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I believe Raimi doesn't rate Campbell a good enough actor to consider him for a major role in his big budget films but since they're mayes he gives him cameos.

Raimi did recommend him for Bubba Ho-Tep though. And he did rather good too.

He did indeed.  This may be a terrible admission but I totally bought into Campbell's character in Bubba Ho-Tep.  I wasn't entirely sure if I thought the character was being truthful or delusional, but it didn't matter - the experiences were real for him and there were moments I welled up a little bit.  

So if Sam Raimi doesn't think Bruce has major role chops, I would have to respectfully disagree.  Bruce made that barking mad movie from the barking mad mind of Joe R. Lansdale feel, on an emotional level at least, very real.  Feel free everyone to point and laugh.

Back on topic, they wouldn't be HAVING this problem if they hadn't shoehorned Venom into the last one.  Dreadful it was.  There aren't any real OBVIOUS choices here, I think I'll be disappointed in this one too.  A shame as the first two were pretty good, exciting affairs.

Wasn't there a werewolf(ish) story in a Nikolai Dante tale last year too? Not the strict mythical shape-shifter, [spoiler:465r2x96]more a result of genetic engineering, if I remember correctly, but same area.[/spoiler:465r2x96] The Beast of Rudinshtein. (The graphic novel which covers lots of other stuff, but I seem to remember a fairly short story.)

The more recent Dante GNs are on my pile awaiting re-reading so my memory might not be up to much (indeed it's not that great on recently acquired information).  

However I seem to remember that it was in fact [spoiler:465r2x96]Viktor Romanov and he's more of a were....eagle.[/spoiler:465r2x96]

Well I liked the bit about Ronnie barker with a wheel!

THANK YOU for that (and the facebook links, ho ho).  I'm glad SOMEONE appreciated it.  

I'd always imagined Ro-Jaws would sound like Ronnie you see.  Presumably because they were both fond of calling people "nerks".  Although I now realise that maybe I should have written that.  Thus avoiding being misunderstood

Hey Mike, looks like your Nikolai Dante avatar is well chosen!

I thought long and hard about it.

You can make your own jokes.

Oh yeah, the killer app in those early days was having a look at who, among your mates lady friends, you would like to have... relations with.  And then messaging them with a charming offer of said relations.....

I'm not normally an "early adopter" for anything, save maybe the last parachute on a doomed helicopter full of nuns and babies.  However, I *did* join Facebook early.  About four years ago while at uni in fact, and I joined it because it had a purpose.  

It was originally a tool for university students to get to know their coursemates before actually meeting them, so you'd know someone (the term facebook coming from something similar us colleges do).  By the time *I* joined it had gone international, but still limited itself to university students and staff.  The point was that you could get to know who was who and, more importantly, organise things like evenings out in about 4 seconds flat - because EVERYONE was on it.  Also, because you had to use your student email to confirm, you knew that the person named really WAS who they said they were.

This use has obviously been heavily diluted over the intervening years as first large companies and then entire cities joined up - thus destroying that certainty that you were speaking to REAL people.  I still use it quite a bit, but for different things.  And mostly because I'm now in the habit.

I *REALLY* don't get Twitter though.

Is Dr Alice Roberts that bird wiv the red air wot is on TV on at Coast fing ?

Shes awright innit ?

Aint ever seen er walking like no Monkey though.

That's her.  Medical doctor, anatomist, archaeologist, anthropologist, telly presenter and general bit of fantasy crumpet in various departments at Bristol.

Sign up for arch/anth at Bristol and, if you're lucky, she'll give you a little demo in your first year.  Warped my mind it did.

Wow.  This thread is like one of those cross-company superhero team-up adventures.

Hero A from Alpha Comics meets Hero B from Beta Comics.

Hero A & Hero B fall out and argue.  There is inconclusive fisticuffs.  Then, just at the pivotal moment before everything goes wrong A and B get together, realise they're on the same side and sock Dr 1 and Dr 2 in the teeth (each OTHER'S nemesis, naturally) before shaking hands and travelling back to their home towns/dimensions.

This is the manly handshake part.  The bit in Judgement on Gotham where Dredd decides NOT to try to arrest Bats and says "bit of a tough guy".

Remember that bit?

Now, do ANY of you remember ANY KITTENS?

ANY AT ALL?

Take your time........

No, me neither.  This is much nicer.  More apologies, more ADF and more kittens.  The world would be a better place if everyone was as lovely as us.  Sorry once more to anyone offended by MY 2 creds worth.  xxx

Alas, no picture of Traktorfaktori's badge is to be found in the story in which he appears, but his replacement following his murder by Joni Kiss is apparently going to be either Markimarkov or Riboflavin. You just don't get Sov names like that anymore.

You really don't.  Ennis is up there with Abnett for names in my book.  And thanks for reminding me of Riboflavin, I'd completely forgotten that gem.  Morrison droid, take notes.  The names in Nikolai Dante are far too serious.  Get with the comedy Russian name thing instantly, please.

Having just 'googled' Dr. Alice Roberts, I'm glad to see I didn't miss anything by not going to Bristol University (sorry, Dr. Alice). Whenever it was.

Hey, if you've not seen her impersonate chimps, you've not lived.

I realise that now makes me sound like a sex offender.  I'm not.

And I realise that denying it makes me sound even MORE like one.  *bites back further denial*

LOOK, for the last time, I am not interested sexually in monkeys.

[THIS IS MORE THAN A YEAR OLD, GET OVER IT.]

THIS IS MORE THAN A YEAR OLD, GET OVER IT.

Perhaps.

But if you've not read it before then it's new to you.  Hmmmm?

Be sure and let me know if the font's too small.

Clearly my wife. But, should she leave me, the job of love interest would fall to either Dr Saucy McNerdBait (ie Dr Alice Roberts

Ah, it was fun going to Bristol uni.  Being run over by Dr Alice on her bike.  Being lectured by her...  Of course, medical students got more of her (grrrrrrrrr) but THEY didn't get the "sexy hominin walk" where she, well, you know.  Walks like a caveman.

And somehow makes it look good.

*sigh*

I don't think they ALL go wrong.

Mills, let's remember, wrote some of the defining moments in the early history of the character.  

Alan Grant did most of his stellar work teamed with Wagner, but even on his own his Dredd's are worthwhile (if not quite my bag.  

Ennis is certainly, by his own admission, far too reverential.  Which is why he can rip it out of the likes of Green Lantern and Batman, and make those ancient characters seem fresh and vibrant.  Some of his best Dredd stands with the best of them though.

Gordon Rennie & Robbie Morrison both do assured jobs with Rennie just edging it in terms of feel - but that's purely subjective.  Al Ewing & Ian Edginton do good work too.  Given enough time to settle these last four could easily settle in and become "Wagners" of the future.  

It's incredibly unusual for a character to be written so extensively over such a long period by one writer - it's creator no less.  Imagine if Batman had been fortunate enough to benefit from a strong, confident writer month in, month out for over three decades, how daunting would stepping into the writer's chair be?  Batman hasn't had the singularity of vision Wagner's given Dredd, but Batman hasn't suffered from a multitude of approaches over the years, it's grown the character.  We've been spoiled as fans of Dredd with his Wagner's grasp of what works and what doesn't work for the character.   To expect anyone to walk in and blow us away in the same way Wagner has for over 30 years is overly optimistic.  To go back to Batman, that character

I can't help but agree with the earlier poster who stated that this thread has it's focus in the wrong direction - we shouldn't be looking at what's wrong with non-Wagner Dredds, but what's right about the various interpretations.  

Can't help you with Millar though.

What would you have me do, have her running around shouting, 'Lawdy! I sure lub dat riddim! An now I's gonna go an eat me some o'that rriiightious minge!' ??

Thanks Proper Dave.  

It needed saying and you put it far better than I could ever have hoped to.

I, for one, am rather pleased that Sexy PVC Bitch etc has returned.  I liked her enormously in Wetworks.  Indeed, I thought that was easily the best of the Virgin novels.  And not just because we got to "see" (albeit in our mind's eye) Dredd dragged up.  

Althought that was rather fantastic.

Oooooh.  Me?  In print?

Yaaaay!

I wuv oo Thargikins!

I mean, *ahem* yeah, 'scool innit.