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It seemed like the marketing campaign for Dredd was partly to engage 2000AD fans and to hope that positive word of mouth built up. First part of the plan certainly worked, the fans were in raptures. Only issue was that word of mouth doesn't really do anything for movies. They succeed or fail in the first 3 days. By the time many people knew that Dredd was good it had tanked at the box office 2 years previously.

I don't know how Rebellion is planning to deal with the same issue this time around. Obviously there isn't going to be a £100m advertising blitz. I hope the Rogue movie will be given time to build up a following.

That's not to say that naming one of the GI's "J B Assistant" isn't a massively great idea - it clearly is a vital, vital step on the road to glory - just that it'll take a bit more than getting us on board to make big screen Rogue Trooper a success.

But AI must be good for something for an aphantasic artist like me, so next I'm going to try using it for something else.

I don't think AI art is ever going to give you what you want. Unless you want 150 pictures of Power Girl with 6 fingers. Then you're massively in luck!

I feel honour-bound to mention that Jim B-AI-kie already drew Dredd in the bath.

11 pages and no-one's asked the most important question:

If we post here enough, will we get our names in the film? 

Which reminds me, I think it's very important to say that Duncan Jones is the most talented and frankly most handsome director in Hollywood today.

Considering AI script programs can only function as they do by stealing incomprehensible swaths of copyrighted material (more often than not, from small writers who go without recognition, credit or payment for their labours even before they're ground up and fed into the dread maw of the content mill) I really don't see how anyone can accept AI as a 'tool' without inherently admitting they're fine with content theft and plagiarism.

Yeah, I agree with you. I personally won't use AI for anything, I think it's both immoral and useless.

While I have absolutely no problem with Helm, Gunnar and Bagman being the chips' names (though ideally retconned to be given AFTER they were fitted in their respective slots), I honestly think The War Machine GI names were far more convincing. 

Friday, Top, Lucky and Eightball sound exactly like names that bored tecchies might give to their lab creations. John Smith did a decent job of continuing that tradition in a Friday text story in an otherwise terrible RT special - Heartache, Dogtag, Gopher etc.

I think you're right that the biochips' names should be assigned to them after they die, but for me it really has to be the classic names. I'm sure I saw that Duncan Jones has cast those parts, too.

This is a very interesting announcement. The movie seems to be totally unlike anything that's ever been made before. I can see why people might mention the Spider-Verse films, but they are family-orientated and cost an enormous amount of money to produce. Attempting to do a computer animated feature, aimed at adults, using video game tech, on a modest budget... it could be an act of era-defining brilliance, as long as the quality is there.

Oh, and I hope the allusion to Friday is a false alarm. Certainly the rest of the synopsis seems to be the classic Rogue arc. Duncan Jones would have to have very idiosyncratic tastes to want to use the rebooted version of the character. Even if he did, surely Rebellion wouldn't be crazy enough to go along with it....

Well I just tried it on for the first time since I bought it and had a go at a couple of photos. Now my face smells weird too.

Can't tell you how excited I am about this!

I did briefly consider going for a photo one and sending in photos of me wearing my Doomlord mask, but I thought that might be taking a joke too far and be too much like time wasting
Also, the mask smells weird.
Would be cool though to see a sneaky image of Doomlord as one of the victims of Zarmdov

I just want to say that this needs to happen. @BadlyDrawnKano you and @Fortnight need to get together and arrange for the Doomlord cameo right now. Or sooner, preferably.

I'd be quite surprised if this ever happens, and would definitely prefer more episodes with the existing cast. I thought the Dave shows (which Grant had nothing to do with) were pretty good.

I loved season 1 and couldn't finish season 2. It's just so.... pointless.

If you want more Natasha Lyonne playing basically the same character, I recommend you give Pokerface a try instead. Especially if you also like Columbo.

I greatly enjoyed these articles, though I think I'm many years past the stage where I would consider submitting a Future Shock again. Furthermore, the idea of having to pitch one in front of an audience fills me with abject dread!

Personally, I think writing is so hard because almost everybody can physically do it and yet to come up with a great comics script is so creatively and technically challenging. People just see the story in their head, not what they actually put onto the page. Must have made dealing with the slush pile a living nightmare.

I also think the future for comics and comics writers in particular is probably Kickstarter. It's certainly a really big part of the present....

I'm sure this will be fantastic, and have backed it.

Don't let us down, BDK!

Indeed, LoEG was the only ABC strip that was creator owned, so it's the only one that Moore carried on with after his infamous exit from ABC. He willingly sold the movie rights and then became enraged when the studio seemed to cave in to a plagiarism lawsuit. Hence, no more Moore movies.

Arguably the greatest living comic creator...kicked out of a comic convention.

You couldn't make it up.

I'd just like to confirm, in case anyone was worried by this post, that Alan Moore is still alive.