Oh that Cliff Robinson has gone and done it now! It started with people getting slapped about a bit, the odd daystick incident maybe. This led to the 'Faceboot' debacle of Prog 1847 quickly followed by full on splattage by Lawmaster in Meg 338 and the infamous Santa head butt of Meg 343.
But this week he's finally gone and done it. Oh that poor perp, I mean yeah, he's a robbing, bribing, resistant, dishonest wannabe murderer but did he really have to die?
I wonder just what these poor Megacitizens have done to upset Mr Robinson? They're having a hard time as it is, I mean there's just been a git big plague and stuff. Little Norbert on the cover there probably lost a kitten during Judgement Day or his Nana Agnes during Necropolis. I just think a little understanding or compassion would have been nice before mercilessly blowing him away on the cover like that.
Cliff Robinson, I beg you, for the children, on your next cover can we get a picture of Dredd just hugging it out with a perp? Maybe a scene from a perps' day-release trip to Black Atlantic Beach like the Daily Mail keep getting outraged about? A tea party? Dredd and Judge Death pony trekking? No...?
Aaaargh! Well drokk you Robinson, I'm gonna shove this Rotring Artpen right in your ars...
BLAM... SPLAT! See? That how it happens, all the violence in Megacity-One is Cliff Robinson's fault and he should be ashamed.
Seriously though this cover is genius. I've said many times how I love Cliff's constantly inventive covers. From little self contained stories or a focus on a piece of tech or clothing, they're always brilliant!
Below we see Cliff's sketch - bit of a Devlin Waugh vibe going on there...
Houdini's catching a bullet with his head trick went drastically wrong...
And here's the corpse tidied up and repositioned a bit...
Movember really brings out the worst in people...
With the elements in place, Cliff pencils the cover, removing that rather glorious moustache...
Did he cut himself shaving?
And finally, Cliff's trademark exquisite inks. Check out the detail on the tattoo...
A bit of Polyfilla and two paracetamols and everything'll be ticketyboo!
With Cliff's terrible crime committed, it was up to his accomplice Dylan Teague to colour the image. Below we see his amazing work...
"Happy deathday to you! Happy deathday to you! Happy deathday dear Norbert, happy deathday to yooooouuuu!"
If you're reading this you probably know this was the cover of 2000AD's 37th birthday Prog. Note how on the published version, the sentencing adds up to 37 years, cool eh? Note how they've also changed the 'Death' sentence to 'Life', it's a bit late now fellas!
A great big walloping thank you to Messrs' Robinson and Teague for their sterling efforts. Look out for a brilliant Dylan Teague cover in the next couple of days, exciting!
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