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I somehow missed this in the thrill mail (was it mentioned) but details of the Free Comic Book Day 2015 2000ad are out and about and well...

NORM BREYFOGLE

Let me say that again for those not as excited about this as me

NORM - CHUFFIN' BRILLIANT ALWAYS WANTED HIM IN THE PROG - BREYFOGLE

Tharg I throw myself before you - if you want my life it is yours

QuotePublisher: REBELLION / 2000AD
(W) Matt Smith & Various (A) Norm Breyfogle & Various
The galaxy's greatest Eisner-nominated SF anthology returns to Free Comic Book Day with a 48 page zarjaz line-up of stories. In Through the Out Door, a brand new story from Matt Smith and Norm Breyfogle, Judge Dredd uses the iron fist of the law to settle a block dispute; in 3000 AD some jobs are murder, as proved by The Traveller from Mick McMahon; galactic frontiersman Ajax Bloodthirsty meets his match on the astronomical object of oblivion known as the Death Rock in a new tale from Ben Willsher and Barry Krishna; the Grand Master of Termight is sickened to find that his final resting place has been defiled by the legendary alien freedom fighter, Nemesis the Warlock in Tomb of Torquemada  by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill; wizened master of the occult, Doctor Sin returns to pass on his mantle (and battle a demon) in Don't Call It A Comeback by Rob Williams and Luca Pizzari; pilot of the future, Dan Dare, discovers an alien satellite in Star Slayer by Dave Gibbons and Gerry-Finley Day; Celtic warrior Sláine acquaints more enemies with his axe in A Simple Killing by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; Judge Dredd upholds the law in some classic Dredd newspaper strips by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Ron Smith; and Prepare your mind to be melted by Tharg's Alien Invasions from supreme craz-o-naut Henry Flint.

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2014, 04:57:18 PM
I somehow missed this in the thrill mail (was it mentioned)

Yep.

Quote from: Molch-R on 17 December, 2014, 04:59:02 PM

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2014, 04:57:18 PM
I somehow missed this in the thrill mail (was it mentioned)

Yep.

Teach me to skip read things... anyway more to the point

NORM BREYFOGLE

The cover is shown in the thrill-mail. Think Norm Breyfogle is in it too btw.

(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r182/Caliban_photos/ecb0beb29c294daf83404d515112b3e5_zpsbef55068.jpg)

One of my all time favourite artists. I like this news.

I'm waiting for someone to ask if they can buy the digital comics as a physical thing in the store.

Quote from: Steve Green on 17 December, 2014, 05:55:00 PM
I'm waiting for someone to ask if they can buy the digital comics as a physical thing in the store.

It would certainly make a change ;)

"Norm!"

One of the greats and a personal favourite  :) Name jumped out at me from the Thrill-Mail, a great choice for Dredd. Some Gibbons Dan Dare, plus McMahon, this needs some serious pre-ordering.

I got overexcited about the Nemesis strip - thought this was a new strip  by Mills & O'Neill, but it's just a rare reprint.  Ah well, it was nice to dream for a moment....

I'm guessing the Dan Dare isn't new either.

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2014, 04:57:18 PM
NORM - CHUFFIN' BRILLIANT ALWAYS WANTED HIM IN THE PROG - BREYFOGLE

I just had to look up who he was. :-[ [/geekfail]

I haven't read any Gibbons Dan Dare in decades, so it may as well be new...

Great. Another thing to fail to get as they vanish in seconds.

Wait... is Norm Breyfogle in this?

Cheers

Jim

Anyone know who's artist on the Dredd strip?

Quote from: James Stacey on 17 December, 2014, 09:52:39 PM
Anyone know who's artist on the Dredd strip?

It's Norm, scripted by Matt Smith. See blurb above.
Norm sounds a great fit for Dredd too.

Goddammit. Read this, and a couple of hours later I read on Facebook that Norm's had a stroke. He's expected to make a full recovery, but... y'know, fucking fuckitty fuck. :-(

Bah.

Jim

:(

Wishing Norm a speedy recovery...

That's terrible, thankfully he is expected to make a full recovery.
Interesting that Dan Dare is appearing and the Traveller too, I would presume that's DDC property too, good news, and a cracking cover too.

Saddened by this, talk about good news/bad news. Hope there's a speedy recovery right enough.

Damn that's rough news. Hope that the reports of a full recovery being likely are going to be accurate. Thought with you Norm.

glad to see our very own Dog Deever on the cover  :thumbsup:

Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 December, 2014, 11:00:44 AM
glad to see our very own Dog Deever on the cover  :thumbsup:

:lol:

If people are interested there's a fund raiser to help cover NormBreyfogle's on going health care costs. I know there's a lot of expense this time of year and so many other worthy courses to think about but if you have a spare quid or two why not throw it this way?

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/legendary-batman-artist-norm-breyfogle-stroke-fund/281723 (http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/legendary-batman-artist-norm-breyfogle-stroke-fund/281723)

Due to what has happened to Norm, here's the news from 2000 AD on their facebook page.

QuoteWe're very pleased to announce that Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne will now be drawing the Judge Dredd story for our Free Comic Book Day comic in May!

Mike has stepped into the breach after Norm Breyfogle sadly suffered a stroke. We would encourage you to donate to Norm's ongoing medical costs as he recovers:

I've only just seen this thread and read it from the beginning. Talk about going from a high to a low!

Get well soon Norm - we'll get you in the prog one day!

i loved his runs on the spectre batman shadow of the bat and detective comics, but non kingdom people on dredd always make me feel a bit apprehensive(but john byrne did a good job) though im sure norm's dredd will be awesome :)

Sad yo hear about Norm. I'm sure his Dredd art would have been phenomenal. But maybe, once he's recovered, he can give it another shot.

Ordered this comic book by mistake.......some time last fortnight or the fortnight before.

Let me check.....

It's just called
Order from San Jose, California on the 27th of September and only got a ticket in the mail
for myself to pick this up from the post office two days ago.

I was only looking at this on Ebay when I accidently pressed buy and didn't have the money for it and I quite possibly sent the money did this on the first of this month. Yet it took this long to get to me and the postage took the reasonable price of almost ten dollars and added another twenty five dollars for P&H.

For this amount of money, I'm kind of really it took this long (Of course the u will remind about stuff like the weather and other factors....)  and that I had come in a show them the ticket they sent along with any identification I had on me and they go into back room and give me what I obviously see is this comic book from the shape of the package they hand over to me while sign for it.

I did let the lady know why I think unnessary for me to do their work for them, but not in those exact words. With a reply that I needed to sign for it. To that I just said nothing left them to return home.

It was a hot day, I had no money to ease this. The walk is only to the next suburb, but still not really
comfortable on such a hot day.

I was like only going to post here that I got this comic and when decide the catch the train home. It's only one station and yes, I guess I evaded paying for my fare when I did this. Yet, they hardly ever check on such short distance of travel and none of the station are manned at the exits. Not like they used to be, because I was employed by the Railways as a platform porter on a local station that turned out to be rougher than I was prepared for.

That from 1990 - 2000 and I was only working amongst the outside public until 1992 - 93. In those days, we were more strict and they still are, but in a much more efficient way.

Getting back on subject.......

So, how about it, do any of you think I might be entitled in refund on the P&H, because I had to sweat for it?

I think I would like to try, because, I am broke right now and I also the victim of misunderstanding with a e-mail I sent them through PAY-PAL about the where about of some medical supplies I had ordered a fortnight from last Monday had got to.

This letter miraculously got sent to Steam instead and because it was connected with a purchase I made of three of their games last week and this game to almost forty dollars.

So, I sent them another e-mail, that I had sent them that complaint by mistake and if they ever read it. They would know that!

Yet, no, they actually went ahead and removed those three games from my account until the matter is resolved. Of which it is....but they also haven't refunded me.

Technically, they ripped me off...until either those games are returned to my Steam Account Library or the money refunded and not the games. Only one of them was really good.

Fist-Puncher (http://store.steampowered.com/app/238630/)

A heavily pixelated trip back to eighties when games like Double-Dragon rules. I actually brought a
game a lot like this for the C64[/b] at around about that time.

I could really do with that money now, but all the banks and the post-office close on the weekend.

Because Westpac is getting really sloppy, I'm thinking about getting Swiss-Bank-Account. Are they really as good as I read them to  Be (https://www.swiss-privacy.com/Services.html).

About the train trip home. I opened the comic book to have a good look through and was happy to find a Slaine story, but not one of the best, though!

You are Lobster Random and stay away from my Vacuum Cleaner.