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Colin, if you don't get cast as an actor, we may still need help with crew, if you're up for it?

Yeah I'd be up for getting involved. Will be e-mailing a photo and will leave contact details just get in touch when you need a lackey!

Tour of Duty (or an accompanying strip somewhere) is going to be as much about Hershey as Dredd.

Yeah the set up in Under New Management certainly suggested as much. Unless Hershey is going to ask to accompany Dredd but I think they (the new management) would want to keep them apart. I'm intrigued by how the Hershey story will be told, with in the 2000 ad Dredd strip or will this be a clever way to cross it over into the Megazine and have it run in there (though you'd think word of this would have been out if that was the case)

If you're looking for something a little different self contained stories by a host of name artists with a consistent writing team then you can't go far wrong with Jonah Hex. Brillant Western.

For regular superhero action that by and large side steps all the continuity and offers something different Gail Simone and Nicola Scott's Secret Six is about the best out there at the minute I'd suggest?

[Comic]

It's about time a serious Comic reared its ugly head no matter who is heading the title.

He's going to need deep pockets or rich backers. I wrote a business plan for something of this type about ten years ago and the main problem is cashflow ... even though my product would have broken even at a paltry 11K sales per issue, there's no way to avoid ending up about £500K in a hole before you've seen a penny in revenue. I imagine that number would probably be a lot higher now ...

Cheers

Jim

According to all reports with numerous movie deals for creator owned material in the bank Mark Millar could easily do this himself if he choise and he's not short of a rich friend or two who's ointo comics if he was looking for other investors. I'd guess the biggest stumbling block for him would be time?

Edmund Dehn looks fantastic! Errr even if we don't get cast will you be able to give the location at some point as being nerdy and based in Sheffield I'm thinking I mmight pop down to the shoot or would that just be really annoying?

With a massive thank you to 'Banners' for getting sorting this for me, what a complete star he is, here's the coloured version of the entry I did a lot earlier.

Taking Buttonman's advice I stuck with Paint and this turned out to be a fun little learning lesson about colouring. Its far too bright (lesson number 1) and there's no real sense of unity to it (lesson number 2) but what the heck its been fun doing this in snatched bursts in the office.

Instead of 100 Progs can I take all the annuals, specials and yearbooks as I think they'd make better raft building material (...er would an annual float?)

Ok so this has all got a bit embarrassing! I've just tried to post an image for the competition and its not working. I read the instructions and everything. I posted the image using a URL from Picasa Web Albums and most people seem to use Photobucket (judging from right clicking on a few images that I have). Is there a reason Photobucket will work and another photo display site won't????

Anyway I also tried to report my message to the mods to get it deleted but I'm not allowed to so could someone report it to get it tidied up. I'll try again later!

This might go badly...

And just to dampen my enthusiasm

http://icv2.com/articles/news/15633.html

I know these sales figures need to be taken with a hugh dose of salts but if these are anything like correct this is very disappointing.

So much wrong with this.

And yet so much right!

Well if we're having a serious conversation about Slaine... really... ok then I'll play. I'm surprised its not a McMahon moment but the first one that came to my mind was the Glen Farby silent strip (in 582 thanks Barney) were it pans out from a fly to Slaine standing over a corpse ridden battle scene and the only words "...and he didn't think it too many"

Brillant.

Yeah saw that. In some ways it'd be good for 2000ad to have some competition as that can only be healthy. Far too early to comment to much but assuming this isn't just typical Millar hyperbole and he's seriously thinking about it it'll certainly be one to keep an eye on.

- The only thing that doesn't sit right with me, although it's been building for a while, is the street judges' disillusionment with Dredd himself. Come on, this is the guy who would not let this Cursed Earth beat him; the man who was willing to shoot himself in the heart just to get a crack at East Meg One; who came back from the Long Walk to save his city, goddamnit! 800 (400) million citizens. Every one a potential criminal. The most violent, evil city on Earth. But, god help him, he loves it.

- PJ Maybe demanding Francisco bring Dredd back at some crisis point. Ironic.

I kinda settled myself with this one on a couple of scores. Firstly can't see Judges being an overly sentimental bunch. As such you're only as good as you're last case and Dredd has been the best for so long I figure they'll be a lot of Judges out there just waiting for him to fail. Not out of a sense of professional jealously just cos it happens to them all at some point. So when someone who is regarded highly messes up (in their opinion) they all shrug their collective shoulders and think Dredd's mellowing has finally gone too far and the old man is past it?

Secondly he might be the best and have saved a gazillion butts a bazillion times but he is still seen by many as politically naive and a soft touch so resentment towards him pretty much predisposed in many judges and to be fair has been seen time and time again.

As for the PJ idea love it it'd be a really neat little story point.

Is it bad that Tesco are offering Morrison's "Batman: Black Glove" for 19p?

http://www.tesco.com/books/Product.aspx?R=9781845769628

Ahh, but if you check the site closely, you'll see it's discounted from a RRP of 20p.
Which is just crazy money.

Its a pre-order and its been out for a while now hasn't it??? Will it ever come?