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Does Durham age, normally, or is she immortal?

Reference to a damn fine Clint Eastwood movie as well. Probably the first of Eastwood's "subverting the genre" westerns, and its from 1968!

I have so much time for Clint Eastwood.

I always thought that clint would have made a great Dredd.

But, no. They gave us Stallone, instead...

Well, I'm also very new... but welcome! 

Seems like a pretty cool forum, here. 

If you think of all the US comics we see in UK or Ireland, none of them, to my knowledge, are weekly.

I know that Marvel have two branches - Marvel US and Marvel UK. Marvel UK put out a few titles - Avengers, Spiderman etc. They collect some of the US stories and put them out monthly as a collection, alongside a 'classic' tale. Perhaps 2000AD would be best with a similar approach in the US, putting out Dredd stories, or SD stories, in a monthly collection, along with a classic story...

I suspect that the Johnny Alpha that died at the end of The Final Solution will not turn out to have been a Skrull agent all along .

hahah! 

But wouldn't it be jaw-droppingly funny... if he was a Skrull agent?

Thanks, again, for the info, Radiator. You certainly know your stuff, man.

I'll be sure to add those issues/ GNs you mentioned to my 'buy-then-hide-from-girlfriend' list

Thanks for that, Radiator.

I'm loving the futuristic DR stories, at the moment, having picked up 2 of the 3 GNs. I guess her earlier stories, with SD, would be collected in the SD case files?

As I've mentioned before, I'm returning to 2000AD after a 20 year break. I remember enjoying Dredd, SD and Rogue Trooper, back in the day. It was all edgy stuff to be reading as a kid, and very engaging. I'm just glad the newer stuff still holds up, now, when I'm older.

I never caught SD's death and so wouldn't be as affected by a rewrite of it, as much as some of you guys. However, I still feel that death in genre-land should mean death, otherwise you're going to get short-changed...

For example, I recently picked up the marvel civil war series, after writing off most of Marvel's output as being mediocre, at best, and infantile, at worst. Civil War, on the other hand, was ballsy. It shook the super hero world up in a very contemporary and engaging way, and I loved it. They killed Captain America, revealed Spidey's identity to the world, and had Tony Stark involved in some very messy politics. However, once the mist cleared, everything was put back to normal. Some magical mojo meant Spidey's identity became erased from the world's mind. Cap was, somehow, revived (the 'dead' cap being a Skrull agent, as I recall) yadda yadda. Now, I should have known better than to expect integrity from Marvel, after numerous characters had been killed off, then revived, through the years. But it was particularly disappointing, after such a classic and challenging storyline...

I hope, therefore, that whatever the SD writers do, they don't short change the fans...   

By the way, are the Strontium Dogs stories, post Alpha, available in GN form?

I'm currently loving the Durham Red GNs and would love to see more of her in 2000AD.

I wonder how limiting it is, for a story writer, to pen tales for a dead character in real time.

I mean, eventually Johnny's going to run out of time, isn't he?

Then again, the same thing is live for Dredd and Anderson and all of 2000AD's characters because they allow their characters to age with the rest of us... I guess Durham Red may be exempt, what with being a vampire?

They're going to be rereleased by his new publisher, so hang on in there.

Dave was kind enough to blurb my own book, Drop dead Gorgeous. He's a hell of a writer and a very cool guy, to boot.

I can't wait for Dog Blood.

I would suggest you pick up HATER by David Moody, the same guyt to write the book Autumn (the flim) was based on.

He's an excellent writer. 

Is that The Keep by Jennifer Egan?

Cool!

thanks, mate.

Ein Zwei Die!

Ah. I'm mistaken, then.