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#1
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 February, 2024, 01:25:24 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 20 February, 2024, 10:01:21 AM"The Sonny Steelgrave Collection"

My hopes for a Dark Bish-Op Collation of Calamities has been dashed by Dead Men Walking being in the new Harry 20 volume. That just leaves Soul Sisters, The Straitjacket Fits and A Life Less Ordinary - not enough for a full volume! Sigh...
#2
General / Re: Dream 2000AD Prog
20 January, 2024, 05:11:19 PM
Here's my dream prog:

Nikolai Dante by Robbie Morrison & Simon Fraser
Judge Dredd by John Wagner & Mike McMahon
ABC Warriors by Pat Mills & Kevin Walker
Strontium Dog by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
Slaine by Pat Mills & Greg Staples
Sinister Dexter by Dan Abnett and Simon Davis
Nemesis The Warlock by Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill
Judge Dredd by Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy
Rogue Trooper by John Tomlinson & Dave Gibbons

Throw in a Brian Bolland cover, maybe a new thrill by Gordon Rennie & Mark Harrison...
#3
General / Re: Now I Know My ABCs...
17 January, 2024, 07:56:57 AM
Phrase of the week: "derivative slice of action pie" - love it!
#4
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
08 January, 2024, 08:30:33 PM
Quote from: Bad Andy on 08 January, 2024, 05:36:26 PMUnder a pile of shite. No word of a lie, I found an unopened phone bill near it that was dated September 2012. That's not a typo. 

One advantage of this tidy up is that I've found my original 2000ad Big Finish CDs that are out of print and unavailable digitally.

Jonathan Clements wrote the best of those, imho.
#5
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
22 December, 2023, 04:43:14 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 22 December, 2023, 02:34:55 PMDead Men walking goes back a bit.  One of Cook's earliest pieces.  Mash up of a prison movie and a zombie movie IIRC.  Not bad as these things go.  A one and done.

ISTR Kingmaker being left on a bit of cliffhanger with unresolved threads.  Mind you we've only just had the next volume of Helium and some of us are still waiting for Tully and Gibbons to finish off a Dan Dare story from 40 odd years ago ...

Intrigued to seeing how Dead Men Walking reads in collected form...
#6
General / Re: Dredd Q&A, August 1995 Select
18 December, 2023, 06:54:13 PM
Agreed.
#7
General / Re: Dredd Q&A, August 1995 Select
18 December, 2023, 02:10:36 PM
At a guess, John Tomlinson wrote this. It's got his wry sense of humour.
#8
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
13 December, 2023, 09:13:58 PM
20 more volumes? So there's still hope for that Soul Sisters, Straitjacket Fits and Space Girls volume?  ;)
#9
Quote from: JohnW on 07 December, 2023, 09:34:15 PMUrgent question: have the missing speech bubbles on the first page of Stalingrad (last two panels) been restored?
They were AWOL in the UC.

Nope. Nor did someone do the kindness of re-lettering the first two episodes of Stalingrad which Colin did himself, using Comic Sans as a font (something he admits was not... the perfect choice).

Sigh.
#10
Other Reviews / Fiends of the Eastern Front Volume One
07 December, 2023, 09:16:04 PM
My comp copies of this turned up today - publication day, no less! Having been delayed two years by Fiends featuring in the Ultimate Collection, it was nice to finally see this volume.

Contents:
Fiends of the Eastern Front [Prog 152-161], by Gerry Finley-Day & Carlos Ezquerra
Stalingrad [Judge Dredd Megazine 245-252], by David Bishop & Colin MacNeil
1812 [Prog 2100-2105], by Ian Edginton & Dave Taylor
Strange Meeting [2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2019], by Guy Adams & Dave Kendall
Fodder [2000 AD Free Comic Book Day 2016], by Hannah Berry & DaNi

I'll leave it to others to review the book!
#11
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
10 November, 2023, 03:23:40 PM
Not forgetting Harry 20 on the High Rock, perhaps in a collection of prison-based series?
#12
General / Re: Underappreciated droids appreciation thread
01 November, 2023, 01:15:11 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 01 November, 2023, 12:45:39 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 01 November, 2023, 12:24:35 PMDermot Power - Much more than A Biz / Fabry fill-in on Slaine. Omega level talent.

I think the Power droid was always pretty popular with the readers, he just didn't do that much work for Tharg because he quickly got offered far more lucrative Magic: The Gathering card gigs, and then game/film concept work.

Dermot was not well served by the scripts he was given. His artwork elevated the material, but he deserved better stories to tell. Book of the Dead? Treasures of Britain? Stunning art, lesser scripts.

As Jim notes, Dermot found he could make more doing other work and has build an amazing CV for himself doing that. All (pun intended) Power to him.
#13
General / Re: Underappreciated droids appreciation thread
01 November, 2023, 11:45:36 AM
Under-appreciated droids - 90s edition
Writers:
Chris Standley
Si Spencer
Paul Neal
Pete Hogan (totally my bad)
Dave Stone
#14
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
16 October, 2023, 10:22:56 PM
Quote from: Richard on 16 October, 2023, 08:53:14 PMNobody wants to see Disaster 1990 again.

Igor Goldkind's Hershey stories in the 90s were pretty good, but their page count is pretty low. I think they were eight episodes all together.



58 pages of Igor and Kevin Cullen's Hershey.
52 pages of Paul Neil & Marc Wigmore's Hershey.

There are various short stories and two parters as well, but not enough for a 200pg volume.
#15
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
16 October, 2023, 06:58:53 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 16 October, 2023, 06:44:24 PM
Quote from: robprosser on 16 October, 2023, 04:46:22 PMIs there enough "Fiends of the Eastern Front" to warrant a second collection?

I don't know what's already been collected, but I have a listing.

It deliberately doesn't include the new Fiends of the Western Front, because reasons. Also, it doesn't include the very recent Hellman of Hell Force: Fiends of Ungeistwelt Ost - because that's more of a playful name drop than anything.

Even with all of those included, that's under 140pp of new strip by my rough count...