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Not sure if any of these have been reprinted yet, but I loved the art [and often the stories too]...

The Inspectre
Holocaust 12
Sancho Panzer
There's a lot of Missionary Man still unreprinted...
Less likely, but still worth a thought - a Mrs Gunderson collection?
Even less likely, a floppy of Hersheys & Dredds by Marc Wigmore [wonder whatever happened to him?]

I think Si Spencer would agree H&B does have some excruciating puns in it, but that was half the fun [if you thought it fun - which I plainly did, since I commissioned it!].

Dean's artwork on H&B was utterly lush and I've very happy to see it reprinted at last.

Barrel-scraping would be Dead Men Walking, Soul Sisters or The Straitjacket Fits - for the quality of the writing, not the art, I hasten to add! Still, the reprint fees would be welcome... 

Don't beat yourself up about your writing on those strips, David. I'd say any shortcomings they might have had were due to the editor.

arf!

The Karyn floppy. Bar a decent Hershey one-off, this really feels like barrel-scraping now, dredging up the less-than-steallar strips from the Meg's decidedly duff era. Next month: Harke & Burr. Hmm. The rate things are going downhill there, we'll get Junker and Wireheads before long.

Barrel-scraping would be Dead Men Walking, Soul Sisters or The Straitjacket Fits - for the quality of the writing, not the art, I hasten to add!

Still, the reprint fees would be welcome... 

This would have been just after I took over at 2000AD, so early 1996.

In the supplement, I quite liked the idea that there is done sort of secret conspiracy within Psi Division, and think its a shame that it was never followed up.

I vaguely recall Grant [& Mark?] proposing a longer Janus story that would act as a finale for the various plot threads with that character's stories. Something about a God Judge or a Judge God.

For better or worse, I turned it down.

davidbishop

My computer tells me I wrote 10 Metro Dredd stories - no many how many of these got drawn/published, or whether any of those that were got renamed. Anyway, here's my list:

Summer Solstice
Great Footballs of fire
Not Just a Cigar
Heatwave
Tate Retro
Mega-Olympics
Big Sister
Census or Senseless
Mean Time
Gidget Jones' Diary

Bob The Galactic Bum is quite bizarre but very entertaining as well.

I vaguely recall Wagner offering Bob the Galactic Bum to the Megazine as potential reprint fodder in the dark days of filler-rama.

davidbishop

I'd love it if Mr Smith could shed light on what should have been for Fetish and Darkside - and if they were considerably cut. I know he sometimes haunts the halls here.

From memory - and this is nearly 20 years ago, so the details are hazy - Darkside wasn't cut. Originally commissioned for the Megazine, it was written to different specifications: eight eps of nine pages each. But the Meg budget got guillotined and we had a shortage of ready Dredd for 2000AD, so Darkside got re-purposed into 12 eps of six pages each. As a consequence, two thirds of the episode endings seen in 2000AD were not originally intended as cliffhangers. But that was only a factor for episodic publication - any collected edition presents Darkside complete and uncut.

Fetish proved something of a monumental effort, with at least one artist starting but unable to finish [Ashley Wood, IIRC]. The opening scripts underwent radical surgery to get them down to a more manageable length [yes, that long opening was originally even longer]. Siku got asked to repaint parts of the art to make Dredd's chin less enormous [yes, that long chin was originally even longer].

Fetish is far from perfect, the story shape and structure are problematic - but I still have a lot of affection for it. There are some gorgeous double-page spreads in the art, and wonderfully John Smith touches to the script. Just a shame no version since the Hamlyn edition has truly captured the vibrant colours, etc.

davidbishop

You can ignore Flesh 3000AD for story purpose, it was part of the 3000AD supplement given away as part of the comic's 20th anniversary promo efforts. It re-imagined Prog 1 with modern artists. Some strips were fairly faithful to the originals, others were attempts at satirical rewrites [the worst/best offender being B.L.A.I.R. 1].

Mea culpa.

davidbishop

Mine was just delivered by Yodel without fuss or incident. Looks lovely. Am using all my willpower not to open it before I finish my current script job.

I also love Tribal Memories, and give it a first reprinting in The Best of 2000AD Special Edition back in 1993 [twenty years ago - gulp!]. Strip was subsequently reprinted again in Extreme Edition 14, according to Barney.

Having been lucky enough to see an advance pdf of this mighty tome, I can only endorse it as a great book - not just a comprehensive overview of Sean's art [worth the cover price alone], but also choked with insightful interviews and insights from a range of creators.

I'm still waiting on an eBook edition of TPO...

The Judge Dredd Milk chocolate Advent Calendar had the worst chocolate I've ever tasted. Bleurgh.