number of shows for kids. Frankly, anyone who's not watching the truly superb Hey Duggee is missing out, however old they happen to be.

That fair - I think the only reason I find some of these watchable is due to nostalgia. I have some nephews who are starting to get into these old cartoons (or commercials as some have said haha) and get to watch a little here and there with them. I have never heard of most of the cartoons people are mentioning, Including Hey Duggee - I will have to give it the ol google/YouTube search.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 14 February, 2017, 01:41:01 AM

Original Transformers didn't become watchable until Season 3 post-film, when Marv Wolfman was writing it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 February, 2017, 12:17:51 PM

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
21 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 3
01 Mar 2017 - Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd: The Art of John Higgins
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - The Last American
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
04 May 2017 - Summer Magic: The Complete Journal of Luke Kirby
04 May 2017 - Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp
13 Jun 2017 - The Complete Skizz
?? Jun 2017 - One-Eyed Jack (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - Simon & Schuster
15 Jun 2017 - Lawless: Welcome to Black Rock
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag
?? Jul 2017 - Anderson: The Deep End
?? Jul 2017 - The Leopard from Lime Street - Book 1 (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - Simon & Schuster
10 Aug 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 (was 06 Apr 2017)
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
12 Sep 2017 - Survival Geeks
12 Sep 2017 - Brink: Book One
15 Sep 2017 - How Comics Work by Dave Gibbons (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1577151577/) - paperback, 192 pages, Wellfleet Press
?? Sep 2017 - Marney the Fox (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - Simon & Schuster
19 Sep 2017 - Deviations: Beta
?? Oct 2017 - The Complete Future Shocks - Volume 1
?? Oct 2017 - Scarlet Traces - Volume 2
?? Nov 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 30
?? Nov 2017 - Misty - Volume 2 (featuring "The Sentinels" and "End of the Line") (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - Simon & Schuster
?? Dec 2017 - The Fall of Deadworld
?? Dec 2017 - M.A.C.H.1 – The John Probe Mission Files
?? Dec 2017 - Faceache (including "Ricky Rubberneck") (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - hardback, Simon & Schuster

With thanks to AlexF for the tip-off about the article on The Bookseller.

To Be Advised
TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 2: Bionic Gran & the 6 1/2p Buytonic Boy meet MACH 1
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 3: Fusspot meets Meltdown Man - Wayne & Schuster
TBA - Laser Eraser and Pressbutton and Laser Eraser

Blurb(s):

How Comics Work
This "How It's Done" series reveals insider hints, tips, and tricks from one of the world's greatest comic creators in his own words. The artist behind juggernauts like Watchmen and The Green Lantern, Dave Gibbons is here to teach you scriptwriting, page layouts, lettering, cover designs, and more, and he's doing it with scans of original artwork and rarely seen workings to illustrate his personal creative processes.

How Comics Work covers both Gibbons' hand-drawn and digital design techniques in depth. An early adopter of computer design in comic creation, all his lettering is digital, and he even has his own 'hand-lettered' font. This is your chance to gain insight to Gibbons' digital work, from his computer coloring and 3D modelling with Angus McKie on Give Me Liberty, to his work on The Originals using digital greytones. You'll learn how he layers text for editing, creates effects such as flares and neon glows, and prepares artwork for print and online.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Corinthian on 27 February, 2017, 06:02:52 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 January, 2017, 05:03:40 PM
Same format, more or less – just more time-travel oriented. The Moore book includes all his shorts – Future Shock, Time Twisters, and a few other bits (such as the complete Abelard Snazz). If you can track down a copy, it's one of the best Rebellion volumes you'll find.

It leaves out his two non-Snazz Robo-Tales and his earliest Future Shock, 'A Holiday in Hell!'

Also 'Southern Comfort', but no one seems sure if he wrote that one or not.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: M.I.K. on 27 February, 2017, 09:55:34 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 February, 2017, 12:17:51 PM
?? Dec 2017 - Faceache (including "Ricky Rubberneck") (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - hardback, Simon & Schuster

I'll say this here as well, just in case you don't see it on the other thread. Ricky Rubberneck isn't a separate strip, it's Faceache's 'real' name.

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/Ricky_Rubberneck_zpsrirxwttp.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 February, 2017, 02:38:07 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 February, 2017, 12:17:51 PM
?? Dec 2017 - Faceache (including "Ricky Rubberneck") (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/2000-ad-revive-childrens-comics-70s-and-80s-496121) - hardback, Simon & Schuster

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WANTWANTWANTITTYWANT

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 28 February, 2017, 09:48:15 AM

Quote from: The Corinthian on 27 February, 2017, 06:02:52 PM
It leaves out his two non-Snazz Robo-Tales and his earliest Future Shock, 'A Holiday in Hell!'

Also 'Southern Comfort', but no one seems sure if he wrote that one or not.

I can't place which stories those are - though Alan did seem to like his holiday shorts!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: amines2058 on 28 February, 2017, 11:53:46 AM

Bloody annoying 'How Comics Work' priced at £20 on Amazon UK but only $16 (£12) on Amazon US where I accidentally went first. Bloody Brexit / Trump / Daily Mail! (delete as appropriate)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 March, 2017, 02:35:59 AM

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Corinthian on 01 March, 2017, 03:45:43 PM

Quote from: sheridan on 28 February, 2017, 09:48:15 AM
Quote from: The Corinthian on 27 February, 2017, 06:02:52 PM
It leaves out his two non-Snazz Robo-Tales and his earliest Future Shock, 'A Holiday in Hell!'

Also 'Southern Comfort', but no one seems sure if he wrote that one or not.

I can't place which stories those are - though Alan did seem to like his holiday shorts!

'A Holiday in Hell!' was in the 1980 Sci-Fi Special. It's almost his first professional work under his own name, but was beaten to it by 'Black Legacy' in Doctor Who Weekly by a couple of weeks.

'Southern Comfort' was in the following year's special. It's credited to the pseudonymous R.E. Wright, but Moore's supposed to have had at least one hacked-about script go out under a false name, and this has been identified as a likely suspect.

'Killer in the Cab' (Prog 170) and 'The Dating Game' (Prog 176) were his first contributions to the weekly, went out under the Robo-Tales banner and were missed out from the Complete Future Shocks.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 04:47:42 AM

Quote from: amines2058 on 28 February, 2017, 11:53:46 AM
Bloody annoying 'How Comics Work' priced at £20 on Amazon UK but only $16 (£12) on Amazon US where I accidentally went first. Bloody Brexit / Trump / Daily Mail! (delete as appropriate)

Still not 12 quid but the price is slightly improved:

How Comics Work (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/2888933411) - £16.99

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 04:48:22 AM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/How_Comics_work_zpsvgldor75.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 04:48:46 AM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/One-eyed_zpsztwrlrbs.jpg)

That granite-y title font is reminiscent of the classic Judge Dredd logo and the "Rogue" part of Rogue Trooper.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: moly on 04 March, 2017, 08:19:24 AM

Tba Laser Eraser and pressbutton, missed this being announced great news but at this rate I will be working just to pay for 2000ad and related stuff

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 04 March, 2017, 10:05:40 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 04:48:46 AM
That granite-y title font is reminiscent of the classic Judge Dredd logo and the "Rogue" part of Rogue Trooper.

That cover needs a playing card.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Spikes on 04 March, 2017, 10:06:12 AM

Quote from: moly on 04 March, 2017, 08:19:24 AM
Tba Laser Eraser and pressbutton, missed this being announced great news but at this rate I will be working just to pay for 2000ad and related stuff

Yes, indeed.

Never had chance to read more than a few episodes of this strip before, but super glad it's all being collected. Something I hoped would happen at some point.

Prime Steve Dillon art - so an essential purchase, I'd say.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 12:07:26 PM

Sorry moly and Spikes, that was a joke of mine. Obviously not a good one. The other Laser Eraser is from one of the Fleetway funny comics. :-[

I'll drop the reference off the next list.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: moly on 04 March, 2017, 12:29:10 PM

No prob dash one can live in hope that one day it will be reprinted

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 March, 2017, 01:53:14 PM

I'm intrigued by that Dave Gibbons book. Is it going to be how comics are made or more Scott McCloud, Will Eisner type terriitory? Be interesting if its the latter and from Mr Gibbons I could well see that being the case.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Spikes on 04 March, 2017, 02:53:49 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 March, 2017, 12:07:26 PM
Sorry moly and Spikes, that was a joke of mine.

(http://i.imgur.com/MTvx1Gj.jpg?1)

Ha, but yeah what moly says. :)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 March, 2017, 05:04:14 PM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 04 March, 2017, 01:53:14 PM
I'm intrigued by that Dave Gibbons book. Is it going to be how comics are made or more Scott McCloud, Will Eisner type terriitory? Be interesting if its the latter and from Mr Gibbons I could well see that being the case.

It very much seems that way, in which case it's a must purchase for me.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 March, 2017, 12:47:42 PM

The Ghostbusters battle an undead ninja and the total destruction of the land of the living.
The TMNT get wind of a new Shredder-inspired cereal and go to the source to investigate the bad-guy based breakfast!
In The X-Files, A bevy of talented creators seek the truth—and some laughs—with this Funko version of your favorite FBI agents!
Journey back to Strawberryland with Funko Pop and old friends like Blueberry Muffin, Huckleberry Pie and of course, Strawberry Shortcake!
Check out the funkiest Dredd of all-time as Funko takes over Mega-City One."

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 March, 2017, 01:35:49 PM

Quote from: The Corinthian on 01 March, 2017, 03:45:43 PM
'Killer in the Cab' (Prog 170) and 'The Dating Game' (Prog 176) were his first contributions to the weekly, went out under the Robo-Tales banner and were missed out from the Complete Future Shocks.

The Dating Game finally got a reprint in The Complete Ro-Busters volume 2.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2017, 12:45:02 PM

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
21 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 3
01 Mar 2017 - Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd: The Art of John Higgins
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine
09 Mar 2017 - The Third Law (Rico Dredd: The Titan Years) (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Third-Law-Rico-Dredd-Titan/dp/1781080984) - Abaddon Books, 90(?) pages. Already released as an e-Book.
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - The Last American
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
04 May 2017 - Summer Magic: The Complete Journal of Luke Kirby
04 May 2017 - Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp
13 Jun 2017 - The Complete Skizz
?? Jun 2017 - One-Eyed Jack
15 Jun 2017 - Lawless: Welcome to Black Rock
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag
?? Jul 2017 - Anderson: The Deep End
?? Jul 2017 - The Leopard from Lime Street - Book 1 (...it shoudl be called "Catch Me if You Can"!)
10 Aug 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 (was 06 Apr 2017)
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
12 Sep 2017 - Survival Geeks
12 Sep 2017 - Brink: Book One
15 Sep 2017 - How Comics Work by Dave Gibbons
?? Sep 2017 - Marney the Fox
19 Sep 2017 - Deviations: Beta
19 Sep 2017 - Funko Universe
?? Oct 2017 - The Complete Future Shocks - Volume 1
?? Oct 2017 - Scarlet Traces - Volume 2
?? Oct 2017 - Dracula Files
?? Nov 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 30
?? Nov 2017 - Misty - Volume 2
?? Dec 2017 - The Fall of Deadworld
?? Dec 2017 - M.A.C.H.1 – The John Probe Mission Files
?? Dec 2017 - Faceache

2018 AD
10 Jul 2018 - Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781085579) - by Ian Edginton, Abaddon Books; Reprint edition. 320 pages

On the Wishlist
TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 2: Bionic Gran & the 6 1/2p Buytonic Boy meet MACH 1
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers vol 3: Fusspot meets Meltdown Man - Wayne & Schuster

Blurbs:

The Third Law (Rico Dredd: The Titan Years)
"You know about me. I'm Rico Dredd, Joe Dredd's big brother. I'm the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo's legacy. I was a Judge, the best the Academy of Law ever turned out. The very best. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was brought down, taken in. It was Little Joe who caught me; second-best Judge there's been. Broken, sentenced, stripped of office, I was shipped out to the brutal moon Titan, to do my twenty years' hard labour. Yeah, you know about Rico Dredd. But do you know what really happened? Why I did it? What it was like, out there on the edge of space, doing time in the Bronze? Truth is, mister, you know stomm about me."

Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood
"The first novel set in the War of the Worlds universe from the cult comic book hit Scarlet Traces, picking up the story directly from the climax of H.G. Wells' classic.

"November 1898, four months after the Martians' failed invasion of the United Kingdom, leaving priceless technology scattered among London's ruins. As reconstruction begins, Germany sends men and resources to aid in the recovery; not entirely trusting Kaiser Wilhelm's goodwill, the Queen's spymaster sends his trusted agent Ampney Crucis to spy on the German workers.

"In the shadows of the city, mutilated bodies are turning up in the new slums. With so many still missing and so much still to be done, the case is all but overlooked, handed over to the police department's most junior detective, Valentine Bey. As Bey begins his investigations, he crosses paths with Crucis, and the two men discover a plot that could change the world.

Something survived the War of the Worlds; something that lives still under London. And there are many who would kill to get their hands on it..."

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2017, 02:23:51 PM

Ooohh, exciting to hear about the Scarlet Traces novel. Maybe not an essential purchase but a qurio none the less.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 March, 2017, 02:21:59 AM

Judge Dredd Year Two (https://www.bookdepository.com/Judge-Dredd-Year-Two-Michael-Carroll-Matt-Smith-Cavan-Scott/9781781085967?ref=grid-view) by Michael Carroll Matt Smith & Cavan Scott

Format Paperback | 432 pages
Dimensions 142.24 x 198.12mm
Publication date 10 Oct 2017
Publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER
Imprint ABADDON BOOKS
Language English
ISBN10 178108596X
ISBN13 9781781085967

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 15 March, 2017, 10:48:30 PM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 March, 2017, 02:21:59 AM
Judge Dredd Year Two (https://www.bookdepository.com/Judge-Dredd-Year-Two-Michael-Carroll-Matt-Smith-Cavan-Scott/9781781085967?ref=grid-view) by Michael Carroll Matt Smith & Cavan Scott

Format Paperback | 432 pages
Dimensions 142.24 x 198.12mm
Publication date 10 Oct 2017
Publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER
Imprint ABADDON BOOKS
Language English
ISBN10 178108596X
ISBN13 9781781085967

I don't recognise Cavan Scott's name...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2017, 02:15:43 AM

He's a write-for-hire type, if that's the correct phrase. He's contributed short stories and novels to various lines (Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars, Skylanders, etc), he's written scripts for Big Finish audios (Doctor Who, Blake's 7), written for the Beano, etc.

I'm sure I've got a BBC CD somewhere (radio pantos?) that he did the liner notes for.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Spaceghost on 16 March, 2017, 08:28:20 AM

Some familiar names in the Scarlet Traces novel synopsis. Stickleback/Crusis/Traces crossover time for Edgverse!

"November 1898, four months after the Martians' failed invasion of the United Kingdom, leaving priceless technology scattered among London's ruins. As reconstruction begins, Germany sends men and resources to aid in the recovery; not entirely trusting Kaiser Wilhelm's goodwill, the Queen's spymaster sends his trusted agent Ampney Crucis to spy on the German workers.

"In the shadows of the city, mutilated bodies are turning up in the new slums. With so many still missing and so much still to be done, the case is all but overlooked, handed over to the police department's most junior detective, Valentine Bey. As Bey begins his investigations, he crosses paths with Crucis, and the two men discover a plot that could change the world.

Something survived the War of the Worlds; something that lives still under London. And there are many who would kill to get their hands on it..."

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Bolt-01 on 16 March, 2017, 09:59:57 AM

Cavan Scott also wrote a strip way back in the Day for Something Wicked 01 (https://futurequake.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/something-wicked-01-now-on-comixology/) drawn by our very own Dunk!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 16 March, 2017, 10:51:41 AM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2017, 02:15:43 AM
He's a write-for-hire type, if that's the correct phrase.

Does quite a lot of writing on Titan's licensed stuff, too — I worked on one of his Vikings mini-series, amongst other things.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 16 March, 2017, 12:32:03 PM

Quote from: Spaceghost on 16 March, 2017, 08:28:20 AM
Some familiar names in the Scarlet Traces novel synopsis. Stickleback/Crusis/Traces crossover time for Edgverse!

"November 1898, four months after the Martians' failed invasion of the United Kingdom, leaving priceless technology scattered among London's ruins. As reconstruction begins, Germany sends men and resources to aid in the recovery; not entirely trusting Kaiser Wilhelm's goodwill, the Queen's spymaster sends his trusted agent Ampney Crucis to spy on the German workers.

That one leapt out at me as well - in fact I was skim-reading and assumed it was a reprint until I saw Ampney's name.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 March, 2017, 02:21:34 PM

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 16 March, 2017, 10:51:41 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2017, 02:15:43 AM
He's a write-for-hire type, if that's the correct phrase.

Does quite a lot of writing on Titan's licensed stuff, too — I worked on one of his Vikings mini-series, amongst other things.

Doesn't he write some of the Doctor Who stuff as well. I can't honestly remember which title, but I see his name on the adverts for other titles in the 11th Doc stuff.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 16 March, 2017, 11:05:57 PM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 March, 2017, 02:21:34 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 16 March, 2017, 10:51:41 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2017, 02:15:43 AM
He's a write-for-hire type, if that's the correct phrase.

Does quite a lot of writing on Titan's licensed stuff, too — I worked on one of his Vikings mini-series, amongst other things.

Doesn't he write some of the Doctor Who stuff as well. I can't honestly remember which title, but I see his name on the adverts for other titles in the 11th Doc stuff.

He's been writing Doctor Who media since at least the early 2000's, when he wrote his first Doctor Who audio for Big Finish. He's certainly done a few Doctor Who comic strips in his time.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 20 March, 2017, 02:50:08 PM

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dm0uk59ML._SX359_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

cover loaded on amazon (13th july)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 21 March, 2017, 11:34:39 PM

Hmmm, that's The Order collection on my radar for birthday-time in May, with suitably large and totally unsubtle hints having been dropped in Mrs. D's direction. It will have to get in line behind the 3rd Monsterology collection, though only if that's not out by May.
*looks at list, sighs*
I need a better job. :lol:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 22 March, 2017, 02:50:33 AM

Necrophim (quite appositely) receives the floppy treatment with Meg 384.

But Psi Judge Lamia courtesy of Edgy & Taylor with Live Evil, which follows Wagner & McCrea's Harvey in the Dredd slot in the prog.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 March, 2017, 09:14:26 AM

In haste...

Judge Anderson: Year One (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781085552) - Paperback, 400 pages, 15 Jun. 2017
"The untold story behind Mega-City One's most famous telepath and Judge Dredd partner, Judge Anderson, in her first year on the job! Mega-City One, 2100. Cassandra Anderson is destined to become Psi-Division's most famous Judge, foiling supernatural threats and policing Mega-City One's hearts and souls. For now, she's fresh out of Academy and Psi-Div themselves are still finding their feet.

Heartbreaker: After a string of apparently random, deadly assaults by customers at a dating agency, Anderson is convinced a telepathic killer is to blame. Putting her career on the line, the newly-trained Psi-Judge goes undercover to bring the romance-hating murderer to justice, with the big Valentine's Day parade coming up...

The Abyss: Sent to interrogate Moriah Blake, leader of the notorious terror group 'Bedlam, ' Anderson gets just one snippet of information - Bedlam's planning on detonating a huge bomb - before Blake's followers take over the Block. It's a race against time, and Anderson's on her own amongst the inmates...

A Dream of the Nevertime: Anderson - a rookie no more, with a year on the streets under her belt - contracts what appears to be a deadly psychic virus, and must explore the weirdest reaches of the Cursed Earth in search of a cure. She must face mutants, mystics and all the strangeness the land can throw at her as she wrestles weird forces..."

The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085617) - Paperback, 160 pages, 10 Oct 2017
"The brand new series of Scarlet Traces continues the story of HG Wells' classic SF The War Of The Worlds, taking the story back to Mars...
Thanks to the technology left behind by the Martians and salvaged by the survivors, the British Empire has become a dominating world power once again, and has taken the fight back to the Martians! But an aging Robert Autumn knows there is more to this war than the propganda suggests. He sends journalist Charlotte Hemmingway undercover to Mars in order to discover the truth. What she discovers there is truly earth-shattering...

This volume contains the very latest series of Scarlet Traces, which has never been collected before."

The Complete Future Shocks Vol. 1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085595) - Paperback, 320 pages, 10 Oct. 2017
"Tharg's Future Shocks are one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills that have introduced many of the biggest names in the comic book industry through the pages of 2000 AD.

THE ULTIMATE VISION OF THE FUTURE!

From Alan Moore to Al Ewing, Kevin O'Neill to Jon Davis-Hunt, Future Shocks have been a staple of the UK's best-selling comic 2000 AD! This exciting first volume takes us back to the earliest days of the strip and showcases the burgeoning, immense talents of such luminaries as Steve Moore, Alan Moore, Brett Ewins, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, John Cooper, Carlos Pino, Jesus Redondo, Steve Dillon, Peter Milligan and many, many more."

The Dark Judges: Tainted: Fall of Deadworld (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781086036) - Hardcover, 144 pages, 05 Dec 2017
"Deadworld was once a planet similar to Earth, until Judge Death and his brothers Fear, Fire and Mortis deemed that as only the living could break the law, life itself should be a crime. As the Dark Judges set out to bring extinction to this parallel world, Judge Fairfax and a family of farmers attempt to escape the chaos. Is it possible for the living to evade to cold, icy grasp of Death?

This chilling collection also features the Dreams of Deadworld strips, giving an extraordinary insight into the undead psyches of the internationally famous super-fiends."

Grey Area: This Island Earth (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781086028) - Paperback, 176 pages, 16 Jan 2018
"Meet the cops at the front line of alien immigration! Grey Area is a bold dystopian vision; an Alien Nation for the 21st Century!

ILLEGAL ALIENS!

North America, 2045. The Global Exo Segregation Zone (aka the 'Grey Area') is a huge holding area in Arizona housing all manner of aliens hoping to visit earth: a melting pot for alien disputes, crime and inter-species misunderstandings! The only thing standing in the way of chaos is the Exo Transfer Control squads: heavily-armed immigration cops that keep the peace and make sure everyone has their papers in order...

From contemptuous extra-terrestrial ambassadors with diplomatic immunity, to right-wing xenophobic militants and alien freeloaders disguised as luggage: new recruit Jana Birdy discovers that life in the E.T.C. might be the most interesting job on Earth... and the most dangerous!"

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 March, 2017, 09:25:47 AM

Grey Area collections, AT LAST!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 March, 2017, 02:24:41 PM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Leopard_zpslwn1w6rf.jpg)

I still think they're missing a trick by calling the two volumes the mundane "Book One" and "Book Two". The Leopard's catchphrase would make two good titles - "TLFLS: Catch Me if You Can" and "TLFLS: Hunt Me if You Dare".

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 March, 2017, 09:29:51 PM

That's a bloody great cover!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 March, 2017, 09:37:44 PM

Still missing "As seen in Grant Morrison's ZENITH" on the cover but eh, still an instant buy.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 March, 2017, 02:54:45 AM

I haven't generally gone for the webshop special editions, but for a hardback edition of Leopard from Lime Street, I'm in.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 March, 2017, 06:40:29 AM

More Necrophim for the floppy with Meg 385.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 02:47:51 AM

Nice to see The Leopard From Lime Street (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leopard-Lime-Street-Mike-Western/dp/1781085978) available to pre-order from Amazon UK - Paperback, 13th July 2017, 160 pages.
"Billy Farmer lives with his Aunt Joan and Uncle Charlie in the when he is scratched by a radioactive leopard at the local zoo. Gaining leopard-like strength, speed, reflexes, and tree-climbing abilities, when he's not fighting crime, Billy sells photographs of himself to the local paper, using the money to support his frail aunt while contending with his violent, greedy and lazy uncle. With warmth, wit, and stunning artwork by Mike Western and Eric Bradbury, The Leopard from Lime Street is a gem of 1970s and 1980s British comics.

Marney the Fox (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marney-Fox-Scott-M-Goodall-x/dp/1781085986) - Hardcover, 21st September 2017, 224 pages.
"Marney the Fox is a Lassie-style tale of a lone fox up against wicked humans via Watership Down and Fantastic Mr Fox."

Hook Jaw: Archive (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782768041) - Hardcover, Titan Comics, 12th September 2017
"Hook Jaw - the comic so controversial, it got banned! Pat Mills and Ramon Sola's classic 70s 'sharksploitation' strip is collected in one volume by Titan Comics, featuring the great white shark that targets the corrupt and greedy!"

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Hookjaw_750_zpsgvela0ca.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/HK_page_zpsakmdb3ho.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 April, 2017, 08:01:24 AM

There's so much to be excited about there. Not sure which one I'm looking forward to must Leopard from Lime Street or Hookjaw?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM

I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 April, 2017, 08:41:40 AM

There is nothing I dislike about these announcements! Just pure class all around, and fantastic that even if the Action archive flopped before it saw print we are still getting Hookjaw!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Steve Green on 15 April, 2017, 10:09:01 AM

Isn't that second HJ image Conor's from the Si Spurrier series?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 April, 2017, 11:06:00 AM

Quote from: Steve Green on 15 April, 2017, 10:09:01 AM
Isn't that second HJ image Conor's from the Si Spurrier series?

Certainly looks like that to me.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 15 April, 2017, 11:11:38 AM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 April, 2017, 11:06:00 AM

Certainly looks like that to me.

It is!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: 13school on 15 April, 2017, 11:46:27 AM

Yeah, for some reason the Amazon preview of the Classic Hook Jaw book displays pages from the recent all-new comic version.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 15 April, 2017, 12:08:55 PM

Amazon has the Complete Future Shocks as released in December 2018, which sounds a bit unlikely.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 April, 2017, 12:28:52 PM

Given that the RRP is £20.35, that looks like a US release, not a UK one.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:15:59 PM

Quote from: Richard on 15 April, 2017, 12:08:55 PM
Amazon has the Complete Future Shocks as released in December 2018, which sounds a bit unlikely.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 April, 2017, 12:28:52 PM
Given that the RRP is £20.35, that looks like a US release, not a UK one.

The date was originally October 2017 (see my post a couple of pages back). It's volume 1 and the publisher is "2000AD" so I assume it's a Rebellion phone book release.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:18:01 PM

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

It's one of the story strips Rebellion acquired last year in their buy-up of part of the IPC/Fleetway back catalogue. They're releasing these under a separate (non-2000AD) Classic British Comics line, which also includes The Leopard from Lime Street and Ken Reid's Faceache strips.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:22:01 PM

Quote from: 13school on 15 April, 2017, 11:46:27 AM
Yeah, for some reason the Amazon preview of the Classic Hook Jaw book displays pages from the recent all-new comic version.

My apologies guys, I've been fooled by the Amazon UK listing.

There's definitely two separate books listed on Amazon, one for the classic Hookjaw and another for the new version with Si Spurrier (which I didn't link to, but here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178276805X); also coming from Titan Comics). If I had bothered to look I might have noticed Amazon UK have the same internal spreads showing for both books.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: M.I.K. on 15 April, 2017, 04:26:06 PM

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html (http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 April, 2017, 04:34:12 PM

Quote from: M.I.K. on 15 April, 2017, 04:26:06 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html (http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html)

Damn, those pages are gorgeous!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 April, 2017, 05:17:38 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:15:59 PMThe date was originally October 2017 (see my post a couple of pages back). It's volume 1 and the publisher is "2000AD" so I assume it's a Rebellion phone book release.

Given the RRP, I'm still willing to bet that's the page for the US version of the book. UK RRPs don't end in semi-random numbers – they're either even or .99.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 April, 2017, 12:49:10 AM

I can't argue with that!

I defer to my learned colleague's more learnedness!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 April, 2017, 12:58:07 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:18:01 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

It's one of the story strips Rebellion acquired last year in their buy-up of part of the IPC/Fleetway back catalogue. They're releasing these under a separate (non-2000AD) Classic British Comics line, which also includes The Leopard from Lime Street and Ken Reid's Faceache strips.

Not quite what I meant but thanks anyway.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 April, 2017, 01:01:44 PM

Quote from: M.I.K. on 15 April, 2017, 04:26:06 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 15 April, 2017, 08:28:46 AM
I don't think I know 'Marney the Fox' at all. Can anyone tell me more?

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html (http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/more-about-marney-fox.html)

That's exactly what I meant. Thanks M.I.K.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2017, 11:51:38 PM

I'm looking forward to this but that "Skizz" logo looks a bit bodgy. Go on Tharg, streamline it, lose the fat waists and make it metallic.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Complete%20Skizz_750_zpsrtznfqa2.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2017, 11:51:54 PM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Deep%20End_750_zps06hmgnua.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2017, 11:54:17 PM

Why is Dredd the one at a quirky angle? Is it a case of "Spot the one that's not really American"?

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Funko%20Uni_zps9l0osm2b.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 27 April, 2017, 09:55:58 AM

He's about to headbutt the vigilante to take him in.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 27 April, 2017, 10:19:18 AM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 06 January, 2017, 02:06:43 AM

Has anybody mentioned elsewhere that this is the very same Meg that sees the fruits of Rebellion's recent IPC purchase make it's presence felt in the floppy? First cab off the rank is The Lawless Touch by Kelvin Gosnell (aka Starlord) & Barrie Look Out For Lefty Mitchell from the pages of Tornado

Look Out For Lefty is now scheduled for floppy with Meg 386 according to the latest issue of Previews.

In the Meg proper there shall be:

The return of those Dark Judges in Dominion by John Wagner & Nick Percival.
More movie Dredd with Furies by Arthur Wyatt, Alex De Campi & Paul Davidson - not to be confused with the Hunted storyline of the same name that will be running in the prog simultaneously.
But more importantly Harry Heston is back!!! in Ape Escape, once more from Wyatt & Lynch.

Go (judge) ape.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2017, 10:23:00 AM

More Harry Heston?! GET IN!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 April, 2017, 12:46:27 PM

There's good news all round there and its nice to see the archive material reaching the Meg already. Will make the floppy essential reading for some time I suspect.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 27 April, 2017, 03:16:56 PM

Tharg giveth and Tharg taketh away:

Nefarious deeds are at work in the heart of the SJS in Judge Dredd: The Fields by Rob Williams and Chris Weston ... and the final book of superspy saga Greysuit commences, as John Blake gets his revenge on his handlers in "Foul Play" by Pat Mills and John Higgins!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Molch-R on 27 April, 2017, 03:37:04 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 April, 2017, 03:15:59 PM
Quote from: Richard on 15 April, 2017, 12:08:55 PM
Amazon has the Complete Future Shocks as released in December 2018, which sounds a bit unlikely.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 April, 2017, 12:28:52 PM
Given that the RRP is £20.35, that looks like a US release, not a UK one.

The date was originally October 2017 (see my post a couple of pages back). It's volume 1 and the publisher is "2000AD" so I assume it's a Rebellion phone book release.

'Fraid not, we've had to push back the Future Shocks and M.A.C.H.1 books to next year.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 28 April, 2017, 01:09:16 PM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 27 April, 2017, 10:19:18 AM
More movie Dredd with Furies by Arthur Wyatt, Alex De Campi & Paul Davidson

Alex De Campi co-writing a Dredd story? Welcome news.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Art on 28 April, 2017, 11:01:12 PM

This is going to surprise nobody, but Alex is a very, very natural fit for Dredd.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 29 April, 2017, 01:29:05 AM

Quote from: Art on 28 April, 2017, 11:01:12 PM
This is going to surprise nobody, but Alex is a very, very natural fit for Dredd.

And for the 2000AD stable in general I'd say.
Looking forward to seeing what you cook up.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jacqusie on 30 April, 2017, 12:43:18 AM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 27 April, 2017, 03:16:56 PM
Tharg giveth and Tharg taketh away:

Nefarious deeds are at work in the heart of the SJS in Judge Dredd: The Fields by Rob Williams and Chris Weston ...

That sounds rather splendid, Williams & Weston on Dredd again and those pesky SJS lot too, that's brill.

I didn't really listen about the other bit, sorry... :)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM

Scarlet Traces say what now?? Has it been retroactively revealed that other Edginton series like Stickleback, Leviathan, Ampney etc. actually take place in the same universe as ST?

It never occurred to me this could be, but I only discovered Scarlet Traces when Rebellion released the first volume trade pb. I just thought they were all slightly alt-reality parallels of our own history (and of each other as well). What all might that include? I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Mardroid on 03 June, 2017, 08:44:49 PM

They are mostly separate worlds, (referred to by some fans as the 'Edgiverse' although I don't think that's an official name) but there is a bit of crossover. [spoiler]I remember a librarian in Stickleack appearing in Red Seas the for example, I but he lives in a place with many doors, to other worlds. A kind of hub, if you like. [/spoiler]

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jacqusie on 03 June, 2017, 10:43:04 PM

Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

From D'Israeli's Blog:

"HG Sewell's pocket-watch shaped time machine from Ian Edginton's and my Tempus Fugitive stories in Judge Dredd (2004-2007). Sewell himself has made brief cameos in Stickleback as an inmate of Bedlam"

Some great details here:

http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.co.uk/

I miss Stickleback, it were great...

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Post by: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 10:51:31 AM

Until it was revealed that Stickleback was actually Sherlock bloody Holmes all along, which made him a much less interesting character. Man whose spine is actually outside his body = interesting. Man who reveals he was only wearing a fake spine and is actually someone from a non-2000 AD franchise = boring. I hope it doesn't come back.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 June, 2017, 11:10:18 AM

I very much suspect that thats a red herring and we're playing the long game until it returns.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Woolly on 04 June, 2017, 11:36:42 AM

Quote from: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 10:51:31 AM
Until it was revealed that Stickleback was actually Sherlock bloody Holmes all along, which made him a much less interesting character. Man whose spine is actually outside his body = interesting. Man who reveals he was only wearing a fake spine and is actually someone from a non-2000 AD franchise = boring. I hope it doesn't come back.

^This^

Can honestly say ive lost all interest in Stickleback due to the reveal.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Tjm86 on 04 June, 2017, 11:40:59 AM

Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

You could be thinking of Dredd here. Wells travels to future MC1 and gets locked up. In a follow up multiple Wells' from different points in time try to off him IIRC with the usual results.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 04 June, 2017, 12:04:46 PM

Quote from: Jacqusie on 03 June, 2017, 10:43:04 PM
Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

From D'Israeli's Blog:

"HG Sewell's pocket-watch shaped time machine from Ian Edginton's and my Tempus Fugitive stories in Judge Dredd (2004-2007). Sewell himself has made brief cameos in Stickleback as an inmate of Bedlam"

Some great details here:

http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.co.uk/

I miss Stickleback, it were great...

Yeah, H.G. Sewell, that rings a bell, I think that might be it. I don't think the Case Files have got that far yet, but... is it this? (Might be another story with the same title, though... no credit there for Ian Edginton.) Is it reprinted anywhere else?

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/DD19 (https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/DD19)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 04 June, 2017, 12:20:56 PM

Quote from: Tjm86 on 04 June, 2017, 11:40:59 AM
Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

You could be thinking of Dredd here. Wells travels to future MC1 and gets locked up. In a follow up multiple Wells' from different points in time try to off him IIRC with the usual results.

I might be getting those stories confused with Edginton's H.G. Seward stories... I got the impression it was implied (if not stated in so many words) that "Seward" and Wells were one and the same, although obviously from the sound of it, there are in fact two completely separate sets of stories, one by Edginton, and one not. I think it's the Edginton stories I'm looking for, though.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 04 June, 2017, 12:33:36 PM

Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 04 June, 2017, 11:40:59 AM
Quote from: positronic on 03 June, 2017, 05:31:28 PM
I vaguely recall reading something about a Time Traveler (Wells' chronic argonaut) strip in 2000AD somewhere, not sure if that was IE.

You could be thinking of Dredd here. Wells travels to future MC1 and gets locked up. In a follow up multiple Wells' from different points in time try to off him IIRC with the usual results.

I might be getting those stories confused with Edginton's H.G. Seward stories... I got the impression it was implied (if not stated in so many words) that "Seward" and Wells were one and the same, although obviously from the sound of it, there are in fact two completely separate sets of stories, one by Edginton, and one not. I think it's the Edginton stories I'm looking for, though.

EDIT - Sorry, I meant "Sewell", not "Seward"... I guess the character from Stoker's Dracula must have popped into my head at that moment. Now that I think about it, "Sewell" is an anagram for Welles, not Wells, or maybe Edginton's intent was to have him as an amalgam of both?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 12:38:56 PM

The link is to a reprint of Time Flies, which is nothing to do with Dredd or HGS.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 June, 2017, 12:40:56 PM

I think its the Dredd in this Prog your thinking of

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1390 (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1390)

If that's right all hail Barney, if not all hell to me.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jacqusie on 04 June, 2017, 01:18:10 PM

Quote from: Woolly on 04 June, 2017, 11:36:42 AM
Quote from: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 10:51:31 AM
Until it was revealed that Stickleback was actually Sherlock bloody Holmes all along, which made him a much less interesting character. Man whose spine is actually outside his body = interesting. Man who reveals he was only wearing a fake spine and is actually someone from a non-2000 AD franchise = boring. I hope it doesn't come back.

Can honestly say ive lost all interest in Stickleback due to the reveal.

There hasn't been any Stickleback since the 'last page reveal' has there?

Unless I have missed a great chunk where Sherlock Holmes runs around fighting them lizards or something? :think:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 04 June, 2017, 02:47:33 PM

Quote from: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 12:38:56 PM
The link is to a reprint of Time Flies, which is nothing to do with Dredd or HGS.

I know that's what's featured on the cover, and presumably the first (and probably the longer) of the two stories reprinted.

I didn't know if they sometimes filled out those Extreme Edition reprints with some other thematically-related story (the second story is "Tempus Fugitive", which is a pretty obvious pun, so it was a long shot), just to make the page count add up correctly.

But of course since Edginton wasn't credited, I already suspected as much... it's just what showed up when I searched the 2000AD shop for "Tempus Fugitive". I'll have a look at Barney and try to find the title as a Judge Dredd story.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 04 June, 2017, 03:03:19 PM

Okay, I've found it now. Just the three stories, and quite spaced apart.

QuoteTempus Fugitive 1 episode (Prog 1390) 6 pages
Script: Ian Edginton, Artist: D'Israeli, Colour: Len O'Grady, Letters: Tom Frame
Featuring: Judge Lola, Herbert George Sewell (H.G. Wells)

Time and Again 1 episode (Prog 1475) 6 pages
Script: Ian Edginton, Artist: D'Israeli, Colour: Chris Blythe, Letters: Tom Frame
Featuring: Herbert George Sewell (H.G. Wells)

Time's Squared 1 episode (Prog 1551) 6 pages
Script: Ian Edginton, Artist: D'Israeli, Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Featuring: Herbert George Sewell (H.G. Wells)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jacqusie on 04 June, 2017, 10:47:38 PM

(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q629/Simon_Jacques/Diz-Dredd-Demo_zpsphbr1apc.jpg) (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Jacques/media/Diz-Dredd-Demo_zpsphbr1apc.jpg.html)

I really enjoyed the Time Traveller / Dredd mash up stories, not least that Edginton and Dizzy work really well together in a marvellous synergy.

I did feel sorry for old Sewell (Wells) though as time after time (ahem) his escape plans were thwarted by mean old Dreddy. I loved his facial expressions each time Dredd put the boot into a new futuristic version.

Maybe one day we shall see the return of him and he will get his opportunity to beat the system and tell Dredd tempus fugit...

...but then there's more chance we will see the resumption of Stickleback/ Holmes malarky than that happening ey?

:)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 05 June, 2017, 05:16:03 AM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 04 June, 2017, 12:40:56 PM
I think its the Dredd in this Prog your thinking of

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1390 (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1390)

If that's right all hail Barney, if not all hell to me.

That WAS the one. I blinked and missed it at first when the cover threw me off. I felt sure the Dredd story would be on the cover of that issue. In fact none of the 3 H.G. Sewell/Dredd stories was featured on a cover, which disappoints me a little.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 05 June, 2017, 03:16:01 PM

Quote from: Jacqusie on 04 June, 2017, 10:47:38 PM
(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q629/Simon_Jacques/Diz-Dredd-Demo_zpsphbr1apc.jpg) (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Jacques/media/Diz-Dredd-Demo_zpsphbr1apc.jpg.html)

I really enjoyed the Time Traveller / Dredd mash up stories, not least that Edginton and Dizzy work really well together in a marvellous synergy.

I did feel sorry for old Sewell (Wells) though as time after time (ahem) his escape plans were thwarted by mean old Dreddy. I loved his facial expressions each time Dredd put the boot into a new futuristic version.

Maybe one day we shall see the return of him and he will get his opportunity to beat the system and tell Dredd tempus fugit...

...but then there's more chance we will see the resumption of Stickleback/ Holmes malarky than that happening ey?

:)

Stickleback looks REALLY interesting and I can't believe that's all there is to the character, simply a sockpuppet for Holmes. If Stickleback were to (be allowed to) return, then a revelation that all is not as it appeared would be prerequisite... otherwise, it's just a Holmes story in mufti. What if "Holmes" turned out to be Sewell? Or one of them, anyway...

I checked out D'Israeli's art on the link to his blog you provided, and it looks really different in Stickleback, compared to Scarlet Traces. It almost looks a little influenced by artists like Richard Sala and Peter Kuper (which is a very good thing).

I guess the real question would be whether the apparent reveal/ending of the series has poisoned the well as far as the potential audience is concerned.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 07 June, 2017, 06:54:32 AM

I just read MISTY Vol. 1, "Moonchild" and "The Four Faces of Eve". Moonchild was good but it seems to me the art suffered by reduction in size (and, I'm just guessing here, but I suspect some of the fine detail has dropped out). The artwork in Four Faces of Eve fared much better in translation. I enjoyed both stories.

The little biographical sections at the back got me very curious to see Misty (pictured on the cover of the trade, but not inside except for a couple of small spot illo's). I had no idea she was an actual character with a strip of her own, although I guess I would have suspected she might be the comic's host, making some brief appearances, not unlike Tharg in 2000AD. I mention this as a way of leading up to asking what the contents of MISTY Vol. 2 might be (obviously I'm hoping to see some actual stories with Misty, as I'm very curious about the character now). Anyone know?

(http://cdn-img.xojane.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_inline/public/MTI0ODkxNzM5NjI5NTYyNDk5.jpg?itok=8lF8pP5y)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: RaggedMan on 07 June, 2017, 07:49:24 PM

I've read a good chunk of Misty over the last few years and I don't recall Misty appearing in a strip beyond the art poem introductions and some introductions for specific strips - like a Tharg's Future Shock. I may be wrong though.

Volume 2 will contain The Sentinels which personally I love. Twin tower blocks dominate a ruined post-industrial landscape. People start to go missing.
Every review then spoils it but I'll refrain here.
It is a good dark story though. ]
I'm not sure what the other strip collected will be.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 08 June, 2017, 12:37:50 PM

I think I was misled by the phrasing of the biographical text about Shirley Bellwood... something to the effect that she'd "illustrated every appearance of Misty in the comic" (not an exact quote as I haven't got the book right in front of me), which led me to believe Misty had appeared in actual stories. I was very disappointed to find that pages like the one I posted above, some few poster giveaways (as used on the cover of Vol. 1), several covers and small pictures used on the letters pages are all there were. Still, it would be nice to see an extensive gallery of those intro pages, covers, and posters of Misty as drawn by Shirley Bellwood, whose work really impressed me.

The merest hints about the character Misty imply that she's somewhat of a more girl-friendly version of Warren Publishing's Vampirella (although the precise nature of Misty's being remains a mystery), and Shirley Bellwood's illustrations would certainly have made her a worthy contender by comparison to Warren's star Vampi artists like Jose Gonzales or Enrique Torres, so it's a shame Misty never got any actual stories, even if they'd been only illustrated text short stories such as many comics carried in past decades.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: positronic on 08 June, 2017, 02:54:48 PM

There is a great blog showing 14 of those original Shirley Bellwood-illustrated Misty covers here:
(http://www.greatnewsforallreaders.com/blog/2016/4/22/shirley-bellwood-a-gallery-of-her-misty-covers)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Huey2 on 08 June, 2017, 08:30:47 PM

"I guess the real question would be whether the apparent reveal/ending of the series has poisoned the well as far as the potential audience is concerned."

I think the delay in following it up has robbed the tale of some of the momentum. Those seven days which followed the reveal of the Dead Man's identity dragged. If I'd had to wait three years for the next episode anything that followed could only have been anticlimactic.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 08 June, 2017, 09:12:46 PM

My only problem with the Stickleback reveal is that it was done at a time of Peak Sherlock, so it was a bit... obvious. The bigger issue for the strip is that it has essentially been recast as a ground-level follow-on to War of the Worlds, and the Edgy/Dizzy gestalt entity has done/are doing elements of that already with Scarlet Traces and maybe Helium... throw in Ampney Crucis' (and Jack Dancer's) occult interdimensional shenanigans (never mind LoEG) and the ground seems quite (very) crowded.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 08 June, 2017, 10:33:54 PM

If they'd followed it up the very next week it would still have been crap, because it was a fundamentally bad idea.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 08 June, 2017, 11:19:58 PM

Quote from: Woolly on 04 June, 2017, 11:36:42 AM
Quote from: Richard on 04 June, 2017, 10:51:31 AM
Until it was revealed that Stickleback was actually Sherlock bloody Holmes all along, which made him a much less interesting character. Man whose spine is actually outside his body = interesting. Man who reveals he was only wearing a fake spine and is actually someone from a non-2000 AD franchise = boring.

Can honestly say ive lost all interest in Stickleback due to the reveal.

The Holmes reveal per se didn't bother me (I thought from the start he was a Holmesian character, although I was guessing Moriarty); if he'd suffered some horrific accident/amnesia/transformation/etc there still would have been plenty of stories begging to be told. It was the fact he literally steps out of a body suit and there's Holmes in his tweed and spats - 'Right-o, let's save the world.'

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 10 June, 2017, 09:10:55 AM

The Holmes reveal... was so "meh" that I'd forgotten all about until now!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: 13school on 10 June, 2017, 09:30:00 AM

Newsarama has the September 2000AD / Megazine solicitations up: https://www.newsarama.com/34779-2000-ad-september-2017-solicitations.html

Indigo Prime back in Prog 2050!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: moly on 10 June, 2017, 09:42:00 AM

Yeah devlin Waugh is back in the Meg

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: hippynumber1 on 10 June, 2017, 06:40:59 PM

Quote from: moly on 10 June, 2017, 09:42:00 AM
Yeah devlin Waugh is back in the Meg

But not written by John Smith? :'(

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: CalHab on 10 June, 2017, 06:52:51 PM

Nice to see Dan Cornwell in the prog after the excellent Rok of the Reds. Also happy to see Hope return. I was a bit worried that it was going to remain incomplete.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 June, 2017, 09:11:28 PM

Not massively excited about the strips running up to 2050, thouhg happy to see more Grey Suits and a Cornwell and Wagner Dredd is a nice prospect. BUT having Indigo Prime back is fantastic news, especially if John Smith is still on board.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 10 June, 2017, 09:57:38 PM

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 10 June, 2017, 06:40:59 PM
Quote from: moly on 10 June, 2017, 09:42:00 AM
Yeah devlin Waugh is back in the Meg

But not written by John Smith? :'(

Obviously I'll extend full benefit of the doubt to Rory, he's done some solid shorts in recent years, and I enjoyed his Larkin biocomic, but those are the biggest of shoes to fill...

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 June, 2017, 12:53:07 PM

2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces volume 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
21 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero volume 3
01 Mar 2017 - Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd: The Art of John Higgins
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine
09 Mar 2017 - The Third Law (Rico Dredd: The Titan Years)
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - The Last American
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
04 May 2017 - Summer Magic: The Complete Journal of Luke Kirby
04 May 2017 - Slaine - The Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp
13 Jun 2017 - The Complete Skizz
15 Jun 2017 - One-Eyed Jack
15 Jun 2017 - Lawless: Welcome to Black Rock
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag
13 Jul 2017 - Anderson: The Deep End
13 Jul 2017 - The Leopard from Lime Street - Book 1 (...it should be called "Catch Me if You Can"!)
10 Aug 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 (was 06 Apr 2017)
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
12 Sep 2017 - Survival Geeks
12 Sep 2017 - Brink: Book One
15 Sep 2017 - How Comics Work by Dave Gibbons
21 Sep 2017 - Marney the Fox
19 Sep 2017 - Deviations: Beta
19 Sep 2017 - Funko Universe
?? Oct 2017 - Scarlet Traces - volume 2 (Is this Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood? See 2018 list.)
19 Oct 2017 - Dracula Files
16 Nov 2017 - Judge Dredd: Case Files 30 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-30/dp/178108548X) - Paperback, 16th November 2017, 304 pages
16 Nov 2017 - Misty volume 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Misty-vol-2-Malcolm-Shaw/dp/1781086001) - Paperback, 16th November 2017, 112 pages
30 Nov 2017 - Faceache volume 1: The First Hundred Scrunges (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faceache-vol-First-Hundred-Scrunges/dp/178108601X) - Hardcover, 30th November 2017, 112 pages
30 Nov 2017 - The Dark Judges: Tainted - The Fall of Deadworld
?? Dec 2017 - M.A.C.H.1 – The John Probe Mission Files

2018 AD
19 Feb 2018 - The Beatles Story (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781086176) - Hardcover, 19th February 2018 - Arthur Ranson
08 May 2018 - Brass Sun volume 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085234) - Hardcover, 8th May 2018, 160 pages
10 Jul 2018 - Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood
04 Dec 2018 - The Complete Future Shocks - volume 1 (Surely this date is wrong?)

On the Wishlist
TBA - Nursery Crimes: The Collected Sweeny Toddler
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers volume 1: Deadly Hedley of the Eastern Front
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers volume 2: Bionic Gran & the 6 1/2p Buytonic Boy meet MACH 1
TBA - IPC Fleetway Crossovers volume 3: Fusspot meets Meltdown Man - Wayne & Schuster

Blurbs:
Judge Dredd: Case Files 30
"The remnants of East-Meg One want Judge Dredd to pay for destroying their city. Who better to hunt him down than Orlok the assassin – the man responsible giving the East-Meg an upper hand in capturing the Big Meg during the Apocalypse War.

Meanwhile, crime lord Nero Narcos puts his lethal plan to depose the Judges into action. Even with help from the Brit-Cit Justice Department, Judge Anderson, DeMarco and a brand new Mark II Lawgiver, Mega-city won't be able to get out of this crisis unscathed!"

Misty vol 2
"Following up our hit first volume of the 'horror comic for girls' with another collection of two stories: The Sentinels and End of The Line. Misty was a revolutionary concept by 2000 AD's creator Pat Mills in 1978 and left its mark on a whole generation of young women. The two identical tower blocks, known as 'The Sentinels' to the locals, stand tall over the town of Birdwood – but only one is occupied while the other remains mysteriously empty. When Jan Richards' family lose their home they decide to hide out in the abandoned block so they can stay together, only to be sent into a parallel world where the Nazis conquered Britain in 1940... In End of the Line, Ann's father was one of a group of engineers believed to have been killed whilst working on an extension to the London Underground but when she and her mother are invited to the opening of the new train tunnel, Ann discovers a mysterious time portal through which several workers are being kept as slaves by an evil Victorian called Lord Vicary."

The Beatles Story
"The original long-lost Beatles graphic novel!

This was the very first graphic novel to chart the creation, evolution and break-up of the fab four, first published in 1981. The Beatles Story is an exceptionally drawn account of the band from one of the UK's leading artists of his generation, Arthur Ranson (Batman, Judge Dredd, Button Man). Written by Angus Allan it includes fascinating insights into Paul McCartney and John Lennon's first encounter, their early gigs in Hamburg Kaiser Keller, in Hamburg, through to the recording of the legendary Abbey Road album to the band's break-up.

First published in the pages of legendary UK youth magazine Look In, this beautifully illustrated account is a treat for both the devoted Beatles admirer and new fans alike. This new edition is published in the Treasury of British Comics line, a series devoted to restoring lost comics classics."

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 16 June, 2017, 02:00:11 PM

Great to see that Brass Sun is continuing in reprint form, albeit in a rather more slender volume.

As for Devlin Waugh, I hope it'll be great, but to me that's one of those characters so closely aligned with its writer that it seems very odd someone else is taking it over.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 June, 2017, 03:17:29 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 16 June, 2017, 02:00:11 PM
As for Devlin Waugh, I hope it'll be great, but to me that's one of those characters so closely aligned with its writer that it seems very odd someone else is taking it over.

To be honest, it doesn't really seem all that odd when you realise the last story was ten(!) years ago. Ten years...!

I would fervently hope that John's given this his blessing, but by this point I would prefer any Devlin stories to none.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 06 July, 2017, 04:59:57 AM

Ten Years Ago, with a... if not a cliffhanger... a set up for a return that has never materialized. Devlin was one of those characters that got me into 2000 AD, with the DC collections, and when that story ran early on when I started reading the Meg I got really excited.

Then 10 years passed.

Its tough when a writer gets replaced (and a bit odd, when that writer is still semi-active. See: Indigo Prime). Hopefully its got Smith's blessing at least. At the very least I'm curious what the new writer's got in store for us.

It does kinda make me hope Rebellion might try bringing Luke Kirby back somehow. Maybe with Emma Beeby writing?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 July, 2017, 05:06:01 PM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 06 July, 2017, 04:59:57 AM
Ten Years Ago, with a... if not a cliffhanger... a set up for a return that has never materialized. Devlin was one of those characters that got me into 2000 AD, with the DC collections, and when that story ran early on when I started reading the Meg I got really excited.

Then 10 years passed.

Its tough when a writer gets replaced (and a bit odd, when that writer is still semi-active. See: Indigo Prime). Hopefully its got Smith's blessing at least. At the very least I'm curious what the new writer's got in store for us.

It does kinda make me hope Rebellion might try bringing Luke Kirby back somehow. Maybe with Emma Beeby writing?

I wouldn't say no to that. Despite Luke's diminishing returns, Summer Magic was an outstanding piece of work; writer and artist working together perfectly to create a truly unique and original 2000ad story. Respect to the Tharg of the time too, for publishing something very different from the usual blend of future weapons and sci fi tough guys.

I suspect it would be difficult to disentangle it from the Harry Potter phenomenon if it were to come out now.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 06 July, 2017, 05:20:36 PM

But it's so 'not Harry Potter', with its strict rules and headmasters. It's almost the anti-Potter, being all hedgemagic and shamanistic.

I think I'm just annoyed that it was building up to some big... thing... with Kim it never got to. Like we never got to the 'Empire Strikes Back' moment when everything goes wrong and the training wheels come off.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 06 July, 2017, 05:30:46 PM

I take your point about it not really being like Harry Potter. But it's still superficially close enough to Harry Potter that a new story would never be able to shake off the comparison. Just as they could never make a film out if Firekind because everyone would say it was an Avatar rip-off, even though that wouldn't be true.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Woolly on 06 July, 2017, 05:55:45 PM

Quote from: Richard on 06 July, 2017, 05:30:46 PM
I take your point about it not really being like Harry Potter. But it's still superficially close enough to Harry Potter that a new story would never be able to shake off the comparison.

Fully agree, but also think thats a good marketing reason for Luke Kirby to return.
If Tharg could get all the Potter fans reading the prog... that could make for some interesting sales figures!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 06 July, 2017, 05:58:54 PM

Hope reminded me that we need Carver Hale back.But no chance of that,is there?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Woolly on 06 July, 2017, 06:00:57 PM

Quote from: Smith on 06 July, 2017, 05:58:54 PM
Hope reminded me that we need Carver Hale back.But no chance of that,is there?

Ooh, yes please. Always found it a bit weird that Carver never returned.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Smith on 06 July, 2017, 08:23:50 PM

I always assumed Mike Carey lost interest.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 06 July, 2017, 08:26:17 PM

I assumed Carver died of AIDS "off screen."

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 July, 2017, 08:50:25 PM

Never quite got the idea that Journal of Luke Kirby had diminishing returns issues. I mean sure the first one was just sublime and note really topped BUT I'm pretty sure last time I read that last one with the Devil and Steve Parkhouse and what not I really enjoyed it. I felt it was alway at least good, at times, including the last story, very good. Its just that first story is so good folks lose perspective?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 06 July, 2017, 08:55:59 PM

I didn't see 'diminishing' I saw 'ramp-up/set-up', and then no pay off. That last story was there to give Luke all the tools he needed to deal with whatever crisis came next. But we clearly never got that story.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Woolly on 07 July, 2017, 05:39:50 PM

Yeah, there's definately no diminishing returns with Luke Kirby.
It's all set up.

I would also argue that both 'The Night Stalker' and 'The Old Straight Track' both top 'Summer Magic' as Kirby thrills. :cool:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Fungus on 07 July, 2017, 10:59:00 PM

I see that publication schedule and see only Faceache. Good choice, Rebellion.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 July, 2017, 01:08:04 PM

Bear Alley reports that "Ant Wars" (with "Zancudo") will be reprinted in February 2018, with "M.A.C.H. 1" following in March 2018. See the entry for 15th July. (https://bearalley.blogspot.com.au/)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 July, 2017, 01:40:48 PM

Is Zancudo any good.As I've said here before I'm a big fan of Ant Wars (there has to be someone) but have it already but would get this for Zancudo if it looks good?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 20 July, 2017, 01:57:10 PM

I loved Zancudo, but was perhaps in a minority. If you like Si Spurrier and/or black-and-white Cam Kennedy artwork, you'll find a lot to like.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 20 July, 2017, 02:48:23 PM

Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 20 July, 2017, 01:57:10 PM
I loved Zancudo, but was perhaps in a minority. If you like Si Spurrier and/or black-and-white Cam Kennedy artwork, you'll find a lot to like.

Seconded.
Fast paced script from Si Spurrier and some lovely work from Cam Kennedy's 2nd Renaissance for the House of Tharg.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 July, 2017, 04:54:19 PM

Quote from: Link Prime on 20 July, 2017, 02:48:23 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 20 July, 2017, 01:57:10 PM
I loved Zancudo, but was perhaps in a minority. If you like Si Spurrier and/or black-and-white Cam Kennedy artwork, you'll find a lot to like.

Seconded.
Fast paced script from Si Spurrier and some lovely work from Cam Kennedy's 2nd Renaissance for the House of Tharg.

Bloody hell I know this is from my Meg wilderness years but with a creative line up like that how come I only have a scant awareness of this?!?

Consider this bought.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Arkwright99 on 20 July, 2017, 04:56:22 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 June, 2017, 12:53:07 PM
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag

If you'd told me I'd end up buying this I wouldn't have believed you but the 1/3rd off Vol. 1 sale last week was enough to tempt me to order both Absalom volumes (+ Droid Life) from the webshop. 'Twas Trevallion's art wot swung it. :lol:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 20 July, 2017, 04:59:19 PM

Quote from: Arkwright99 on 20 July, 2017, 04:56:22 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 June, 2017, 12:53:07 PM
13 Jul 2017 - Absalom: Under a False Flag
If you'd told me I'd end up buying this I wouldn't have believed you... 'Twas Trevallion's art wot swung it. :lol:

Don't really know what you're getting at. You're talking almost as though Absolom was an acknowledged bad strip or something...? Or are you just not a fan?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 20 July, 2017, 05:43:16 PM

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 July, 2017, 05:06:01 PM
Summer Magic was an outstanding piece of work; writer and artist working together perfectly to create a truly unique and original 2000ad story.

As Alan McKenzie points out, John Ridgway isn't a creator. McKenzie did all the hard work - thinking up the character's name, age and height - while all Ridgway did was follow McKenzie's instructions.

Like a bricklayer following an architect's plan.

Of course, all McKenzie did was write the story. It was editor Richard Burton who told McKenzie 'yes, please write a story, Alan', and therefore clearly deserves sole creator credit. The rest was just typing.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Clarkie1971 on 20 July, 2017, 09:42:31 PM

Does anybody know if Rebellion are planning on reprinting anything from Battle or Action? I got the One Eyed Jack reprint but it only covers the run in Valiant and not the stories from the merger wth Battle. I know Titan own the rights but they are pretty slow when it comes to reprints. Johnny Red book 4 took ages to come out.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Arkwright99 on 21 July, 2017, 11:41:52 AM

Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 20 July, 2017, 04:59:19 PM
Don't really know what you're getting at. You're talking almost as though Absolom was an acknowledged bad strip or something...? Or are you just not a fan?

Oh, no, not dissing Absalom or anything like that. It's one of the strips (cf. the 'Not sure if it's me or the prog... (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=44597.0)' thread) that I tend to skim read each week and like for what it is but due to the gaps between series couldn't really tell you what happened previously, so my knowledge of the plot is kind of patchy, which only enforces the 'skim reading' habit.

Normally I wouldn't consider buying the Absalom trades, which would improve the ability to 'catch-up' when a new series starts, because I have the back progs (if I could be arsed to go back and read them), hence my comment. Contrast this with the trades for Jaegir, Lawless & Deadworld/Tainted which are definite buys for me because they're strips that 'grabbed' me when I read the Prog/Meg. That was the only point I was making (to myself as much as anyone). :)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Robo-K33F on 21 July, 2017, 03:18:07 PM

Quote from: Clarkie1971 on 20 July, 2017, 09:42:31 PM
Does anybody know if Rebellion are planning on reprinting anything from Battle or Action? I got the One Eyed Jack reprint but it only covers the run in Valiant and not the stories from the merger wth Battle. I know Titan own the rights but they are pretty slow when it comes to reprints. Johnny Red book 4 took ages to come out.

Yes we are. Rebellion own the rights now.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 21 July, 2017, 03:24:21 PM

Quote from: Robo-K33F on 21 July, 2017, 03:18:07 PM
Yes we are. Rebellion own the rights now.

OOOH.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 July, 2017, 03:44:52 PM

Great! Do you want to say anything here about the Scream/Misty Halloween special (all new material)?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 July, 2017, 09:53:30 AM

...or I could wake up to the fact there's an existing thread about it: Scream/Misty special (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=44635.0)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 05 August, 2017, 10:51:13 AM

Case Files 30 (Nov 2017): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-30/dp/178108548X/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FFT1CGV6WSA95F69V6GD (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-30/dp/178108548X/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FFT1CGV6WSA95F69V6GD)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 August, 2017, 01:13:15 PM

Yep. (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=43620.msg960268#msg960268)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 05 August, 2017, 01:16:58 PM

Forgot that had already been posted!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: EDazzling on 05 August, 2017, 01:48:01 PM

Do we know if that will be all of Doomsday?

Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: glassstanley on 05 August, 2017, 05:20:04 PM

Quote from: EDazzling on 05 August, 2017, 01:48:01 PM
Do we know if that will be all of Doomsday?

Assuming the cover is correct then yes. The Hamlin reprint included an ep from 1167 about the cover up of Volt's death. That'll be at the start of the next volume.

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Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 August, 2017, 02:13:36 PM

And the bagged floppy with Meg #390 is 'Helium.' Odd choice, if correct.
https://www.newsarama.com/35804-2000-ad-november-2017-solicitations.html

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 16 August, 2017, 02:20:03 PM

Perhaps the next volume is about to start in the Prog? If not, yeah, that's an odd one.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 August, 2017, 09:17:54 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 16 August, 2017, 02:20:03 PM
Perhaps the next volume is about to start in the Prog? If not, yeah, that's an odd one.

Yeah hope that means good news for Helium rather than its being consigned to Thrills that won't be returned to? Maybe both creators have too much on to commit to it so its been boxed off and cast aside? Real shame if so.

That aside Sinister Dexter back in the Prog makes me happy. Some nice stuff going on BUT I see John Smith's name has gone from Indigo Prime... not good.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 16 August, 2017, 09:59:33 PM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 August, 2017, 09:17:54 PM
[I see John Smith's name has gone from Indigo Prime...

Smith says the first two episodes are all his work.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 August, 2017, 10:19:27 PM

I hope that's an editing mistake and not the start of a Smith/Rebellion row over Devil Waugh coming back without him.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 16 August, 2017, 11:09:01 PM

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Smith's posting on social media doesn't suggest there's continuing animosity.

Nobody can be sure exactly what happened, but (from outside) the problem appeared to stem from the controversial subject matter of the three episodes of Indigo Prime Smith completed.

While everyone understands that Tharg is entitled to do whatever he likes with the properties published in 2000ad, hopefully he and the author can agree to shed light on however much of the background to this as both parties feel comfortable with, to forestall the inevitable speculation.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 August, 2017, 11:21:12 PM

i guess I'm a bit confused, what chapters of Indigo Prime are we talking about? I see its not returned to the Prog yet, so what Credits are his name not attached too?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 16 August, 2017, 11:35:51 PM

Yeah, a careful explanation of the situation now could save a lot of trouble later. As it stands, I have no interest in reading non-Smith Indigo Prime, so it's already struggling uphill before it starts. And that's not any reflection on the new writer, I'd have no interest if Alan Moore himself took the gig: a huge part of the appeal of IP right from the Foundation & Basalt strip has always been trying to understand the way the organisation and its multiverse works, something that appeared to exist in some shifting kaleidoscopic fashion in John's mind: or at least that was the illusion created. That puzzle in someone else's mind doesn't interest me.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2017, 11:40:26 PM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 16 August, 2017, 11:21:12 PM
i guess I'm a bit confused, what chapters of Indigo Prime are we talking about? I see its not returned to the Prog yet, so what Credits are his name not attached too?

There's a new story starting in prog 2050. The first set of solicits in Previews credit John Smith and Kek-W. The latest ones omit John.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2017, 11:43:58 PM

Quote from: Frank on 16 August, 2017, 11:09:01 PM
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Smith's posting on social media doesn't suggest there's continuing animosity.

Nobody can be sure exactly what happened, but (from outside) the problem appeared to stem from the controversial subject matter of the three episodes of Indigo Prime Smith completed.

While everyone understands that Tharg is entitled to do whatever he likes with the properties published in 2000ad, hopefully he and the author can agree to shed light on however much of the background to this as both parties feel comfortable with, to forestall the inevitable speculation.

Seems a bit late for that!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2017, 11:46:14 PM

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 16 August, 2017, 02:20:03 PM
Perhaps the next volume is about to start in the Prog? If not, yeah, that's an odd one.

Can't remember if I read it somewhere or they mentioned it at the 40th birthday, but I have it in my head that there's a return to Helium before the next Scarlet Traces.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: dweezil2 on 16 August, 2017, 11:49:23 PM

I love John Smith's utterly unique writing style, I'll be really sad to hear he's been dropped from the strip, if that is indeed what's happened! :(

We need more risk takers like him in the Prog.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 12:57:36 AM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2017, 11:40:26 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 16 August, 2017, 11:21:12 PM
i guess I'm a bit confused, what chapters of Indigo Prime are we talking about? I see its not returned to the Prog yet, so what Credits are his name not attached too?
There's a new story starting in prog 2050. The first set of solicits in Previews credit John Smith and Kek-W. The latest ones omit John.

Interesting, and worrisome. Though to be fair, if John Smith was to be replaced, Kek-W would be my first choice.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 07:17:58 AM

Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 August, 2017, 11:43:58 PM
Quote from: Frank on 16 August, 2017, 11:09:01 PM
While everyone understands that Tharg is entitled to do whatever he likes with the properties published in 2000ad, hopefully he and the author can agree to shed light on however much of the background to this as both parties feel comfortable with, to forestall the inevitable speculation.

Seems a bit late for that!

Pah! You call this speculation?

Given where Smith was going with episode three, there'll be conspiracy theories involving Cliff Richard and the Duke of Edinburgh turning up at the Command Module in a white Fiat Uno, armed with a satsuma and a syringe full of amphetamine.

And John Smith will believe them all.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: James Stacey on 17 August, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

Quote from: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 07:17:58 AM
Pah! You call this speculation?

Given where Smith was going with episode three, there'll be conspiracy theories involving Cliff Richard and the Duke of Edinburgh turning up at the Command Module in a white Fiat Uno, armed with a satsuma and a syringe full of amphetamine.

Didn't you just sum up an episode of Greysuits

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Satanist on 17 August, 2017, 11:38:25 AM

Indigo Prime = Oh Yeah!

by Kek-W = Urgh!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 12:39:16 PM

Quote from: James Stacey on 17 August, 2017, 09:23:19 AM
Quote from: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 07:17:58 AM
Given where Smith was going with episode three, there'll be conspiracy theories involving Cliff Richard and the Duke of Edinburgh turning up at the Command Module in a white Fiat Uno, armed with a satsuma and a syringe full of amphetamine.

Didn't you just sum up an episode of Greysuits

Mills was canny enough to substitute Johnny Sahib for Jimmy Savile, and lived to script another day. Although Greysuit was cancelled anyway, so obviously Lords Britton and Jenner have been putting the frighteners on Tharg from beyond the grave.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 August, 2017, 02:16:24 PM

Quote from: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 07:17:58 AM
Given where Smith was going with episode three, there'll be conspiracy theories involving Cliff Richard and the Duke of Edinburgh turning up at the Command Module in a white Fiat Uno, armed with a satsuma and a syringe full of amphetamine.

Mind the Satsumas, Cliff!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Bolt-01 on 17 August, 2017, 08:35:14 PM

Rogue Trooper is back... (http://nerdist.com/2000-ads-rogue-trooper-returns-with-james-robinson-and-leonardo-manco-exclusive/)

Found this via the ECBT folk..

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2017, 09:08:39 PM

Quote from: Bolt-01 on 17 August, 2017, 08:35:14 PM
Rogue Trooper is back... (http://nerdist.com/2000-ads-rogue-trooper-returns-with-james-robinson-and-leonardo-manco-exclusive/)

Found this via the ECBT folk..

Robinson's Meg Interrogation from June last year (372) makes for interesting reading:

"Richard Burton said to me 'I don't like you and you'll never work for 2000ad' ... Writing for 2000ad was my dream job ... Nemesis The Warlock was my favourite story ... Our Man In Hondo was fantastic ... Harry Twenty I remember as the greatest thing ever ... I loved the VCs, Rogue Trooper, Halo Jones ... Robinson would become known at DC for bringing superannuated characters back to life ... Tell them I'd love to do something for 2000ad ... It would feel weird doing it after all this time, but I never had the chance back then, so why the hell not?"

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Leigh S on 17 August, 2017, 09:26:11 PM

Very nice art - shame IDW Rogue didnt get that chap! Always happy to see a new named writer in the prog too

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Steve Green on 17 August, 2017, 09:27:12 PM

(http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/galleries/2012/Review_DrEvazanTVC/Review_DrEvazanTVC_still.JPG)

Well, it will be interesting to see what approach they take.

My memory is hazy on Rogue, but did writers ever go down the route of the biochips themselves being important to either side?

Seems like GI training, memories of milli-com etc might be something to be sought after, at least for the Norts.

It came up the other day, that and whether Rogue was a product with a limited lifespan, constantly being fixed up by Bagman to counter him running past his warranty.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2017, 10:33:22 PM

Quote from: Steve Green on 17 August, 2017, 09:27:12 PM
It came up the other day, that and whether Rogue was a product with a limited lifespan, constantly being fixed up by Bagman to counter him running past his warranty.

That was the gist of Rennie's original run - one of the gene genies and the GI's CO trying to find Rogue before his lifespan wore out, given he'd not been designed to be out in the field on his own for so long.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM

I do like James Robinson.

I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts. Very cool!

I'm curious if this new Rogue Trooper will be its own self contained thing, or play into what's going on in Hunted. I suspect the former, since the latter is pretty clearly Rennie's thing.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 17 August, 2017, 11:13:13 PM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts.

For those playing at home, that's Ellis (1 episode), Gaiman (5) and Furman (11).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: sheridan on 17 August, 2017, 11:38:51 PM

Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2017, 11:13:13 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts.

For those playing at home, that's Ellis (1 episode), Gaiman (5) and Furman (11).

Yes, I'm always surprised Ellis didn't write more for 2000AD, I always thought of him as another ex-2000AD writer, before realising he hardly ever actually wrote anything for the GG.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Adventurer on 18 August, 2017, 12:52:45 AM

Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2017, 11:13:13 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts.

For those playing at home, that's Ellis (1 episode), Gaiman (5) and Furman (11).

Not to backtrack and split semantics too much, I guess I mean the Prog didn't necessarily make them names in comics before heading to America. Ex, Morrison/Ennis/Millar/Milligan/Moore/Grant/others.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: TordelBack on 18 August, 2017, 01:22:52 AM

Quote from: The Adventurer on 18 August, 2017, 12:52:45 AM
Not to backtrack and split semantics too much, I guess I mean the Prog didn't necessarily make them names in comics before heading to America. Ex, Morrison/Ennis/Millar/Milligan/Moore/Grant/others.

You're dead right Adventurer, was just funnin' ya.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 August, 2017, 06:52:54 AM

Quote from: sheridan on 17 August, 2017, 11:38:51 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2017, 11:13:13 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts.

For those playing at home, that's Ellis (1 episode), Gaiman (5) and Furman (11).

Yes, I'm always surprised Ellis didn't write more for 2000AD, I always thought of him as another ex-2000AD writer, before realising he hardly ever actually wrote anything for the GG.

Didn't Ian Edgington also do this and he's in fact that unique example of someone breaking America without 2000ad, then being pouched by Tharg. A concelation goal but there none the less!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Steve Green on 18 August, 2017, 08:09:58 AM

Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2017, 10:33:22 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 17 August, 2017, 09:27:12 PM
It came up the other day, that and whether Rogue was a product with a limited lifespan, constantly being fixed up by Bagman to counter him running past his warranty.

That was the gist of Rennie's original run - one of the gene genies and the GI's CO trying to find Rogue before his lifespan wore out, given he'd not been designed to be out in the field on his own for so long.

Cheers, thought it rang a bell.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Link Prime on 18 August, 2017, 09:11:43 AM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 18 August, 2017, 06:52:54 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 17 August, 2017, 11:38:51 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2017, 11:13:13 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2017, 10:58:06 PM
I was going to say its cool to see an American comic writer featured in 2000 AD, but then I checked his wiki and realized Robinson has been a Brit all along! Who, much like Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Simon Furman, managed to break into US comics without 2000 AD credits under their belts.

For those playing at home, that's Ellis (1 episode), Gaiman (5) and Furman (11).

Yes, I'm always surprised Ellis didn't write more for 2000AD, I always thought of him as another ex-2000AD writer, before realising he hardly ever actually wrote anything for the GG.

Didn't Ian Edgington also do this and he's in fact that unique example of someone breaking America without 2000ad, then being pouched by Tharg. A concelation goal but there none the less!

Still waiting on that Kieron Gillen sci-fi epic.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 August, 2017, 06:42:27 AM

Interesting title on Amazon UK: The Technology of Rogue Trooper: Can we create a Genetic Infantryman today (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Technology-Rogue-Trooper-Genetic-Infantryman-ebook/dp/B0752KPC1F).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: karlos on 29 August, 2017, 03:22:37 PM

Apologies for skimming this mighty thread (as my answer might already lie within), but does anyone know if the Mills/Bisley Joe Pineapples strip is still happening?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Frank on 29 August, 2017, 03:51:41 PM

Quote from: karlos on 29 August, 2017, 03:22:37 PM
Apologies for skimming this mighty thread (as my answer might already lie within), but does anyone know if the Mills/Bisley Joe Pineapples strip is still happening?

On the latest 2000ad Thrillcast, Bisley swears blind he's going to start it soon. Pat Mills laughs in the manner of a man who's heard that one before, describing Bisley as "very convincing":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GFoyPCLXw

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: karlos on 29 August, 2017, 04:14:02 PM

Argh!!

Many thanks, Frank - I'll give up waiting for it...!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 29 August, 2017, 06:38:35 PM

After the cover of prog 1800 I wouldn't care if Bisley never returned to the prog again. Get another artist to do it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Woolly on 29 August, 2017, 09:29:35 PM

Quote from: Richard on 29 August, 2017, 06:38:35 PM
After the cover of prog 1800 I wouldn't care if Bisley never returned to the prog again. Get another artist to do it.

Get SMS to do it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 29 August, 2017, 09:36:57 PM

Quote from: Richard on 29 August, 2017, 06:38:35 PM
After the cover of prog 1800 I wouldn't care if Bisley never returned to the prog again. Get another artist to do it.

That would somewhat hugely miss the point of writing a Joe Pineapples story for Bisley to do.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 August, 2017, 09:37:14 PM

Quote from: Richard on 29 August, 2017, 06:38:35 PM
After the cover of prog 1800 I wouldn't care if Bisley never returned to the prog again. Get another artist to do it.

I'm sure Jim Can Paint It could knock up a quality Pinaples strip in MS paint. :lol:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Steve Green on 29 August, 2017, 09:57:20 PM

I'm wondering if the 'they've been there so long they've seen the birth and death of stars' was in the original pitch, or Pat adding it as a commentary on the development of the strip?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 13 September, 2017, 09:30:36 PM

https://www.newsarama.com/36242-2000-ad-december-2017-solicitations.html (https://www.newsarama.com/36242-2000-ad-december-2017-solicitations.html)

some interesting end of year solicits

finally the final fate of starlord! they totally need to do one for big e too xd

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Tomwe on 14 September, 2017, 11:26:38 AM

Quote from: The Monarch on 13 September, 2017, 09:30:36 PM
https://www.newsarama.com/36242-2000-ad-december-2017-solicitations.html (https://www.newsarama.com/36242-2000-ad-december-2017-solicitations.html)

some interesting end of year solicits

finally the final fate of starlord! they totally need to do one for big e too xd

2061 looks like a blinder!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 September, 2017, 07:10:17 AM

BRASS SUN!!!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 September, 2017, 07:15:27 AM

QuoteJUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 391
391 on sale 20 December 2017
More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! Dredd must shoot his way out of an alien entity in the conclusion to 'Contrabandits' by Rory McConville and Leigh Gallagher; supernatural investigator Devlin Waugh battles for the life of his brother in 'Blood Debt' by Rory McConville and Mike Dowling; the colony fights back against the Dark Judges in the finale to 'Dominion' by John Wagner and Nick Percival; war comes to Badrock in Lawless by Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade; and there's a complete Tale From the Black Museum by Rory McConville and Neil Googe. Plus the usual interviews and features – and in the bagged graphic novel this month, another tale torn from Tornado: a German soldier faces a long and arduous journey to escape from the Russians in Wagner's Walk by Pat Mills and Mike White!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 September, 2017, 04:49:32 PM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 September, 2017, 07:10:17 AM
BRASS SUN!!!

Well put. Can't wait for that.

And Wagner's Walk. Very excited to read that.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Leigh S on 15 September, 2017, 05:01:43 PM

Nice line up, but sad there's no sign of new stront, unless there is something due before the new year?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 October, 2017, 01:49:51 PM

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Ant Wars (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ant-Wars-Gerry-Finley-Day/dp/1781086222) - Paperback – 8th February 2018 - Ant Wars!

Brink: Book Two (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781086281) - Paperback – 26th July 2018

Judge Dredd: Mandroid (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781086303) - Paperback – 7th August 2018 - According to the casefiles style cover, this is a "2000AD digest".

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 11 October, 2017, 04:55:07 PM

with zancudo as a bonus strip nice! :lol:

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 07:09:07 AM

Judge Dredd: Case Files 31 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files-31/dp/1781086311) - Paperback – 5 Apr 2018, 288 pages
The galaxy's number one bounty hunter, Trapper Hag, has escaped his Iso-Cube prison with only one thing on his mind – the death of Judge Dredd!

Meanwhile, the miniature robotic garden guardians, the Banzai Battallion help Dredd foil a kidnapping and Hogwash college's greatest pupil – Harry Snotter – makes the mistake of visiting Mega-City One

M.A.C.H. 1: The John Probe Mission Files (https://www.amazon.co.uk/M-C-H-Probe-Mission-Files/dp/1781086133) - Paperback – 22 Mar 2018, 224 pages
The Six Million Dollar Man meets James Bond in this first volume of the explosive adventures of 2000 AD's super-agent!

+HIGH-RISK FACTOR AT OPTIMUM+

The world is a dangerous place, with terrorists, lunatics and other foreigners plotting destruction at every turn... fortunately the British Secret Service has the world's back!

And when the threats the world faces are extra-ordinary, they need an extra-ordinary man for the job. Enter secret weapon and special agent, John Probe. Using the technology of computerised acupuncture, they grafted a computer circuit onto his skull and inserted special electro-needles into his body and now he can increase his energy flow until he has the strength of fifty men!

Terrorists and enemy agents beware! John Probe is much more than a man; he is a Man Activated by Compu-Puncture Hyperpower!

This first volume collects the explosive adventures of 2000 AD's original super-agent, M.A.C.H. 1.

Strontium Dog: Repo Men (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strontium-Dog-Repo-John-Wagner/dp/1781086435) - Paperback – 22 Mar 2018, 144 pages
The Search/Destroy agent Johnny Alpha is still alive. Having wreaked vengeance against the humans that plotted the 'final solution' to mutant-kind, he is released from prison for one last job in deep space that only a Strontium Dog can do. And with the freedom of his friends on the line he has no choice but to accept...

Now that their careers as bounty hunters are off the cards, his mutant friends have a new job proposition. They are hired to repossess 'The Rock' - an asteroid space-station owned by a galactic crime lord - and to succeed they must pull off a heist of galactic proportions!

ABC Warriors: The Mek Files Vol. 4 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Warriors-Mek-Files-Vol/dp/1781086230) - Paperback – 22 Mar 2018, 208 pages
Continuing the legendary ABC Warriors definitive collection series

Been to hell - Lived to tell!

Travelling across mars to recruit their latest companion, the battle-scarred A.B.C. Warriors reminisce about their part in the Volgan War – a vicious conflict fought for oil on Earth. As the droids Hammerstein, Mongrol, Joe Pineapples, Deadlock and Blackblood all relate their memories of the war, old mysteries are revealed and ancient grudges are rekindled!

This collects the first two parts of The Volgan War, Pat Mills and Clint Langley's brain-boggling A.B.C. Warriors epic!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 07:10:28 AM

Amazon UK are also listing the first & second colourised Halo Jones books, the Dredd/Batman digest volume (like the Mandroid one), etc.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: robprosser on 15 November, 2017, 11:54:20 AM

Is there any chance of the MACH 1 collection containing the MACH Zero series? I don't think it's been reprinted and don't think there's much chance of it turning up elsewhere,

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 November, 2017, 12:32:38 PM

In other news February is looking good in the land of Tharg

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/14/744988/ (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/14/744988/)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Richard on 15 November, 2017, 12:46:50 PM

The first MACH Zero spin-off was rubbish, but the other two are really good.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 12:53:06 PM

Quote from: robprosser on 15 November, 2017, 11:54:20 AM
Is there any chance of the MACH 1 collection containing the MACH Zero series? I don't think it's been reprinted and don't think there's much chance of it turning up elsewhere,

The blurb describes the MACH 1 collection as the first volume, so here's hoping!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 12:58:00 PM

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 November, 2017, 12:32:38 PM
In other news February is looking good in the land of Tharg

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/14/744988/ (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/14/744988/)

Harry Heston!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Max Headroom on 15 November, 2017, 01:34:43 PM

Just reading Dash Decent's summary of upcoming releases - should the Mek Files volume 4 not be a hardcover in keeping with the previous three?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 November, 2017, 07:23:13 PM

Possibly – perhaps even probably – an error on Amazon's part.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 08:09:44 PM

Anyone know what Von Hoffman's Invasion (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Von-Hoffmans-Invasion-Vol-1/dp/1781086265) is? Presumably something from another IPC/Fleetway stablemate.

Vol. 1 is scheduled for 4 May 2018.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 November, 2017, 09:26:12 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 08:09:44 PM
Anyone know what Von Hoffman's Invasion (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Von-Hoffmans-Invasion-Vol-1/dp/1781086265) is? Presumably something from another IPC/Fleetway stablemate.

Vol. 1 is scheduled for 4 May 2018.

He appeared in Buster. I only know this as he was one of the characters in that strip that cramped LOADS in in the recent Scream / Misty Special.

German mad scientist was the gist.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Greg M. on 15 November, 2017, 09:27:10 PM

Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 November, 2017, 08:09:44 PM
Anyone know what Von Hoffman's Invasion (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Von-Hoffmans-Invasion-Vol-1/dp/1781086265) is? Presumably something from another IPC/Fleetway stablemate.

From Jet (and later Buster) - wicked scientist with enlarging gas. Big ants and what have you.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 17 November, 2017, 05:54:08 AM

Quote from: Greg M. on 15 November, 2017, 09:27:10 PM
wicked scientist with enlarging gas. Big ants and what have you.

...& anyone who wouldn't read that in a heartbeat should see a doctor.

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CuXOQqJXNFo/WHNfnJz7c0I/AAAAAAAAKyA/GsjJn1ASfVwKcvVpceUiQgSWNCb1E2LLwCLcB/s1600/hoff2.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2017, 09:09:40 AM

"Gloinkle"? That's a very Don Martinesque sound effect!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills 2017
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 20 November, 2017, 04:07:49 AM

If yo think that is impressive, Dash, well later in the strip Eric Bradbury anticipates the movie refit of the USS Enterprise...

(https://media.giphy.com/media/TF3uA6xGKOohO/giphy.gif)

...by almost 10 years:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/6f/13/806f139221d9dedcf42cef34296090d6.jpg)

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