Comics artist Nick Miller has quickly risen to my “Drawn Judge John Reid Challenge” and delivered this cracking version of the savage Scot from the new British Ministry of Justice!
Thanks, Nick!
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
Categories: 2000AD
Joe Gordon from Forbidden Planet International dropped me an e-mail to say of this: “Brilliant — although I’ve always thought Reid would make a better classic East End Glasgow hard man gangster than a Judge, he just exudes that quality. Ministry of Justice also made me think of Orwell – you think we will get a Ministry of Peace to go with it?
“Fair gave me a chuckle on a Monday though! We need Cam Kennedy to do a whole strip of this!”
And then added “Do you think his Lawgiver has an extra setting? “Lawgiver to ‘illegal immigrant’!” BADAMM!