I know, I know JD Year One has its own thread BUT BUT BUT this got me giddy with excitment. Dave Sim has done a cover for the series. I NEVER thought I'd see this and no doubt will never own the thing as it'll be a one in gazillion variant BUT how cool (and weird) is this!
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/12/dave-sim-covers-judge-dredd-year-one/ (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/12/dave-sim-covers-judge-dredd-year-one/)
are the sims' and staples' covers the variants?
cause if they are. how awesome will the retail cover be?
I know Dredd has yet to receive 21 kisses in this comic but did Sim really need to give him acne?
(http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Sim-Dredd-Year-One-header.jpg)
As noted on that thread about Joe winching a guy with a green mohawk, Dredd's all about 1977 for American artists. They're not so literal they don't realise Dredd uses the epithet Punk in the same way as Clint or Officer Krupke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq28qCklEHc), are they?
Whyioughta.
Remembering Molch-R's remark that those sites consider six comments as sufficient proof of interest in a story to warrant running more features on a title, please try your best to match the dizzying levels of insight and erudition displayed by my own contribution at the bottom of that page:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/12/dave-sim-covers-judge-dredd-year-one/ (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/12/dave-sim-covers-judge-dredd-year-one/)
Quote from: P-BOT/1138 on 04 December, 2012, 07:46:30 PM
are the sims' and staples' covers the variants?
cause if they are. how awesome will the retail cover be?
There's a Carlos Ezquerra variant in the offing as well.
Quoteare the sims' and staples' covers the variants?
cause if they are. how awesome will the retail cover be?
There's a Carlos Ezquerra variant in the offing as well.
wahey!!!!!!!
thats what we what. more f***in' variants.
ive already got 10 of issue bloody 1!
Quote from: P-BOT/1138 on 05 December, 2012, 01:19:32 AM
ive already got 10 of issue bloody 1!
Slack work! Any self respecting Squaxx would have bought
at least twenty variants by now.
This message was brought to you by Judge Burdis ;)
Let's just hope there are only a few variants of this issue one, instead of the 25 for the IDW opener of the Dredd title, which I'm doing better than I expected collecting :crazy:
I would guess that in order to sell well, Dredd in Dredd Year One will most likely look like Dredd of today. But my nerdness would've loved him to look like he really did in year one ie original Ezquerra version.
I only recall one Ron Smith flashback scene where Dredd was drawn with that look. Was a great touch.
Anyway, look forward to this, whatever.
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 05 December, 2012, 08:30:22 PM
I would guess that in order to sell well, Dredd in Dredd Year One will most likely look like Dredd of today. But my nerdness would've loved him to look like he really did in year one ie original Ezquerra version. I only recall one Ron Smith flashback scene where Dredd was drawn with that look. Was a great touch.
Fraser and MacNeil did the rounded eye-slits/helmet and zoomorphic eagle in
Blood Cadets and
Blood and Duty . I'm going to go for full pain-in-the-arse status by pointing out that Carlos Ezquerra (prog 5) and Mick McMahon (prog 2) were drawing
Dredd: Year Twenty, rather than
Year One. I can't recall the Ron Smith flashback sequence you reference, so if you or anyone else can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.
Well, Mr Coleby told me on Monday night that he was drawing it as we spoke. Personally i like surprises, and wouldnt event think of asking him leading questions about any of it to get some inside info, as such a thing would be disrespectful i feel- let the man get get on with the job, i say.
That said, i did slap him on the shoulder to congratulate him on a job well done, at the same time placing a tiny camera there which has been and will be sending me live footage of his drawing process throughout the project.
SBT
Note: a lie. We were talking online.
Quoteive already got 10 of issue bloody 1!
Slack work! Any self respecting Squaxx would have bought at least twenty variants by now.
This message was brought to you by Judge Burdis
decided not to get all the 'kick the door in' variants.
was going to. but didn't see the point. iv'e got one. that'll do me.
but,a sims staples and ezquerra cover practically sell themselves, really.
If you read the text bit in that link it mentions Staples doing the regular covers which means we've got more to look forward to.
I like Sim's exploding logo. More logos should explode in my opinion. The one thing I'm wondering is how much that cover reflects the story. Does the punk chap actually appear and what role does St Barton's Home for Wayward Spugs play?
Also, Coleby on art? Triple-yes!
QuoteMore logos should explode in my opinion.
Agreed, and as an artist that hasnt done Dredd before, its a good effort, hell of a lot better that most that have graced American editions before.
It reminds me of some eighties and nineties Cliff Robinson prog covers, and this is no bad thing at all. I too wonder if the punk and the home for wayward spugs are plot-based, though i doubt it.
SBT
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 06 December, 2012, 12:24:17 PM
It reminds me of some eighties and nineties Cliff Robinson prog covers, and this is no bad thing at all. I too wonder if the punk and the home for wayward spugs are plot-based, though i doubt it.
I sort of assume they are. I don't think Dredd's going to be routinely depicted as needing a course of Oxy-10 (as he is in that image), so it seems reasonable to infer that's part of whatever weirdness is happening at Juvie Hall. I would have gone for a parody of the Dillon
Cry of the Werewolf cover, except with zits and pubes instead of claws and teeth, myself.
OOouuh and again.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/18/dave-sim-draws-dredd-again/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/18/dave-sim-draws-dredd-again/)
Love the colouring on this, for some reason reminds me of the old Bolland Eagle covers.
Really good cover, it would be interesting to see him have a crack at interiors.
Quote from: maryanddavid on 18 January, 2013, 10:21:23 PM
Really good cover, it would be interesting to see him have a crack at interiors.
Christ (well I could use a more appropriate term I guess!) wouldn't it just. Not only a stunning artist but one of the most innovative letters as well.
Am I the only one who just doesn't LIKE Dave Sim's style. I've seen better fan art. :-X
No you are not but we must only be positive nowadays :-X
I love Sim's work on Cerebus (if not the later stuff like Glamourpuss). I'd love to see him doing a Slaine story (for obvious reasons) with good old Gerhard on background duties.