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FCBD at gosh

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Maybe they've done their own sampler

Nothing 2000 AD but Monster Fun are doing a FCBD event at Gosh comics

There's nothing we can do at our end

I don't know what the budget is for Rogue Trooper (I'd go out on a limb and say it's around £10m (if that), since no backers have been mentioned and maybe there's a large element of self-financing)

Even if Rogue found an audience, it will be cheaper than a CGI MC-1 - you have people in masks to cut the amount of facial animation, less variety in costumes than a typical MC-1 population, and the CGI equivalent of a quarry is less work than a full blown city.

I don't think there's enough interest to warrant the expense.

Vagueness about rights + these kinds of stories get reprints because they already exist (bar scanning and any repro tidying)

It would depend on whoever wanting to publish it, prove it, then probably running a kickstarter to pay for everything else, that hitting the target etc.

Seems more trouble than its worth - more than Carlos changing Lobo out for the Bob the Galactic Bum story.

Yeah, for something you're just going to crash at, it's a lot (and you're going to spending money at the hotel over the 2 days) - I would have hoped anyone helping out might get discount.

I'll be honest, I'm torn on the shift to two days - I think they crammed in too many panels when it was a single day, and maybe this is an over-correction.

It's more worth the journey for people who are traveling a long distance, but I think it's kind of stuck by not being able to spread out in that location.

My memory on this is hazy, maybe it's along the lines that the contract was for Eagle itself, but not any collected editions.

I can't remember where I read it I'm afraid, might have been facebook, might have been an article, or it might have been cobblers.

They're just a bit of a curiosity for the most part I guess.

Hibernia already reprinted some of it, I'm not sure if that was before John challenged DDC over it though.

Not the Photo-strips though, I vaguely remember something about model release forms could be an issue (not necessarily for Doomlord but in general)

Or reproducing them was more of a headache/questionable popularity than the drawn strips?

I think it was something John said in relation to Doomlord, that DDC said they had the rights but couldn't offer any proof, but it was more bother than it was worth trying to settle the issue.

(Apologies if I'm mistaken)

It might have been expanded upon in the Fleetway Files - there's a brief mention of rights in this article at the bottom, but in this case it's slightly different and in relation to Dan Dare

Down the Tubes Dan Dare

TB is OK, but I preferred the Royal Armouries

Honestly, I don't — I always felt like something was going on elsewhere that I was missing when TB was in Leeds. Harrogate is engagingly compact... everytime someone messaged me to say they're in 'X' pub/bar/restaurant/hotel I'd Google-Map it and it'd be a five minute walk. The convention itself is well-organised and uses the layout effectively.

TL;DR — I much prefer the Harrogate incarnation. Hopefully, I'll see some of you there this year!

Fair enough - Harrogate is more central, but that extra distance from SW London + not having the central area to escape to swung it for me

I'll be there Saturday only - hotel's are getting expensive...

Comparing the two is a bit tricky for me as I've tabled more at TB than Lawless/Lawgiver

Lawless is full-on 2000 AD, with a smattering of other stuff, it's small but it's more like a mini-40th event

TB is OK, but I preferred the Royal Armouries

There has been no official update.

It's the same as it has been for a few years - the original deal with IM Global hit the rocks after they had a boardroom takeover not long after the announcement in 2017.

The producer at IMG, Mark Stern took the project to his own company, Fearless Media Group where it was on his roster of projects that he was trying to drum up backing for.

It then disappeared from that site, and went back to Rebellion - then we had a pandemic.

As far as I can work out the official position is something along the lines of 'these things take years, we're open to offers, but we're not going to sign away the rights just to get something made'

for the unofficial side - I guess they could be looking to see how the method being used for Rogue Trooper works out.

I was also told by someone that people who had been working on a live-action Dredd pitch had chatted to Rebellion fairly recently.

If there's any concrete info, they'd certainly be talking about it.

I think it was a run of 500 inc the KS backers.

Anyway, they've been discounted due to low sales, and storage costs - now £130 inc shipping

Here's a pic I took when I met up with a friend in a nearby pub...

SD Statue Page

There's a sonic fan called Daniel Ratcliffe (not that one) who has done a great job making case files versions of the sonic comics as a personal project (he's up to vol. 3)



@dantwohundred over on twitter

Yeah, I'd forgotten about it - but at the time now remember thinking it didn't look much like Steve's work - I don't know the story behind it, if it was a commission or him trying something new...

It was in the Dillon exhibition at Lawless

Steve Dillon Exhibition