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Mucho gracias, sheridan - handy to know where to find those stories.
Still hoping for a collected graphic novel, but question is - would it sell as well among the other 2000ad stuff?

As much as I like some of the stories (the ones illustrated by Ian Gibson, Eric Bradbury, Carlos Ezquerra and Massimo Belardinelli spring to mind), I suspect not...

6. Check out Brian Jenkins in the same video.  There's the man to play Dredd right there!  He'd have to lose the beard of course, or otherwise he could just be seen from behind or in silhouette at the periphery of the action.

Nah, it's fine - Dredd has a beard, see?

The vibe I'm getting is 'Gotham' but in the Dreddverse (hopefully better though).

Gotham - wasn't one of the producers on that Danny Cannon?  I wonder if he'd be free to develop the Dredd TV series? ;-)

If it is being filmed in the UK, chances are that it'll be in Belfast. HBO will have no further need for the massive studios they used for Game of Thrones. Besides, Belfast was already in the opening sequence of Dredd. The place is practically Mega City One at times.

?  The producers of Game of Thrones are considering four different follow-up series to Game of Thrones (ideas on what these could be generally centre around prequels - Barratheon's rebellion, tales of the rise of the Targaryens, etc).

For grud's sake is this thing not on yet, it feels like it's been ages...

There's only two names I want to see attached to this. Much excitement!

Karl and Urban?  Or Wagner and Ezquerra?

Stories, featuring a list of reprints (I suspect the reprints list is not exhaustive).

Just watched Spaced for the second time over the past couple days, so damn good! Been a good decade or more since I first watched it. Give Nick Frost every role, he's so damn good, make him the next Doctor. Everybody is great on that.

Any comedies in the ballpark of as creative/clever/great as that in the past fifteen years? It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the next best I can think of. I've heard Black Books is good, haven't checked that out yet.

I live around the corner from the Spaced house (and not too far from the Shaun of the Dead house as well).


Main claim to (reflected) fame though is that the Territorial Army ground where they filmed the Robot Wars episode is behind my house.  Can't see into the parade ground due to high walls and trees, but we can hear the cadet forces doing drills.  The ground is supposedly vacated by the T.A. but they're still drilling on the parade ground.

Didn't know of a Southers gathering. I figured I could pop into Hope & Anchor and would no doubt find Southers but I had to dash off as was meeting some other folks for a meal. Guess I should get into FB to stay in the loop.

...or just assume if there's a 2000AD-droid-heavy signing at a central London comic shop, there'll also be a gathering.

Like this?  Stops at Volume 25.

Hello all - thought I'd pop by to answer a few questions.

Trapper Hag didn't die. He escaped the Iso Cubes but was then recaptured by Dredd in the two-part Revenge of trapper Hag waaaaaaaay back in 1999.

The extent and size of the FCBD prog was dictated to us by the FCBD committee.

Kei Zama is a she.

Thanks for going out and picking up our 2017 offering.

Thanks, Robo-K33F!

fairly good issue i mean the only actual complaint i had was the odd pirates of the caribbean ad shoved in there for no reason (especially since it has the american name of it and not the uk name) but thats just how good this issue is when thats my only nitpick

I thought that was a good thing - we're used to internal Rebellion ads (which may or may not be cross-charged), but an external ad means someone is paying Tharg to advertise.

Gee thanks, Foxy.

Anyway, time to get your dibbers out...

Bit cold out for that sort of thing, isn't it?

It's programme.

yup:

I hadn't realized that was on the very first cover... was it also the last, before shortening it to "prog"?

It was changed from programme to prog on the cover with prog 13.

Has anybody mentioned Dash Decent, Bonjo and the Walter the Wobot one-page strips to pad out a Hewligan's Haircut / Sooner or Later mega-collection?

It's funny how "reprints" started out as such a good thing when a reader was young and new to comics, way back before trade paperbacks was really even a product category, but after a reader became one of the cognoscenti, a comics insider with an awareness of what's going on in the marketplace, "reprints" became a dirty word ("PFAH! ... reprints !"), and then once you become an older veteran, "reprints" are like meeting an old friend again.

I didn't know any other comic readers when I was a kid, so for me the reprints at the time were Titan and Eagle, which were both good quality reprints by people who obviously took care in their product.  Later on, Quality and Maxwell's Fleetway handled reprints, where quality (small 'q') took a nosedive.  I now live in typical pokey London quarters, and so can only really afford space-wise to keep originals (though make occasional exceptions for good quality reprints with additional material, or for something where it really is more convenient to have something in one package).