Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

[Dash Decent]

Rogue Toother.

[BPP]

Simon Fraser on FB has said he's doing Lawless? Did I miss news on this?

Love SF's work but also sad to see Phil Winslade go if true.

[BPP]

Or maybe he just means the convention. Hummmmm....

[broodblik]

Hardback Cover for The Stainless Steel Rat - Color Omnibus:

[Funt Solo]

From:

[Swerty]

If you go to the webshop some of the colour pages are on display which confirms it's from the Eagle reprints

[Lorenzo]

I think I'll stick with the B&W, those colours are pretty... meh.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Or maybe he just means the convention. Hummmmm....

Simon Fraser will be selling some of his Dante pages at Lawless. Oh you lucky devils...

[Swerty]

I'd like a reprint of the Stainless Steel Rat bw book

[Dash Decent]

I think I'll stick with the B&W, those colours are pretty... meh.

This.  I was really looking forward to this, but seeing all the bright purple and red, and single colour frames, etc, I'll give it a miss.

[Leigh S]

Presumably this is another collected Eagle comics?  Was any of the art reworked for it (and if so, by whom?)

[Max Headroom]

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

[Mike Carroll]

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.)

[Swerty]

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

[Mike Carroll]

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...!