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[Smokatorium]

You'll find me in the Smokatorium 24/7 - I'm a hopeless nico-junkie!

Absolutely superb work!

[Edmund Woodward]

Oh - and just to clear up some potential confusion over my last post:

The movie Dredd helmet was sculpted up by Edmund Woodward and I found the photos during a google search.  It is not my work!

I have made a Dredd helmet from scratch (see my avatar) and my blog covers how I did it - but that particular blog entry on the movie helmet at www.GuruMog.tumblr.com is referring to someone else's work!

...although...

...I would have happily made the movie props for, I imagine, a fraction of what Mr Woodward charged! 

My blog has grown to cover all things Dredd... coz I love the Judge!

[probably]

Here's a much better look at what is probably the helmet being worn by Karl urban (or Paul Hampshire). This picture can be found on my blog post here: http://gurumog.tumblr.com/post/2173966870/dreddmoviehelmet complete with an explanation as to where I found the photos.

I managed to get my Judge Mental costume finished in time for Halloween and took to the streets of Worcester on Saturday night dispensing Justice (and some lollypops).  My friends Steve and Nicki kitted themselves out in Movie versions of the costume and hilarity ensued.

I'd guess that 75% of the party-people we met that night immediately recognised the character and wanted to talk about 2000ad in general and Dredd in particular.  A handful thought I was RoboCop, Iron Man or a Jedi - but, hey.  Good times!

Some piccies:











I was also handing out this Justice Department Propaganda with the URL for 2000ad Online and this forum printed on the back;


The costume needs some patching up now as it took a few knocks in the crowded pubs and clubs, but I hope to wear it to Memorabilia at the NEC at the end of November.

Reckon I need a bigger gun though... 

Brilliant website - really enjoyed reading through it all.  I've bookmarked it as a favorite of mine! 

Brilliant work so far!  Yeah, Stallone did have a nice hand cannon despite the general duffness of the movie.

For Halloween I just painted my Lightgun up (badly) - and blogged about it here:
http://gurumog.tumblr.com/post/1248276543

But I think that I'm going to have a bash myself at this, following your instructions here.  Would love to take a look at your blog too, but the link above doesn't seem to be working at the mo.

When I started reading 2000ad, my mate in school told me that Dredd was a clone of Fargo a good two years before "A Case For Treatment". I'd assumed that it had been revealed in an earlier story that I hadn't read.

Now I realise that he'd tried to bullshit me and got incredibly lucky.

Heh heh.  Yeah, worldshown, I think I remember you from the school playground! 

[Izzat so?!]

Izzat so?!
Amazing how the memory can cheat 26 years after the fact.  I guess it was a 12-week-out-of-date back-prog I was running around with as a kid in the school yard...
For the record; in which prog was the connection made between Dredd and Fargo?  Was it Prog 389's A Case for treatment?

[Judge Dredd]

Example of Judge Dredd drawn sans helmet over the years;


Prog 0262 - The Apocalypse War - art by Carlos Ezquerra.


Prog 0515 - The Shooting Party - art by John Cooper


Prog 0573 - Hitman - art by Jim Baikie


Prog 0626 - In the Bath - art by Jim Baikie


Prog 0660 - Deadman - art by John Ridgeway


Prog 0661 - Deadman - art by John Ridgeway
Actually, in the Deadman strip, and for some of the sequel story Necropolis Dredd is seen frequently without his helmet but is horrifically burnt so we don't see his real face.


Prog 0662 - Tale of a Deadman - art by Will and Wendy Simpson.


Prog 1022 - Darkside - art by Paul Marshall.


Prog 1246 - The Chief Judge's Man - art by Will Simpson.


Prog 1610 - Whole New Judge Dredd - art by David Roach.


Prog 1674 - The Talanted Mayor Ambrose - art by John Higgins.
This is actually Rico, but he is Dredd's clone...


Megazine 243 - Warzone - art P.J.Holden.

There's probably more instances out there of Joe showing his face, but these were the instances that immediately came to mind when I read this thread.
I remember reading prog 377 as a kid and thinking it incredibly cool and sneaky of Ron Smith to so blatantly draw a portrait of Fargo after so many years of keeping Joe Dredd's true face an enigma... I went running around the school yard showing all my fellow 2000ad fans and saying "Look! That's what Dredd looks like underneath his helmet; he's a clone of this guy!"
Did anyone else make the connection at the time?  I'm all the more chuffed now to find out via this thread that Fargo's face was based on Wagner! :-)

[yours."]

I'm loving the Dredd story;

Great artwork and beautifully coloured.

Justice Dept Snipers picking off perps from a mile away is a brutal and sinister concept to bring to Dredd lore...excellent!

A female Judge that actually wears while her helmet on duty is almost a novelty!

Also liking Dredd's exploiting of the Mega City Press to get his message across and seeing him stand and deliver his speil to a camera is quite novel too; "Blocks are chosen at random. Next one could just as easily be yours."

Skinner himself, obviously, is straight out of Silence of the Lambs - but why not?  And I strongly suspect Wagner will build on his "Tooth Fariy" homage and twist it into something new and disturbing as the story continues.

There's a lot to love about The Skinning Room and some fresh, new ideas and concepts there wrapped up in the familiar plotline.  Great stuff!

I'll have to settle down later and read the rest of the Prog...!

Prog 239; the final page of Nemesis the Warlock that week...

WOW!  It was such awe-inspiring art that I bought two copies of that week's prog, one to read and one to carry around at school to show all my friends - a fair number of them became 2000ad readers on the strength of that single image alone.

I can't imagine brilliant works like Marshall Law or ...Extraordinary Gentlemen making anywhere near as great an impression upon me had they been illustrated by another artist.  I love his work; always have, always will.

Oh, hey - you're The Celler of Dredd Guy!

I found your blog a few days ago (before joining this board) and bookmarked it.  Really a great blog, enjoyed reading it. 

Ta, mate! All my own work!  You reckon Tharg will give me a job?