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I suppose all of these IPs run out of steam, or need a break.

Post-enterprise, Trek on TV was gone until Discovery

Star Wars doesn't seem to know what to do with itself and there's that post-Endgame exhaustion on the Marvel side.


Whether a RTD 2005-style reboot is going to work twice, or things have changed too much, who knows?

Likewise, best of luck to them

Their seasons vary, Willow was 8 episodes, so it could be another 8 - or it could be up to 12...

Yep but it is far worse than most other overnight figures for the show.

But... as pointed out already, the target audience for the show has clearly changed to a much younger demographic who are unlikely to watch broadcast TV. I'm not saying the numbers will be great whenever they finally get tallied up, just that if they've lost [X] million older viewers from the live broadcast but gained [X+1] million younger ones on platforms that don't register in the overnights, then we can't infer much from the overnights, other than fewer people watched the show 'live'.

This is the first one where they've premiered on streaming isn't it? If so, you've got that factor too - some staying up until midnight and not bothering with the Saturday evening live broadcast.

I've no idea what overseas will make of it - maybe here there will be a bump here for the Moffatt written episode.

I guess we'll only know way down the line - it's only an 8 episode series after all.


I don't know what deal Disney have with Who, but they were pretty brutal with Willow

Does anyone know if Garth Ennis is going to Lawless this year?He's not on the list but I swear I read somewhere a few weeks ago that he was coming? Very possibly I was hallucinating. (I just don't want to cart some of his books along to hopefully be signed if he is not going to there).

He's on the list, and doing a panel on both days

I don't think there's a bronze.

My guess is it's Rebellion's own sampler, not officially part of FCBD.

Monster Fun are also at MCM Expo later this month, so maybe they've done a run of them for conventions/events

[Rebellion's]

FCBD at gosh

12 until 1

Maybe they've done their own sampler

That just says:

And to finish our kids workshop, at 12pm we welcome the Monster Fun crew, Rebellion's super spooky and funny kids comic with  Claude T.C., Ned Hartley and Ramzee!

It's clear that Rebellion isn't publishing an FCBD issue this year.

Free comics are mentioned on the MF facebook page, now they may be unconnected - part of the official FCBD, or some old stock like the 'Fangtastic Preview' they did before launch, but free comics are mentioned on the official Monster Fun page.

Seems mad - there was a Regened 2000 AD last year.

FCBD at gosh

12 until 1

Maybe they've done their own sampler

Nothing 2000 AD but Monster Fun are doing a FCBD event at Gosh comics

There's nothing we can do at our end

I don't know what the budget is for Rogue Trooper (I'd go out on a limb and say it's around £10m (if that), since no backers have been mentioned and maybe there's a large element of self-financing)

Even if Rogue found an audience, it will be cheaper than a CGI MC-1 - you have people in masks to cut the amount of facial animation, less variety in costumes than a typical MC-1 population, and the CGI equivalent of a quarry is less work than a full blown city.

I don't think there's enough interest to warrant the expense.

Vagueness about rights + these kinds of stories get reprints because they already exist (bar scanning and any repro tidying)

It would depend on whoever wanting to publish it, prove it, then probably running a kickstarter to pay for everything else, that hitting the target etc.

Seems more trouble than its worth - more than Carlos changing Lobo out for the Bob the Galactic Bum story.

Yeah, for something you're just going to crash at, it's a lot (and you're going to spending money at the hotel over the 2 days) - I would have hoped anyone helping out might get discount.

I'll be honest, I'm torn on the shift to two days - I think they crammed in too many panels when it was a single day, and maybe this is an over-correction.

It's more worth the journey for people who are traveling a long distance, but I think it's kind of stuck by not being able to spread out in that location.

My memory on this is hazy, maybe it's along the lines that the contract was for Eagle itself, but not any collected editions.

I can't remember where I read it I'm afraid, might have been facebook, might have been an article, or it might have been cobblers.

They're just a bit of a curiosity for the most part I guess.

Hibernia already reprinted some of it, I'm not sure if that was before John challenged DDC over it though.

Not the Photo-strips though, I vaguely remember something about model release forms could be an issue (not necessarily for Doomlord but in general)

Or reproducing them was more of a headache/questionable popularity than the drawn strips?

I think it was something John said in relation to Doomlord, that DDC said they had the rights but couldn't offer any proof, but it was more bother than it was worth trying to settle the issue.

(Apologies if I'm mistaken)

It might have been expanded upon in the Fleetway Files - there's a brief mention of rights in this article at the bottom, but in this case it's slightly different and in relation to Dan Dare

Down the Tubes Dan Dare