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It sounds as though Tramp, like a few of the early D&D pioneers, led a pretty troubled life, and his disappearance is pretty much now part of the legend. Very saddened to read this - he was a master.

And, if I'm not mistaken, and Right and LEFT Hand of Doom!

Okay, back on track sort of...

I've got Prog 406 open in front of me and am looking at Judge Hate, drawn by Earthlet Steve Heard of High Wycombe. Anybody remember any other reader-created Dark Judges making Tharg's page?

(Aside form the obvious Judge Fred Flintstone Death riffs, obviously)

The character every fan was waiting to see!

Millar's most enduring contribution to the franchise.  Like, rilly.

Grant Morrison's, actually. From TPO: 'Janus was a rave-era character, the kind I was meeting, so she felt more relevant to me than Judge Anderson, who had this kind of dated Debbie Harry vibe.'

I'm probably missing something obvious, but the only other ravebaldy girl I remember Morrison gifting us is one of the other super heroes in the latter Zenith books. Who have I overlooked?

Mind you, my favourite balding Psi Judge is Gellar, so...

Fair points, both!

Failing that, there's always New Zealand itself. Tax rebates AND the government will change its labour laws in your favour if you're a big studio like Warners.

No sandy deserts, but enough blank and arid countryside in Urban's back yard (well, Central Otago) to shoot Westerns (Good for Nothing), post-apocalyptic Max-alikes (Battletruck) and, um, fantasy trilogies.   

...not to mention Grant Morrison, Dan Abnett, Mike Farmer, Adrian Salmon and David Roache. But yeah Dom Reardon, Henry Flint or Fraser Irving - it's almost artist-proof 2000AD-wise! An Edgington Who strip might do quite nicely.

Also, congratulations to Eddie Robson for being the latest to bridge the DW-2000AD gap, albeit from Big Finish audios.

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I was thinking about the [AISTR] usually accepted ideas for a potential sequel - maybe something Cursed Earth-y, an iteration of 'Origins', plus the above expectation of a lower budget (rules out dinosaurs for one) and had an idea...

..what if you took the basic idea of Origins (Dredd heads 'out' of MC-1 in search of Fargo, dovetailed with a history of the creation of the Mega City and Judges) and instead of Dredd & Co actually going outside the city they go... under it?

Could the Undercity stand in for the Cursed Earth? Very little location shooting needed, you'd be able to create a visual record of the past world in the ruins MC-1 is built over, and Fargo is instead rumoured to be somewhere below with the requisite muties, vampires, freaks and whatnot?

[I love the way that Karl pronounces the word "America". Just the slightest bit of KIWI shows thru.]

I love the way that Karl pronounces the word "America".  Just the slightest bit of KIWI shows thru.

That might be his Southland burr, coming from Invercargill and all 

haha I noticed that immediately when I first watched the movie, he pronounces it with an 'r' at the end!

Gah, sorry - I just realised I missed your original post here (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,40054.0.html) - sorry!

And thanks for organising this, it was wonderful to listen to

Hi all

Sincerest apologies if someone's already posted this but:

http://karlurbaninternational.tumblr.com/post/76140081008/bluedevilisinthedetails-karl-doing-the-dredd

KU reads the first page of America in the Dredd voice (and then goes on to sing its praises.)
Wish he'd done the last page as well - that's the heartbreaker.

Calling all fan video editors out there... 

I doubt very much whether we'll bother - it's ... an odd one.

Speaking as an owner of the original progs with the strip having swapped speech balloons (with Durham Red, was it?) on one page, you're not wrong! 

Of course. I'm still scratching my head trying to think of what JD does in it! 

Anyone have any info on why the Hammerstein MC-1 story didn't make it in?

Watched it again for the first time since the cinema (a pre-Day of Action purchase thanks to a recent birthday) Still very good, and well-plotted. I found myself enjoying the centering on Anderson so much though that I'm wondering whether her character could hold a movie solo?

The other thought that occurred to me is that an Anderson movie could be a better fit for Death & co along Psi lines rather than introduce them via Dredd.  Manage that and a Dredd sequel could then do, say, a Democracy Now/Chopper storyline without having to address the popular call for Dark Judges as the 'natural' sequel fodder.

Oh, that and putting another dent in the current comic-to-movie sausage fest!

(apologies if these opinion are already over-familiar to some)