Megazine Thrills to Graphic Novel

[Jonathan O]

Hell All

What stories from the Meg would people like to see given the Graphic Novel treatment?

Jon

[Jonathan O]

or rather Hello,

What can I say? It's Friday afternoon.

[Dudley]

I thought you were subliminally prodding us towards voting for "Armageddon".

[Leigh S]

Complete (i say complete) Mechanismo!

[Rio De Fideldo]

Cursed Earth Koburn

Simping Detective

Complete Missionary Man (inc 2000ad strips)

[longmanshort]

The Collected Anderson Meg stories

Complete Creep

Complete Armitage

Judges of the World - to include Pan-African Judges, Cal Hab, Brit-Cit Brute, Inspector Inaba one-offs, The Inspectre, Wynter etc

or you could do a 'Brit-Cit Justice' one with Armitage, Brute etc all together ...

[I, Cosh]

I've hardly read any Meg stuff and I don't plan on nuying back issues, so collections of recent stuff like Young Middenface, Simping Detective and Cursed Earth Koburn would be good. Also a collected volume of all the Anderson stories from the Meg.

[+rufus+]

The Complete Mrs Gunderson Collection

[+rufus+]

A Henry Flint Collection as well...
:-) Rufus

[Dudley]

Pan-African Judges
Creep

[radiator]

Doh! Just started a similar thread - Suggestions/Future Rebellion Tpbs. Please have a look on that. I'll summarise here.

From the Meg:
The Art of Jock Collection (Dredd/Lenny Zero)
The Complete Taxidermist
The Complete Doomsday (everything from Bad Frendz to The Cal Legacy)
The Complete Mechanismo
Dead Ringer (arc)
Simple Domestic
Bury my knee at wounded heart
Howler
No More Jimmy Deans
Lawcon
Citizen Sump
The Simping Detective
 

[The Adventurer]

A new Rebellion TP printing of AMERICA


Being able to read The Simping Detective and Cursed Earth Koburn from the beginning would be nice too.

[radiator]

A new Rebellion TP printing of AMERICA

Only if we can somehow get rid of the shitty computer colour job on America 2, and Colin Macniel to fully paint over it ;)

[Pete Wells]

The Art of Jock would be brill.
I'd absolutely love to read Dead Ringer in it's entirety.
A complete Al's Baby (1,2 and 3 that appeared in 2000ad) would make me very happy.
Complete Taxidermist (why did Gibson not draw the last ever one story?)
Complete Mechanismo would be great too.

Pete.

[IndigoPrime]

I just flicked through my almost-complete collection of Megs. Frankly, it's astonishing how poor the post-vol 1 and pre-vol 4 Meg was, and the majority of decent strips have already been reprinted in some format. To be honest, I'd hate to see new versions of in-print strips (such as America), or even those that have already been reprinted (Anderson) become part of 2007's Rebellion TPB schedule, because with the two-book-per-month limitation, that would stop as-yet-unprinted stories (or long out of print ones) getting out.

An exception for me is Mechanismo, mentioned earlier in the thread, simply due to the previous version lacking the third series. If possible, it would be good to continue the story through to its natural conclusion at the end of the Mk. 2 saga, but I suspect the page count would then be far too high.

In terms of Dredd collections, some kind of Giant collection might work well (this was triggered by seeing vol 2 #50's Giant story), and an Oola Bint/Angel of Mercy collection would also appeal, but perhaps that would make for a better EE rather than a TPB. (Likewise, I was always rather fond of the Harmony series, but that, too, is better EE fodder.)

With the exception of one-offs, such as Bury My heart at Wounded Knee, pretty much all of the other stuff I'd like to see reprinted (bar that already slated, such as XTNCT) is from more recent Megs:

Lenny Zero (assuming there's enough material)
Koburn (one of the best additions to the Meg to date)
Simping Detective (not something I liked to begin with, but a strip that's really grown on me).

The only "classic" character that I feel perhaps deserves an outing in TPB form is Armitage. Page count here would perhaps be too high, but it could always be cut down to a "best of", depending on how the continuity would be affected.