Resurrecting Durham Red...

[DMRiley]

Don't know if anyones thought about this in the years since her last appearance, but I think there should be a new storyline featuring the Durham Red character.

[radiator]

Nothing is confirmed, but there is every chance that she could appear in the next few series of Strontium Dog...

[House of Usher]

Oh please, noooooo!


Except if she appears in the ongoing Strontium Dog series, thus undoing everything that happened to her after the death of Johnny Alpha, but that's not ever so likely, is it?

Maybe they could do flashback stories featuring her the way they did with Johnny.

[strontium71]

I know I'm going to beaten with a stick , but I only preferred her when Ezquerra drew her. Nothing to do with the art , but I just didn't like the 'new' stories when she woke up/was resurrected in the future. If there was a way to put her into the Alpha reboot then I'd be all for that.
 The flashback idea is a good one.

[Van Dom]

I wasn't a fan of the post-Final Solution Durham Red stories (Vermin Star etc) either. I know they seem to be popular with a lot of people, and I know Mark Harrisons artwork on them has been praised (and he certainly put a hell of a lot of work into those pages) but it never worked for me. I could never really tell what was going on. It all got a bit too high-concept-y for me. I wouldn't mind her being brought back into any new Wagner-scripted series featuring a resurrected Johnny though. 

[radiator]

I think it's entirely likely she will reappear in the main stront strip - I doubt many people would mind dan annett's version of Red being contradicted (the feral/gronk spin off stuff already has been) - after all, his run on the character ended nearly a decade ago, and the solo series is far enough removed from stront-inuity that it stands on it's own. Would be great to see Carlos drawing her again!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

The fact she was in some kind of hyper-sleep leaves many options. From the top of my head:

1) she is cloned in the current SD time-line; or

2) given that (from memory) Abnett had her go into hyper-sleep when Johnny Alpha died then who's to say that she was referring to his death in The Final Solution? Maybe it's some still to be written Wagnerian future story from the current re-boot. Hence, she's alive and kicking with no need to mention the Abnett tales;

3) the hyper-sleep stuff tales were all a dream and Johnny wakes her with a kiss.

[Van Dom]

That all works for me!

[SmallBlueThing]

I'm alone then, in preferring Dan Abnett's take on the character to anything that went before? In fact, I'd go as far as to say I like the Durham Red strip (as done by Abnett and Harrison) far more than Strontium Dog, in any of its incarnations- except at the very beginning when it was in Starlord. And Bad Boys Bust. Except for them. The three-book cycle of Durham Red sits very proudly on my shelf and gets read far, far more often than Stronty.

And (Grud, duck Steev, here come the bricks dipped in piss!) I really do not like anything about the current Stronty periodically running in the prog. In fact, I dislike it more than I dislike The Red Seas. If I were Tharg, I'd drop it quietly and never refer to it again. Sorry!

SBT

[House of Usher]

Weirdo!

I'd go as far as to say I like the Durham Red strip

You must be a goth or something. 

[TordelBack]

I've never really liked Durham Red, costume(s) aside  - I thought the original Bitch Reagan timejob story was a low point for SD, and the later post-Alpha stuff no better.  At least the Abnett/Harrison era was really great to look at, even if I could never make any inroads into what was going on.  TBH my favourite incarnations of the character were the 'Apocrypha' short stories.

[Proudhuff]

I know I'm going to beaten with a stick , but I only preferred her when Ezquerra drew her. Nothing to do with the art , but I just didn't like the 'new' stories when she woke up/was resurrected in the future. If there was a way to put her into the Alpha reboot then I'd be all for that.
 The flashback idea is a good one.

seconded

[GordonR]

Never a big fan, but, after  being turned into some sad old cybergoth slapper, she deserves something to help her regain a bit of dignity.

[AlexF]

I wasn't a huge fan of Abnett/Harrison Durham Red when it was in the Progs, but re-readng it in the collections it held up pretty well. The only thing that annoyed me was it was impossible to tell the difference between normal humans and mutants, which is one of the best things about Ezquerra's Strontium Dog art. Also, it didn't work out so well having her wear fewer and fewer clothes with each series. More dignity needed, yes!

Anyway, I look forward to seeing Red in the Prog again, she's a lasting character.

[IndigoPrime]

The only thing that annoyed me was it was impossible to tell the difference between normal humans and mutants

Given when it was set, I think that was part of the point.