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Post by legios on Jun 28, 2012 18:45:10 GMT
Just read this weeks Tooth... Yep, the Dredd story is bleak even by Dredd standards. A more comprehensive example of a phyrric victory wouldn't be easy to find. It is good though. As and when this stuff gets traded I could definitely go picking it up.
As to the Dark Judges.... imprisonment of any kind for them is like a vacation - they will always be back at some point, as inevitable as the rain.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 28, 2012 19:10:41 GMT
Having just got back into 2000AD again recently, what Dredd stories proceeded Day of Chaos and are any of them traded? -Ralph I'd say the trades you really want are probably Total War (oop), Satan's Island and Tour of Duty (2 volumes, Backlash comes first) Just read this weeks Tooth... Yep, the Dredd story is bleak even by Dredd standards. A more comprehensive example of a phyrric victory wouldn't be easy to find. It is good though. As and when this stuff gets traded I could definitely go picking it up. As to the Dark Judges.... imprisonment of any kind for them is like a vacation - they will always be back at some point, as inevitable as the rain. Karl I didn't find this week's so bleak compared to the last few. I found it quite encouraging that they didn't go further! |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 2, 2012 22:20:59 GMT
ABC Warriors trailer done a few years ago now for an animated show that never got off the ground. John Wagner and David Bishop talked about this at Glasgow Comic Con.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 13, 2012 18:17:14 GMT
Woo. Won an original large format The Pit tonight :-)
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 13, 2012 21:12:56 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 14, 2012 22:11:37 GMT
Great news.
Friend of this parish John Paul Bove coloured that promo image drawn by Cosmic Jim.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2012 7:50:33 GMT
fine job he did too.
Dredd: off the pace the last 2 weeks.
When's Case Files 20 and the Chaos Day trades due?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2012 7:50:49 GMT
And did you enjoy those reprints Andu?
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Post by legios on Jul 15, 2012 19:32:31 GMT
My library now has the new trade of The Pit in its stocks, so I snagged it for reading this weekend. Good stuff it was too. Liked the Assault on Precinct Thirteen homage, and the general "one good cop to turn around a bad stationhouse" schtick to the story - the final resolution to it all has that great sense of fitting irony that Dredd does so well as a strip.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 15, 2012 19:44:19 GMT
And did you enjoy those reprints Andu? I did indeed. I do so love old school colour comics. Those Bolland covers are tops. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2012 22:12:52 GMT
My library now has the new trade of The Pit in its stocks, so I snagged it for reading this weekend. Good stuff it was too. Liked the Assault on Precinct Thirteen homage, and the general "one good cop to turn around a bad stationhouse" schtick to the story - the final resolution to it all has that great sense of fitting irony that Dredd does so well as a strip. Karl You'll like Brother in Blood then, feel quite similar in places. Apart from the possesion story. which was **** |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2012 22:14:54 GMT
And did you enjoy those reprints Andu? I did indeed. I do so love old school colour comics. Those Bolland covers are tops. Andy Some more with the Kaptain. The colourist varies between John Burns who worked on 2000ad and somebody Landau who I assume is related to the editor Nick Landau of Titan & FP fame. The Bolland cover for JD#23 is one of my favourite pieces of Dredd art ever. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 15, 2012 22:33:30 GMT
It's very nice indeed.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2012 19:16:06 GMT
Now I am back in the routine of reading 2000AD, I've switched to digital. I would prefer unlimited downloads rather than 3 per issue (I tend to go through a lot of computers) but the issues are 36p cheaper and don't take up room. My days of wanting to have comics cluttering up valuable space are behind me.
I opened it up in Ibooks and it reads fine off the Ipad.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 25, 2012 19:19:15 GMT
Welcome to my world!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2012 19:27:13 GMT
This does also mean my falling back into the well of Tooth is complete. I've usually always fallen out of it again due to lack of space to store issues or forgetting to buy it some weeks.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 25, 2012 19:31:28 GMT
New progs every Friday. That's how to kick off the week!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2012 19:33:16 GMT
Wednesday is it not?
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 25, 2012 19:34:12 GMT
I'm still buying Tooth from the newsagent at the moment - but I tend to keep any given prog long enough for a couple of reads and then recycle it as a method of dealing with the space issue. This is however a temporary measure.
I will be going digital but it won't happen until I get a tablet of some sort. My current Mac is not really a particularly comfortable platform for reading comics. If I do eventually get myself a tablet of some sort then I will migrate quite a bit over to digital very happily.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 26, 2012 22:26:09 GMT
Wednesday is it not? -Ralph Print on Wednesday, digital on Fridays. Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2012 7:37:45 GMT
I got this Wednesday's issue on, er, this Wednesday.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 4, 2012 11:13:26 GMT
Got retweeted by the tweet droid again :-) 54m 2000 AD Tweet Droid 2000 AD Tweet Droid â€@2000ad
It has come to Tharg's attention that there is some kind of sporting event on. Seems remarkably tame compared to the Mega-Olympics.
52m 2000 AD Tweet Droid 2000 AD Tweet Droid â€@2000ad
Where are the starring contests? The freeform sex competitions? The mountaineering? These Olympics need Dredd-ing up!
47m Philip Ayres Philip Ayres â€@philip_ayres
@2000ad 2012 Olympics: No Taxidermy, no comment
Retweeted by 2000 AD Tweet Droid
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Ah, of course, who could forget Sardini's masterful performances in the competitive taxidermy? 'Explosion in a bus Q' an historic moment.
2000 AD Tweet Droid â€@2000ad
Of course, if you've not read The Taxidermist hy John Wagner and Ian Gibson then you haven't the blindest notion of what we're talking about |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2012 18:25:19 GMT
Following that I dug out my copy of the Taxidermist tpb and re-read the Olympic story. Fabulous, just fabulous. Wagner loves his sports parodies and this is one of the best ones. If you haven't read it get a copy.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2012 18:38:43 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 7, 2012 15:06:13 GMT
Indeed.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 8, 2012 11:41:45 GMT
I cheered again while reading Dredd this week.
Who knew who he was before the reveal? And who doesn't till doesn't know after?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2012 15:07:08 GMT
Hmmm, it's past 4pm and today's Tooth ain't on the app yet. Prhaps they are having some teething problems.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2012 17:35:26 GMT
Still not up on the app! Yet the website has the issue up.
Hmmm, day and date on this app my hairy arse. Or perhaps the subscription feature isn't working properly. Methinks it could have done with some more beta-testing before launch.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 8, 2012 17:57:18 GMT
I cheered again while reading Dredd this week. Who knew who he was before the reveal? And who doesn't till doesn't know after? A quick google search revealed one person who thought they knew who the character was beforehand. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2012 21:51:20 GMT
Still not up on the app! Yet the website has the issue up. Hmmm, day and date on this app my hairy arse. Or perhaps the subscription feature isn't working properly. Methinks it could have done with some more beta-testing before launch. -Ralph The Tooth Twitter Droid reports a technical problem with Apple. Bet Rebellion aren't happy with the app going tits up in week 1. -Ralph |
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