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Who is Judge Alpha? 

Oh its just basically Elseworlds.

Kind of. It's taking separate 2000AD strips and mashing them together. The Red Seas and Stickleback, Zombo and Harlem Heroes etc.

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.

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.

I checked on the Downthetubes "who owns what" page, and it looks like it is only Doomlord that is disputed. Apparently, John and Alan challenged "The Dan Dare Corporation" to prove that he owned the rights to Doomlord, and he was unable to do so, which makes any reprint unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Isn't there some dispute as to whether the "Dan Dare Corporation" (Colin to his mates) actually owns the rights to anything other than Dan Dare? They claim to own the rights to all the Eagle characters, but I have heard it said that they are on dodgy ground legally (obligatory disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer).

It's Judge Urko, not Jesus Urko. As a letterer, I'd have thought your attention to detail would be better, Jim. New glasses, maybe?

I remember Tom Frame saying at a con that one time when he was on a tight deadline, he managed to misspell his own name on a 2000AD credit card (the old handwritten Compu-73E type), writing it as Tom Frane.

I do remember "Aiieee! Spider!" from the early Judge Dredd story You Bet Your Life.

Wow! I just looked it up and you're right. Never seen that before. Very 90's.

To quote Kent Brockman (who was talking about the '60s), "what a shrill, pointless decade that was".

I haven't seen the film yet, but calquing it onto current red state/blue state geography would be a lazy and obvious option, and doesn't seem to be what Garland is interested in.

Assuming they can accommodate the monarch's head and denomination

The ears might be a problem.

Possibly a bit more Lord Flashheart.

Woof woof!

Where is this from?

Judge Dredd Annual 1981

I knew I'd seen it before, I just couldn't remember where.

I feel this is pertinent...

Where is this from? I trust the editorial droid who spelled Garry Leach's and Brett Ewins' name wrong was set to Mek-Quake.

kind of a well-spoken but forceful posh lad.

Now you've made me think of Hugh Laurie in Blackadder Goes Forth ("Permission to shout hurrah very loudly sir!")

Has Uncle Pat ever said who Nemesis sounds like? I know he's fond of putting voices to his characters (usually Robert Mitchum's).

I agree that the Terror Tale felt like a backdoor pilot. And did they have to call the mysterious organisation Herne, when we already have the Herne and Shuck stories?