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All horses are magic, as is friendship. Did My Little Pony teach you NOTHING?!

Arf!   I should add I didn't have a problem with Dobbin. I don't think it was a masterstroke, but it was a style of storytelling the strip hadn't seen before - which, after 40 years, is something.

[Richard]

RW: I think Henry said to me at one point that he fancied drawing Dredd on horseback.

From this website, October 2018.

I know, mate. What I remember Williams saying is that Flint asking to draw Dredd on horseback made him (Williams) think of using the horse he'd already introduced in that earlier strip.

So, as Richard said earlier, Flint's the reason a horse is in there, but Williams is the reason it's a magic horsey.

Henry Flint said he wanted to draw Dredd on horseback so Williams obliged. So slag it off as Henry Flint's Horse.

Rob Williams said* Flint's Dark Knight Returns request made him think of the inexplicable horse he and RM Guerra had already introduced in The Man Comes Around**

* On the Thrillcast, I think

** Meg 344 (2014)

'Defoe heads for the stars in 'The Divisor' by Pat Mills and Stewart Moore'

Why did Arnold Schwarzenegger never make a movie called The Numerator? 

Presumably, the joint Weston/Goddard credit on Unearthed means that's another longer story, along the lines of The Small House, and we can look forward to the pleasure of Rob Williams's company in a way we haven't for a few years.

Good points*

I interpreted Cyberleader's question about imprisonment as asking whether they were available, but I suppose if his epic centres upon Walter The Wobot accidentally knocking out the plug at the Dark Judge Containment Facility while hoovering, the distinction between locked in the jug or kicking it in limbo is important.


* Apart from the clone family tree - are we deliberately trying to confuse and drive away the only member of the board with body parts still young and fresh enough to harvest for spares when we all start having bad falls and taking queer turns?

after case files 14 which books have dark judges stories

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=DEATH

I might of fucked up justas depearment did not have the dark judges imprisioned till after nacroplis right?

Judge Death was imprisoned at the end of his first appearance.

The Dark Judges showed up to free him in the sequel, then ended up imprisoned alongside him.

Anderson was tricked into freeing them in her first solo story, but they ended up back in the bottle at the end of that, too.

Then they were freed for Necropolis. Three of them were captured at the end of that story, but Judge Death escaped to go on his own wee series of adventures for the next 20 years while his pals stayed locked up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46289086

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/11/24/rebellion-buys-a-studio-for-judge-dredd-mega-city-one-rogue-trooper/

Couple more articles, interesting in different ways.

The BBC piece presents the TV series and Rogue Trooper film as fait accompli, but emphasises this is a move into the studio space market for other productions. It quotes the wonk at HSBC who financed the deal: "(this) dramatically increase(s) the studio space available for the burgeoning film and TV production sector and is ideally located with easy access from London".

The Bleeding Cool report starts off by claiming the facility is in London, but more interesting from our perspective, says Tharg's relocating the Nerve Centre there. That fits with the recent information that Tharg's moving to purpose-built accommodation*. Wonder if he'll keep a few of Viscount Rothermere's presses and bring print and warehousing back in-house, too?


* Although I can't remember where I read/heard that. If it was in a recent Nerve Centre, Input, Damage Report or Thrillcast, I can't find it.

Buying the old Daily Mail print facility means the new owners can start producing fiction there without applying for a change of use permit.

I took out a subscription to The Peoples Friend for my mum's Christmas and it felt like an act of charity.

Poor old magazine. You must have about a dozen subscribers left, and most of those magazines are being shoved through the letterboxes of doors with three months of unopened milk cartons crowding the step.

Nope.  194,000 copies every single week!  The sub works out at less than a pound per issue.  Tharg needs to make every cover a watercolour of a Scottish fishing village.

[Leigh]

... maybe it would have been better if Dredd had just [spoiler]bludgeoned him to death - "how's THIS simple tool working out for you?" [/spoiler]

That's 'the essence of Dredd'!   Deadline for script submissions is March next year, Leigh.

Coming in Feb next year is Judge Dredd Machine Law by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil. This sounds very much like the return of Harvey.

Thanks for that, bud. I'd been looking forward to McCreaman returning to that story; only the great Colin MacNeil could make his replacement a cause for celebration.

[Yay!]

I suppose it does at least clear away a few elements of Dredd continuity I disliked [spoiler](Smiley and Kazan and ninja judges)[/spoiler], so that's something

Yay!  The [spoiler]Invisible Ninja Hidden Judge Army[/spoiler] era of Dredd is officially over.

We all seem to agree that Williams's writing is great, and you only have to read previous threads to see that the strip is working on every level for most readers.

What Remoaners are discussing is really just a problem inherent to properties media organisations see as permanent fixtures, rather than finite works. See previous.

Great observations. McCrea's come a long way since Dougie & Ivor

Somehow I still see Hershey as a pretty capable Judge but that may just be a consequence of the strip having very little continuity or consistency between different writer's stories. They ignore each other's work so I've ignored the bits that don't ring true to me.

Wagner regularly had Dredd say she's the best Chief the city's ever had. And his Hershey respects Dredd, even when she's going against his stated wishes regarding the new Mechanismo programme.