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I have to admit I used to love Ian Gibson's very early work on Dredd. For example the story which introduced Vienna. Absolutely some of my favourite Dredd art. At some point it changed and his art style became more cartoony. The helmet shape in particular changed.

I would add a picture as an example but I cant seem to attach photos as yet.

Pity the Robot Wars won't be appearing. I seem to remember Ron Turner drew some of those although I could be mistaken.

Also I had totally forgotten about Kim Raymond. The name is familiar but I just cant recall his art style at all.

I'd go with Clint Eastwood as well. He would have been perfect from the Dirty Harry era. Although Karl Urban did a great job in the Dredd movie and the main reason it worked was because he didn't take off the helmet.

On a related note was I used to think that Robo-Hunter's appearance was based on Ted Danson but on checking Cheers didn't start until 1982 while the strip was around from 1978. I don't think Ted Danson had a very high profile before then.

I think it had just the right number of episodes with 8. Some of the other Netflix series I've watched have been a bit of a slog at times as a lot run for 13 episodes and there is quite a bit of padding.

I enjoyed the show but I'm not sure about the second series. Maybe they should take a leaf out of the Fargo book and set it in a different time with some of the characters a bit older.

I went to York for a week on a school trip in the late 1970's so my information is a bit out of date.

The Viking site was just a big hole in the ground then from what I remember and there was some sort of prison where Dick Turpin had been kept. His grave is also in York.

I remember the Railway Museum as well because the Mallard was there and I was quite interested in it at the time.  If you're going to see a train you might as well see it.

I also remember the shopping area called the Shambles which looked like it was a few hundred years old.

World of Tanks. I go through periods where I play it constantly and then don't play it for months.

I loved those Richard O'Sullivan comedies too. ITV had repeats of Man About the House on recently and I watched them all.

Richard O'Sullivan is still alive but had a stroke in 2003 and I don't think has acted since. 

I remember Dear John (both the UK and US versions). The UK one was brilliant. Written by John Sullivan, best known for Only Fools and Horses. Only two series but every episode was a classic.

Based around a club for the recently divorced most people probably remember the Kirk St Moritz character.

The US version was shown in the UK for a while but was nowhere near as good. 

I thought the Are You Being Served? was poor. I could only watch a couple of minutes of it before switching off.

I wouldn't have minded seeing the Goodnight Sweetheart one though. I'm not sure why as I didn't watch it when it was on originally. Sometimes time travel programmes bother me when there is no attempt at an explanation for the time travel. For that reason I can fully accept the Tardis works but I cant get in to things like Life on Mars.

I subscribed and any of the issues I'm not keen on I will put on Ebay. I've kept about 50% of the issues so far as I prefer the earlier 'classic' stuff or the more recent Wagner stories.  I also wouldn't have room for the whole lot when the series is finished anyway.

I wonder if Rebellion plan on releasing any of their recent IPC purchases via this partwork method?

Evening all.

I read 2000 AD (on and off) from Prog 1 up to some point around Prog 600. I stopped reading, not because I was getting older, but because I just didn't find the Prog that good anymore. Strontium Dog didn't have Wulf, Robo-Hunter had aged and then got stuck in a clones body and Rogue Trooper now appeared to be some other bloke called Friday.

I bought the odd collection over the years since but got back on board with the release of Judge Dredd The Mega Collection. I still enjoy re-reading the old strips the best but have really enjoyed a lot of John Wagner's recent stuff. 

Anyway it is good to see the Prog still going.

The Marvel UK Hulk trade paperback features one of Brian Bolland's few Marvel covers. The original version is around online if you haven't seen it but the cover as published is a lot better in my opinion.   

I had a friend, when I was a kid, who always talked about Doctor and Quinch.

It's not really an example of something going over your head. I suppose it was more a case of him not reading the strip title correctly.

That's impressive. Always loved Ron Smith's art and for me it is reason alone to buy the Daily Dredds book.   

Yes. I bought it recently off Amazon. You probably wont read it in one sitting. It'll be more of a case of dipping in to it every now and again.

Did Ron Smith draw these while he was still working on the regular 2000 AD strip or did he do them instead of the weekly strip?