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#1
Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by Steve Green - Today at 10:10:07 PMI don't think there's enough interest to warrant the expense.
Vagueness about rights + these kinds of stories get reprints because they already exist (bar scanning and any repro tidying)
It would depend on whoever wanting to publish it, prove it, then probably running a kickstarter to pay for everything else, that hitting the target etc.
Seems more trouble than its worth - more than Carlos changing Lobo out for the Bob the Galactic Bum story.
Vagueness about rights + these kinds of stories get reprints because they already exist (bar scanning and any repro tidying)
It would depend on whoever wanting to publish it, prove it, then probably running a kickstarter to pay for everything else, that hitting the target etc.
Seems more trouble than its worth - more than Carlos changing Lobo out for the Bob the Galactic Bum story.
#2
Prog / Re: Prog 2379 - Humanity on th...
Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 07:14:42 PMCover: sort of last week's cover. This is happening a lot these days.
Fudge Bread vs. Mega-Shako: Dredd should take some advice from Vito Corleone - never tell your enemy what you're thinking! This also leads to a bit of a parsing crime (5 months cube-time, Williams!) with Dredd's unwieldy "I promise you this, however, creep: I will get you back to the city and you'll see the inside of a cube for what you've done." Parsing crimes aside, this is till solid gold.
Blackhawk: More parsing criminality here, but then it is hell. Perhaps Titivillus has bled over from the Megazine. "For fear is the true chains that keep us slaves"? I know, I know - you can't say "for fears are the true chains", and you can't say "fear is the true chain". Anyway, it was a tense moment for Spartacus, so we can forgive him. Unless we're Hannibal.
■■■■■: somehow some people meeting and walking through some hallways is thrillingly disturbing and works as a terrible cliffhanger full of foreboding for the horrors to come.
Periwinkle Supreme - entirely worth it for the "malignant Mr. Punch outbreak". (And as long as Depp's a balloon, we can carry on.)
Salamander Irk - even worse, emotionally, than Maitland! But is it as final as it looks?
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In the pipe, five by five. And a win for Titivillus.
Fudge Bread vs. Mega-Shako: Dredd should take some advice from Vito Corleone - never tell your enemy what you're thinking! This also leads to a bit of a parsing crime (5 months cube-time, Williams!) with Dredd's unwieldy "I promise you this, however, creep: I will get you back to the city and you'll see the inside of a cube for what you've done." Parsing crimes aside, this is till solid gold.
Blackhawk: More parsing criminality here, but then it is hell. Perhaps Titivillus has bled over from the Megazine. "For fear is the true chains that keep us slaves"? I know, I know - you can't say "for fears are the true chains", and you can't say "fear is the true chain". Anyway, it was a tense moment for Spartacus, so we can forgive him. Unless we're Hannibal.
■■■■■: somehow some people meeting and walking through some hallways is thrillingly disturbing and works as a terrible cliffhanger full of foreboding for the horrors to come.
Periwinkle Supreme - entirely worth it for the "malignant Mr. Punch outbreak". (And as long as Depp's a balloon, we can carry on.)
Salamander Irk - even worse, emotionally, than Maitland! But is it as final as it looks?
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In the pipe, five by five. And a win for Titivillus.
#3
Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...
Last post by M.I.K. - Today at 05:07:16 PMRE: Doomlord photo strips...
You could always get someone toredraw them.
You could always get someone to
#4
Prog / Re: Prog 2379 - Humanity on th...
Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 05:02:13 PMQuote from: NapalmKev on Today at 04:35:43 PMQuote from: AlexF on Today at 04:22:55 PMOn Indigo Prime - was there ever a time in which the series was about Agents encountering and (attempting) to solve problems?The series 'Killing Time' is exactly that. Without spoiling - two agents attempt to stop the end of a reality. It's self contained and is absolute Gold.
Kev has it right. In the early days, we got three operative-pair tales:
Winwood & Cord: Downtime (680-681)
Fegredo & Brecht: How the Land Lied (682)
Winwood and Cord: Killing Time (735-744)
There are also the Fervent & Lobe tales, but those operatives start off in a Tyranny Rex story:
Tyranny Rex: Soft Bodies (595-598, 604)
Fervent & Lobe: The Issigri Variations (642-649)
Fervent & Lobe: Holiday on Ice (WS3)
#5
Prog / Re: Prog 2379 - Humanity on th...
Last post by NapalmKev - Today at 04:35:43 PMQuote from: AlexF on Today at 04:22:55 PMOn Indigo Prime - was there ever a time in which the series was about Agents encountering and (attempting) to solve problems?
The series 'Killing Time' is exactly that. Without spoiling - two agents attempt to stop the end of a reality. It's self contained and is absolute Gold.
Cheers
#6
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...
Last post by sintec - Today at 04:34:56 PMYeah I think the curation has largely been spot on. A few books I've not enjoyed but that's par for the course with something like this. It really is shaping up to be a comprehensive collection of the comic. Just wish I'd managed to be a bit more patient and not tried to fill in the gaps earlier on as I'm ending up with a few dupes now. Definitely being more cautious with buying new books from Rebellion at the moment to avoid anymore of that.
The Out seems like another plausible candidate. Think there's enough of that to fill a book.
The Out seems like another plausible candidate. Think there's enough of that to fill a book.
#7
Prog / Re: Prog 2379 - Humanity on th...
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 04:33:26 PMThere was always an element of corporate politics (and satirising that), but I don't recall it being to the degree it's impacted on Kek-W's version of the strip.
#8
Prog / Re: Prog 2379 - Humanity on th...
Last post by AlexF - Today at 04:22:55 PMOn Indigo Prime - was there ever a time in which the series was about Agents encountering and (attempting) to solve problems with reality, or has it always been about vairous politicking within/around the Agency itself? I do enjoy the madcap nature of Kek-W's imagination but I'm getting a bit bored of the boardroom antics of the over-arching plot here.
#9
Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...
Last post by AlexF - Today at 04:17:59 PMFunnily enough I recently discovered My Marvellous Year too, it's excellent - the hosts have that jokey/laughter-based dynamic that works so well for Fox and Conrad. I'm still listening back to teh end of year round-ups and have only made it to 1984 - long way to go!
I also should confess that my peak 'teen Marvel comics fandom' period was 1993, when Events such as Spider-Man Maximum Carnage and the X-cutioner's Song properly rocked my world. So no one should give any heed to any of my opinons about what is a good comic.
I also should confess that my peak 'teen Marvel comics fandom' period was 1993, when Events such as Spider-Man Maximum Carnage and the X-cutioner's Song properly rocked my world. So no one should give any heed to any of my opinons about what is a good comic.
#10
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 03:53:51 PMI imagine Dreadnoughts is a cert, assuming the page count works. More broadly, exploring existing trades appears to be a good way to guess some of what's combing up, combined with completing (to whatever degree that's possible) existing strips.
On that latter point, I think the 2000 AD selection has done very well. It feels like a smartly curated set of books that cares about its fan base a whole lot more than other collections. It's perhaps unfair to gripe about the Marvel volumes (given the size of the catalogue compared to 2000 AD), but it was comparatively scattergun, leaving you with bits of arcs rather than the whole thing. And I recall the Transformers one bizarrely stopped not that long before it would have compiled the whole IDW run.
So hats off to Matt and whoever else has been making the decisions here. Although my straining bookshelves are perhaps a little less happy about all this.
On that latter point, I think the 2000 AD selection has done very well. It feels like a smartly curated set of books that cares about its fan base a whole lot more than other collections. It's perhaps unfair to gripe about the Marvel volumes (given the size of the catalogue compared to 2000 AD), but it was comparatively scattergun, leaving you with bits of arcs rather than the whole thing. And I recall the Transformers one bizarrely stopped not that long before it would have compiled the whole IDW run.
So hats off to Matt and whoever else has been making the decisions here. Although my straining bookshelves are perhaps a little less happy about all this.