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Hi everyone - hope you're all OK

Got a couple of pages for sale on The 'Bay I thought I'd tout here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000AD-Shakara-Avenger-Splash-Page-by-Henry-Flint-Original-Comic-Artwork-Art-/191979725274?roken=cUgayN

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000AD-Judge-Dredd-Titan-Splash-Page-by-Henry-Flint-Original-Comic-Artwork-Art-/201676233459?roken=cUgayN

Auctions finish on the 2nd October, or message me if you want to do a deal...

Simon

[LAST 20]

Still not got your Dredd movie T-shirts and hoodies? Will now there is no excuse! There's 20% off everything this weekend (3rd to 5th October) on the Last Exit to Nowhere website:

http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

QUOTE: LAST 20 during the checkout procedure to qualify.

This special offer expires at 11.59pm (UK time) on Sunday 5th October 2014.

[Skullmo]

My good friend, Skullmo, and I are putting together a brand new podcast all about the world of Comic Art Collecting. We are just in the process of finishing the final edit for our first show, which will introduce us and explain a bit about comic art collecting as well as what future shows will feature.

I'm going to try and keep this thread up-to-date with the latest news, but if you use other social media outlets you can follow us by going to:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Inky.Fingers.Art and 'liking' us
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/InkyFingersArt and 'following' us

We will be posting additional material (like links to the images of art we are discussing that episode) and links to all the podcasts on our blog page:

http://inkyfingerspodcast.blogspot.co.uk

And we will be on iTunes too, and I'll post the link to that when we 'go live'.

So what can you expect? Well, we hope to have some very special guests in future episodes and we will be discussing anything and everything about Comic Art Collecting. As Skullmo and I are big 2000AD fans, then that comic is likely to feature a lot, but we are not limiting ourselves to Toothy. We'll go beyond and maybe even into the murky world of American comics But we aren't giving much away at this stage - you'll have to listen to the first episode to find out more

We also hope it will interest collectors, and non-collectors, alike. Basically, if you like comics, we hope you'll like it!

So we've just finished our first round of audience testing for our first episode, so thanks to everyone who took part in that. We are still perfecting the art of podcasting, so our first attempt ain't perfect, but we're pretty pleased with it (although Skullmo is a little grumpy our wandering into reviewing the Dredd movies got cut )...

Happy to hear any thoughts on this thread, Twitter, Facebook or Blog comments... First blog post is up now!

[All Action Monthly issues 1-8]

So here's a story to warm the cockles on a chilly February evening... Mrs B commanded that I clear out the large cupboard in our bedroom that I use as a dumping ground for all sorts of rubbish I can't find a home for. So off to work I went and found a couple of large boxes at the back I'd totally forgotten about. Amongst the things in there was:

• Mexico 86 Panini Sticker album (only England and Brazil completed)
• My entire marble collection. Couple of big stonkers in there, quite a few oilys, and so on
• All my school books between age 13-16.
• The official program for Super Bowl XX. I'm a big Patriots fan, so a friend of my Dad's sent it. Even though the Pats got their arses handed to them

Right, serious danger of going off-topic here, but amongst all this flotsam was a pile of comics. It contained All Action Monthly issues 1-8, a few Busters, a Topper and right at the bottom Prog 526.

I was seriously happy about this. I used to read Progs at school from the random collection they had there or round a friend's house, but I had no recollection of ever owning a Prog. So to find one was VERY exciting. It also explained a few things...

Firstly, the strongest childhood recollections of stories I have from 2000AD are Dredd in The Raggedy Man, D.R. & Quench and Strontium Dog Bitch. Secondly, I'm very attached to Dillon's Rogue Trooper. And finally, why Anderson's Hour of the Wolf was so familiar, although I didn't recall ever reading it.

I must have literally read and read this Prog to death... But it's in great condition, having spent a lot of it's life compressed between other comics. The Belardinelli cover still shines and looks like the comic was printed yesterday (if someone had ordered some low grade paper, that is, although it's not too bad quality).

So I can now replace the sentence "The first Prog I ever bought was 1824" with "The first Prog I ever bought was 526"! It's quite possible I didn't buy another one after that, and I might have bought others before. I just have no memory for these things...

But I can put a stake in the ground at 526 and I shall treasure it for all time...

[£Offers]

Am offering these for sale. Please PM/email me if you are interested:

Ron Smith Daily Star: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1019130 £Offers
Richard Elson Dredd Blindside: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1033153 £45
Paul Davidson Dredd Suicide Watch: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1031658 £60

More information on each piece is on the CAF link along with a photo of the artwork. Will be sent flat in sturdy cardboard at cost (which depends on where you are in the world) or rolled in a tube if you prefer.

Updated my 2000AD iPad app yesterday. Got a notification today saying that the Case Files are now available to download through the app. Went and checked it out and all Dredd Case Files are available for £9.99 each. There is also a placeholder promising other collections soon.

This is the same price as in the 2000AD digital shop, so pays your money, takes your choice. At least through the iOS app they will be full screen, rather than the Kindle versions that are not (on the iPad anyway).

So the Prog, Meg and Dredd case files are all now available.

[3 hours]

It is the traditional role of the adult male in my household (me) to do certain physical activities. Getting the lids off jam jars, unblocking the sink, de-fluffing the washing machine, getting the cake box down from the top of the kitchen cupboard... Sometime, these things require brute strength. Something God decided not to give me.

My wife is very good at keeping up with the gardening, whilst I sit watching her with a beer and offering some encouraging words. But imagine my shock when our 10 foot conifer tree disappeared from the front garden one day to become a set of stumps. And picture if you will the scene when Mrs B says that it is my job to remove said stumps... I'm not a physical kind-of guy. I weigh 11 stone. I struggle carrying the shopping from Sainsbury's. I sit on my arse all day in an office. But, like an idiot, I agree to this request.

So today I have spent 3 hours taking out this bloody tree stump. It has tap roots that extend to the Earth's core. It has had baby trees, and they are stuck in the ground - seemingly with concrete. The tools at my disposal are:
- a spade.
- a saw.
- Bertha

I dunno what Bertha is. My Dad gave her to me. She is a bloody great pick axe thing that weighs a tonne. The last time I used her, to put a pipe in the ground for a washing line (don't ask), I clonked myself on the head and ended up in Casualty with concussion.

Anyway, I start hacking away at this tree stump thing. After an hour I have made a small trench around the root ball but the bloody thing is stuck fast. I retire to the kitchen and search for "Tree Root Removal" on Google on my iPad. But after a cheese sandwich and several glasses of Coke I think "Meh! Bloody tree ain't gonna defeat me". So I go back out and give it the beans for another hour. I have made a bigger trench, but the thing still ain't moving...

A closer inspection reveals the mother of all roots right next to the water inspection cover. Do we need a water inspection cover? Dunno. So I hacked away at it taking equal chunks out of the cover and the tree root. I also smashed up a green pipe. Dunno what it does, but we still have electricity and the Internet, so it probably wasn't important. I smash the root with a spade, use the saw on it, hack away with Bertha...

Finally, after an hour of rocking the damn stump backwards and forwards the thing comes loose. As the thing came loose, with me rocking it backwards and forwards, I am hurled across the garden and end up in the lavender bushes. So at least I smell nice.

So I think "That's it I'm done, beer o'clock". Oh no. Mrs B says I have to put all the soil back and make it look nice. So, whilst muttering a lot under my breath, I will my aching muscles to use another tool (a shovel fact fans) to put all the earth back.

And then I'm done... I can't move my back or neck, and my arms barely work (they are leaning on the desk as I type, my fingers dancing on the keyboard) but I did it.... I feel good...

I turn 39 tomorrow and feel I have achieved something worthwhile. I have drunk a beer, eaten another packet of crisps and life is OK. But now I am left wondering if I will be able to move in the morning to get to work on time. I fear not...

Here is the "Stump of Doom" and it's babies:



I would like to hear other boarders tales of "Man Stuff". This is an equal opportunities thread. Ladies not excluded, folks, as the fairer sex are also adept with implements of destruction (as my mother-in-law proves with the way she tackles the garden and she's in her 70's).

Thank you for listening. It's been emotional...

I'm after a bit of help... I have been reading Harry 20 On The High Rock to my 9 year old son and he has REALLY got into it. I mean, building a Lego High Rock with Lego Harry 20 and Ben 90 - even Warden Worldwise who is a modified Lego Nick Fury with a cape (he actually looks pretty good!).

Anyway, the story in the Prgos ends with them [spoiler]being blasted into outer space and heading for the Mars Rebel Colonies[/spoiler]. I was wondering if a sequel was ever written, perhaps under a different name? My son is desperate to know what happens, and all my telling him that everyone is OK is not satisfying him at all... BARNEY lists an Armoured Gideon episode called "The Collector" as a further story involving Harry 20, but it also involves a lot of other characters too. Or perhaps a sequel was published in another comic?

It's a long shot, but I promised my son I'd ask everyone!

Script droids Al Ewing, Simon Spurrier and Rob Williams will be signing copies of Trifecta at Forbidden Planet, London at 6pm on the 22nd August.

More info:
http://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2013/08/22/al-ewing-simon-spurrier-and-rob-williams-signing-j/

Got a few things up on eBay at the moment, including a nice Charlie Adlard Nikolai Dante page signed by both Charlie and Robbie Morrison.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/SimeonB/m.html?_sop=12&rt=nc

Happy to listen to offers via PM for any of these items.

Cheers,
Simeon

[Martin Howe]

I mentioned elsewhere that i recently bought every Meg from 201 onwards (that's January 2003) and I intend to sit and read every one of them. So I thought I'd document this momentous journey. The highs, the lows, the "oh bloody hell, I'm fed up of these sodding Megs" moments, the lot...

Now I know you can wander through the Megazine thread and get a discussion on each individual Meg, but I'm taking a slightly different approach.

Firstly, I thought it might confuse an awful lot of people if I comment in a thread closed over a decade ago.

Secondly, this is my journey through Meg-land coming back to 2000AD after a 30 year absence and I'm not familiar with the back stories of a lot of characters. So discussions like "I never expected so-and-so to come back to life" don't make sense to me and a lot of other newbies who have returned to the Galaxy's Greatest recently. I'm reading the Megs cold - no decades of reading weekly thrills beforehand.

Lastly, if Buttonman can write a thread about what he ate on holiday last year, I think there's room for little old me and my spiritual journey of enlightenment...

This thread is bought to you in association with Martin Howe, Enjinn and betel_uk - suppliers of my Megs. Thanks lads.

So why Megs - why not Progs?

Well, I prefer the Megs in many ways. I like the fact they centre around the Judge Dredd universe and explore the different facets to that world. I like the longer story format - with often 10 pages of each story in each Meg and those stories can span many Megs. I like the text articles - I'm interested in artists and writers and so on. I've heard the Meg is a bit edgier - experiments are tried - I like that. And I like the reprints - and if I got them bundled with the Megs I bought / were given then I will review them too.

Anyway - feel free to join in the debate - or read along with me. I'll 'black out' plot details, so if people want to read them from scratch like I am, I won't spoil if for you. And I won't reveal twists, or whodunnit - just an intro into what the stories are about so you can decide if it's worth the effort tracking down the Megs or digging them out the loft.

So, without further ado...

Meg 201 - I say, Dredd... (Entry on BARNEY)

Sadly, I'm missing the Gold reprints which came with the first 10 or so Megs, so I can't comment on those. However, this is a special bumper edition launch issue with 148 pages. It kept me quiet for quite sometime. I won't go into the ins and outs of every article, but there was a lot to like. Top 3 for me were:

Judge Dredd - War Crimes: Written by Gordon Rennie and drawn in a lovely style by Lee Sullivan (known more for his Doctor Who artwork), this was a terrific one-part story - and I found it quite moving at the end. It is certainly one of the best Dredd stories I've read in a long time, if not ever! [spoiler]A dying woman is arrested for distributing leaflets claiming her son was not a traitor. He was executed during the Apocalypse War for being a Sov spy. Dredd smells some honesty in her story, and sets off to investigate further by questioning those who knew him in the past[/spoiler]

Devlin Waugh - Red Tide - pt.1: There is an excellent text article, Waugh is Hell, written by David Bishop (of Thrill Power Overload fame) which introduces the character of Devlin Waugh - how he was incepted, his previous appearances and a synopsis of his story so far. [spoiler]The story is set in the Dredd Universe. This opening episode sees a family travel over the Black Atlantic to the Bahamas to go vampire hunting.[/spoiler]. The paintings by Colin MacNeil - wow. I'm saying 'painting' - it might be clever computer trickery - someone will set me right if I've got it wrong!

Family - pt.1: No computer trickery for this art - looks all penned by Simon Fraser - and I like a bit of traditional black and white inkwork. The intro in the Meg reveals it's set in the near future, so this is one of the stories set away from the Dredd Universe. [spoiler]A crime family run an entire town - and nothing happens without their say-so. A new cop arrives on the scene, eager to set things right...[/spoiler]

The other stories, Judge Dredd Phartz and The Kleggs! fell fairly into the "OK' category for me. I didn't hate them, but didn't like them as much as these others.

The text articles held some of my interest. I hadn't realised Thrill Power Overload has started life in the Meg before it became a book - and this Meg has part 11. There is also an article on John Sanders, former IPC publisher, which I flicked through. Two text stories, a Dredd and a Devlin Waugh reprint also appear. I didn't read them - but maybe I will go back to them. I'll let you know...

All in all, a quality read and worthy of tracking down for the Dredd story War Crimes alone, although Red Tide and Family have definitely started well!

In the spirit of Free Comic Book Day, I'm giving away the ones I collected at the Forbidden Planet in London that I no longer want. A couple have been read, but I wasn't really interested in most of them and nor was my son - so most are mint.

First person to PM me their postal address gets the lot. I'll even post them for free!

Remember, don't reply to the thread, PM me please. I will reply to the thread once they have gone.

Whilst on Amazon today, I noticed that Dredd Case Files 5 seemed to have changed its cover to this:



Then I did another search and ended up with my version of the cover:



So there are two different ones for sale - the "new" cover is listed as Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 whereas the "old" cover is listed as Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files v. 5. It's not just Case Files 5, others are available in two different covers (and the prices are different too!)

I have a few Case Files missing from my collection because I borrowed them from my library, so my question is do I need to panic buy my missing Case Files now so all my covers are consistent (I'm a bit OCD like that) or are Amazon perhaps selling a UK and US version of the same book? Or what?

Thanks for any help 

Thought Bubble just tweeted this, so I thought I'd cross-post to this forum for all you lovely artists out there...

TBF13's 2000AD portfolio competition is now open! http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/events/2000ad-portfolio-competition/... You could win a paid gig with the galazy's greatest comic!

Hope a few of you enter - and all the best if you do 

An honest, touching and highly informative blog from Mr Flint about his dyslexia, and why comics are so important to him.

Bravo Mr Flint...

http://henryflint.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/my-dyslexia/

Been clearing out the loft today and came across an almost complete set of The Dandy comics from the early 80's. I thought I had thrown them out, as did my wife, so it was quite a shock!

I'm keeping the first and last in the series I bought, but the rest are on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200930390061

Like most people, prefer to do a deal off eBay, so please PM me if you are interested. Would like them to go to a good home as they had a lot of love when I was a kid...

P.S. Also discovered my Battle Action Force comics, but I'm keeping them

[Strangers on a Zoom Train 42 episodes]

Hello all. I just picked up this Ron Smith Daily Star strip for my collection. It features Dredd with a rather jaunty goatee. Barney has the piece listed as:

Page 3250
Strangers on a Zoom Train 42 episodes (3213 to 3254, Daily Star 30th October, 1996 to 17th December, 1996) 42 pages
Script: Mark Millar, Artist: Ron Smith

What I would like to know is why does Dredd have a beard? Looking at some of his past views on Judges with facial hair (like in The Judge Child epic with poor old Lopez) it seems most out of character.

Does anyone remember, or own, the strip?

Cheers
Simeon

Noticed today that my iPad app has updated to now include the Megazines, as well as new features like bookmarking and smart zoom. Also, all the content has been sorted by year and you can now see what issues you own in each year.

I do have one question, which is does the Meg download include the 64-page reprint book? The iPad edition is £5.49 per issue, whereas the paper version is £5.60 (and you get the reprint). Also, the PDF or CBZ digital version of the Megazine is only £3 on shop.2000ADonline.com, so if the iPad edition doesn't have the reprint, it makes it look quite expensive in comparison.

Was about to subscribe to the paper version of the Megazine, so would appreciate any guidance before making an investment.

Hello. I read the Halo Jones thread (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38628.0.html) in the News section with interest and wanted to reply, but don't have the option to. In fact, I can't reply to any posts in this section.

Is it because I am earthquake detritus (or a newbie, whichever fits better).... Or possibly I am thick. In my defence, the reply button is easily found in other sections...

Cheers,
Simeon

[Looking for]

Looking for Judge Dredd Megazine 285-290
Paying £20 + reasonable P&P costs if the free books all included and magazines in very good condition or better.

Happily consider purchasing single versions, particularly 285, or just the Megazines without the free books.

Please PM me...

Simeon