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More on-screen Vader and Solo to come.

tuck your shirt in 

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1227

East Meg One wasn't an eldster colony, and the clue's in the name of the story in which Owen Krysler first appeared.

I cribbed it from Barney, so I don't actually know where it first appeared.

I remember the guide to Megaspeak from the bog paper days - can't remember which prog. This rubbish retcon is from the 1990 Judge Dredd Mega-special - but it confirms the original meaning:

I wondered what they were using the extra cash from the Summer and Winter specials for.

This news comes as a surprise to me.

[Dreddy]

Dustin Brown beats Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in the second round today, and his nickname is "Dreddy"

I'm a sucker for comic history stuff, and this does relate to 2000ad bit. Its a series of six blog posts by an ex employee of Neptune, and it makes for entertaining reading, especially the bit about Pat Mills, however true. The first instalment is here, I'm sure you will figure how to get the rest!

https://g1rm.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/the-rise-and-fall-of-neptune-comic-distributors-part-one/

Thanks, David. Margaret Clark (an associate of Dan Chichester at Marvel's mature readers Epic imprint) was the initial editor of Toxic who never quite made it across the Atlantic.

Fry's determination to produce a rival to 2000ad is usually just stated as fact, without any clue to motivation other than hubris, so it's interesting to learn the role Fleetway's exclusive direct market distribution deal with Titan played in forming Fry's grudge against Tharg.

In the early 2000s we saw Zenith

Thats where all those pulped books went!  Juiz Dredd looks great

Spurrier has hundreds of pages of notes from Alan Moore to work from ...

A few hundred pages of Moore prose describing what he wants to happen next. That should just about cover the first two panels on page one of the next issue. 

same sex parents would have been a great 'and so what' response

Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan were never lovers. Terrible things happened in the 80s but that wasn't one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXeo57xj3k

I have a hankering to read Troubled Souls. If Ennis has the rights back now, why isn't there a rush to get this back on the shelves?

"Obviously, I have no desire for Troubled Souls ever to see print again"

http://viciousimagery.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/28-days-of-2000-ad-181-garth-ennis-pt.html

[You returned to (2000ad) to write Helter Skelter – how and why?]

You returned to (2000ad) to write Helter Skelter – how and why?

Well... A deal had been worked out whereby the rights to Troubled Souls, which I did for Crisis, were available. Rebellion bought them from Fleetway and agreed to return them to me in return for a twelve-episode Dredd strip.

http://viciousimagery.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/28-days-of-2000-ad-181-garth-ennis-pt.html