Recent posts

#11

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Steve Green - 17 May, 2024, 04:08:39 PM

I'd love to be surprised, but I wouldn't hold up too much hope that it's much more than just the Eagle reprints scanned and made into a trade.

#12

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Vector14 - 17 May, 2024, 04:05:54 PM

That's so bad it's funny. The top two panels look like a bad AI attempt to recreate the original.

#13

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Funt Solo - 17 May, 2024, 03:48:24 PM

I think in this weeks Thrill-Mail they actually said they were from the Eagle reprints

Blimey! Well, let's hope they don't follow the reprints too closely...!

Evidence of crimes against comics (or CAC) right there.

#14

Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...

Last post by Colin YNWA - 17 May, 2024, 03:44:21 PM

i could have sworn we already knew this was the last series months ago i recall some of us talking about how to get the series completed in the ultimate collection because of that news

Quite true, I even think that Mike Carroll mentioned on his twitter feed this but I think the problem is a lot of us is in denial since whom wants such an excellent story to end

Yeah that's defo true. If I knew this I completely blanket it out!

#15

Prog / Re: Prog 2375 - err Bumper Is...

Last post by Funt Solo - 17 May, 2024, 03:43:57 PM

Bloke on bike was tactically inept. A showboater. They get you killed.

It just occurred to me that this might be a Dirty Harry reference. In The Enforcer, Callahan drives his car into a store in order to defeat the armed gang within.

Is this a modern writer distancing the character of Dredd from that of Dirty Harry?

Am I stretching?

#16

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Mike Carroll - 17 May, 2024, 03:34:43 PM

I think in this weeks Thrill-Mail they actually said they were from the Eagle reprints

Blimey! Well, let's hope they don't follow the reprints too closely...!

#17

Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...

Last post by broodblik - 17 May, 2024, 03:09:59 PM

i could have sworn we already knew this was the last series months ago i recall some of us talking about how to get the series completed in the ultimate collection because of that news

Quite true, I even think that Mike Carroll mentioned on his twitter feed this but I think the problem is a lot of us is in denial since whom wants such an excellent story to end

#18

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Swerty - 17 May, 2024, 03:01:03 PM

I think in this weeks Thrill-Mail they actually said they were from the Eagle reprints

#19

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Mike Carroll - 17 May, 2024, 02:53:57 PM

Was the Eagle Comics colour stuff really so bad? (I am totally unfamiliar with it).

I doubt they'll use the colour from the Eagle Comics reprints: I suspect that those pages appeared on the webshop as an example of how the new version might look.

The reason I don't think they'll use the Eagle Comics colours is that the page-ratios won't match. The Eagle Comics pages would have had huge gaps at the top and bottom if they'd just shrunk the original 2000AD pages to fit, so to combat that the vertical panel-spacing was increased...

In most cases, this didn't look too bad (and it's way, way better than the Quality Comics reprints in which they just stretched the artwork) but sometimes the decision was made to omit panels or fill in the gaps with new artwork. Look at Jim's arm in the second-last panel -- I don't think that was drawn by Carlos Ezquerra! (For the Eagle Comics reprints of Nemesis the Warlock Kevin O'Neill himself drew new panels or extended existing ones to fill in the gaps.)

#20

General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

Last post by Max Headroom - 17 May, 2024, 02:29:10 PM

Was the Eagle Comics colour stuff really so bad? (I am totally unfamiliar with it).