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Title: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 29 April, 2020, 05:17:24 PM
One of WhatCulture's top ten lists this month has featured a 2000AD character...


10 Shocking Times Supervillains Quit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ap4jC3QIzc)
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 29 April, 2020, 05:17:38 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 29 April, 2020, 05:17:24 PM
One of WhatCulture's top ten lists this month features a 2000AD character...


10 Shocking Times Supervillains Quit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ap4jC3QIzc)
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 29 April, 2020, 05:26:13 PM
No idea why editing that turned it into a quote.


Anyway... when will I learn - first rule of the internet "never read the comments section"

QuoteJudge death looks like the Batman who laughs
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 09:41:54 AM
There's an outside world now?
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 April, 2020, 10:09:17 AM
Where's that Judge Death story from (actually there's a website to help for that isn't there!) for some reason its completely slipped my memory?
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:11:29 AM
The Villains Takeover Special. An odd one to pick.

Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 April, 2020, 10:18:47 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:11:29 AM
The Villains Takeover Special. An odd one to pick.

Oh yes - God that wasn't long ago was it. My bloody memory!
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 30 April, 2020, 10:22:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:11:29 AM
The Villains Takeover Special. An odd one to pick.

Also odd that they picked what was essentially a Future-Shock as an even higher number - not that I'm complaining about Tooth exposure in that Outside World.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:39:41 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 30 April, 2020, 10:22:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:11:29 AM
The Villains Takeover Special. An odd one to pick.

Also odd that they picked what was essentially a Future-Shock as an even higher number - not that I'm complaining about Tooth exposure in that Outside World.

The mystery ingredient is Free. As in, pundit's only.exposure to recent proggage is FCBD. So doing its job!
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 30 April, 2020, 12:33:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:39:41 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 30 April, 2020, 10:22:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 10:11:29 AM
The Villains Takeover Special. An odd one to pick.

Also odd that they picked what was essentially a Future-Shock as an even higher number - not that I'm complaining about Tooth exposure in that Outside World.

The mystery ingredient is Free. As in, pundit's only.exposure to recent proggage is FCBD. So doing its job!

Can't blame him too much on that as I still have FCBD comics from years ago that I've not read yet (not from Rebellion, obviously).  Of course, I'm not getting paid to read and write about comics...



Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: TordelBack on 30 April, 2020, 03:02:18 PM
Nah, it's a good thing for Tharg - it shows that the extra effort that goes into Rebellion's FCBD offerings pays off in terms of wider awareness. There's no way someone who regularly buys the comic would have promoted those specific stories (fine though they are) into that kind of Top Ten, but they clearly had access to - and appreciated - the Villains Special. It's a positive.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Richard on 30 April, 2020, 09:05:54 PM
The Villains Special was a brilliant idea, they must have appealed to so many people who otherwise might not have tried it.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 May, 2020, 10:10:54 AM
I was listening to Radio National's "RN Breakfast" on ABC radio this morning and they were talking about the World Health Organisation's ability to investigate the origins of the corona virus.  One expert they talked to said (as best I can remember) "Although we sometimes want them to go in there as judge, jury and executioner, like Judge Dredd, the WHO is more like Miss Marple."

I've had a quick listen through parts of the programme again (it's available here[/url) but haven't been able to locate it.  The show runs for three hours each morning, but the on line/download version is only two and a half hours, so it was probably in one of the news segments omitted from the version available here. (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/19-05-20/12261886)
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 May, 2020, 10:13:07 AM
(Wow, mucked up that url tag and zero edit window to fix.  If only Rebellion could branch into software coding.)
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: jrdd on 20 June, 2020, 11:41:15 AM
This weekend's 'i' newspaper contains a whole page interview with Pat Mills...

It's promoting his new Spacewarp anthology (https://www.spacewarpcomic.com/ (https://www.spacewarpcomic.com/), out next month), but also covers his career and (briefly) views on current 2000AD and British comics in general.

Probably covers familiar territory for those following this forum, but pleasing to see a new SF comic promoted up front in the news section of a national paper.  Spacewarp sounds interesting too, promising tales of giant viruses and marauding dinosaurs...
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: TordelBack on 20 June, 2020, 12:00:09 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 May, 2020, 10:10:54 AM
"...the WHO is more like Miss Marple."

If only.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Leigh S on 05 July, 2020, 09:42:22 PM
Have just been forced to watch "The Dirt" (DEATH TO FALSE METAL!) and in an early scene showing a young Nikki Sixx, he is wearing the classic Titan Judge Death/Judge Mortis  "You have been judged..." T-shirt!  Sadly the scene in question is set in 1978 so the entire film was runed for me without me even ahving to bring my hatred for the Crue into the equation, much to the annoyance of my wife, who did not appreciate me pointing out the anachronistic T shirt and the many and various reasons this was ALL WRONG.... it was like "Almost Famous" and Joni Mitchell's Blue / Cortez the Killer all over again.....
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 06 July, 2020, 09:33:54 AM
Quote from: Leigh S on 05 July, 2020, 09:42:22 PM
Have just been forced to watch "The Dirt" (DEATH TO FALSE METAL!) and in an early scene showing a young Nikki Sixx, he is wearing the classic Titan Judge Death/Judge Mortis  "You have been judged..." T-shirt!  Sadly the scene in question is set in 1978 so the entire film was runed for me without me even ahving to bring my hatred for the Crue into the equation, much to the annoyance of my wife, who did not appreciate me pointing out the anachronistic T shirt and the many and various reasons this was ALL WRONG.... it was like "Almost Famous" and Joni Mitchell's Blue / Cortez the Killer all over again.....

If you're talking about anachronisms, shouldn't that be Mötley Crüe? :P
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Trooper McFad on 22 July, 2020, 10:47:19 AM
Working from home and Big Bang on in the back ground and I look up and there on cue a scene in the comic book store and on the shelf a full cover shot of Batman V Dredd - Vendetta in Gotham.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 22 July, 2020, 12:29:06 PM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 22 July, 2020, 10:47:19 AM
Working from home and Big Bang on in the back ground and I look up and there on cue a scene in the comic book store and on the shelf a full cover shot of Batman V Dredd - Vendetta in Gotham.

Big Bang as in Big Bang Theory?
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Trooper McFad on 22 July, 2020, 12:32:35 PM
Yes Big Bang Theory
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 12 August, 2020, 10:55:25 PM
Not that I spend all my time on whatculture (but I do sometimes put it on as background entertainment)...

10 Most Brutal Comic Book Villains (https://youtu.be/-N0xn2GwyB0?t=94).
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 13 August, 2020, 01:56:26 AM
And another:

10 Worst Things Comic Villains Have Done to Regular People (https://youtu.be/KBUAKFE-e7w?t=531).
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 10 February, 2021, 12:25:51 AM
Midwinter Minis: Judge Dredd in Warhammer 40K (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b47J6j_LX-Y)

As the title of the vid may suggest, Midwinter Minis is a Warhammer painting youtube channel.  This week they've been painting a few JD minis (and something else)...
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 16 March, 2021, 03:12:12 PM
Apparently the Superdry clothing brand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWtn8TM8ovE) was inspired (at least partially) by everybody's favourite anthology comic.

specific reference at 2:54 (https://youtu.be/VWtn8TM8ovE?t=174).
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Bad Andy on 30 April, 2021, 10:37:24 AM
Brian McClair mentioned he used to read 2000ad on his Life with Brian podcast
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: CalHab on 30 April, 2021, 11:13:28 AM
Quote from: Bad Andy on 30 April, 2021, 10:37:24 AM
Brian McClair mentioned he used to read 2000ad on his Life with Brian podcast

I always thought he was an intelligent player.
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 22 November, 2021, 10:13:56 AM
World's second richest person uses Judge Dredd meme aimed at world's richest person (https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-origin-loses-lawsuit-spacex-nasa-contract-elon-musk-dredd-2021-11).
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 November, 2021, 10:04:21 PM
Tharg should sue him for IP theft. A billion should do it.

And they say it's from the 1995 Judge Dredd film, when it's clearly from Dredd 2012
Title: Re: mentions of 2000AD in the outside world
Post by: sheridan on 23 November, 2021, 08:47:25 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 November, 2021, 10:04:21 PM
Tharg should sue him for IP theft. A billion should do it.

And they say it's from the 1995 Judge Dredd film, when it's clearly from Dredd 2012

"Tharg, forgive them, for they do not know what they do."

Media coverage of something you know inside out does make you wonder just how much of what they hack together is accurate the rest of the time though...