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"Howard Chaykin couldnt write Judge Dredd if he had Mega City one stuck up his arse" Is that the quote from a certain longtime Dredd when he heard about Chaykins Dredd screenplay? Something like that I recall

Juves n the Hood was by Ed Perryman(?) His stuff really suited Dredd - and that story is another modern classic - great stuff.  IIRC Ed Perryman(?) was maybe a pseudonym?  Shame we never saw more of his work

It'd be great if 2000AD could come up with new characters - however, since Prog 500 we've had how many new stories near the calibre of Robohunter, Nemesis, Alpha etc.?  By my count I make it two - Zenith (though not a great fan, I can see why people enjoy it) and Dante.   Sin Dex is the nearest other contender!  Other stories that might have made the grade seem to have been buggered up or dropped after luke warm reaction from the squaxx.

Look at classic characters like Alpha, Slade and Ace and add up the number of pages of trip they've starred in. Consider these strips are parallel to Americas top comic characters like Batman, Flash, The Hulk etc.  I expect that in terms of output, they've appeared a tiny, tiny fraction of the times that these characters have (not necessarily a bad thing given the way they have to reinvent and rehash there stuff, maybe).  However for me, while there is loads of room left for more Robohunter, it reached a natural conclusion. With Strontium Dog, i always felt it was robbed of a natural conclusion by circumstance - with Rogue, they reached the natural conclusion in such a lame way, and the potential for the character and setting was only briefly touched on before that - the revival is a bit of a puzzler for me - maybe (like Slaine) too much rubbish has already occurred for me to regain interest in the story?  For Ace, the series had reached an interesting point, with Ace returning to his original universe to find Feek had taken over Ace Trucking in his absence and made it a huge success.  Now that's one way to end the series, but I think seeing Ace plot to regain his company could be a great tale.

You'd be mad to throw out great characters while theres still life in them - of course, if Wagner and Grant dont have anything more to say, then leave em be.  But if the original writers are up for it, I would be thrilled by any return of a classic.
 

Of all 2000 strips, Robohunter reached the most fitting conclusion, with Sam back where we met him at the start of the very first series.  The Millar thing would have been a mistake even if they had been even vaguely good.  It might be nice to see maybe a one off to show the world what Robohunter was really about, i suppose.  That said didn't I read or hear somewhere that John Wagner wouldnt return to the character as he feels too much damage was done by the revival?

Certainly, an ongoing series would be a mistake in my opinion - Personally, I'd like to see what happened next in Ace Trucking Co, cos Aces revenge on that little uffer Feek is loooong overdue - Gibson art would suit that revival...

I'd say the reason Gladiator clicked is because there was a vision to the film - that is, you sensed the movie was a coherent approximation of the writers and directors intentions to tell a fairly simple story.  The behind scenes friction between producers, director, writers and star are up on screen for all to see in Dredd

I dunno - thats got a touch of the Hollywood "the public will only buy the same old crap" attitude about it. The film was panned cos it was contradictory, rushed, confused and plain rubbish.  If Dredd had been done as the comic  -(a hilarious, outrageous black comedy/uber action flick with a hero whos more of a threat than the villians) I reckon it would have caught the eye of a lot more people - at least it would have stood out from the crowd instaed of following Hollywoods usual fastfood formula.  The biggest sci-fi films always break the formula in some way surely? Star wars, Blade Runner, Alien, The Matrix etc. all gave audiences something new.

Cover?

Bisley artwork?

Hurrah for Wake

We only have to ask and suddenly the board is an even better place!  

**Erm, is anyone actually outraged and offended? Assides from a few people not really wanting to show their kids this weeks prog (fair enough) it seems almost like you're all just going through the motions**

Well that's the point Art - but you dont have to be concerned about whether your kids can read it to wonder if it's in questionable taste, or handled badly, surely?  It was the same with the Asylum incident.  I'd probably sum up my feelings as disappointed that 2000AD seems to be deliberately aiming itself at an adult audience (sure, that might be the only way forward, but its disappointing to me nonetheless), and annoyance that a badly written story thinks it's up to a bit of boundary-pushing.  I would rather the writer had concentrated on trying to tell a better story than thinking of how far he could push things.

**God, why is it that everytime someone says, hmm this is a bit full-on for a kid's comic, everyone jumps on the megaliberal anti-censorship horse? **

Well said, Matt.  It always seems to me that claiming the "immoral highground" is a simple way to avoid the real questions, which to me are:

Just who is 2000AD aimed at?  Certainly not kids, but how easy would it be to make 2000 appeal to all ages (like it used to)? It seems to me that ever since the "adult comic experiment" began in this country, theres always been around 20,000ish readers for them.  So is using full on adult stuff really the best way to increase your audience? Is it an admission that 2000AD is stuck with the audience it's got?

The context of the story is fairly important. The writing has been so clunky that it has signposted this event as little more than a device to get Slaine back wandering. "I wish I leave the tribe and go wandering again, Naimh, but not while your still about" leads to "I have a terrible feeling about Moloch" directly to "I'm just off for a walk by myself".

I'm sure if the story had handled the depiction of his better and it had seemed less obviously signposted as a convenient plot device, it would have been a lot less 'controversial'.

Very annoying is what it is

Just have to hope some copies make their way to these shores at some point.  What would this all mean for the rumoured American comics featuring new/old Dredd stories? If they're not available then can e storm the nerve centre?  I'm assuming this is about the licencing of Aliens rather than Dredd?  Or am i assuming wrong.  

Wasnt that Dredd costume stolen from Rebellion at some point?

I have an advert for it in an old issue of Speakeasy, but odds are, it never came out (the cover they show is the cover of prog 650 mocked up as the GN)