10 years on and they are finally back, the Dark Judges return to 2000ad.
The piece at Bleeding Cool also includes a quick glimpse at Colin MacNeil’s art for this issue:
Now if this is true (and I know nothing about this one way or another), then it could be quite something:
Grant Morrison To Write Rogue Trooper Movie
Hidden in a piece for the Daily Record, comes the news that after Grant Morrison has finished writing the DinoGsaurs Vs Aliens movie for Barry Sonnenfied, he’ll be writing a movie based on the 2000AD comic character created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons in 1982, Rogue Trooper.
The lead character, Rogue, is a futuristic gentically modified soldier grown as much as he is trained into the role, acccompanied by three sentient computers, each with the personality of a different, deceased soldier. These are manifest as his gun, backpack and helmet.
After Judge Dredd, Rogue is probably 2000AD’s most popular character. I can hear Simon Pegg screaming at this moment, desperare for a part.
However the odds are that Sam Wothington wll be up for the role, as it his his company that is working on the project – Full Clip Production, who were previously attached to comics-to-film project, Damaged and Last Days Of American Crime. Will he go back in the blue?
The quote from the Daily Record piece:
Indeed, after he’s put the finishing touches to the Dinosaurs vs Aliens script, a prolific Grant is creating a movie adaptation for Sam Worthington’s company.
Called Rogue Trooper, the project is based on a character from the popular British comic book series 2000AD.
Not much to go on but… oh boy, I might need to instal new thrill-buffers.
And Sam Worthington? Would he make a good Rogue? Hell he has already appeared in a film called Rogue.
Coming at the end of the year in the creator-owned slot in the Megazine:
It’s been around for a while, but it’s finally seeing publication as a comic.
Pat Mills, creator of 2000AD and developer of Judge Dredd has teamed with artist Clint Langley for a new monthly series to run in Judge Dredd Megazine.
American Reaper starts from October 12th, and it’s a sci-fi police procedural with future cops taking down illegal identity transplanters, letting the elderly digitally possess the bodies of the young, amid calls for those on Death Row to donate their bodies to the cause.
The comic has already been optioned as a movie by Xingu Films, who made Moon.
Down The Tubes has more information on the film and funding for the story:
Xingu says the film version of American Reaper was brought to them as a short pitch from Pat with some sample art from Clint. “Immediately captivated by the exciting premise, and the exceptional track record of the creative team involved, Xingu came on board not only to commission a screenplay, but also to raise the financing for the graphic novel itself. A departure for our company, but another sign of our flexibility when it comes to how best to get the stories we believe in made.”
Bleeding Cool have even more Low Life preview pages - Dirty Frank flying to Hondo-City, DF in front of the Council of Five and then… what? taking the Long Walk? Something has clearly gone badly wrong when the Saviour of Mega-City One is in such deep doo doo.
Prog 1750 will be another jumping-on point, so soon after prog 1743 too, and with a line-up that is a strong contender for Prog of The Year - who loves you? Tharg loves you, that’s who.
Prog 1750 is the next big jumping on point for 2000AD readers, out in the UK on the 7th September.
New Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Henry Flint, John Smith and Edmund Bagwell are reintroducing us to Indigo Prime, there’s Lowlife by Rob Williams and D’Israeli, and Ampney Crucis by Ian Edginton and Simon Davies. All new strips, all starting in one new issue.
And this is the Greg Staples cover. If you’ve never read 2000AD before – or not for an age, the upcoming issue would be a good place to start. Why, nothing else will be relaunching around that point, will it?
As pointed out by Bleeding Cool, the situation is getting more Dredd-like by the hour and don’t forget - the current Dredd epic storyline is “Day of Chaos” which is eerily prescient.
Although they draw parallels with the current comic incarnation, this is even closer to the look they have developed for the upcoming Dredd film:
Bleeding Cool settle us gently into the end of the world with DR and Quinch’s first adventure, from way back in prog 317:
In Australia, New Zealand and Fiji it is well past the Saturday 6pm deadline. There are no major earthquakes, no sign of the impending Rapture, unless of course all Aussies are godless heathens and not one of them would be saved. Which is a possibility. So, while you are waiting for the world not to end – though we’ll be having a rematch next year with the Mayans – why not settle back and enjoy the most entertaining way the Earth has met its end in comics?
Alan Moore and Alan Davis’s first DR And Quinch story from 2000AD. You can buy a collection here in the UK and here in the US – and if you haven’t, you really must. You know, if there’s time.
For the full-size pages hop on over there.
Here are a few scenes from Super Dinosaur, published on Wednesday.
And here is Strontium Dog from 2000AD created… a wee while before that.
Seen at Kapow this weekend. The cover to The Walking Dredd, Williams & McCarthy for an upcoming Judge Dredd Megazine #311, out the end of May in the UK, the end of June in the US
Brendan McCarthy is quotes as saying “Awash in a sea of zombie comics and movie and cable TV shows, I thought it would be interesting to examine the effects on Judge Dredd from a zombie bite! This is my second Dredd after a 20 year hiatus (I just popped out to get some milk and got waylaid…) and I’m starting to get a feel for a newdigital style for 2000 AD: Drawn in Superdigidelic Zombiescope.”
While Rob Williams is quotes as saying “we’ve got a great ticking clock thriller where Judge Dredd, once bitten, hasto walk back to Mega City One and its zombie vaccine before he completely turns into the most terrifying flesh eater of all time. A zombie Judge Dredd? What’s not to like?”
The passage of time is a cruel beast. And most artists hate their older world. Few have a chance to go over it and make all sorts of changes.
Well that’s what Clint Langley has done on Sláine: Lord of Misrule, reissued today. A radical recolouring of his original work on the book. You can see a couple of after and before shots below – feel free to clicky for biggy.
