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Started by JOE SOAP, 29 October, 2015, 09:33:51 AM

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IndigoPrime

I'd love to see a complete Luke Kirby collection, especially in a big hardback. 258 pages of strip. A few covers and 'star scans'. Lovely.

I suspect it'll never be collected though. It's one thing reprinting Zenith, given that Morrison knew full well he was work-for-hire. But reprinting work by an ex-editor who clearly knew the system and was allegedly assigning rights accordingly would be a much tougher prospect. Daft though, because the strip will forever remain a tiny footnote that will never get another airing.

WhizzBang

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 30 October, 2015, 05:23:08 PM
I'd love to see a complete Luke Kirby collection, especially in a big hardback. 258 pages of strip. A few covers and 'star scans'. Lovely.

I suspect it'll never be collected though. It's one thing reprinting Zenith, given that Morrison knew full well he was work-for-hire. But reprinting work by an ex-editor who clearly knew the system and was allegedly assigning rights accordingly would be a much tougher prospect. Daft though, because the strip will forever remain a tiny footnote that will never get another airing.
I am intrigued. What was Luke Kirby? You write as if it is a long lost classic. Could we see it in a Megazine 'floppy'?

Greg M.

Quote from: WhizzBang on 30 October, 2015, 08:38:23 PM
I am intrigued. What was Luke Kirby? You write as if it is a long lost classic. Could we see it in a Megazine 'floppy'?

Not unless writer Alan McKenzie has a drastic change of heart. Short version - McKenzie believes it's creator-owned. As for the actual series - it's about a boy wizard, but it's much better than that makes it sound. The first series, Summer Magic, is, to me, an absolute classic. Best thing McKenzie ever wrote, and some stellar art by John Ridgway. Second series is ok, third series less so (artist changes to Steve Parkhouse, a lot of the rustic atmosphere is lost) fourth series pretty good (still Parkhouse, but the rustic vibe returns.)

I too think Luke Kirby is likely to remain unreprinted forever, but given Rebellion's remarkable ability to get things back into print, who can say?

WhizzBang

It's a shame things get like this. I can perfectly understand the creators views as the comic medium seems to ask a lot of you to do something good, but the publishing rewards are probably not big enought to make reprints viable sometimes and ultimately stuff like 'Luke Kirby' gets lost and forgotten.
Even John Wagner and Pat Mills probabbly get nowhere near what they deserve (in recognition and money) for their stuff and they are the backbone of 2000ad.

Dandontdare

Quote from: Greg M. on 30 October, 2015, 08:59:02 PM

I too think Luke Kirby is likely to remain unreprinted forever, but given Rebellion's remarkable ability to get things back into print, who can say?

^this. There must be some way for an agreement to be made

Colin YNWA

Yeah big fan of Luke Kirby from both art and story perspective. Such a shame that Alan McKenzie has taken the route he has as it kinda means no one wins. Still his decision and you gotta suspect this remains the one one that got away... though as we are learning never say never.

TordelBack

Luke Kirby never really lived up to the original Summer Magic - it was just one of those perfect stories, atmospheric, scary, sad, and at the time much more original than it seems now (sufficiently different to Will Stanton anyway).  Given the chutzpah Rebellion have shown recently you'd imagine there has to be some way to come to an accommodation with Alan, especially considering the uniqueness of his circumstances.

Spikes

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Wonder if it will also have colour centre spreads and covers? Either way I'm buying.

According to 2000AD on Facebook it will be hardback with the colour pages and the apology strip too.

Okay cool so its official. The only question remaining then is what size will it be. Hopefully full original size, but we'll see.

...and printed on high quality matte paper like the old Titan reprints would be aces as well.

Had chance to look at that recent Case Files #1 special edition, and the glossy paper was a little too much for me.



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Colin YNWA

Thanks for that, that's really interesting, not only that its getting mainstream attention which is great, but the explaination as to how and why now. Guess as its so out in the open now if there was going to be any legal issue it could happen well before it came out to stop ahead of time. By the sound of it folk are very confident.

Now my only question is the size of the bugger!

IndigoPrime

There is of course at least one major loophole: Northern Ireland did NOT pass these changes in law, meaning it's become the UK's last outpost of crazy regarding lawsuits of this nature. Sky wavered for ages regarding showing Going Clear, on the basis that if the broadcast could be viewed in Northern Ireland, Scientology could sue the corporation there.

With 2000 AD, I can't imagine there's any risk these days, primarily because the landscape has changed so much. Mild satire/parody of this nature has long since been eclipsed across all media. But even the changes in parody law remain incomplete as long as one part of the UK refuses to implement them.


Tjm86

Quote from: Max Headroom on 30 October, 2015, 09:04:14 AM
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Any chance we'll get a Case Files #2 reprint with the extra pages then? It seems a shame to have such a huge collection with the first epic missing chapters.

Seconded.

I wonder if they are holding back on that to get this shifted first?  Considering the Zenith reprints came out so fast on the heels of the original limited book and Rebellion have a tendency to double, triple, quadruple, ... dip I would not be completely surprised.  Anyone know how the 10th Anniversary Case Files hard back did?