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Oct 2, 2023 19:26:05 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 2, 2023 19:26:05 GMT
Right! So these days 2000AD's cover date is it's on sale date? I think I knew that but had forgotten.
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Oct 2, 2023 20:13:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 2, 2023 20:13:09 GMT
Re-read Slaine: The Horned God. I think that Bisley boy will go far.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 9, 2023 13:18:53 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 9:37:29 GMT
Been reading some back-catalogue stuff. Fuck me sideways, The Simping Directive was weapons grade shite.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 18, 2023 0:58:16 GMT
Dredd: I'd assumed all along that the thing Hershey had had been got from Judge Fear. Who do we know who likes poisons and would love to have killed a chief judge? :-) |
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2000 AD
Oct 20, 2023 12:51:17 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2023 12:51:17 GMT
Dredd: I'd assumed all along that the thing Hershey had had been got from Judge Fear. Who do we know who likes poisons and would love to have killed a chief judge? :-) FFS. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 21, 2023 12:59:43 GMT
For Hershey to have been poisoned off world this must have happened pre end of Day of Chaos. Indeed the poisoning could well be reason for the "trip home for a health check" in the early 1700s. So long before the character's believed demise and in no way indicative of his survival, although we all know he has in some form. |
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Oct 22, 2023 20:16:35 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 22, 2023 20:16:35 GMT
Good Lord. To call that a long game would be an understatement. It's amazing how Dredd's week to week episodes are underpinned by such a long ongoing story at this point. You can go back decades and find threads that are still relevant today.
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2000 AD
Oct 22, 2023 20:30:57 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 22, 2023 20:30:57 GMT
It's brilliant isn't it. It's the same story, never rebooted, just ongoing. And it works. Marvel can't go more than a couple of years without resetting everything.
Other current brilliance, the Meg continues to be the standout comic of the last few years imho. #461 is another barnstormer. I'm enjoying the Rogue strip too. I think it draws together the lore from the long run of early strips into a concise and coherent start. Pity it didn't go further but it's actually made me want to read Ruckley's Transformers comics more urgently because the Rogue strip shows he gets how to handle someone else's IP.
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Post by tomwe on Oct 23, 2023 10:31:18 GMT
Both the prog and the meg are firing on all cylinders right now. Re: Rogue, I just wish the artist had given him a better 'helm'. I know the whole look was redesigned but that can't have taken any thought whatsoever. Talk about making a silhouette sell the design. That isn't it.
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Oct 23, 2023 10:46:11 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2023 10:46:11 GMT
The Meg has improved since it dropped the baggy and moved the reprints into the main mag. This is helped by the reprints being new to the UK rather than old Tooth strips. Better value for money. It's all 'new' material for me now.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 23, 2023 10:48:34 GMT
I think both moves have hurt it, much preferred the bag of old UK reprinted material
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 23, 2023 10:59:56 GMT
Really? I found the content of the additional comic was always B-grade filler stuff unless they were reprinting content from other older comics. The Tooth stuff was always strips that weren't strong enough to warrant a full trade paperback release or good enough for the Hachette collection. When I sorted them all recently into Dreddworld/Other 2000AD/Treasury/Other Original the 2000AD stuff was pretty weak. I like the fact we're getting proper UK releases of the American titles to fill those gaps in. The Johnny Red strip is just a surprise addition. I'd no idea it existed and its obviously there to boost the Battle/Action profile, but it's blooming good.
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2000 AD
Oct 23, 2023 11:09:24 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2023 11:09:24 GMT
I am 100% with Pinwig. Quality 'new' content now rather than a bag of crap.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 23, 2023 15:27:14 GMT
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Oct 24, 2023 7:15:37 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 24, 2023 7:15:37 GMT
I'm back in the groove with 2000AD now. What I need to do next is count how many progs I have in the unread pile and work out how to tackle that. I'm reading so many comics weekly now I can't get any book reading in.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 2, 2023 11:02:06 GMT
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Post by tomwe on Nov 2, 2023 12:31:29 GMT
Think that was the subscribers exclusive version? Still dumb.
There's the annual xmas sale at shop.2000ad.com for anyone looking for bargains.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 8, 2023 10:21:41 GMT
Cover is up, nice big image so I can read the Progs and Megs Progs: 1485-1504 Megs: 245-257 So that'sThat's quite a discontinuity between dates there with the progs finishing pre Origins and the Megs post Origins which does rather suggest Case Files 44 is going big on the Prog Origins issues Case Files 44's cover went up on Rebellion's site this morning.... and that's caused me to go have a look at 43 there, which has changed since we first saw it 43 shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB773/judge-dredd-case-files-43Progs: 1485-1519 Megs: 245-25244 shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB774/judge-dredd-the-complete-case-files-44Progs: 1520-1554 Megs: 253-26045 then starts 1555 & 261 which is probably something like |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 15, 2023 13:54:25 GMT
Poison:
I'm struggling with the motivation for the murderer here. Hershey was nothing to do with their initial collar & sentence, she was off world at the time. About the only connection I can think of is her (presumably) ordering the mission that got them a 2nd time
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 20, 2023 11:37:36 GMT
I suspect Ralph will be pleased at this turn of events, but we'll see next prog what the reasons were, I suppose.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 22, 2023 11:06:58 GMT
Nice pay-off at the end.
I do still think we will see P.J. Maybe again though, I want Ralph's reaction on camera when it happens.
Another one-off Strontium Dog tale in the Christmas prog. I suspect we might see a proper series at some point in 2024.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 22, 2023 11:17:03 GMT
Yup. BUT Hershey didn't send Sinfield to Titan. Francisco did |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 22, 2023 12:41:35 GMT
{Spoiler}Francisco was Sinfield's dupe for most of what happened and killing him would not be any measure of revenge. Killing Hershey wasn't the real revenge, he wanted payback with Dredd. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2023 20:51:50 GMT
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2000 AD
Dec 11, 2023 20:11:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 11, 2023 20:11:25 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 11, 2023 21:03:15 GMT
Sad news, but very expected after recent reports
He had work in one of the first 2000ads I read, a late part of Robo Hunter's Play It Again Sam and it was his Robo Hunter that I liked over his other work in the 80s, especially the Brit Cit stuff in the second half of the strips's history
Took me a long long time to click to him doing Dredd when my head wanted to see Ezquerra, Dillon and Smith and I think I only really clicked with him on Dredd when I read some of his later work
But my favourite thing he did was the radio rental Return of the Taxidermist for the Megazine. Fabulous stuff and his art was just right for the mad story being told.
Will be much missed.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2023 22:01:05 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 22, 2023 11:26:59 GMT
Read the Christmas Prog. Didn't really inspire me it has to be said, but the Meg is next and I'm loving that at the mo. I'd like to know what's replacing Johnny Red though.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 22, 2023 11:57:02 GMT
Loved the prog. Dredd has some interesting foreshadowing then Azimuth asks Dredd to hold it's beer....
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