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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 30, 2024 10:22:15 GMT -5
I agree. It’s odd that the Sly movie chose to showcase Dredd’s world - and then have Dredd accused of something, before removing his helmet and becoming a fugitive. That’s a LOT for one film. I mean, you’d need a trilogy to cover all such arcs, yet they crammed as much as they could into the film - including Mean Machine Gang. I’m surprised they didn’t cram “The Apocalypse War” and Judge Death in there. I do like the set design in the film, the outfits, the special effects, etc. But, really, none of that matters when I consider how bad the storyline is - and the removal of his helmet. In an ideal world, we’d have had about four Dredd films by now. Seems odd that in 29 years, we’ve only had 2 (I’m surprised the Urban film didn’t get a sequel). I believe Judge Death was either to be in a potential sequel or had been in an earlier draft or another Judge Dredd script, in development. I recall hearing something about it, way back. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 31, 2024 18:28:26 GMT -5
I liked the costume, and the film had moments; but, the whole package was a misfire. I think the problem is that they tried to adapt far too many storylines from the comics and the film kind of became this mindless mish-mash. I feel like they got the tone of "absolute insanity" right as far as the world itself went, but it didn't have all that much to distinguish itself from the rest of comic book movies of the 90's I prefer the look and aesthetics of the Stallone film, and I prefer the outfit, but I believe Karl Urban’s film has the much better storyline. I kind of enjoyed the vibe the Judges Uniforms had in the Urban Dredd movie, where they're kind of like policeman's American Football armor  The tone was also much more stronger and the ideas were less strewn about like they were in Stallone movie. They also consulted with Wagner about things and I feel like that was very important to keeping Dredd unique In an ideal world, we’d have had about four Dredd films by now. Seems odd that in 29 years, we’ve only had 2 (I’m surprised the Urban film didn’t get a sequel). What utterly baffled me were the amount of people who didn't even know that Dredd was based on a comic book and just thought it was a remake of the Stallone movie. We've had the internet for ages now and you'd think they could take five seconds to google something  |
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Post by commond on Sept 1, 2024 4:14:03 GMT -5
I went to a Junji Ito art exhibition today.  The guy is an absolute genius! It was a pleasure seeing his original artwork, sketches and paintings. |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 1, 2024 4:34:25 GMT -5
As you all know, in the UK, DC did various reprint titles and annuals. Unlike Marvel, which had Marvel UK, DC simply farmed it out to licensees like Egmont. Their hardback annuals would be cover dated ahead and usually appear 3 months before Christmas. Anyway, on this day 45 years ago, various annuals went on sale in the build-up to Christmas. First, this one, with cover art by Paul Green:  Here’s the Superman one, featuring cover art by Paul Green:  And here’s the Batman one, also featuring cover art by Paul Green:  The annuals for 1985 went on sale 40 years ago today. Here they are:   The Batman cover art was done by Bryan Talbot; I’m not sure who did the Superman cover. |
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Post by foxley on Sept 1, 2024 8:18:17 GMT -5
Those British annuals were a big part of my childhood. Every year I used to get the Jack & Jill Annual (which will mean so meting to driver1980 and other British posters if not the Americans) for Christmas, and often others depending on what was available and what my parents thought would interest me. In 1977, this included this one:  and my 7 year old mind as officially blown. This was one of the comics that had a huge effect on me, and helped turn me into a lifelong comic fan, and Batman fan in particular. One of he stories reprinted in it was "This One'll Kill You, Batman!" by Denny O'Neil and Irv Novick from Batman #260, which just cast some kind of spell over me. Funny how this small events can have such an impact on our tastes. |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 1, 2024 8:23:27 GMT -5
I have that annual somewhere, purchased at a jumble sale. I recall some text stories, too, which was fun to have in addition to the US reprints.
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Post by foxley on Sept 1, 2024 9:13:36 GMT -5
I have that annual somewhere, purchased at a jumble sale. I recall some text stories, too, which was fun to have in addition to the US reprints. I remember those stories too, which I assume were written by some anonymous staff writer at the publishing company.
In later life I sometimes wondered if they were just there to fill out the page count (along with the ubiquitous puzzle pages) or if there was some kind of requirement to have a certain amount of original British content.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2024 9:27:31 GMT -5
I went to a Junji Ito art exhibition today. The guy is an absolute genius! It was a pleasure seeing his original artwork, sketches and paintings. LOVE Junji Ito! Normally horror stuff is not my thing, but he is a huge influence on my daughter who's an art student as well. She had me read his stuff, and you are so right, absolute genius indeed. Congrats on getting to see this exhibition, would love to have seen that as well! |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 1, 2024 10:38:27 GMT -5
I have that annual somewhere, purchased at a jumble sale. I recall some text stories, too, which was fun to have in addition to the US reprints. I remember those stories too, which I assume were written by some anonymous staff writer at the publishing company.
In later life I sometimes wondered if they were just there to fill out the page count (along with the ubiquitous puzzle pages) or if there was some kind of requirement to have a certain amount of original British content.
My guess would be filling out the page count. I did like that we Brits got some original content. I’ll have to dig out the annuals I do have and take a photo of some of the text stories. As for puzzle pages, I like crosswords and spot the difference pages, but I found word searches boring, so I didn’t do them. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2024 20:01:57 GMT -5
As you all know, in the UK, DC did various reprint titles and annuals. Unlike Marvel, which had Marvel UK, DC simply farmed it out to licensees like Egmont. Their hardback annuals would be cover dated ahead and usually appear 3 months before Christmas. Anyway, on this day 45 years ago, various annuals went on sale in the build-up to Christmas. First, this one, with cover art by Paul Green: Here’s the Superman one, featuring cover art by Paul Green: And here’s the Batman one, also featuring cover art by Paul Green: The annuals for 1985 went on sale 40 years ago today. Here they are: The Batman cover art was done by Bryan Talbot; I’m not sure who did the Superman cover. Batman better hope the Continental Drift doesn't continue or else it's Jean-Claude Van Damme time!  |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 2, 2024 9:02:58 GMT -5
A snap shot that serves a bit as a who's who working at Marvel in the mid-70s. The only conspicuous absences that struck me is Big John Buscema and Jim Starlin.  -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 2, 2024 12:46:45 GMT -5
Conway looks like he absolutely wanted no part in that photo shoot
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 2, 2024 13:51:03 GMT -5
Conway looks like he absolutely wanted no part in that photo shoot He just wanted to be EIC...... ....until he got the job! |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 2, 2024 15:20:06 GMT -5
And here’s the Batman one, also featuring cover art by Paul Green: The covers by Paul Green seem very amateurish. The Batman one is just a bad cover version of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's effort from Batman #272.  The Batman cover art was done by Bryan Talbot; I’m not sure who did the Superman cover. I think it looks like Steve Dillon's work - he also seems to have done the 1981 Batman cover.  |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 2, 2024 18:28:49 GMT -5
The 1989 Batman Annual features my favourite cover:  |
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