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Not sure if this is the right place to ask for this info, but is there a place that has issue by issue writing/art credits for the old Action comic (home of Hookjaw, Dredger, et all). I was hoping it'd be listed on 2000ad.org's Barney site, but no dice. Thanks for the help!

One thing I've heard a lot about Ron Smith was that he'd figure out how much his paycheck worked out for to allow his to work a reasonable work week, and then he'd divide that evenly over each page he worked on, literally setting an alarm clock for each page, and once it went off that page was done. I'm not sure how real that, but I've heard it several times.

To me this feels like people are accusing him of being lazy or something, which to me isn't really borne out by the level of detail and amount of stuff going on in them, you know?

I know everyone here wants to hear more Eamonn, so check him out guest starring on my show! We're going over the Judge Dredd Annual 1984! It's a ton of fun!

http://spacespinner2000.com/2018/05/17/space-spinner-2000-ep-99/

In our thrilling ninety-ninth episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with the 1983 Sci-Fi Special of 2000AD. This is the fourth Dredd Annual, and once again we have Carlos Ezquerra drawing three new full color Dredd stories, as well as classic Dredd, some features, and another Jose Casanovas Max Normal.

This time I'm joined by Eamonn Clarke of the Mega City Book Club, who you surely know from around this forum!

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It's going to be a monster of a wrap up. Picking a bottom OR a top for that month will be a challenge!

Sorry getting a little ahead of the posts here, but just started listening to Episode 98 and its absolutely fantastic stuff. Its so interesting hearing Fox's frustration at the current batch of stories. The juxtaposition of the jump in quality from what I think is the weakest of the original Robo-Hunter stories in 'Death of' to the joy of Skizz is just fascinating and kinda foreshadows the shift I suspect will come if you compare the quality of thrills over all in this batch and what will be coming shortly.

The shift in quality between say Prog 319 and Prog 335 is quite something to behold!

I do really think it's interesting how Robo-Hunter being kind of a bummer can bring the whole set of progs down. It really speaks to the importance of a good opening story! It's kind of a bummer to see Robo-Hunter in this decline, but 335 is on the horizon and I for one and super stoked!

In our thrilling ninety-eighth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 317-320 of 2000AD, covering May and June of 1983. Join us as Rogue Trooper remembers Milli-Comm, Dredd checks out Condos, and DR and Quinch have fun on Earth!

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I consider this to be the last proper Sam Slade story and it was a shame to see the character written off like this. Has any background into what happened ever come out? Were Wagner and Grant just bored of him?

It seems a bit like that to me, both Play it Again Sam and this storyline have a fair amount of filler in them imo (all the different songs, or the section we'll be getting next episode that's basically a clip show of previous robo hunter stories). Plus we're right on the verge of a sea change for authorship in 2000AD. As opposed to the last year or two where basically every non-future shock has been either Wagner/Grant or Finely-Day, we're now seeing Alan Moore come on the scene with extended stories (first Skizz, then DR & Quinch, then Halo Jones) and Pat Mills is on the verge of arriving with both Slaine and fairly regular Nemesis storylines. There clearly isn't room for all that PLUS Robo Hunter and Strontium Dog, so I could see them working to get all the story lines they wanted to tell and get it all finished up in time for Prog 335. Of course, it's a telling detail that they only revisit Sam once, two years later. But all this is based on looking at the text, instead of actual back story

Also, I like the Peter Hogan/Rian Hughes installment of Robo Hunter, though I understand it wasn't popular at the time, and I'm very interested to check out the Samantha Slade stuff, but of course that's way way in the future!

In our thrilling ninety-seventh episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 313-329 of 2000AD, covering April and May of 1983. Join us as Skizz gets sick, Slade gets dead, and Dredd gets pregnant!

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This is really interesting stuff! I think some combination of SimCity and the Simpsons made me assume that those big towers were just for nuclear plants. Always learning new stuff for this show!

That's so weird, because nuclear cooling towers do seem to show up in Skizz imagry a bit, both in the opening comic and even in teasers for upcoming progs, like this one:



Maybe these are just regular smokestacks and I'm making assumptions? That said, I really love Skizz. There's so much character stuff in it, especially for Roxy, Skizz, Loz, and even Cornelius. It's a big change from the average 2000AD story of the time, but it also somehow fits right in. Very excited to cover it more!

Wow, I had no idea there was so much backstory behind all this!

In our thrilling ninety-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 309-312 of 2000AD, covering March and April of 1983. Join us as the Starborn Thing arrives in Mega City One, Skizz gets to know Birmingham, Fort Neuro concludes, and the Chrono Cops enforce time law. Just the facts! Also feel free to celebrate, as we've now covered 15% of 2000AD!

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I must say, having actual English people on the show to explain English things has been one of the unexpected great things about this process!

In our thrilling ninety-fifth episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with the 1983 Sci-Fi Special of 2000AD. This Special has some great stories featuring Judge Dredd, including one with art by famous comics artist John Byrne, Rogue Trooper, and our all-time favorite Invasion story! QUACK QUACK VOLG!

This episode Conrad is joined by Steve Lacey of the Fantasticast podcast! Every week Steve and co-host Andy Leyland recap an issue of the Fantastic Four or a related comic, and is well worth your time!

Find their show at: http://www.thefantasticast.com/

and find Steve on Twitter where he's @quizlacey

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