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Four pages of lettering tips?

I think you've taken my suggestion a little out of context, I meant it as part of a 'how to' section...

Think I'd rather have 4 pages of paint samples. No disrespect to Jim or any other letterers out there but I think that idea is more pish than niche!

...but that kind of proves my point I think. Even the concept of four pages of 'how to' spread across writing, art/colouring, lettering et cetera would be deemed boring by a large proportion of the readership - despite it's intrinsic relevance to the artform... don't get me wrong, I understand that and expect nothing more, comics are for reading.

The bottom line is that there has to be 20 pages of filler to make the Meg economically viable

Agreed.

You can't please all of the people all of the time, and I was merely trying to illustrate a pitfall of replacing a tenuously placed feature with a more relevant but potentially less palatable alternative.

How about Inception's Eames - Tom Hardy?

You know, CradleGrave is twelve parts, so that's still an ok page count... '13' was eleven parts, and that got collected, albeit in a reasonably small book. I Don't know if there's a couple of one off's that would work with it (can't think of any), and Dead Eyes is probably too long [spoiler]also, it's part of the Indigo Prime world[/spoiler] so I doubt that will be making up the pages... other than that I think there's a four part Dredd from a couple of years ago.

Although, let's not forget, this book is slated for an October 2011 release, so who knows, TMO might have just received a script form John that'd fill the book out just perfectly... a second series perhaps?

[Johnny]

Just some thoughts really:

Johnny: Robert Pattinson/Noah Huntley/James McAvoy

Wulf: Dolph Lungren/Owen Wilson/Sean Bean

Middenface: Daniel Craig/Kevin McKidd

Durham Red: Megan Fox

The Gronk: Warwick Davis

I'd rather have something more relevant in the Meg, but I can see why the Movie review is a simple thing to manage.

There is a hell of a lot of overlap between themes being dealt with in comics in general and to a certain extent within 2000ad and the Meg and the films being made... perhaps I'd be more interested if there was greater synergy between the current content of the comics I'm reading and those things being reviewed... as an example, perhaps re-reviewing the many werewolf movies (and other media) whilst Age Of the Wolf was running? That would need organising and careful commissioning though... so I can see why a more general movie review is what ends up being printed.

I'm not sure what the average is, but it looks like about 20 pages a month are non-strip (including ads, editorial etc.). I like the variety, and I'm not sure what filling those pages with anything else would do, I can certainly see controversy with the introduction of any new format or approach.

I'd like to see the small press return, but I know that's from a selfish point of view and I also know it wasn't very well received when it was tried before.
I'd also welcome other feature articles to do with the comics medium... there is a wealth of knowledge out there, but I am sure there would be complaints about even  four pages given over to a 'how to' column... even if the remit were broad from writing tips, to something like Jim Campbell's lettering tutorials... I'd like to see concept art and process stuff... hell even something like Pete Well's cover blog would make interesting reading if expanded a little in it's remit.

I can see that anything that's not strip is going to be a bit little niche though and will be passed over by a good proportion of the readership.

[you]

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I like it. I can't afford it, but I like it!

I mean this as no disrespect to Clint Langley, but I'd like to see ABC Warriors and Sláine drawn by other people, even if it's only from time to time.

You can accuse me of wanting that for opportunistic reasons and I'll happily admit to that, but I also think it would be healthy and help create a bit of fresh enthusiasm on thrills that are possibly being perceived as a little 'tired'.

I'd welcome a bit more variety across many of the thrills in fact, and it's not that I don't like an artist to sort of 'belong' to a series (especially if they were part of the creative team responsible for that thrill), but I know that if I'd drawn 500 pages of the same thing, my enthusiasm wouldn't necessarily be what it might once have been...

A change is as good as a rest, so they say.

1. Dounreay 1
2. Dandontdare 1
3. Richmond Clements

Good find! Thanks for sharin'!

What a great picture. 

I think it's really great. Well done Leigh, hope it did the trick!

1st - Pete Wells
2nd - Kev Levell
3rd - Lady Festina
4th - Uncle Umpty
5th - George Moore
6th - Dunk Nimmo
7th - CrazyFoxMachine
8th - Johnnystress
9th - Dandontdare
10th - Greg M.
11th - Buttonman
12th - Mike Carroll
13th - Locustsofdeath!
14th - CraveNoir
15th - Emperor (and artist?)
16th - Neil Ford
17th - Van Dom
18th - LARF
19th - Bhuna
20th - TLS
21st - Gavin_Leahy
22nd - Colin_YNWA
23rd - Radiator
24th - EVERYONE plus the pros!

So, full in less than a day... and I can think of quite a few people who will still want to take part as well... time to start doubling up the days then!

Loving the latest batch of entries - lots of fun!

That's great also... I particularly liked seeing the work in progress shots!