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Sounds too good to be true, well it's not. I've been buying and selling small collections for a long time in order to get a near mint run of 2000AD and I now have my perfect collection 🙂

As a by-product I have over 1,000 progs ready to be picked up and I mean picked up as I do not plan on posting this lot. 6 big boxes. They are all in pretty ok condition and run from early hundreds up until around prog 1,250.

I'm in Southgate, North London, so if anyone is interested in a genuine give away please get in touch ASAP otherwise I'm giving them to a charity shop. You have 3 days to decide, the clock ticking 🙂

Tarantino

NB please don't contact me asking for individual prongs or a list of what I have, I'm giving them away to save hassle, cheers my dears.

I want it to happen, in fact if I win the Euromillions I'm going to make a Rebellion an offer they can't refuse and then sell 2000AD to Netflix for a penny, just so that make a Nikolai Dante TV series, or ABC Warriors.

Tarantino

Who's up for Rebellion selling 2000AD to Netflix, the potential for films, TV series and animated shows would be limitless.

Go on Rebellion, sell 😀

Tarantino

DJs is a terrible idea.

I would go with a couple of Rookie Judges on the streets being assessed by a senior Judge, possibly Dredd. it would be a good introduction as we see MC1 through their eyes as well as establishing Dredd as an iconic Judge & introducing the concept of Judges to the audience.

Rookie Judge being assessed by Dredd? Hasn't that already been done somewhere? I don't know, it seems to ring a bell 😜

Based on what could happen now (so no hypothetical new Nemesis, Dante etc series) and is plausible (no Halo Jones Book Four),

There's no reason why Dante's character can't be reprised at some point in the future, as was proven by the recent special.

Tarantino

Belive me,there are plenty of tropes people dont like.

OMG, that's such a trope 😜

I've been reading 2000AD since Prog 1 and there have been many highs and lows and although I am enjoying individuals story's even more, there are a lot more of the newer thrills that I'm just not getting, such as Defo and quite a few others, that I tend to skip over. With that in mind, if you could have just 5 separate thrills in your dream Prog, what would they be. I'll start you off with mine.

1) Judge Dredd
2) Nikolai Dante
3) Sinistr Dexter
4) Necrophim
5) Button Man

Now to me that would be an amazing Prog.

What about you guys, what would be your dream Prog?

What's a trope?

I don't know which shows you've been watching, but I've never seen that happen on a TV show before. It doesn't happen in Game of Thrones, or House of Cards, or The Walking Dead, or The Handmaid's Tale. It didn't happen in the Dredd movie either. I think you can relax.

Of course there's loads of shows it doesn't happen in but It happens in virtually every American cop show you can name.

Supersurf is not a bad idea,  but what I'd really like to avoid is an ending to a Dredd episode that goes like this..........

5 judges and Dredd are gathered around a computer

Judge 1
So where did the Dark Judges come from

Judge 2
A place called Deadworld,

Judge 3
Which is in another dimension

Judge 1
I see, and this Judge Death lived there.

Judge 3
Yes, and he surmised that all crime was committed by the living and so therefore life itself is a crime.

Judge 2
To that end he killed everyone on Deadworld

Judge Dredd
He then found away to cross dimensions to travel to Mega City 1 to continue his rampage.

Judge 4
Yes but he never considered that he would be facing his nemesis in Judge Dredd

And that's it, plot surmised, everyone's in the loop, job done

I just hate those moronic endings

My fear is that like a lot of these tv shows based on successful comic characters, such as Daredevil and Luke Cage, they use the character to launch a superhero series but eventually just fall back on their generic, formulaic plots with just occasional nods to their superhero origins. The bulk of each episode could just be another CSI show, or one of any other countless shows, where at the end of each episode the whole cast gathers around a central point to sum up what's happened to them, but basically really just explaining the plot to the viewer.

I would really like Dredd to focus on the madness and badness of the city, keep it as bizarre and crazy as possible and just occasionally drip feed us back-history and "the human story" in Dredds world. It needs to be fast paced, hi octane and futuristic all the way through. I don't want it to follow the formula that so many of these American cop shows follow, where the Judges could be any generic American policeman in a different uniform.

That's why I'd love them to just open with a really bizarre episode, and make the uninitiated viewer go "wow, that was fantastic" and can't wait to tell all their friends about it. And I think the Dark Judges would do that in spades.

Tarantino

In the past there's been discussions with regards to launching a Dredd film and that some people are of the opionion that you should slowly introduce Dredds world/story to the general public who might not be so familiar with his Universe. Maybe releasing one or two films of that ilk before a huge action packed blockbuster. Well I say fuck that shit, and The first Terminator film was a perfect example of why it's better to go with the blockbuster first and grab the publics attention by the balls. The first Terminator film came out of nowhere, no backstory, nothing, just a great action film, with perfect casting. The public loved the film and then they built a back story and developed a Terminator history after an attention grabbing first film.

This is the same with Dredd, as much as we've know and love the character, the general public will hardly be aware of him. So with the TV series it would be amazing to open it with The Dark Judges. The very first episode should give all the fans and those new to Dredd something to talk about the next day, and go wow, what the fuck was that?  Then build on Dredds history once you've got the casual viewer interested.

Tarantino

As progs 149 - 151 introduce the Dark Judges and Judge Anderson they normally sell for £7 - £16 each  but this was a sky high price, I think that may be an early affect of the upcoming Judge Dredd to series.

Can't believe what this sold for, prog 150 first Judge Anderson. I stopped bidding at £9

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=263006046877&globalID=EBAY-GB

I think with all the WhoHa about 2000AD's 40th we have forgotten that it's actually Judge Dredd's birthday today. Prog 2 was dated 5th March. So happy birthday to the big guy. I'm sure he's eating cake somewhere before going out to bust some perps head 😎