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2000 A.D. - Prog 1500!

DavidXBrunt

11:25 / 07.08.06

Just got my subscription copy of Prog 1500 and, hecky, but it's good.

John Wagner on Dredd with pictures from Kev Walker. Simple, atmpospheric, and leading up to Origins in a few weeks time. This story's good but I can't help but think John and Carlos delving into the history of Fargo is going to be something memorably special.

Else where in the Prog their's a new Dante adventure and hopefully we'll build momentum again and two entirely new strips. Of Malone and Stone Island the latter made the most impact. Quintessentially British, very Tharg, and lovely to look at.

If you've been wondering how things are at the house of Tharg you could do worse than pick up Wednesdays Scrotnig Prog and see if you want to join the ride.

There's also a Flash trailer for the upcoming mega-epic that celebrates 30 years. http://www.2000adtrailers.com/origins

miss wonderstarr

18:47 / 08.08.06

I think it might be time for the "fat Elvis" phase of Zenith.

DavidXBrunt

16:36 / 09.08.06

Not whilst he's trapped in legal limbo...

Spatula Clarke

19:56 / 09.08.06

Has anybody ever reminded Wagner that he started to write a multi-series epic about the events that led to the creation of the Mega-Cities, then dropped it after a few parts? I think I'd rather see that picked up again than this Origins stuff.

DavidXBrunt

15:49 / 11.08.06

Nope, because he didn't. I wonder if you're thinking of 'Apocalypse:The Bad Man' which was a series in the early issues of The Megazine volume two by Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra. That's a tricky thing because the early series were going to be creator owned, the later ones blend with existing Dredd world mythology. Fortunatley John doesn't seem bound by it and Carlos is prepared to acknowledge that it didn't work and leave it at that.

miss wonderstarr

12:01 / 15.08.06

In what legal limbo is Zenith trapped?

DavidXBrunt

21:01 / 15.08.06

Grant is trying to claim ownership of the series saying he didn't sign the rights over to...whoever owned 2k at the time he wrote Zenith...and so when the comic ended up in the hands of Rebellion he claims they didn't buy Zenith.
Rebellion are saying things to the contrary. Zzzzenith.com only muddies the issue. And don't ask Steve Yeowell about it...

As you may know Titan were going to reprint all four phases as part of their 90's 2k albums. They would have been the third plank of their initial output (Moores stuff and Ennis Dredd being the others) and they got as far as printing an entire run of Phase one. Some were shipped early to an F.P. for a Yeowell signing shortly before release date. These were the only ones released as the injunctions started flying soon after.

Legend tells of a warehouse in Scotland with an almost full print run of books still unsold...

miss wonderstarr

22:28 / 15.08.06

Thanks for the info. If Phases I-IV are reprinted cheap, that'll undercut an awful lot of people on ebay currently selling them for £25 each!

DavidXBrunt

08:32 / 16.08.06

Well, I've been trying to undercut them for ages. I've got (far from mint) copies of books 1-5 which I've been trying to shift forever at nothing near £25 each but failing to.

yawn - thing's buddy

15:51 / 16.08.06

actually titan printed up to the end of phase 3.

I got phase three - two volumes - hidden away safely in my parent's attic.

which is in scotland.

miss wonderstarr

17:31 / 18.08.06

I've got One, Two and Five but it seems a bit ridiculous to spend over £15 maximum on the missing volumes when I've also got the original issues in file boxes. With a geeky "Zenith" logo hand-drawn on the side of each!

Spatula Clarke

18:02 / 18.08.06

I wonder if you're thinking of 'Apocalypse:The Bad Man' which was a series in the early issues of The Megazine volume two by Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra.

Yeah, that's the one. I'd forgotten that Grant wrote it - thought he'd dropped his connection with Dredd by that point, bar the Anderson stuff. Memory go wrong.

I've always thought that the idea was sound and offered plenty of room for some really interesting stuff. It was set far enough back in Dredd's past - and an era that had never been mentioned before - that it didn't have to be tied to any continuity for ages. Lots of wriggle room for meaty, unfamiliar twists and turns. Proper backbone to the Dreddiverse. Damn shame that it was abandoned.

I forgot to get 1500 in the end...

DavidXBrunt

16:26 / 19.08.06

A shame cause it's a good one. Still available in comic shops.

DavidXBrunt

21:44 / 15.09.06

And 1505 is a belter too. If you missed the prologue to Dredd Origins you can still hit the ground running with Wagner and Ezquerras first issue. Origins looks set to be a great story.

Dredd investigating the Fargo bloodline. Mutants. Mayhem. Bad Bob Booth. I'm liking this a lot.

As for the rest of the prog, it's a nice strong line-up and horror epic Chiarascuro hits the prog in 1507.

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