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It must be said that just because a story was part of Post Crisis doesn't necessarily mean that it was good and just because a story was part of N52 doesn't necessarily mean that it was bad.

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violence and death and dying and blood and guts and gore and violence and viscera and fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

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Alexander Kostetsky (1954-2010)

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they're going for more comic-like universe? ...i'm not saying it's a bad idea the "serious character in absurdly-absurd world" trope can be executed well, but looking at majority of this decade's remakes and reboots i'm worried...

He's gonna give us Walter the Wobot and Dredd's landlady/maid, Maria, from the original progs that nobody knows or cares about except for me.

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Reading a comic and thinking, "This is stupid," and then scrolling back up to see who wrote it and it's Tom King.

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Lead residue from bullet fused into bone.

In movies and comics and stories, when someone survives being shot, they just remove the bullet and that's all.

In real life situations, as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun and travels through the air, the metal gets extremely hot.

When it comes into contact with a hard surface like bone, it's like dragging a piece of chalk across the pavement. It leaves a metal residue that gets fused to the bone itself.

The gray part on the photo is the lead residue from a bullet. It only grazed the bone here, but still left behind residue.

Over a period of years the lead can slowly start to leach out from the bone causing lead poisoning.

Long-term lead poisoning is something that's not often talked about with gunshot wounds, but this is how it happens. Even if you remove the bullet fragments, its not enough, because you can't remove the residue.

You can't remove the lead residue but you can give medications to lessen the impact of lead on the body.

I almost never see this mentioned in stories except for medical dramas. But honestly it would be great to see this touched on more.

Because.....well....there's all these badass characters in fiction who survived being shot multiple times and they're just portrayed as tough and battle-hardened. But among themes of survival, the lasting impact of these types of injuries is rarely explored.

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Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

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Gilbert et al. (2025)

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Rogue Trooper, private commission. Ink on paper.

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What do you think of 2000AD comics?

2000AD is great, Judge Dredd is one of those comics you can just get really into at any point in your life, if you ever want a glimpse into UK comics scene it's always worth looking at, especially the Judge Death stories with Brain Bolland art.

Mag-freaking-nificent.

Okay, formalities out of the way? We've said Judge Dredd is cool?

Right.

Sit the fuck down and let me tell you about my favourite 200AD comic.

Let me tell you about:

NEMESIS THE WARLOCK

NEMESIS THE WARLOCK!

FIGHTING THE EVIL OF THE CHIEF TERMINATOR

TORQUEMADA

Look let me get into this. Most people know Kevin O'Neill because of his work on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Alan Moore. I know him most for Nemesis.

Nothing comes close to the absolute insanity and creativity of Nemesis the Warlock. It is some of the greatest design work ever done and speaks volumes of the environment it was created in.

Every panel, every scene has new and inventive characters, environment, objects. It doesn't stop surprising you with how it portrays everything. They mess with scale a lot, having huge sculptures of people as buildings or just making people tiny on Moebius inspired planes

Have a look at this shot of Nemesis at his writing desk

There is so much going on there it's fantastic. Anyway. Plot? Plot. Nemesis is the leader of the revolutionary army fighting Torquemada, who wants to exterminate all alien life so that only "pure" humans exist. Sounds pretty straightforward right?

Except Nemesis is a Warlock, he only does things in the most over the top evil way to combat him. And not in a "sacrifice your troops" evil way, but in a "haunt this guy and make him think I'm the devil so he does my bidding" way

(I want a church organ with a "brimstone" intonation)

Nemesis also comes through a matriarchal society, and when they attack his family he does indeed go ballistic. I feel it's important you know what the females of his species look like.

Awesome.

Any way thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about Nemesis, I highly recommend it it's an absolute blast.

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I remember reading something where (I assume) Alan Grant was talking about Judge Anderson aging. It was apparently a little trickier than Dredd as some of the tricks that had been used to keep Dredd a little younger looking than he should be wouldn’t work for her because they would mess with her Psi abilities. This was linked to a discussion of how artists had a bit of a struggle trying decide how best to capture this in the later stories. I would have thought there is a similar problem with Hershey, in terms of a female character, not obscured by a helmet, who has been aging in real time, so I am no sure how much of an artistic concern this should really be (and if you’re really stuck, at least one of the inspirations for her look is still around and well documented through pretty much every stage of her life, so Debbie Harry photo reference aren’t difficult to find).

Cam Kennedy doesn’t seem to have too much difficulty depicting an older Anderson here. She’s still quite distinctive- her first appearance in the story is mostly in silhouette, framed by a window from a distance away, but the blonde hair and badge leave us in little doubt who this is. Once seen from closer up, she seems a little marked by time- not wrinkled, but with her features more tightly set, lines on her face more visible than the may have been in her younger days. Orlok’s dialogue emphasises this: “I see the lines of age forming round your eyes. You are getting older, Cassandra… But no less beautiful.”. I imagine this is exactly what Grant would be expecting of an older Anderson (even if the words come from a Wagner script), and it seems that Kennedy is quite capable of this.

It is reminiscent of his work in Dark Empire, when Star Wars returned to comics, and all the cast were several years older, but still quite recognisable. It seems that his style is well suited to maintaining familiarity while convincingly suggesting aging without falling into cliché- in comic book terms, I guess this would be something like the approach DC once took with Hal Jordan, where he looked exactly the same but had grey temples, and that seemed to be it for signs of aging. I actually liked the two tone hair, but not any claims that this showed that comic characters weren’t stuck in a their prime throughout their publication history. Maybe Kennedy can give them lessons on how to be a little more convincing…

From “Judge Dredd: Return Of The Assassin” by John Wagner, Cam Kennedy, D'Israeli & Tom Frame, in 2000AD progs 1141-1147, reprinted in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 30

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Judge Hershey by art droid:Annie Wu

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Art droid:Colin MacNeil

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Judge Cassandra Anderson

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art droid:Colin MacNeil

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Judge Death

Art droid:Colin McNeil

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Judge Hershey, Judge Anderson