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I was about to suggest that myself - the combination there is fantastic. It just shows some colourists work better with some artists -  Blythe's colouring just doesn't work with Steve Yeowell's art. I'm sure the quality will get better though at the same time it just surprises me after a decade or so of computer colouring the quality can still be hit-and-miss.

I admire that Nikolai Dante managed to hold off computer colouring for so long. Though the pages now are far slicker and probably more colourful, I always feel the hand-coloured pages have a kind of vibrancy to them you can't get from the computer, like you're looking at the original artwork.

ADE

Thanks Blackblood - I hope to talk Tharg into letting me colour my own work in future

I'll also be colouring more work on the web site (this week). I'm surprised at the quality of SOME of the colouring in 2000AD - Blythe is obviously the best and Angus McKie could learn a thing or seven from him. I can only assume Angus was given no time at all to colour my first 2000AD strip Married With Juves cos it looked terrible (further marred by my own technical deficiencies with a scanner. Len O'Grady's Sinister Dexter colouring is okay though it beats me some of the strange choices of colours he makes sometimes. Personally, I'm very keen on the hand-colouring on Chris Weston's work over the years (Donnie Cox I think), and his work didn't look half as good when he was computer-coloured (the Dredd on the bog story). It's always a bit of a shock when you open the comic and someone's painted all over your art.

Anyway, hope I earn your fandom in future strips (whenver THAT happens)

ADE

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The script for 3 is done (I have a copy), but now Chris is drawing The Filth for Vertigo while Image continue to press him for Mos3.



Considering the detail he puts in (his "pencils" are barely indistinguishable from his inks) I'm amazed he can put out 1 book a month.



ADE

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"'The Face of Justice' gets my vote. Dredd takes his helmet off and allows a dying blind girl to feel his face."
 
I agree it's a pretty good idea, best played for pathos, otherwise you're just pissing over someone else's character.

I can't remember the Miller/Steelgrove one's very much but the worst I can remember in recent years is when Dredd gatecrashes a convention of commentators, only to pay off with a spud-themed "common-tator" joke John Wagner had obviously heard down the pub half an hour before deadline.

ADE

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