John Wagner Archives

The first episode was written by a young Alan Moore, with subsequent episodes by John Wagner, credited to his pseudonym Rick Clark Monster continued as a strip in Eagle for a number of years. Well, now it's coming back. It's one of a number of classic British comics that Rebellion, the publishers of 2000AD, are reprinting –[...]

He said that he developed the fastest pen in comics because he would average approximately 24 to 28 pages per month. Eventually, he met John Wagner and Pat Mills They had the idea for a story about a judge in the very near future They had some descriptors in mind: a New York City policeman dressed[...]

It will be available digitally worldwide on the 28th of January, however, through digital platforms like the 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD iPad app, and the 2000 AD Android app. In Prog 1915 you will find: Judge Dredd: Dark Justice by John Wagner & Greg Staples Savage: Grinders by Pat Mills & Patrick Goddard The Order by Kek-W & John Burns Ulysses Sweet Maniac For[...]

Many of them tell self-contained stories, or are parts of short serials. So while the tone of 2000AD promotes a certain kind of approach to comics (black humored, catholic towards genre, and entirely un-precious), the bit I find interesting is that everything else about it promotes balancing density of content with economy of storytelling, but on[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode108.mp3] After my last discussion with Jeff Smith as part of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with Judge Dredd creators John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra at the recent NICE Convention in Bedford. Instead of rehashing the same old stories about Dredd, John and[...]

But John Wagner and Alan Grant are writing together for something new A science-fiction/football comic. ROM OF THE REDS is the story of a what happens when the lives of a dangerous intergalactic refugee and an arrogant footballer collide With his home world destroyed, Rom of Arkadi needs a hiding place And that hiding place happens[...]

It ran 23 episodes and was published in 2006-2007, the 30th anniversary of the character and the story was done by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra who created Judge Dredd in 1977. In Origins, a box is delivered to Chief Judge Hershey with a sample of living tissue and a ransom note The tissue belongs to[...]

How will he top Mama Doop? Stay tuned. Also happily signing, sketching and posing for photos were beloved Con returnees John Wagner (Judge Dredd, A History of Violence), Rufus Dayglo (Tank Girl), Colin MacNeil (Judge Dredd, Chopper), Tanya Roberts (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and a host of others. "And the award goes to…" The Scottish Independent Comic[...]

Even more amazed that it once took John Wagner 18 months to have a script approved back in the day I can't imagine it's gotten any better in today's corporate culture While UK publishers seem to care for their characters, over in the States it would seem the characters we have all come to love[...]

Casualties of War John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra and Simon Bowland close the issue out with 'The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha 4: Dogs of War' Superficially this is another in the long chain of action scenes that dominate this series For many people that's a recommendation but, for me, Strontium Dog hasn't felt interesting, or[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Gavin Lees In the mid-twentieth century, Britain began to build upwards. In place of the rubble and desolation caused by

A glance at the roster of talent involved is enough to take the breath away, and it should be remembered that a whole generation of readers was able to pick up almost any given issue and see a dozen of these guys at their very best. So thank you: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day, Alan[...]