Couldnt disagree with any of that
Rogue is as much of a "joint effort" as Dredd was. Like I said in the previous thread, Wagners vision of Jeff Stryker - EXTREME COP! vs Carlos's artistic vision elevating that vs Millls editorial sorting the wheat from the chaff is pretty much mirrored here.
GFD wants Tube Trooper with his Euro-arms Gibbons art and own take elevate that. MacManus corales it all into the winning formula it becomes.
In both cases, its Wagner and GFD who pilot that craft so successfully that the strips become Iconic.
If you are calling Dredd a House Character, so is Rogue
That said, if you are asking me if I prefer a Dredd story by Wagner / Rogue story by GFD, then I'll also align and say yes to both, as the best of both strips is by them, outside of Moore dabbling - if Moore had dabbled with dredd, that would probably be true there as well.
The evidence is very much there to suggest that Gibbons and indeed MacManus may have had a bigger hand than GFD in shaping who Rogue was
I suppose my picking away at this has less to do with GFD's actual contribution and more to do with Pat Mills' assertion that it's disrespectful to GFD for other writers to work in the Rogue Trooper universe whilst simultaneously asserting that Dredd is a "house character" because of the multiple hands involved the strip's development in the early days.
It seems to me that if you're going to put Dredd in the category of "house character" and declare him fair game, it's difficult to argue that the same doesn't apply to Rogue (in a way that doesn't apply to, say, Strontium Dog, which is clearly the product of the writer and artist's vision, despite early turns on the art by other artists in the Starlord days).