2000 AD Online Forum

Couple of things pique my curiosity about this page -
1. What the hell does Koom Skrree mean? There's nothing more annoying than an obscure fanboy reference you think you should get but don't!
2. What were the banned usernames banned for? Just what sort of Zragian behaviour warrants ejection from this place?

Many moons ago there was a banner at the top of the site's page with a (I think) Jock Dredd with the sound effect KOOM SKRREE! By clicking on this picture it took you to the page of boarder's icons, kinda of like an easter egg.

The banned users were mostly scojo.

Others will tell you more of him.

Just don't look in the mirror and say his name three times...

ooh, can't wait to hear more. when I read your post I first thought "scojo" was one of those message board acronyms like IHMO - Or a piece of betelgeusian vocab that had slipped my mind!

I too have always wondered what 'kroom skree' meant. Now I will take that knowledge to my grave.

thanks

Yeah, well done Dandontdare, I've been meaning to ask this for fooking ages!

See below for a grab of 2000 AD v.2.

thgere's been a lack of good sound effects in the prog recently, Koom Skree should appear somewhere every issue

FX-Huff

yeah but unfortunately any body even mentioning the unmentionable one automatically becomes a target for paranoia & witch-hunting... everybody now will be waiting with bated breath for Dandontdare to mention any of the evil trigger words.

Wow, not bad look for the old website.

That must have been back in 2004 when the Judge Dredd Vs Death playstion  Two game as in circa.

"Wagner's gone soft..." etc.

Give or take, the dates for 2000 AD's website are:

v1 (Tharg): sometime before summer 2001.
v2 (Koom Skrree): autumn 2001.
v3 (the current one): summer 2004.

There were plans for a v4 (including a combo Pye/me design refresh) a while back, but they never materialised.

tbh, the v2 one looks a lot better than the current one.  It looks more modern and it's less crowded with content.

I used to like the Tharg one where you could make him go boss eyed.

I remebr when I first logged on to the site here and it must have been at around about roughly the same date written below.

I recall the you could only read one message at the time while all the rest were minamised.

Had a hard time navigating the board back then also.

Link: October 22nd, 2003.

just recite your four favourite sound effects Bou, and everything will be alright.

probably.


(mine are: aieeee (does that count as a sound effect?)
           thunk
            krum
and.........rrrip

just recite your four favourite sound effects Bou, and everything will be alright.

probably.


(mine are: aieeee (does that count as a sound effect?)
           thunk
            krum
and.........vadoom!

Mine has got to be BLAM! (Maaan, how sad does this make me sound?)

Remember Wagner's strange Whank! phase? That was just bizarre!

PTCHOW! has always been a personal fave of mine, as has AIEEE!

What was the noise Gunnar made in Cinnebar?
BADDA!
BADDA!
BADDA!


Sweet.

I like the wet slapping goodness of SPAP!

I wonder if the old site could be salvaged for those sound bytes.

My fave sound effects are 'thwipp' and 'snikkt' ... oops, sorry, wrong comix.
Queen Firey-Bou has got me scared - I promise never to mention that thing that I don't know anything about ever again!

too late!  you've mentioned it!

(rummages through megazine 249 for some sfx)
SPAAAANG!
BDOW! BDOW! BDOW!
PEEOW!

Did the guns in Portrait of a Mutant go "Thwup!".

And they referred to them as  THwup Guns.

Genius.

BOKKK!

Never beaten. ;-)

what is the actual meaning of the word 'Kroom Skree'.

It's a sound effect.

"Did the guns in Portrait of a Mutant go "Thwup!".
And they referred to them as THwup Guns.
Genius."

See also Sput guns in Judge Dredd :)

Wasn't there a Blat gun that went, erm, 'Blatta' too?

My favourite SFX, and one I have stolen and used myself, is 'CHUNT'.

I though it was Gaelic for something.

 Sort of like it's part of Tharg's Betelguesian Lexicon. Some of which might be inspired by old Earth languages.

I've definitely seen the sound effect "BA-THROOM!" used  a couple of times. Can't remember if that was in 2000ad or not though.

I've seen that on Comicrafts lettering site.

Bolt-01

Link: Comicraft balloon tales...

I've lived in some buildings where that would've been an appropriate door sign.

IIRC(Probably not)

Gunnar pretty much always went:

Budda
Budda
Budda

might have been a borderline psychotic automatic rifle, but he was at one with the universe that one...

"'snikkt' ... oops, sorry, wrong comix. "

Not at all, me and my brother used to shout 'snikt!' all the time as kids, and we got it from Judge Dredd (Citizen Snork, i think).

I always liked the very realistic 'Loploploplop' and 'plipliplipli', both of which involved pouring whiskey out of bottles in Zenith.
Oh, and 'Whirrrr?' in Armitage - a mechanical sound effect with a question mark. Genius.

Is it just me or are there generally fewer sound FX than there used to be in comics? Any lettering droids out there who can confirm/deny?

Having said that, this prog's finale of ten-seconders gives us the glorious 3-panel combo of
THOOOM!
BRRAKKA BRRAKKA BRRAKKA
KLAANNNG

and you can't argue with them apples

apologies if I've misinterpreted your post there dan, but surely it's not so much a matter for the letterers.

It's the writers who need to get their Onomatopia on...

For some reason I always liked KRONCH. I only ever saw it once though...

noticed yesterday
"CLONK !!"  which for a fight in a bamboo forest with bamboo sticks was pretty accurate i thought.

I guess you're right there scutfink - I'm not a creator of any description, so I've never really thought about it - Do the writers really script the exact style, size and spelling of every KABLAM and THOOM?

I always somehow inagined that it was the letterers who used to cut loose with the extra large letraset and exclamation marks.

...But without an

SFX: KaRAK-A-THOOOM!!!!

They'd be lost for words so to speak..

Gunshots are a hard thing to script! BLAM is sort of overused but instantly recogniseable, BDOW sounds a little wimpy, BKOW is better but looks kind of mean because of that merciless K-sound so you might want to save that for villains executing hostages. My personal favourite is BDAM. A good, hard, solid, manly sound and you can have lots of them.

Unique weapons should make unique noises when they go off - KZOW - and once you're into shotguns you're into the wonderful world of BCHOOM, KCHOOM, just plain CHOOM and so on... actually, this is a discussion I could have all day.

That's just me, mind. Other people will think about gunshot sounds differently if at all.

What about silenced pistols though? I always love that THWIPP/THWAPP noise they traditionally make (once PAFF! - with additional exclamation mark - in a comic I picked up in Belgium), sometimes to be found in old copies of Steranko's Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Intriguingly, I've often noticed that guns used to fire gas or poisoned darts of some kind often make the same noise in Italian fumetti digests. And that's before we even get into the whole sticky arena of machine gun SFX (always liked BRAKKA-BRAKKA)...

For my money though, no one does sound effects better than the King: his EEAA! replaced AIIIEE! for me some while back.

I used to like the screams of the Japanese in Warlord: 'AAAAAHHHHNN! GNAANEEEEE!'

The Topper used to do good outbursts of pain and surprise too: 'Yurfty!' 'Garoinkle!'  It was also the first comic to print my letters, fair play to it

I've always Dave Stone wrote some of the best sound effects...

In my own amateur works I'll be going with the scene in my head. If the scene is fast I tend to go for solid thumping Bams.

If I slow the gunshot down ,I'll go for a good old pchiieeowwwng! Which I'm quite proud of.