Welcome back!
Select your two favourite droids form the list of 4 below pop those names in a post on this thread and in three days (Thursday 29th October) I'll count up the votes and the two droids with the highest counts will qualify for the tourney proper when it starts.
So that's nominating your 2 favourite droids by clearly naming them in a reply to this thread... want to know more. Well there's some linkies below the list.
David Roach - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=davidr)
Rufus Dayglo - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=rufusd)
Warren Pleece - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=warrenp)
Eduardo Ocana - more info (https://shop.2000ad.com/creators/eduardo-ocana?page=3)
What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46992.0)
Whose in the two different tourneys?
Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (eventually took me like 3 or 4 goes to get the list right!) (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46984.0)
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46982.0)
Rules for what they are worth (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46992.msg1041572#msg1041572)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.
David Roach and Eduardo Ocana
Warren Pleece and Eduado Ocana.
SBT
I'm going for David Roach.
As for my other vote, can I vote for him again? No? Best just leave it at that to avoid diluting the Roach vote.
Warren Pleece.
Rufus Dayglo.
Dayglo & Pleece
Rufus Dayglo & Eduardo Ocana
David Roach, another possibly underrated Nemesis artist, plus some great work on Dredd and Anderson.
Rufus Dayglo, who hasn't done as many MC1 stories as I thought, more please Tharg. Also for Bad Company and Counterfeit Girl.
Roach and Rufus.
Rufus not on Dredd is baffling. Around the Dan Francisco days he was producing amazing stuff.
David Roach
Rufus Dayglo
David Roach and Eduardo Ocana for me (Ed's a great new addition to the House of Tharg and David Roach is the epitome of a safe pair of hands).
David Roach
Rugus Dayglo
I love Rufus's stuff, so Rufus. And I like Roach too, so him.
Dayglo and Pleece.
Pleece and Roach this time around, I think.
I had to look Ocana up, to be reminded he's the Full Tilt Boogie guy. That was great, so I'll go for him.
And David Roach, obviously.
David Roach
Rufus Dayglo
David Roach.
Warren Pleece.
Last votes in the thread please. Last votes. Haven't you lot got Round 1 to go to. Counting and closing this one in the morning.
This is a difficult one to call.
It's got to be David Roach just for that night that Anderson and Corey went out clubbing.
Actively dislike the other two so the second vote goes to Eduardo Ocana whose style was a breath of fresh air for Tharg's Mighty organ at least.
Ok I'll use my second vote after all:
Ocana.
(Same reasons as Cosh).
VOTING CLOSED
You vex me. First I lose Jim Baikie and Shaky Kane and now I lose Warren Pleece, quite convincingly. Now you've got a couple of days left to please me!
I was genuninely surprised that Rufus did as well as he did as while I like his work I got the impression he wasn't this popular and I was chuffed that Ocana got as many votes after such a short and recent impact, but well deserved and they'd have got my vote. As it is through to the tourney proper go:
David Roach
Rufus Dayglo
Really? I'm pleased to see Rufus make it through and really believe that in another reality he decided to work on more Dredd and follow the grittier side of his style to become one of the top artists of the era.
I see Jake Lynch and Nick Dyer in this way also, they wear their influences out in the open but rapidly become their own artists because of it.