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Judge Dredd vs. The Big Two!

Started by robocook, 28 December, 2011, 11:39:18 AM

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robocook

#210
20 April, 2013, 08:33:59 AM

'Fraid I don't know the answer to that one. It was before my time.

Meanwhile Mean Arena by Dave Gibbons

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/mean-arena.html

Frank

#211
20 April, 2013, 10:15:20 AM
I loved that story, and I don't even have the excuse of being ten when I read it, since I only came across it after buying the back issues of a pal at secondary school who'd discovered the delights of drinking White Lightning cider and screwing shell-suited girls underneath the swings in the local park.

There's something really appealing about the way Gibbon's figures look like burnished Silver Age characters, inexplicably torn from the pages of a sixties Marvel comic and dropped into the milieu of dilapidated tenement housing and hair-netted housewives which was the drab default setting during that period for any British comic story which wasn't about the second world war. The Slayers' matches could have been taking place in Pat Mills's fictional amalgam of Northpool or the Dundee/Anywhere construct of Dennis the Menace's home town.

Which, I suppose, reflected how the strip (and 2000ad in general) was seeking to disrupt and transform the stuffiness, complacency and morbidity that had afflicted British boys comics in that period by introducing what were perceived at the time as subversive American influences (Tallon was a Yank), such as excitement, colour and glamour. Once again, the colours on that art seem so much more vivid (and lurid) than the copy I have; there must have been a real art to laying down hues that would achieve the desired effect once they'd gone through the primitive printing process, and onto crappy paper. Thanks for posting, Steve.

robocook

#212
20 April, 2013, 11:35:16 AM

Love it!

Spikes

#213
20 April, 2013, 01:22:24 PM
Good stuff, Steve. Mean Arena was a fave of mine, as well - and needs digging out for a re-read, at some point.
The prog was firing on all cylinders, around this period.

robocook

#214
05 May, 2013, 09:20:29 AM

judgefloyd

#215
05 May, 2013, 09:50:42 AM
I only came here to sell some progs, but all that Gibbons art is lovely.

Thanks a lot!

Frank

#216
05 May, 2013, 12:06:29 PM
Jesus! I wouldn't worry about not being able to locate the other sheet for that one, Steve, it works even better without colour obscuring the great line work. I can see the economic argument for recolouring those old strips for the North American market, but that artwork demonstrates how the different styles developed by artists like Gibbons, Bolland, McMahon and Kennedy during that era were specifically designed to work in monochrome.

Thanks for posting, Steve.

robocook

#219
30 May, 2013, 08:46:17 PM

ming

#220
30 May, 2013, 08:50:48 PM
Loving that latest post, Steve.  Boxes of frogs have a saying involving Shaky, I'm sure.

robocook

#221
30 May, 2013, 09:12:19 PM

Cheers!  :D Glad to hear!

ming

#224
12 June, 2013, 10:05:25 AM
Scrotnig, Steve.  I loved Massimo's work on Black Hawk - he delivered some stunning art and some of my favourite alien character designs (especially Batak and Beezelbub*).




* Never named in the story itself, but featured in the text story in the 1982 Annual.
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