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#1
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
12 March, 2024, 09:47:24 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 March, 2024, 08:48:59 AM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 March, 2024, 09:36:03 AMI really like Doomsday. It's objectively crap, but its very enthusiastic.

There's a quote for the film poster right there.

My favourite every quote on Doomsday, from a movie podcast:

"Congratulations, Neil Marshall. You've made your very own Paul WS Anderson movie."

i.e. i's a movie just composed of rip-offs/homages of better films made by better directors.
#2
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
29 February, 2024, 12:32:26 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 28 February, 2024, 10:50:28 PM
Quote from: judgeurko on 28 February, 2024, 07:01:38 PMDredd didn't have Danny Boyle.
It was made by his production company, DNA Films.

Danny Boyle has directed several films produced by DNA Films, but has no formal connection with the company.

I've seen him comment on this frequent misconception that he's one of the owners.
#3
General / Re: Best Prog & Meg Dredd Stories 2023 Edition
01 February, 2024, 04:15:48 PM
Didn't we go through this with him
Before the voting even started, when he agreed not to do the non-sensical merger thing........and now has gone ahead and did it anyway?
#4
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
26 January, 2024, 10:40:27 AM
I think Thaw-as-Morse was cited as a specific influence on the strip, and Morse was huge on TV at that time.  Thaw was about fifty at this point.
#5
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
26 January, 2024, 10:09:37 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 January, 2024, 10:02:01 AMI'm thnking I could Cosplay Armitage!!  :lol:

What age is Armitage?  I mean, he first appeared in 1991, and he was grizzled enough back then. He must be.....in his 80s now?
#6
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
24 January, 2024, 11:24:54 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 24 January, 2024, 10:39:35 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 22 January, 2024, 09:35:21 AM...I've always found it odd that Joe has an 'everyman' name and Rico has an 'exotic tough guy' name when they're clone twins. Unless Rico is short for Richard?
Just like those other famous crime-fighting brothers Charlie and Emilio.

Charlie's real name is Carlos. Carlos and Emilio's father's real name isn't Martin, but Ramon.

Would you be shocked to hear the real family name is Etevez, not Sheen?

#7
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
22 January, 2024, 02:55:08 PM
Joe and Rico are the hero and villain characters in the Action strip Death Game 1999. Pat Mills just recycled the names.
#8
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
11 January, 2024, 11:04:11 PM
30-plus years on, those Sov Judge names continue to be Total Cringe.

But thank goodness he fixed a minor story logic glitch absolutely nobody cared about.
#9
No shout-outs, especially involving me. Just concentrate on what you volunteered for:

Two voting topics, one for last year's Dredd stories, the other for last year's Megazine Dredd stories. Don't keep them going too long; results within a few weeks of the beginning.

You've already started over-dramatising all this, but we know you can get it done. Less telling is about it, more cracking on with it.
#10
Quote2) As for the voting system; don't you worry about that, as I have a lovely surprise that I'm cooking up especially for you that I think you would like...

Whatever it is.....please don't. Just stick to the voting system being used on the other polls.  That one seems to work.

You got the Meg poll result completely wrong when you did it last year. Further improvisation may be a bold move.



#11
There's 50 weekly progs a year with Dredd stories in them, and 12-13 Megazines.

This isn't 'a problem'. It's just calendar arithmetic. You're inventing a problem where there's none.

Maybe just stick to what already works, with separate polls for the prog and Meg Dredd stories?  And remember how the 1st/2nd/3rd vote preference system works?
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2363: Lawman of the people!
04 January, 2024, 10:12:07 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 04 January, 2024, 09:28:00 PMThat helmetless, face-changed Dredd from the very early progs was based on some actor too, iirc? Can't remember who though, or find the image.

Rondo Hatton.
#13
Quote from: nxylas on 19 December, 2023, 06:06:28 PMI notice you didn't mention Judge Dredd, a much more ambiguous example. Whilst it's obvious to me that John Wagner never intended Dredd to be a "hero" in the conventional sense, I can see why some have interpreted it as a pro-fascist strip. I think the people who have written Dredd over the years have sometimes taken it for granted that people would disagree with Mega-City One's authoritarian politics.


Yes. Thanks to social media, we now know there's a portion of fans who either don't realise Dredd isn't supposed to be a hero, or just don't care. The more authoritarian and reactionary he is, the happier they seem to be.
#14
General / Re: Underappreciated droids appreciation thread
02 November, 2023, 06:54:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 02 November, 2023, 06:14:22 PMI love Boo Cook's style, though I think sometimes the scripts he's given don't match it in tone.

The Siku Christianity thing - well, you learn something new every day.  Lucky he wasn't given that Robin Goodfellow one to paint. Definite burn-in-hell material there.

Last I saw, he'd got into a very right-wing, Trump-supporting mode of Christian belief...
#15
Prog / Re: Prog 2350 - 2000ad Battle Action*
05 October, 2023, 03:48:38 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 05 October, 2023, 01:56:33 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2023, 12:35:43 PMOn the above, hence my earlier thinking that I didn't really consider this a template for Regened. Maybe some of the concepts might work, but mostly I felt like the stories had legs in and of themselves for 2000 AD. Probably not taking over the whole Prog, but one of them now and again running as a full series could be good.
Would deffo like to see more Indiana Easy.

Mate, it would basically just be the same story over and over again. (Kinda like the original Battle strip....)

I wrote it, and I don't see much mileage in it as a continuing story. And the suggestions about it being suitable for Regened are just bizarre.