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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 16 July, 2019, 01:49:12 pm »
Yes it is, at the top.
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Film & TV / Re: Judge Dredd: Mega-City One - TV show announced!
« on: 16 July, 2019, 09:25:43 am »
Be patient, it'll happen. It takes a while to make a new tv series.
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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 15 July, 2019, 11:23:36 pm »
Also all the Dredd stories here https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Dredd2AD.pdf
and here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/DreddMEG.pdf
and here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/DreddMEG.pdf
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Books & Comics / Re: SPACEWARP - New Venture from Pat Mills
« on: 15 July, 2019, 07:41:25 pm »
That artwork is amazing.
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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 14 July, 2019, 02:02:57 pm »
Apologies Moly.
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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 14 July, 2019, 11:55:50 am »
My mistake -- I missed the bit where you said across both collections.
Astonishing to think that so much of the comic has been reprinted so quickly.
Astonishing to think that so much of the comic has been reprinted so quickly.
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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 14 July, 2019, 11:42:44 am »
Correction: there are in fact 32 pages in an average prog. X 2140 = 68,480. Divide by 80 = 856 pages per volume. Divide by 2 (to get half the comic's output) = 428 pages per volume.
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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
« on: 14 July, 2019, 11:34:21 am »
I highly doubt the maths here.
If each prog has 36 pages (usually), multiply that by 2140 and you get 77,040 pages. That's just the weekly prog, not specials, annuals or the Megazine.
Divide that by 80 volumes, and you get 963 pages per volume. Are they really that big? I don't think so.
I have a complete collection, and it takes up a huge amount of space. The idea that you could reprint half of that material in 80 volumes seemed unlikely even before I started doing sums.
I'm sorry but that is just preposterous. If you think that's all there is to 2000AD then you just don't know the comic at all.
If each prog has 36 pages (usually), multiply that by 2140 and you get 77,040 pages. That's just the weekly prog, not specials, annuals or the Megazine.
Divide that by 80 volumes, and you get 963 pages per volume. Are they really that big? I don't think so.
I have a complete collection, and it takes up a huge amount of space. The idea that you could reprint half of that material in 80 volumes seemed unlikely even before I started doing sums.
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if you include zenith, flesh, Harlem heroes, Dan dare, Harlem heroes there isn't a lot left
I'm sorry but that is just preposterous. If you think that's all there is to 2000AD then you just don't know the comic at all.
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Prog / Re: Prog 2140 - Deep in the Bone
« on: 13 July, 2019, 11:37:11 pm »
Tom Foster also did a Terror Tale in prog 1886.
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Prog / Re: Prog 2139 Sympathy for the Devil (Aneke cover)
« on: 13 July, 2019, 05:21:15 pm »
It had to be Rico, to explain why the psi mistook him for Dredd when she foresaw it. As for the brutality, the judges have always been bastards. Also, Rico was emotionally invested in the case, since it concerned the abduction of his nearest relative. I didn't have any problem with accepting how things turned out.
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Prog / Prog 2140 - Deep in the Bone
« on: 13 July, 2019, 12:39:23 pm »
This is top quality this week.
There's an excellent one-off Judge Dredd story by Rory McConville and Tom Foster. I think we've seen Tom before, but I can't remember when/where. But his style is very reminiscent of Brian Bolland's, in a good way. I'd like to see more from him. If Tharg doesn't get Brian back for the episode when Hershey dies (as she surely must soon, and he did her first episode), I'd like to see Tom Foster do it. The story is Rory at his best.
It's actually possible to follow what's happening in Indigo Prime this week, which is nice. It's also quite eventful. Ditto Anderson, and I'm still a fan of Aneke's style, whatever others might think of it.
I'm not usually keen on Absalom, but this episode is fantastic. I can't really explain why without spoiling it, but it's just great and it has made me care about two characters in a strip where I didn't care about any of them before.
Thistlebone seems to introduce the bad guy at last, unless it's just misdirection (and unless we actually have seen him before and I'm just having a senior moment).
There's a Droid Life and some letters.
All in all, nothing was disappointing this week. And the Megazine has arrived too!
There's an excellent one-off Judge Dredd story by Rory McConville and Tom Foster. I think we've seen Tom before, but I can't remember when/where. But his style is very reminiscent of Brian Bolland's, in a good way. I'd like to see more from him. If Tharg doesn't get Brian back for the episode when Hershey dies (as she surely must soon, and he did her first episode), I'd like to see Tom Foster do it. The story is Rory at his best.
It's actually possible to follow what's happening in Indigo Prime this week, which is nice. It's also quite eventful. Ditto Anderson, and I'm still a fan of Aneke's style, whatever others might think of it.
I'm not usually keen on Absalom, but this episode is fantastic. I can't really explain why without spoiling it, but it's just great and it has made me care about two characters in a strip where I didn't care about any of them before.
Thistlebone seems to introduce the bad guy at last, unless it's just misdirection (and unless we actually have seen him before and I'm just having a senior moment).
There's a Droid Life and some letters.
All in all, nothing was disappointing this week. And the Megazine has arrived too!
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Prog / Re: Prog 2139 Sympathy for the Devil (Aneke cover)
« on: 11 July, 2019, 11:51:21 pm »
There's a letter missing from "recruited."
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Film & TV / Re: The Boys TV series - Karl Urban cast as Butcher
« on: 10 July, 2019, 10:02:53 pm »
It deals with the issues #Metoo raised several years before that happened. I think it's likely that the tv people will make it topical like that.
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Prog / Re: Logos Through the Ages
« on: 10 July, 2019, 07:27:22 pm »
Just showed the gallery of logos to my wife, who never reads comics, just out of curiosity. She said the prog 1 logo was best, and the chrome one was cheesy. I was a bit surprised that her view reflects what others have said on this and earlier threads.