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Tough gig at the Holocaust Squad - where you have to have your feet amputated.

arms too! makes you wonder how they drink their morning coffee, baby

[Fodder]

Just out of interest, can anyone remember which stories come after 'Fiends of the Western Front' as Barney has not been updated this far (?)

Best source is here

https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/FiendsOfTheEasternFront/data.html

Confusingly the promo blurb mentions DaNi as a contributor to Volume 1 but no mention of Fodder (published three years before Strange Meeting) in the list.

[Joan is Awful]

Spoilers are legion below so avert your eyes if you've not seen this season.

My two creds:

Joan is Awful
Probably my favourite episode from this series and one that is most faithful to the vibe of future tech / media being an existential threat. Fabulous seeing all of Joan's colleagues, lovers and friends immediately taking everything they saw onscreen to be the objective truth.

The third act anonymous technician with Michael Cera's face : 'We're not in realty right now. This is Fictive Level One' was the cherry on the cake.

Loch Henry
Superb all the way to it's surprising ending. But was this was a Black Mirror episode? I suppose the despondent final scene with it's commercialisation of human misery was in keeping with The Waldo Moment or even 15 Million Credits, but probably more at home in Tales from the Crypt or Inside Number 9.

Beyond The Sea
Good slow build and I loved the hi tech / low tech mash up: the space ship was all very chunky push button but the androids and consciousness transfer years ahead of present day tech. But... this did not quite earn its ending. Sure, any of us may be capable of murder as a crime of passion but nice guy David as pre-meditated, calculating killer? I don't buy it.

Mazey Day
40 mins in and out. The twist was great, the transformation in real time was supreme and the final shot was a jaw-dropper. Something still nagged at me as the titles rolled. A bit of online research revels  the person she ran over in Czech was a werewolf; the curse transferring to Mazey when she touched the body with the open wound on her cut finger. Just wish that had been made slightly more clear.


Demon 79
Great way to wrap the series. Both leads were absolutely excellent and the central thrust reminded me of the awesome Bill Paxton-directed Frailty from 2001.

Jimbo, I agree that Michael Smart surviving with Nida's frenzied attack being the catalyst for a true  future hellscape would have been excellent but I still think this ending: Nukes plummeting; "I'll give it a go." ; hand holding; Bright Eyes, was amazing.

[Bonjo]

Have they done a conceal/reveal on the thrillshot before?  I can't recall a previous instance.

They did something similar-ish for Bonjo last year, but not this exactly.

We'll follow this up with Dredd in a Bed

recreating this historic moment, perhaps?

[Supreme Sacrifice]

This does look lovely but seems incredibly niche.

Supreme Sacrifice

https://www.toyark.com/2023/07/13/judge-dredd-hall-of-heroes-judge-anderson-figure-by-hiya-toys-505734

[Trinity]

That one from the latest Xmas Prog (I think?) where 3 versions of Dredd all meet?

Trinity by Ken Niemand. Definite crossover that you could also call a time travel piece given the age digs directed at prog Dredd by both Urban and Stallone Dredds (surely in continuity they would all be the same age).

Back to the Undercity, I just re-read Dredd Vs Predator today. It remains a little underwhelming but the final fight takes place in what looks like the concreted over Manhattan.

This seems a decent place to start for Crossovers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AD_crossovers

In addition, IDW experimented with a few Dredd crossovers some years back:

• Mars Attacks
• Funko Universe
• X Files

Underneath the bike

might be a silly question, but what do the batteries power? Headlights? Headlights and screen? Any noises?

[Generation Killer]

Oops, didn't see GGG's post. Sone duplication there.

No matter. Great call on Generation Killer - that's a lot of fun

[time travel]

Next thing I'm looking for is Dreddverse time travel stories. I already have this list:

Not exhaustive, but here are a few more

The Invisible Man Prog 134-135 (does this count as time travel?)
Time Retrieval Daily Star 31/12/83
Time Stretcher Daily Start 29/6/85
The Squadron That Time Forgot Prog 446
The Power of the Gods prog 600 (Can't quite recall but I think there was some time back and forth)
Time Machine Progs 889 - 890
What Ever Happened To Bill Clinton? Meg 2.81
Repeat Offender Meg 2.81
Fog on the Eerie progs 1037-1040 (Dredd &co almost fried in The Atom Wars)
Breaking Bud progs 1929-1933 (sequel to Dead Zone, featuring future cops)

[Gremlins 2]

Gremlins 2

I mean its not as good as the first, few are, but there is no denying its funny, rollocks along and has a sadly amusing Trump parody that is interesting to see.

On the Films That Made Me podcast director Joe Dante, one of the two co-hosts, quite regularly states how he thinks Gremlins 2 is the better film of the two. Combination of the freedom he was allowed while making it and the meta theatrical elements he used throughout.

[Out of the Undercity]

Currently trying to draw up a list of stories set in The Undercity.

I know there's an effective sequel to Werewolf - does anyone recall the name of that one?

And any others?

Out of the Undercity Progs 1313-1315
Aliens Incubus Progs 1322–1335
Ratfink's Revenge Meg 328-330

[Spectator review]

Spectator review

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/judge-dredd-the-prescience-of-a-45-year-old-comic-strip/

good write up / review of the 2023 event.

https://downthetubes.net/in-review-and-in-pictures-enniskillen-comic-fest-2023/

Makes me wish I had been there