Prog 1961 - Welcome to your future!

GordonR · 01 January, 2016, 05:33:38 PM

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 29 December, 2015, 05:10:36 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 28 December, 2015, 10:16:09 PM

Not sure why there seems to be a speight of drawing Dredd with facial hair (he destests it, he's a stickler - remember?) and I can only think the artists use it to age him?

I'm guessing Karl Urban's Dredd has an influence. Though it's by no means a new phenomenon; Tom Carney made some very odd choices when depicting Dredd about 20 years ago (and indeed the Lawmaster; now that I see it again). I don't think he ever drew Dredd again; and rightly so, if he was going to keep this nonsense up.

Didn't Tom - I get to be on first-name terms with him because I remember talking to him at a con once, although he was very drunk and looked like he wanted to headbutt me - change his art style and come back under a completely different name?

Shaun Thomas? Wasn't that him too?

Steve Green · 01 January, 2016, 06:00:06 PM

Rang a bell.

https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=11342.0

JayzusB.Christ · 01 January, 2016, 06:01:55 PM

I had no idea. Fair play, though; I really liked his Shaun Thomas bleak wiry stuff.

Pop Culture Bandit · 03 January, 2016, 07:29:59 PM

A bit late due to Christmas and New Year celebrations, but here's our take on Prog 1961. Quite possibly the best year-end Prog to date!

http://www.popculturebandit.co.uk/2015/12/2000ad-prog-1961-annual.html

Loved the return of Strontium Dog and The ABC Warriors - nice blast of retro thrill-power, and The Order provided the new blood as the series advances to a whole new time-line. Great Stuff!

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year - and here's to another year of top quality thrill-power in 2016!

james newell · 03 January, 2016, 09:00:52 PM

Absolutely love the prog, a real cracker, wonderful cover by Ian Kennedy, he blew me away with return of the Mekon in the 80's and I always study Ian's the commando covers in the news agents, Hope it wont be too long before we see some more from Ian in the Prog again.

thinks Tharg

BPP · 05 January, 2016, 10:50:53 PM

Having been given the bisley cover by FP I waltzed past the 'ordinary' cover at a newsagents this afternoon.

Jesus wept it's 1000 times better.

Colin YNWA · 06 January, 2016, 06:16:56 AM

I don't normally do this, but I got both variants. Not cos I particularly like them both (the Kennedy one is great) just cos ... well actually why???

Hawkmumbler · 06 January, 2016, 07:04:10 AM

Your on a slippery slope! Soon you'll be collecting all 12 variant covers for IDW Judge Dredd #2!!!!

TordelBack · 06 January, 2016, 11:33:59 AM

Quote from: BPP on 05 January, 2016, 10:50:53 PM
Jesus wept it's 1000 times better.

Yep. And I like the Biz's one too.

sheridan · 09 January, 2016, 09:50:11 PM

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 06 January, 2016, 06:16:56 AM
I don't normally do this, but I got both variants. Not cos I particularly like them both (the Kennedy one is great) just cos ... well actually why???

I don't normally get variant covers, but as my local comic shop only had the Bisley cover (as most comic shops would have, it being the Diamond exclusive), I got the Kennedy one at the FP signing (partly coz I was getting it signed and partly because I preferred it to the Biz one).

Tiplodocus · 12 January, 2016, 08:25:55 PM

Quote from: GordonR on 01 January, 2016, 05:33:38 PM... and looked like he wanted to headbutt me...

That doesn't help narrow it down.

Thought that was damned good. Would have been a nice bitter sweet ending/beginning for Sin Dex but am glad to know more on the way.

Only two bits that didn't work for me were, I am afraid to say, by the old masters. I suppose the Futreshock wasn't really Redondo's fault. But the Kennedy cityscape is a really old fashioned vision future and doesn't work for me (though that is probably why many of you love it).

Yay! Kingdom.