How many links does it take to connect Shako to any other 2000 AD or Megazine character?
For example, Gene the Hackman has a Shako number of one, because they starred together in "Shako's Kingdom" in the 2020 Sci-Fi Special.
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What about The Gronk?
I think this one counts - depends on your view of End of Days and 'Shako' in that, but
Gronk > Johnny Alpha > Dredd > Shako so I make that 3 degress of Shako?
hmmm -- for some links they would have to be creators, rather than series. For example -- The V.C.'s
Shako -- Gene The Hackman -- Dan Abnett -- The V.C.'s
Don't forget the twin crossover delights of Armoured Gideon III and Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter...
From there you can trace Shako > Giant (of Harlem Heroes) > Giant Jr (or indeed Giant Jr Jr) > Dredd > Geeks > VCs.
Although 5 degrees of Shako is probably more than you need.
Anyone wanna attempt Shako > Slaine?
Slaine- Pat mills - satanus - -dredd - shako
Quote from: BPP on 19 March, 2021, 09:58:37 AM
Slaine- Pat mills - satanus - -dredd - shako
Surely, if you're including creators, that would just be Slaine - Pat Mills - Shako?
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 March, 2021, 10:44:06 AM
Quote from: BPP on 19 March, 2021, 09:58:37 AM
Slaine- Pat mills - satanus - -dredd - shako
Surely, if you're including creators, that would just be Slaine - Pat Mills - Shako?
Heh, was it. Can't recall tbh.
I mean slaine undoubtedly appeared in that horrible splash page in the Helter Skelter so 90% of the time Thats the answer without a creator
Quote from: BPP on 19 March, 2021, 10:58:07 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 March, 2021, 10:44:06 AM
Quote from: BPP on 19 March, 2021, 09:58:37 AM
Slaine- Pat mills - satanus - -dredd - shako
Surely, if you're including creators, that would just be Slaine - Pat Mills - Shako?
Heh, was it. Can't recall tbh.
I mean slaine undoubtedly appeared in that horrible splash page in the Helter Skelter so 90% of the time Thats the answer without a creator
He did, and that's a good point - along with Armoured Gideon and Sin/Dex, you can achieve a lot of links with Helter Skelter.
And the multiverse page of Sin/Dex too. I'd forgotten about that but from memory that page featured a LOT of characters.
There was also the Sinister Dexter episode (prog 2013 ad???) Were the skip through numerous dimensions.
Yep, that's why I mentioned Sin/Dex.
Firekind. That alien torturer lad. Pussyfoot 5. Devlin Waugh. Dredd. Shako.
If it's like the Kevin Bacon game, then I believe it's actors in movies (rather than writers etc.), so we should stick to characters in stories.
I can do Shako to The V.C.s like this:
The V.C.s fight the Geeks - a Geek is in The Collector (Armoured Gideon) with Shako. Shako Number: 2
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 March, 2021, 02:23:39 PM
If it's like the Kevin Bacon game, then I believe it's actors in movies (rather than writers etc.), so we should stick to characters in stories.
I can do Shako to The V.C.s like this:
The V.C.s fight the Geeks - a Geek is in The Collector (Armoured Gideon) with Shako. Shako Number: 2
Aye, I was going to suggest that connecting by creator makes the game a bit too easy. A lot of writers have had a crack at Dredd over the years.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 19 March, 2021, 06:21:20 AM
I think this one counts - depends on your view of End of Days and 'Shako' in that, but
Gronk > Johnny Alpha > Dredd > Shako so I make that 3 degress of Shako?
If you're
not counting the End of Days 'fake shako' then:
Gronk > Smiling Chukwalla > Blackhawk > Armoured Gideon > Shako, for 5 degress of Shako
Shako - Armoured Gideon - Sir Francis Bacon - err...Kevin Bacon
I'm trying to think of some kind of mad crossover with Slaine. Was he in Helter Skelter?
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 March, 2021, 02:50:50 PM
Shako - Armoured Gideon - Sir Francis Bacon - err...Kevin Bacon
*applause*
(Actually - historical figures from The Order might provide a hook into Slaine's world via his Quantum Salmon Leap adventures in time.)
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 March, 2021, 02:54:20 PM
I'm trying to think of some kind of mad crossover with Slaine. Was he in Helter Skelter?
He was indeed - the only Ezquerra Sláine I've ever seen, I think.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 19 March, 2021, 12:30:41 PM
There was also the Sinister Dexter episode (prog 2013 ad???) Were the skip through numerous dimensions.
Sinister Dexter, Now & Again, Xmas Prog 2012 - has Dredd, Nikolai Dante, Johnny Alpha, Wulf & Gene the Hackman.
So, for Slaine: he is in Helter Skelter with Dredd, who is in Now & Again with Gene, who is in Shako's Kingdom with Shako. Three degrees of Shako.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 March, 2021, 02:59:10 PM
Sinister Dexter, Now & Again, Xmas Prog 2012 - has Dredd, Nikolai Dante, Johnny Alpha, Wulf & Gene the Hackman.
The
real key is the episode from prog 1642, which has about as many cameos on one splash page as the whole of
Helter Skelter.
Thanks, DJ - I'd forgotten about that so went rummaging in the back prog dimension - that places the following characters in Sinister Dexter (Wish You Were Here):
Nemesis, Robo-Hunter, Devlin Waugh, Hoagy, Ace Garp, Alpha, Gronk, Bill Savage, Rogue, Dredd, Hammerstein, a V.C., Ro_jaws, Kano, Halo, Slaine, Skizz, Dante, that woman from that story about driving fast, Big Dave and four characters I don't recognize (two with their faces obscured).
So, you can do Slaine in Wish you Were Here with Bill Savage, who's in The Collector with Shako. Two degrees of Shako.
Seems to have boiled down to almost any character being two degrees of Shako. Except for ... The Grudge-Father, and other impossibilities.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 March, 2021, 04:49:44 PM
Seems to have boiled down to almost any character being two degrees of Shako. Except for ... The Grudge-Father, and other impossibilities.
So Helter Skelter, The Collector and Wish You Were Here have basically broken the game? :-X
The party on Luna-1 also helps:
(https://i.imgur.com/rX1bBbp.png)
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 March, 2021, 05:08:16 PM
The party on Luna-1 also helps:
(https://i.imgur.com/rX1bBbp.png)
I'm not sure that Tharg should count. He makes things too easy.
Is it just me or does Ardeni have a severe wardrobe malfunction going on there?
Quote from: The Corinthian on 20 March, 2021, 05:54:12 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 March, 2021, 05:08:16 PM
The party on Luna-1 also helps:
(https://i.imgur.com/rX1bBbp.png)
I'm not sure that Tharg should count. He makes things too easy.
Is it just me or does Ardeni have a severe wardrobe malfunction going on there?
I don't know what you're wearing but that's pretty canon for Ardeni ;)
Quote from: sheridan on 20 March, 2021, 06:24:12 PM
... that's pretty canon for Ardeni ;)
Shirley is:
(https://i.imgur.com/b89QMbG.png)
Here's a good spot to once more suggest that the polar bear in Meltdown man is played by the same bear as Shako, like how the bear in the Disney Jungle Book and Robin Hood are also the same bear.
Quote from: SpaceSpinner2000 on 22 March, 2021, 03:30:55 AM
Here's a good spot to once more suggest that the polar bear in Meltdown man is played by the same bear as Shako, like how the bear in the Disney Jungle Book and Robin Hood are also the same bear.
Pole Axe. I can never remember the name of the bear from Lenny Zero though.
Quote from: sheridan on 22 March, 2021, 08:30:03 AM
Quote from: SpaceSpinner2000 on 22 March, 2021, 03:30:55 AM
Here's a good spot to once more suggest that the polar bear in Meltdown man is played by the same bear as Shako, like how the bear in the Disney Jungle Book and Robin Hood are also the same bear.
Pole Axe. I can never remember the name of the bear from Lenny Zero though.
Shuggy Bear, I find out from the British Comics Wiki (https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Shako). I also found out there's a wanted posted for Shako in the background of one episode...