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>How can you write erotic Dredd storys?

First, study Rico's daystick fight in Sector House.

N.

WHERE????

My best ever Speccy game, I must have it!

N

Finny and Ramone, the Eric and Ernie of Downlode.

You wait til I write up my Sinister Dexter script. Then those bullet monkeys'll get what's coming to 'em.

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I'm no prude but I hated Money Shots! Kids shouldn't be allowed to see that much naked lack of imagination.
As for the cover that went with that story, well I was embarrassed to buy it! No wonder they put 2000AD on the top shelf these days.
But you're right, some of the one-offs are good, especially Bullet Time and the recent one with the diminutive doorman.

N.

scojo: Nathan, I was being funny when I said that.
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Oh my aching sides!

OK, enough of this time-wasting. From now on. I'll talk about 2000AD, not scojo

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In [General] Re: Re: Re: The only good ? is a dead ? on 30 Oct 01 at 00:54, scojo wrote:
 
> As for other writers not harping on about how great they are, do I?
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> No.
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> scojo the modest!

Really, scojo? How about this?

"I believe I can write a screenplay as good (or nearly as good!) as John  Wagner.
Hand on heart I do."

Or this?

"My Helter Skelter was far better than Garth's and I only wrote it in about 2 hrs!! ... I bet till my daying day i can write better than every 2000AD
writer.
Any character any time."

This?

"I may be arrogant but I still bet I can write a better Dredd screenplay than you anyday."

"I can write better than Rennie without a pen.
Any day."

"My idea of an alternate Judge invasion headed by Cal and his cronies was far better than Ennis'... I will never accept my H Skelter was inferior to
Garth's."

"Mine was far better. More imagination in my 4 parts than his 12 or how ever
long it was!"

"... My future shocks are as good or bad as any Alan Moore, Peter Milligan,
Steve Moore etc have seen printed in 2k."

"I can show you an inferior fs by alan moore. I read it yesterday. Prog 251.
Two pages in length. Called 'All of them were empty'
It was terrible. Far worse than mine."

Nathan.

Ian Kennedy did a lot of Dare in the 80s Eagle, don't know if that's who you mean.

N

Isn't Fraser Irvine drawing the next Death series?
 Hope Anderson's in that, cos he can _really_ draw women!

N

> Well, I did try to start one plonker-free discussion about 2000AD novels, and what prose-writing 2000AD contributors have done outside of 2000AD, but no-one seemed vey interested yet.
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I was interested , just couldn't think of any writers you hadn't already mentioned.

I'd have thought the horror stuff and the psi-/metaphysical strips would make a better transition to novel form than out-and-out action. I'd prefer to see Anderson than Dredd.

Durham Red might hold my interest more as prose than it did as a strip.

Necronauts could be fun, done in epistolic style like Dracula, with each author's account written in a pastiche of their literary style.

As for who would write the novels, it would be interesting to see what the scriptdroids could do with their own creations outside the limitations of the strip form. I loved Moore's Voices of the Fire. Another idea might be to get well-known non-comic novelists to have a go. Might get new readers into the comic. Maybe a mix of both?

Hate to be pedantic, but it was more like:

"My future shock is fantastic"
"no it isn't "
"yes it is, you're just too stupid to get it"

repeat to fade

N

Pay attention, scojo!

Jim  said:
' "It is true what they say"? Come _on_, Scojo ...! Where in God's name do you live if people actually talk like that?'

If you had read his post properly, you would  have seen he isn't referring to the "the only good simp" line you admit to having pinched from Wagner.

Do yourself a favour and read what people are saying before flying off up the wrong tree, barking!

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I don't know if Arthur Ranson uses a lightbox all the time. It's fun to spot the celebrities in Button Man and the twentieth century vehicles in Anderson Psi Division but the storytelling is what counts.

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scojo: This is not meant to be starting a new argument but how do you know Arthur uses this lightbox technique?
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Do an image search on altavista for "mel gibson" and compare to Harry Exton in Button Man 3.

The only thing Rennie's written that I didn't think much of is the fairly recent John Woo-style Dredd, but that was more to do with the awful art.

N.

According to Previews (Nov, p.285 ), there's going to be a reprint of  Gordon Rennie's earlier work White Trash, which I've always wanted to read.
So with Glimmer Rats and Rain Dogs as well, there's gonna be a lot of exposure and recognition for Gordon's work.
Is that what they call a Rennie-sance?

N.