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Up 02/03/05
News: 2nd March
05
Preview artwork
and more
It's time for another
2000AD preview and, for your perusal, we have a small selection of images from
two future Gordon Rennie projects. First up, PJ Holden illustrates the return
of Johnny Woo in an upcoming Megazine tale, and we follow that with some Book
Cook Dredd artwork.
We also caught up with Gordon Rennie to find out more about
both projects:
What can you
tell us about the new Johnny Woo series?
The story's called 'A Bullet in the Head', it's three episodes
long, about a triad war in Hong Tong, and....erm....we find out a lot more about
Johnny Woo's backstory than we knew before.
You seem to
be picking up a few Dredd supporting characters and making them into successful
series in their own right (Woo, Koburn, Bato Loco). was this planned from the
outset or are you responding to reader acclaim?
'Reader acclaim'? Where the hell's that been going on? I've
not noticed it.
Maybe with Bato Loco it was planned all along, since I had a
bunch of story ideas for the character. With Koburn and Woo, it was Alan Barnes'
idea to try them out in their own strips.
Any plans on taking out some more supporting characters on their own?
John gave me a
certain Dredd supporting character to play with, but, so far, I haven't got round
to doing anything with them. Possibly some kind of solo strip may appear, but
one set far, far away from Mega-City One.
What are your
plans for Dredd over the next year?
I'm currently in the middle of writing a story called Blood
Trails, which will be the big Dredd story for this summer. It picks up on one
of the plot threads from Total War, about Vienna and her relationship with Dredd,
and is also a sort of semi-sequel to one of my own Dredd stories. Oh yeah, and
I get to kill off some more established Dreddverse characters.
It's been noticed
by readers that your stories are sticking far closer to Wagner continuity than
before - Visiting Hour being a prime example. Can we expect closer links between
your stories and Wagner's over the coming year?
Not especially.
Total War was such a biggie that its aftermath really had to be reflected in other
Dredd stories, whether they were written by John or someone else. Tharg was keen
to have Total War references running through later stories, to make sure it wasn't
swept under the continuity carpet.
There's a story
I've done with Boo Cook called Descent that starts as sort of Total War aftermath
story - there's a bloody great big crater leading down to the Undercity, where
Ezra Pound Block used to stand - but then goes somewhere else entirely.
Other than that,
I'm mostly doing my own thing with Dredd and Mega-City One, including some sequels
to some of my earlier Dredd stories. My own little continuity miniverse...
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