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October 24/25/26 2005 20th anniversary of The Joy Flight

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A new variant has been added!

Annam Limestone Babbler (Gypsophila annamensis) © David Bishop

It hatches from brown, chunky, harsh, heavy, hoarse, large, loud, overall, rocky, similar, and white eggs.

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Brief Look at Judge Dredd Novels, Part XIV: Kingdom of the Blind by David Bishop

Bishop makes his fifth and final contribution to the world of Judge Dredd novels, and the results are, thankfully, good enough that he can be said to be bowing out on a relatively high note.

Ever since The Savage Amusement, David Bishop novels have reliably functioned in accordance with a broadly solid narrative engine whereby you throw up a bunch of moving parts in the air and gradually weave them together to create a succession of ludicrously overblown action scenes. The benefits of this model for a universe like 2000 AD, which practically runs off of ludicrously overblown action scenes, are fairly self-explanatory, and we've detailed them at some length already.

All the same, Bishop has historically struggled at times with keeping all the plates spinning, though outside of The Savage Amusement he's generally been able to paper over these issues with a fierce narrative momentum. With Kingdom of the Blind, however, we finally get something approaching the absolute best of both worlds, managing at long last to wed this compelling momentum to a comparatively straightforward story, owing more to the simplicity of Cursed Earth Asylum than it does the apophenic and/or conspiratorial splendour of novels like Silencer or Bad Moon Rising.

Indeed, Kingdom of the Blind is a pretty solid demonstration of what is perhaps the most satisfying part of the Brief Look as a project when juxtaposed against my usual Doctor Who fare. Bishop elevates what would otherwise be a standard story with some nice little touches emphasising the evolution of 2000 AD's characters in the eleven years since Deathmasques, particularly in the evolving relationship between Dredd and Hershey. It's remarkable how tight these fourteen books have been in spite of an eight year gap halfway through, to say nothing of their being surprisingly comprehensible to a 2000 AD layman like myself.

Outside of that, I don't *really* have too much to say; as with Bad Moon Rising, Bishop proves he has a solid grasp on how to wield the satirical edge inherent to Judge Dredd in a post-9/11 world, and while none of the supporting characters are really fleshed out on the level of a Gethsemane Bane or even a Nikita Kontarsky, they're certainly not offensively bad.

What are we to make of Bishop then, all told? Well, it's somewhat difficult for me to say, and I feel like anything I could say would come across more negative than I strictly intend. 'Cause the truth is that Bishop has never really been one to go for broke in his Dredd novels in the manner of Dave Stone or Stephen Marley. And as much as I did find myself enjoying a great deal of his novels - anyone who would dream up Who Killed Kennedy clearly has something going for them, creatively - that fact has always held me back from enjoying them quite as much as I would if he really went crazy, stylistically speaking.

But again, as Kingdom of the Blind ably demonstrates, he could be quite good, and it would have made ample sense for him to get so many commissions even if he wasn't the long-time editor of the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD.

Fare thee well, David Bishop.

The Ranking So Far:

Dreddlocked

Deathmasques

Black Atlantic

Wetworks

Kingdom of the Blind

Bad Moon Rising

Silencer

Eclipse

The Medusa Seed

Dread Dominion

Dredd vs Death

Cursed Earth Asylum

The Hundredfold Problem

The Savage Amusement

P.S. To whom it may concern (@cynicalclassicist), I couldn't in good conscience pass up identifying a brief nod to Francis Urquhart contained within the novel:

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In Memoriam: Comic Artist Kevin O'Neill 1953 - 2022

Marking his passing, we highlight some of the key aspects of Kevin O'Neill's career; and fellow comic creators, friends and fans pay tribute

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Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #15: "Bomb Man"

Cover Credits

Pencils/Inks: Dylan Teague

Colors: Dondie Cox

Story Credits

Writer: Nigel Kitching

Pencils/Inks: Dylan Teague

Colors: John Kent

Letters: Gordon Robson

Editorial Team

Editor: David Bishop

Managing Editor: Steve McManus

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Stanley Baker (1928-1976) as Tom Yately in The Hell Drivers (1957, with Sid James in the background).

Doug Church was a former group art editor for 2000AD and other IPC titles like Battle Picture Weekly. I think it would be fair to say he made a massive contribution to the look and feel of the titles he worked on. In an interview with David Bishop (former 2000AD editor and author of Thrill Power Overload) he said that he kept photos of film stars for reference and suggested Baker as the basis for lorry driver Bill Savage. This was the main character in Invasion!, which began in 2000AD No. 1, and was initially drawn by Jesus Blasco. You can definitely see Baker as being the inspiration even though they never went for an exact likeness like has happened in some US comics.

Wonder who the Volgans were based on?

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