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This is apparently still happening, whoever is behind it certainly very ambitious. It's odd that the article doesn't name any names though...

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/31/bringing-back-deadline-magazine-summer-music-festival/#.WJBcKc-F0wI.facebook

there was a failed attempt to make this a film a few years back starring British Karate Champion, Paul Lapsley as Mike Fallon that tried to raise funds via kickstarter but only had less then £500 pledged, but they did make a trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqn8t1x-TUo

That trailer is awful! No wonder they couldn't get any pledges!

God, that is dreadful. Looks one of those no-budget gangster DVDs that haunt the shelves of pound shops. ESSEX TWATS III: RISE OF THE NOBHEADS, etc.

The Button Man announcement was five years ago and nothing has come of it. I thought with Nicholas Winding Refn attached it might have a chance, but evidently it was a slim one. As is the way of these things, Refn chose other projects and Button Man vanished back into development hell once again.

There was at least one funny thing to come out of the last few weeks(nicked from Facebook, credit to Richard Pearce)

I meant the ones being sent out to the competition winners. I had a PM from BCB requesting my details, but nothing since then. Did the others receive theirs yet?

Any idea on when the tickets are actually going out? May's creeping closer and closer, but no word on this yet.

I feel like there would be something incredibly appropriate about having Dredd just die in some random story with no build-up - it would be totally in line with the history of the strip and character for him to go out that way. After surviving any number of apocalyptic events and trials, he just gets offed by some random punk in the line of duty. It's the way he'd want to go!

I mean, I know it probably won't really happen, but it would incredible if it did.

Blimey, what a nice surprise! Honestly, I feel like a bit of a charlatan compared to all the proper writers on here, but if my dashed-off nonsense made some people happy, then that's cool. The tickets are much appreciated as well.

[The Long Con]

A bit of silliness I came up with during some downtime at work.

The Long Con

He had endured tortures beyond imagining, lived through pain that might've killed a normal man, but nothing in all his years on the toughest streets on Earth had prepared him for this.

He stared ahead of him at the column of human detritus snaking it's way across the convention hall, stretching ahead for what seemed an impossible distance.

A sweaty, trembling hand extended across the table toward him. It contained what appeared to Dredd to be a crude painted representation of himself, grimacing as he stood over the body of a prone perp, a ludicrously exaggerated approximation of a lawgiver MK2 thrusting towards the viewer. Grimacing, they always had him grimacing. Did they think he had no other emotions at all?

"Mister D-Dredd, sir, Could...do you think you c-could...s-sign this t-to..."

Before the hapless boy could finish his faltering sentence, Dredd had ripped the artwork from his hand, scrawled "Best Wishes Judge Dredd" and thrust it back into it's owner's clammy fingers.

"No personalisations. Move along, citizen."

"Th-thank-you, sir. You don't know how h-happy this makes-"

"Yeah, yeah. Get going, creep. I ain't got all day."

He did have all day, that was the worst part.

* * *

"Attention, loyal acolytes of the somewhat less-than-socially-acceptable arts! Dirty Frank is here, ready and eager to receive your adoration, and even, dare he say it, your love! Indeed, Dirty Frank is positively tumescent with excitement even while realising he probably shouldn't have mentioned that part out loud!"

"Ladies! Dirty Frank is fully aware you may become overwhelmed with inexplicable feelings of lust, a desire for marriage and the urge to produce lots of small, pink squishy offspring! This is perfectly understandable and you should feel no shame at your dirty, dirty thoughts, but for the sake of public decency he would ask you to contain yourselves and reminds you Dirty Frank has vowed to forsake all temptations of the flesh no matter how you may beg and plead!"

"Have your meeting with Dirty Frank immortalised for all time in photographic splendour! For no extra charge, Dirty Frank will utilise two of his digits to make it appear that you have some kind of comical antennae emerging from atop your own head! Such hilarity will ensue! Oh ho ho, ha ha ha ha ha! Dear me!"

"Can someone watch Dirty Frank's stuff while he goes for a wee? He has been doing this for seven hours without a break. Ah, actually, never mind. It would appear nature has taken it's course."

* * *

They were everywhere. Anywhere Dredd went, they found him. An endless parade of unwarranted, t-shirt clad adoration. Some of them tried to hug him. Now he understood why they'd been so insistent he not bring a weapon.

Overall, Dredd found it hard to decide whether the experience of his first con had been worse than the time he got his face burnt off, or the time he'd had both his eyes gouged out.

But by Grud, that green bastard was going to pay for putting him up to this.

Generaly none of the Doctor Who comics are overly relieant on the TV series to generate interest in a title, instead prity much any collection from Panini

Absolutely. Scott Gray is probably the best writer the TV show never had(and Martin Geraghty the best artist Tharg never had).

In my opinion the only really "bad" Marvel/Panini comics are from the midpoint in the McCoy era, when no-one could really decide who the strip should be aimed at. Those are the only ones that have been really disappointing to read in collected form, because they're so all over the place tonally, lurching constantly from childishly simplistic to late 80s grim-and-gritty with no consistency at all

In a very annoying move, it seems the Titan UK reprint has now gone to "Volume 2" already, and dropped the ongoing storylines from the individual comics in favour of a multi-Doctor story that I'm not enjoying nearly as much. I was getting into the 11th Doctor/ARC/Alice/NotBowie stuff, and looking at the published issues it seems there was a lot more of it still to come. Is this all a ploy so I have to go and buy the collected edition?

I haven't read it all yet but a big thumbs up for Lawless which just seems to get better and better.

Regarding the cover, have any of those villains actually been in a Dredd Megazine story in the last 25 years? I was expecting from the cover some kind of article about the ups and downs of the last 25 years but no such thing is there as far as I could see. It would have been pretty interesting to me as a new reader to read a bit of the history of the megazine.

I suppose the history is regarded as having been covered in David Bishop's "Fifteen Years, Creep!" retrospective, although even that was a decade ago!

I had no qualms with the content of this issue, but I did feel it was a little sad that there was nothing in it to commemorate such a big anniversary other than the cover. Perhaps they just felt that as it's been plodding on consistently in the intervening time since the last history feature that there's not much more to say.

I haven't read it all yet but a big thumbs up for Lawless which just seems to get better and better.

Regarding the cover, have any of those villains actually been in a Dredd Megazine story in the last 25 years? I was expecting from the cover some kind of article about the ups and downs of the last 25 years but no such thing is there as far as I could see. It would have been pretty interesting to me as a new reader to read a bit of the history of the megazine.

I suppose the history is regarded as having been covered in David Bishop's "Fifteen Years, Creep!" retrospective, although even that was a decade ago!

I had no qualms with the content of this issue, but I did feel it was a little sad that there was nothing in it to commemorate such a big anniversary other than the cover. Perhaps they just felt that as it's been plodding on consistently for so many years there's nothing really much to say.

Hmm. It seems like I was the only one genuinely quite let-down by the ending of Enceladus(my spellcheck just tried to correct that to "Enchiladas", haha). I just felt like there was far too much going on to warrant such a hasty wrap-up. I thought the build-up was absolutely magnificent, and right up till the end I would've ranked it up there with the best Dredd stories.

Over the course of two pages we go from the city on it's knees and everything lost to "man shoots a thing, bad thing goes away. Dredd makes a quip. Fin." Okay, you could argue it was ever thus with the mega-epics, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one which didn't end on a slightly anti-climactic note. But the fact that it's the culmination of not only a sprawling, multi-part story but also a character arc that started way back with the first Low Life means that for me it can't help feel like a disappointment. I feel like Nixon deserved a little more.

I should counterbalance this criticism by saying I've really enjoyed Rob Williams writing on the Titan Doctor Who comics recently, and I'm amused by the fact that Arc seems to acquired some of Dirty Frank's speech patterns.

Although I think it'll be a bit better than its being sold there but my worry that you'd just sit there missing Edgar Wright seem to bear fruit there -

I'll be honest: I don't understand the veneration of Edgar Wright. He was attached to the movie; now he's not. Going in looking for the bits that are left from his version and lamenting that anything one doesn't like is evidence of his missing hand just seems like a surefire way to not enjoy what —I have very little doubt— will be a perfectly entertaining summer action/adventure movie.

Cheers

Jim

This video does a good job outlining why Wright is so good at what he does, and what makes his style distinct from almost every other mainstream comedy director. But it's also what makes him kind of an odd choice for massive franchise films, I suppose.

There's a film from around the same time called The Last Broadcast you might enjoy if you haven't seen it already. I remember hearing from a schoolfriend it was done first and so the similarities between the two are The Blair Witch crowd tipping their hats to them (and supposedly, the bloke behind TLB was asked why he didn't sue this other lot- only to say he had no interest in doing so).
Blair Witch wise, I remember it scaring me on the pictures and then being extremely disappointed by it when I saw it at home. Maybe I'll have a similar experience to your own if I watch it again though, it was all a long time ago. I'd rather watch Last Broadcast again/first tho because I've only seen it once.

I haven't seen TLB for many years, but after seeing the both of them I thought it was unquestionably a much weaker film. For one thing the pacing is really bad, it takes forever to get going and the acting is very poor.

The central mystery does have some intrigue to it, but it's then completely torpedoed by one of the worst cop-out endings in cinema history(it's up there with the "Suddenly, there was no monster" ending of Monster A-Go-Go). It makes absolutely no sense from a narrative point of view and completely cheats the audience.