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Title: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: TordelBack on 24 May, 2013, 05:27:59 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/24/grant-morrisons-ulysses-sweet-is-coming-back-without-grant-morrison/

Okay, it's from a notorious purveyor of twaddle, but it is intriguing!  A new 3Riller, maybe?   Here's hoping there's some clever Ennis/Helter Skelter/Troubled Souls dealing going on here, with Rebellion playing a brilliant game of brinksmanship that trades the rights to Maniac for Hire for reprint permission for Zenith...   ::)
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: JOE SOAP on 24 May, 2013, 05:36:51 PM


They'll get him to sign a contract for more Ulysses Sweet that soon fades to reveal all Zenith rights go to Tharg.

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Post by: gdwessel on 24 May, 2013, 06:31:07 PM
That's... odd.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 May, 2013, 06:54:24 PM
Yeah that is curious. The article does imply that its all a bit in the air. What with the speculation about Zenith after the T-shirts there's much Morrison afoot it would seem.
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Post by: Richard on 24 May, 2013, 06:55:42 PM
Who is Guy Adams? Has he worked for 2000AD before?
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Post by: DrRocka on 24 May, 2013, 08:35:53 PM
Yippee! There is a God!
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Post by: Dark Jimbo on 24 May, 2013, 09:39:37 PM
I have never heard of this character - did he appear in an eponymous series or someone else's strip (so to speak)?
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2013, 09:47:25 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 24 May, 2013, 09:39:37 PM
I have never heard of this character - did he appear in an eponymous series or someone else's strip (so to speak)?

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=ulysses

Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Richmond Clements on 24 May, 2013, 09:48:14 PM
If true... why?
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Trout on 24 May, 2013, 09:51:39 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 24 May, 2013, 09:48:14 PM
If true... why?

Yeah. Good thought.
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: The Adventurer on 24 May, 2013, 10:46:17 PM
Hey, I have that Extreme Edition. Think I'll dig it out.
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: TordelBack on 26 May, 2013, 11:36:34 AM
Not being the tweetin' type, I've only just noticed that 2000AD has been tweeting a series of Zenith covers this weekend.  There's doings a-foot I tells ya.
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: IndigoPrime on 26 May, 2013, 01:01:54 PM
Yeah, I was wondering if a deal had been hammered out. If a Zenith collection does happen, I wonder what we'd get. I'm assuming straight reprint, but it'd be wonderful if the colour page in Phase I could be replaced by a black and white one. (I somewhat doubt Phase IV is knocking around in pre-colour, though.) There are also some non-Yeowell special/annual stories, which would really need including at the right points during the story. (With infinite money, I'd also have those redrawn by Yeowell!)
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: radiator on 26 May, 2013, 02:18:05 PM
Aren't there further legal complications with Zenith, though?

Like the inclusion of characters from other comics that Rebellion don't own?
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: IndigoPrime on 26 May, 2013, 03:01:49 PM
Robot Archie would be the obvious one, but I'm sure a deal could be hammered out. Most of the Phase III crowd were certainly based on other characters but not literally them. (i.e. Jimmy Quick = The Beano's Billy Whizz.)
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 May, 2013, 07:28:31 PM
Yeah, rumours abound as to the Tooth's posting of Zenith covers over on FB. Queer things are indeed going down I say, and we can only go forward so to speek.
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Trout on 28 May, 2013, 07:54:16 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 May, 2013, 07:28:31 PM
Queer things are indeed going down I say

Oh, not that rumour again!  ;)
Title: Re: Ulysses Sweet to return?
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 May, 2013, 08:33:32 PM
Quote from: Trout on 28 May, 2013, 07:54:16 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 May, 2013, 07:28:31 PM
Queer things are indeed going down I say

Oh, not that rumour again!  ;)
If anyone has a well tuned gaydar here abouts, it's me. ;)