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shot in glorious handheld on location at Gosford Forest Park, Portadown.

I think you need to youtube that!

Man, I'd love to but I'm not sure where my VHS copy has gone.

I remember, vivdly, the looks of some of the Sunday walkers who passed by our ridiculous set. We had one guy, the tallest guy in our year, wrapped up in blue plastic bin bags. He was the predator. A talbot samba doubled up as a military Land Rover, some dude hanging out of its sun roof making 'duh-duh-duh' sounds as he waved his plastic machine gun about. Alcohol was involved. No expense was spared.

Halycon days.  

"Get to the choppahhhhh!"

"Donnie L'armour! Donnie L'armour! Give me da weapon!"

Aw, man... we had such fun with this movie when we were young lads. A gang of us from school got together over a couple of summers and made three 'unofficial' sequels, shot in glorious handheld on location at Gosford Forest Park, Portadown. 

The trailer looks cool. Good cast as well.   

The idea was that the name "Dan Dare" would be familiar to all the dads who grew up reading Eagle.

It certainly did work - my dad got me into Eagle when it was relaunched. Until then, little HOO-HAA was on a diet of exclusively US comics (Marvel and DC). I was introduced to 2000AD around the same time, as it happens. 

Indeed, 1982 was Eagle's relaunch.

From wikipedia:

'The Eagle was re-launched by IPC (later Fleetway) on March 27, 1982, aiming for the same quality end of the comic-reading market.[citation needed] The marketplace had matured considerably over the intervening years since the first Eagle, with readers seen as disenchanted by a largely stagnant boy's comic industry. John Purdie had recently revitalised photo stories (photographic-based strips) in Fleetway's girls comics, and this tactic was extended to create the relaunched Eagle's unique selling point; most of the early strips were produced in photographic form, extending the medium to include science fiction, football and westerns.

This second volume ran from March 1982 until January 1994, with several relaunches/incarnations, however the comic had become a monthly anthology by this point with little new material.'

A yank Dan Dare? Outrageous!

I remember Dan from the early 80s' reincarnation of Eagle. I loved those stories and didn't know, until recently, that 2000AD took Dare over since Eagle's second demise. How different is the 2000AD Dare? Are the stories collected?

think 2000ad Dare was actually in between Eagles. I'm sure the eagle relaunch was around 85.

I think it was more like 82 or 83. Wikipedia would most likely settle this for us...

But, wow... so the 2000AD Dare came before Eagle's relaunch?

The Eagle relaunch Dare was, of course, meant to be the (great?) grandson of the original Dan Dare. Likewise with the Digby character. 

A yank Dan Dare? Outrageous!

I remember Dan from the early 80s' reincarnation of Eagle. I loved those stories and didn't know, until recently, that 2000AD took Dare over since Eagle's second demise. How different is the 2000AD Dare? Are the stories collected?

I'm looking forward to seeing this. The original was released by Romero some time after NOTLD, as I recall. It was something of a forgotten gem, until now.

I'm now following all your sorry arses. 

Hell yeah! There could have been a queue building to kick his arse, were it a forum day-out... 

Hey PJ... thanks a lot for the heads-up on that! Hopefully it's fixed, now

As it happens, someone mentioned your name to me, yesterday, in Belfast's Forbidden Planet. I didn't know you were a fellow Belfastian!

Zowie Bowie. Would that be his other name?

Thats the one. I loved moon, and he is clearly passionate about the comic. He gets my vote to direct any 2000ad film he wants.

I absolutely loved MOON. It was one of the stand-out sci-fi flicks of last year. Brilliantly directed and acted.

I think Bowie Jnr would do a great 2000AD flick.

 

Consider yourself followed, good sir.

Anyone want to follow a semi-professional genre novelist?

http://twitter.com/HORRORHOO

One thing worth noting - 2000AD has obviously survived the 90s recession (albeit under a different publisher) and it's made it through the worst of this one, already... 

Wishing happy families to The Thargs!