Alex Ronald?

[The Amstor Computer]

Anyone know whether he'll be contributing to Tooth anymore? Nice, clean & clear artwork - love to see some more.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

been wondering that myself, blackblood. love to see him back, he was the best thing about lawman of the future.

i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible

[The Amstor Computer]

Mmm. I'm rereading Missionary Man: Goin' South just now, and his art is gorgeous. It isn't always suited to the strips he's worked on (Sin/Dex & Rogue Trooper spring to mind) but he clicks perfectly on Dredd & MM.

He and D'Israeli are the two artists I'd most like to see returning to 2000AD - Mike McMahon aside, of course ;-)

[O Lucky Stevie!]

ever since first encountering d'israeli in deadline i've always wished to see his take on dredd.

i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible

[The Amstor Computer]

I imagine D'Israeli's take on MC1 would be quite something. I'd like to see him let loose writing & illustrating a few one-off Dredds - something in the style of Citizen Snork, looking at the weird side of life in the Meg.

[stodge]

i'm probably going to get shot to bits for this but here goes anyway.  i think McMahon is overated....there, i said it!  i have just read Howler in the Megazine and the art is complete crap.  i struggled to read the story as Mcmahon seems to have left his roots from the earlier dredd to a more picasso look were everything seems to have bee drawn with a ruler and bears no resembelance to the human form whatsoever.  it all angles and bright colours and looks a bloody mess.  i agree that his earlier work was good (but by no means my favourite) but his seems to have dwindled to impressionism as his ego has gotten bigger.  i await your insults eagerly :o)

[Oddboy]

I said something along those lines a while back & apparently I was wrong & uncultured.
I like his old stuff but Howler was rubbish.

[stodge]

thanks for the support.  what happened to the dead girl then?

[Oddboy]

The answer is complex and not very convincing but you all read 2000AD so you'll believe anything, so here goes:

I'm a clone of Dead Oddboygirl whose personality was, just prior to its untimely demise, recorded onto a bio-chip which has now been inserted into my new cloned brain - therefore restoring me to my former lively self.
I droped the 'girl' part because Oddgirl is a nonscrot & is unlikely to ever visit this site so our gestult entity guise was slightly misleading.

It seems that death is just as complicated as life.

[stodge]

Err, right then.  i'm an engineer, i'll believe most things really......

[philb]

I doubt Alex will return to comics,
hes now a 3D computer artist in Glasgow.
He gave me a couple of original pages
of MM art when we worked together.
Very under-rated artist...

[JTurner]

Alex always seemed to get the worst of it on the input page in 2K. I hated his work on Rogue Trooper and Vector 13, it was just too static and inexpressive. Going South was good, but I could never really get into his work.

I'd love to see more D'Israeli too. Lazarus Churchyard really got me interested in his work. Other than a bit of Sandman, though, I can't seem to find much that he's done (pardon my ignorance), anyone know what he's up to now?

[GordonR]

Well, Disraeli was working for Cool Beans, but they went bust last week, so who knows where he'll pop up next.

Oh, and I think Alex Ronald's stuff was generally bloody atrocious.  Can't draw faces so you couldn't distinguish one character from another, bodies are always just lumpen shapes, no movement or dynamism in his lines at all, and always either going in too close in things so that sometimes you weren't sure what you were actually looking at, or going the opposite way and pulling back too far so that you weren't getting a good look at what was going on in the panel.  A bit of an all-round disaster, really.

[Tex Hex]

Milo, you're right.

[JTurner]

Cool Beans has gone bust?!

They were good, but were too ahead of their time, media wise. Sad, though.