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Does that mean that it belongs to rebellion?

- pj :P

Maybe I'm being a dunce, but if it was a large tether holding a satellite to the earth, wouldn't the satellite be using centurfugal force to keep some sort of gravity? so if you were to fall into the thing you'd actually find yourself heading towards the top of the station rather than down towards the earth?

This opinion is all based on highly scientific experimentation carried out with a bucket of water when I was 7.

- pj

I'm currently in Hong Kong, after an startling two days in Bangkok (unbearable heat/unbreathable air/inedible food). Just seen the Giant Budda, going to Ocean World tomorrow. Doing my best to avoid being sold a fake watch.

Anyhue, having a nice time. See ya' all. BTW: temp: 31degrees C.

- pj

I'm currently in Hong Kong, after an startling two days in Bangkok (unbearable heat/unbreathable air/inedible food). Just seen the Giant Budda, going to Ocean World tomorrow. Doing my best to avoid being sold a fake watch.

Anyhue, having a nice time. See ya' all. BTW: temp: 31degrees C.

- pj

The problem with 1) is that ... well, 2000AD has already had a reprint mag, plus the megazine is also doing reprints and it's highly likely that the target audience already has umpteen versions of any possible reprint material. While those are criticisms I could level at my own suggestion, the intent that I had was a way to create a new audience rather than milking the current one.

2) That'd be an interesting title, but it's how to join it all together (after all, if the first issue is reprints of Hellboy and the next is reprints Skreemer there's nothing to keep a reader hooked between issues). Although, again, the target audience is, presumably, those people that already buy 2000AD.

As a slight amendment to 2) I'd do a beyond 2000 title in the form of the bloke magazine "Jack", small form but thick - loads of material, with a kiosk display unit sent out to newsagents. Market it towards the FHM/Loaded/Lad Mag reader and see what happens. The material would have to be edgy, hip, Vertigo/hard edged sci-fi style stuff.

Let's have some ideas about creating a totally new audience!

I hate the thought of b&w artwork coloured, if I had my way 2000AD would still be all black and white with a colour centre spread but ... a title aimed at kids, competing in the kids market is gonna be sold on the coolness factor of the stories and art, and, imho, b&w art (even GREAT b&w art) will not appeal as much as /well/ coloured art. Since the "Quality" colour reprints, technology has moved on. Colouring could easily be farmed out to a number of high quality companies/people using computer colouring to really enhance what was there. I'm pretty firmly of the opinion though that b&w artwork to a modern youngster will look different than it would've looked to younger me.

- pj

How's this?

Link: http://www.pauljholden.com" target="_blank">Mek-War

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I'll start:

What about a new reprint aimed at the 7-12 year old market. Reprinting material they'd be comfortable with in a larger A4 sized format. You'd have to spend money on re-colouring (or colouring) but the golden rule should be no black and white. I'm thinking of something not unlike the UK reprints of Ultimate Spider-Man.

It should start with stuff like Robo-Hunter, Very Early Slaine, Early Dredd, future shocks, Thargs tales, etc. You could also include the Walter the Wobot 1 pagers and anything else that would look really odd in 2000AD/Megazine at the moment (what was that daft superhero thing drawn by Kev O'Neill?). Jazz it up with new fresh covers and price at ?1.20, and REALLY push the Alien Editor angle. Call it "2000AD presents..."(in small letters) "THRILLPOWER" (in BIG letters) or something snazzier (what do I know, I only draw).

Hmm... Zarjaz would be a great title...

It's important that something like that look sufficiently like 2000AD that people will draw a connection (hence the "2000AD Presents...") but sufficiently different that it will be recognised as a kids comic (hence the larger size+larger font and the pushing of Tharg).

While a new reprint title (especially one which is using recoloured artwork - sacrilige!) won't draw the current readership over to it (unless theres something in it they really want) I don't think 2000AD /as it is/ now can attract the younger reader (or even the older reader buying for their sprog), so why not a new title /aimed/ at the younger reader?

- pj

Yeah, but until the media can tie 2000AD into Al Queda we're safe.

I've already heard one American commentator saying the shootings were a terrorist act - by instilling terror on people (not by being a memebr of any known terrorist group) and that the American Dept of Homeland Security (is it only me that shudders at that name?) should deal with it as if it were a terrorist.

-pj

That's a respectable looking dredd (granted it's so small it might be difficult to tell) have you done any artwork since? And if so, where can we find it?

-pj

Ages ago, I was gonna do a think where I had different elements of Dredd's uniform drawn by different artists that could be assembled in a Frankenstien way using shockwave, anyone wanna do that?

Also, is it only me, but didn't Dredd's elbow pads used to fluctuate between gold and green in the early days?

-pj

I'll pretend to be disinterested, but really I'm loving the attention :)

The general consensus seems to be: not great/perfect, but an improvement on your previous strip. This is good :) I've years left in me. And I'm not worried about people disliking the dredd because, as PVS and others have pointed out, he's changed every panel - I haven't quite got him sorted in my head yet. In my mind Dredd has a large physical presence which tends to equate (to me) to an overly muscular type - which I'm trying to fix, it's how to reconcile imposing with skinny - Bolland does a great Dredd, but there's no point in pretending I can draw like him.

Let's talk about me some more, dammit!

-pj

hmm... dredd is a difficult character to draw (at least for me)- how to draw him so that he looks different from the other judges without drawing him like you're trying to riff off the classic dredds?

As far as mutant chins go; people are far stranger looking than you might expect.

Wasn't there a Dredd where someone disguised themselves as Dredd by wearing an artificial chin?

- pj

 

Extreme Extremeties.

The longest and fingers and toes on tv.

-pj

Tooth has been in use on the alt.comics.2000ad newsgroup for years.

- pj