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#16
Aces!
And I can't imagine drawing in THAT deyailed a Massimo-style is anything but a long hard job. Double Macmacs for that droid, and lots of 'em.
#17
Classifieds / Re: 2000AD cards / card game
07 February, 2024, 01:31:28 PM
Well with no word from Sheridan I'd say they're all your, Fortnight! Want to PM me your address and I'll figure out postage and stuff?
#18
Classifieds / Re: 2000AD cards / card game
02 February, 2024, 01:47:19 PM
Sorry, I totally forgot to cehck in on this thread!
I'm getting rid of them because apart from occasionally seeing them in a storage box I have not interacted with them in any way for years...
Extra cash defintiely helpful, but I'd rather they went to a 2000AD-loving home, hence posting on this forum, and only asking for postage to cover the costs.


In the interest of fairness, since I have three decks and there are three of you, I could send the Trading Cards to Sherdian, the 2000AD playing cards to Mr N Canes, and the Dredd playing cards to Fortnight?

What's the etiquette?
#19
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
01 February, 2024, 10:58:24 AM
Never has the wait for Red Razors coverage been so desperately anticipated
#20
General / Re: Now I Know My ABCs...
30 January, 2024, 08:32:58 AM
Beautiful!
The Inaki Miranda really stuck out for me as something quite different.

Really a lot of people have drawn a lot of pictures of Judge Dredd.
#21
General / Re: Where Were You When Crisis #1 Came Out?
29 January, 2024, 09:54:24 AM
In the intro to the Trade, Mills specifically says he talked to his daughter's mates to a) get dialogue tips on how young people talk and b) to ask them what they would do in certain theoretical situations.

This presumably, is his justification for ensuring that all female characters are inclined to sleep with Paul/Finn  /Mills's favourite character...
#22
General / Re: Where Were You When Crisis #1 Came Out?
27 January, 2024, 04:14:55 PM
If the main underlying principle of all storytelling is 'conflict' (which is maybe debatable but not by the people who make money from writing stories), does this mean that all humans, as inveterate consumers of stories, are driven in life to seek out/expect conflict?

I'm basically wondering if that sitcom-based research, fascinating though it sounds, has fallen into a classic 'correlation is not causation' trap...

Getting wildly off-topic here but one of my favourite depictions of the use/vlaue/power of stories is, of all things, the first Croods movie.
#23
General / Re: Let's gossip about Nobody
27 January, 2024, 04:07:45 PM
I believe there's strong suspicion that Niemand's 'real' name is also Gordon, but that's just a coincidence.
(Unless sharing a name with an arrogant Express Locomotive makes you good at writing Judge Dredd comics)
#24
General / Re: Where Were You When Crisis #1 Came Out?
26 January, 2024, 12:42:45 PM
Your context of a US High School definitely paints the likes of True Faith in a much scarier light, I can sure see how you wouldn't want to read/promote it!

I cling to the belief that art can never be truly responsible for encouraging real-life violence, but I can see how it makes it easier for people to think digital violence is OK, or at the very least funny/harmless, which is totally isn't.

The flip side if this is that while I am OK saying that True Life never made someone kill another person, Third World War didn't make people protest/overturn the actions of Mega Corporations or racist police, either...
#25
Classifieds / 2000AD cards / card game
26 January, 2024, 12:33:41 PM
Am slowly, reluctanly, offloading various 2000AD bits...

Would anybody like:
a deck of 2000AD-themed playing cards, as priginally given away with SFX Magazine
a deck of 'Official' Judge Dredd playing Cards
a deck of Dredd: the Card Game, 60 cards + 18 extra cards

Not asking for money, maybe enough to cover postage but they're only little!
#26
Other Reviews / Re: Which thrills have you skipped?
25 January, 2024, 02:01:33 PM
I used to skip loads as a young reader -Rogue Trooper being the most obvious strip I had no time for- but I think since completing a full read-through (back in 1993 when I was 14/15 and such a thing was not TOO terifiying a time-investment) I've read everything published in the Prog, have yet to find any story so bad/distasteful that I won't read it. Even Lowborn High got better as it went on (and on).
I do skip plenty of reprint content in the Meg, much of it material I've never read before. I'm too young to get a nostalgia kick from a lot of the 'Treasury' stuff, and frankly more of it leaves me cold than brings delight.
#27
General / Re: Where Were You When Crisis #1 Came Out?
25 January, 2024, 01:39:05 PM
My apoliges Funt, if it's bad form to copy/paste excerpts from your hard-built site, but this run-down of one-offs from late-era Crisis was too delightful not to share...

[The one-off slot(s)]
Although these often feature strong messages of social justice, in this phase we start to see a move into more art house fare, which can have the drawback of leaving the reader nonplussed.

   
    Brighton Gas - a homeless young man in Brighton, whose name is Gas, hangs around the town filled with ennui. It's possible that at the end he's insane and thinks he's an astronaut.
    Passion and Fire - perhaps about heroin addiction.
    Faceless - a woman starts getting wrong number calls for a sex line, and eventually confronts the owner (an anthropomorphic razorback).
    Try a Little Tenderness - A man hunts down and kills Hammond organs. True.
    The Soldier and the Farmer - Khmer Rouge guerillas massacre a farmer and his family when they discover that he used to be a teacher.
    Felicity - a young man signs on for his dole, and later he witnesses an older man having a heart attack in the pub. It's possible they're the same person.
        Chicken Run - a young man is depressed and feeling melodramatic because his girlfriend left him.

It just perfectly sums up my memories of burning through a bunch of Crisis back issues I managed to buy in the early 2000ADs. (Trying to read bits of Third World War books 2/3 with epsiodes missing and not having read the originals was wildly difficult to make any sense of.)

I like to imagine all the above stories were written by Si Spencer.
#28
General / Re: Wrap It Up
25 January, 2024, 01:18:40 PM
My first Prog cover! Always a treat to see it in full.
I've spooted 3 Hoagys so far... what's the full tally?
#29
General / Re: Where Were You When Crisis #1 Came Out?
25 January, 2024, 01:11:24 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 22 January, 2024, 07:19:27 PMit seems to be promoting deadly violence against, well, just people one doesn't get on with. It's more dangerous, in that regard, than the cartoon chaos of Big Dave.

Am a bit surprised by this assertion - surely the story is not meant to be taken at all seriously? Does it really promote vuiolence more than any given 2000AD strip? I've a particular fondness for it, mostly on the grounds that it builds you up from a mildly unlikable protagonist (pretending to be interested in Christianity to get into a girl's pants) to a prpoerly unhinged one (the plumber) to an even more unhinged, and actively nasty, one (the doctor).

And there's a read of the whole thing that's it's just the idle fantasy of a bored/frustrated schoolkid wondering what it might be like to murder people and burn down the Church, which is I reckon something many a 2000AD reader has toyed with in their imagination (where there are no limits, not even to good taste).

As for Crisis the comic, I remember it being heaviuly advertised in 2000AD at the time, don't remember ever seeing it in the newsagent or my LCS, but at 10 was far too little and indeed scared of the content to actually read it anyway.

I've been impressed by the recent TWW trade collections. VERY dense, and quite a bit of conspiracy-theorizing, but still compelling comics.
#30
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
25 January, 2024, 12:57:14 PM
Hooray! Not only are we able to enjoy the COnrad/Fox/Eli laugh-in machine, we also get to return to the Britsplainin' section of this message board...

To whit: as you correctly describe in the Armitage section, Colin Dexter Block is indeed a reference to the author of popular Detective series 'Inspector Morse'. Worth noting also, though, that Armitage's own look is surely based on John Thaw's look in that show, AND, perhaps, that John Thaw is also part of the DNA of Judge Dredd himself, thanks to his starring role in 1970s gun-filled cop show 'The Sweeney'.