tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post2034244264761927462..comments2024-03-28T10:35:59.966+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: 2000 AD - July 1978.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-32536300531489749622016-08-15T09:43:25.226+01:002016-08-15T09:43:25.226+01:00Thanks for the dinosaur clarification, TC. :)Thanks for the dinosaur clarification, TC. :)Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-29379270510266916532016-08-15T01:22:16.888+01:002016-08-15T01:22:16.888+01:00IIRC (and it HAS been a while), sean is right. The...IIRC (and it HAS been a while), sean is right. The dinosaurs were cloned from fossil DNA and were exhibited in a Jurassic Park-type tourist attraction. When the atomic war wiped out civilization in the Midwest, the dinosaurs got loose, and Dredd later encountered them during his trek across the Cursed Earth. <br /><br />The Cursed Earth serial was reprinted in the US in the early 1980's in a self-titled Judge Dredd comic. As I recall, Old One-Eye was mentioned in the Satanus story. I realized that it must be an allusion to some earlier story, although I don't know offhand whether "Flesh" was ever reprinted over here. And I never heard of Blood of Satanus before now. <br /><br />Judge Dredd, like Doctor Who, has a sort of cult following in America. AFAIK, relatively little non-Dredd 2000 A.D. stuff has been reprinted in the US, although some companies that were publishing Dredd also tried reprinting some of the other strips from time to time. There was a Robo Hunter series in the early 1980's, and a Strontium Dog comic some years later. <br /><br />Of course, because of the trademark glitch, the Cursed Earth reprint did not include that infamous sequence with the Green Giant, McDonald's, and Burger King.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686814973788356726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-20781155174133671262016-08-15T00:50:26.241+01:002016-08-15T00:50:26.241+01:00Thanks for the M.A.C.H. Zero info, Sean and Chris....Thanks for the M.A.C.H. Zero info, Sean and Chris. I'm starting to wonder how his strip could have so totally slipped from my mind.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-74421251285898501602016-08-14T21:39:55.088+01:002016-08-14T21:39:55.088+01:00Aw, MACH Zero was a great strip. Part-Hulk, part-F...Aw, MACH Zero was a great strip. Part-Hulk, part-Frankenstein's Monster. As well as the simpleton espousing mindless violence, you also had the glimpses back to when he was a regualr guy, ready to undergo treatment to make him a 'superhero'. A bit like the Man-Thing flashbacks to his Ted Sallis days.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12736842219529837344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-83135135051767268612016-08-14T20:54:19.114+01:002016-08-14T20:54:19.114+01:00PS Those are great Mike McMahon covers on progs 72...PS Those are great Mike McMahon covers on progs 72 and 74. Even at this early stage he was a singularly great artist.<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-82508889628040660492016-08-14T20:41:38.008+01:002016-08-14T20:41:38.008+01:00As I recall, the dinosaurs in the cursed Earth had...As I recall, the dinosaurs in the cursed Earth had been cloned from old DNA to populate a Jurassic Park-style theme park before the atomic wars. I think (hey, its been a while!) Satanus' DNA came from Old One Eye of Flesh fame, and in turn became the source for that mad bloke who injected people with dinosaur blood (as you do) in the later Blood of Satanus storyline.<br />Pity Pat Mills didn't write more Dredd stories actually - he was clearly very good at it! (Not that I'm complaining about John Wagner)<br /><br />MACH Zero was an obvious Hulk swipe... in fact, I'm a bit surprised you're not fondly recalling your favourite MACH Zero tales, Steve.<br /><br />-seanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com