'Free' Megazine GN Suggestions

[TordelBack]

I'll send you mine, Tim, just recently put in a storage box so I even know where it is.  Just PM me your address. 

[Taryn Tailz]

Thanks Tordelback, thats really great of you. 

I've sent a P.M.

[PreacherCain]

I'd like to see some sort of Kev Walker collection. Always loved his work, even on stuff that isn't held in such high esteem like Balls Brothers and Mercy Heights.

[Hawkmumbler]

A Colin MacNeil collection anyone?

[Third Estate Ned]

Forgive my ignorance, but has the Middenface McNulty Megazine stuff by Alan Grant ever been reprinted? I quite liked that back then.

[Emperor]

Forgive my ignorance, but has the Middenface McNulty Megazine stuff by Alan Grant ever been reprinted? I quite liked that back then.

Nope not been collected yet and it is a good call - I'd be happy to see those in the Supplements.

[The Adventurer]

You mean the Young Middenface stories? That sounds like an interesting reprint possibility.

[Third Estate Ned]

I'm not sure if it was the young Middenface. The art was coloured and quite chaotic with bold, black lines. I have a distinct memory of a sharp-suited Mafioso type blowing smoke out his nose that I thought was quite striking at the time. There may have been a little white dog involved in the story too, but that could just be my broken memory.

[Third Estate Ned]

It may have been this, judging by the dog memory (from Wikipedia):

"Wan Man an' His Dug" (with co-writer Tony Luke and artist John McCrea, in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.15-1.20, 1991–1992).

[The Adventurer]

Judge Dredd reprint idea. Judge Dredd: Blood Trails (1440 - 1449). I recall liking it, and how it used much of Dredd's (then current) supporting cast. But I don't see it being reprinted in a proper trade any time soon. So a floppy would be a good place for it.

[radiator]

Yep, definitely up for that. Never read blood trails.

[a chosen rider]

I just hunted it down all the parts in prog form recently, and yep, I agree it would be a good reprint candidate.  Although I think ideally it ought to be bookended by the "Visiting Hour" and "Life & Death" one-shots from progs 1423 and 1452 for completeness, and twelve progs' worth is probably a bit long for a single reprint floppy - maybe it could be split across two Megs and padded out with a few other Gordon Rennie Dredd stories?

In fact, I'd be up for some Rennie Dredd reprints in general, since he wrote quite a few in the prog 1200-1400 era that haven't been collected, and it'll be ages before the case files get that far.  Looking at BARNEY, he wrote a number of 3 and 5 parter stories that would probably make a good basis for floppies.  I'd like to read Gulag, definitely, and the Planet Gary stuff could be collected together.

[Emperor]

Working to around 64 pages (although I suspect there is some wiggle room as there seem to be 68 internal pages) and just clicking around starting from John Smith and working out (inspired by this thread):

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Slaughterbowl

Easy enough to theme around other John Smith stories.

Slaughterbowl (progs 842-849) 48 pages, with Paul Peart

Danzig's Inferno (progs 718-719) 12 pages, with Sean Phillips

Inside Moves (prog 631) 5 pages, with Chris Weston

Alternatives include:

Order of the Beast (prog 632) 5 pages, with Dave D'Antiquis - although it might be worth a Dave D'Antiquis collection

Vector 13: Case Three: Graven Images (prog 1064) 5 pages, with Cliff Robinson - although I'd like a Vector 13 collection or two collecting the better ones

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Dave D'Antiquis collection or just call it Silo and market it around Mark Millar's name (a pity as I am a fan of D'Antiquis' work but Millar sells).

Leading on from the previous suggestion:

Silo (progs 706-711) 36 pages, with Mark Millar

Tharg's Future Shocks: The Foreign Model (prog 643) 4 pages, with Mark Millar

Order of the Beast (prog 632) 5 pages, with John Smith

Tharg's Terror Tales: Even Death May Die (prog 841) 6 pages, with Chris McHale - the Lovecraft was a little on the nose but I really liked the way he went full colour with a more painted style

He also did a number of other Future Shocks that'd make up the numbers, I'd need to go through them to find the decent ones.

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Strange Days

The bonus: it is Warren Ellis' only appearance in the prog which might get some interest

I make that 32 pages from the Meg and three more stories from the Specials (not sure about the page count), which might be coming up slightly short.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=STRANGE

However, there are two Mega-City One stories by Dave Stone and John Smith (both drawn by Sean Phillips, who did a couple of the Strange Days ones - mentioned previously after the suggestion of a Sean Philips collection) which might fit (I'd need to dig them out and check but I'll eat my hat if at least the Smith one isn't weird and I have a massive head, so that'd be quite an undertaking):

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=Specials&choice=MEGACITY

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Holocaust 12 anyone?

We've got 54 pages there:
http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=HOLO12

To pad it out there is "Animal House" by John Smith and Chris Weston in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 1992.

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The Silo collection could then segue into a Maniac 5 collection, which I rather enjoyed at the time but I did reread it recently and it is pretty thin stuff (although a big no to Babe Race - there are limits):

Being a cynical fucker, I suggest Mark Millar's short stories like Babe Race, Maniac 5 and his Robo Hunter run, seeing as he's developing himself as a brand and all with Clint it might be an idea to grab some of that book's readers while taking advantage of Rebellion's improved circulation stateside.

Plus I actually like Maniac 5 and think it holds up well with only the topical references dating it.  Not much of a compliment, I know, but I could see it appearing in Clint.

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Also I'd second this:

Thumbs up for Sancho Panzer.

I suggest Vanguard.

I've re-read them both recently and they are still good solid stories.

Vanguard could then segue into a Colin MacNeil collection - some of his Dredd work that isn't on the big name stories, as he has worked on a lot of the biggest stories of recent years it'd be nice to give some focus to his other Dredds. The Corps and Maelstrom both got collected in EE #17 so there is probably less pressure to reprint them.

[SmallBlueThing]

If we're not going to have a vector 13 trade collection (which is, in itself, madness), could we not at least have a few months of them in the floppies?

SBT

[Taryn Tailz]

Im suprised we've yet to have a floppy which collects the final strips for series such as Caballistics Inc or The V.C's. Theres probably not enough left to give those strips another trade, so why not a floppy?