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2000AD and British comics shows it's strength with nearly the whole Comicscene's top 10 of 2020 having a connection to the comic with 2000Ad coming in at number 1, the 77 number 2 and the Megazine coming fourth and only 3 US comics in the top10

https://comicscene.org/2021/01/04/your-comicscene-top-10-comics-of-2020-results/

 To celebrate it's 20th anniversary FCBD 2021 will take place at local comic shops on Saturday, August 14, 2021! rather than May

Accent UK have teamed up with the band V2A to create a new comic on Kickstarter "V2A the Wasteland Chronicles", styled as Mad Max meets The Suicide Squad - A comic for the post apocalyptic generation.
Created & Written by Dave West (Accent UK) & Drone (V2A)
Artists P J Holden( some unknown who sees to be OK & Gustavo Vargas (Peruvian Artist)
Colourist Matt Soffe
cover artists Ryan Brown & Vlad McNeally (V2A artist)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1693466793/v2a-the-wasteland-chronicles-1-doomsday

Does anyone know what happened to the new "Best of 2000ad" series? we got the FCBD promo issue and shops got a preview copy of issue 1 but I have not seen or heard anything else about this since.

I assume that it is one of the things caught in the COVID 19 shake up so I was wondering if there was any news on if/when it might be coming out.

The new Walking Dead series World Beyond is now on Amazon Prime, strangely 2 days before it's premier on AMC in the US. New episodes are every Friday.

The first episode is just setting the scene for the rest of the series who the main characters are and why they go out on their quest. It also gives you a bit more detail on the people with the helicopters seen in the WD & FTWD & just how big an organisation they are.

The pace of the episode is slow & and seems to be aimed at younger audience from the other 2 shows  but I will still watch the next few episodes to see how it progresses

AMC & Skybound have announced that The Walking Dead will conclude in 2022 with a 24 episode season 11.
But to replace it there will be 2 new spin offs one focused on [spoiler]Carol & Daryl[/spoiler] planned for 2023 & "Tales of the Walking Dead" an episodic anthology series.

https://www.skybound.com/shows/the-walking-dead/the-walking-dead-to-conclude-with-extended-eleventh-season-in-2022

Added spoiler tags to avoid likely spoiler—IP

Dave Pugh is selling some of his original M.A.S.K artwork from as little as £30 +£7p&p to help raise funds for his "BusFare" charity
https://www.facebook.com/pg/artist.david.pugh/photos/?tab=album&album_id=3304561959566110&ref=page_internal

John McCrea has launched a new Kickstarter "The Mighty World of McCREA"
The 200 page book is a collection of his 30 plus years of creator-owned work and will be the first volume of 4. It will include the Atheist (with Phil Hester), the Tosspot Four (with Garth Ennis), Dinosaurs Rool (with Nick Abadzis), an all-new story, Rocket Station Charlie (with Gerry Duggan) and many other stories!
John sees it as an old style annual along side the stories there will be puzzle pages, interviews, articles, prose stories and more! so he aims to have it out for Christmas

levels start from £25+p&p for a PDF & soft cover version of the book and signed printers to £800 upgrade that comes with Hitman original artwork
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnmccrea/the-mighty-world-of-mccrea

SDCC @home Walking Dead panel have announced that the Finale will be released on the 4th October 2020 with the first episode of TWD World Beyond straight afterwards.

Also there will be six extra episodes to be shot and should be released early 2021 with season 11 hopefully be released in it's normal spot of October 2021

Skybound have announced that from October they will be releasing The Walking Dead Deluxe a new coloured version of the original series with Dave McCaig colouring the original work of artists Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. The first issue is due on October 7, with the plan to release two issues monthly from November onward.



https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-comic-book-series-stages-full-color-comeback-1303703

Robert Kirkman's Skybound entertainment are holding their own online con Skybound Xpo on the 18th and 19th July.
The Xpo will feature a series of panels, creator interviews and footage of upcoming Skybound comics & games, all of which will be livestreamed on Skybound Entertainment's YouTube channel and the company's official Facebook page.

https://www.ign.com/articles/skybound-xpo-robert-kirkman-fire-power-walking-dead-comic-con

Pat Mills has an interview in the I newspaper's Culture section today promotion his new Spacewarp project

https://inews.co.uk/culture/2000ad-creator-pat-mills-judge-dredd-comic-books-spacewarp-451616

NICE Comic Com have put up for auction on eBay some original  Alan Moore scripts donated to them by Alan Davis.

there is the script for D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood and 4 Marvelman / Miracleman scripts along with a  Phoenix Jean Grey Original art by Alan Davis

they also have several signed comics from various writers and artists as well

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ssn=paneltopanel&_ipg=192&rt=nc

The people behind Free Comic Book Day have announced that to help comic shops recover and help with social distancing that this year we will have Free Comic Book Summer this is scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 9. Comic shops will be receiving five or six FCBD titles along side their weekly shipments during each week of the promotional window.This will allow comic shops to choose how they decide to run their own release by either doing daily, weekly or monthly event or wait until the restrictions are completely lifted and hold one big event.
The Asterix the Gaul FCBD issue is released on 15th July and the best of 2000ad is released on 26th August

Full details and release dates : https://freecomicbookday.com/Article/243418?fbclid=IwAR3S2TcoauGbDBHxiA5Cuq2PbT8jkQ96pQo3dMNidAEpy9lZpKt4sTNAMPQ

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere but I just came across the 2020 Eisner Awards nomination and noticed that a few past & present 2000ad droids are up for nomination

Best continuing Series: the Dreaming, by Simon Spurrier, Immortal Hulk, by Al Ewing
Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Bad Weekend by Sean Phillips
Best Penciller/Inker; Steve Pugh, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
Best Lettering: Jim Campbell, Black Badge, Coda (BOOM Studios); Giant Days, Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship (BOOM Box!); Rocko's Modern Afterlife  (KaBOOM!); At the End of Your Tether (Lion Forge); Blade Runner 2019 (Titan); Mall, The Plot, Wasted Space (Vault)
Best Comics-Related Book & Best Publication Design: Rian Hughes 

Full list of nominations www.comic-con.org/awards/2020-eisner-awards-nominations

I know it's short notice but I just found this so for anyone missing their fix of comic cons there is a Stay At Home Comic Con this weekend
https://stayhomecomiccon.nl/

Just found out that Forces TV are now showing 2 episode a day Monday- Friday of the classic show Sapphire and Steel from 11pm starting tonight 1 June and repeating 5 episodes at 2am on Sundays  alongside programs like Sliders, the Equalizer and The Dukes of Hazzard

I was wondering if anyone in the Colchester area are having delivery issues with their 2000AD subscription, as I have not received mine on a Saturday for over 8 weeks, sometimes not arriving until Thursday.

I am not sure if this is a local postal problems or if it is my postman deliberately holding back my issues as I have just found out that he has a dislike to me because I order comics online and as I am still able to go to work at the moment I am not at home to collect them, so he keeps taking them to the local collection centre making me have to travel there to collect them.

So I am wanting to find out if anyone else is having delivery problems with their subscription in the Colchester area to see if I need to complain about my postman or if it is just a local issue.

Thanks

Now on Kickstarter is a new graphic novel Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future

MADI is a 260-page road trip graphic novel set in the near future, by film director Duncan Jones (MOON, SOURCE CODE) and writer Alex de Campi (BAD KARMA, BLADE RUNNER), and drawn by some of comics' most exciting artists including Chris Weston, Glenn Fabry, Simon Bisley, Rufus Dayglo and Dylan Teague.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/z2comics/madi-once-upon-a-time-in-the-future?ref=user_menu

James McAvoy has been cast as Dream in Audible's new version of DC's Sandman comic

The Audible drama will debut July 15 and adapts the first three volumes Preludes & Nocturnes, The Doll's House and Dream Country. It has been adapted and directed by Dirk Maggs known for his work on things like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the Radio1 audio versions of Judge Dredd

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-mcavoy-lead-sandman-audible-drama-1294222