QUALIFYING 1: 2 - KENNETH NEIMAND ALEC WORLEY - ULTIMATE NOT WAGNER TOURNAMENT

[Colin YNWA]

Well a mordern master (who if rumours are true might be getting two entries - there will be a stewards enquiry) or someone whose been around a surprisingly long time.

Kenneth Neimand - So new they doesn't even have a decent Barney entry so https://shop.2000ad.com/creators/kenneth-niemand

OR

Alec Worley - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=ALECW

Whose 2000ad writing do you prefer? Voting (just add a comment here with whose work you prefer (and anything else you might wish to say to discuss their work) closes sometime Tuesday 12th May?

What the heck is all this about? https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46406.0

Next face off starts tomorrow...

[abelardsnazz]

Going to have to go with Alec Worley here as I'm much more familiar with his work than Kenneth's.

[TordelBack]

You couldn't start with an easy one, say Sonny Steelgrave vs. Al Ewing?

Monstrously hard, proven veteran versus young (?) Pretender.

Purely out of divilment imma let Niemand finish:

Ken Niemand - because of his kooky citizens, Judge Patsy and just because he makes me excited about the strip.

[Greg M.]

I hope you'll be including a separate entry for Keef Ripley.

[Colin YNWA]

I hope you'll be including a separate entry for Keef Ripley.

And Cal Hamilton - it was weird they way he did that one story...

[Greg M.]

I'll vote Worley - he's written several stories I'm not really into, but he also wrote Dandrige, which I thought was excellent and deserving of further appearances. Far prefer to see the writer on his own creations than on the de-cheesecake-ified Durham Red.

If he was up against Niemand under his own true, secret name, it'd be a different story... and maybe it will be later in the tournament...

[CalHab]

Worley has done some great stuff  (in particular his Anderson was good) but what has he done for me lately? Niemand is in the prog NOW, and he has a chimp in his story. So definitely Niemand. Maybe. Possibly.

I also have no idea who Niemand is, though apparently you all know. Ah well.

[Colin YNWA]

If he was up against Niemand under his own true, secret name, it'd be a different story... and maybe it will be later in the tournament...

If Alec gets through I'll rig the draw* for you so that happens! I mean you never know what the draw** will bring.

*well see comments later this week(end) probably as I work out how to do the tourney proper

** Assuming I do it by draw*

[Colin YNWA]

I also have no idea who Niemand is, though apparently you all know. Ah well.

Its all specualtion, but there is talk that he might be a stomach settling veteran ...

[CalHab]

I also have no idea who Niemand is, though apparently you all know. Ah well.

Its all specualtion, but there is talk that he might be a stomach settling veteran ...

Cryptic. I'm afraid I'm a bit too dim for that one. Ewing? Rennie?

[broodblik]

Alec Worley for me. Unfortunately Niemand mostly wrote Dredd and nothing original yet.

[Colin YNWA]

I also have no idea who Niemand is, though apparently you all know. Ah well.

Its all specualtion, but there is talk that he might be a stomach settling veteran ...

Cryptic. I'm afraid I'm a bit too dim for that one. Ewing? Rennie?

Whoops sorry - speculation has it as Rennie - though it is just that (as far as I'm aware) utter speculation.

[Greg M.]

I mean you never know what the draw** will bring.

Depending on who survives this round, it would be interesting if the draw put Niemand up against his (alleged) self...

[Dark Jimbo]

I'll vote Worley - he's written several stories I'm not really into, but he also wrote Dandrige, which I thought was excellent and deserving of further appearances. Far prefer to see the writer on his own creations than on the de-cheesecake-ified Durham Red.

Yup, Worley for me too. I stopped reading the prog before Niemand appeared (so maybe my vote actually shouldn't count?) but like Greg I really, really enjoyed Dandrige, and it's such a shame we don't seem to be getting any more. Also thought he wrote one of the best Norwichmas3rillers.

[IndigoPrime]

If this was a Dredd poll, the only writers Neimand would, for me, struggle against would be Wagner and Ewing. His Dredds are excellent, to the point I'd happily see him installed as the 'showrunner' writer, driving the future of the strip. As a relative newcomer, he has appeared fully formed, hence the speculation that he's a pen name. (Also, if Neimand is Rennie, then Rennie's Dredd style has changed beyond all recognition.)

I quite liked Dandridge. I quite liked Age of the Wolf. And the Durham Red reboot was pretty fab. But, yeah, Neimand sneaks it for me.