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Did anybody mention Mike Stott yet?

[Cal Hamilton]

Cal Hamilton - Dan Abnett, pinching our red noses.

Was that the Malone story?

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-ninth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 503-506 of 2000AD, covering January of 1987. This episode Dredd handles Varks, DJs, and novelists, Nemesis splits the team and Thoth is doing time crimes, Johnny Alpha makes a new friend, Sláine talks old times, and our Bad Company friend Malcolm is having a bad day. Also Conrad tries to explain what'll be going on behind the scenes of 2000AD in the year 1987, and will surely be corrected from all corners, to say nothing of our pronunciation of Niamh!

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BIZMO KLUX!  Night of the Rad-Beast - "need bits for Bizmo!"

(I've only listened to half - note to self - don't listen to the bit about the old king having to eat Fomorian waste while eating lunch)

I could imagine Walter going crazy with a label maker one day and putting multiple tags on Dredd's lawgiver!

You might be on to something there - the latest Wite to Walt has something about Walter sewing Dredd's name into his long johns...

Today's post was: Prog 54: We're under attack! Can't see — can't *gasp* even think! Aargh!

I learn the difference between a shoal of fish and a school of fish, thanks to Belardinelli (kinda).

Prog 53: That thing already has my face, my voice, my memories! And now... it's got my ship! came out.

John Probe returns, we get to see where Walter's pleasure circuit was installed and I reveal my pet hate.

I don't think any of the stories were ever named, but going through my database I seem to have named all of them, which might give an idea of how bonkers it gets:


Max Fu
To Russia with Max
Mad Max
The Bad Bikers
Big Joe
The Hot-Rod Granny
Punishing the Piggetts
The Beadles
Max-Mania

I remember up to the Russia bit - must haven stuck with Eagle (and Scream! and Tiger) for longer than I thought.

I had the privilege of interviewing Mike Dorey and Mick Mcmahon together in Enniskillen and the were great.
Mike had some really fantastic commissions with him as well.

From the original link:

Apart from a recent Scottish convention, this is Mike's SECOND EVER CONVENTION, and is a must-see!

Enniskillen may be small, but it still counts as a convention, right?  Making LFCC at Olympia Mike's third convention...

Speaking of which, it's tempting - I do like Dorey's Invasion, MACH Zero and Ro-Jaw's Memoirs...

I've only had time to read Dredd so far, but that is a hell of an opening episode. More from the Kenny droid please.

Niemand?

Who?  ;-)

I see others beat me to it!

I've only had time to read Dredd so far, but that is a hell of an opening episode. More from the Kenny droid please.

Niemand?

Who?  ;-)

A great special - as with many on this thread, I've read the strip pages only so far, though I think I'll probably read the script pages within the next month.  So many script pages make me think it'd be a good basis for a fan art competition, or an advent calendar style month...

Yeah... Ortiz' stint on Rogue is an odd one — his art is great... I've commented before that he had one of the most distinctive ways of lighting figures I can think of — generally with a strong primary light source and a secondary 'bounce' light that somehow immediately makes me think of westerns. But his Rogue just never 'felt' like Rogue.

True - for artwork that he truly made his own, see The Thirteenth Floor (from the pages of Scream! and Eagle).

Pretty sure Jim would already know about that one - this is aimed at anybody not familiar with it - also, always good to jog memories, especially when you get to our age!

Yeah... Ortiz' stint on Rogue is an odd one — his art is great... I've commented before that he had one of the most distinctive ways of lighting figures I can think of — generally with a strong primary light source and a secondary 'bounce' light that somehow immediately makes me think of westerns. But his Rogue just never 'felt' like Rogue.

True - for artwork that he truly made his own, see The Thirteenth Floor (from the pages of Scream! and Eagle).

Prog 50: More Starslayer ships — but they're opening fire on the battle fleet!  Brit Cit's first mention (well, Brit Territories)!

Prog 51: You are fast, Dare — but it will take more than clever swordplay to beat the Killing Star! You are as good as dead! Last episode of this Dare story...

Prog 52: If we weren't light years from the other side of nowhere... ...I'd say that thing was a coffin! New Dare story, Visible Man ends, Colony Earth! begins.

[Nemesis]

Stoagie (an e-cigarette who is both as much of an arsehole as Hoagy, but manages to also be an offensive Mexican stereotype) to convince Sam he's gone insane.

I always saw Stogie as an affectionate swipe to (cigar-smoking) Carlos Ezquerra...

Well, onto Nemesis, who has finally realised his wife and son have been killed by the terminators. Clearly not much of a family man is Nemesis, as this happened all the way back in book 3. In fact, his son Thoth managed to survive and now hates his dad's guts.

He found out his family were killed by Terminators during Book IV (The Gothic Empire) - he found out that there psychic signals emanating from his son's assassin in Book V, clueing him in that his son was still alive.