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You may know Noel Clarke from such TV shows as Doctor Who and variously writing, acting, directing Kidulthood, Adulthood, Brotherhood, Bulletproof, 4,3,2,1, Fishermen's Friends.


Now he's interested in working with 2000AD...


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I want my company
@UnstoppableLtd to have rights, for a chance to make a show with a current or new 2000AD black character. We are established and real and can develop the show with you. how's that?

2000AD Prog 298: "Death to the enemies of East-Meg One!" The Last Invader

Some of my favourite characters to only make single-story appearances arrive on the scene...

Funt has dredged up strips I never knew existed - there was another Mean Arena? Quaequam blag!

I have read it, but so completely forgot about it that I only now know about it from threads such as this.  I (unfortunately) remember the reboot of Harlem Heroes but don't even know if this Mean Arena is a reboot or continuation of the proper Mean Arena.

We so need a new Henry Moon psychic panther comic strip.  And the previous appearances of the character have both been from different creative teams so hopefully there won't be any legacy issues...

All the abandoned space-based 2000AD heroes should team up imo. Henry Moon, Harry 20, Dan Dare, the Visible Man, Lorna Varn, maybe some Colony Earth dudes! All those guys!

Fox - if you're seeing this then stop reading now!

Henry Moon can go to that jungle planet that [spoiler]the High Rock landed on[/spoiler].

Here's a couple of clippings from an interview he did in M323 (2012), where Calum Waddell is asking the questions:

What's M323?

Yeah, that's it. Amazing how evocative a simple photo of a house can be. Looks like I lived at no. 15, even the colours of the bay windows remain the same. But residential streets don't change much. A while ago someone posted a video of Sheffield city centre how it is now and I hardly recognised the place.

You may think that but the former residences I looked at had changed a lot - one had been knocked down and replaced by a block of flats (and a soulless place it looked too), while the area around another had been pedestrianised and (pedestrian) alleyways had been closed off.

So this is never going to happen. Never. It was an interesting idea & may have been good.

Oh?  What new information do you have?

Google Street View is your friend.  Had a look at some of the old places I'd lived the other day - they've changed considerably more than that area of Sheffield has!

We so need a new Henry Moon psychic panther comic strip.  And the previous appearances of the character have both been from different creative teams so hopefully there won't be any legacy issues...

Joganov - that's one for the 'things you never realised thread'

Cheers Funt!

A familiar tale Sheridan. I'm conscious that this lockdown could be looked back on as a missed opportunity by many and that's why I was keen to try something to focus my ambitions and be accountable to them.

I'm glad to have finished my exams a year ahead of schedule and I'll always look back on the qualification as one good thing that came out of the pandemic.

I keep trying to refocus so that I don't come out of the pandemic as a fat(ter) alcoholic with a bad haircut!

Good luck with your endeavours!

Thanks - I've got 'unofficial' targets of sorting my way through a lifetime's collection of collections (I'm sure many reading this know what I mean) and I've managed to spend some of the time doing that.  This means I've unearthed pieces of artwork I've not seen for years, though also even more as-yes-unread things :-)

As others have said - seriously impressed by completing exams a year early!

[Lose Weight]

I accept this is very self indulgent and you are of course more than welcome to ignore this thread. It would be fun though if anyone fancied joining me in this journey of self improvement and posted their progress also.

Lose Weight : The NHS tells me this:

Healthy weight range for your height: 10st 4lb - 13st 13lbYour health would really benefit from gradually losing just 5% of your current weight. The best way to lose weight is through a combination of diet and exercise.  Aim to lose 11lbsRecommended daily calorie intake: 2051 - 2637 kcal.  To lose 1-2lbs a week stick to the lower end of the range.

I appear not to have noted my starting weight, which doesn't help.

Update Blogs regularly : as luck would have it, I also have a blog that I need to keep updating regularly.prog slog hack and prog slog hack forum thread

Yep, been doing that and keeping to a daily schedule.

Get a Letter Printed - I've not had anything published yet (I think I've sent in a total of about 10 letters and/or emails over the past 35 years) so if I send a letter a week perhaps the constant drip, drip, drip will force Tharg to print one just to shut me up?

No letters written, no letters published.

My original one: Draw or write something at least once a week :

Not done brilliantly on this one, barely created anything if the back prog hack is excluded (which it is as it's its own target).

I've come up with a fifth one Read all the unread comics and graphic novels I've got lying around.

Really should get started on that one - no progress since Overture.  Had been reading new comics and old progs, but nothing in between.

Checking Wikipedia I see I have some catching up to do with 14 trades so far.

Fourteen is your lot — that's entire run, including (I think) the holiday specials. If you enjoy it, John is, as always, running his own webcomics, links to which you will find here.

Be aware that the Steeple webcomic is a sequel to the five-issue Dark Horse mini-series of the same name, which is great, albeit rather different in subject matter — a new Church of England curate arrives in a small Cornish town where the CofE vies directly with the Church of Satan for the souls of the community and any number of monstrous beasties haul themselves out of the sea at regular intervals. All of which sounds terribly serious, but is approached with John's usual charm and wit.

Serious?  Sounds like a cross between Mr Pye and original run Doctor Who to me*.




* I don't need to specify that's a good thing, do I?

2000AD Prog 297: "Drokk! The rad-beast's been sucked into the fancy dress parade!"

Two weeks ago: Lim-ees seem like normal soldiers.  Twist!  They're not!
One week ago: an independent sub-sect of Lim-ees seem like normal soldiers.  Twist!  They're not!
This week: that independent sub-sect of Lim-ees seem like normal soldiers (despite dressing funny).  Twist!  They're not!

A quick glance suggests three of the things that first appeared in White Dwarf were later repackaged for the Companion (upthread) - counting that epic adventure as 'one thing'.