JUDGE DREDD TAKES ON THE US!

[briantm]

It's the french market they should be trying to get into!

[das]

Wonderful! No more shipping cost from the UK to the US.Hopefully it will also cut into Marvel and DC crossover craziness and force those publishers to produce quality stories, but I doubt it.

bwah ha ha ha
Marvel and DC will never let go of the tights !

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

It's the french market they should be trying to get into!

Yes, if Jose O Ladronn, Moebius, Juan Gimenez drew Judge Dredd I'd happily buy it.

[James Stacey]

It's the french market they should be trying to get into!

Isn't that why the Langley ABC warriors books (and things like Red Seas) get printed in larger format hard backs, to appeal to the Euro market ?

[JayzusB.Christ]

John Byrne wrote one of those DC Dredds didnt he? The one which rewrote Judge Morphs "end" IIRC and otherwise missed the continuity and spirit of the character

...or the core essence, if you will.  

Not that i've read it myself. I've just become addicted to the study of JB's huge ego.

[das]

as glad as i am to see dredd et al getting attention in the usa.
i think rebellion and us fans make a mistake by lumping 2000ad as a comic book.
it's a lot more,
it's an anthology magazine running at a brainbusting weekly schedule.
trying to retailor it or retweak it so it seems american is untrue to its strenghs.

dammit i love the progs
i hate the reprints, i hate the comics, i HATE the digital.

long live the prog !!!

[The Adventurer]

2000 AD is a comic book. Lets not get carried away here.  The format is definitely unique (weeeeeeell, the monthly/weekly anthology format is actually pretty damn popular in Japan. They certainly have more then one title in the format too) and a tough sell to Joe American Comic Reader.  But, honestly, I think the cost and availability is the only thing holding it back from being moderately successful over here.

If Rebellion teamed up with Image or Dark Horse to publish 2000 AD domestically, I think it could have a fair shake.  Hell, I'd be for a slight format change to make it even more accessible, take a month's worth of progs, and bind them together in one monthly book. A 100 page monster each month with the contents of the equivalent progs inside.  That would get US reader's attention, and be something they could digest/understand format wise.

EDIT: I would also totally and without question buy the Prog (and Meg) if it was avalible on ComiXology's Comics App. All day, every day, till the end of days.

At any rate, S&S trades own. I got my copy of DR & Quinch and couldn't be happier. A)Price is much cheaper then importing was. B)Tradedress is the same (SPINES!) C)Same quality as before.  Best thing ever. Now lets see if the line lasts,  I have my fears after the DC debacle.

[das]

no it is a magazine format anthology.
it has the editorial style of a magazine.
as such 2000AD the prog should be on the magazine racks at every barnes & noble and other corporate book store in the us.

all the graphic novels and la-te-da  are the spewing brats of the PROG.

I champion the mighty PROG, may it flourish and find new audiences!
(er and i like the megazine a bit too)

[Toni Scandella]

It's a UK style comic book.  They were all anthologies here when 2000AD started, from The Beano to Krazy to Warlord to Action to Battle to 2000AD to Roy of the Rovers.  That's just how we have always done comcis.  The American format, with just the one story, punctuated with adverts, always seemed alien to me and is still a format I find difficult to get into, which is probably one of the main reasons I have never bought any US comics, though have several graphic novel collections.

But it's all comics, and that's nothing to be ashamed of

[Steve Green]

I think the monthly idea or something more substantial is a great idea...

I'm obviously the wrong market, but maybe an extended prog, maybe fortnightly, along the lines of the Christmas progs might be a consideration.

Also back it up with an official wiki on stories to give a background for new readers?

[Judge Olde]

It's the french market they should be trying to get into!

We often have one of those locally AND sometimes a German one too 

[Zarjazzer]

probably up somwehere here, but just in case-

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27617

US 2000AD related books.

[das]

nope not interested  in a usa mock-prog.

after the deal with Simon and Shuster, rebellion should treat the prog like a mag,and hit every news stand in every corporate book store and  tell diamond to frak off!

[radiator]

As much as I love the Case Files design, does any one else feel a teensy bit jealous when they see the US versions?

[James Stacey]

it does have 'not final cover' written on the top of it though