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I started picking up the prog again a few weeks ago as it showed up in my local Tesco for the first time since I was a kid, and I really cannot stress enough how much more I enjoyed this issue than the last couple. It's bright, it's full of ideas, and honestly, it's so much more contemporary. This scripts aren't toned down at all. The loss of the occasional boob and a bit of gore doesn't make it any less appealing to adults, it just makes it more appealing to everyone. All-ages doesn't mean "for kids", and Rebellion seems to understand that. The logo looks great, too. I reckon you could pull off a fantastic standard Dredd that doesn't betray the character in this style, and I'd love to see it happen.

Oh, and I say Regened as in Regenerated.

'tis a pity, but I've stopped buying it too. It stopped appearing in any WH Smiths near me, and considering it's mostly just reprints, I didn't really bother seeking out the issues I've missed. Ho hum! I do wonder if the Jimmy Carr strip's any good, though...

Oooh, exciting stuff! I shall formulate a script post-haste!

So, I wrote an e-book. Go on, give it a shot!



Jason Mitchell is one troubled boy.

Guilty of a thousand offenses and finally convicted for arson, Jason finds himself sentenced to life imprisonment.

The place? Fairfly Residential Home, where Jason is challenged to undo his tattered past through caring for his towns elderly citizens.

Working under the frail yet kindly Sister Ambrose, Jason seems initially thrilled with his lot: a life much more preferable to a long stint behind bars.

But when the sickening squelch of abuse echoes through the care home walls, Jason unwittingly finds himself on the other side of moral law, in a pulse-pounding tale of war crime, vengeance and corruption.

Will Jason save the fragile lives he wrongly assumed he was tasked with protecting, or will the hellish influence of the care home shine through, leading our unlikely hero to continue living life by the bloody code?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/By-The-Bloody-Code-ebook/dp/B00589W5OM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1309165776&sr=1-1

Holy hell, that is quite a cover.
I absolutely adore it! Seriously, it is incredible.

I've just been sent mine and Cthulouis' final, lettered strip and it's a corker!
Everyone's looking great here, fellas.

The Traveler #1 is an awesome book. Classic Mark Waid-y goodness!

Just had a little peek in my inbox to see Cthloulis' final page, and it is magnificent.
'Tis all coming together!

Oh, awesome!
Didn't expect that.

Tickets bought.
This should be fun!

Dear god, it looks like the Chaos Space Marines from Warhammer 40K did the nasty with the almighty Daleks.

I'm no scientist, but i'm sure that's pretty much the most evil thing ever.

And deserved it is, because your work on this strip is shit-hot.
That reaction shot is pure Wallace and Gromit, which is a sufficiently British influence for such a national treasure as Doctor Who.
Having written it, I've seen the first page of this, folks, and it really is good stuff.

This comic really seems to be coming together. We really must throw a review copy down Doctor Who Magazine's way when it's all finalised and printed, I'm sure they'd give it an inch or two of space.

I've got the 3" versions of these kicking around the house somewhere. What's suprising me, looking at those pics, is that only fifteen years ago a kid's toy had a knife. I can't image that now in these namby pamby, whataboutthechildren, times.

What a silly society we live in...

While I was in the States I picked up the Joker figure from the Dark Knight movie. The version over here was the "oooh, it'll scare my baby!" one so instead of looking like Heath Ledger its a total cartoon version. Apprently the real ones were on sale here VERY briefly then got banned.

Took a pic of one against the other


Will admit though to being slightly surprised that the US version came with a knife.

Not quite.
The more movie accurate Joker is from the 'Movie Masters' line.
He was an incredibly rare figure, and even more-so over here because the Movie Masters line just plain wasn't released to toy stores in the UK. Still, I see him all the time in collectors shops, forbidden planet and the like.
The US got the cartoony fella too, he was the standard Joker for the slightly smaller, kid-oriented line.

Those Dredd prototypes are super-awesome though, would have been a cool line.

Why? It was the first truly coherent installment of Rex Royd.

I get what Frankie Boyle's trying to do, and his work is improving, I just wish Millar had the balls to edit the guy.

Oof, Knight and Squire #1 was a bit blegh.
The concept reminded me of 'No Heroics', an under-appreciated ITV sitcom from a few years ago that was based around a superhero pub. Except the show was funny.
Also, for a comic written by a British dude, it didn't half come across like something thought up by an American whose only insight on England comes straight from The Simpsons and Family Guy.

It's such a pity, because I love Knight and Squire as characters, and it's always fun to see the big two cast their eyes to our shores. It'll be a pain in the ass if Cornell's DCU Britain sticks, because we deserve so much better than to be wasted as 'that silly clown country where all our heroes and villains are incompetent cover versions of the US characters'.