2022 Advent comments

[AlexF]

Colin you're a legend, that's some work fun ethic you've got there.

MIK, that's beyond extraordinary...

[Rogue Judge]

Very cool M.I.K! I have no concept of how long something like that took, but kudos for doing it. Well done!

[broodblik]

Cool stuff so far thanks guys. My talents unfortunately is only good to offend people

[Trooper McFad]

Another great look back at a Christmas past JWare

[JayzusB.Christ]

A brilliant write-up of the best Christmas Dredd ever.  I was very young at the time and but clearly remember my brother buying that shop in a newsagent's that still exists, amazingly, but no longer stocks the prog, and loved that story - I vividly remember the irreverent Italian-American nativity scene.  If the priests, nuns, and Christian Brothers who ran the show back then had taken the time to check our reading material, they would have had Tharg extradited and lynched.

[JohnW]

The Italian show was a Thing That Went Over My Head.
C'mon – how could I be expected to know Fellini's 8½?
In fairness.

I doubt if it occurred to the Brothers in my school that comics could be blasphemous. They were too concerned with stamping out smoking in the toilets (or, in the case of one Brother, bumming smokes from boys caught smoking).

[JayzusB.Christ]

I certainly didn't know there was a Fellini connection - I have just learned it this minute, in fact.  In fairness the Brothers in my school weren't the absolute worst of the teachers either, though that was a low bar.

[Trooper McFad]

Thanks for that submission JWare . I do remember those stories in the annuals and I believe I have never read them to this day 😳

However I did read the one you posted and it was very enjoyable.

Looking forward to looking back tomorrow

[JohnW]

I do remember those stories in the annuals and I believe I have never read them to this day

Please tell me you at least did the crosswords.

[JayzusB.Christ]

To be fair, your story there is better than a lot of the old annual text stories, JWare.  Great stuff altogether - love the America-style potted history of MC1, and the America-style in-depth look at that history's effect on Mega-Citizens.  You'd be mental not to go mental in MC1.

[Trooper McFad]

I do remember those stories in the annuals and I believe I have never read them to this day

Please tell me you at least did the crosswords.

Only one year as after that for what ever reason I didn't want to write/deface what I thought of as my SYFY bible 😳

[JohnW]

To be fair, your story there is better than a lot of the old annual text stories

Thank you kindly, sir.
There was some serious talent producing those stories sometimes. I fondly remember a Pete Milligan take on Max Normal, as well as some bonkers John Smith efforts. Mind you, it was still a bit of a mixed bag. There was a Hershey story in the 1988 Dredd annual for instance, written by some guy called Neil Gaiman, and if that was the best he could do then he can't have amounted to much. The accompanying art was really nice though.

[Colin YNWA]

Great, insightful stuff JWare.

[Trooper McFad]

Great pic Hoagy- welcome to the submission club 👍🏻😁

[Hoagy]

Thanks for your patience Trooper!