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General / Favourite Art Droid CURRENT - POOL 5 Qualifying

« on: 23 October, 2020, 06:49:16 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Monday 26th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

These decisions have been TOUGH so we’ll have a quick break over the weekend and be back up first thing Monday morning. Have fun until then.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Tiernen Trevallion - more info

Ben Wilsher - more info

Andrea Mutti - more info

David Taylor - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CLASSIC - POOL 5 Qualifying

« on: 23 October, 2020, 06:48:07 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 10 below (I know, I know. No one said it was going to be easy) pop those names in a post in this thread and in three days (Monday 26th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

These decisions have been TOUGH so we’ll have a quick break over the weekend and be back up first thing Monday morning. Have fun until then.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Robin Smith - more info

Jesus Redondo - more info

Mike Collins - more info

Colin Wilson - more info

Mike Hadley - more info

Jose Casanovas - more info

Jim Murray - more info

Lee Sullivan - more info

David Bircham - more info

David Pugh - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CURRENT - POOL 4 Qualifying

« on: 22 October, 2020, 06:47:33 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Sunday 25th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Dom Reardon - more info

Karl Richardson - more info

Dan Cornwell - more info

Staz Johnson - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CLASSIC - POOL 4 Qualifying

« on: 22 October, 2020, 06:46:18 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 10 below (I know, I know. No one said it was going to be easy) pop those names in a post in this thread and in three days (Sunday 25th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Simon Harrison - more info

Jon Davis Hunt - more info

Alex Ronald - more info

Mike White - more info

Rian Hughes - more info

Mike Dorey - more info

John Cooper - more info

Vanyo - more info

Calum Alexander Watt - more info

Jeff Anderson - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CURRENT - POOL 3 Qualifying

« on: 21 October, 2020, 06:36:23 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Saturday 24th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Phil Winslade - more info

Nick Percival - more info

Nick Dyer - more info

Nicolo Assirelli - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CLASSIC - POOL 3 Qualifying

« on: 21 October, 2020, 06:33:47 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 10 below (I know, I know. No one said it was going to be easy) pop those names in a post in this thread and in three days (Saturday 24th October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Peter Doherty - more info

Jim McCarthy - more info

Charlie Adlard - more info

Trevor Hairsine -  more info

Jock - more info

Carlos Pino - more info

Liam Sharp - more info

John Richardson - more info

Marc Wigmore - more info

Philip Bond - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CURRENT - POOL 2 Qualifying

« on: 20 October, 2020, 06:28:58 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Friday 23rd October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Chris Weston - more info

Jake Lynch - more info

Michael Dowling - more info

David Kendall - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

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General / Favourite Art Droid CLASSIC - POOL 2 Qualifying

« on: 20 October, 2020, 06:27:50 AM »

Select your two favourite droids form the list of 10 below (I know, I know. No one said it was going to be easy) pop those names in a post in this thread and in three days (Friday 23rd October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

John Ridgway - more info

Dermot Power - more info

Jason Brashill - more info

Will Simpson - more info

Edmund Bagwell - more info

Garry Leach - more info

Adrian Salmon - more info

Laurence Campbell - more info

Duncan Fregrado - more info

Frank Quitely - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CURRENT - POOL 1 Qualifying

« on: 19 October, 2020, 06:28:29 AM »

So it all starts here. Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Thursday 22nd October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

INJ Culbard- more info

PJ Holden - more info

Simon Parr - more info

Stewart Kenneth Moore - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Favourite Art Droid CLASSIC - POOL 1 Qualifying

« on: 19 October, 2020, 06:27:07 AM »

So it all starts here. Select your two favourite droids form the list of 10 below (I know, I know. No one said it was going to be easy) pop those names in a post in this thread and in three days (Thursday 22nd October) I’ll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.

So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread… want to know more. Well there’s some linkies below the list.

Simon Jacob - more info

Andy Clarke - more info

John Hicklenton - more info

Mick Austin - more info

Dave D'Antiquis - more info

Andrew Currie - more info

Horacio Lalia - more info

Dave Hine - more info

David Millgate - more info

Charles Gillespie - more info

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys

Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!)

Rules for what they are worth

Anything else just ask and I’ll make something up.

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General / Rebellion hires Editor-at-Large to help with US market

« on: 18 October, 2020, 09:23:23 PM »

Have I missed this. Don't remember seeing it? Apologise if its old news.

Anyway Rebellion have hired Jim Killen, previously of Barnes and Noble as 'Editor-at-large' which I assume means outside the UK to support expanding international markets - but that's a guess. Anyway some more details here and lets hope its as smart a move as it seems it might be?

https://www.comicsbeat.com/jim-killen-joines-rebellion-publishing-as-editor-at-large/?amp=1

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Prog / Prog 2204 - Not of this Earth

« on: 17 October, 2020, 01:42:20 PM »

First time for a Saturday Prog for a while and its a double treat, what a Prog it is.

Last time I said things are bubbling along well, the trick beign whether these thrills can deliever and on the evidence of this weeks Prog the answer will be yes. In spades.

First though we get a new Dredd with a more immediate epilogue to 'End of Days' by Rob Williams as Dredd, Anderson and Ichabod's Mr Ed track the 'moth-hounds' in the Cursed Earth. Dan Cornwell excels on the art side once again and its brisk, exciting and has an fantastic eight legged boothanger. Great.

Stickleback - wow its fantastic Stickleback doesn't mess around and but his efforts are to no avail, but other dangers are harboured in his target.

Skipperty is no long Skipperty as Skip Tracer continues to be the best this series has been since that seciond story that folks seems to forget about (or didn't like as much as me). The strip works best when Blake as a companion that allows him to become more than the gruff 90s hard and gritty 2000ad protangist and this one is tripping along nicely and Paul Marshal's art continues to shine.

Fiends - wow its fantastic. Futures are foretold with Dragon (Hydra) forboding before we charge into that future. Its a gripping yarn.

Hookjaw - wow its fantastic 'We're going to need a bigger bus' - GOLD. The mysteries start to be peeled away in effective and exciting style and we find out why giant sharks can fit into hot tubs - we're not safe on land indeed. I've seen folks elsewhere bemoan the 'lack of reverance shown towards a classic strip.' Well if this is the product of 2000ad's lack of reverance I fully get why I've loved 2000ad's lack of reverance for so long. Gripping and gruesome stuff.

Wonderful Prog AND on a Saturday - that's double good that is.

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General / Favourite Art Droids Tourneys - Classic and Current

« on: 14 October, 2020, 06:39:53 AM »

So as already discussed on Monday 19th October I plan to start qualifying for the next of these seemingly interminable bloody tournaments to strangle the life out of the General Topic bit of the forum (or Mods what to repurpose the Trailer section maybe? Not sure how easy that is?).

So this time as discussed running two Favourite Art Droid tournaments back to back. I’ll use this thread to:

1) Explain why two
2) List ‘rules’ for what they are worth
3) Talk structure and timing of both
4) Bore you all endlessly with whatever else comes to mind

There are lists of entrants for both competitions available (and subject to last minute change if needed):

Classic

Current

Brace yourselves this is going to get subjective…

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General / UMDT - BONUS Round Johnny Alpha vs Joe Dredd

« on: 12 October, 2020, 07:23:26 AM »

Ultimate MAYBE Dredd Tourney Bonus Round.

Go on then lets do it. Johnny Alpha has earnt this and maybe, just maybe can provide the shock of the century after all he is an incredible popular character. So while we prepare the FADT (Favourite Art Droid Tourney) let's have a bit of fun and see whose our favourite between:

Johnny Alpha (Strontium Dog) - more info

OR

Judge Joe Dredd (Judge Dredd) - more info

Leave the name of the character you like most in a reply to this thread and I’ll count up and call the winner early in the morning Thursday 15th OCTOBER.

‘Rules’ and what not, for what they are worth

It'll probably end up all



But it'll be a bit of fun huh.

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General / Favourite CURRENT Art Droids Tourney - Entrants

« on: 11 October, 2020, 07:42:05 AM »

I've started a thread to 'launch' the first of two tournaments that I plan to run next and they will be running in parallel. (Copied text cos as I've said I'm lazy) They'll be a Favourite Classic Art Droid to celebrate Droids past and a Favourite Current Art Droids Tourney. Both of these will play to an end. Then we'll go back and run a short play off to find the overall Favourite Art Droid.

Let's talk Current ART Droids. These are Droids who are still active in the Prog. So those who've done a series, significent number of Dredds, or Cliff Robinson (see notes elsewhere!). I've used Prog 2000 as a cut off point, or the equivalent Meg 376(ish). These are Droids that we'd not be too surprised, though we'd be delighted, to see gracing the Prog at any point still. There may be other reasons why, alas, we know a Droid's work for Tharg has finished, these to will be in the Classic section, even if they have had a series since Prog 2000.

Both tournments will consist of 32 Droids. For the Current Droids I have 44 nominated (see note below) and so we need to whittle that down. As I want the tournaments to be primarily about quality not quantity (past a certain benchmark) I'm only putting 8 Droid through to the tourney proper automatically (based on the fantastic work of AlexF from Heroes of 2000ad Blog Spot http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.com/) and so we'll have 36 Droids in qualifying to get the final 24 slots.

I'll post 2 lists today. The 8 automatic qaulifiers and the 36 droids in qualifying. Then this week I'll start to drop in some Posts with 'rules' and tournement structure and what not and hope to have this all set up for qualifying to start Monday 19th (is it???). But we'll see.