Title: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 06:27:22 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 06:27:22 PM
Okay, 2000AD has had plenty of horror strips over the years - Fiends of the Eastern Front, Devlin Waugh, Necronauts, Chiaroscuro, etc - but I was thinking today, how often has horror crossed over into other ongoing strips (like that fill-in story of Nikolai Dante and the vampires, for example). Specifically I was thinking about Dredd - we all know stuff like The Haunting of Sector House 9 and Cry of the Werewolf, but does anyone have any favourites or forgotten classics that they can think of?
A personal favourite of mine was Tomb of the Judges(?), somewhere around the 400's with Gibson art - I remember it scaring the crap out of me as a kid.
A personal favourite of mine was Tomb of the Judges(?), somewhere around the 400's with Gibson art - I remember it scaring the crap out of me as a kid.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 October, 2006, 06:29:15 PM
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 October, 2006, 06:29:15 PM
Maybe not quite what you're getting at, but I always loved Warlord when I was a kid. I thought the Radlands of Ji sounded like a pretty cool place to live!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 06:41:11 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 06:41:11 PM
No, I was wondering myself whether or not The Warlord counted - definitely a fave of mine as a kid.
for some reason, this Brett Ewins cover stuck in my mind for years afterwards, even if it might be termed 'racially insensitive' these days...
for some reason, this Brett Ewins cover stuck in my mind for years afterwards, even if it might be termed 'racially insensitive' these days...
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 07:51:41 PM
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 07:51:41 PM
Er, Judge Death and F(r)iends is a given...
Off the top o' me noggin:
The DNA Man tale from Progs 113-115, with Professor Milton D. Frankenstein, Dennis, and his brood of clone-freaks. Nasty!
Night of the Fog from Prog 127 - robo-exhibits from the Big Meg Chamber of Horrors programmed to go on a crime spree under cover of unseasonably misty conditions (bloody Weather Control!)and featuring a plethora of pant-wetting perps including Jack The Ripper, Quasimodo, and Burke and Hare. I near shat meself, so I did!
Off the top o' me noggin:
The DNA Man tale from Progs 113-115, with Professor Milton D. Frankenstein, Dennis, and his brood of clone-freaks. Nasty!
Night of the Fog from Prog 127 - robo-exhibits from the Big Meg Chamber of Horrors programmed to go on a crime spree under cover of unseasonably misty conditions (bloody Weather Control!)and featuring a plethora of pant-wetting perps including Jack The Ripper, Quasimodo, and Burke and Hare. I near shat meself, so I did!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Jared Katooie on 24 October, 2006, 07:56:42 PM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 24 October, 2006, 07:56:42 PM
Dredd's meeting with Murd the oppressor during the Judge Child quest was brilliant.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 08:24:32 PM
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 08:24:32 PM
This from Dice Man #1 fair got me sphincter twitchin' 'n' all back in 1986!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 08:45:36 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 24 October, 2006, 08:45:36 PM
Yeah, Murd and Fog definitely have to be up there, what with the lush McMahon and Bolland art respectively.
Just a thought: do stuff like Dredd/Aliens and Raptaur count, or is that more 'actiony'?
Just a thought: do stuff like Dredd/Aliens and Raptaur count, or is that more 'actiony'?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: JOE SOAP on 24 October, 2006, 10:15:39 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 24 October, 2006, 10:15:39 PM
Didn't we see the face of Judge Fear in that Dice Man Dredd game? Not very scary.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Dog Deever on 24 October, 2006, 10:31:46 PM
Post by: Dog Deever on 24 October, 2006, 10:31:46 PM
Phantom of the Shoppera (Shopera?), I remember that. What about the lethal gameshow one? Would that count as being a horror? Shoggy beast in Slaine? Garp had a brush with horror in Garpetbaggers as well, I think, though more of as comedy!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: W. R. Logan on 24 October, 2006, 10:32:12 PM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 24 October, 2006, 10:32:12 PM
>This from Dice Man #1 fair got me sphincter twitchin' 'n' all back in 1986!
and you can play it here:
and you can play it here:
Link: You Are Judge Dredd - In HOUSE OF DEATH
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 10:50:50 PM
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 10:50:50 PM
Bugger. Judge Death gets me every time!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 11:40:42 PM
Post by: Concrete Block 15 on 24 October, 2006, 11:40:42 PM
Judgement Day. Zombies a go-go.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Matt Timson on 25 October, 2006, 01:53:44 AM
Post by: Matt Timson on 25 October, 2006, 01:53:44 AM
Came unstuck at panel 43. There's no option to take me where I need to go (or if there is, I can't find it).
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ARRISARRIS on 25 October, 2006, 07:22:29 AM
Post by: ARRISARRIS on 25 October, 2006, 07:22:29 AM
...have always had a soft spot for the Dracula/Vampire story in the 1989 Judge Dredd annual, i think it was called 'Costa Del Blood' and had some prime Ezquerra art, just before he started using computers, hardly ever gets a mention in the board, a jolly good fun romp...
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: W. R. Logan on 25 October, 2006, 07:37:35 AM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 25 October, 2006, 07:37:35 AM
>Came unstuck at panel 43. There's no option to take me where I need to go
If you have found the Master Key there's a number on it. Replace the 'XX' in the link below with that number and it'll take you where you need to go.
http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/diceman/XX-31.htm
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Matt Timson on 25 October, 2006, 08:17:23 AM
Post by: Matt Timson on 25 October, 2006, 08:17:23 AM
Aha! Ta.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 25 October, 2006, 08:26:27 AM
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 25 October, 2006, 08:26:27 AM
Any more of those DiceMan gsames in computer foramt or is it just the one.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ming on 25 October, 2006, 09:47:32 AM
Post by: ming on 25 October, 2006, 09:47:32 AM
As far as spooky Dredds go, Riders on the Storm (prog 473) is one of my all-time favourites - great atmosphere, McCarthy on art duties and all wrapped up in a stunning cover.
More like this please, Green Bonce!
More like this please, Green Bonce!
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ming on 25 October, 2006, 09:53:44 AM
Post by: ming on 25 October, 2006, 09:53:44 AM
For spooky non-Dredd thrills, Torquemada-as-Frankenstein in Nemesis (yes Kitty, lawks) and Malak Brood in Strontium Dog stand out, but my brain's fuzzy from too many late nights this week..
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: House of Usher on 25 October, 2006, 10:13:25 AM
Post by: House of Usher on 25 October, 2006, 10:13:25 AM
Spooky Dredd: "The Fear that Made Milwaukee Famous"
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 26 October, 2006, 12:33:08 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 26 October, 2006, 12:33:08 PM
That was a colour McMahon from one of the annuals, right? Does McMahon's The Vampire Effect count? I know it's an alien, but it scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.
Riders of the Storm - definitely something of a classic that. Does anyone else remember the McCarthy story about the serial killer that appeared prog 500?
Riders of the Storm - definitely something of a classic that. Does anyone else remember the McCarthy story about the serial killer that appeared prog 500?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Satanist on 26 October, 2006, 01:09:55 PM
Post by: Satanist on 26 October, 2006, 01:09:55 PM
"Does anyone else remember the McCarthy story about the serial killer that appeared prog 500?"
Is that the one set under the Black Atlantic? 2 or 3 parter? If so thats one of my faves.
Whats the Dredd where the woman sends bills to dead people and in the end they come and get her?
Is that the one set under the Black Atlantic? 2 or 3 parter? If so thats one of my faves.
Whats the Dredd where the woman sends bills to dead people and in the end they come and get her?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ming on 26 October, 2006, 01:17:59 PM
Post by: ming on 26 October, 2006, 01:17:59 PM
No, Atlantis was a four-parter (progs 485-488, with great autopsy scenes!). The prog 500-501 story was The Witness but I don't remember it. Anyone want to remind me? My Progs are elsewhere, so a re-read will have to wait for the Case Files!
Another McCarthy Dredd: Blood Donor (prog 519) - what was that about?
Another McCarthy Dredd: Blood Donor (prog 519) - what was that about?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 26 October, 2006, 02:25:27 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 26 October, 2006, 02:25:27 PM
It was about a guy being forced to give blood, but being somewhat less than keen - it was quite like that Dredd annual story by McMahon about the guy having to forcibly give up his heart.
The Witness was about tracking down a killer in a public baths, which had a rather neat twist as to who the killer was (or at least I thought so at the time).
You used to be able to get a whole bunch of McCarthy Dredd's in one of the old Titan Chronicles of... (I think it was somewhere around 15, if memory serves).
The Witness was about tracking down a killer in a public baths, which had a rather neat twist as to who the killer was (or at least I thought so at the time).
You used to be able to get a whole bunch of McCarthy Dredd's in one of the old Titan Chronicles of... (I think it was somewhere around 15, if memory serves).
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: W. R. Logan on 26 October, 2006, 02:45:32 PM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 26 October, 2006, 02:45:32 PM
>Any more of those DiceMan gsames in computer foramt or is it just the one.
I only asked for permission to do the Dredd one and even that was done by someone else for me.
I only asked for permission to do the Dredd one and even that was done by someone else for me.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ming on 26 October, 2006, 02:54:54 PM
Post by: ming on 26 October, 2006, 02:54:54 PM
Yup a fine memory you have there, Byron - Riders on the Storm, Atlantis and The Witness: Chronicles 16.
Looking forward to reading all those again! And Oz! Can we have McCarthy back, please, even for a one-off?
That McMahon one was Compulsory Purchase.
Looking forward to reading all those again! And Oz! Can we have McCarthy back, please, even for a one-off?
That McMahon one was Compulsory Purchase.
Link: Chronicles 16
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 October, 2006, 02:59:03 PM
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 October, 2006, 02:59:03 PM
Wow, can we get Dave McKean to do some more covers? That's well good.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 27 October, 2006, 10:21:12 AM
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 27 October, 2006, 10:21:12 AM
oh, It is rather hard to follow the origianl version unless you are taking notice of the page number references.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: joepineapples3000a on 29 October, 2006, 07:50:40 PM
Post by: joepineapples3000a on 29 October, 2006, 07:50:40 PM
the fact is that you just cant get a scary comic, they just don't exist! I suppose if any comic classifies as "scary" it has to be develin waugh swimming in blood
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 30 October, 2006, 04:18:36 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 30 October, 2006, 04:18:36 PM
Hmmm...so comics aren't scary, but Devlin Waugh is? At least be consistant in your trolling, man!
Wasn't there a sequel to Cry of the Werewolf drawn by Carl Critchlow? Or was that just a horrible dream...?
Wasn't there a sequel to Cry of the Werewolf drawn by Carl Critchlow? Or was that just a horrible dream...?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: radiator on 30 October, 2006, 04:25:29 PM
Post by: radiator on 30 October, 2006, 04:25:29 PM
Out of the Undercity - it's a prologue to Dredd/Aliens.
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: Byron Virgo on 30 October, 2006, 04:32:02 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 30 October, 2006, 04:32:02 PM
Oh yeah, that[backslash]'s right - that'd be about the point I started reading regularly again. Never read the whole thing (or if I did, I've forgotten it) - what happened exactly? I seem to remember something about Prager turning into a werewolf...or something...?
Title: Re: Spooky Dredd
Post by: radiator on 30 October, 2006, 04:59:10 PM
Post by: radiator on 30 October, 2006, 04:59:10 PM
Funnily enough, that's about the point when I stopped reading regularly, so I can't really remember much about it either.