The Four Dark Judges... Plus nine more?

[Proudhuff]

'baby' and 'bathwater' spring to mind.  I remember the boohaha around Rambo playing Dredd, surely a good thing all that publicity...

[Spaceghost]

It's also curious how dodgy this central Dredd comic is, given the quality of the Mars Attacks four-parter and the fairly good Year One. Still, the comic continues to be released, so they must be doing something right in terms of finding an audience.

Perhaps if you'd never read any Dredd before, the IDW comic might seem quite original and unique next to all the superhero guff they get over in the US?

It's mainly the fact that we've been spoilt with years of exceptional high quality Dredd that makes this stuff read like a piss-poor tribute band.

[Molch-R]

'baby' and 'bathwater' spring to mind.  I remember the boohaha around Rambo playing Dredd, surely a good thing all that publicity...

No such thing etc.

[Proudhuff]

ah, the old Oscar defence 

[Jon]

'baby' and 'bathwater' spring to mind.  I remember the boohaha around Rambo playing Dredd, surely a good thing all that publicity...

No such thing etc.

I don't know, Leeds council spent a lot of money on getting rid of any Saville references....

That's going to become the new Hitlerisation, isn't it?

Hey! Judge Saville! That'd be terrifying!

[Proudhuff]

now then now then...



Its shawaddywaddywaddy, i feel sorry for!

[Molch-R]

I don't know, Leeds council spent a lot of money on getting rid of any Saville references....

Um...

[Dark Jimbo]

lapsed readers and presumably also anyone not paying attention seem to think this is what 2000 AD has come to these days.

You'd be surprised how readily people on the FB page misunderstand, wilfully or otherwise, anything we do.

Seems to be quite a high number of laped readers on the FB page. I suppose you sign up for the site, click a ton of stuff you used to like because you think that's what you should do - Monster Munch, Ulysess 31, 2000AD, etc... then you're suddenly getting notifications from it, even though you've not actually read an issue since the 80s.

Hence all the '2000AD is still being published?!' 'I thought Johnny Alpha was dead?' 'Wait, since when is there a new Dredd film?'

[Molch-R]

Hence all the '2000AD is still being published?!' 'I thought Johnny Alpha was dead?' 'Wait, since when is there a new Dredd film?'

Welcome to the depressing side of my job Still that does mean more people to try and tempt back into the fold

[Jim_Campbell]

till that does mean more people to try and tempt back into the fold

Only challenges, eh?

Cheers!

Jim

[Molch-R]

Only challenges, eh?

Tis what I live for

[Tiplodocus]

I suppose 2000AD itself has had more than it's fair share of daft plot developments over the years. If the stories that result are good, people tend to accept them. 

This is all happening in an alternate universe to mine; I don't have time/money to buy the non-2000AD products but I do wish them all the best (fistulas and all).

[IndigoPrime]

You'd be surprised how readily people on the FB page misunderstand, wilfully or otherwise, anything we do.

I've been in marketing and journo land for 13 years now. It takes a lot to surprise me. But that certainly doesn't stop me facepalming for Britain every time I venture on to the 2000 AD Facebook page and stupidly read the comments.

[IndigoPrime]

Hence all the '2000AD is still being published?!' 'I thought Johnny Alpha was dead?' 'Wait, since when is there a new Dredd film?'

The one that irks me is the all-too-regular: "I haven't read 2000 AD since 1986, but all the new stuff is shit and it was better in the old days." Just like music. And TV. And Spangles.

[Dandontdare]

I'm hoping the new Dark Judge team includes  ... a rubber johnny full of guts.

That's the Prime Minister surely? Now that IS scary!