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Since the Spurious one is dropping subtle hints (clang), here's one of my own...

davidbishop

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Thanks for the help.

davidbishop

Gordon Rennie once did an hilarious article for Speakeasy about 2000 AD reader art by people who later worked for the comic. Can anyone point me to the prog where Colin MacNeil's drawing of Mega-City Warden Judge Peel appeared? (No prizes for guessing who will soon suffer under the third degree for the Meg's Interrogation feature...)

davidbishop

Gordon Rennie once did an hilarious article for Speakeasy about 2000 AD reader art by people who later worked for the comic. Can anyone point me to the prog where Colin MacNeil's drawing of Mega-City Warden Judge Peel appeared? (No prizes for guessing who will soon suffer under the third degree for the Meg's Interrogation feature...)

davidbishop

What are the most unlikely, obscure or little remembered strips you'd like to see collected under one cover? Here's my Top 10 list from just the Meg, in no particular order...

Al's Baby (226pp for all 3 books) - Wagner & Ezquerra, all colour, all funny

Harke & Burr (86pp) - sumptuous Dean Ormston painted art, written by Si Spencer who's now working with Neil Gaiman for DC

Maelstrom (64pp) - Robbie Morrison & Colin MacNeil, grim & gritty space judges, feel the sturm and drang in the air

Return of the Taxidermist (80pp) - Wagner & Ian Gibson, some of their funniest work ever

Neal & Wigmore collection (75pp) - these two sank without trace after Outlaw bombed in 2000 AD, but their run of Hershey & Dredd stories in the Meg during the mid 90s were really popular and included some powerful stuff

Harmony (74pp) - the first three stories by Trevor Hairsine & Jim Murray - early, hyper-detailed Hairsine art and proto-Murray, plus some solid storytelling by Chris Standley

Dredd: Skar (37pp) - Wagner & Ashley Wood, the latter now a name artist in US comics - throw in Karyn: Visions by Wood to bulk this up to 46pp

Dredd: Brashill collection - Jason never did a long run on any strip, but he painted some one-off Dredd gems during the 90s, nealry all class Wagner scripts

Dredd: Ormston collection - stick Raptaur at the front, but there's a clutch of groovy Ormston strips to go with it - Tea with Mrs Gunderson, Return of Johnny Biker, Fall of the House of Esher, etc

GRennie's B&W Mean strips (56pp) - some classy artists here - Jim Murray, Kevin Walker, Paul Marshall, Wayne Reynolds, Goddard & Teague.

That's my list - now it's your turn...

davidbishop, who should really go do some work.

That idiot editing the Megazine who said in print that an increase in reprint pages was the readers' fault. What a twat.

Oh, that was me.

Still - twat!

davidbishop

I've got a Nikolai Dante novel coming out in January, which had Raising Hell as its working title. This was subsequently changed to The Strangelove Gambit and can be seen here:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844161390/qid%3D1086597962/sr%3D1-16/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F0%5F16/026-7530622-1062036

Alas, Amazon still believes there's another Dante novel coming called Raising Hell, despite being told otherwise. Don't ask me why it's got some random cover attributed to the listing - brain spasm?

davidbishop

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844161390/qid%3D1086597962/sr%3D1-16/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F0%5F16/026-7530622-1062036" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844161390/qid%3D1086597962/sr%3D1-16/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F0%5F16/026-7530622-1062036

Happily I have had offers of copies the relevant Dredd stories, so thanks to those who got in touch. I can't wait to see the Dredd Christmas Party tale again - IIRC, it beggars belief. Five stars for that one, I think...;-)

davidbishop

An upcoming edition of Dredd Files is going to focus on early Dredd stories from the annuals and sci-fi specials. I've got most of these but am currently missing the following Dredd stories:-

Dan Dare Annual 1979 (published 1978)
Judge Dredd: Ryan's Revenge
Script: Unknown, Artist: Kevin O'Neill

Dan Dare Annual 1980 (published 1979)
Judge Dredd: untitled
Script: Unknown, Artist: Keith Page
Reprinted - Fleetway Quality: Psi-Judge Anderson 08

Can some kindly soul provide me with photocopies of these stories?

davidbishop

They did something similar in the thriller Sea of Love in 1989.

Yan Shimony - where did he go, I wonder?

davidbishop

House of Usher wrote: It's a bit rich David Bishop slagging off Barry Mitchell's artwork on The Great Muldoon and the Boing! story, when there's not a lot wrong with it and it's heaps better than a lot of the artwork Megazine readers were treated to in the 1990s.

Why I ever gave the likes of Frank Quitely or Trevor Hairsine or Jim Murray or Peter Doherty or Dean Ormston their first exposure in a mainstream comic defies belief, doesn't it? Obviously, I can't pick a good artist to save my life. ;-)

For the record, I have no problems with Barry Mitchell as an artist - he did sterling work on Roy of the Rovers for years - but I don't rate his work on Dredd. That's just my opinion.

However it is historical fact that The Great Muldoon and Palais de Boing were the only Dredd strips he ever drew for 2000 AD.

Draw your own conclusions...

davidbishop

The first Interrogation is  John Burns, not Arthur Ranson.

davidbishop

Sigh. If only I got reprint fees for this.

davidbishop

Can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble.

'That was then, this is now" - ABC

thrillpowerseeker wrote: Hey Marco..maybe you can get Wagner to do a ButtonMan novel??..and Robbie could be knocking a Dante up while he's at it.. : )

Robbie declined to write a Dante novel, but was kind enough to let me have a crack at his character. NIKOLAI DANTE: THE STRANGELOVE GAMBIT is due for publication early in January 2005. Robbie read the plot synopsis and made several suggestions that enhanced the novel and its portrayal of Dante.

davidbishop