Tag: alan grant

I have a curious collection of 2000Ad stuff and this is one of the pieces I keep squirrelled away and I hadn’t actually seen for years.  Reaction came out with a set of figures for 2000ad many years ago – probably early 2000’s and I picked them up.

This is one of the limited edition Judge Death characters which I ordered which I am yet to see anywhere else.  It was a limited run of 2000 and I might have number one I might ot.  I am uncertain how they numbered them but if mine is the first then that makes it even cooler.  There was a different limited run for a long haired Judge Anderson which was numbered sequentially so that gives me hope that this might be kind of unique.

The series featured (and I will show you the rest another time):

• Dredd
• Judge Death
• Judge Death Spirit Variant
• Johnny Alpha
• Slaine
• Slaine Warped Variant
• Durham Red

 

I posted this a while back on my separate 2000ad blog but as it got destroyed I thought I would share it again.

Of all my art pieces this is by far my most precious and adored.  An actual Carlos Ezquerra painting from the ‘Return of the king’ story by Garth Ennis published in 1991.  I picked it up online and the minute I saw it I had to have it.  It cost me a pretty penny but I think it was a real bargain and I actually went to a place in London to pick it up.   It features Dredd plus all four of the dark Judges: Death, Fear, Fire and Mortis.  Only a piece from Necropolis or Apocalypse war might top it but it would have to go some way…

Damn it’s gorgeous!

 

 

 

I bought this piece some years ago for not a lot, and I used to know what it was from but for the life of me I cannot recall.  Its a shame because it is one of my favourite pieces.  I have a lot of black and white art and I seem rather drawn to it.   I do not know much about art and space and aspect and such but there is something about the white bits that are left blank as much as the bits that are filled in.  I look at the piece and cant quite decide which I love more – the bit the artist has done or the bit he has left.

All very confusing but I do know that I rather like it even if I have no idea who did it.

 

 

 

I have been very excited about this for a number of reasons.  I buy a lot of my comic art from eBay and over the weekend was perusing the site when I saw a 2000AD comic script.  I had never seen one of these before so was excited by the piece (well pieces there were two but you only get to see one today).

Within moments my pulse was racing as I realised just what it was.  Not only was it a script from a story that I remember from 1985 but it was the script from a Prog that I read so many times and was THE most memorable one from my childhood.  I remember reading this prog over and over and loving the two gangs featured – the Zits and the Sharks.  The art work is amazing and the story was brilliant – a musical!

Well I just had to have and a quick bid and it was all mine.

The story is that the seller’s brother went to school with Alan Grant’s daughter or son and I believe it because the other script is signed by Alan Grant and John Wagner and I have both of their signatures on stuff from a Con a few years ago.  All checks out and to be honest it didn’t cost enough to be worth creating a forgery.

Anyway, if this is your thing check it out.  Me and my youngest had a read of it tonight – me on the script and him on the comic and it was almost exactly the same.