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And he's a really good artist. But that cover.... Yikes.

all seems a world away from this beauty

[Is There a Middle Class in MC1?]

This iconic spread (from an early 80s annual?) was probably the best explanation of how the Mark I worked...though i think every artist since has ignored that goofy looking heat seeker bolt on.



regarding 'How Mega City Works', the most fun thread (IMHO) recently was this one, Is There a Middle Class in MC1?

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47070.0

[Outlaw]

The last panel of Outlaw is Alpha and the survivors launching the coffins of their fallen friends out into space.

Thanks Jim.

You'd think I would have remembered that since I re-read Outlaw only six months ago.

pedant mode has to be engaged here - Torso was killed years before the events of Judgement Day, as was more obviously Wulf, so why are they here other than fan service? 

Torso was killed on the Doghouse by the Stix Brothers. Could he have been laid to rest there? Then been reanimated by whatever force is bringing the zombies back to life. Same goes for Evans. Wolf is a little harder to explain, not his reanimation but his position in the S/D HQ.

Maybe he was buried with a pre-programmed timebomb: reanimates, activates bomb, emerges in the Doghouse.

[Trial By Gunfire]

I know it's not usually a good idea to necropost but since the collected edition came out this week I might get a pass.

My finger is hovering over the 'Add to Basket' button.

2 stories in longer form that usual by John & Alan. I presume the second one, Trial By Gunfire is the Anderson assessment story.

Is Legends of the Law worth a buy?

Hmm.

Reading that obit/news story about Maganov I'm reminded of the (grim) joke that made the rounds in 1948 after Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk died:

"Masaryk was a very tidy man. So tidy that, when he jumped out the window, he remembered to close it behind him."

[Nemesis the Warlock]

Nemesis the Warlock

[AAAIEEE!]

AAAIEEE! The horizontal scale! It burns my eyyyyyyyyessss!

I'm with you. Seven (?) fonts on the same page. terrible.

[Anderson]

Emphatically Anderson

[Fiends of the Eastern Front]

Fiends of the Eastern Front

yes, the recent run in the prog became lazy but the Sci Fi Special demonstrated modern Fiends can still deliver.

All Hali Constanta.

[Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo]

And yet despite this, they set themselves such very, very high standards. It would have been so much easier to run through the same stories again an again but they never did.

Even when stories were vey similar, TB Grover could put impressively individual spins on each.

I've recently re-read Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo and I, Beast.

Both stories published within a year of each other, both concerning feral beasts let loose from traveling roadshows, both with bittersweet endings that allow Dredd to show a soft side yet the feel, pacing and structure of the pair could not be more different.

Could you defeat Fear by going up against him wearing mirrored aviator sunglasses?

yeah, that's an idea...or sucker him into a fairground hall of mirrors

[Fire]

Not sure if I have a favourite, but I can answer the Q, 'which I would least like to run into on a dark night?'

Death. I agree with Alex that his MO of hand through chest is pretty fun but the way he shambles around he should be pretty easy to get away from. Average human walking speed is 4mph. Death mopes along at what seems like 2.5mph. Just keep up the steps and he ceases to be a problem.

Mortis. Walking speed as above, but, per Necropolis, don't touch any bannisters.

Fear. Proven dangerous with those mantraps but he only seems to possess two so if you are encountering him at a late stage of his mission you are have the advantage. Plus, we have all seen Clash of the Titans, just don't look directly at him.   

Whisper. His enforced visions can screw with your consciousness but he is also quite indecisive so hopefully he'll lose interest after a few minutes.

Which leaves...

Fire. Not the most talkative of the DJ's which tells me he is super focussed on the job in hand & with that burning trident he has range. The most formidable of them all.

Block Judge was bagged with Megazine 396

well worth it for 3.99

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/MEG396D

[Doomsday]

Have Brit-Cit cits from the higher echelons always had a penchant for Victorian style dress?

This is how Neil Googe depicted a couple of members of the BritCit Parliament (Council of Five?) when Dredd visited during Doomsday



So maybe Victorian dress is perennially in style.