Rebellion, the folks behind the British sci-fi comics anthology 2000AD, have been pretty aggressive about marketing their weekly comic digitally, with both an iOS app and direct downloads via their website. This week's issue of 2000AD, Prog 1850 (issues are called "progs" in their world), is a good jumping-on point for new readers, with four new story arcs launching at once. … [Read more...] about Judge Dredd Case Files Comes to iOS
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Digital Dredd: Jumping onto 2000AD with Prog 1824
The most daunting thing about comics these days, it seems, is the continuity: Where's the starting point for a comic that has been running since 1947? Marvel and DC have both made efforts in this direction in the past few years, with DC's New 52 and Marvel's Marvel Now touted as jumping-on points. The UK comic 2000AD has been around since 1977, and it wasn't easy to find in … [Read more...] about Digital Dredd: Jumping onto 2000AD with Prog 1824
Digital Comic Review: Judge Dredd on Kindle
Last year's Judge Dredd movie brought Mega-City One's toughest lawman to a wider audience in the U.S., but there's a lot of backstory to catch up on, since the character debuted in the pages of the British science fiction comic 2000AD in 1977. Now the publishers of 2000AD are making it easy for new and old readers alike to sample some of the classic Judge Dredd stories by … [Read more...] about Digital Comic Review: Judge Dredd on Kindle
Comics Apps with a British Accent
When I was a kid, I loved British comics, but I couldn't get them very often. I lived in Scotland the year I was five, and I spent occasional summers in Ireland, but aside from those glorious periods of my life, I depended on my Irish relatives to send us comics a couple of times a year. They would arrive in huge cylindrical bundles, rolled and wrapped in brown paper, tied with … [Read more...] about Comics Apps with a British Accent