Judge Dredd's Pop Music Shenanigans

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

This week's JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE features a story by me exploring pop music in Mega-City One. I get to do some gags, assuming they haven't cut it to buggery, so well worth the read. (Also not too late to get last month's JDM also featuring me.)

This may be an excuse to talk about previous occurrences of pop music in 2000AD or in comics in general, and the eternal behind-the-times-ness of same.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

There was that Garth Ennis Muzak Killer thing, a particularly lame example of his tedious habit for railing against his bugbears in his writing.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone read that Spice-capades comic? Amongst other chuckles there's a good Peter Bagge story about him accompanying his daughter or niece and her friends to a Spice girls concert.

Wasn't the first Nemesis story some weird musical tie-in?

― Eyemelt (Eyemelt), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it was supposed to be the first in a number of conceptual stoies, each inspired by a song, under the title 'Comic Rock'. The song it was based on was 'Going Underground' by The Jam.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, art by Dean Ormston.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Muzak Killer? I thought it was Dermot Power.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, my thing! Muzak Killer was indeed Dermot Power. Admittedly Garth Ennis did take a few subtle swipes at music snobs as well, although he might have been being serious.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.2000mad.20m.com/img3.gif http://www.2000mad.20m.com/img4.gif

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Judge Dredd's Pop Music Shenanigans begin and end with the MEGA PLAN as far as I'm concerned.

Has there ever been a good comic about pop? (There has been a quite good comic about indie, or at least the 80s iteration of same, St Swithins Day. And of course L&R is a good comic about punk, I guess.)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Phonogram!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

MY GENERATION (Vertigo Pop! London by Milligan & Bond)

Zenith?

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Duh! Zenith!

Have to look at the Milligan one.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought of My Generation, but it's more Britpop (as is Phonogram in fairnesS) and specifically the Oasisy end of it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

But it is dead good!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sort of tangential...

http://www.dangermen.net/MutantsInMegaCityOne/MutantsInMegaCityOnePC_A.jpg

a madness side-project, released on their 1980s label, zarjazz

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Some of those Rock'n' Roll biography comics were terrible! Although who could forget the awesome Alice Cooper story in issue 50 of Marvel Premiere! I think Howard had a few music references in it as well...

Actually thinking about it, there's a ton of comics with music tie-ins... How about music with comic references? Was Sabbath's 'Iron Man' anything to do with Marvel's character?

― Eyemelt (Eyemelt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Judge Death kill them in a disco in his first appearence?

I also recall the story about an uglified band with Jagger-o-like as the lead singer.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Who Killed Pug Ugly? featuring Otto Sump.

http://www.2000adonline.com/images/character/otto.jpg

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

madness side-project

I posted that already!

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.