This first team-up still holds up as one of the best 2000AD crossover titles to date. Having found his feet on Heavy Metal Dredd, Bisley was set to attempt the first crossover event, also in 1991, with another comic character: the outstanding, Judge Dredd / Batman: Judgement On Gotham(written by Judge Dredd creator, John Wagner, with regular Batman scribe, Alan Grant). ![]() After the mag folded, Heavy Metal Dredd found its new home in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Simon’s glorious technicolour art spawned a generation of wannabe artists, but also had the adverse effect of filling the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with muddy brown, sub- Bisley clones’ colour pages, for most of the 1990s!Įven though the Bisley droid’s artwork inspired so many with his breathtaking portrayal of the Warriors, and especially, Sláine, it is also worth remembering that The Biz could draw a pretty mean Judge Dredd.īisley’s take on Judge Dredd first appeared on the cover of Prog 589 (27Aug’88), but he didn’t draw a strip featuring the future’s greatest lawman until a series of one-off Heavy Metal Dredd tales were commissioned in the short-lived Rock Power magazine, from June 1991. However, Bisley really shook things up when he returned to the comic with the seminal Sláine: The Horned God, also with Mills. ![]() His European, Heavy Metal-style changed the rules, for what was still essentially a boys’ adventure title. ![]() The ludicrously talented phenomenon that is Simon Bisleyfirst came to our attention, in the pages of 2000AD, with his dazzling black & white inks on ABC Warriors: The Black Hole, written by Pat Mills.
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