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Black Light almost became a TV show. A TV pilot was in pre-production (I think). It was years back when the Dredd movies 'Possession' and 'Reckoning' were being spoken about. I seem to recall something about Rogue Trooper and a German production company too.

Googling as I post, I find that the Black Light show is mentioned by a former Tharg here:

http://viciousimagery.blogspot.ie/2007/02/28-days-of-2000-ad-151-dark-bish-op-pt.html

...maybe the Rogue Trooper thing was a dream. I also recall owning a pet unicorn at the time.

After his home town is threatened, maverick cop, I mean starship captain, James T. Kirk and his offbeat yet trusty crew of companions face a blah blah that blah blah but things become personal when blah blah blah. This Spring, set your phasers to aaaaaweeeesome. 'Funny' banter and action set pieces ahoy! Star Trek - Trek Hard! In 3D!

The philosophical and analogous elements of Star Trek were absent from the last movie and seem to be staying gone, judging from this teaser to the teaser's teaser teaser or whatever this is supposed to be.

Unlike Star Trek but like much current popular American storytelling, this looks to be another tale of threat and destruction instead of exploration and discovery. Instead of 'boldly going' it looks like the Enterprise crew are coming back to restore the status quo of the U.S. (and maybe London and other Occidental hubs of 'civilisation') from an outside threat and/or malcontent. This looks like Star Trek as Batman or GI Joe. Are the crew of the Enterprise 'special ops' now?

I wonder why U.S. popular culture likes to flirt with the concept of its own immolation so much. I wonder is there a panic room on the Enterprise.

To me, this doesn't look aaaaawwwesome it looks tiresome but, as I said, I'm just going on the last movie (which, central trio of the main cast aside, I did not like) and this teaser of the teaser's teaser teaser or whatever the fu...

NO! NO! NO! please let the Angel gang go, move on pleeeease

^^^ This.  Mean Machine has had his day.  Let him move on; he's already come back from the dead.  And let's never mention the rest of the Gang again.  They died in the fire-pits when Dredd threw them in.  Didn't they, everyone?

Normally I'd agree. I am sick of the 'thanks for the memories" self-celebration that seems to be dominating so much of genre stuff these days and I prefer new ideas and directions.

However, Mean Machine is not quite dead and, for the sake of once again experiencing the particular hilarious carnage that only he can dispense, I'd be very happy to see him back. He's my exception. He'd have to cause carnage though. Utter carnage. Appalling shocking and unreasonable cranial carnage.

(breaks stealth mode again to add tuppence)

It would be nice to see Mean Machine somehow return to his old self and headbutt the bejesus out of the place. I miss him. It's been too long.

As for Anderson, the seeds of misanthropy in her head could be manipulated by Death (this could psychically be a way in for him). She wouldn't have to go the whole hog and become a villain but she could be duped into unwittingly assisting Death somehow (perhaps even by just not making herself available) and feel responsible and...

...oh I don't know. I'll leave it to Wagner and I'm sure it will be very satisfying.

One thing I think is true though. As far as I can recall, Anderson is the only living person Death has ever shown a genuine interest in - because she's wrecked things for him so often. It's personal between the two and she has to figure in Death's return and not sit it out like Chaos Day.

While I'd love to see more S&S, I really can't see where it woud fit into modern TV schedule - It was an anomaly even back then, when you could "just about" get away with taking months to tell a single story. 

It would require such a reboot in terms of pacing and atmosphere that I'm not sure what would be left.... though I wouldn't be totally against someone trying (so long as PJ Hammond was on board in some way)

They could have lots of sassy banter between Sapphire and Steel with the odd in joke about the original series to keep the geeks happy. The music could be Harry Potterish cinema score type stuff. It could be Twin Peaks meets Hollyoaks with not so much of the Twin Peaks ...or any weird atmospheric weirdness type stuff (that's old hat).

Steel could call Sapphire 'Sapphy' and she could call him 'Mr. Steely Wheely'.

Why does the Sgt. Streetwise thing I can't bring myself to read have to take up 16 pages? (18 if you include the less visually ...um ...experimental intro).

To overcome an obstacle in Doctor Who all you have to do is think positive. "I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies" or "I don't believe in killer snowmen and doll type monsters or any of those things". It's a simple solution and always works and the dads and mums and boys and girls and kitties and puppies of Great Britain all give a rousing cheer and wipe away happy tears as the music swells and "everyone lives" or maybe someone dies ....kind of.

I expect Rhonda Byrne is the scientific consultant. She may as well become show runner at this rate.

I think Oprah Winfrey would probably make a good Doctor.


Jenny, Vastra, and Strax are a good laugh at least.

Nearly as good as The Booth at the End.

Hello.

I was lurking, reading this thread. I didn't know what you were talking about with this Booth at the End thing so I checked it out. Jovis, tis good. I'm glad you mentioned it.

I will be getting stuck into the second series of American Horror Story soon of course.

Very interesting interview. He talks about everything! Cheers for posting the link.

I hope all evidence of revenue generated from this venture is submitted to National Comics Management Agency going forward.

I am looking forward to purchasing this and Mr. Nolan's cover is very nice. 

Rare post here but, I've always found humour to permeate 2000AD. Dredd is still often funny and one of the funniest things I've ever read in 2000AD (well, the Meg actually but allow me that) was Al Ewing's story last Christmas. The touchy mutants in the barn were f**kin great.

3D ...bah. Everything else seems very agreeable though. Dredd is great source material for any film. The choice in villains alone is incredible. All those choices have already been made of course, with the script written. We can only await and salivate.

Fair dues to all involved.

Windell Comics presents a recently unearthed episode of Windell favourite THE HAT (Beneath his Brim Lies the Fate of Felons). Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9EUQnHGKoM

www.windellcomics.com

A small press struggler's two cents:

Taking advice from screenwriters is relevant in my opinion. Screenplays and comic scripts are both basically instructions for visual mediums. You are describing a picture for someone else to make.

I can't stand comics with over blown narrative panels (usually filled with bad prose and/or unneeded exposition). They remind me of movies with irritating and unnecessary voice-overs.

The Show Don't Tell rule is often repeated because it's true. The audience like to process the information themselves. The cognitive process is stimulating. Info dump dialogue and narrative panels are boring. In the Brooker programme someone says that he'd rather be confused for ten mins than bored for an hour. While the most important thing is to remain coherent, I reckon temporary confusion is preferable to boredom.

...but then again, I don't want to be overly prescriptive either. I just think it's a basic in writing for visual media that is worth pointing out. There are always exceptions to the rule. 

Hello Squaxx,

Sample pages/images from Windell's publication can be found at...

http://downthetubes.ning.com/photo/album/show?id=887566%3AAlbum%3A19626

Thank you.