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Who has been the greatest Mayor of Mega City 1 to date?

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hardly poll!

Dave will forever remain in my heart, but I think that Ambrose is much more pro-active and is doing a lot of good for the city.

Vote Ambrose!

My first thought upon realising that Patma Rice was going to become a jelly, was 'yeah, she deserved it'.  As if anyone could ever deserve such a fate!

I think I like PJ Maybe now more than I ever have.  He's a complex and sympathetic murdering bastard.  Long may he reign!

Not a complete list, either. Amalfi is missing from the list. Any others?

* not that Amalfi was ever going to top the poll, bearing in mind he only made one appearance and the guy was a lawbreaker and a creep!

you say that like its a bad thing?

No, not meant to be a complete list, I just picked the three who I felt mattered.  Man, Mushroom or Ape, that's the choice.

"hardly poll!"

Why thank you, hardly poll to you!

Dave, beyond a shadow of a doubt. He was a great great man and I was saddened by his passing.

Bah, what rubbish, vote Dave, kids!

Early and often!

Dave for me too.  

"Would you buy a used poo from this Ape?"

yes ambrose. is a real proper politician isn't he.
but for me DAVE was the one.
an almost reagan like character of his era.

looking back you cant really believe he was in power!

It's gotta be Dave.

The first Dave story is a classic example of what most writers don't get about Dredd- That the Big Meg might be scary and violent and full of heroin addicted weeping orphans, but it's also magical, and funny, and the most amazing city in the world. I love the place, and I love reading about it and it's people.

Ambrose is such a good Mayor you can almost forgive him for being the most notorious serial killer of the century! (I mean, our last Prime Minister was a war criminal!) Another sublime plot element from Wagner.

VOTE DAVE!!!

Dave's the ape for me!

"I've never met an ape I didn't like." If you get that reference, there's a used toffee in it!

OK, Dave was cool, but he was a bit of a one-trick pony. He's an orang-utan... and what else? Even Wagner and Grant couldn't think of anything else to say about him, and [spoiler] killed him off in his second story [/spoiler].

Whereas Ambrose/Maybe could go on for ages and have lots of different twists and turns. I hope this keeps going for a while.

Damn, sorry. How do you do those spoiler things?

Mayor Dave rules!

(Well, he's dead. But if he wasn't he would rule.)

- Trout

Welcome back, banana-Floyd!

Its not Floyd but King Trout after a regeneration.

Or something.

Dave, sniff.

Pointy brackets, Richard! Like this:

<spoiler> The butler did it </spoiler>

How about they reanimate him(perhaps Judge Death could arrange this) or clone him? Dave Mark II anyone?

And anyway, Dave wasn't a "one trick pony", that accolade goes to Ed the talking horse. Who indeed was once a pony and talked!
With that fact in mind, anyone care to give the issues of 2000ad when Ed appeared?
On other talking animals in 2000ad tomfoolery, I would mind seeing that talking buzzard again. Was that a Gordon Rennie creation? Prog numbers aswell please?

The talking horse was called Henry Ford not Ed and appeared in that spider invasion story. There was also a talking cat in that anti-vivisection Dredd where he save a hamster and give it to Walter to look after. We never saw what happened to it once Walter went bad - he probably stuck it up his warse.

Talking buzzard? Are you thinking of Johnathan Livingston Radvulture? Because he got eaten in the end.

On other talking animals in 2000ad tomfoolery, I would mind seeing that talking buzzard again. Was that a Gordon Rennie creation? Prog numbers aswell please?

The Dog vulture? I think his name was Varney or something. That'd be a Robbie Morisson creation, and the last panel of that story suggested that he became trail rations for Dredd on his way back to the Big Meg.

Also - don't forget Henry Ford!

Curse you Buttonman, and your simultaneous posting! Ed and Henry Ford are two entirely seperate talking horses, anyway.

As I recall, Ed was Red Razors's talking horse, so he would have appeared in the first dozen or so Megazines and some others a bit after that.

Henry Ford (one of my favourite Dredd characters, in one of Dredds' scariest tales)  had a second adventure in the Daily Star, which i recall as being pretty good.  One of my best mates cut-out the episodes at the time and pasted them together as a birthday present for me.  Top bloke!

Yes, Yes , yes! That's it! Henry Ford! Thanks very much for the info. And yes, it was a dog vulture-damn my addled brain.

Varney the veggie talking dog-vulture created by Robbie Morrison and Colin Wilson in the Relentless storyline 1237-1239.

I believe Dredd hints that he may eat him on his walk back to the Meg if he runs out of rations.

Just reread Ryan's Revenge Dan Dare Annual 1979 which featured Mayor Amalfi and it really is a curio piece which has Dredd acting out of character.

I'd be interested in hearing what others think of it particularly the last four panels. To begin with I think Kev O'Neill must have decided to do his own thing as regards following the script.

1 Ryan falls into the Mega-Aquarium and is then seen bursting through the wall and diving back into Mega-City Bay.

2 Whilst at the same time Amalfi falls on to a passing Synthi-Fruit truck the weight of said fall buckling the front wheels

3 Back at Justice HQ Chief Judge Goodman checks Dredd's report against what he just told him. Dredd claims that Ryan and Amalfi fell out of the window at the same time (why does he lie?) yet the report filed states that Amalfi hit the ground two minutes later

4 Dredd puts this down to the fact that sooner or later every politician must fac Wind Resistance!

For this to make sense Dredd must have meddled with a lot of the evidence. Surely this can't be Dredd? (Obviously I'm discounting the simple fact its an early Dredd tale written by an unknown who didn't get Dredd because there where still not that many examples of Dredd to get)

I think the explanation for this is relatively easy and can be found in the strip Father Earth. Set in 2101 this states that Mayor Jim Grubb had ruled Mega City 1 for the past eight years. Therefore Ryans Revenge would had to have been set no later than 2093 to make sense. Taking this to the next step perhaps Ryan's Revenge was a tale from as far back as 2079 and featured Rico impersonating Joe. This would explain why he was so hostile to Amalfi and why he watched him fall to his death and why he faked reports etc etc.

And before anyone (anyone?) says a thing the robot "Dredd" is leaning on is Walter but he is still only a servo-droid for the Chief Judge.  

Congratulashuns all who voted in the pole, its very comforting to know that Mayor Ambrose can count on sutch grate support.

It's understandabble that many would vote for Dave, the public harbers grate affectshun for him, he was qwuite a monkey.

Just be aware you'll have to live with your decishun, or not, as the case Maybe.

Lets start with the D's!

Henry Ford actually had two Daily Star outings:  

The Gibson Drawn "The Cursed Earth" (reprinted in Megs 3.52 and 3.53) and the Mike Collins drawn (and my personal favourite) "Sheriff of Festering Hole", which has never been reprinted.

Taking this to the next step perhaps Ryan's Revenge was a tale from as far back as 2079 and featured Rico impersonating Joe.  

Rio, you think too much.  I like it!

Any chance of a scan?  I've never seen this one.  Complete Casefiles me arse.

 "The Cursed Earth" reprint in The Meg I faintly recall reading and enjoying-there was some real gems in those Daily Star Dredds

Dave - Vote Early. Vote Often

I was weirded out by how shocked I was when I read of his murder. No man over thirty should say outloud, "Oh, don't kill Dave!"

So many annual and special Dredds that I've never read. Can we please have a few case-files stylee volumes for 'em?