Blood for the Baron!

Or then again maybe not... did anyone else notice this in the 2000AD 100 Page Special 2003? From the pages of Banzai Battalion:



Drawn by Ian Gibson, veteran artist of Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Robo Hunter and many, many more. The links between Action force and 2000AD just keep on getting stronger!

Ian Gibson was one of my top three Dredd Artists (alongside Ron Smith and Carlos Ezquerra).

Sam Slade, Robo-hunter was always a good read, but the Ballad of Halo Jones was in a different class, the story worked on so many different levels, and the art work was spot on. There's a collected edition out now, was tempted to buy it a couple of weeks ago, might have to now I've thought about it some more.

For me the best 2000AD stories were the Classic Rogue Trooper stories (anything before prog 600 when I stopped buying 2000AD). Sheer class, one GI against the world!

While the hardbound edition does look lovely, you may be as well to get the 3 relevant Best Of 2000AD's instead...

I've always had a problem with Ron Smith, I don't know what it is, which is annoying. One of my favourite artists has to be Geoff Senior, who did tons for Marvel UK (Action Force, Transformers, Zoids, Dragon's Claws & Death's Head) I was amazed to discover his work on an episode of The Black Major.

Dang, 600? You've missed some epic stuff. Tell me you've read Necropolis!

COOL!!! No, that one slipped me by! There's also a striking similarity between some of the troops and Red Weasel, I mean Wild Wolf, oh y'know. They should make Dredd toys in 3 3/4.

In fact, some of the toys from the first (solo) Banzai Battalion story should be custom made for AF figures! Ian Gibson truly rocks when it comes to mixing machinery with humour.

Johnny Alpha's back too, despite him and Wulf bein' dead! And the ABC Warriors! It does my heart good to see old characters resurrected faithfully. Dredd still rules, although he has mellowed some.

Hi All!

Received this today:

This month?s 2000 AD Gold presents the first episode of legendary and much demanded war story Charley?s War, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun, plus the further adventures of Harry Twenty on the High Rock, and David Bishop goes further into enemy territory in part three of ?Blazing Battle Action?, the feature series on the history of British war comics.

Enjoy!

Currently under construction by Moose Harris is a tribute site to Johnny Red!

http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/

Just noticed this one. Thought you guys might be interested.

http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/details/218095/