History of Mega City One

Buddy · 28 May, 2002, 07:48:40 PM

Wasn't there a story started (in the Megazine I think) that was supposed to tell of the rise of the Mega Cities. I think we were going to get a definitive history of Mega City, formation of the Judges etc..

It may have been called THE BAD MAN, but I'm not sure... Anyway the story never got very far and I'm waiting to read the rest. Will this ever get finished??

A continuing story about the rise of the Judges, building MC1 would be great. It could involve may writers and artists producing stand alone stories that fall together to tell the bigger tale of the history of MC1 etc... Running in the Megazine it could take up some of the space of those dreadded reprints.

Sorry, sort of rambled on a bit there.... but you get the idea.

Discuss...

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Oddboy · 28 May, 2002, 08:21:36 PM

It was started in May 1992 (Sheeesh! Ten years ago!). The series was called "Armageddon", the only story (so far) in this series was called "The Bad Man".

I'd love to see what happens next, because it was left totally up in the air & didn't seem to have any relevance to the rest of 'Dredd's world'.

Oddboy.

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Matt · 28 May, 2002, 08:47:28 PM

My favourite thread resurfaces once more! Armeggedon, if I'm right in recalling earlier threads, was a creator owned story that set out to tell the origins of MC-1. However, the story was pulled when the publishers realised that it would give the creators ownership of huge amounts of Dredds history.

Buddy · 28 May, 2002, 09:05:08 PM

Cheers... that was really buggin' me.

I was beginning to think I was imagining things.

Well then Rebellion - are we ever going to see the continuation of this series....

Wake, get on the case.

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Oddboy · 28 May, 2002, 09:39:40 PM

Ho ho ho!
Very crafty that Alan Grant is!

But couldn't the Megazine commission him and/or Wagner to finish the tale as a Rebellion owned story?

paulvonscott · 28 May, 2002, 11:32:14 PM

Well, they could just start a new story from scratch and ignore that story, especially if that Dredd hating Mutie Grant was writing it. I would have thought all these stories would be good in the megazine, well I'd like to see some of this stuff.

Cheers

Paul

davidbishop · 29 May, 2002, 01:21:04 PM

"My favourite thread resurfaces once more! Armeggedon, if I'm right in recalling earlier threads, was a creator owned story that set out to tell the origins of MC-1. However, the story was pulled when the publishers realised that it would give the creators ownership of huge amounts of Dredds history."

This is what I like to call wrong. The story began as an idea by Carlos and some drawings of the lead characters. Alan developed this into a plotline. I think it may originally have been bound for Toxic!, but can't recall for sure.

Anyway, it was pitched to me for the Megazine as the first of several (four, IIRC) books exploring the early origins of Dredd's world. It would be a creator-owned strip for the first two books. Book three would begin to introduce Dredd world elements (a shared copyright situation, like Dredd/Batman), and then Book Four would be all Dreddworld.

Alan and Carlos did the first series. But I think it's fair to say that their enthusiasm for the project began to wane quickly afterwards, especially Alan. With one of the original creators out of the questions, it was going to be a nightmare reallocating rights (just like at Marvelman to see why) and finding another creator to replace Alan.

So the concept was quickly shelved.

It's a lovely conspiracy theory, but at no time did anyone say "you can't publish this! It would give the creators ownership of huge amounts of Dredd's history!". The mere idea of them thinking that far ahead is laughable...

davidbishop

roystead · 30 May, 2002, 11:35:52 AM

Since I wasn't keen on "The Bad Man", I'm not exactly clamouring for sequels.

A look at the early years of Dredd's world might be fun, though - maybe pick out the relevant bits of plotline from the early DC Dredd and redo the scripts without The Chin in a starring role?

Roy (who's now a mere 4 and a half years behind everybody else on current reading, but who is about to read progs 4 to 85 before proceeding, since all the gaps in *that* range have been filled at last)