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#1
General / Hey Colin
31 August, 2022, 10:19:32 PM
Brink
#2
Classifieds / Prog 2019
01 September, 2019, 02:11:41 PM
Anyone with a print copy of this going spare let me know, cheers!
#3
General / When did 2000ad get good again.
04 July, 2019, 11:38:40 AM
Reading the excellent prog slog that ended in the low 700s made me grimace that it ended around the time 2000ad got....hummm.... pretty poor. I stuck with the prog till the low 900s then bailed till around 1450. It struck me recently that the odd strip aside 2000ad has been pretty awesome since then (2005).

I've started a re-read from 1400 (Wagner / Cam Dredd (Drekk City). Caballistics Inc, Flint on ABC Warriors, Strontium Dog and Bec and Kawl) and it's all (mostly) great stuff that stands up 15 years later. Even the megazine (still in the era of charley's War / hell trekkers reprints) is excellent with Wagner / Weston Dredd (Six), Ranson Anderson, cursed earth Koburn, Simping detective and Black Siddha.

So the question is - given 2000ad definitely had a low period (you can argue when)... when did it get good again? Properly good. Four out of five strips if they were new next week you'd lap them up good?
#4
Events / Enniskillen Comic Con 2019
24 February, 2019, 03:47:53 PM
John Wager - Mike McMahon - Ian Gibson - Alan Hebden - Mike Dorey

You ever want 20 minutes to talk to John Wagner or Mike McMahon? Enniskillen is your place - completely relaxed and chilled vibe where creators have time and s[ace to chat.

Plus (no doubt) PJ Holden!

https://m.facebook.com/EnniskillenComicFest/
#5
Events / Turbo Jones / Ian Kennedy
22 December, 2018, 10:33:36 AM
#6
Events / Derry Comiccity festival - October 27th
27 July, 2018, 12:18:44 PM
Well between enniskillen, omagh and the return (ish) of 2d Derry (under a new name for licensing reasons) - Norn Iron seems to have turned into the home of 2000ad related festivals.

#7
Prog / Prog 2085
07 June, 2018, 03:26:44 PM
Surprised this landed so early - great cliff Robinson cover in that it's cliff Robinson rather than it's a great cover (it's fine)

Everything else moving along grand. Two art niggles - jake Lynch needs to draw some backgrounds and the 'night' colours on Durham Red make it a particularly dull strip to look at.

Still nice to have bagged my first subs thread with my first subs issue.

#8
Events / Enniskillen Comic Fest 2018 - May 11th - 12th
25 February, 2018, 02:27:00 AM
Just so all boarders are aware - if you want the antidote to big faceless cons and to attend a very chilled relaxed long-time-to-chat-with-creators then the Enniskillen comic festival is the place. Last year you could have sat and talked to the likes of Clint Langley or John Wagner for half an hour without interruption. Only Carlos was flat out entertaining the masses. This year the organisers have again assembled a huge gathering of droids--

Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent
Jock
Boo Cook *
INJ Culbard
Phil Winslade
Dom Reardon
Simon Coleby
DANI *
PJ Holden
Eoin Coveney
Glenn Fabry
Michael Carroll
Ryan Brown
Colin McNeil *

(* - the PR Announcing these three seems to have disappeared so maybe they're not confirmed anymore)

Anyway Enniskillen is not only beautiful it's also an incredibly cheap part of the country to visit and if you book flights now you'll get cheap flights. Go to Enniskillen and never want to go to a big comic con again. It's like the lakes, but with nicer lakes. 😉








#9
News / Dredd TV show
10 May, 2017, 06:08:08 PM
#10
Other Reviews / TCJ
07 April, 2015, 07:23:41 PM
Comics journalist-critic-historian-dandies Tucker Stone and Joe McCulloch give cast an extensive gaze over 2000ad's N.Americian output in a 'by God there is so much we'll never be done' attempt to post something they've aborted more than once. Generally good stuff even if I disagree about Lowlife...

http://www.tcj.com/comics-of-the-weak-presents-the-2000-ad-thirty-somethingth-birthday-review-spectacular-critical-edition/
#11
Books & Comics / Panel Patter does 2000AD
26 October, 2014, 03:14:32 PM
Excellent 'ignored comics' blog Panel Patter has started trying to increase it's coverage of 2000AD from a 'i've read a few in the past but now want to jump in' perspective.  PP's covers indie comics and the non-hyped independent comics scene (ie, you're more likely to get a Dynamite comic covered rather than 'this weeks big Image release'.

Prog 1900 - http://www.panelpatter.com/2014/10/reviewing-starting-point-2000ad-1900.html
Prog 1901 - http://www.panelpatter.com/2014/10/sentencing-report-2000ad-1901.html

covered so far, go give them some love and help encourage this established divergently read blog keeps on with spreadin' the word...
#12
Books & Comics / Forbidden Planet. Belfast
01 August, 2014, 01:49:08 AM
Anyone else have a pull list here? Get the insane letter? Think I'm just about done with supporting my LCS.
#13
Not really seen much about this but its very good - Via the Newstand app is a (bi-monthly, really more like bi-annual) UK digital comics magazine - seems to cover whats happening in digital comics with a slant on UK producers.  Has some hack called 'Holden' doing these 'Grifter's 101' tutorials (rather good) as well as some free actual comics (the publisher seems to also do apps for UK talent like Hunt Emerson and Eddie Campbell).

Pretty Damm fine.

#14
Books & Comics / THe Book Depository
14 January, 2013, 12:31:54 PM
Anyone buy regularly from The Book Depository? I've ordered 4 things from them in the last month and 2 have been damaged in a 'dropped before packaging' way. Packaging seems inadequate too - stuff Amazon would put in a box (The Parker Martini edition, Manara volumes) they put in the bare flatpack-plus-tiny-overlap style packaging not suited to the weight of those volumes.

Quickly moving to the 'not worth the cash saved dept'.
#15
General / HMV Death
10 January, 2013, 04:56:36 PM
Sadly (and sadly a week too late for Dredd DVD) it looks like HMV is about to kick the bucket with a large death-rattle sale tomorrow (friday 11th). One near here  has 2000AD tshirts, the Dredd Soundtrack and (if you ask) might have the DVD in.

Sorry if anyone has friends or family work for them.
#16
Any ideas as to whom the shorter gentleman of the two in the centre is meant to be?

#17
Prog / Prog FCBD 2012
04 May, 2012, 11:01:55 AM
hurrah, non-subby bags a thread on behalf of mid-week readers everywhere!

FCBD Prog just landed (thanks to the link provided by this very forum) and its a doozy.

COVER Dredd, Zombo & Icabod in fab Jock-o-vision. supersweet.

Dredd - 4 page exclusive of Wagner & Rufus with Dredd's world introduced via a QnA with a TV host as Dredd tracks down some drug pushers. Rufus' art gives a really solid meaty McMahon/Flint Dredd and more Tank Girl style toony cits. a few of them have a touch of the Brett Ewins styling which is fab. Its a great combo and perfect for the tone of the piece. He really nails Dredd every time. Great to see him drawing for 2000ad again. Wagner indulges the fanboys a nice reference at the end of the strip after what otherwise is clearly, and beautifully, written for the new reader.

Icabod Azrael Opening chapter of BK I, as beautiful and glorious as ever.

Zombo The Day The Law Died Pt 1. Seemed a bit odd as Zombo himself doesn't feature.

Robusters Alan Moore & Steve Dillon's classic Bax The Burner tale. Effective and emotive although to me seems very dated. Maybe just because I can remember it from publication. Wonder how it plays to a new reader.

FS - Whatever happened to the Green Pedestrian Palm? Chris Weston's beautiful tale from recent times. They could print this every year and i'd not tire of it. The Dave Gibbons painting makes me smile each time.

back cover THAT  Chris Weston 'after Brian Bolland' piece from this year, free of obscuring type. beautiful.

also - fantastic funny PYE advert in a Hitch-hikers Guide humour style. Deserves to be in the Prog 'proper' one of these days.

a fabulous collection, lets hope it converts a few hundred thousand to the cause.

#18
Prog / Long Day Coming - The Day of Chaos
08 April, 2012, 01:25:01 PM
Whilst doing some mundane tasks I found myself thinking about the DoC so far (up to prog 1777) and a few things struck me about what, aside from duration, is lifting the DoC out of the 'usual' mega-arc

1) Love of the City vs Love of the Citizens. - A lot of time has been taken to free and integrate into the background PJ Maybe. He was present and integral as part of the last epic so surely his role has to be different this time. PJ has always been an exceptional chemist and here we are dealing with a virus. More importantly Wagner has long established PJ as truly loving the people and able to differentiate his slaying from his love of the masses (it reminds me of the Polish director Kieslowski's comment in his auto-biography saying 'I love humanity, its people I can't stand'). Whereas Dredd really doesn't love citizens at all. He loves the City itself. Maybe the DoC can't tease out this difference but it certainly is there to be expounded.

2) The Finale? With the capture and / death of the Sov's there is no 'big bad' to have a traditional climax against. All we have so far is the dead Sovs, a virus, faceless minor terror groups and the still roaming PJ who has been outside the fray. So there probably will need to be one still to emerge. Could it be PJ? Well his power is popularity and threat to the judicial system in showing he never died. Hardly the stuff of epic ending-showdowns as it is more 'moving pieces of the chess board' type stuff. Outlandishly maybe he could lead a revolt  (an irredentism story might keep the epic going another year plus) but I'd still think this time PJ is on the side of the good. So.. who / what is the end of the Day of Chaos.. it can't simply be diminishing returns of the virus.

3) Responsibility - Dredd has been on the council of five during this. Is this the first? If so, well Joe can hardly just waltz away saying 'told you we should have nuked the sovs'. The whole system has been shown as deficient and vulnerable and Dredd has been square at the top along with the other Council members. Either Joe is going to change or the system is going to be changed but the manner in which MC-1 has been convincingly brought to the cusp of doom means things can't go back to the status quo. 

anyhow, sorry for making you read all that, just needed it out of the system or I'll still be thinking about it later today. Cruse you John Wagner for making comics so consuming.  And thank you.

Anyone else got any thoughts on where the DoC is heading>?
#19
News / 35 Years - Forbidden Planet Blog
26 February, 2012, 05:54:23 PM
The ever-entertaining Forbidden Planet blog has a slew of posts on the 35th anniversary of 2000AD up this weekend, including an entertaining piece on Zenith and a very interesting start to a 'I am going to start reading 2000AD' regular series. Oh and they plug that auld futureshockd blog a bit. The FP blog is a great interface with the rest of the UK comics scene so am sure any comments and enthusiasm from the old hacks ( ;) ) here will help with building the support of the comic.

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/
#20
2D - most of which takes place in a pub and where the sketches are free (mostly)... which always has a strong 2000AD presence (last year - Glen Fabry, D'Israeli, PJ Holden, Rufus, Will Simpson, Gary Leech, Mick McMahon, David Hine, year before - Glen Fabry, Pat Mills, PJ Holden, Colin MacNeil, Gary Leech, Leigh Gallagher) has announced its dates. No line up yet but you can be sure its 2000AD-y

The festival is 31 May - Saturday 2 June 2012 but its the Friday Night (1st) and all day Saturday (2nd) you'll want to come to. Friday will have panels in the pub and saturday a convention proper and then more panels in the pub.

Derry is dirt cheap to get to (cheap flights to belfast or Ciry of Derry airport), plenty of Irish boarders inc. myself to cadge lifts off from there. The tower hotel is the one to book (central, nice, some creators will be there)

For more intel check www.2dfestival.com  as well as their facebook pages (which is taking suggestions as to who you would like to see come...