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Up 06/09/05
News: 6 September
05
The Megazine
reaches 15
If there's anything
guaranteed to make you feel old, it's one of your favourite comics reaching a
milestone issue and realising that you were there right from the beginning.
Well, the time has come to wish a happy birthday to 2000AD's
cousin, the Judge Dredd Megazine, which reaches it's 15th with issue 237. The
Megazine has seen several incarnations in it's lifetime, but has always had a
slightly more mature stance than its more frequent stablemate. While there have
been a few inevitable hiccups along the way, it's fair to say that the Megazine
is going through a golden age at the moment, finally managing to balance informative
articles and rare reprints with some of the best new strips being produced in
Britain today.
The 15th anniversary
issue is an ideal jump on point for anyone who's not currently enjoying the wonders
of the best UK comic on the news-stands - and if a 36 page original Dredd strip
by John Wagner and Henry Fiint can't tempt you, then you don't deserve to be looking
at this site...
For more details
- and because we're a wee bit lazy - here's the press release in full, as well
as some exclusive previews:
1990 certainly
wasn’t a quiet year in Britain. The anti-Poll Tax demonstrations ended in
riots and saw the Iron Lady finally toppled from her seat of power. At the cinema,
audiences were charmed by Tim Burton’s strange but charismatic Edward Scissorhands,
whilst at home many were left baffled by the bizarre goings-on in a new show called
Twin Peaks. Our funny bones were tickled pink by The Simpsons, Baywatch and not-so-good
rapper, Vanilla Ice. It certainly was an important year for Britain’s greatest
comics character Judge Dredd, as the lawman of the future gained his own regular
title – the Judge Dredd Megazine – and an ugly sister for the weekly
2000 AD was born!
Judge Dredd
Megazine 237 (on sale 21st September) is set to ignite the newsstands with a 36-page
original Dredd saga, Flood’s 13. Written by the Dreddfather himself, John
Wagner, with gorgeous art by Henry Flint, Flood’s 13 will be the
longest single strip featured in any one issue of the Megazine. Dredd faces a
challenge of monumental proportions when a crack team of thieves assemble to pull
off the biggest heist in the history of Mega-City One …
Everyone’s
favourite ‘Wally Squad’ Judge, The Simping Detective appears
in an all-new eight-page story, Fifteen. Criminal overlord THE BOSS is throwing
a party to celebrate his fifteenth year running Angeltown and the lovely ex-badge
Galen DeMarco is determined to make it his last. Only Jack Point can stop the
sultry P.I. from landing herself in a whole heap of doo-doo! Fifteen is another
scintillating piece of noir storytelling from Simon Spurrier and art maestro Fraser
Irving.
Devlin Waugh’s
epic trek through the Chinese underworld in search of the mystic Eye of Sekhmet
concludes in the final, extra-long instalment of All Hell. Expect an all-action
finale with deaths aplenty! All Hell is written by John Smith with superb
art from Colin MacNeil.
And if all this isn’t
enough, ex-Tharg David Bishop (who knows where the bodies are buried) takes us
on a thrilling 36-page journey through the 15-year history of the Megazine. The
secret history of the world’s hardest comic revealed in four chunky chapters,
with contributions – and confessions – from creators old and new,
complete with never-before-seen art!
2000AD
Review poll finally updated!
After really far
too long indeed, we've finally updated the 2000AD Review Poll. Before we go into
details - let's see what you said when we asked: Which is the best 2000AD one-off
series?
With over 500 votes
in, it's a near tie at the top, but only one can win - so the results are:
Harry
20 on the High Rock |
(95)
19% |
Fiends
Of The Eastern Front |
(94) 19% |
Leviathan
|
(67)
13% |
Hewligan's
Haircut |
(63)
13% |
Necronauts |
(48) 10% |
Firekind |
(45)
9% |
Glimmer
Rats |
(42)
8% |
From
Grace |
(26)
5% |
A
Love Like Blood |
(15)
3% |
Dash
Decent |
(7)
1% |
It was pretty much a two horse race all the way - but after
a mighty start - and even though it led the way for most of the time, Fiends gets
pipped at the post by the rascally convict Harry. There's still a pretty decent
showing for most of the titles in the poll, with Hewligan's Haircut, for one,
being a perennial favourite.
Does thi mean any of these stories should get updated? If Alan
Davis could be tempted back, would a Harry sequel be manna from the gods or a
dreadful mistake? Time will tell if any of the above ever make a return to 2000AD's
pages...
As for the next poll? After the somewhat dissapointed reaction
to the lack of any casualties of note in the recent Blood Trails - which Dredd
supporting character deserves to be offed once Guthrie inevitably checks out?
Cast your vote now...
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