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That hairstyle change anecdote has been used for ages now and I don't think I've ever seen it contradicted. Prepared to be proved wrong though!

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Cover: Heh - only a couple of weeks after a discussion over whether a character was bursting through a portal, we get... yeah.

I'm sure no-one catalogs my pet peeves but one of them is that I prefer covers that are drawn by the strip's regular art team. Maybe only a couple out of every ten covers drawn by a guest artist really works (last week's attempt by Brendan McCarthy to capture Deadworld is a case in point). So a Marshall/Teague effort would have been infinitely preferable.

Dredd: Fun, most of the jokes work. The puns are a bit ersatz Abnett is places. The opening exchange concluding with "he don't like anything" is brilliant. Where's the pod actually going? A satellite, or something?

Weston's art is as incredible as ever.   

Skip Tracer: So ridiculously retro, all it needs is a 'THRILL 2' card in the bottom corner of the first page.

The Order: TOP THRILL (let's assume that's the case every week unless specified)

Loving the new automaton's swivelly head.

Durham Red: Yeah, no slight on Lee Carter but Willsher was really flying on art duties. Hope he hasn't like lost any income while he's been laid up unable to draw. Do artists generally have insurance for this sort of thing?

I liked the fleshing out of DR's blood cravings, gives her an added dimension.

Deadworld: Great installment, again.

Cover: It's never bad to see more McCarthy but perhaps not when he has to copy another artist's character designs, especially one who has such a distinctive style.

Dredd: Agree with most people (actually, everyone) here - too verbose and rushed. Plus I've seen enough 'implants gone wrong' storylines on Black Mirror recently to last me a while, thanks. Love Dave Taylor's art, though - you can't beat a Dredd artist who gives different uniforms to Judges from other divisions.

Skip Tracer: It's like something from Starlord! Hope it goes on for 50 weeks (unlike Starlord)

The Order: I love The Order unreservedly. It's been my favourite strip since coming back to 2000 AD 18 months ago and this week's installment has done nothing to change that opinion. 

Durham Red: The impetus seems to have stalled a little bit on this story. Also agree that the fantastically talented Lee Carter is here perhaps not the best choice of artist - it needs someone with a 'messier' style.

Deadworld: Continues to impress. The Kek-W droid is on fire right now.

Don't worry about it gameluvah, much like Halo Jones, Cabs Inc does have a satisfying ending, if not necessarily a conclusion, since it leaves many character fates open and sets up a new story.  But that's the nature of most stories (and reality itself)

Yeah, it finishes on the climactic battle with Ethan Kostabi and after that it's pretty much run its course. The only thing that did annoy me (and I started a thread to say so a few months ago) was that we don't find out if Hannah Chapter and Solomon Verse survive (though we are told they suffer some pretty gruesome injuries).

why are there no drips of liquid on the emerged parts - most notable the right hand gun?

Maybe she's going into the liquid...

Anyway, whatever inaccuracies there may be with the exact positioning of the liquid, it's a fantastic cover. More Rachael Stott please.

Great resolution to Dredd this week, the way the two plot strands have dovetailed (do strands dovetail?) really has been masterful. Survival Geeks is inconvenienced by having a plot resolution get in the way of the jokes, but remains as entertaining as ever. Deadworld is just... freaky. Yeah, I'll need to re-read at the end to pick up the plot but on a week-to-week basis it's grotesquely wonderful. Durham Red - couldn't quite put my finger on why it looked different, at first - think I preferred Willsher. Or hang on - let's get Rachael Stott!

I'm actually quite enjoying Skip Tracer. It's almost like a throwback to the more juvenile kind of strip that 2000 AD was doing back in the early days. And that's not meant as a criticism, it's nice to have something like that around again.

Finally, Little Detail of the Week: in that panel in Survival Geeks where Simon is walking off with a cloud over his head, Sam's fingers as she speaks. Sweet!

Just picked up my prog. All I'm saying for now is The Order is back!

She spent the whole of Peter Davison's first season in that outfit. Must have been a bit ripe by the end.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention those. The one of Tegan is especially wonderful.

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Another great prog. To reflect this I'm going to make every strip joint TOP THRILL. Yes, even Skip Tracer.

Skip Tracer is still waiting in line to grab my attention. I can read it in like 40 seconds. This week's episode was a fight, and one piece of information. Still no clue about the protagonist, and very little about the world. Hopefully there'll be a table-flipping episode soon

Maybe we're in for another 'Trifecta'..?

Just picked up my prog. All I'm saying for now is told you so!

So another great prog, Deadworld maybe sneaks TOP THRILL this week just for having Death in it

Excellent storytelling in both Dredd and Durham Red. In fact I can't work out if it's a better Red than Dredd

I'm here all week folks

Survival Geeks - that's a giant butt plug that Simon descends on, isn't it? Maybe someone more familiar with butt plugs than me can confirm this.

Got a feeling that Simon's strange pose in the next frame is some sort of comment on Adric's unfortunate reveal while in the Master's web in Castrovalva, but frankly the thought is too horrible to contemplate.

Skip Tracer. I'm sort of hoping, fancifully I suspect, that this is going to explode into some kind of bizarre John Smith style headf**k of a story. But that last panel is such a load of bull.

I thangew.

Was going to post this in the current prog thread but thought it might run on its own...

Just picked up this week's prog (2084) from WHSmith's and the person at the counter said, rather unexpectedly, "Has it started repeating itself yet?"

Which caught me completely off guard. Best response I could muster on the spur of the moment was "A bit, but the pictures are different." Ha ha.

I suppose if I'd had a bit more time to think I might have provided a more germane response such as "Well, the Pat Mills strips basically go over the same ground, and the Dredd stories are a bit over-fixated with the aftermath of Day of Chaos".

Any strange comments been made when you've picked up your prog?

I don't think I'm gonna go over each strip separately. I'll just say that this is the most enjoyable prog I've read since coming back to the fold 15 months ago. Everything is firing.

If last week was Durham Red's prog then this week Survival Geeks rule the roost. That cover! Did we work out who the two guys on the left are, holding things over their shoulders? Also is there any significance to Jace Darkmatter being spelled 'Jase Darkmater'?

Just got my prog

All I'm saying for now is

COVER

Depends on which episodes you've been reading.  Arguably it has some of Redondo's best work (for me, anyway) and it is of an age for a different audience but it has stood the test of time quite well.  Don't get me wrong, it's nowt earth shattering but I think you'll find that reading it as a whole gives a different view

Yeah, I should have added that Redondo's work is peerless.