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Post by Zuluhero on Sept 22, 2021 16:49:27 GMT
Popped into town today to have a look in Smiths, but they didn't have it 😕
It is supposed to be out today?
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Post by suicida on Sept 22, 2021 17:06:49 GMT
Yeah it arrives in shops on Wednesdays, so they should have it
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Post by trafford on Sept 22, 2021 17:21:21 GMT
Yeah I'm thinking now it might have been a good idea to get one reserved. I've not been near a shop in days but I'll try a newsagent tomorrow that's a bit of a magazine specialist...
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Post by suicida on Sept 22, 2021 18:10:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 19:16:22 GMT
I'll have to see if I can find this new prog when I go shopping on Friday.
I had progs 1 to 380 something decades ago and then one day my mum told me I had to throw them out ☹️
Followed shortly by my large dungeons and dragons collection which the media had convinced her was satanic.
I'm still plotting my revenge.
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Post by Zuluhero on Sept 22, 2021 20:10:17 GMT
Well you did end up with the name Witchking, so maybe she was onto something... 😉
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Post by anephric on Sept 22, 2021 20:15:27 GMT
At our school wargames club, the teacher responsible for running that banned us from playing AD&D because he was a hardcore Jesus Teaser and he said it was satanic
We just played Call of Cthulhu instead. Much more wholesome. He never said a word about that, obviously because the tabloids hadn't told him to.
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Post by Vortex on Sept 22, 2021 20:22:50 GMT
Guess he was ok with the old gods.
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Post by anephric on Sept 22, 2021 20:47:40 GMT
Isn't everyone?
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Post by Zuluhero on Sept 22, 2021 20:55:14 GMT
You just reminded me of being stopped playing Magic the Gathering at school.
This was back in the early 90s though, so I'm surprised they didn't burn us at the stake during assembly.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Sept 24, 2021 9:25:52 GMT
Flashback to 1977
My mum sends me down to ‘Derek’s’, the newsagent at the top of our road in pre-yuppie Fulham, to buy her usual ‘arf an’ ounce of Golden Virginia and a packet of green rizla’. I’m about ten years old but Derek knows me and has no problem selling to me. As I stand before his wide expansive counter, he has all the newspapers and magazines laid out flat. To me it seems about fifty feet across. The kids comics are at the front, at the lowest part of the sloping surface. Just within my reach. Amongst the Beano’s, Dandy’s and Whizzer and Chips is something new. It’s got Dan Dare in it, I know him from the olden days. It has a green fellow on the cover who is clearly an alien. Best of all, it has a free gift! A plastic frisbee like thing called a Space Spinner. I purchase this new Comic and take it home.
It’s amazing! So different from my usual fare, but encapsulating the fantasies of a young boy who is a child of Star Wars, Star Trek and everything ‘Space’. My favourite story was about a bunch of black guys in a sort of Rollerball sport, ‘Harlem Heroes’. My mum had tried to take my little ten year old self to go see Rollerball just before. They turned us away because I wasn’t 18. Mum was a great Parent! Still is.
Anyway, that led to years of 2000AD collecting. A love of Brian Bolland (that sweet sweet cross hatching!), meeting Bryan Talbot at a convention and having this Geordie hippie sign loads of stuff. My prize possession for many years was a hand drawn pic of Stogie from Robohunter that Ian Gibson did for me in about one minute at a signing. What the fuck ever happened to that?
Long live 2000AD!
Splundid Vur Thrigg!
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Post by anephric on Sept 24, 2021 9:30:36 GMT
My uncle worked for Games Workshop waaay back in the day and was a games designer and edited White Dwarf. Anyhoo, while they were working on Judge Dredd: the Board Game he took me to meet Brian Bolland at his flat, because he knew I was a huge 2000AD fan and Bolland was my favourite artist (he did the box art for the game too).
I was very young and don't remember much other than Bolland had loads of uncashed cheques from commissions etc stuffed behind the clock on his mantelpiece.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Sept 24, 2021 9:40:08 GMT
My uncle worked for Games Workshop waaay back in the day and was a games designer and edited White Dwarf. Anyhoo, while they were working on Judge Dredd: the Board Game he took me to meet Brian Bolland at his flat, because he knew I was a huge 2000AD fan and Bolland was my favourite artist (he did the box art for the game too). I was very young and don't remember much other than Bolland had loads of uncashed cheques from commissions etc stuffed behind the clock on his mantelpiece. I used to hang out at the original Games Workshop in Dalling Road, Hammersmith. Used to go drinking with the American brothers who ran the place. We played Runequest, Traveller and AD&D, et. al. Before GW became the war hammer behemoth it is today. I think Ian Livingstone had a yellow Lamborghini? Great times! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 9:56:05 GMT
My uncle worked for Games Workshop waaay back in the day and was a games designer and edited White Dwarf. Anyhoo, while they were working on Judge Dredd: the Board Game he took me to meet Brian Bolland at his flat, because he knew I was a huge 2000AD fan and Bolland was my favourite artist (he did the box art for the game too). I was very young and don't remember much other than Bolland had loads of uncashed cheques from commissions etc stuffed behind the clock on his mantelpiece. I used to hang out at the original Games Workshop in Dalling Road, Hammersmith. Used to go drinking with the American brothers who ran the place. We played Runequest, Traveller and AD&D, et. al. Before GW became the war hammer behemoth it is today. I think Ian Livingstone had a yellow Lamborghini? Great times! Username really checks out, fucking hell :thumbsup |
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Post by suicida on Sept 24, 2021 9:59:54 GMT
Amazing. I was only 4 years old in 1977 so a bit young for the launch of the prog!
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Post by Zuluhero on Sept 24, 2021 10:15:58 GMT
I didn't even exist until a year later 😅
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 11:25:06 GMT
I can vividly remember walking into WH Smiths and seeing the first ever 2000AD (with green frizbee). Thankfully I bought it and the next ~400 of them. Loved Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors, Strontium Dog, Robo Hunter, Slaine, Harlem Heroes, Nemesis the Warlock, and of course Dredd. Loads of other stuff I can't remember these days, but I used to love hearing the prog come through the letterbox.  |
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Post by suicida on Sept 24, 2021 11:29:28 GMT
I still get that feeling every week. Direct Debit £15.50 a month to get every prog and the monthly Meg delivered 4 days before they hit the shops
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Post by simple on Sept 24, 2021 12:31:15 GMT
Just finish the Essential Dredd Origins collection. Had read the arc before so getting some fresh John & Carlos content was a treat. Not sure the I’m totally down with Dredd being present during Booth’s war but thats probably just me misremembering the timeline (I always had prog 2 being a long time after the war) but the story is a lot of fun and the artwork is as perfect as ever.
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Post by anephric on Sept 24, 2021 14:19:33 GMT
My aunt used to work for Fleetway back in the day too, so for many years I got 2000AD and Eagle for frizzle.
Happy memories.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 18:18:48 GMT
This thread has given me such a dose of nostalgia. Just ordered prog 2250 and Megazine 436 for a try-out, seriously contemplating a subscription... Does this qualify as a midlife crisis or do I need to try harder?
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Post by trafford on Sept 24, 2021 19:17:02 GMT
Not 2000AD but I've got a signed Bolland sketch of The Joker. My sister got it for me when she sold his house. He was/is the best for me.
Think I started reading it around Prog 200, about 8 or 9 years old. Back in those days there was loads of jumble sales and I managed to get stacks of back issues from them.
Also sending off for the early Titan Book collections from the back pages ( allow 28 days for delivery 😮)
Then a family trip to London when me and my dad went to Forbidden Planet on Denmark Street. I think he was more up for a mooch round Soho!
Then around 14 or so I stopped reading it. Discovered sex, drugs and rocknroll I guess. Mad to think there's been 30 odd years of thrill power since.
Still not got the new issue, will try and remember tomorrow...
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Post by suicida on Sept 27, 2021 17:27:03 GMT
Prog 2251 turned up today, continuing the stories from last week's jumping on issue. "The Out" was the standout again for me, although all the stories were decent I thought. Jake Lynch's Dredd art continues to be spectacular, as is Disraeli on Scarlet Traces.
I hope everyone who picked up 2250 enjoyed it, 2251 will be in the shops on Wednesday!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 19:04:12 GMT
Still waiting for my 2250, think it was dispatched today.
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Post by simple on Sept 29, 2021 7:19:35 GMT
Judge Minty now in 4k
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Post by Vortex on Sept 29, 2021 8:32:43 GMT
\o/ My boy quite enjoyed it. Think I will sub up for a while.
A 2000AD per week seems like better value than an EG sub with a yearly editor letter at any rate!
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Post by Gitsome UK on Sept 29, 2021 9:40:09 GMT
I'll post this here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavS_XUITXUJudge Minty is a sterling effort considering it's just fans putting in their own time and resources, they also did a Strontium Dog fan film that's also on Youtube. It's very classic Dredd set in the cursed Earth for the most part. Thanks for posting this, it's the first time I've seen this. Just proves to me all the more there needs to be a Dredd 2 and it's got to be the cursed earth. |
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 29, 2021 10:08:51 GMT
Rob Williams has already written the pilot of "Mega City One", whenever that'll finally go into production, it's no coincidence that Rebellion have their own really large studio now. It's built on the site of an old Daily Mail printworks so nice to see something good come from that now.
As for me, my brother bought 2000AD at launch and got a few copies before my Mum saw it and thought it far too violent. Skip forward a few years, I'm in hospital getting my tonsils out and reading loads of old progs to pass the time. As a treat when I came out my Mum asked me what I wanted, I said 2000AD. It was prog 223 in 1981. I've not missed an issue since.
Got a load of old progs from a friend of my brother so my collection is pretty neat complete, which part explains why I've got a small storage unit. I sometimes think about going digital on my sub but I like waking up on most Saturdays and having the new issue in my hand.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 29, 2021 10:12:29 GMT
My copy of 2250 just plopped through the letter box. Looking forward to getting stuck into that. Reckon I'll sub as well if I enjoy it. Feels nice to have something to look forward to arriving in the post regularly.
Was tempted to go for a digital subscription instead, but it just doesn't feel the same.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 14:36:22 GMT
What subscriptions do people have and how are you finding 2250 and beyond? I'm wondering about getting the £15 sub as it works out the best value outside digital, but is the Dredd magazine worth it as well? Been a while since I've read a comic tbh.
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