Forum’s Fav Thrill - Leviathan vs. ABC Warrior Rd 4 Heat 29

[Colin YNWA]

Final week of Round 4 and Round 5 beckons. As ever some interesting match ups, but again this feels like a week when some 'weaker' thrills will end their runs and Round 5 will have unbelievably tough calls, not that Round 4 hasn't but the quality will just keep ranking up and up as we go on.

Ohhh this one is interesting. Leviathan is one of the most beloved done and gone (well a couple of postscripts aside) in Tharg's Thrill-bulge but surely it can't take out the ABCs who defined 'Now I am the master' by taking down its own 'father' last Round*. Mind Leviathan hasn't exactly had the easiest of routes so far either...

*Yes I'm fully bloomin' aware I'm mixing my Star Wars there...

Form book:

Leviathan - Bye; Grey Area; Tyranny Rex
ABC Warriors - Bye; Dead Men Walking; Robusters

Leviathan - more info

Vs

ABC Warriors - more info

Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.

Match ends early on the morning of Saturday 30th July and the winner gets a place in Round 5 (of 9!!!).

What on Earth is ALL of this?

For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules

Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!

[Trooper McFad]

ABC Warriors

[moly]

ABC

[Aaron A Aardvark]

ABC Warriors

[The Mind of Wolfie Smith]

leviathan

[abelardsnazz]

ABC Warriors.

[rogue69]

ABC Warriors

[SmallBlueThing(Reborn)]

ABCs

SBT

[Magnetica]

ABC Warriors.

[AlexF]

Much as Leviathan was amazing, and much as some ABCs has been pretty awful...
The good bits of ABCs are SO good.

Gotta be ABC Warriors (da-na-na-na-na-NOOOWwwwww)

[davidbishop]

Leviathan.

[paddykafka]

ABC Warriors

[Proudhuff]

Leviathan. Loved this, perfect blend of art and story.

[broodblik]

Leviathan

[IndigoPrime]

I imagine ABC Warriors will win this, but I found it a horrible chore to read in the UC. I quite like the original series, even if it's very by the numbers old-school 2000 AD. (Lovely art, though.) The Black Hole mission is better, if not quite as good as I remembered it to be. (Lovely art, though.) Everything else that followed was a varying level of diminishing returns/cut and paste. (Lovely art, though.)

Leviathan was a tiny slice of magic, and the only thing I disliked about it was how fast the story was wrapped. These days, you'd hope 2000 AD would encourage letting it breathe. Even so, I'd much rather re-read Leviathan over any ABC Warriors series, and far more than trudging through the entire run. And, yeah, lovely art too.