Pat Mills on Dan Dare

[JOE SOAP]

and get Pat Mills or Mike Carroll to write the conclusion with Gibbons on art.

[Steve Green]

Bob the Galactic Bum?

Seems like too much bodging to make it worthwhile, especially with all the tiptoeing around the Mekon - they could always stick a Readers Wives-style Black Bar over his face like they did in another story where he made a cameo appearance.

It would be nice to know if anyone has actually approached the licence holders though - I'd expect the Dare fans they appeal to don't value the 2000AD incarnation anyway.

[maryanddavid]

This was the approach that led the Megazine to reprint the Wagner/Grant/Ezquerra strip (forget the title). Lobo was redrawn and renamed Asbo.

Very different, Wagner Grant and Ezquerra own the material, and Lobo 'was a guest under licence'

What is proposed here is something like Titan reprinting Shako and renaming him Wooly, removing all references to 2000ad, and not bothering to get permission to use the art. Do you think Rebellion would be happy?

If it is used for review or comment, that is different, but that would only be for a small amount of material, an eighty page reprint with a 'jesus, that belardinellis art is class' would be taking the piss.

DDC own Dan Dare, the Eagle, The 2000ad version, and all the different New Eagle Dan Dare stories art and characters, except for stories that originated in a different comic, like Death Wish and 13th Floor.

David

[Large48]

Quick Fact of the Day..........

DD corp wanted 80% (yes 80%) as a license fee..............

So it basically doubles the price of everything!!!!!!!!

[Steve Green]

Seriously overestimating his market value.

[g2525]

I did a conclusion to the Dan Dare "Traitor" story.  I created it in 6 episodes (24 pages in black and white artwork).  I used the Dave Gibbons style.  You can view this at my website: http://www.gavinaslett.co.uk
- select Pencils.  I have sent the whole piece to 2000AD who did not seem interested.  I would value any feedback.  For the record I bought 2000AD regularly from the age of 7 (prog 9) and Dan Dare was the main reason I bought it.  A lot of people seem to not recognise that Dan Dare launched the comic and I consider the Belardenelli series to be one of the greatest the comic has witnessed.  The Dave Gibbons series was very captivating as well.  Most of the people at school I went to were into 2000AD's Dan Dare and Judge Dredd did not really get popular until The Cursed Earth series in Prog 60.  Dan Dare was badly treated by 2000AD and still does deserve a conclusion.  I can't stand all these Eagle Dan Dare fanatics who pompously criticize the 2000AD Dan Dare version.  It's a generational thing and the 2000AD Dan Dare reflected the 1970s kids were growing up in - hence that is why it appealled to me.  I like the 1950's Eagle version but it is part of another nostalgic age.  Worse still I can't stand all these 2000AD revisionists who never bought the comic in the beginning who tell us how awful Dan Dare was in 2000AD.  2000AD today is not the comic it was and frankly could acknowledge Dan Dare's contribution not only because it is just very disrespectful to the artists who gave the comic so much i.e. Massimo Belardenelli and Dave Gibbons.

[g2525]

You can view also a report on my conclusion to 2000AD's Dan Dare here:

http://stormcomicsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/more-2000ad-dan-dare.html

[g2525]

Sorry it was actually 32 pages I created

[Leigh S]

I'll, have to read that!  Did you stick to the original storyline as it was meant to pan out ([spoiler]Sondar(?) time travelling and all to save Dan from the accident that makes future Dan?[/spoiler])

[Leigh S]

I dont think the comic is currently disrespectful of its past.. if anything you might argue its too reverential! (though I wouldnt) - I think that if the Dan Dare corp didnt have such a nonsense licencing fee, (see above in thread) Rebellion would be only too happy to finish off Dare - if only to make the many pages of Gibbons art saleable as a collection....