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Any chance we can 'secretly' see some of these?

Boo Cook does make for a beautful woman!

So, I bought the 'America' trade because the lazy bastards wouldn't put it in the case files because it's not 'technically' a Dredd story.

BOLLOX!

It's got Dredd written all over it and it's so integral to the Dredd strip...it's a crime to leave it out.

Meg 300 is a perfect example of how that story has reprecussions in Dredds world.

Wankers!

'America'...beautiful trade though.

So, the Worleybird is a big FF Gamebook geek!
Sweeeeet! So, was I.

I remember watching 'The Book Tower' on ITV and Tom Baker was reading from 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'. I was so excited about the book...I ran off to the local booksellers and picked it up. Instantly hooked!

You can tell he never read 2000ad!

I have fond memories of Ant Wars and Return to Armageddon.

Easily Pat Mills' best Dredd story, fact fans.

That would be 'The Cursed Earth'.

We need to see more scans of the rest of the dummy!

Looks fab!

Just to jump back to the original post Im definately in the camp that while you cant make the same jokes now you could 20 or 30 years ago I dont think that reprints of old material should be amended to reflect current sensibilities.

I think people are intelligent enough to realise something is of its time and stuff shouldnt be buried because times and attitudes have changed. Its like the AWESOME old Superman cartoons which were produced while America was at war with Japan. The craft on them is amazing but the fact they were made while asians were down as the big bad makes them a little weird to watch now. I've heard people saying they should bin all the old Spirit comics as well because there is a black character in those who leans towards the stereotypical.

But yeah, racism bad... unless its aimed at the f***ing english   

Agreed.

Well for a start unless I haven't been keeping up with the news, Mexicans have yet to evolve hive-brains and become an entity of single mind of purpose, and they're not going to, either.

They do however have the entire state of Arizona against them, massive prejudice against them in US society and generally a very hard time if they want to become US citizens.

No racism is condonable. There is a big difference between the concepts of Black History Month and White History Mointh though.

I would appreciate it if you would cut the sarcasm : I:E "In your not at all suspicious and highly sourced anecdote about Mexicans...

I will go on a bit here......

Anyway i wrote a very quick comment about a few things that were on my mind and i wasnt about to start providing links or sources or anything else like that but i know very well what is going on in the US regarding illegal immigration in the US particularly from Mexico and what i will say is that the prejudice that Mexican illegals face in the US is not without its reasons.

There are very specific reasons for this but the cause of the problem is that the Federal govt in the US is refusing to police and enforce any kind of border controls which is part of their remit under certain sections of the US Constitution so as a reaction to the wilful negligence of the US Federal govt Arizona has been forced to take matters into its own hands and police its own borders regardless of the Federal Govt which they have every right to do as individual states still have the right to be autonomous again under the dictats of various sections of the US constitution.

However Arizona is doing exactly what the US Constitution dictates so therefore they are in the right.

Of course this will by default mean racial profiling since it is a reaction to illegal immigration but it is not simply because of Racism or Racist residents of Arizona but instead its because of spiralling crime rates and various other problems caused by illegal immigrants exiting the worst example of a failed state which is Mexico.

I might as well also point out that Mexicans or illegals or whatever are routinely allowed to violate the rule of law as it is sanctioned by the Federal Govt as police are ordered not to arrest any of them.This is obviously a problem to the residents of Arizona and various other border states in the US.

Mexicans are routinely allowed to voice their hatred of White Americans very openly as it is sanctioned by the Federal govt.

This is a problem.

There is also a massive influx of criminal drug running gangs and people trafficking that spills over into the US on a daily basis from Mexico.

I might as well point out that there are various organisations that are fueling this problem beside the US Federal govt like LaRaza and LeReconquista who are radicalising Latinos and Mexicans to reclaim territory that they believe is theirs as the Mexicans previously lost it 100 or so years ago.

This is all very well documented.

Have you or anyone else got any idea how Mexico treats illegal immigrants in comparison to the US ?

As for the your comment about Mexicans not evolving hive-brains etc etc then i have already pointed out how wrong that is in this comment.

Yes there are problems with the process of becoming legal citizens in the US and they need to be addressed but i dont think the US is inherently racist per se towards Mexicans as there are plenty who have become legal citizens and they have had no problems integrating into society as its not like Americans dont want Mexicans in the US but they want them to do it legally and in controlled numbers.Legal Mexicans/Mexican-Americans feel much the same way as they inadvertantly get it in the neck as well through no fault of their own.

Of course there are two sides to this problem but i wont go into NAFTA/NAU and who is funding the radicalisation of Mexicans and i wont go into how they are allowed into the US illegally and how they are being used as voting bloc and i wont go into how employers love illegal immigrants because they provide very cheap labour and are easy to exploit and i wont go into how various trade agreeements have made a mess of their own country as well as the US and i wont go into the Obama administration and the political system in the US as a whole.

The whole thing is a very messy business but the blame lies not with the Mexicans themselves as they are really victims that are being used for political purposes.

I dont sanction hating them but it would be more constructive for White Americans to engage with them and talk to them and try and cultivate friendship and educate because race hate and violence isnt going to help anyone as its playing into the hands of Globalists/Banksters/White Elitists who are fuelling this problem and using race and race hatred as a means of dividing and ruling and destroying the US.

This is a VERY important point.

You have to understand the bigger picture to understand the cause.

I have gone on for long enough.

Mr. Wolf, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore!

I came to the US and have lived in Arizona since '96. I became a US citizen back in 2007 and it was a hard slog to get there.

Seriously, you hit the nail on the head on all issues.

I don't know of any Mexicans or other South Americans that have a hard time going through the system to become US Citizens and I met a good few of them while I was sworn in. I was part of one of the biggest swearing in of US citizens in US history that took part in a stadium in Phoenix. There were over a 1000 of us and all from different countries. More than 100 different countries were represented.

'Illegal' is not a race.

Fuck the PC brigade...it's funny shit!

And in fairness, hiring hot tickets like Ennis and Millar and brining in US creators like Fleisher would have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Were Ennis and Millar hot though?  They became hot in America, but wasnt that after the event? Thats a genuine Q, I just assumed that they cut their teeth (by cutting up tooth!) and then went on to more critically/commercially successful stuff. 

As for Fleischer, wasnt he hired purely cos Burtn and he ahd become pals through the fan community, rather than on the strength of his then output for American comics? Again, genuine Q, as I'd assumed he was a bit of a yesterdays man by the time he was working for the prog.  Theres an interview with Fleischer in a comic mag out this or last month (Back Issue?) where he says his 2000aD stuff wasnt very good!

As far as I know, Ennis breakthrough in comics was on the Crisis strip 'Troubled Souls'. And you're correct, Ennis and Millar didn't become big names till their breakthrough in the States.

Fleischer had a provedn track record but didn't really work out for 2000ad. His Jonah Hex books are some of the best I've ever read.

With much respect due to Rich and Bolt-01, ours is looking spiffy, even if I do say so myself! Chuffed to have been involved!

OoooooH!
Can't wait to see it!

Seriously?

HAHAHAHA! I can't wait to read this.

Basically, the plot is: A delegation from East Meg 2 visit MC-1 to discuss foreign policy. All the Sov judges have silly pun-based Russian names like Traktorfaktori, and worse, all speak in faux-Cyrillic type - backwards R's etc. The Sov judges give the MC-1 judges a gift - a valuable diamond-encrusted pineapple(!) which plays pop songs(!). I'm not making this up.

The pineapple gets stolen, and Dredd is tasked with tracking it down, as if the Sov-judges discover it is gone, they will apparently be so upset that it will ruin international relations and probably start Apocalypse War II. One of the Sov-judges fancies Hershey, so during a meeting McGruder sends her a scribbled note (complete with a doodle of a heart with an arrow in it) asking her to flirt with him to help buy Dredd more time to recover the pineapple.

Oh, and Dredd and Hershey openly mock the Sov judges and lord over them like schoolchildren the fact that they destroyed East Meg 1!

It's pathetic, especially in contrast to something like Tour of Duty. It's like a story from an alternate universe where 2000ad and the Beano merged.

The one about the living teddy-bear is shit as well.

HA!
Sounds hilarious...even the 'living teddy bear'.
Looks like Ennis was giving Dredd the All Star Batman type treatment...er..before there was an All Star Batman.

Doesn;t seem to out of place. Wasn't there a Wagner Dredd story where Dredd comes across a pic of Hershey scantily clad...Someone was using the pic to bribe her?

I'm not sure how that would work as a bribe..

"If you overlook my crimes I'll give you this lovely nude photo of yourself!"

A novel approach, if nothing else.

I think it was to get the pic out in the public to discredit Hershey as Chief Judge or something. Brain is fuzzy as always.