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#1
General / Re: Audible Dredds
13 March, 2024, 11:49:10 AM
I find them to be a mixed bag, and still do with some of their other ranges.

For my money the best of the BF 2000AD audios were written by Jonathan Clements.  He had a good knack for starting his stories out with somewhat comical elements, and then suddenly turning them into something dramatic and 'scary' (e.g. Trapped on Titan, Solo).  I read an interview with him where he explained the kinds of things that he was doing in his stories to make the talky-what's-going-on-exposition fit more naturally, and it was all sensible stuff - conversations on radio, Alpha operating in the dark with his special vision and having to guide others, etc.
#2
News / Re: I don't want to alarm anyone...
12 March, 2024, 07:34:40 AM
I don't want to alarm anyone - but this thread is now past its use-by date.
#3
General / Re: Audible Dredds
12 March, 2024, 07:32:58 AM
I hate all that in audio stories, especially one character telling another character about something they should already know about, or going into incredible descriptive detail.

"Activate the emergency transponder!"
"You mean the beacon that's part of a citywide network?"
"Yes!  It's monitored constantly by hndreds of Judges at Justice Central, 24/7.  Their response will be instantaneous, and someone will arrive to help us soon!"
"Justice Central?  You mean the massive building that acts as the headquarters for the Judges of Mega City 1, this giant mega-metropolitan conurbation here on the eastern seaboard of the former continental United States?"
"Yes, that's the one; the one built over the remnants of old New York city, and many other cities besides!"
"Okay, activating the transponder."
#4
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
12 March, 2024, 07:20:39 AM
If the landscape and tanks and hoppas and gun emplacements etc are being generated using Unreal, does that mean there will be Unreal files capable of being used to create a new RT computer game? Perhaps they have to be ported/stepped down in some way from the 'movie scenery' Unreal to the 'generate a game world' Unreal, but could it work?

I think Rebellion would be smart to have a game ready to capitalise on the success of the movie.  Rather than revamp the graphics of the Gordon Rennie scripted game yet again, they'd be better off creating a sequel.  And by sequel I really mean something that is like some extra chapters in the middle of the original game (just like recent RT is set in the midst of the hunt for the Traitor General) so that there's a tie-in factor and not "What is all this Horst stuff?"
#5
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
12 March, 2024, 07:02:13 AM
Quote from: judgeurko on 28 February, 2024, 07:01:38 PMDredd didn't have Danny Boyle.

Just don't put the squeeze on him.
#6
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
07 March, 2024, 11:50:34 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2024, 06:57:25 PMthe Bogatyr

When you get to know him, he lets you call him Humphrey.
#7
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
07 March, 2024, 11:48:42 AM
Satellites.
#8
General / Re: Cybermatt is great but I miss...
07 March, 2024, 11:47:04 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 March, 2024, 03:04:08 PMthat's primarily down to not enough letters coming into the Nerve Centre.

If they'd start offering two quid for every letter they published, and five quid for every drawing, then not only would the prog be entirely one long letters page, but I'd be MINTED.  "The Milky Bars are on me!"
#9
General / Re: Cybermatt is great but I miss...
07 March, 2024, 11:44:30 AM
Even better, "Tharg strips at Christmas".

I liked the Nerve Centre goings-on, it was sort of like when we saw what was going on behind the stage of the Muppet Show.  Plus, the Thrill Suckers were rather excellent.  I don't think it would work these days simply because I don't think the modern droid designs I've seen for (e.g.) Molch-R look anywhere as good as Burt, AALN-1, and so on.  Perhaps it could work if the scope of Droid Life zoomed out a little bit sometimes to include some Tharg (and Thrill Suckers).
#10
General / Re: Audible Dredds
07 March, 2024, 11:34:35 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 March, 2024, 04:50:33 PMFor Origins though, it was back to the 1940s gangster movie Dredd of the Judge Cal radio drama, if anyone remembers that.  Not my bag at all.

Quote from: sheridan on 07 March, 2024, 09:33:20 AMWas that the one that was broadcast in five minutes installments on Radio One?  They did another one as well - Apocalypse War?

That's right, series 1 was "The Day the Law Died" and series 2 was "The Apocalypse War".  Dirk Maggs was in charge of these, and, while I like a couple of things he's done, these are awful.  I don't know whether it's only having five minute chunks to tell the story, or he decided that it had to be 'comic-y' and way over the top, but it almost falls into parody/Michael-taking territory.  And yes, we've had gruff Dredd voices but again, this Dredd is woeful.

I have only heard the trailers for the Audible stories, and my main impression was that they sounded too sparse.  It was all too easy to believe The Pit starts with two actors in a studio, not two ranks of Judges standing silently waiting for inspection. (Etc.)  I'm also not that fond of narrated stories, unless it is integrated really well.  When it's unimpressive (as I felt the Audible ones were - again, from very short samples, so what do I know?) I feel like we've jumped from audio drama to talking book.  The BBC dramatised all the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on radio, with Clive Merrison playing Holmes. When they began, they had Watson narrating parts, but as they went on they found their groove and became 100% radio play.  And those later episodes, to my mind, are infinitely better than the earlier ones.

I really like Toby Longsworth as Dredd.  I never had a distinct Dredd voice in my head, but when I first heard Toby (in the Dredd vs Death computer game) it just clicked with me as being 'right'.  The game lead to me discovering the Big Finish audios, which lead me back to reading 2000AD again.  I was very glad to find the same actor playing Dredd on the CDs.
#11
General / Re: Hivemind query: Name that story
28 February, 2024, 07:30:50 AM
Quote from: Rara Avis on 27 February, 2024, 07:40:48 PMWhile we're at it .. I remember watching a tv show when I was younger (late 80s / early 90s) which I'm pretty sure was called Frankenstein's Castle and Frankenstein lived in this castle with Dracula and others and the castle was in the middle of a lake ... Anyone remember what this tv show was really called?

"Help, My Cellar's Sprung a Leak" starring Dracula the Dampire and Plumber's Snakenstein?
#12
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
22 February, 2024, 02:33:49 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 21 February, 2024, 11:27:14 AM
Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection
- Paperback, 128 pages, 21st November 2024

Rebellion presents three action-packed stories from the legendary Lion comic, all featuring the work master of chiaroscuro-style black-and-white art - José Antonio Muñoz.

In 1973, Muñoz worked on three short-lived strips in Lion. A Stitch in Time follows the adventures of a young boy named Stitch Cotton and his alien friend, Varl, after they steal a time machine from the sinister space-master, Mr. Universe. Lost in Limbo Land (written by 2000 AD regular, Chris Lowder), follows Barry Smith - a studious bookworm who is struck by lightning and flung into a world of Norse myth and legend. The final strip, Sark the Sleeper, sees a starship commander accidently woken from hypersleep by two boys who are completely unaware that they passengers flying through deep space in search of a new home.

Frank Pepper had a lengthy career writing for British comics. From the 1930s onwards he wrote for a wide variety of story papers including The Champion, Knockout, and The Comet. He is best known as the creator of Roy of the Rovers for Tiger and Captain Condor for Lion. Other well-known strips he worked on include The Spellbinder and Dan Dare. He died in 1988.


#13
Rebellion presents three action-packed stories from the legendary Lion comic, all featuring the work master of chiaroscuro-style black-and-white art - José Antonio Muñoz.

In 1973, Muñoz worked on three short-lived strips in Lion. A Stitch in Time follows the adventures of a young boy named Stitch Cotton and his alien friend, Varl, after they steal a time machine from the sinister space-master, Mr. Universe. Lost in Limbo Land (written by 2000 AD regular, Chris Lowder), follows Barry Smith - a studious bookworm who is struck by lightning and flung into a world of Norse myth and legend. The final strip, Sark the Sleeper, sees a starship commander accidently woken from hypersleep by two boys who are completely unaware that they passengers flying through deep space in search of a new home.


#14

Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection
- Paperback, 128 pages, 21st November 2024

No other details so here's José Muñoz's website and an interview from 2017.

#15
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
21 February, 2024, 11:27:14 AM

Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection
- Paperback, 128 pages, 21st November 2024

No other details at present.