Bryan Hitch to draw Judge Dredd for the first time

[Colin YNWA]

Interesting news from that there Faciebook they've justed annouced that Bryan Hitch is drawing an upcoming Rob Williams Judge Dredd story - details from Rob Williams and Bryan Hitch's Tweeters if folks do that kinda thing too.

Be interesting to see how he does with Dredd.

[Dandontdare]

With Dylan Teague colouring https://twitter.com/THEBRYANHITCH/status/1332009297815846913?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[broodblik]

I am not familiar with his work

[IndigoPrime]

I remember him from Transformers—as in, the 1980s Marvel UK one, along with Death's Head. Of his more recent work, I'm most familiar with The Ultimates, although that was over a decade ago. According to Wiki, he's mostly on Batman at the moment.

[Art]

The Ultimates saw Hitch making the Ultimates costumes into something more ruggged and partially armoured, in a very Judge like way (particularly thinking of the movie version) - it'll be interesting seeing that look come home.

[Tjm86]

I think you might find that this is not the first time he has drawn Dredd.

IIRC he did one around about the 400's, a bat mugger story.  It was very Alan Davies-esque which might be why it doesn't register.

Have to have a troll tonight methinks.

[Colin YNWA]

I think you might find that this is not the first time he has drawn Dredd.

IIRC he did one around about the 400's, a bat mugger story.  It was very Alan Davies-esque which might be why it doesn't register.

I think Rob Williams was teasing at as someone who'd never drawn Dredd.

The Bat Mugger story you are thinking of was in fact Alan Davis himself - often sited as a prelim for the abandoned Davis Moore Batman Dredd tale, though I think that might be a myth?

[broodblik]

This is from Rob Williams original twitter:

Starting writing a Judge Dredd script today for a big star artist who has never drawn Dredd before.

Start your speculation engines...



His latest on the subject:

Hey, here's that star artist drawing the Judge Dredd story I mentioned. Really excited to have
@THEBRYANHITCH
drawing Mega-City One for
@2000AD
and we've got
@DylanTeague
onboard for extra art excellence.

[Colin YNWA]

This is from Rob Williams original twitter:

Starting writing a Judge Dredd script today for a big star artist who has never drawn Dredd before.

Start your speculation engines...

Thanks Broodblik knew I'd seen it too lazy to find it!

[Jim_Campbell]

The Bat Mugger story you are thinking of was in fact Alan Davis himself - often sited as a prelim for the abandoned Davis Moore Batman Dredd tale, though I think that might be a myth?

It was (Alan Davis, I mean... and I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a warm-up for a Batman/Dredd crossover). Hitch's career took off when he developed a style that was a fairly ruthless, errr... homage to Alan Davis' style, something Davis himself carried a grudge over for years. Hitch has long since abandoned that style and developed into an excellent artist in his own right.

(ISTR some of his earliest work was for Marvel UK on Death's Head and you could see him trying out different artists' styles — one issue was clearly a lift of Alan Davis' style, another was McMahon. It's a thing many artists go through. Early Cliff Robinson was meticulously Bolland-esque, even the mighty Bill Sienkiewicz' early work is practically a clone of Neal Adams.)

[TordelBack]

A Hitch Dredd is a nice feather in Tharg's cap, might even bring some fans with him. Plus you can trust Rob to deliver an appropriate script.

[JOE SOAP]

Hitch did the Death Aid cover for Titan



http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=gnprofiles&choice=deathaid

[TordelBack]

Solid catch, Joe. Solid Joe, Bryan.