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It's outcome would also depend on what it was fought over: independence seems a bit after-the-fact since it could be argued national fragmentation had all ready happened in 2070, and Mega City Two seemed to secede and go autonomous without a schmozzle, so it could be a conflict over share of resources, jurisdiction boundaries or the production of hats.

Every Empire Falls was about a megalomaniac Texan Chief Judge who wanted to reunite Texas and MC1, which would be an odd ambition for a state that had fought a (successful) war to achieve the exact opposite.

Chief Judge Oswin's real plan was one of conquest over a newly weakened state rather than a reunification in ideological terms for old times' sake.

I don't know, I've read critics that claims the film's a watershed and borderline epoch defining, which it clearly isn't.

That's not the general consensus, though. Few are indicating WW is a modern masterpiece.

For something to resonate with an audience does not mean it's either brilliant or bad, nor does it always matter what anyone thinks for it to make money. The critic consensus has rated Wonder Woman around a 7-7.5 which I think is about right for an average film that hasn't totally shit-the-bed, so I don't think it's overhyped in terms of reviews.

'Blade Runner 2049' First Clip — "Bigger Than You"

Midnight Edge's feature on the show is full of dubious and seriously (unnecessarily venomous too, I thought) unsubstantiated claims. Wouldn't believe much of it.

Midnight's Edge videos are a collation of every internet rumour put in a blender. It's goes no deeper than a web-search.

Origins makes no mention of any civil war. I'm pretty sure war between the US megacities has stopped having happened.

Wouldn't really be an Origins thing: doubling up the conflict quota for a Cursed Earth skirmish that's tangential to Fargo's story and Dredd's a big lad by the time it happens -going by Mick McMahon's Civil War cyclorama inspired cover- so it could still be a pre-2099/Prog 2 event. Plenty of room there to fit it in.

They have the funding so I guess the changes are part of that.

Was mentioned earlier this year.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=44133.msg945261#msg945261

[- Philip K. Dick in the introduction to the Golden Man, 1980]

When you look at all the money currenty flowing through PKD adaptations, it's sobering to remember that in his 30s he was reduced to eating catfood...

They do say PKD is an acquired taste.

"When I see these stories of mine, written over three decades, I think of the Lucky Dog Pet Store. There's a good reason for that. It has to do with an aspect of not just my life, but the lives of many freelance writers. It's called poverty[........]So anyhow, there I am at the Lucky Dog Pet Store on San Pablo Avenue, In Berkley, California, in the Fifties, buying a pound of ground horsemeat." - Philip K. Dick in the introduction to the Golden Man, 1980

And The Last Jedi is...[spoiler]obvious[/spoiler].


[spoiler]"It's in the opening crawl of "The Force Awakens." Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There's always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And he's removed himself and is alone on this island, for reasons unknown."[/spoiler]


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-director-rian-johnson.html

[How much of the story of "The Last Jedi" was dictated to you, either by events in "The Force Awakens" or by Lucasfilm?]

New interview with Rian Johnson where he talks about the 'blank page' task he was handed.

How much of the story of "The Last Jedi" was dictated to you, either by events in "The Force Awakens" or by Lucasfilm?

I had figured there would be a big map on the wall with the whole story laid out, and it was not that at all. I was basically given the script for "Episode VII;" I got to watch dailies of what J. J. was doing. And it was like, where do we go from here? That was awesome.

So there's no one telling you that your film has to contain certain plot points, or that certain things have to be achieved by its end?

Nothing like that. But it's the second film in a trilogy. The first film got these characters here. This second movie has to dig into and challenge these characters. I wanted this to be a satisfying experience unto itself. I didn't want it to end with a dot, dot, dot, question mark.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-director-rian-johnson.html

I Knew the fight in the girl's bedroom was a Wright & Cornish creation but all the Quantum Realm stuff was added by Reed and Michael Peña's funny story montages – which felt a bit like Spaced – were also a Reed invention. Wasp getting her suit at the end predates Reed and McKay.

Wright can do no wrong AFAIC, and I'd love to have seen his and Cornish's AntMan - but I think plenty of his sensibility remains visible in what is one of the best Marvel movies. As a hybrid, it certainly works.

It is one of the best Marvel films – ironically a few of the most popular touches that people liked and attributed to being in the Wright & Cornish style – and obviously part of the original script – were introduced afterwards by McKay, Reed and 2 of Marvel's uncredited staff writers.

[Prog#1086]

I believe Jason Brashill and/or Jim Murray designed the MkII, though it's first appearance was in the story Gun Play, illustrated by a different artist.

Paulo Parente, prog 1122. Although Murray first drew the Lawgiver that way a couple of months earlier, in the Paul Herriman story Dreams Of Glory (1112). *

Dreams Of Glory was Murray's Dredd debut, so there's no BEFORE to compare it to. Brashill was still drawing the gun as a silver piece of plumber's kit in his previous Dredd strip, prog 1077's In The Year 2020, and both artists draw the lawgiver that way until page 30 of Die Laughing book two*, when the black casing, blunt muzzle, and red LED suddenly appear.

There's a bit of progression before and between all that from Brashill & Murray –

Jason Brashill Prog#1086



Jason Brashill Prog#1104



Jim Murray Prog#1109