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This is gutting. Bolt (as I will always think of him) was just the loveliest bloke, both on- and off-line. I did a lot of small-press work for a time, and he was such a pleasure to deal with - always enthusiastic, encouraging and seemingly genuinely overjoyed to recieve new artwork. His enthusiasm for Tooth, and comics in general, was infectious and heartfelt. It was so lovely to see his chunky inks back in the sketch comps recently, too. Hard to take in. 

So long, Bolt. Thanks for everything, and see you on the Doghouse some time.

You don't really look like Murray from Flight of the Conchords any more either.

Don't know whether I'm more dissapointed by that, or the inference I could no longer pass for a teenager.

Maybe I should have made it clear I'm the one on the left...?

I demand an explanation.

It's definitely not my BAFTA, though it lives on our sideboard (and gets decorated for holidays) - my partner inherited it from her grandad, who won it for producing Yes, Minister. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926243/

BAFTAs? Totally devalued; they're just giving those things out to anyone these days.

Even I've got one!

[D'Israeli 3, Gibson 2]

Peak Gibson is phenomenal - especially in colour - but D'Israeli nudges it by virtue of being such an exciting innovator and re-inventor.

D'Israeli 3, Gibson 2.

[Gallagher 3, Staples 2]

Gallagher 3, Staples 2.

Gosh, that's humbling. When I set the theme I had no intention of entering myself (purely because I'd won last time out); but after a week of fantastic entries flooding in, I thought I'd be 'safe' if I had a go. I genuinely didn't expect to place anywhere against such a bunch of talent.

Tomwe is very much a worthy winner. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next time.

No idea why Grobbendonk's coming up so flippin' big though! 

Seems only fair to also post up the Dredd-after-a-face-change image:

Sort of a Spitting Image version of Shane from the Walking Dead / the telly Punisher there. 

It's 40s film actor Rondo Hatton -

... you have to understand not only the time it was first printed but that's how the soldiers would have spoken at the time the story was set.

Yes, it's a funny one, and weirdly comic-specific. A historical novel, film or TV series set in WW2 that has a few instances of soldiers being less-than-PC towards their foes is probably never going to face too much criticism for that.

The VCs saying 'chinky' and Ro-Jaws calling Hitaki a 'nip'... pretty problematic. But allied soldiers fighting the Japanese in the jungles of Burma...?

I suppose I see it more that Dredd-under-the-helmet is unfamiliar to citizens because he's always in uniform, indeed he is the uniform. He's on duty 23hrs 50min a day, every day, and so he wears the helmet. It's not like he consciously hides his face, or that it's a state secret.

This is by far the best solution to these stories - I hate the ones (thankfully few and far between) that suggest Dredd's got some weird disfigurment or phobia.

Are you sure?  I remember a story about some rich hunting types who captured Dredd - the prize was to see his face.  The other judges recognised him helmetless when they arrived, but that's hardly unexpected. It was an eighties one, but Dredd and his world had already been pretty well established by the time it was published.

There was also that Megazine story where a blind girl wanted to 'see' his face by touching it, though it was early Robbie Morrison so it's up to you whether that's canon or not.

Also this one, again by Robbie, about a photographer trying to capture the holy grail...

More to the point, how has this thread got to page 2 without Simon Fraser drawing Joe and Rico at the Academy...?

Also worth mentioing that these pictures of Dolman don't count, as by the time we first saw him without a helmet, he'd already had a face change.

How has this got to page 2 without an imge of Ron Smith's definitive "first ever appearance before we even knew it" of Fargo in Dredd Angel?


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