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Mega-City 2 is really good, Wolk knows his stuff and even though he is a massive fan of Dredd, read: http://dreddreviews.blogspot.com.au/, the series is non-reverential, and genuinely adds its own spin on things. Also it looks amazing.
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If you're just joining the party, the guy on the cover of CCF22 is a Vatican City Judge.
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moths posted:If you're just joining the party, the guy on the cover of CCF22 is a Vatican City Judge. Haha I just love it.
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Mar 14, 2014 11:56
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Well, I'm done with IDW's Dredd. I was giving them a chance to see what they could do with Death, and the answer is "entirely miss the point and gently caress it up completely". It's turned into bad fanfic and it isn't worth reading any more. Their Rogue Trooper reboot doesn't seem too bad thus far, though.
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Mar 14, 2014 12:04
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I just read it and you aren't kidding it's so bad.
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Jedit posted:It's turned into bad fanfic and it isn't worth reading any more. The first half of this issue reads like a videogame "Meet the end bosses!" trailer. While the concept of new Dark Judges has potential, the execution was loving terrible. I'd been giving them a lot of slack and time to find their feet, but Jesus Christ that ending. Dredd succumbs to Titan's fumes, is rescued by a new IDW-designed character from a few issues ago. And also Dredd swears now.
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Mar 14, 2014 12:54
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:Yeah, 2000AD's been putting out some great stuff in recent years, my avatar came from a Dirty Frank story. Last summer's giant crossover story was easily the best crossover in comics history.
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moths posted:If you're just joining the party, the guy on the cover of CCF22 is a Vatican City Judge. ...I find it odd that Vatican City/The Papal State would use black in it's setup, given the flag is white and yellow. Bloodly fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 14:54
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They should have taken their colour queues from here
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Mar 15, 2014 15:02
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It could work, if not necessarily in stripes. I wonder if the Judges replaced the Swiss Guard outright, or whether there's a bunch of pikemen still around.
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Other Vatican City Judges appeared in Devlin Waugh a few times, and took more cues from Swiss Guard than the other one. These are the best picture I could find showing off the whole uniform.  Spikes McGee in the black is from one of the Grant Morrison stories, isn't he? Was he supposed to be a basic Vatican Judge or a specialist?
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Mar 15, 2014 15:32
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I've got a feeling he was supposed to be Inquisition.
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Of all states using judge systems, I somehow doubt the Vatican of all places would need one.
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moths posted:If you're just joining the party, the guy on the cover of CCF22 is a Vatican City Judge. I know it's probably a bird, I just can't unsee the Hands of Fate on his chest. 
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Babbage posted:Spikes McGee in the black is from one of the Grant Morrison stories, isn't he? Was he supposed to be a basic Vatican Judge or a specialist? Yes, that image is from Crusade - a bunch of Judges from many Cities go down to Antarctica to try and be the first to salvage the body of a guy who's been missing in space for a few decades, or something. There's a Hondo-Cit Judge, Brit-Cit Judge, Emerald Isle Judge, Indo-Cit Judge and a Judge from the Australian Cit (Oz-Cit?) who show up at the same time as Spikes McGee and Dredd. I don't know what people would think of how the EI Judge is shown, though. It's written by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison (I guess Millar supplied the blood-bath story with Morrison the kooky ending), the art is by Mick Austin and it was shown in 2000 AD Progs 928-937.
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I broke down and subbed to the digital versions of 2000AD and the Megazine. This stuff is amazing.
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moths posted:The first half of this issue reads like a videogame "Meet the end bosses!" trailer. While the concept of new Dark Judges has potential, the execution was loving terrible. I'd been giving them a lot of slack and time to find their feet, but Jesus Christ that ending. Dredd succumbs to Titan's fumes, is rescued by a new IDW-designed character from a few issues ago. And also Dredd swears now. I just assumed that they were all fakes. If they were supposed to be real dark judges and completely in earnest that is terrible.
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Tharg, Rob Williams and Si Spurrier are about to do an AMA on Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/20wuuf/2000_ad_is_doing_an_ama_next_week_updated_march/
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Loved the reveal of Section 7's big secret in the last part of 'Mega-City Confidential', and how the whole story turned out to be a satire of the Edward Snowden affair, right down to the crusading journalist's partner being detained at a
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quote:in a world where the system is specifically designed so that everyone is a lawbreaker in one way or another. Wait. Now, I remember that in the system, everyone is a lawbreaker for minor crimes-absolute 100% compliance as 'required' is nigh impossible even for Judges; Dredd's exceptional. I don't remember it being 'designed' as such, though. I'm not doubting, but I wouldn't mind getting more info on this. Especially since as I recall, under the system, everyone IS under 24/7 surveillance.
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Bloodly posted:Wait. There's a comic where Judges raid a rich person by accident and don't find anything. To prevent any lawyers haggling for reparations (because the apartment they trashed was expensive) they explicitly in-panel agree to find something, anything, to pin on the guy. He gets a warning for removed mattress labels and two weeks to get them re-attached.
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Maybe 'designed' wasn't the right word, since the current system evolved over time and through circumstance (although what was done in 'Mega-City Confidential' absolutely was a deliberate effort), but as in the mattress example above, there are so many byzantine laws that if the Judges want to charge somebody for something, they'll get there in the end. The first time we see a crime blitz, it's stated in dialogue that they have a 100% record of finding some breach of the law, however minor (and the fact that this particular case doesn't find anything makes Dredd so suspicious that he orders 24-hour surveillance on the suspect until he does something wrong).
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http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2014-04/23/2000-ad-the-comic-that-foretold-the-future/viewgallery/3 This is a nice little article about how spot-on John Wagner and Alan Grant were with Dredd in predicting the future.
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Payndz posted:Maybe 'designed' wasn't the right word, since the current system evolved over time and through circumstance (although what was done in 'Mega-City Confidential' absolutely was a deliberate effort), but as in the mattress example above, there are so many byzantine laws that if the Judges want to charge somebody for something, they'll get there in the end. The first time we see a crime blitz, it's stated in dialogue that they have a 100% record of finding some breach of the law, however minor (and the fact that this particular case doesn't find anything makes Dredd so suspicious that he orders 24-hour surveillance on the suspect until he does something wrong).
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Mega City Two is shaping up to be one of my favorite comics this year. The art is great, the city has a totally different vibe than MC1, and the writing is humorous without trying too hard to be funny. It's like someone finally realized how to localize Dredd.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:OMG yes he loved corrie didn't he? I seem to recall he had a son too at some point, didn't he turn evil? We need a thread for the old Eagle stories. They were cheesey as hell, but when they hit they HIT. Doomlord's son was Enok, who went insane. Then there was a mirror dimension where Enok enslaved the planet. Then I seem to remember Enok being put into some coccoon thing to make him good because Doomlord went on some spirit quest thing where he decided "gently caress it, I'm evil" and ended up fighting Enok. But anything the Eagle did that involved real photos was always awful. Even as a kid I'd see those photo comics and think "what the hell...?" I didn't get Judge Dread or 2000ad until years later because for some reason my parents thought they weren't suitable for kids. But the Eagle was something they knew from their own childhoods and they assumed it was all Dan Dare and cookie cutter sci fi.
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I remember picking up an Eagle glossy in the early 90s and it had Dan Dare being fed to carnivorous worms. It was pretty traumatizing. Also is 2000ad gonna quit with the vague social commentaries in their Dredd strips? Its getting annoying. I wanna see Dredd bust some perps, dammit.
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coconono posted:Also is 2000ad gonna quit with the vague social commentaries in their Dredd strips? Its getting annoying. I wanna see Dredd bust some perps, dammit. 2000AD's Dredd was always vague social commentaries - With "death of the author", maybe one could take the very first Dredd story to be a commentary on government, speed limits and roundabouts? LashLightning fucked around with this message at 20:27 on May 1, 2014 |
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coconono posted:I remember picking up an Eagle glossy in the early 90s and it had Dan Dare being fed to carnivorous worms. It was pretty traumatizing. I remember one Dan Dare story about the opening of a new trans-continental tunnel which lead to a sealed cavern being broken open, releasing a load of ravenous little red jelly monsters which literally instantly stripped anything's flesh to the bone at the moment of contact. poo poo was horrifying, yo.
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Dog_Meat posted:We need a thread for the old Eagle stories. They were cheesey as hell, but when they hit they HIT. Doomlord's son was Enok, who went insane. Then there was a mirror dimension where Enok enslaved the planet. Then I seem to remember Enok being put into some coccoon thing to make him good because Doomlord went on some spirit quest thing where he decided "gently caress it, I'm evil" and ended up fighting Enok. I collected the 'new' Eagle from about 1982 (I was 10) from the first issue, and it ran with the awesome Dan Dare (fantastic artist they had for Dan) and the photo stories until some point a few years later when they ditched the photos and went completely comic strip art. They even ditched the old Dan Dare artist and I was gutted. As brilliant as Ian kennedy was (he really was) it wasn't the same as the previous artist who was phenominal, Gerry Embelton I believe it was. If you can remember Gerry's era on Dan Dare, then surely you must remember the amazing bounty hunter alien who had a loving FLYING GREAT WHITE SHARK ON A CHAIN LEASH!
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:I collected the 'new' Eagle from about 1982 (I was 10) from the first issue, and it ran with the awesome Dan Dare (fantastic artist they had for Dan) and the photo stories until some point a few years later when they ditched the photos and went completely comic strip art. They even ditched the old Dan Dare artist and I was gutted. As brilliant as Ian kennedy was (he really was) it wasn't the same as the previous artist who was phenominal, Gerry Embelton I believe it was. If you can remember Gerry's era on Dan Dare, then surely you must remember the amazing bounty hunter alien who had a loving FLYING GREAT WHITE SHARK ON A CHAIN LEASH! It was indeed Gerry Embleton. Here's an example of his Dare.
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Jedit posted:It was indeed Gerry Embleton. Here's an example of his Dare. I have just been reading a blog regarding New Eagle and 200a.d. drat good read. http://patmills.wordpress.com/tag/gerry-embleton/
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:amazing bounty hunter alien who had a loving FLYING GREAT WHITE SHARK ON A CHAIN LEASH! Not so happy with people dissing the photo stories, Doomlord at least was genuine creepy in that stark black & white harsh flashlit style. Did anyone mention that the Eagle strip 'The Tower King' has gotten a reprint? Even as a youngun I could recognise some powerful artwork: http://www.comicsy.co.uk/hibernia/store/products/the-tower-king/ Bought that and the Doomlord reprints  Posted elsewhere, but if you're old enough to have read Eagle and earlier 2000AD you might remember these as well  https://plus.google.com/photos/114465960270072175545/albums/5659912859652586929
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Posted elsewhere, but if you're old enough to have read Eagle and earlier 2000AD you might remember these as well Oh, I do. I'm so glad that I haven't read a Starblazer in a very long time.
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Ah, the good old days when a price rise meant a whopping TWO WHOLE PENCE and not a pound each time. Cheers for that link, those covers are ace.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
The Tower King was an amazing story. I loved it. Then there was the comedy strips like Joe Soap and Sgt Streetwise.
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I've blown through a load of case files in the past month and the story Revolution from Case Files 11 is absolutely incredible. Dredd is just a total fascist bastard in it and the comic is 100% relevant today, it could have been written yesterday. Another cracker is Curse Of The Spiderwoman from Case Files 12, whose premise had me rolling my eyes at first - a woman finds herself gradually transforming into a spider over the course of several weeks. But instead of playing it for laughs or going straight up grotesque with it, they treated it 100% seriously and it ended up being a completely horrifying story about her slowly losing her humanity while her family deals with the loss of a mother and wife before she gets forcibly exiled to the Cursed Earth. What kind of crack was Wagner smoking back then?
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It's going to be the last thing I buy from IDW, but you really need to get hold of the subscriber cover for Judge Dredd: City of Courts #5. Darick Robertson has produced the best Dredd pic I've seen since the days of Bolland. I'll try to post an image when I get home.
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Jedit posted:It's going to be the last thing I buy from IDW, but you really need to get hold of the subscriber cover for Judge Dredd: City of Courts #5. Darick Robertson has produced the best Dredd pic I've seen since the days of Bolland. I'll try to post an image when I get home. If it's this, then it is beautiful. 
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