Brian Bolland Revisits His Own Classic Work With Special 'Judge Dredd Megazine' Cover
(http://comicsalliance.com/judge-dredd-megazine-350-cover-brian-bolland-homage-art/)
(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2014/05/Judge-Dredd-cov-lo-res.jpg)
Loving his take on the Howler :)
filippo
That's what's known as drokking awesome! :o
Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 14 May, 2014, 09:06:47 PM
Loving his take on the Howler
Especially because he's acknowledged the utterly unique nature of McMahon's art and that character by replicating Mick's art style, rather than adapting Howler to his own idiom, as he has the other members of Dredd's rogues gallery - some things just don't translate in that way. Who's the blonde lady in the red dress?
Gorgeous art from my favourite artist - brilliant!
Who/ what is the thing behind Dredd's left shoulder?
Really like it but don't recognise some of the characters
I wondered if it might be Inga in the red dress.
The only one I don't recognise is the top right green guy.
Yeah, really like this.
I wonder if the lady in red is Halo Jones?
Is the chap over Dredd's left shoulder a couch potato? Also not clear on the reptile guy in the top left. Think it is PJ's squeeze Inga in the red dress although at first I thought it might be Isla Dancer. Good to see Ratfink too!
Quote from: Recrewt on 14 May, 2014, 10:00:43 PM
I wonder if the lady in red is Halo Jones?
All the other characters are Dreddworld. Inga was my only guess too, but (given her chameleon nature) she's not a very well defined character. You would have thought Bolland might pair her with Maybe to remove ambiguity, or maybe choose one of her more
distinctive (pervy) looks.
Nice to see Walter, when was he last in the Prog or Meg?
The creature over Dredd's left shoulder is the Black Widow( iirc it was a Nosferatu)illustrated by the late great John Hicklenton :-) (http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2014-05-14-22-12-26_zpstgyvyfpi.png) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2014-05-14-22-12-26_zpstgyvyfpi.png.html)
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Quote from: Art on 14 May, 2014, 10:08:44 PM
Nice to see Walter, when was he last in the Prog or Meg?
I last saw him drinking in the Quite Nice bar with Mrs Gunderson, but I missed most of the noughties - he might have had a grim and gritty reboot as a serial killing virus for all I know.
Quote from: Buttonman on 14 May, 2014, 10:01:26 PM
Also not clear on the reptile guy in the top left.
Presumably its a Klegg (Grampus even?)
I love the Howler.
Quote from: Magnetica on 14 May, 2014, 10:21:37 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 14 May, 2014, 10:01:26 PM
Also not clear on the reptile guy in the top left.
Presumably its a Klegg (Grampus even?)
Your other left.
Quote from: sauchie on 14 May, 2014, 10:08:26 PM
Quote from: Recrewt on 14 May, 2014, 10:00:43 PM
I wonder if the lady in red is Halo Jones?
All the other characters are Dreddworld. Inga was my only guess too, but (given her chameleon nature) she's not a very well defined character. You would have thought Bolland might pair her with Maybe to remove ambiguity, or maybe choose one of her more distinctive (pervy) looks.
Good point, I'll get my coat!
This dude - who'sthatthen?
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/green_zps668b080d.png)
Could be the snake creature illustrated by Colin Wilson :-) (http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140514_223919_zpsenqcmc6v.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140514_223919_zpsenqcmc6v.jpg.html)
filippo
I assumed the woman in the Red Dress was a Brit Cit Babe but looking at the original Bolland cover, none were blonde. I'm guessing the thing in the top left is from Colin Wilson's Relentless too, though that was in a Meg floppy and not the actual Meg...
(http://2000ad.org/covers/megazine/hires/1.16.jpg)
Could she be Bella Bagley?
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Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 15 May, 2014, 12:32:27 AM
Could she be Bella Bagley?
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That's what I assumed. Especially considering Anderson's expression.
The snake/reptile creature made a return in the meg 289-290, illustrated by Kev Walker :)
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2014-05-15-00-39-13_zpsji1pxsiu.png) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2014-05-15-00-39-13_zpsji1pxsiu.png.html)
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This is what we want :crazy:
I'm buying the Meg just for this.
Not wishing to appear greedy and all but that just screams wrap around. Judge Fire's right shoulder is such a tease!
As for the lady in the red dress and I'm going to be very vague here but there's that Ian Gibson story about the woman whose infatuated with Dredd - could it be her?
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 15 May, 2014, 06:13:44 AM
As for the lady in the red dress and I'm going to be very vague here but there's that Ian Gibson story about the woman whose infatuated with Dredd - could it be her?
As the man said earlier, Bella Bagley. Possibly. She looks a bit odd in that picture.
It's still arsom though. Howler looks freakin' mental when drawn by Bolland.
This cover reminds me of the bag you used to get from the Forbidden Planet back in the day...I absolutely loved it...think I might still have one somewhere.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 May, 2014, 06:19:05 AM
Bella Bagley. Possibly. She looks a bit odd in that picture.
Prominent brow ... Slick Dickens?
Would be great if, like some other magazines, Tharg provided subscription copies with no logos or text for this issue.
It looks just too bloody gorgeous to spoil.
I would buy two copies (sub and newstand) and I think it might encourage more people to take out a subscription.
Bolland's identified Marlon Shakespeare's latent Nazi sympathies.
Quote from: dweezil2 on 15 May, 2014, 12:48:22 AM
Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 15 May, 2014, 12:32:27 AM
Could she be Bella Bagley?
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That's what I assumed. Especially considering Anderson's expression.
Quote from: Steve Green on 14 May, 2014, 09:51:28 PM
I wondered if it might be Inga in the red dress.
The only one I don't recognise is the top right green guy.
I guessed Bagley for the same reasons + proximity to Dredd.
And I saw somewhere the green fella was thought
to be a non 2000AD character and from The Outer Limits ...
http://mylifeintheglowoftheouterlimits.blogspot.cz/2011/12/my-life-in-glow-of-outer-limits.html
Am I wrong or did Howler go down very badly when it was first published? It's brilliant of course and for Howler to be so prominent and so close to McMahon in style, that's such a show of support, Bolland is obviously a fan.
BTW...Howler seems to be about to howl...I'd like to see a follow up picture! ::))
I did wonder if it might be Vienna, what with the well defined chin.
Bella Bagley seems to be the best guess, but I've got a nagging feeling there was a female antagonist who disappeared to the Mongolian exclusion zone or something.
I can't even remember whether she had blonde hair or not.
I'm going to be a dissenting voice and say I prefer the Weston incarnations. The Digital Bolland inks have just become too stiff for me to really love. It's still a magnificent cover mind, should shift a pile of extra copies, and I'm very pleased to see it.
Still puzzling over tooth-lizard and 'Bella Bagley'.
The Outer Limits, the architects of fear apparently.
(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/38d6cb26061a.jpg)
No idea why though...
Quote from: sauchie on 15 May, 2014, 07:25:48 AM
Prominent brow ... Slick Dickens?
Damn thats who i was going to say.
What an amazing image. I don't envy PYE-01's job of trying to figure out where to put the logo. Another "cortex-melting attempt" I fear.
Quote from: Steve Green on 15 May, 2014, 08:47:50 AM
The Outer Limits, the architects of fear apparently.
...
No idea why though...
Hmmm, that's the episode that
Watchmen, errr, riffs on isn't it? Some cheeky Moore dig going on there (given how many
OC&Stiggs DR & Quinch characters were on the original cover)?
Could be...
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 May, 2014, 09:54:05 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 15 May, 2014, 08:47:50 AM
The Outer Limits, the architects of fear apparently.
...
No idea why though...
Hmmm, that's the episode that Watchmen, errr, riffs on isn't it? Some cheeky Moore dig going on there (given how many OC&Stiggs DR & Quinch characters were on the original cover)?
Walter's 'It's totally awesome. Man!' badge gives this theory extra credence.
As for the lady in red, do you think she's supposed to be Vienna?
Forgot all about Slick Dickens dohhh☺
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/snapshot7_zpsk3zhhygn.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/snapshot7_zpsk3zhhygn.jpg.html)
filippo
Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 15 May, 2014, 11:15:32 AM
Forgot all about Slick Dickens dohhh☺
That explains the brow-ridge and jawline.
Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 15 May, 2014, 11:15:32 AM
Forgot all about Slick Dickens dohhh☺
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/snapshot7_zpsk3zhhygn.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/snapshot7_zpsk3zhhygn.jpg.html)
Since none of the other (shite) suggestions are 'ladies' with long blonde hair and prominent bosoms, and none of them have
ever been depicted wearing a red dress, I declare myself to have won the internet.
Quote from: sauchie on 14 May, 2014, 10:18:23 PM
Quote from: Art on 14 May, 2014, 10:08:44 PM
Nice to see Walter, when was he last in the Prog or Meg?
I last saw him drinking in the Quite Nice bar with Mrs Gunderson, but I missed most of the noughties - he might have had a grim and gritty reboot as a serial killing virus for all I know.
Only had a few appearances since then, Sauchie, and all with Mrs G - first in the audience of a 'Blind Date'-style tri-D show where one of the contestants was the latest hapless actor in Mrs G's Apartment of Horrors - so you can imagine how
that went (Meg 203, 2003). Then a single-panel cameo in
Fifty Year Man, (prog 1536, 2007), before he and Mrs Gunderson blundered into the middle of trouble at The Midnite Bar in the Megazine's 20th anniversary issue (302, 2010).
All in all, a fairly quiet fifteen years. Still, he's only got another ten years of parole to go and he's a free droid!
Quote from: sauchie on 15 May, 2014, 01:14:18 PM
Since none of the other (shite) suggestions are 'ladies' with long blonde hair and prominent bosoms, and none of them have ever been depicted wearing a red dress, I declare myself to have won the internet.
It's a fair cop.
Quote from: sauchie on 15 May, 2014, 01:14:18 PM
Since none of the other (shite) suggestions are 'ladies' with long blonde hair and prominent bosoms, and none of them have ever been depicted wearing a red dress, I declare myself to have won the internet.
All she needs is an Adam's Apple an you are home and dry.
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 May, 2014, 08:38:55 AM
I'm going to be a dissenting voice and say I prefer the Weston incarnations. The Digital Bolland inks have just become too stiff for me to really love. It's still a magnificent cover mind, should shift a pile of extra copies, and I'm very pleased to see it
The day I'm unhappy about Bolland working for
2000ad will be the same one airborne pigs flee an icebound Hell, but it's not particularly inspired. I can't imagine retreading former glories holds a fantastic amount of interest for Bolland, and there's no secret concerning how to get the best out of him - he enjoys drawing surreal imagery and pretty girls wearing not very much. Have him knock out covers for
Indigo Prime (or anything else John Smith writes) and watch him deliver his best work.
There's a definite stiffness to compositions he's worked up to pixel perfection on his Mac, but I'm not sure the unarguably dead line of digi-Bolland is that much of a problem on that cover - it's a magnified section of an image that's meant to be seen smaller and as part of a greater whole. Bolland's digital line and his draughtsmanship were all top notch as recently as his incredible
Dial H covers:
(http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Dial-H-issue-14-cover-by-Brian-Bolland-480x736.jpg)
What we need is an official guide - a who's who if you will. I mean, who's the grumpy bloke in the helmet in the middle?
That's Burdis, isn't it?
Who is the Judge below Anderson in the original?
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Surprised no-one has mentioned that Hershey is not wearing her Chief Judge regalia
Quote from: judgerufian on 16 May, 2014, 11:24:57 AM
Surprised no-one has mentioned that Hershey is not wearing her Chief Judge regalia
I noticed it but I just asumed that he was featuring the classic 80's look rather than the current one. The same goes for Anderson and Chopper.
What's that blob of red , just below Dredd's eagle breast?
Quote from: strontium71 on 16 May, 2014, 01:26:58 PM
What's that blob of red , just below Dredd's eagle breast?
BB's only mistake, ever? Damn colouring-in-by-computer.
Quote from: strontium71 on 16 May, 2014, 01:26:58 PM
What's that blob of red , just below Dredd's eagle breast?
My guess is that he's done that deliberately in order to adhere to the ancient Buddhist principle of Wabi-Sabi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi), that "nothing is perfect". I mean it couldn't be a mistake obviously.
Just to add my bit:
The Outer Limits 'Architects of Fear' creature is featured on the cover of Prog 82 (on the right, at the back- sorry, I can't post it here..).
AOF is a smashing episode of The Outer Limits, and indeed, provides the foundation for the central theme of Watchmen (Moore acknowledged this by having that very episode announced on Sally Juspeczyk's telly towards the end of the tale. Even the film version references The Outer Limits opening credits).
Beautiful Megazine cover, by the way.
You beauty, Zanto Misfit!
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/82.jpg)
Aye, well done Misfit. That's us wrung every last ounce of marrow out of that one, unless anyone fancies trying to guess whose elbow and rolled up sleeve that is on the far right of the image.
You're welcome. :D
(Oh, and apologies,it should read 'The Architects Of Fear'... curse the definite article!)
Didn't see it mentioned in the link of the first post in this thread, and apologies if it's been mentioned already; but I saw this on Twitter earlier:
https://twitter.com/TheBigBang_/status/468433629392408576/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/TheBigBang_/status/468433629392408576/photo/1)
That lovely cover's getting bagged, along with the usual reprint (hard to make out, but I did a search of "Si Spencer Cursed Earth" from what I could make out and came back with Harke and Burr, which seems to match what little I can strain my eyes reading), as a poster. Nice.
Quote from: Steve Green on 14 May, 2014, 09:51:28 PM
I wondered if it might be Inga in the red dress.
Steve was right (https://www.facebook.com/groups/552634324826454/permalink/1549697125120164/?comment_id=1550081665081710&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D&hc_location=ufi):
(https://i.imgur.com/LwLP5im.png?2) (https://i.imgur.com/sNcyBMO.png?1)
I thought there was a new cover for a moment then.
Have we had any new Bolland recently?