I've started my own A-Z of 2000 AD project and (of course) started with 'K', and Kingdom (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Kingdom/kingdom.html).
It has to be off-forum because the chart and table have some groovy, interactive functionality that can't be replicated here.
Tech note: table hover components sort-of work as long-holds on touch-screen devices, but really this is designed for pointer-driven interfaces.
Wow Funt Solo that's going to become something pretty damned fantastic. A resource to sit shouler to shoulder with Barney - fantastic stuff and I look forward to watching it develop!
I like your first entry looking forward to the rest.
That's really cool and potentially really useful. If I may be a little autistic for a minute; could you give the episode count a different Y-axis on the right for clarity? Also, the table could be a little bigger and the headings should be consistent with the text (episodes=parts) and don't need to be abbreviated.
Hope you don't mind the whinge, great work :thumbsup:
That's brilliant. Really love the clarity of the table and graph - looking forward to more.
beautiful and practical! A double threat for the ages.
Quote from: Lorenzo on 31 March, 2021, 08:20:41 AM
That's really cool and potentially really useful. If I may be a little autistic for a minute; could you give the episode count a different Y-axis on the right for clarity? Also, the table could be a little bigger and the headings should be consistent with the text (episodes=parts) and don't need to be abbreviated.
Hope you don't mind the whinge, great work :thumbsup:
Ooh - thanks - these are good ideas.
The chart is from a free system (chart.js), so I'm not sure if I can (easily) add a second Y-axis on the right. However - what you can do is click on the key labels at the top of the chart to toggle the two data streams on or off, which is pretty cool. Not obvious, though - so maybe I should make that clearer.
Yes, to consistency w. episodes/parts. I'll fix that.
I hear you on abbreviations and table size. Some of these tables will have additional columns (for writer and artist, where they are different by episode) so some will be wider. Still, you're not wrong. I'm swithering.
I've been doing some format tests on my A to Z (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html), so you can now peruse Kingdom, Kingmaker, Kings of Cult, Kola Kommandos and Lawless.
My partial automation process seems quite fluid now, but it'll still take a while to populate.
Thing that surprised me: I couldn't find anywhere on the 2000AD shop that just had (for example) a list of all the Kingdom graphic novels on one page. Am I missing something or is the shop just a bit crap not easy to find stuff on?
Wow if your going to go to the level of detail of 'Kings of Cult' you are going to be doing a lot of work! That's fantastic stuff.
Looking really good. Shaping up to be an awesome resource
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 April, 2021, 05:04:03 AM...
Thing that surprised me: I couldn't find anywhere on the 2000AD shop that just had (for example) a list of all the Kingdom graphic novels on one page. Am I missing something or is the shop just a bit crap not easy to find stuff on?
No, you are quite right, the shop is a bit crap. Even the search window has disappeared. The best you can hope for is to select one graphic novel and scroll down to see the others that are available in the series. I find it quite irritating trying to discover what has been collected and which episodes they contain.
Excellent work BTW.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 14 April, 2021, 06:37:13 AM
Wow if your going to go to the level of detail of 'Kings of Cult' you are going to be doing a lot of work! That's fantastic stuff.
Thanks, Colin. It was a lot of work, but the data's already sitting in a spreadsheet (all the Interrogations, Flix, Mix, Ro-Jaw's Reviews, Bile Ducts et al) now, and just needs processed into my web-page format using a cunning system I've devised. So cunning, you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.
Reckon I could get it down to about ten minutes per page (what with finding a graphic to put on there, and coming up with a one-line descriptor), so the entire project should only take ... oh dear ... one hundred hours (ah ... not counting Dredd, because that's complicated).
Tremble in awe as I include Aquila, Cursed Earth Koburn and Quilli in my A-Z (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html).
I'll do them in a priority order if you make requests - so far it's been relatively random .
Oh interesting I figured you'd be doing in kinda alphabetical from Ks. In that case can I ask for a biggie Sinister Dexter to get up there?
And somewhere deep within the depths of City Hall, Barney's video-smile unaccountably falters. His technician, Murphy, casts an eye over the feed levels , and frowns - if he didn't know better (and being this long in the tooth, he should) it's almost as if Barney was... shuddering.
'What's up, pal?'
'I... I don' t know, Murph. I suddenly felt a bit... peculiar.'
'Ah.' Murph starts to slide his hand toward the Justice Department emergency call button. He counts Barney a friend, but he also knows which side his synthi-bread is buttered. 'Like Christmas at Des O' Connor block peculiar?'
Barney's down-home voice simulates an uneasy laugh. 'You a historian now, Murph? That's ancient history! No, I just felt... Well, like my time is over, sort of thing.'
Murph relaxes a little. Just a touch of computer senility. Honestly, he's been expecting this for a while now. 'I shouldn't worry too much, buddy. None of us goes on forever, after all - but there' s plenty of life in the old dog yet.'
None of us goes on forever... Barney ought to know that better than most. Murph replaced Brian, who caught the Chaos bug; he' d replaced Audie, who's now on artificial life-support in a Sector 12 care home; Audie replaced Wilson, after that terrible futsie business... The list is long. But still, Barney somehow never imagined it happening to him. To confront your own mortality is a terrible thing, especially when you're essentially an immortal being. 'Murph...' he asks, quietly. 'What' s the A-Z of 2000AD?'
Oh, man - I owe so much to Barney just in terms of daily usage and harvesting a bunch of data - plus, Barney can do things my A to Z is just not capable of - like searching by creator, or looking up individual issues, or checking out the covers. Whole other thread about that - but anyone in the game of replacing Barney has a mountain to climb.
As for Sinister Dexter - whoo, boy! There's just no way to fit that all on one page - you'd have to divide it up somehow. Tis funtin' inconceivable, I tell ye! I'm so overwhelmed I'm getting a frisson impossible (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/SinisterDexter/sinisterDexter1997.html).
Hmmm, if Sinister Dexter is going to be a challenge then I suppose my request for Nemesis the Warlock / associate Millsverse will be a bit tricky too?
Quote from: sheridan on 16 April, 2021, 09:05:44 AM
Hmmm, if Sinister Dexter is going to be a challenge then I suppose my request for Nemesis the Warlock / associate Millsverse will be a bit tricky too?
Some questions are easy to answer - like, clearly, Terror Tube, Killer Watt & Ego Trip all belong under the "Nemesis" banner. But what of the year 2000 series Deadlock - it's set on Termight, but Nemesis just ain't in it (unless Deadlock
is Nemesis).
Funt Solo the turn around to include Sinister Dexter does you proud. I just checked this big leather bound, gold embossed tome listing top ten of all things. And under examples of human kind there you are.
A little further on, under 'Problems you don't even wanna start unwrapping' is where to draw the line between ABC Warriors and Nemesis. Though a helpful appendix suggests leaving Deadlock under ABCs given no Nemesis and only an established common setting to unit them really... and Purity...
Yesterday it was all "does Dexter get it's own banner separate from Sinister Dexter?" and now it's the Deadlock series, that neatly straddles two banners. It's not really ABCs and it's not really Nemesis - I think I'll need to give Deadlock his own banner and then link it across (like I did with Downlode Tales and Malone).
My most recent head-scratcher is what to do with Mek-Quake's appearance in Book III. At that point, Mek-Quake wasn't part of the ABCs, so strictly I should link it back to Ro-Busters. But he does become a focal point of the ABCs later, so maybe...
It's such a cameo-role, though, rather than a strong narrative link. Maybe just a note...
That Pat Mills - he doesn't make indexing stuff easy.
I'm a few days behind, but... YOU DID SINISTER DEXTER! I could kiss you. Thanks so much! Now I can at last start my reread...
SBT
It is your and you must find your own way but I'd defo suggest any solo ABC is an off shot of ABC even if its not ABC? Mind the Mek-Quake is a very interesting dilemma - just link it to Tharg and the Nerve Centre and be done with it!
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 April, 2021, 05:40:31 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 16 April, 2021, 09:05:44 AM
Hmmm, if Sinister Dexter is going to be a challenge then I suppose my request for Nemesis the Warlock / associate Millsverse will be a bit tricky too?
Some questions are easy to answer - like, clearly, Terror Tube, Killer Watt & Ego Trip all belong under the "Nemesis" banner. But what of the year 2000 series Deadlock - it's set on Termight, but Nemesis just ain't in it (unless Deadlock is Nemesis).
Deadlock is very thematically tied to the last book of Nemesis though. Tell you what - I'd sooner include Deadlock in an incomplete Nemesis colleciton than I would Nemesis and Deadlock (The Enigmass Variations).
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 April, 2021, 06:56:31 PM
...Mek-Quake is a very interesting dilemma - just link it to Tharg and the Nerve Centre and be done with it!
*weeps quietly in a corner as he starts to index all appearances of Alec Trench*
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 April, 2021, 07:29:33 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 April, 2021, 06:56:31 PM
...Mek-Quake is a very interesting dilemma - just link it to Tharg and the Nerve Centre and be done with it!
*weeps quietly in a corner as he starts to index all appearances of Alec Trench*
Alec only appeared in two stories - one where the writer died and one where they were brought back from the dead. All those posters, however...
Quote from: Funt Solo on 15 April, 2021, 11:09:09 PM
As for Sinister Dexter - whoo, boy! There's just no way to fit that all on one page - you'd have to divide it up somehow.
On the first page, you've got 'Finnigan's Minigun' listed as 'Finnigan & Minigun'.
*GHORDLE MARDLE*
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Fixed:
- Finnigan's Minigun (thanks, DJ!)
Added:
- The Amazing Maze Dumoir
- Skip Tracer (of course)
- Nemesis the Warlock
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
New:
- art credits for each of the intro images
- Downlode Tales
- [Torquemada]
- some tabular adjustments to the Nemesis layout
- removed poster & feature data from the overall episode / page chart
Oh my God. This is some sexy, sexy stuff.
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
New:
- The 7 Wonders of the Galaxy
- Tharg's Terror Tales
- The Zaucer of Zilk
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 April, 2021, 04:48:25 AM
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Fixed:
- Finnigan's Minigun (thanks, DJ!)
Added:
- The Amazing Maze Dumoir
- Skip Tracer (of course)
- Nemesis the Warlock
Woo-hoo!
Wow I love the attention to detail - that list of all the Nemesis details is fantastic and then to add such a eclectic mix of series and go from Nemesis to 7 Wonders is just genius.
This resource truly could rival Barney!
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Big Push:
- The A.B.C. Warriors
- Blackblood
- Deadlock
- Dexter
- Great Moments in Thrill-Power
- Grey Area
- Malone
- Nemesis and Deadlock
- Scarlet Traces
- Shakara
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
It all counts:
- Mayflies
- Skizz
- The Stainless Steel Rat
Funt Solo - just want to say I've used the A-Z for the first time in anger, not just admiration. I wanted to know how far ahead Sinister Dexter's first appearance in the Winter Special was compared to their Prog appearance and had forgotten it was almost a full year!
Yay - it's got a practical use!
I'm currently fiddling with narrowing some of the columns where the tables go too wide for a 1024 pixel layout. And thinking about doing an ABC highlights table.
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I used the phrase "something something in anger" here in the US and got shocked responses - like "why were you angry?" and "it's probably not a good idea to be angry while you do a task". I don't often really, really miss Britain - but sometimes these US folk just don't understand our phrasing.
The c**ts.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 April, 2021, 05:23:12 PM
I used the phrase "something something in anger" here in the US and got shocked responses - like "why were you angry?" and "it's probably not a good idea to be angry while you do a task". I don't often really, really miss Britain - but sometimes these US folk just don't understand our phrasing..
Oh not I meant I was bloody furious I wouldn't remember and I used it then throw my laptop across the room. Those Americans have a point!
A-Z Updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
More eclectic, anthological data has been added:
- Finder & Keeper
- Firekind
- Hall of Heroes
- Hap Hazzard
- Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales
- Tharg's 3rillers
Currently trying to recall where Brass & Bland showed up in the Rogue Trooper stories.
I already have:
- The Body Looters, prog 265
- To The Ends Of Nu Earth, progs 387-392
- The Professionals, 2019 Villains Special
Does anyone recall them showing up in other stories?
Here's a list of story titles between Body Looters and To The Ends:
All Hell On The Dix-I Front
Milli-Way Sixty-Six
[Pray For War] or [Waldos]
The Assassination Run
Hats Off To Helm
The Marauders
Fort Neuro
Major Magnam
Genetic Infantryman Of Nu Earth
Bio-Wire
Milli-Com Memories
The Droidonators
Vid-Vultures
Eye Of The Traitor
First Of The Few
The 'Frisco Phog
From Hell To Eternity
Mega-Minefield
The Gasbah
Timeslip
Colonel Kovert
You Only Die Twice
Message From Milli-Com
Portrait Of A Rebel
[The War Of Words]
Just Routine
[Blind Terror] or Blinded
Death Valley
M For Murder
Ah - checked their entry in the Meg's Encyclopedia - so that adds in:
- The Assassination Run
- Eye of the Traitor
- Hunted: Furies
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Absalom
- Mechastopheles
- Survival Geeks
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- All
- tidied for width (max. 1024px).
- corrected capitalization.
- data graphs labeled where ambiguous.
- added missing Annual content (mostly features).
- table header clarifications on multi-section tables.
- A to Z landing page now has a key [suggested by Sheridan].
- A to Z Issues Key updated.
- A.B.C. Warriors split into three sub-pages.
- Nemesis the Warlock split into four sub-pages.
- Sinister Dexter expanded out to eleven sub-pages.
- Scarlet Traces now includes the War of the Worlds adaptation from 2006.
- Torquemada gets his Day in the Death [thanks to Sheridan]
- Updated 3rillers, Terror Tales (for recent stories).
Its getting better and better. Just brilliant.
Let there be no mistake: this is stonkingly good resource. It's just eaten my entire lunch, if you get my meaning.
Oh, cool! Thanks for the positive feedback and I'm glad it's useful.
I've been doing quite a bit of behind the scenes prep. for it, and am excited about the big ones: Slaine (it's gonna be biblical), Rogue Torpor (sic) and Strontium Dog(s). And as for Dredd ... still turning a few dials and adjusting knobs ("Public indecency, creep! Three months!") but that'll be a bit of a doozy.
Also daydreaming about a "continuity" section to try and put things in context for the various 'verses: Millsverse, Dreddverse, Strontiverse, Rogueverse, Cabsverse etc.
Still willing to cheat the system and favor thrills for inclusion based on requests. Any takers?
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Brass Sun
- Brink
- Insurrection
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Fixed bugs on Survival Geeks, Malone, Scarlet Traces
- Fixed selected double-writer entries for clarity
- Added media links
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Cadet Dredd
- D.R. & Quinch
- Department K
- Intestinauts
- Nikolai Dante
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 June, 2021, 05:37:54 AM
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- D.R. & Quinch
Now why doesn't that surprise me? ;-)
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Ro-Busters
- Savage
- Snapshot
- Stickleback
- Zippy Couriers
- Zombo
Pop quiz, muthafunstas!
In what story does DeMarco stop being a Judge? Is it The Scorpion Dance? Is she a civilian by the time we hit the Doomsday arc?
Ohhh she's defo a citizen in the Doomsday storyline. In my head it must happen in the Meg as I can't remember the specific story from my Prog re-read? But that might just be my shoddy memory...
Is it not the end of 'Beyond the Call of Duty'?
It's the final episode of The Scorpion Dance. Volt finds her guilty of unjudicial conduct - for kissing Dredd - and demotes her to the ranks with a proviso to undergo compulsory re-education; Demarco rankles at the re-education as she thinks she's done nothing wrong, and hands in her badge.
Thank you!
So - follow-up question - would it be true to say that she's a PI during Doomsday?
(I'm attempting to tease out DeMarco stories into two linked sections: "Judge DeMarco" and "DeMarco, PI".)
Quote from: Funt Solo on 08 June, 2021, 03:38:34 PM
Thank you!
So - follow-up question - would it be true to say that she's a PI during Doomsday?
(I'm attempting to tease out DeMarco stories into two linked sections: "Judge DeMarco" and "DeMarco, PI".)
Yeah that one's defo true - even my dodgy memory isn't going to trip me up there!
Great, thanks.
Just planning out Dreddverse contents for the A-Z, wanted to give DeMarco her dues as having two professions.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- 13 Thirteen
- Glimmer Rats
- Lenny Zero
- Night Zero / Beyond Zero / Below Zero
- R.A.M. Raiders
- Zenith
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Added an icon on the main listing for (obvious) Dreddverse content.
- Fixed a glitch where manually re-sizing the window made the chart grow exponentially taller.
I added Slaine (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Slaine/TirNanOg.html) with a biblical set of seven sections, which I didn't think too many. (Because it was just the right amount, in order to achieve the goal.)
3 (plus 4) is the magic number.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Banzai Battalion
- Caballistics, Inc.
- The Diaboliks
- Pandora Perfect
Trying to collate appearances of The Kleggs.
So far, I've got:
The Day The Law Died (JD)
Night of the Bloodbeast (JD)
The Juve Mutated Kung Fu Kleggs (JD)
The Corps
The Kleggs (M201, their own one-off)
Meatmonger (JD)
Love Hurts (JD)
Saudade (JD)
Enceladus: New Life (JD)
Undercover Klegg (JD)
Plus Helter Skelter (alt. Grampus), Ace Trucking (generic foe) & solo appearances of Sensitive Klegg.
I expect I'm missing some..?
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- The Ballad of Halo Jones
- Blackhawk
- The Corps
- Invasion!
- Judge Dredd - 1977, 1978
- Maelstrom
- [Mechanismo]
- [Rafe]
- Tharg the Mighty
- Tharg's Alien Invasions
- Tharg's Dragon Tales
- Tharg's Time Twisters
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- The Alienist
- American Reaper
- Armoured Gideon
- Disaster 1990
- Judge Dredd 1979-2000
(https://i.imgur.com/rrhmyaR.png)
I just completed the Judge Dredd (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/JudgeDredd/1977.html) section, so it now runs from 1977-2021, and includes all prog, meg & specials content*.
I've tried to do crossover links with notable characters, who will have their own sections added in time - like McGruder and Otto Sump. These linkages are there in the Dredd data if you hover on the story title, it says (e.g.) "linked to Judge Hershey".
I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of Dredd and got half my data from my age-addled brain and the other half from Barney**. So I will have missed out some links - if you happen to spot any missing bits, please let me know and I can add them in.
*Except Heavy Metal Dredd and The Lost Cases, which will have their own sections. And it only goes so far as prog 2235 and meg 432, for the moment.
**The Barney character linkages dry up around prog 1933 and meg 335, so beyond those it's all my own research.
Well that is quite an achievement!
Also LOVE the choice of image. Perfect yet not one of the go toos so freshly original.
Awesome Funt !!!!
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 26 June, 2021, 06:19:36 PM
Well that is quite an achievement!
Also LOVE the choice of image. Perfect yet not one of the go toos so freshly original.
Thanks, Colin. In dreamland, I would have a separate image for each of the years, charting something of the artistic changes over time, but image capture and editing is one of the biggest time sinks on the project, so, for now, it's just going to be that one.
What I enjoy most about this project is the pure self indulgent nerdiness of it. Much like Buttonman's Beast, it is done for the author's own amusement rather than any algorithm manipulation or social media traction. The internet, and in turn the world, would be a much better place with more Funt Solos and less Mark Zuckerbots.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Mostly I'm trying to resolve tween-entry links with these additions (so blame Armoured Gideon, mostly), but then I couldn't resist adding Feral & Foe because I just finished the first series and it rocks my world. Realm snuck in as well. Demonic pact, probably.
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Abelard Snazz
- Ace Trucking Co.
- Agent Rat
- Angel
- Feral & Foe
- Harry Twenty on the High Rock
- The Helltrekkers
- The Mind of Wolfie Smith
- Realm of the Damned
- Reaper Files
- Rick Random
- Robo-Hunter [3 blends]
- Shako
- The V.C.s
[pedant alert]
I notice under Judge Dredd you have either accidentally shifted every Meg by one month or you think each year ends with a January ;)
Meg 201 is January 2003, Meg 214 is Jan 2004, M227 is Jan 2005, &c. etc.
:thumbsup:
Quote from: Lorenzo on 28 June, 2021, 12:44:27 PM
[pedant alert]
Safe to say you're in a safe place on
this thread!
Quote from: Lorenzo on 28 June, 2021, 12:44:27 PM
[pedant alert]
or you think each year ends with a January ;)
Dunno, have we specified which Calendar we are using?
Don't forget Russia celebrates the October Revolution but the rest of the world thinks it happened in November ...
Quote from: Lorenzo on 28 June, 2021, 12:44:27 PM
[pedant alert]
I notice under Judge Dredd you have either accidentally shifted every Meg by one month or you think each year ends with a January ;)
Meg 201 is January 2003, Meg 214 is Jan 2004, M227 is Jan 2005, &c. etc.
:thumbsup:
Hail fellow pedant and well met!
I'm entirely willing to accept that I may be wrong about my year-placement on some publications (especially around the dec/jan barrier, naturally), but something made me do it that way - probably to do with cover dates not being publication dates and suchlike. (You probably already know that most monthly publications are cover dated for when they should be taken
off the shelves.)
There's also that "looks like a Xmas issue, I think I'll just put it in December" motive. Could partly be that.
We should have a sub-forum of pedants to make a ruling on this. :)
Just to follow up, you can see Meg 214 on Barney (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles) - it has a cover date of 13th January, 2004, but the cover says "MONSTER Christmas ISSUE", and it comes with a 2004 calendar (which you'd want to supply just prior to 2004, one would hope).
It does get bundled with 2004 when you buy it off Rebellion, but their bundles don't always match the actual publication date.
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/megazine/mediumres/214.jpg)
In my publication spreadsheet, I have Meg 214 published alongside Festive Prog 2004, then Meg 215 alongside prog 1372 (the second prog of 2005).
Caveat: still willing to accept I'm wrong.
I think I get where you're coming from; the cover date has almost nothing to do with when it is available on the shelves. However, if you don't use that 'metric' to classify them, then what do you use? The in-shop-date is variable and isn't on the cover. So, if you just rank them by issue number there is no point in ranking them by year... and then it gets a bit confusing.
I think you're pretty much stuck with using what is actually printed on the cover otherwise only you will know what the date means and this isn't Through the Looking-Glass.
The ones I really have a problem with are the 'Christmas' Progs. They are all wrong! I don't know who dreamt up the alternate Prog numbers, but it was a bad idea. Progs 2000, 2001, 2002 etc all the way up to 2015 should be in the previous year. Prog 2000 is Christmas 1999. Sure, they are end of year double issues, but if somebody asks me where I was for Christmas 2000 I don't think they mean 1999! Otherwise, that way madness lies! ;)
Let's not get started on the Winter Specials though. They appear to sport the correct date, but Winter is from December to March... ::)
The available date (and thus publication year) of any given Prog or Meg is the cover date of the previous issue + 1. However, for the purposes of "best of year X" polls, the year end Prog should always be considered as part of the following (cover date) year as usually a bunch of new stories start in that issue.
Can't say I agree with that. Cataloguing should be based on what is consistently measurable: the cover date. Whether or not a new story starts in it doesn't alter the year of publication. Plenty of stories start and end throughout the year. I think I'll stick with how they are listed on here: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/2000-ad (https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/2000-ad)
Quote from: Lorenzo on 29 June, 2021, 11:04:43 AM
I don't know who dreamt up the alternate Prog numbers, but it was a bad idea. Progs 2000, 2001, 2002 etc all the way up to 2015 should be in the previous year. Prog 2000 is Christmas 1999. Sure, they are end of year double issues, but if somebody asks me where I was for Christmas 2000 I don't think they mean 1999! Otherwise, that way madness lies! ;)
Nah - Prog 2000 had a cover date of 28 September 2016...
On the general topic - the cover date on British comics traditionally isn't a publication date, or even a guide for people making databases when home computing became practical decades later - it's a guide to the newsagent on when to take the comic off the shelves and replace it with the next one.
Quote from: Lorenzo on 29 June, 2021, 12:23:11 PM
Cataloguing should be based on what is consistently measurable: the cover date.
When I read that this morning I metaphorically spat my tea all over the screen. If only such a beast existed as the fabled consistently measurable cover date, I might use it. You pointed out yourself in your previous posts some of the things that don't stand up to that measure. Others have pointed out the truth that the date on the cover is not the publication date - like all good scientists, once we have that new information, it would behoove us to act on it, rather than doggedly stick to our original position.
Ultimately, my data is trying to provide some measure of reality to my hobby of trying to collate the correct order in which the stories were published. As to why that's important to me: it ties especially into crossover events like Every Empire Falls.
And we most certainly are through the looking glass. Take prog 2000. Or do I mean Prog 2000? There's the Prog 2000 published in 1999 (that is actually the one thousand, one hundred and seventy-fourth issue of 2000 AD), and then there's the prog 2000 published in 2016 (that's actually the 2016th issue of 2000 AD). Which means that the lowly prog 1984 is the
real prog 2000!
Don't forget the Annuals - each one named for the upcoming year, and published, as far as I can tell, around August.
My data, for certain is not perfect, but it's attempting to get the publication order correct. Cover dates do not always help in this endeavor.
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One final point - have you read Megazine 433 yet? You cannot answer "yes" using your preferred cataloging system, because look at the cover date - it says July 20th, 2021, which has not yet come to pass.
Sorry to bang on (not really), but I was scratching my head about a particularly brutal example and finally remembered it.
Check out Barney (caveat: I'm entirely not worthy when it comes to the wonder that is Barney) for Megazine 1.20 and Megazine 2.01.
Barney says:
Meg 1.20, COVER DATE: 1st May, 1992
Meg 2.01, COVER DATE: 2nd May, 1992
This is the switch over from the monthly volume #1 into the fortnightly volume #2 - and no, they weren't published a day apart. In all likelihood, the 2.01 cover date given in Barney is probably the real publication date, because the cover provides a range "May 2-15", which would have given the shop a clue for a system they were not used to dealing with.
Then the 1.20 cover date is one month out of the actual publication date, as is standard, so that was probably published on the 1st of April. So, they were in all probability published one month apart, not one day apart.
(https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/joker-704285.jpg)
This has reminded me of one of my favorite YouTube videos: The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY)
The presenter does a great job of descending into partial madness as he explains the issue in great depth.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 June, 2021, 07:53:37 PM
This has reminded me of one of my favorite YouTube videos: The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY)
The presenter does a great job of descending into partial madness as he explains the issue in great depth.
The presenter is Tom Scott and his youtube channel is fantastic. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGI9HGKHsArwxiOejecVyNem)
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- Dice Man
- Harlem Heroes (both of 'em)
- Hondo City Justice
- Hope...
- Hunted
++TIDY-UP DROID++
Added a Rogueverse icon.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 June, 2021, 05:12:00 PM
Quote from: Lorenzo on 29 June, 2021, 12:23:11 PM
Cataloguing should be based on what is consistently measurable: the cover date.
When I read that this morning I metaphorically spat my tea all over the screen. If only such a beast existed as the fabled consistently measurable cover date, I might use it....
Yeah, I think I was being a little optimistic when I mentioned cover dates! However, it has only really become a problem since 2010 and I did mention the oddball Xmas progs with their own numbering. So I didn't really need to have that explained again.
Anyway, I did some digging and starting with the reboot in 2003, went through all of the issues to match cover date with the release date. 2003 to 2008 have 13 issues per year but things start to go out of synch with the cover date in 2009 when there were 14 issues. From that point onwards the "January" release is dated February. However, everything before that was released really close to the cover date so January really was January. So, I stand by my assertion that:
QuoteMeg 201 is January 2003, Meg 214 is Jan 2004, M227 is Jan 2005 etc.
at least up to 2009. I'm sure there are some bonkers exceptions from previous years but I didn't go any further back. Anyhoo, maybe you find this useful; some obvious errors in Rebellion's release dates I have marked red:
2003 - 13 issues every 4 weeks reboot resize for new year
201 Cover Date 14 jan Release Date 29 jan
202 Cover Date 11 feb Release Date 11 feb
203 Cover Date 11 mar Release Date 19 mar
204 Cover Date 08 apr Release Date 23 apr
205 Cover Date 06 may Release Date 06 may
206 Cover Date 03 jun Release Date 03 jun
207 Cover Date 01 jul Release Date 01 jul
208 Cover Date 29 jul Release Date [color=red]27 aug[/color]
209 Cover Date 26 aug Release Date 26 aug
210 Cover Date 23 sep Release Date 23 sep
211 Cover Date 21 oct Release Date 21 oct
212 Cover Date 18 nov Release Date 18 nov
213 Cover Date 16 dec Release Date 16 dec
2004 - 13 issues
214 Cover Date 13 jan Release Date 28 jan
215 Cover Date 10 feb Release Date 25 feb
216 Cover Date 8 mar Release Date 24 mar
217 Cover Date 6 apr Release Date 6 apr
218 Cover Date 4 may Release Date 18 may
219 Cover Date 1 jun Release Date 1 jun
220 Cover Date 29 jun Release Date 21 jul
221 Cover Date 27 jul Release Date 18 aug
222 Cover Date 24 aug Release Date 24 aug
223 Cover Date 21 sep Release Date 21 sep
224 Cover Date 19 oct Release Date 19 oct
225 Cover Date 16 nov Release Date 16 nov
226 Cover Date 14 dec Release Date 29 dec
2005 - 13 issues
227 Cover Date 11 jan Release Date 11 jan
228 Cover Date 8 feb Release Date 8 feb
229 Cover Date 8 mar Release Date 8 mar
230 Cover Date 5 apr Release Date 5 apr
231 Cover Date 3 may Release Date 3 may
232 Cover Date 31 may Release Date 31 may
233 Cover Date 28 jun Release Date 28 jun
234 Cover Date 26 jul Release Date 26 jul
235 Cover Date 23 aug Release Date 24 aug
236 Cover Date 20 sep Release Date 19 oct
237 Cover Date 23 oct Release Date 23 nov
238 Cover Date 15 nov Release Date 7 dec
239 Cover Date 13 dec Release Date 13 dec
2006 - 13 issues
240 Cover Date 10 jan Release Date 10 jan
241 Cover Date 7 feb Release Date 7 feb
242 Cover Date 7 mar Release Date 7 mar
243 Cover Date 4 apr Release Date 4 apr
244 Cover Date 2 may Release Date 2 may
245 Cover Date 30 may Release Date 30 may
246 Cover Date 27 jun Release Date [color=red]19 jul[/color]
247 Cover Date 25 jul Release Date [color=red]23 aug[/color]
248 Cover Date 22 aug Release Date 22 aug
249 Cover Date 19 sep Release Date 19 sep
250 Cover Date 17 oct Release Date 17 oct
251 Cover Date 14 nov Release Date 6 dec
252 Cover Date 12 dec Release Date 27 dec
2007 - 13 issues
253 Cover Date 9 jan Release Date 9 jan
254 Cover Date 6 feb Release Date 6 feb
255 Cover Date 6 mar Release Date 6 mar
256 Cover Date 3 apr Release Date 3 apr
257 Cover Date 1 may Release Date 1 may
258 Cover Date 29 may Release Date 29 may
259 Cover Date 26 jun Release Date 26 jun
260 Cover Date 24 jul Release Date [color=red]22 aug[/color]
261 Cover Date 21 aug Release Date 21 aug
262 Cover Date 18 sep Release Date 24 oct
263 Cover Date 16 oct Release Date 7 nov
264 Cover Date 13 nov Release Date 28 nov
265 Cover Date 11 dec Release Date 26 dec
2008 - 13 issues
266 Cover Date 8 jan Release Date 8 jan
267 Cover Date 5 feb Release Date 5 feb
268 Cover Date 4 mar Release Date 4 mar
269 Cover Date 1 apr Release Date 1 apr
270 Cover Date 29 apr Release Date 29 apr
271 Cover Date 27 may Release Date 27 may
272 Cover Date 24 jun Release Date 24 jun
273 Cover Date 22 jul Release Date 23 jul
274 Cover Date 19 aug Release Date 27 aug
275 Cover Date 17 sep Release Date 24 sep
276 Cover Date 14 oct Release Date 22 oct
277 Cover Date 11 Nov Release Date 26 nov
278 Cover Date 9 Dec Release Date 24 dec
2009 - 14 Issues
279 Cover Date 6 Jan Release Date 7 jan
280 Cover Date 3 feb Release Date 3 feb
281 Cover Date 3 mar Release Date 3 mar
282 Cover Date 31 mar Release Date 31 mar
283 Cover Date 28 apr Release Date 28 apr
284 Cover Date 26 may Release Date 26 may
285 Cover Date 23 jun Release Date 23 jun
286 Cover Date 21 jul Release Date [color=red]20 may[/color]
287 Cover Date 18 aug Release Date 18 aug
288 Cover Date 15 sep Release Date 15 sep
289 Cover Date 13 oct Release Date [color=red]16 sep[/color]
290 Cover Date 10 nov Release Date [color=red]28 oct[/color]
291 Cover Date 8 dec Release Date 25 nov
292 Cover Date 5 jan Release Date 23 dec
2010 - 13 issues
293 Cover Date 2 Feb Release Date 6 jan
294 Cover Date 2 mar Release Date 3 feb
295 Cover Date 30 mar Release Date 3 mar
296 Cover Date 27 apr Release Date 31 mar
297 Cover Date 25 may Release Date 28 apr
298 Cover Date 22 jun Release Date 26 may
299 Cover Date 28 jul Release Date 21 jul
300 Cover Date 17 aug Release Date 21 jul
301 Cover Date 14 sep Release Date 18 aug
302 Cover Date 12 oct Release Date 29 sep
303 Cover Date 9 nov Release Date 24 nov
304 Cover Date 7 dec Release Date 10 nov
305 Cover Date 4 jan Release Date 29 dec
Quote from: Funt Solo on 28 June, 2021, 04:58:27 PM
Just to follow up, you can see Meg 214 on Barney (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=megprofiles) - it has a cover date of 13th January, 2004, but the cover says "MONSTER Christmas ISSUE", and it comes with a 2004 calendar (which you'd want to supply just prior to 2004, one would hope).
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/megazine/mediumres/214.jpg)
Given that information - "MONSTER Christmas ISSUE", and the contents of the comic including the Christmas-themed Dredd tale "Turkey Shoot", and the fact that the cover date of a monthly publication is not the publication date, why do you remain convinced that it was published in January?
What am I missing? Is it just that Rebellion's web site has written "released 13th Jan 2004"? Because it looks like they just wrote that in because it's the cover date. Which is not the publication date, as has been mentioned a few times.
I don't think you're missing anything. The editor's letter also mentions having "had a lot of fun with the Meg in 2003. But trust me you ain't seen nothing yet." Kinda implying this is the start of a new year. I'm just going on the available data - of course it's bleedin' obvious there are Xmas episodes in these progs/megs - but there aren't any other available dates and Reb's own site lists 214 as the first issue for the year. If Rebellion think it's issue one of 2004, who am I to argue?
Which I wasn't on holiday right now so I could properly join in with this one!
Quote from: Lorenzo on 30 June, 2021, 06:23:42 PM
I'm just going on the available data
You're using one source, and I don't understand why you're ignoring the thing about the cover date being the "remove from the shelf" date for monthly publications. Why ignore that?
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We could segue slightly here - the encyclopedia that they're currently serializing in the Meg floppies is (of course) a great resource. But it has mistakes in it. It's also published by Rebellion - which is just a collection of people who are just as fallible as anyone else.
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Edit: not that any of this really matters. You're perfectly welcome to use your system for your data collation. The problems of us two squaxx don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 June, 2021, 05:55:32 PM
...Barney says:
Meg 1.20, COVER DATE: 1st May, 1992
Meg 2.01, COVER DATE: 2nd May, 1992
This is the switch over from the monthly volume #1 into the fortnightly volume #2 - and no, they weren't published a day apart...
It's actually worse than that ;)
Meg 1.20 has a cover date of 20th May and inside says the first fortnightly Meg [2.01] goes on sale May 2nd "in just two weeks". :lol:
Quote from: Funt Solo on 30 June, 2021, 06:41:15 PM
Quote from: Lorenzo on 30 June, 2021, 06:23:42 PM
I'm just going on the available data
You're using one source, and I don't understand why you're ignoring the thing about the cover date being the "remove from the shelf" date for monthly publications. Why ignore that?
I'm not ignoring it and neither is it gospel, but it is just as variable as all the other data.
I am silly because I forgot that the evidence I needed is right here on the forum: Meg 214 review thread, from December 2003 (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=7335.0). Case closed, m'lud.
Well, it's always good to have multiple sources. :D
Anyone recall the first appearance of Judge Shenker, head of Psi-Div?
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 July, 2021, 02:49:33 PM
Anyone recall the first appearance of Judge Shenker, head of Psi-Div?
Wasn't it
A Chief Judge Resigns in prog 457?
Ah - there he is! Thanks. So, he had hair then. Which means that's also Shenker in Engram.
He's been around a good long while.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 July, 2021, 03:23:32 PM
He's been around a good long while.
And then some! Unlike his hair, of course - last seen in Necropolis, I think?
Surely only currently beaten by Dredd, Hershey and Anderson in terms of longest-appearing Judges still extant?
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 03 July, 2021, 03:31:02 PM
Surely only currently beaten by Dredd, Hershey and Anderson in terms of longest-appearing Judges still extant?
Prager?
And isn't there a weird inconsistency with Schenker?
Quote from: I, Cosh on 03 July, 2021, 06:06:58 PM
And isn't there a weird inconsistency with Schenker?
He's referenced in the Cadet Anderson stories as being head of Psi Division, despite that making no chronological sense - is that what you were thinking of?
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 03 July, 2021, 09:11:15 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 03 July, 2021, 06:06:58 PM
And isn't there a weird inconsistency with Schenker?
He's referenced in the Cadet Anderson stories as being head of Psi Division, despite that making no chronological sense - is that what you were thinking of?
I thought it was something more radical like he'd been killed off then they just forgot about it. However, I think you're right and I was just blowing bubbles.
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Big news is that I'm 25% done on this project.
I also added a new Judge... (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Judge/GiantJnr.html) section, to deal with those recurring characters that don't have their own series. I started it up with the two Giants, Logan and our friends Patsy & Wrexler.
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Ant Wars
- Captain Klep
- Counterfeit Girl
- Dan Dare
- Inaba
- [Judge...]
- Giant, Jnr.
- Giant, Snr.
- Logan
- Patsy & Wrexler
- Meltdown Man
- Missionary Man
- Shadows
- Shimura
- Tharg's Thrill Archives
- [The Traitor General]
- Venus Bluegenes
Funt I really like your ABC's. You can maybe add a Nemesisverse and a Dogverse icons as well :)
I am super excited for the ability to scroll through individual characters to see how often/when they have appeared. I'm guessing Shenker took over from Omar, who had to sacrifice himself in that one yellow peril story that had great art that we try to forget about...
Quote from: broodblik on 05 July, 2021, 07:53:03 AM
You can maybe add a Nemesisverse and a Dogverse icons as well :)
Aye, those two are definitely up for consideration.
Dogverse would obs be a wee SD badge, although I'm not sure how many strips that would encompass...let me check the list...
Durham Red
The Gronk
Middenface McNulty
Stix
Strontium Dog
Tales From the Doghouse
Strontium Dogs
Wulf Sternhammer
Young Middenface
Yeah - that seems icon-worthy.
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With the Nemiverse, I was toying with the idea of doing a Millsverse icon, but it's so all-encompassing - where sometimes the narrative links are stretched. I'm not sure. The list *feels* like it would be vast. Let's see...
ABC Warriors
Blackblood
Deadlock
Flesh
Invasion!
Disaster 1990
Joe Pineapples
Nemesis and Deadlock
Nemesis the Warlock
Ro-Busters
Satanus
Savage
Not too bad, actually. For some reason, I though that list would be longer.
Quote from: AlexF on 05 July, 2021, 10:33:34 AM
...that one yellow peril story that had great art that we try to forget about...
The Warlord!
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/454.jpg)
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- Black Shuck
- Outlier
- Rico Dredd
- Rogue Trooper
- Rogue Trooper [Fr1day]
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Millsverse icon added
- Dogverse icon added (although not used yet)
- Sub-menus now load at sub-menu rather than top of page
Just had a nosey on the Judges... section.
Super work indexing those secondary characters! This is shaping uo to be a proper rival to Barney as an all-purpose 2000AD resource.
However, was Judge Giant, Sr, not a reasonably key figure in 'The Day the Law Died'?
and I think that role was repirsed somewhat in Helter Skelter, or possibly one of the other times Judge Cal resurfaced.
Quote from: AlexF on 06 July, 2021, 02:21:49 PM
However, was Judge Giant, Sr, not a reasonably key figure in 'The Day the Law Died'?
and I think that role was repirsed somewhat in Helter Skelter, or possibly one of the other times Judge Cal resurfaced.
You're absolutely right, on both counts.
I'll adjust the data on my next sweep. Thanks, btw - feedback on what I've missed is exactly what's needed. My brain only knows so much, and especially on Dredd it can be a bit rusty.
So, my spreadsheet contains two types of character link.
If it says "Linked to...", that means there's a separate section set apart for the linked story or character.
If it says "Featuring...", that is just a mention - there's no separate section.
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For The Day the Law Died, I currently have:
Linked to:
[Judge Cal]
The Kleggs
Judge Goodman
Judge Griffin
Featuring:
Judge-Tutor Pepper
Fergee
I'm going to add Judge Giant, Snr. to the "Linked" section.
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For Helter Skelter, it's a bit complicated:
Linked to:
[Judge Cal]
Judge Hershey
[Rico Dredd]
Then I have a massive note:
A dimensional crossover tale.
Also featuring:
- The Geeks (The VC's)
- Call-Me-Kenneth (Robot Wars)
- Judge Giant, Snr.
- The Dark Judges
- An invader (Colony Earth)
- The Titan of Peem (Ace Trucking)
- Grampus, a Klegg (The Day the Law Died)
- Murd the Oppressor (The Judge Child)
- Captain Skank (Pirates of the Black Atlantic)
- Fink Angel
- War Marshal Kazan (The Apocalpyse War)
- Don Uggie Apelino (The Ape Gang)
- A Smiling Chuckwalla (Strontium Dog)
- Nort infantry (Rogue Trooper)
- Captain Constanta (Fiends of the Eastern Front)
- Old One Eye (Flesh)
- D.R. & Quinch
And radio transmissions from:
- The Ballad of Halo Jones
- The VC's
- M.A.C.H. 1
- Rogue Trooper
- Ace Trucking Co.
And in the episode #7 splash:
- Nemesis the Warlock
- The A.B.C. Warriors
- Rogue Trooper
- Robo-Hunter
- Ro-Jaws
- Slaine
- Halo Jones
So, do you think the other-dimensional Giant deserves to be shifted over to the Linked section?
I would say no - he's only doing the same job as the other cameos, not adding to the wider lore of Giant.
Massively appreciate the thoroughness of that extended Helter Skelter list!
I was scanning the Anderson story WiiERD (M272-M276) the other day, and had forgotten that it also has a broad cameo section in a VR situation, featuring:
- Cyber-Matt
- Tharg the Mighty
- Bill Savage
- Blackhawk
- Space Girls
- Ant Wars
- Shako
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- Anderson Psi Division
- The Angel Gang
- Angelic
- [Corann & Lesley Ryan]
- [Orlok the Assassin]
- The Red Seas
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Armoured Gideon - popup crossover data added
- Cursed Earth Koburn - added Biohazard (SFS'21)
- Hondo City Justice - added SFS'21 data
- Inaba - added Daughters of Uranium (SFS'21)
- Judge Dredd | 1978 - added Giant link to The Day the Law Died
- Judge Dredd | 1979 - [Surprise Party] crossover data added
- Judge Dredd | 1990 - updated links out of wider Necropolis saga
- Judge Dredd | 2001 - Helter Skelter links updated
- Judge Dredd | 2021 - added SFS'21 data
- [Judge Giant, Snr.] - added two missing listings [thanks, AlexF!]
- Mechastopheles - updated The Hunting Party
- Sinister Dexter | 2009-2010 - Wish You Were Here crossover data added
- Sinister Dexter | 2011-2016 - Now & Again crossover data added
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- The Kleggs
- [Sensitive Klegg]
- Tharg's Future Shocks
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Big Deadworld push today, and some other bits and bobs...
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Dandridge
- The Dark Judges
- [Deadworld]
- Dreams of Deadworld
- The Fall of Deadworld
- Jaegir
- The Journal of Luke Kirby
- Judge Death
- The Mean Machine
- Past Imperfect
- Pulp Sci-Fi
- [The Sisters of Death]
- Tales From Beyond Science
- Tales of Telguuth
- Vector 13
- Visions of Deadworld
Is the current Judge Rico a clone of Dredd or a clone of Fargo?
Quote from: Funt Solo on 12 July, 2021, 05:53:41 PM
Is the current Judge Rico a clone of Dredd or a clone of Fargo?
Fargo.
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- Dead Eyes
- Durham Red
- Fink Angel
- Four-Colour Classics
- Freaks
- Future Shorts
- Greysuit
- Indigo Prime
- Inferno
- [Judge...Cal]
- [Judge...Rico]
- M.A.C.H. 1
- MACH Zero
- The Man from the Ministry
- Max Normal
- The Mean Arena & Mean Arena
- Tales From Mega-City One
- Tales From the Black Museum
- Thistlebone
- Tyranny Rex
- Young Death
- Young Middenface McNulty
- Zancudo
Me being me maybe an Indigo Prime-verse icon as well but yes great stuff so far !!!!
I had to think really hard about whether Disaster 1990 really deserves the Millsverse icon. On the one hand, there's Bill Savage (so, that's the link), but on the other hand there's nothing else Millsverse in that story at all.
I hadn't read Disaster 1990 all the way through before doing this project - I love that one of the enemies he comes up against is a crazy old coot who has gained control of a squadron of deadly attack swans through the use of his magic bird call! England's been flooded for about a week, but this guy has a ten-year beard, which means he's been stalking the fens for years, picking off unwary twitchers.
I'd say we're about due for a new story about people in future(ish) Britain coping with a sudden, country-wide disaster of some kind...
they definitely do seem to bring the weirdoes out of the woodwork.
Also, I vote 'no' to putting the Millsverse icon on Disaster 1990, at least until the point that some writer has a going at telling a 'flooded brtiain' story and Pat gets cross with them for doing it.
Quote from: broodblik on 14 July, 2021, 05:48:17 AM
Me being me maybe an Indigo Prime-verse icon as well but yes great stuff so far !!!!
Hmm, a Smithverse icon is not a bad idea - Indigo Prime, Revere and Tyranny Rex are all now explicitly linked, and there's a strong case to be made for Firekind, too; but then why not an Edgiverse as well? Brass Sun, Kingmaker, Stickleback and (maybe) Leviathan are definitely connected; and Red Seas is connected to Ampney Crucis...
Tooth does love a shared universe.
So... how far through the project would you say you are at the moment?
(though obviously once 'complete' it won't really be complete as it's about an ongoing publication).
Quote from: sheridan on 14 July, 2021, 08:47:50 PM
So... how far through the project would you say you are at the moment?
35.03%* (although that stat is treating each entry as being of the same value - it takes longer to put a multi-pager like Sinister Dexter in place than, say, The Zaucer of Zilk).
There are still 28 [Judge...] entries to add. The really obvious omission so far feels to me like it's Strontium Dog, but Durham Red and Young Middenface have started that ball rolling. Anyway - I have another 400 things to add before it's "finished".
* which includes four things you can't see yet on the live version.
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- Dredd
- [Fatties]
- Flesh
- Judge Fear
- Judge Hershey
- Orlok, Agent of East-Meg One
- Ratfink
- Thrill-Power Overload
- [Vienna Dredd / Pasternak]
I think Dredd and Armitage met at some point before the events of The Underground (megs 318-321), because they're not pleased to see each other. Can anyone remember when they met previously?
Quote from: Funt Solo on 15 July, 2021, 06:05:40 AM
I think Dredd and Armitage met at some point before the events of The Underground (megs 318-321), because they're not pleased to see each other. Can anyone remember when they met previously?
It was in Dave Stone's 1993 novel Deathmasques: http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=specials&choice=masques (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=specials&choice=masques)
Judge Cal's also in Behold the Beast from the '83 Judge Dredd Annual, and No more Jimmy Deans from Meg 3.39.
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 15 July, 2021, 10:59:28 AM
Judge Cal's also in Behold the Beast from the '83 Judge Dredd Annual, and No more Jimmy Deans from Meg 3.39.
Thanks, DJ - I added those.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)++NEW SECTIONS++ - The 86ers
- 2000 AD Art Stars Winner!
- Ampney Crucis Investigates...
- Armitage
- Bad Company
- Brass & Bland
- Button Man
- [Dolman]
- [Feral Jackson]
- The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael...
- The Gronk
- [Mrs Gunderson]
- Helium
- Hook Jaw
- [Judge...Fargo]
- [Kraken]
- Middenface McNulty
- [One-Offs]
- The Order
- Satanus
- Strontium Dog
- Strontium Dog: Tales From the Doghouse
- Strontium Dogs
- Walter The Wobot
- Wulf Sternhammer
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++NEW SECTIONS++
- 15 Years, Creep
- A.H.A.B.
- Age of the Wolf
- Go Machine
- Harry Kipling (Deceased)
- Hewligan's Haircut
- Red Fang
- Rose O'Rion
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Anderson Psi Division: added The Boyhood of a Superfiend
- The Angel Gang: added Travels With Muh Shrink
- Cursed Earth Koburn: The Assizes linked to Judge Death
- The Dark Judges: added Masque of the Judge, Death
- Judge Death: Masque links, added Assizes
- Judge Dredd | 1978: Night of the Vampire, The Sleeper Awakes (links to Booth)
- Judge Dredd | 1978-79: The Day the Law Died (links to Walter)
- Judge Dredd | 1987-88: Oz (added covers data)
- Judge Dredd | 1988: added floating cover Citizens Against Change
- Judge Dredd | 1990-91: added The Boyhood of a Superfiend
- Judge Dredd | 1991: added Travels With Muh Shrink
- Judge Dredd | 1992: The Taking of Sector 123 (links to McGruder)
- Judge Dredd | 1993: Mechanismo Returns (links to McGruder), added Brief Encounter
- Judge Dredd | 1996: Declaration of War & Bongo War (more character links)
- Judge Dredd | 1997: Fog on the Eerie (links to Booth)
- Judge Dredd | 2000: Blood Cadets (links to Rico Dredd)
- Judge Dredd | 2001: On the Chief Judge's Service (links to Judge Hershey)
- Judge Dredd | 2002: Sin City (links to Judge Guthrie)
- Judge Dredd | 2005: Flood's Thirteen: Unlucky For Some (links to Judge Hershey)
- Judge Dredd | 2006-07: Origins (links to Booth)
- Judge Dredd | 2017: Sons of Booth & Icon (links to Sons of Booth), Big Meg gets cameo data
- Judge Dredd | 2018: Flaws & The Booth Conspiracy (links to Sons of Booth)
- [Judge...Fargo]'s opening text updated
- [Judge...Giant, Jnr.]: added Bongo War
- Judge Hershey: added The Boyhood of a Superfiend, On the Chief Judge's Service, Flood's Thirteen: Unlucky For Some & The Booth Conspiracy
- The Mean Machine: Travels With Muh Shrink links
- [Rico Dredd]: added Blood Cadets
- Walter the Wobot: added The Day the Law Died
- Young Death: more links out of The Boyhood of a Superfiend
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- American Gothic
- Angel Zero
- Bad City Blue
- Interceptor
- [Joe Black]
There's so much there! How much more do you think you've got to go???
58%
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) - now 43.62% complete, but who's counting?
++NEW SECTIONS++
- The Balls Brothers
- Calhab Justice
- Chopper
- Comicana
- Hershey
- Interrogation
- Joe Pineapples
- Killer
- [Owen Krysler]
- Return to Armageddon
- Revere
- The Scrap
- Slaughter Bowl
Quote from: Funt Solo on 02 August, 2021, 05:39:52 AM
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) - now 43.62% complete, but who's counting?
Why did I not know you would have an exact answer to that one!
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) - now over the half-way mark at 51% complete!
++NEW SECTIONS++
- 2000 AD Art-File
- [Alec Trench]
- America
- Apocalypse Soon
- Death Planet
- Defoe
- DeMarco P.I.
- Detonator X
- Dinosty
- [Judge...Beeny]
- [Judge...Castillo]
- [Judge...DeMarco]
- [Judge...Edgar]
- [Judge...Flowers]
- [Judge...Gerhart]
- [Judge...Goodman]
- [Judge...Griffin]
- [Judge...Guthrie]
- [Judge...Joyce, Fintan]
- [Judge...Maitland]
- [Judge...Manners]
- [Judge...McGruder]
- [Judge...Morphy]
- [Judge...Roffman]
- [Judge...Sadu]
- [Judge...Sam]
- [Judge...Shakta]
- [Judge...Shenker]
- [Judge...Silver]
- [Judge...Sinfield]
- [Judge...Smiley]
- [Judge...Volt]
- Judge Joyce
- Lobster Random
- [Major Magnam]
- Maniac 5
- Medivac 318
- New Books
- New Comics
- The Out
- Proteus Vex
- [Ralph Bryce]
- The Simping Detective
- Space Girls
- The Streets of Dan Francisco
- Tracer
- Ulysses Sweet
- Urban Strike
- Valkyries
- Wardog
- What If...?
- Witch World
Quote from: Funt Solo on 05 July, 2021, 03:37:50 PMWith the Nemiverse, I was toying with the idea of doing a Millsverse icon, but it's so all-encompassing - where sometimes the narrative links are stretched. I'm not sure. The list *feels* like it would be vast. Let's see...
ABC Warriors
Blackblood
Deadlock
Flesh
Invasion!
Disaster 1990
Joe Pineapples
Nemesis and Deadlock
Nemesis the Warlock
Ro-Busters
Satanus
Savage
Not too bad, actually. For some reason, I though that list would be longer.
Torquemada got a standalone story or two - plus another labelled Torquemada the God.
Quote from: AlexF on 14 July, 2021, 07:05:58 AMI'd say we're about due for a new story about people in future(ish) Britain coping with a sudden, country-wide disaster of some kind...
they definitely do seem to bring the weirdoes out of the woodwork.
Also, I vote 'no' to putting the Millsverse icon on Disaster 1990, at least until the point that some writer has a going at telling a 'flooded brtiain' story and Pat gets cross with them for doing it.
And to mix things up further - there's one or two books of Flesh which weren't written by Mills either...
Quote from: sheridan on 06 August, 2021, 12:47:13 PM
Torquemada got a standalone story or two - plus another labelled Torquemada the God.
I've got those listed under [Torquemada] (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Torquemada/data.html).
Quote from: sheridan on 06 August, 2021, 12:47:13 PM
And to mix things up further - there's one or two books of Flesh which weren't written by Mills either...
Chronocide by Dabnett &
Satanus: Unchained by Grennie. I like both of those - and they're still Millsverse, I reckon - just with guest writers. (Perhaps uninvited guests from a certain person's perspective, but ho-hum.)
(https://sciencefictionruminations.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/dmntnllnmj1974.jpg?w=676&h=527)
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) - new, improved flavour (with added riboflavin) at 51% complete!
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Dry Run
- [Features]
- Fervent & Lobe
- Fiends of the Eastern Front
- Finn
- Full Tilt Boogie
- London Falling
- Mercy Heights
- Mother Earth
- Necrophim
- Number Cruncher
- [Toots Milloy]
- Tor Cyan
- [Trapper Hag]
- Tribal Memories
- Universal Soldier
- The Visible Man
wow you are a machine Funt Solo!
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) - new, improved data nerdage now 61% complete!
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales
- Dead Signal
- Demon Nic
- Dept. of Monsterology
- Devlin Waugh
- [Doctor Dibworthy]
- Droid Profile
- Family
- Judge Dredd: Heavy Metal Dredd
- Judge Edwina's Strange Cases
- Mean Team
- New Films
- Ordinary
- Project Overkill
- Really & Truly
- Roadkill
- Sancho Panzer
- Small Press
- Soul Gun Warrior
- Tank Girl
- Wire Heads
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Babe Race 2000
- Leviathan
- Stone Island
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Added additional text to most Edgiverse tales explaining the links between them.
- Added an Edgiverse icon to the menu page.
- Added an Edgiverse "Wheel of Worlds" (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/VERSE/Edgiverse.html) page.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- 2000 I.D.
- Anderson
- Harmony
++TIDY-UP DROID++
- Updated Edgiverse page - diagram.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Bato Loco
- The Bendatti Vendetta
- Black Light
- [Booth, President Robert L.]
- British Icons
- Dead Meat
- [Dirty Frank]
- Dreadnoughts
- Futurefocus
- [Heston, Harry]
- The Interrogation Cube
- Janus Psi Division
- Juliet November
- Karyn, Psi-Division
- Low Life
- [Nixon, Aimee]
- [P.J. Maybe]
- Psi-Testers
- Return of the Taxidermist
- The Returners
- Samizdat Squad
- Screen Story
- Second City Blues
- Silo
- [Simps]
- Snow/Tiger
- Sooner or Later
- Stix
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Al's Baby
- Asylum
- Atavar
- B.L.A.I.R.1
- Badlands
- Bec & Kawl
- Big Dave
- Bison
- Bix Barton
- Black Siddha
- The Grudge-Father
- Harke & Burr
- Havn
- Holocaust 12
- The Inspectre
- I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant
- Johnny Woo
- [Judge ... Pin]
- Judge Corey
- Judge Dredd: The Lost Cases
- Marauder
- Rain Dogs
- Red Razors
- Sleeze 'n' Ryder
- Soul Sisters
- Spector
- Stalag 666
- Storm Warning
- Storming Heaven
- The Straitjacket Fits
- Strange Brigade
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Batman / Judge Dredd
- Blunt
- Bradley
- Brigand Doom
- Cadet Anderson: Psi-Division
- Canon Fodder
- Chimpsky's Law
- Chronos Carnival
- The Clown
- Colony Earth
- Junker
- Kelly's Eye
- Leatherjack
- Lilly Mackenzie
- A Love Like Blood
- Mambo
- Mazeworld
- Megatropolis
- Metalzoic
- Moon Runners
- Strange & Darke
- Synnamon
- Tao de Moto
- Tempest
- The Ten-Seconders
- Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon
- Time Flies
- Timehouse
- TimeQuake
- Trash
Quote from: Funt Solo on 24 August, 2021, 03:55:24 AM
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
++NEW SECTIONS++
- Al's Baby
- Asylum
- Atavar
- B.L.A.I.R.1
- Badlands
- Bec & Kawl
- Big Dave
- Bison
- Bix Barton
- Black Siddha
- The Grudge-Father
- Harke & Burr
- Havn
- Holocaust 12
- The Inspectre
- I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant
- Johnny Woo
- [Judge ... Pin]
- Judge Corey
- Judge Dredd: The Lost Cases
- Marauder
- Rain Dogs
- Red Razors
- Sleeze 'n' Ryder
- Soul Sisters
- Spector
- Stalag 666
- Storm Warning
- Storming Heaven
- The Straitjacket Fits
- Strange Brigade
Hey Funt Solo. This Project is amazing! Congratulations.
I found it because I was looking for some clarity on Judge Corey. I've been reading Volume 1 of the Judge Anderson Psi Files (and really enjoying re-acquainting myself with these early stories (so dark!)).
In that book Corey appears in Helios, then Leviathan's Farewell (which moved me as much as it did first time I read it all this years ago), but then (confusingly) in Triad (part 7).
I've been trying to work out the publication order, and whether it was just ordered incorrectly in the Psi Files collection. Or whether Alan Grant just forgot that he'd killed her off! Because Leviathan's Farewell is from a SF Special it's hard to reconstruct the order (well it is for me). I could dig out the progs and find the cover dates etc, but I'm not sure this idle pondering warrants it.
Does anyone remember thinking she'd magically come back from the dead when they first read these?
Aaanyway, she's got at least one appearance missing from your table, not that I'm criticising. As I say, I'm extremely impressed with the database!
Thanks for the info, Grobbendonk - it's much appreciated. My link-ups are a combination of Barney and my own research, so there are definitely going to be things I've missed.
As far as I can make it out, Leviathan's Farewell would have been published about 17 weeks prior to Corey's appearance in Triad. I suppose we can assume that Alan Grant wrote Triad first and Farewell second (given what occurs), but then things got muddied up in the editorial schedule, but who knows?
I'll adjust the A-Z with the new info. on my next maintenance rotation.
I've just re-read Anderson's second volume in the Mega Collection, and Leviathan's Farewell follows Triad in there, which clearly makes more sense.
And many kudos to Funt, the ABC is a wonderful thing.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
New Layout: separating [stories | dreddverse | features]
Updated to prog 2249, Meg 436 (completed series)
A-Z menu complete, but not all pages.
Project slowed down due to work commitments. Projected completion date: 2099.
Just to make sure Funt, if your calendar is aligned with Venus yearly cycle then you will be done next week? Awesome can not wait !!!!!
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
First edit in a while ... updated for currently (completed) stories up to prog 2257 and meg 437.
Also (rather randomly) added Blackheart.
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Dreddverse section:
[Bagley, Bella]
Black Atlantic
[Blint, Oola]
Brit-Cit Babes
Cabal
Features section:
2000 AD Encyclopedia
Various updates for completed, recent thrills up to Meg 438 & Prog 2259
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Added some of the more obscure items, mostly so I know what I'm voting for in Colin's mega-vote.
Stories section:
Bob the Galactic Bum
The Bogie Man
Bonjo From Beyond the Stars
Carver Hale
[Colonel Kovert]
Cradlegrave
Danzig's Inferno
Darkness Visible
Dead Men Walking
From Grace
The Great Detective Caper
[Infinity Inc.]
Kid Cyborg
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Filling up some more gaps...
Stories section:
Legends of the Rogue Trooper
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Necronauts
'Splorers
Tales of the Leviathan
Work Experience
Xtnct
Dreddverse section:
Breathing Space
Citi-Def
Creep
The Dead Man
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Filling up some more gaps - why, this is just like applying cob plaster to an off grid earthbag workshop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpgn1QAk0n4)!
Dreddverse section:
Deathwatch
Diamond Dogs
Meet Darren Dead
Plagues Of Necropolis
Purgatory
Pussyfoot 5
Whatever Happened to...
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Almost done with the core stories now...
Stories section added:
Chiaroscuro
Damnation Station
Dash Decent
The Dead
A Life Less Ordinary
Outlaw
Vanguard
Dreddverse section added:
Brit-Cit Brute
Judge Planet
O'Rork
Pan-African Judges
Pandora
Treasure Steel
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section - added stories with an Action Special vibe:
Cursitor Doom
Death-Man
Doctor Sin
Mytek the Mighty
The Spider
The Steel Claw
The Vigilant
A-Z updates (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section - added reprint material:
Charley's War
Darkie's Mob
Guinea Pig
Hellboy
Lazarus Churchyard
The Phantom Patrol
Preacher
Sin City
Smokeman / U.F.O. Agent
The "stories" section of the A-Z (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html#stories) is complete now, with the final additions of:
Droid Life
Operation Overlord
Razorjack
Ro-Jaws
Starlord
The Vort
Zombie Army
(Still to finish off the Dreddverse and Features sections, as well as add in the data from the latest issues.)
The A-Z is now functionally complete, with an entry for all the comic strips to have appeared in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine*, with the following additions to the Dreddverse (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html#dreddverse) section:
[The Crystal Skull]
The Daily Dredd
[Gill, Armon]
Hershey & Steel
[Judge ... Bruce]
[Judge ... Dekker]
[Judge ... Prager]
[Kenny Who?]
[Maria]
Mega-City Noir
[Mental]
[Nosferatu]
[Otto Sump]
[Palmtree, Lola]
[Planet Gary]
[Povey, Yassa]
[Raptaur]
[Rotten, Spikes "Harvey"]
[Slick Dickens]
[Sons of Booth]
[Sov Judges]
[Stan Lee]
[Wells, H.G.]
["Whitey" Logan]
*Except for Death Cap and Surfer. Too soon.
Next on the list: updates from the festive issues, and completion of the "features" section.
The features (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html#features) section of the A-Z gets a major update, with the addition of indexing for...
Text Articles:
The A-Z of Judge Dredd
Blazing Battle Action
Circuit Breakers
Comic Auteurs
The Dredd Files
Futsie's Corner
[Gordon Rennie's Bile Duct]
The Inquisition
Mega Bites
Micro-Guide
New Games
Obituary
Sector Control
The Sunday Meg Questionnaire
Tharg's Datachips
Top Twenty
Towards 2000
Twenty Megnificent Years
Media Review Articles:
Action Video
Bitz
Cinefax
Drox
Flix
Heatseekers
Mega-Sounds
Mix
Ro-Jaws' Robo-Report
Ro-Jaws' Robo-Review
Sci-Fi Book Scan
Tharg's Mighty Micro Page
Top Ten Sci-Fi Movies
Vidz
You Should Be Reading...
You Should Be Watching...
Extraordinary effort there! Those feature coluimns have so many Xs and Zs in them it's a wonder they weren't summoned by satanists in an epsiode of Armoured Gideon.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 March, 2021, 05:43:21 AM
I've started my own A-Z of 2000 AD project and (of course) started with 'K', and Kingdom (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Kingdom/kingdom.html).
And now I'm finished, nine months later, with festive updates and the final additions to the features (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html#features) section:
Art Collections:
[Character Montage]
Classic Covers
The History of Justice
Holiday to Mars
The New Masters
[Posters]
Tharg's Droids
Things to Look Forward to...
Warriors of the Future
Odds & Ends:
[Competitions]
[Covers]
Covers of...
Cover Story
Encounter
Fiction
Justice Department Data-File
Mega Files
Mega-City News
Shaky's Beyond Belief
[Sneak Preview]
Supercover Saga
Doing some housekeeping on the A-Z (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html). The THRILL RATING is a bit of an experiment, so I've only applied it to four things so far to test it out. It's a five-Tharg rating system from 1-Tharg (grexnix) to 5-Thargs (ghafflebette), and based on an entirely objective (*cough*), scientific, secret sauce recipe of Zarjazness which is kept in a lead-lined container, in a highly secure safe, guarded by vat-grown Gamorreans and located in the Castle of the Rock Gods atop an Icelandic glacier.
Stories section:
13 Thirteen - added THRILL RATING
The 86ers - added THRILL RATING
The Ballad of Halo Jones - added THRILL RATING
Dreddverse section:
Anderson Psi Division
- added The Protest (M3.14)
- reduced timeline to core content
- added THRILL RATING
Judge Dredd
- 2021 - updated
- 2022 - updated
Features section:
Interrogation - updated
Gonna be keeping a CLOSE eye on those thrill ratings there...
but I reckon if anyone;s earned the right to pass judgement on all these thrills it's you.
Can I put in a vote for Mean Team to receive MAXIMUM THRILL POINTS
LOVE the idea of thrill rating. If only for the bravely of creating something that will surely get sections of fandom screaming at you at high volume and growling threats!
NEW SECTIONS
Stories section:
[Adelphi] (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Adelphi/data.html)
Hawk the Slayer (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/HawkTheSlayer/data.html)
Dreddverse section:
[Plankhurst, Mona] (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/PlankhurstMona/data.html)
DATA UPDATES
Stories section:
Brink
Indigo Prime
Tharg the Mighty
Tyranny Rex
Dreddverse section:
[Dirty Frank]
[Mrs. Gunderson]
[Judge Cal]
Judge Dredd | 2022
[Judge Fargo]
[Judge Giant, Jnr.]
[Judge Goodman]
[Judge Griffin]
[Judge McGruder]
[Judge Silver]
[Judge Volt]
[Sensitive Klegg]
Walter the Wobot
Features section:
2000 AD Encyclopedia
New Books
New Comics
DATA UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
Droid Life
Hawk the Slayer
Intestinauts
Kingmaker
The Order
Proteus Vex
Dreddverse section:
Dreadnoughts
Judge Dredd | 2022
[Judge Logan]
[Mechanismo]
Features section:
Comicana
Interrogation
New Comics
Obituary
Awesome Funt. Great piece of labour of love
Just read over the Mean Machine entry thanks to the link on the relevant vote - that's some amazingly useful resource right there! Are you, perhaps unwisely (for your mental health), intending to tackle this sort of thing for every Dredd-world character who recurrs in both Judge DDredd and other stories?
Actually, a lot of that is already done. See the dreddverse section, and the Judge... entry. I only did characters that recur (and not all of them) or spun out into their own series.
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
Lowborn High
Saphir
Tharg's 3rillers
Tharg's Future Shocks
Tharg's Terror Tales
The Unteachables
Dreddverse section:
Cadet Dredd
Chopper
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
D.R. & Quinch [reprints]
Droid Life
Fiends of the Eastern Front
Hawk the Slayer
Dreddverse section:
Anderson Psi Division [reprints]
Armitage [cameo]
Cadet Dredd
Diamond Dogs
Dreadnoughts [reprints]
Hershey [reprints]
[Heston, Harry]
Features section:
Comicana
I know I am not the first to say this Funt, but please keep up the good work.
I use this A-Z resource waaaaay more than I do Barney.
Absolutely priceless
Thanks, gogilesgo - it's always a boost to hear that someone else is finding my project useful.
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
Future Shocks | 2018-2020 [reprint]
Future Shocks | 2021-2022
Lowborn High
Nemesis the Warlock [reprint]
[One-Offs] | 2000 AD [reprint, promotion]
Pandora Perfect
Scooter & Jinx *NEW*
Sinister Dexter
Strontium Dug *NEW*
Terror Tales
Tharg's Alien Invasions [reprint]
[Torquemada] [reprint]
Dreddverse section:
[Asher, Kyle] *NEW*
[Judge...] | [Giant, Jnr.]
[Judge...] | [Maitland]
Judge Dredd | 2021
Judge Dredd | 2022
Surfer *NEW*
Features section:
Interrogation
New Books
Obituary
This resource just gets better and better and the fact that its up to date means it might become more useful than the brilliant Barney for some things.
Thanks so much for keeping on top of this!
I really hope you have a good back-up of all of your hard work. Maybe 2000ad.com could mirror it..?
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
NEW SECTIONS
- Dreddverse section:
Death Cap
[Domino Blank-One]
[Hallem, Moe]
UPDATES - NEW CONTENT
- Stories section:
Brink
Droid Life
Fiends of the Eastern Front
Hope...
Middenface McNulty
Sinister Dexter (2020-2022)
- Dreddverse section:
Anderson Psi Division | Modern Era 2014-2022
The Dark Judges
Janus Psi Division
[Judge...]
Judge Giant, Jnr.
Judge Logan
Judge Maitland
Judge Shakta
Judge Shenker
Judge Death
Judge Dredd (2022)
Lawless
[Mechanismo]
[Ryan, Corann & Lesley]
[The Sisters of Death]
Tales From the Black Museum
- Features section:
[Character Montage]
[Features] | Miscellaneous
Interrogation
New Books
New Comics
Obituary
UPDATES - HOUSEKEEPING
- Stories section:
Feral & Foe [reprint]
Fiends of West Berlin [redirect]
Hook Jaw [reprint]
Legends of the Rogue Trooper [link]
Nemesis the Warlock | The Entire Saga [reprint]
Tharg's Future Shocks | 2008-2011 [reprint]
Tharg's Time Twisters [reprint]
- Dreddverse section:
Judge Dredd (2006) [Domino links]
Judge Dredd (2021) [Hallem link]
[Mechanismo] [JD 101 link]
- Features section:
In Memoriam [redirect]
Tribute [redirect]
Definitely in a place where prospective 2000AD podcasters and bloggers have your site and Barney to refer to!
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
UPDATES - NEW CONTENT
Stories section:
[One-Offs] | 2000 AD
'Splorers
Tharg's Future Shocks (2021-2022)
Dreddverse section:
Cadet Dredd
Department K
[One-Offs] | Dreddverse
UPDATES - HOUSEKEEPING - added "2000 AD ABC" links to pages
Stories section:
Carver Hale
Cradlegrave
The Dead
Necronauts
Tales of the Leviathan
Tharg's Time Twisters
Tracer
Vanguard
Xtnct
Dreddverse section:
The Dead Man
The Streets of Dan Francisco
Whatever Happened to...
UPDATES - HOUSEKEEPING - added "Shop" links to pages
Stories section:
A.H.A.B.
Age of the Wolf
[Agent Rat]
The Alienist
American Gothic
Angel
Charley's War
Cradlegrave
From Grace
A Love Like Blood
Necronauts
The Out
Proteus Vex
Tales of the Leviathan
Tribal Memories
The Vigilant
Xtnct
Zombie Army
Dreddverse section:
The Daily Dredd
The Dead Man
[Kenny Who?]
Tales From the Black Museum
UPDATES - HOUSEKEEPING - added "Viewable at Barney" links to pages
Features section:
Holiday to Mars
Supercover Saga
Tharg's Droids
Tharg's Thrill Archives
Things to Look Forward to...
Warriors of the Future
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) up to and including the zombie crossover event of prog 2300 and meg 448...
Stories section:
Ampney Crucis Investigates...
Droid Life
Jaegir
The Mean Arena
Robo-Hunter
Rogue Trooper
Sinister Dexter
Skip Tracer
Strontium Dog
Survival Geeks
Tharg's 3rillers
Dreddverse section:
Anderson Psi Division
Armitage
Devlin Waugh
Judge Dredd
Missionary Man
[One-Offs] | Dreddverse
Shimura
Features section:
[Character Montage]
Brimful of Thrills on the 45!
Keep up the good work!
First UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ) to the A-Z since October.
Quote from: Tyranno-Mek on 28 May, 2023, 06:08:48 AMFirst UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ) to the A-Z since October.
Nice!
More UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ) today - that should bring it up to date on all the (completed-run) series.
I don't watch traffic on the site, so I've no idea if anyone (apart from me) makes use of it at the moment.
As a relative neophyte to in depth 2000ad appreciation, I want to thank you for a your work! I'll be taking time to pore over it and soak up the information it provides.
Another set of UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ) today - that should bring it up to date on all the (completed-run) series.
Added new pages for:
- [Herne & Shuck]
- Mega-City 2099
- Portals & Black Goo
- Renk
- Void Runners
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ), UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ) - read all about it! (Everything up to prog 2349.)
What you mean you're three Progs behind - shocking!
Or wow still such an amazing site.
You choose.
Took a random gander as a first visit to the yee'haw page of The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake).
The image choice had me snorting inappropriately in my work place, you fiend.
A reread is overdue.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 03 October, 2023, 02:44:10 PMThe image choice had me snorting inappropriately in my work place, you fiend.
Those two panels crack me up every single time:
(https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/GrievousJourney/GrievousJourney.png)
Like this clip from Blazing Saddles:
"I extend to you, a laurel, and hearty handshake!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuHKWzWtBzM)
Major seasonal update on the A-Z (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html) brings most things bang up to date on completed series.
Update log:
Stories section:
Azimuth
Cursitor Doom
Droid Life
Fiends of the Eastern Front
Helium
Lowborn High
The Mind of Wolfie Smith
[One-Offs] | 2000 AD
[One-Offs] | Starlord
[One-Offs] | Treasury Specials
The Out
Robo-Hunter
Rogue Trooper
Sinister Dexter
The Spider
Strontium Dog
Tharg the Mighty
Tharg's Future Shocks
Thistlebone
Dreddverse section:
Anderson Psi-Division
Cadet Dredd
The Dark Judges
The Dead Man
[Deadworld]
[Domino Blank-One]
Dreadnoughts
[Dredd, Rico]
The Fall of Deadworld
[Mrs. Gunderson]
Hershey
Judge Death
Judge Dredd | 2023
Judge Dredd | 2024
Judge Dredd [IDW]
[Judge Logan]
[Judge McGruder]
[Judges Patsy & Wrexler]
[Judge Rico]
[Judge Shakta]
[Judge Shenker]
[Judge Sinfield]
Lawless
[Mechanismo]
Mega-City 2099
Missionary Man
[One-Offs] | Dreddverse
[P.J. Maybe]
[Sov Judges]
The Streets of Dan Francisco
Tales From the Black Museum
Walter the Wobot
Features section:
Brimful of Thrills on the 45!
[Character Montage]
Comic Masters
[Features] | Spin-Offs
Interrogation
New Books
New Comics
Fantastic as ever.
Phrase of the week: "derivative slice of action pie" - love it!
Is there a problem with A-Z today. Just tried to visit and I'm getting spinning wheel of death and then it times out? Just more or has anyone else had a problem?
No problem from my side
All fine from my end aaaaand now I've seen that Ichabod panel again and suddenly all is right with the world.
Truly, it is a fine cure-all sir.
Ohhh just me then. I'll see what happened when I'm back home. Might be work network deciding they don't like me looking at all this 2000ad nonsense.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 17 January, 2024, 03:32:57 PMMight be work network deciding they don't like me looking at all this 2000ad nonsense.
My work
sometimes blocks the site - I've been trying to figure out what it might be. I probably do have some swear-words and saucy language, knowing me. Also, the Valkyries pic might be crossing some sort of automated pr0n line. Maybe I should change that one. Or maybe Toots Malloy. Cue: boarders immediately racking up hits on those two pages.
Conspiracy Corner: maybe the network is run by the Chinese government, and they don't like my review of China in Crisis (https://2kstages.github.io/stages/spinOffs/crisis4.html). Cue: overhead observation by "weather balloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident)" and enforcement actions by a global stealth-police force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations).
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 17 January, 2024, 03:32:57 PMOhhh just me then. I'll see what happened when I'm back home. Might be work network deciding they don't like me looking at all this 2000ad nonsense.
Yep just work - fine at home.
New sections added:
Stories section:
Bladers (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Bladers/data.html)
Dredger (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Dredger/data.html)
El Mestizo (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/ElMestizo/data.html)
Hellman (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Hellman/data.html)
Johnny Red (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/JohnnyRed/data.html)
Major Eazy (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/MajorEazy/data.html)
Dreddverse section:
[Age of the New Flesh] (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/AgeOfTheNewFlesh/data.html)
[Fargo, Eartha] (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/FargoEartha/data.html)
One-Eyed Jack (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/OneEyedJack/data.html)
For all the different years of Judge Dredd (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/JudgeDredd/1977.html) I originally had a single pic (by Alex Ronald).
I thought it would be more fun to have a pic for each year - so I could get a glimpse of how Dredd's style has changed over time, and also to see different artistic interpretations of the character.
So - each year now has a different pic - have a look and see what you think. It's 37 different artists (& 8 colorists) over 48 years. And I mostly stuck with pics of Dredd, but a couple of times I couldn't resist a little diversion.
Thanks - I've got a lot of time for the Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy Dredds. Is anyone nowadays quite so quirky?
Quote from: Le Fink on 29 January, 2024, 07:54:22 PMThanks - I've got a lot of time for the Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy Dredds. Is anyone nowadays quite so quirky?
That'd be tricky to quantify, but McCrea's pretty loose, and Boo Cook kinda sorta oozes quirk. McCarthy really shook things up with Riders on the Storm, though - and Ewins' Haunting of Sector House 9 was a shock to the system.
Beautiful!
The Inaki Miranda really stuck out for me as something quite different.
Really a lot of people have drawn a lot of pictures of Judge Dredd.
Funt Solo - If you are reading this, I just noticed your superb A-Z is missing the Ro-Busters story 'Seeing Red' from the 40th Anniversary Prog. (Hope you don't mind me pointing this out?!)
Quote from: Max Headroom on 30 January, 2024, 04:50:30 PMFunt Solo - If you are reading this, I just noticed your superb A-Z is missing the Ro-Busters story 'Seeing Red' from the 40th Anniversary Prog. (Hope you don't mind me pointing this out?!)
I love knowing when I've missed stuff! Just the other day I noticed that I'd somehow pasted Belardinelli in as artist on a bunch of Dredd stories that were done by Ron Smith. Don't know what I was smoking that day.
For some reason, I popped Seeing Red onto this page by accident: The ABC Warriors | Order of Battle (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/ABCwarriors/orderOfBattle.html#baseMenu)
I'll fix it in the next edit - thanks!
UPDATES (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
The A.B.C. Warriors - data repair
D.R. & Quinch - data repair
Droid Life - new content
Enemy Earth - new content
Feral & Foe - new content
Fiends of the Eastern Front - added Thrill-Cast link
Hawk the Slayer - added Thrill-Cast link
Hellman - new content
Indigo Prime - new content
Intestinauts - added Thrill-Cast link
Dreddverse section:
Angelic - added Thrill-Cast link
Chopper - added Thrill-Cast link
[Deadworld] - new content
DeMarco P.I. - new content
The Fall of Deadworld - new content
[Fatties] - data repair
Hershey - added Thrill-Cast link
Megatropolis - added Thrill-Cast link
Features section:
2000 AD Encyclopedia - added Thrill-Cast link
[Character Montage] - new content
Comic Masters - new content
Interrogation - new content
Thrill-Power Overload - added Thrill-Cast link
UPDATED (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ.html)
Stories section:
[One-Offs] | Treasury - new content
Ro-Busters - data update
Rogue Trooper - new content
Spector - new content
Tharg's 3rillers - new content
Thistlebone - new content
Tyranny Rex - new content
Dreddverse section:
[Judge...] | Beeny - new content
[Judge...] | Logan - new content
[Judge...] | Maitland - new content
Judge Death - new content [peripheral]
Judge Dredd | 1982 - data repair
Judge Dredd | 2007 - data update
Judge Dredd | 2017 - data update
Judge Dredd | 2024 - new content
[Maria] - new content
The Mean Machine - new content [peripheral]
Mega-City 2099 - new content
[Otto Sump] - new content
[Planet Gary] - data update
[The Sisters of Death] - new content [peripheral]
Tales From the Black Museum - new content
[Vega, Paradox] - new section
Walter the Wobot - new content
Features section:
Mega-City News - data update
New Books - new content
Obituary - updated