Alright? Mildly piqued at not yet being able to grab this week's Prog from Clickwheel I started casting around for something to do.
So, post a question. The more obscure the better. First person to get the correct answer asks the next one.
I'll start.
- What appeared in Prog 1139 that has never been seen before or since?
I'm going to guess its something in the thrills of the future supplement that never actually came to light.
I'm kinda glad I can't be more specific than that as I can't think of a good question!
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 April, 2014, 08:20:17 AM
I'm going to guess its something in the thrills of the future supplement that never actually came to light.
Well, it may be that too, but it's not the answer I have on the card.
Quote- What appeared in Prog 1139 that has never been seen before or since?
Prog number 1139 written on the cover?
Prog only had 4 thrills?
Doubled sized letters page - 8?!
First letter credited to 'e-mail' - this would be a wrong assumption but incompetence is rife!
A 7 rather than 6 page Dredd story?? (based on page count details listed on Barney??)
I really can't believe it's the only example, but is it the bit in Dante where the Sinister/Dexter parodies kiss? Is it the first homosexual kiss in 2000AD?
Quote from: amines2058 on 09 April, 2014, 09:42:51 AM
A 7 rather than 6 page Dredd story?? (based on page count details listed on Barney??)
Something which has happened slightly more than you might think. The last episode of Titan being the most recent example.
I can see this is going to take some time!
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 April, 2014, 09:51:20 AM
I really can't believe it's the only example, but is it the bit in Dante where the Sinister/Dexter parodies kiss? Is it the first homosexual kiss in 2000AD?
Not that (has Devlin never kissed anyone?) but we're getting somewhere with this.
Is it more to do with the parodies rather than the kiss as there was also a Slaine parody in there??
Quote from: amines2058 on 09 April, 2014, 10:26:56 AM
Is it more to do with the parodies rather than the kiss as there was also a Slaine parody in there??
No. It's specifically to do with Sin/Dex.
Parody characters existing in the same Prog as the regular versions?
Though that seems unlikely. What with all the Droidlifes over the years.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 09 April, 2014, 10:34:24 AM
Parody characters existing in the same Prog as the regular versions?
Nope. It's something in that Prog's episode of Sin/Dex. Nothing to do with the parody.
Do both Dabnett and SBD appear at Demi's funeral? I haven't got a copy of Eurocrash handy, but I seem to recall lots of portraiture...
Cosh, you made me pull out my copy of Eurocrash just to read over the last chapter. After going over it several times... nothing unusual pops out at me. So it must have to with the actual printed story in the Prog. Of which I don't have.
1138 was the all Sin-Dex issue. So... does that have anything to do with it?
Quote from: The Adventurer on 09 April, 2014, 10:42:17 AM
Cosh, you made me pull out my copy of Eurocrash just to read over the last chapter. After going over it several times... nothing unusual pops out at me. So it must have to with the actual printed story in the Prog. Of which I don't have.
It's definitely in that episode and it's to do with the art so I would be very surprised if it isn't in the collected version.
Answer will be revealed at midday CET (in 15 minutes.)
erection
Lucky you Tom!
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 April, 2014, 11:21:45 AM
erection
We're well into the pants down era now but I'm not sure if we've ever been given a stiffy by Tharg's Mighty Organ.
Some good efforts here, but (unless I've really screed this up) the things which have only ever been seen in Prog 1139 are Ramone Dexter's eyes.
I'll try an easier one this time.
- Who holds the all-time record for most letters printed in the Judge Dredd Megazine?
Quote from: The Cosh on 09 April, 2014, 12:04:47 PM
Some good efforts here, but (unless I've really screed this up) the things which have only ever been seen in Prog 1139 are Ramone Dexter's eyes.
Not even in Bullfighting Days?
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 April, 2014, 12:21:51 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 09 April, 2014, 12:04:47 PM
Some good efforts here, but (unless I've really screed this up) the things which have only ever been seen in Prog 1139 are Ramone Dexter's eyes.
Not even in Bullfighting Days?
Erm... I'll get back to you on that. But definitely not in that one where his headcase breaks down.
Quote from: The Cosh on 09 April, 2014, 12:07:12 PM
I'll try an easier one this time.
- Who holds the all-time record for most letters printed in the Judge Dredd Megazine?
Although I'm only up to meg 212 in my reading, I'm going to guess it's Floyd Kermode as he seems to crop up in almost every one I've read so far. If not him, then I'm going for Ren and Stimpy (or whatever they were called) who specialised in meg bashing early on in its life and seemed to be in every one for quite a while.
Splutter! Kermode?! You'd be as well as guessing Proudfoot!
Guilty as charged before some unpleasant comments begin. I'll ask..
What distinction is held by Keddy Tennedy?
First man to walk on the sun. AKA 'The late Keddy Tennedy'.
Balls, do I have to think of one now? Hmmm...
Jeez that was quick - Sci-fi Special story too - this place is full of nerds!
Quote from: Buttonman on 09 April, 2014, 12:33:22 PM
Splutter! Kermode?! You'd be as well as guessing Proudfoot!
Gis' a break, guv! I'm only up to 212......
Okay, how about this:
Whose careers started out in Frank Cannon, Tommy McArdle and Karen Berger Blocks respectively?
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 April, 2014, 12:57:04 PM
Okay, how about this:
Whose careers started out in Frank Cannon, Tommy McArdle and Karen Berger Blocks respectively?
Two Ton Tony Tubbs, Marlon Shakespeare and A Man Called Greener.
One out of three there. You might be right about Greener, but as someone recently said, it's not the answer I have on the card.
Frank Cannon Block was the home of Arnold Stodgman - Karen Berger was PJ Maybe, although I did have to Google Karen for a clue!
Indeed - adding Cosh's Chopper from Tommy McArdle and that's the three. A majority decision hands the baton to Buttonman.
On the presumption of correctness I will offer this easy one :
Who was the object of the Phantom of the Shoppera's affection and why?
Too easy!
A two progger for 30 years ago? I know I might as well have asked 'Who's the Queen'?
It was that tinker Robert Westcream wasn't it?
Damn, I can remember the beautiful Higgins art, but I can't remember what happened! Someone got lifted into the rafters of the Shoppera - but who?
Half point to Jimmy but why was Robert Westcream so darn attractive?
Quote from: Buttonman on 09 April, 2014, 01:51:57 PM
Frank Cannon Block was the home of Arnold Stodgman - Karen Berger was PJ Maybe, although I did have to Google Karen for a clue!
I was pretty sure it was actually from Requiem for a Heavyweight but I couldn't remember his name!
Sloppy, Coshforth, very sloppy. No-one's gonna give you the pie with that attitude.
Quote from: Buttonman on 09 April, 2014, 02:14:46 PM
Half point to Jimmy but why was Robert Westcream so darn attractive?
-sigh- Because his skin was so creamy. And West.
West it was indeed - Tordelback is up!
Quote from: The Cosh on 09 April, 2014, 08:16:21 AM
Alright? Mildly piqued at not yet being able to grab this week's Prog from Clickwheel
It's still showing last week's issue (https://www.clickwheel.net/features/219). I've spent all day imagining a freshly baked prog sitting on the window sill to cool, waiting for me when I got home. I was going to have a read through the latest prog thread to sate my hunger, but some of the posts look a bit spoilery.
Quote from: sauchie on 09 April, 2014, 06:07:22 PM
I was going to have a read through the latest prog thread to sate my hunger, but some of the posts look a bit spoilery.
In my humble opinion I wouldn't say any of them are, Sauchie, but your mileage may vary. All the strips are very 'business as usual' this week so there aren't any revelations or the like to spoil (yet).
I did my speed read thing, where I run my eyes down the middle of the page without focussing and let the whole page seep in through my peripheral vision, and one word leapt out at me regarding the Dredd. For all I know, my unconscious absorbed it incorrectly.
This must be what it's like for junkies when they can't score - why are Tharg's Clickwheel droids holding out on me? Irvine Welsh's explanation of the metaphor contained in the title of Trainspotting has never seemed more appropriate than when reading through this thread.
This thread has lost its way!
Quote from: Buttonman on 09 April, 2014, 06:41:28 PM
This thread has lost its way!
Sheesh, 20 hours a day is the most I can give this forum...
Okay, how about this:
What might you find in Hubbard's Cupboard?
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 April, 2014, 04:48:28 PM
Sloppy, Coshforth, very sloppy. No-one's gonna give you the pie with that attitude.
To make it worse (not sure if this was captured on the thread about this), when offered the unnecessary dessert menu at the end of a satisfying meal I will sometimes mutter his immortal words.
No idea about Hubbard's Cupboard though.
a bone
I'll give you a clue: it includes the planet Dianetik.
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 April, 2014, 11:57:55 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 April, 2014, 07:59:56 PM
What might you find in Hubbard's Cupboard?
I'll give you a clue: it includes the planet Dianetik.
If you'd said
closet, I'd have guessed
Tom Cruise.
Is it the Glimmer?
I'm only guessing.
Good guess, Trout - but no. Another clue - instead of too many affable heady types, there was just one, and he was no hee-hee.
Wild guess.... Feek the Freek?
-sigh- No appreciation for the classics. Fungus is closest so far, in that it is indeed in an Ace Trucking Co. strip.
Pass ! Not read any Ace Trucking since publication.
Must be somewhere in the Kookaratch Patch?
Isn't it something to do with GBH's family?
Gone on long enough, good buddies. The Bamfeezler, an evil hypnotic offshoot of the Bampot species hailing from the planet Dianetik, lies in wait for ships responding to his distress call in the region of space known as Hubbard's Cupboard. He hypnotises GBH into turning on the crew and almost steals Ghost and all her cargo. Early bit of crude Scientology satire there from the '82 Sci-Fi special. Call yourselves geeks.
I'm going to give the Enigmatic Dr. X the points for at least getting the GBH connection: you're up, Dr. X.
I'll go easy on you.
What is PJ Maybe doing the first time he meets Dredd?
Without Case File to hand it's either bouncing a big ball that looks like a monster's head or cat's cradle.
Running the 'Mock Chocs' factory.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 April, 2014, 12:39:31 PM
What is PJ Maybe doing the first time he meets Dredd?
Employing
ButtonMushroom's no-reference rule, I'm going to say balancing a book on his head.
Yes, he's making a cat's cradle ("I know lots of things... cat's cradle!" is what he says to Dredd)
BMan it is.
I feel bad as I had two guesses.
Not that bad though!
Let's see, let's go easy and ask 'Who was 'The Exploding Man'?
Ike Nobel?
Weird how so many names and stories form 25 years ago still resonate among the fandom!
Ike it was and Tordelback is up.
Keeping with Dredd, what story did Grot Pots first appear in?
Grunge?
Pretty sure they are a Otto Sump product anyway.
Grunge it is! I'd always thought that they first appeared in The Pit until a re-read of Grunge showed one of Otto's tasty nutritious products to be a (presumably subsequently un-banned) Grot-Pot.
Your shout, Magnetica.
ok next question.
Who was the leader of the Straw Dogs?
Hammerstein.
no.
It's Gunge. Sorry, but as a comics reader I must express my excruciating pedantry as often as possible.
Blackblood?
That will teach me to try and post and go out to get the kids tea from the fish and chip shop at the same time.
"No" was intended to say no it wasn't Hammerstein.
And yes you are right it was "Gunge" not "Grunge". But still not a bad guess for a story I have hardly read since it came out. And that's not being pedantic, it's being accurate - which is important.
Anyway...yes Blackblood is the correct answer, so over to you Dr X.
Ah, ok! See this is the problem with the interweb - I thought you were irritably demanding an explanation (which would in itself have been justifiable).
It's a similar problem to having a not-so-fluent-in-English Polish friend who does occasional work for you - after I had spent an entire day silently fuming at her for saying that what I thought was a generous payment to her would only cover her bus fare, I later realised that she actually meant that she only wanted me to pay her bus fare and was happy to do the job for free.
Anyway, wildly off topic. Back to the Trivia Challenge, people!
yeah I saw the Hammerstein post and saw your "no its not" without seeing you had quoted my answer of "Grunge", i thought you were responding to that answer.
All in 2 milliseconds as I was going out the door.
Indeed I tried to delete the no post but could n't.
So alls well that ends well.
So yes lets get that next question, Dr X.
I'm going to stop this. I don't know enough to pose any useful questions and am too lazy to think about it.
So.....
The final D.R. & Quinch strip is told from what point of view? Bonus if you know who's point of view, but I'll take the general position.
And the problem page stuff doesn't count as final.
A boy scout who was being tortured?
Well, not tortured so much as... re-educated. But, yes.
Feck! My go then...
How did Judge Tomas Nary escape death?
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 April, 2014, 10:42:23 PM
Feck! My go then...
How did Judge Tomas Nary escape death?
Brain transplanted into the body of that braindead female judge during the Dredd/Anderson
Tomb of the Judges story?
Yep. You're up, Jimbo
What special distinction does prog 1383 hold?
It's the only Prog with a numbered page
P 14! Z
Both correct, lads - Tombo, you're up.
Cool.. Okay. What was special about Volume 14 of the Complete Case Files?
Never mind, wrong answer...
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 05:43:41 PM
What was special about Volume 14 of the Complete Case Files?
First Case File divisible only by Case Files 1, Case Files 2, Case Files 7, and itself?
Quote from: sauchie on 14 April, 2014, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 05:43:41 PM
What was special about Volume 14 of the Complete Case Files?
First Case File divisible only by Case Files 1, Case Files 2, Case Files 7, and itself?
Oooh so close... But totally wrong (interesting use of mathematics though)
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 05:53:24 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 April, 2014, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 05:43:41 PM
What was special about Volume 14 of the Complete Case Files?
First Case File divisible only by Case Files 1, Case Files 2, Case Files 7, and itself?
Oooh so close... But totally wrong (interesting use of mathematics though)
The only case file written entirely by John Wagner?
Didn't notice that little fact, but it's not the answer on my card sorry.
Edit: and a clue it's art related.
The first time Carlos Drew Judge Death?
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 April, 2014, 06:03:23 PM
The first time Carlos Drew Judge Death?
Again, interesting but not the answer I have.
was this the first of the slimmer full colour casefiles?
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 05:43:41 PM
Cool.. Okay. What was special about Volume 14 of the Complete Case Files?
Reads the same backwards as forwards?
Does all Dredd's dialogue create the worlds longest piphilology?
Some very.... interesting answers there. But to put you all out of your misery, the answer I had was....
...The envelope please...
[spoiler]It was the first Casefile not to feature Dredd himself on the cover [/spoiler]
Since Skullmo gave some interesting answers he can ask the next question, I have to go wash the pots.
Quote from: Tombo on 14 April, 2014, 06:48:12 PM
Some very.... interesting answers there. But to put you all out of your misery, the answer I had was....
...The envelope please...
[spoiler]It was the first Casefile not to feature Dredd himself on the cover [/spoiler]
Bah! I knew the answer, too - was just about to post it!
OK, my question. Just using what is inside your head and without referring to external sources . . .
Which droid was responsible for the most covers in the 900s (900 - 999)?
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 April, 2014, 08:06:02 PM
OK, my question. Just using what is inside your head and without referring to external sources . . .
Which droid was responsible for the most covers in the 900s (900 - 999)?
My knee-jerk answer is...Dermot Power. Really?
Correct! 10 covers. Beating Jason Brashill who had 9.
Your question mr Link.
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 April, 2014, 08:16:20 PM
Correct!
Jeez, that was a genuine wild guess.
I remember he did about 5 in a row once (including a 'Star Trek' one. Yeah, you had to be there to believe it).
Ok, ok...sticking with everyone's favourite 90's period; in Prog 900 we got the eyebrow raising Dredd / Rogue Trooper crossover.
But...Tharg The Liar had previously promised the return of another character that Prog- who was it?
Judge Death?
Nemesis?
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 April, 2014, 08:43:31 PM
Nemesis?
Correct sir.
And not only was he a Prog late, but the much vaunted 'Hammer of the Warlocks' saga turned out to be a 3 part teaser, unfinished for several years. Why, Tharg, why?
Back to you Skullmo.
World Cup Revival Special!
Which 2000AD protagonist shares a name with a late 20th century European Championship winning international midfielder?
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 June, 2014, 01:15:10 PM
World Cup Revival Special! Which 2000AD protagonist shares a name with a late 20th century European Championship winning international midfielder?
Did Leicester loan Robbie Savage to Juventus at some point?
Karl-Heinz Robohunter?
Dirty Frank Lampard! :P
Crap jokes aside there was a Fernando Redondo played for Real in I think the '98 final.....Jesus Redondo did art for Starlord and 2000ad but I'm got on the protagonist thing. Z
This question is a real melon-twister........
gave up earlier, did consider [Robbie] Savage though.
It's not something cute like Smith (VC's) is it?
Ole 'Gunnar' Solskjaer....damn he was a striker! Bah Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 20 June, 2014, 09:27:49 PM
Ole 'Gunnar' Solskjaer
If that isn't the correct answer, I don't want to know what is.
Quote from: ZenArcade on 20 June, 2014, 07:08:08 PM
Dirty Frank Lampard! :P
Quality !
A clue : the strip in question was the work of a droid who has seen print this year.
Quote from: ZenArcade on 20 June, 2014, 07:20:52 PM
Crap jokes aside there was a Fernando Redondo played for Real in I think the '98 final.....Jesus Redondo did art for Starlord and 2000ad but I'm got on the protagonist thing. Z
Oooh. European Championship is national teams but I'll review.
Yep countries only...
you'd think a 4-yearly competiton would make it easy... :)
Doh, sorry cosh. I beaten here. I know Denmark had Hendrik Larsen jn the 92 squad as a mid fielder. Hendrik Larsen was the main protagonist in one of my all time fav 2000AD stories:Firekind. But that was over 20 years ago. Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 21 June, 2014, 12:23:24 AM
Doh, sorry cosh. I beaten here. I know Denmark had Hendrik Larsen jn the 92 squad as a mid fielder. Hendrik Larsen was the main protagonist in one of my all time fav 2000AD stories:Firekind. But that was over 20 years ago. Z
We have a winner. Not sure where the time limit came from. Maybe my fault.
Henrik Larsen was, indeed, the le Guin inspired anthropologist hero of one of Tharg's finest hours. In his spare time, he helped his country to one of the unlikeliest of victories: Denmark having failed to qualify, they were only invited after the implosion of the former Yugoslavia.
Over to you.
Yippee. Right, I'm gonna have a think on this and post a question tomorrow. Z
Well done Zen...
I wondered about Larsen but never having read Firekind (well, yet) I was never going to make the link. Boo, ref. Fix, etc.
Yeah, well done Zen. I would never have got that.
Cheers lads. Fungus, Firekind was written by John Smith at his creative peak in the early 90's and stands out even then for it's sheer verve and inventiveness. The artwork by Paul Marshall is simply out of this world. It has balance, dynamism and a palette of colours that has left an indelible impression on me. Read it. Z
Probably an easy one, where did the sun rise twice on the same day? Z
Mega City Two- Judgement Day?
The very one, shoot Link.
Quote from: ZenArcade on 21 June, 2014, 01:03:19 AM
Cheers lads. Fungus, Firekind was written by John Smith at his creative peak in the early 90's and stands out even then for it's sheer verve and inventiveness. The artwork by Paul Marshall is simply out of this world. It has balance, dynamism and a palette of colours that has left an indelible impression on me. Read it. Z
Absolutely. I keep hearing good things about it and the Slog will hit Firekind some time later this year :)
Keep your wits about you in terms of the sequencing in the prog, I havent read it in a memory, but I think a couple of eposodes went out of sync. Z
Not Tharg's finest hour that: Part 7 was omitted, and had to be run as Exciting News for Readers: A Very Special Firekind Epilogue in Prog 840-or-so. Funnily enough it didn't make that much of a mess of the story - one never being sure with John Smith whether these apparent lacunae are intentional and you-the-reader are just being dim:thick.
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 June, 2014, 09:50:39 AM
it didn't make that much of a mess of the story - one never being sure with John Smith
Well I was thinking that...
Hard to think of something you clever bunch won't instantly twig.
Hmm.
The ABC Warriors have lost several members over the years.
Once, a member was felled by another's hand.
Who?
Hitaki is killed by Mek-Quake in Nemesis Bk 6. (He was previously been decapitated by the Monad, but Mek-Quake is the one who actually kills him while restraining him.)
Yes, Greg - that's it. And it only took you 6 seconds. ::)
See what I mean? This is like the Eurovison- I don't want to win anymore!
Quote from: Link Prime on 21 June, 2014, 02:02:05 PM
Yes, Greg - that's it. And it only took you 6 seconds. ::)
Well, I had to
think about it.
My turn - what horrific fate befalls Brian De Vimto in 'Judge Dredd'?
is he the guy that crashes a hoverpod into a delivery of donated blood while trying to escape having to donate blood himself (all because he suffers from a phobia of blood)?
Nope, but good guess. That's the Brendan McCarthy story from somewhere in the 500s, isn't it? Brian De Vimto's fate occurs somewhere in the 300s.
Quote from: Greg M. on 23 June, 2014, 03:32:15 PM
Nope, but good guess. That's the Brendan McCarthy story from somewhere in the 500s, isn't it? Brian De Vimto's fate occurs somewhere in the 300s.
There's a lot of potential fates during that period so I'm going to hedge my bets and see if I get away with.
While turning into a werewolf, he gets shot by a stupid gun coursing him to get Mean mean and getting a face full of 4. Dazed he wonders into the path of a mechanical football team and is filmed as they trample him. The resulting lack of face coursing him to loose an election to an orangutan. As if not down on his luck enough an alien bounty hunter gives chase with his doggie things whose name neither he nor I can remember. Exhausted he grabs a syni-hot dog which inflates him to the point where he was about to explode, but just before he does a dinosaur chomps him in one.
As if that's not enough shite out by the mesothermic predator many years later he falls victim to vampire judges before being shot by a blind Dredd...
...phew gotta have it covered somewhere there?
Perp that's eaten by a mutant alligator in Gator :)
strontium71 has it! But what's more amazing is that Colin somehow hasn't!
Damn you Alligator... DAMMMNNNN YOOUUUU!
That's the Kim Raymond Enigma...