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But the fact Dredd hasn't had a reboot is a differentiator in and of itself. And there have been pseudo reboots, such as the various attempts by other publishers, the movie version, 2099, etc. I'm not sure binning continuity and starting afresh would benefit Dredd in any meaningful way for what is still ultimately a niche character. It'd surely just piss off those who are invested.

But the current situation can't be sustained indefinitely. If not a reboot, then what?

Unless 2000 AD itself is ending (and the Meg too), there's no way in hell the comic kills off its key IP.

They can always reboot. They killed off Superman, and James Bond. Dredd is the outlier in not having had a continuity reset in nearly 50 years.

The Dredd story reminded me a little of the Steven Spielberg movie Duel - a thrilling chase with, as I recall (it's a long time since I've seen it), a somewhat anticlimactic ending.

no kidding i look at some of my earlier posts and just cringe

When somebody put a bunch of old Fantasy Advertisers up online, my first thought was "Oh Grud*, that means my old letters to them are going to resurface".

*=may not have been the actual word I used.

Jon Haward tribute from Downthetubes.

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Artist Jon Haward, who drew some Judge Dredds and Tales of Telguuth back in the '90s and '00s (news comes via Sue Grant's Facebook page).

Can we take a moment to mourn the passing of, um, Burt in this week's Damage Report?

When Pat got that private, marked confidential email from Matt telling him he was passing on any more Flesh stories and Pat immediately put it up on social media.....was that just the quarrel with Rebellion too?

How do you know it was marked confidential?

I don't know if Judge Urko means Mark or Pat, but I doubt that Matt Smith needs either of their help after successfully running 2000AD for 22 years now, during which time it has gone from strength to strength.

And Pat has praised Cyber-Matt as "the best editor 2000AD has ever had", which presumably includes himself. His quarrel is with Rebellion.

My guess is that if the Rogue movie lives up to its promise of "Avatar-quality special effects for a fraction of Avatar's budget", then they might end up going down the same route for the MC1 TV show, using very realistic CGI rather than live-action.

Who is Judge Alpha? 

Oh its just basically Elseworlds.

Kind of. It's taking separate 2000AD strips and mashing them together. The Red Seas and Stickleback, Zombo and Harlem Heroes etc.

I love the stories Pat Mills was writing for 2000AD in the 80s, but his work on Dan Dare for the new Eagle was, to put it as kindly as possible, not his best. I can live without it being reprinted.

I don't know how much of it was really his work. It was adapted from a film treatment by him and John Wagner, and their names appear on the credits, but I know that at least the first episode was actually scripted by Barrie Tomlinson.

I checked on the Downthetubes "who owns what" page, and it looks like it is only Doomlord that is disputed. Apparently, John and Alan challenged "The Dan Dare Corporation" to prove that he owned the rights to Doomlord, and he was unable to do so, which makes any reprint unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Isn't there some dispute as to whether the "Dan Dare Corporation" (Colin to his mates) actually owns the rights to anything other than Dan Dare? They claim to own the rights to all the Eagle characters, but I have heard it said that they are on dodgy ground legally (obligatory disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer).