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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by Max Headroom - Today at 09:05:18 PMI'm a bit dubious about this year's Sci-Fi Special, as I was never a great fan of these Elseworlds-type crossovers. I will buy it (to show solidarity and all that) but don't have very high expectations as, for me, these 'alternative' stories never seem to work.
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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 08:21:43 PMQuote from: Richard on Today at 05:50:43 PMdo you need to get a new model release form every time?
If the contract existed with a company that's no longer a legal entity, or no longer the holder of the rights to the material, then it's possible that the contract itself might be void. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer, but if there's even a question mark on that score, given the very limited audience for this material, I could see why any potential publisher would give it a miss.
No one wants to get tied up in a legal mess over material that's never going to yield more than a marginal profit, at best...
EDIT TO ADD: Also, IPC/Fleetway were pretty rubbish about issuing contract/release forms to dot the 'T's and cross the 'I's on this stuff. See: the Zenith/Hilary Robinson messes.
(Also, not a high value property, and neither Kev nor I would ever make a fuss about it, but we were told '"The Inspectre" is a Dredd series so you don't own the rights to it.' I'm not sure that would stand up in court without a piece of paper with our signatures on the bottom. Like I said, their legal department was pretty rubbish—Games Workshop certainly made sure we'd signed over our rights on penalty of the forfeiture of our immortal souls.)
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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by broodblik - Today at 07:01:32 PM
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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by nxylas - Today at 06:22:05 PMQuote from: judgeurko on Today at 05:18:30 PMKind of. It's taking separate 2000AD strips and mashing them together. The Red Seas and Stickleback, Zombo and Harlem Heroes etc.Quote from: judgeurko on 19 April, 2024, 06:50:00 PMWho is Judge Alpha?Oh its just basically Elseworlds.
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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by nxylas - Today at 06:18:00 PMQuote from: Richard on Today at 05:50:43 PMI love the stories Pat Mills was writing for 2000AD in the 80s, but his work on Dan Dare for the new Eagle was, to put it as kindly as possible, not his best. I can live without it being reprinted.I don't know how much of it was really his work. It was adapted from a film treatment by him and John Wagner, and their names appear on the credits, but I know that at least the first episode was actually scripted by Barrie Tomlinson.
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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by Richard - Today at 05:50:43 PMQuote from: Steve Green on 22 April, 2024, 09:16:21 PMNot the Photo-strips though, I vaguely remember something about model release forms could be an issue (not necessarily for Doomlord but in general)Really? The stories already been published, do you need to get a new model release form every time?
I love the stories Pat Mills was writing for 2000AD in the 80s, but his work on Dan Dare for the new Eagle was, to put it as kindly as possible, not his best. I can live without it being reprinted.
Would be great if Doomlord and Bloodfang could get another outing thought, they're brilliant. I say publish and be damned! (It worked for Zenith.)
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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by judgeurko - Today at 05:18:30 PMQuote from: judgeurko on 19 April, 2024, 06:50:00 PMWho is Judge Alpha?Oh its just basically Elseworlds.
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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by karlos - Today at 04:37:01 PMI asked Pat Mills years ago (because that's how I roll) about reprints of his New Eagle Dan Dare stuff. Wish I could remember his exact wording but it was basically "it's not happening". I still live in hope, though.
Put me down as someone else who'd love to see The Computer Warrior get a reprint, though. It was batshit and I loved it.
Put me down as someone else who'd love to see The Computer Warrior get a reprint, though. It was batshit and I loved it.
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General / Re: Wrap It Up
Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 03:35:34 PM18 - Rogue Trooper
All of that Rogue Trooper, and only two wraparounds! And the OG Rogue is relegated to the back cover of a lesser known special. Rectify this malfeasance, Thargnanimous, Bringer of Thrills!
Prog 687's Battlefield Blues (from 1990, by Will Simpson) gives us the OG Fr1day, before it all went a bit Pete Tong.
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The Rogue Trooper Action Special's Future War (from 1996, by Dave Gibbons) is something of a hydra, with Fr1day rocking the front, and Venus Bluegenes providing covering fire. Poor old OG Rogue is a ghost in the sky. (Recently, in-comic, those three characters had all met, and OG RT had suffered perma-death.) It's a bit like that inside, with two Fr1day tales, one for Venus and a colored reprint of the first RT strip from prog 228.
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All of that Rogue Trooper, and only two wraparounds! And the OG Rogue is relegated to the back cover of a lesser known special. Rectify this malfeasance, Thargnanimous, Bringer of Thrills!
Prog 687's Battlefield Blues (from 1990, by Will Simpson) gives us the OG Fr1day, before it all went a bit Pete Tong.
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The Rogue Trooper Action Special's Future War (from 1996, by Dave Gibbons) is something of a hydra, with Fr1day rocking the front, and Venus Bluegenes providing covering fire. Poor old OG Rogue is a ghost in the sky. (Recently, in-comic, those three characters had all met, and OG RT had suffered perma-death.) It's a bit like that inside, with two Fr1day tales, one for Venus and a colored reprint of the first RT strip from prog 228.
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Next: Simons say...
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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 03:29:15 PMYeah. Computer Warrior would be a nightmare now. Even though the games were mostly published by a smallish number of companies (mostly US Gold), the rights for those now would be all over the shop. Not least given that a number of them were arcade conversions owned by companies like Capcom and Sega. And some were film licenses (Ghostbusters; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) to further complicate matters.