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Ace Trucking. C'mon guys, don't just tease us like this. Get it in the shops a.s.a.p
Cheers,
Rob.

Two words, Massimo Belardinellis' art.

bugger, thats three words. Ok three words

Massimo Belardinellis' art Rocks

wait four, four words

Massimo Belardinellis' art Rocks alot

five words. bah! Ill come in again.

All Ace Trucking including the Gibson one and the stunning painted annual strip in one volume?

Yes please.

My only request would be to have one of Belardinelli's old 2000ad covers or poster images computer coloured for the cover rather than employ an new artist. Ace Trucking IS Belardinelli and he deserves the cover.

Here, here, Tulkas

Massimo Belardinellis' art Rocks alot

five words. bah! Ill come in again.

Erm, six words, actually - there's no such word as 'alot'.

I agree. It would be a major mis-step to commission some new art for any collected ACE Trucking. Recolour some Belardinelli art by all means, but I'd hate to see a collection with anything other than a Belardinelli pic on the front.

BOTH!!!!!!!

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Sorry people, I hate to be the one with the bad news- but Ace Trucking was shite.

But was it more or less shite than Stoney Bridge Island Book One, yer lordship?

No. No it wasn't.

Have to disagree. Ace Trucking was great until Ace flew into the sun. When they brought it back, THEN it was shite.

Ace Trucking, if only because I've never read it and want too. I actually have been enjoying Stone Island, Book 1's only problem was it ran to short. It needed about two more installments I think to give it room for character growth and a little more survival horrorness. Book 2's pretty swank.

In all, I'll be buying both.

 I never liked the ace Trucking much except for the art.I quite liked GBH.

ace trucking,or as an extreme edition at least.

I hate to get pedantic (that's a lie: I love it)... But it was called Ace Trucking Co., not just Ace Trucking. So there.

y'da thunk 2000ad online would've known that.

Ace Trucking was great up to the Doppelgarp.

It had that old-school multi-layered 2000AD lunacy.

- Trout

"y'da thunk 2000ad online would've known that."

Well, yeah, but it was PVS who created the poll. Rest assured the site hasn't gained self-awareness and started seeking knowledge :)

"it was PVS who created the poll."

I created the poll using the exact wording of the person who asked for the poll.  If it matters :p

I liked Ace Trucking, total lunacy. Even the later stuff with Chiefy and Evil Blood/ Guts. It was just stupid and the art was brilliant. A Case Files type thing would be welcome on my shelf.

you're chanelling Kath n Kim, Tweak.  I've got one word for you.  "Ace Trucking"

ps Ace Trucking rocked for mine - as the Trout said, multilayered lunacy.  I read it in some second hand 'Best of 2000Ad's' that I picked up two years ago - oodles of fun

"It would be a major mis-step to commission some new art for any collected ACE Trucking. Recolour some Belardinelli art by all means"

They wouldn't need to. Belardinelli did at least 1 painted cover for a "best of 2000ad" and there's also at least 1 painted Ace Trucking star-scan. And yeah, it'd have to be Massimo on the cover.

As for the nay-sayers who say Ace Trucking Co. was shite.

Exhibit A: "The Strike" - not only the funniest strip ever to grace the pages of tooth it's coupled with the most glorious and detailed artwork and brilliantly plotted.

Exhibit B: "That one where he flies into the sun" - Never has a character's death been more affacting or heartbreaking than Ace's pointless death coming so soon after his selfless and heroic acts of generosity.

Exhibit C: -the characters. Strange as it is the pointy headed alien is the most complex and fully rounded character tooth's seen. we've seen him heroic, selfish, selfless, spiteful, naive, smart. All of it.

I'm not one for picking up the reprints, but I'd make an exception for this. As long as
* it's A4 size. Any smaller'd do an in-justice to Belardinelli's work.
* It includes a proper tribute to the guy. I still haven't seen one yet. He got less page space in the meg than any living guy got and much of it wasn't that complimentary: "He couldn't draw people, but I liked his brushstrokes..."

C'mon, it's time Belardineli got a proper send-off.

-Huey

 Its Belardinelli that has inspired me to teach myself to draw comic art.But like like Belardinelli i dont seem to be very good at drawing people as such.Not your typical human anyway.

ace trucking neer read it and I definatly want to maybe as a big collection similar to the dredd/stront collections?

"it's A4 size. Any smaller'd do an in-justice to Belardinelli's work. "

I agree entirely, but the way it's going we'll be lucky to see any reprint in book format at all, nevermind a top quality one.

Regards

Robin

I would like to thank Paul Von Scott for putting up this poll. I'd suspected that Ace Trucking Co had more backers than Stone Island and now I'm certain. The conclusion I draw from this is NOT that there should be no Stone Island trade (though I do think It should come around later), but instead that a Ace Trucking Co trade will not be a finacial loss and deserves the same consideration.

So rather than put Belardinelli in the next EE (although Flesh2, Meltdown Man, and The Dead have been among the best EEs) put him in a trade and give me a Eurocrash EE instead. I would proudly place him on my bookshelf next to the SD case files.