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[WHAT A MONTH]

WHAT A MONTH

Voting will take place until midnight on Sunday and YOU MUST choose ONE WINNER, ONE SECOND, ONE THIRD and you may pick ONE HONORABLE MENTION. None of that "everyone else HM" picklechickens. It's silly and I WON'T COUNT IT. We're through the looking glass here, people.

Bluemeanie1 - What if Johnny Alpha became a RANDY SHOP ASSISTANT?


Bluemeanie2 - What if Wulf Sternhammer took up indiscriminately killing moles?


Bolt-01 - What If Kid Knee was top dog?


Buttonman - What if piss stains were king?


Crazyfoxmachine - What if Chopper had become a judge?


George Dread - What if Anderson had become a P(S)I?


Glenn Broadway - What if Anderson hadn't become a judge (and Alan Grant wasn't involved)?


Jim_Campbell - What if Jim Campbell came back and destroyed Purity's Purity?


jmean - What if Dredd went evil and got SIDEBURNS?


Jon - What if Fargo had failed to achieve his political reforms?


The Monarch - What if Johnny Alpha wasn't born in a strontium storm?


Skullmo1 - What if 2000ad had not succeeded?


Skullmo2 - What if Nemesis was leader of the BNP?


SuperSurfer - What if Dredd was a mutie?


WhitBloke - What if Johnny Alpha were not top dog?





WHAT A LINE UP - YOU'VE GOT TIL SUNDAY!

[YOU HAVE UNTIL THE 28th OF JUNE THEN WE SHALL ENACT THE VOTING DANCE]

Cheers to the glorious Jon for his theme for this month's comp:

"Reversals of Fortune

What if Dredd was kicked out of the Academy? What if Dante joined the priesthod? What if Judge Death had become Judge Hugs?

Basically: What would it be like if our favourite character's lives had undergone a 180 and everything had gone wrong (or right if they're already a wrongdoer)?"

AHA! Very good theme.

Rules are thus:

- You can have as many entries as you want but bear in mind it'll split your vote so IT MAY NOT BE WORTH IT.
- No entries from anything you've done previously - they have to been drawing SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS
- There WILL BE PRIZES. ACTUAL PRIZES. For the first prize winner and for "Tharg's choice" so there's all to play for - !


YOU HAVE UNTIL THE 28th OF JUNE THEN WE SHALL ENACT THE VOTING DANCE

Do any boarders like steampunk with their cup of brown joy?

Because me, Dark Jimbo (THARG'S OFFICIAL FAVOURITE ARTIST) and Ghostpockets have been beavering away the last halfyear drawing a comic for chap hop phenomenon and Victoriana rapfellow Professor Elemental. It has a cover by Conan's Mike Hawthorne AND PLENTY OF LARKS.

You can buy it from his website http://www.professorelemental.com/fr_home.cfm

[THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIZE FOR MOST HONOURABLE MENTIONS]

Apologies for the lateness of my reply.

Hell of a month - not a bad apple in the lot and RATHER OLYMPICTASTIC

Let's get straight to the point.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIZE FOR MOST HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Buttonman's ALMOST TEDIOUSLY POLITICALLY CORRECT OLYMPIC STEREOTYPES.


THIRD PLACE
Bolt's glorious return to the comp - !


SECOND PLACE
Jimbo's EXTREMELY BRILLIANT Mek-Quake image


FIRST PLACE

THE HUGELY WELL-DESERVED BACK-BREAKINGLY GLORIOUS JON & EMPEROR EFFORT





So WELL DONE to you two chaps - and because we've overrun a wee bit GET TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH YOUR SUBJECT FOR JUNE'S COMP

THARG'S CHOICE

Had to be. Must have been. Jimbo is one of the finest artists in the small press and a long-lost regular contributor to the comp. What better returning fanfare than a THARGNOD? Jimbo - PM Molcher your address for your prize! THREE CHEERS FOR FEIST

[MUST]

Alright chaps,

Not a great deal of entries again but the QUALITY WAS SHOCKINGLY GOOD. I think we can see the winner a mile off!

Voting will take place until midnight on Friday and YOU MUST choose ONE WINNER, ONE SECOND, ONE THIRD and ONE HONORABLE MENTION. None of that "everyone else HM" jazz this time around.

Albion - Garp Is Ace in 100 Metres


Bolt-01 - Let's Hear It for the Boyo


Buttonman - his image was removed by Photobucket so can't be included here until he re-uploads it somewhere, but just assume it was naughty and included piss-stains and you'll probably be in the right... ballpark OK he has got around the taste and decency checks on an image hosting site (for now):



CrazyFoxMachine - Thrill-Suckers


Dark Jimbo - Mek-Quake Shot Put


Emperor & Jon - Torch




SuperSurfer - Brit-Cit 34



Happy voting - !

...that will hopefully be big and fat. I thought it was high time there was a dedicated thread to colouring and colourists and COLOURING ADVICE generally. Any opportunity to rub it into the face of Americans that it's spelt differently.

To kick us off here are three pages from THE AMAZING Massacre for Boys with lines from the astounding Steven Denton who's actually A RIDICULOUSLY RIDICULOUS colourist in his own right. No pressure!

Since exhibitor's tables have already SOLD OUT I thought I might as well start the topic for it.

And also beg people to ask around and see if anyone's willing to split a table! Else it'll be me handing out The Psychedelic Journal LIKE SOME SORT OF AWESOME HOBO.

I'll definitely go either way - I fell in love with it last year - and Liz & Conor of Disconnected Press will be there, as well as all m'Bristol Comic Creator chummies - !

Just one. It's barely complicated (it's quite complicated) - just I'm within groping distance of a deadline - AND I NEED HELP. You'll be duly credited but I can't pay you in anything but several tall pints of strong sweet cider.

Tomorrow or Wednesday preferably - PM or reply here!

Hello chaps and chapettes.

I wouldn't trust any other group of people with this query (plus if I had a Facebook status about it I'd get sarky replies) "BEST PROVIDER: MY COCK" etc*

Me and the madam are moving into a new place and we've got to set up ALL THE INEVITABLE BALLS. I need some opinionated opinions. No download limit preferably less than twenty quid a month. Preferably not evil.

Thoughts?


*I've said that Roger so that you don't inevitably say it - !

["I say the Olympics but can be 2000ad sports (Aeroball etc.) any of the Mega City crazy sports, or any 2000ad characters competing in any sport, Olympic or otherwise. "]

COLIN HAS CHOSEN.

In his words

:"I say the Olympics but can be 2000ad sports (Aeroball etc.) any of the Mega City crazy sports, or any 2000ad characters competing in any sport, Olympic or otherwise. "

YOU HEARD THE MAN. It's sport season on the forum - you have until MONDAY THE 28TH* so on your marks....

get set...


eat a banana...








GO!



*this may be altered if the good droids that be decide to shut the forum down again for marketing reasons

[Emp edit: As announced here this contest will now have 2 prizes: the one selected by votes and "Tharg's Choice,"  so the stakes are raised but also the importance of voting is underlined. ]

[Dash Decent's glorious Slade in Robo-Residence picture!]

Right - here we go then - cheers to all that voted and let's hope we get some more entries next time 'round because we've got an awkward number of entrants versus winners. Candlish, you get the "DECENT CHAP TROPHY". Which isn't official in any way but it does look nice when lit correctly.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIZE FOR MOST HONOURABLE MENTIONS GOES TO:
Dash Decent's glorious Slade in Robo-Residence picture!


THIRD PLACE goes to:
IAMTHESYSTEM's fantabulously similiar-to-Dredd idea, JUDGE FED!

Not sure what Wagner'd say to that one!

SECOND PLACE belongs nestled between the thighs of:
Bolt's RIDICULOUS Star Goals!

...I'd have eaten the cat to read that as a kid!

FIRST PLACE WILL FOREVER GRACE THE MANTLE OF:
Colin_YNWA's ABSURDLY BRILLIANT Ro-Jaws!!!



YOU WONDERFUL SODS! Roll on May!


...oh it is May. Well roll on the lawn then.

[Bolt-01 - Star GoalsColin_YNWA - Ro-JawsDash Decent - Slade RobohuntersDaveycandlish - Mo FroIAMTHESYSTEM - Judge Fed]

Well - again a bit of a lacklustre turn out but EACH ONE IS GOLD. If you missed out on this one and are disappointed then I expect extra potatoes for the next one. EXTRA POTATOES I SAY. This includes myself - as I never got 'round to drawing my "bionic pachyderm" idea (that'll come out again one day I'm sure of it). Voting will take place until Tuesday Midnight - you ain't got long so F'TH'LUVVERGAWD VOTE.

REMEMBER - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and an HONORABLE MENTION.

Bolt-01 - Star Goals


Colin_YNWA - Ro-Jaws



Dash Decent - Slade Robohunters


Daveycandlish - Mo Fro


IAMTHESYSTEM - Judge Fed

There's an 'normous problem with my girlfriend's laptop and she's in the final stages of her dissertation and it's rather freaking her out. I realise this is a bit of a long shot posting here for technical advice and no problem at all if you can't help but your imput would be greatly appreciated - !

In her words: "My computer will not turn on correctly. When started normally it gets stuck on the starting windows screen with the flag. it remains on this for 10 minutes or so and then reboots after the blue screen of death. When restarted this message appears- Windows error recovery: windows failed to start a recent hardware or software change might be the cause. If windows files have been damaged or configured incorrectly startup repair can help diagnose and fix the problem. If power was interrupted gerring start up to start windows normally. When booted to safe mode the computer will not load past " windows system32 drivers avgid seh.sys." it then does the blue screen of death and then reboots. I am wary of using system repair as I have tried it before and I lost all my files."

Also feel free to just be blunt or sarcastic. In these troubling times all we have is our BALLS MINDS.

Uh. That's not just close, that's the same image. So - did Edmund trace from a stock photo that the film-makers have used - or did the film-makers nick the poses...exactly?

Spotted by SFX here

Adam McLevey is a graffiti artist living in Alski's town - and he's bloody spectacular. He's been coming out with this in the last couple of days and I thought the forum would want to see it...


Started like this with a '95 Hammerstein


Then he added a judge helmet - looks like it's based on the new Dredd film



And here's the full thing, still in-progress after a busy Easter Sunday working on it - !



Will keep people informed as to where it goes - ! Blimey

[YOU. SPECIFICALLY YOU READING THIS NOW. THAT'S IT... YOU.]

...so Kelvin Gosnell of IPC Magazines decides to ask freelance editor and writer Pat Mills to develop a new 'science fiction comic'. Mills gets in John Wagner and the two develop fascist future cops, violent future sports, hyper-powered secret agents, guerrilla cockneys, time-travelling cowboys and ... well Dan Dare was involved in some capacity.

Then suddenly they lost confidence in their line-up. It didn't make sense, it needed... something else. So they turned to YOU.

SPECIFICALLY YOU READING THIS NOW.



THAT'S IT...                    YOU.

It's 1976, time is ticking on, science fiction is getting increasingly more popular and if this comic doesn't hit the shelves right now it's in danger of looking ridiculous. So give the fledging comic the final thrill it needs, Mills and Wagner are on the other end of the bulky and probably beige telephone. Answer the call. Design the lost thrill of yesteryear TODAY.


*clarification*
- Make believe it's that particularly disco-flavoured past and invent a retro thrill from scratch in the mood of the old
- No entries from anything else, if this has been done before do something else
- If you want to get involved but you feel like you can't draw then either A) sweet talk an artist I've heard they like cheese B) Do a Buttonman and get thee to Paint(!)

YOU HAVE 'TIL FRIDAY THE 27th OF APRIL.

[THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIZE FOR MOST HONORABLE MENTIONSBluemeanie's Blue Grey AreaTHIRD PLACESuperSurfer's Sensational Biotronic Buck-Toothed KidSECOND PLACEUncle Fester's Unbelievable Commy Cart GangFIRST PLACETales of the O]

Okay,

Slightly later than promised - here are those "Put Yourself Into the Prog" results - and thank you so much for entering if you did, and I hope everyone that didn't would consider doing so in next months - and so on and so forth. I was reminiscing this weekend at Hi-Ex that it was the art comp that drew me to the forum in the first place - - and it's so amazing to see what boarders come up with so I won't stop now - !


THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PRIZE FOR MOST HONORABLE MENTIONS
Bluemeanie's Blue Grey Area



THIRD PLACE
SuperSurfer's Sensational Biotronic Buck-Toothed Kid



SECOND PLACE
Uncle Fester's Unbelievable Commy Cart Gang


FIRST PLACE
Tales of the O




It's a FIX I tells ya!

Chaps and chapettes,

The time of The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is nigh! In 2013 I'm ditching the TARDIS full of jelly beans, I'm leaving my Doctory gimmick behind and I'm starting anew. With a small press anthology that's going to be bigger, more time travelly and more odd than anything I've previously attempted. Times twenty and a half.


- - SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS - -

One to four pages - the only real rules are:

- No Doctor Who/liscensed properties of any kind - !
- It MUST involved time travel in some manner of form. Humorous, dark or outright madness all be good with me - !

Please mail everything related to:
psychedelic.submissions@gmail.com

Script submissions close July 1st!

[Bat King1: Bat Angel]

Well - it was a fairy rocky month, but by the end with barely any hassling at all, we got us a fairly solid stock of entries - ! HURRAH! Voting will take place until the end of Monday to allow for possible discrepancies due to Hi-Ex attendance. Counting myself as a discrepancy, and being unable to count votes wi'out internet...

REMEMBER - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and an HONORABLE MENTION.

Bat King1: Bat Angel

Bat King2: Judge Bat King


Bluemeanie: "I Call It Mjolnir Actually"


CrazyFoxMachine: Tales of the O


Daveycandlish: "9 Steps to Ugly"


flip-r mk 2: "Archival Justice"


jmean: "Pulverizin' With Kano"


SKD1: "Inconvenienced by Commando Forces"
SKD2: "Inconvenienced by Being a Goatbaby"


SuperSurfer: "The Biotronic Buck-Toothed Kid"


Uncle Fester: "Wanted: The Commy Kart Gang"

...should this be in the IP thread?! Or the suspicious ginger beard thread that SHOULD exist.