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Messages - Dan Banks

#1
Really great entries this time, well done all!

1. JAMES C - Last Moments - Delicious!
2. HEATH C ACKLEY - EYE OF THE STORM - Creepy!
3. THE LEGENDARY SHARK - Blood Hounds - Punny!
#2
General / Re: Best strips of 2017
21 February, 2018, 10:52:19 AM
1. Kingdom
2. Brink
3. Hope
#3
Prog / Re: Prog 2060 - Fighting Torc!
07 December, 2017, 05:45:30 AM
There's a fair amount of criticism for Slaine here and I'd like to echo some of it but my biggest issue with it has got to be the lettering. Doesn't it bother anyone else? Particularly in this issue, the bubbles for the goddess and yaldaboath just don't gel with Simon Davis's exquisite paintings. It's just such an odd clash.

I'd like to stick up for Slaine a little though, even if it is just as an artists show case and token "fantasy" adventure, it does serve to add some variety to the prog and Pat can still make me chuckle every few episodes.

Do we know if SD will be returning for the next run? Or will it be someone else's chance to take on the big job?
#4
It was worth the wait! Another very interesting conversation.
#5
Hi,

In the 2000AD Rebellion digital shop download section (https://account.rebellion.co.uk/2000ad/download), you can sort your downloads but it would be really nice if you could filter them too. Even just a simple filter like type: {Progs, Megs, Graphic Novels}, would be crazy useful. I've got about 3 years worth of progs and megs in my account so finding a graphic novel that I bought even a year ago can be a bit fiddly.

Just a suggestion :)

Apart from this I actually massively prefer this new digital portal to the old 2000AD shop, so congrats!

Cheers,
Dan
#6
Molch-R! The John Burns interview was magnificent, my favourite interview so far by a good way. What a fascinating career and a real gentleman to listen to. I thought the way you guided the interview through his career was so smooth too, really top class radio. Keep it up!!
#7
Books & Comics / Re: New Comic Book Day Megathread
03 September, 2016, 02:10:11 PM
I've read all 4 trades and that's pretty much how it is all the way through. It's that wonderful kind of bad-good.

There is a genuinely brilliant issue in book 2 though where Brian Michael Bendis turns up, in story. Well worth reading!
#8
Prog / Re: Prog 1992: The Dunwich Horror!
06 August, 2016, 08:09:45 AM
Quote from: petesbeats on 04 August, 2016, 02:06:57 PM
I may be a sucker for punishment but I've just reread Black Shuck and it made far more sense in one sitting.  I still had no idea who the person that turned into the one eyed wolf was though?  Can anyone enlighten me?  I wasn't sure if it was someone from the first arc or not?

Cheers

I've just done a reread of this myself and I think the implication is that he's Black Shuck's real father, which makes a lot more genetic sense than Blonde King Ivar from the first story I suppose.

This also explains why Black Shuck can control his wolfy-bearness unlike his Viking mate who got a scratch from Grendel in book one, Black Shuck has always been half Scucca.

As has been mentioned already though, I'm not 100% on this as it's so unclear. The Scucca character comes out of nowhere, scuppers Black Shucks plans and then dies without really telling us much at all.

However, is that the idea? The whole point of the history lesson narration is to tell us that hardly anything is known about this period of Anglian history so the writers give us a few suggestive "facts" and let us put together our own theories.

After a full re-read of both series, I still need to take another pass at them!

I'd still like to see another series anyway, just to get a little pay off from the series 1 cliffhanger!
#9
Prog / Re: Prog 1990 - Standing Tall
25 July, 2016, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 25 July, 2016, 04:16:56 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 25 July, 2016, 01:26:07 PM
Incidentally, I've just noticed Carroll's covert colonisation of the Dreddverse. He's created the new MC-2 status quo, he's installed his Lewis in Texas City, he's reworked Joyce and Emerald Isle, made free with Armitage and Brit Cit, visited Uranium City and even reintroduced the Lawlords! What's next, Mike: pan-Africa?

Eh? When was this???

Memory's a bit shaky but was this the cadet judges with the baby?
#10
If I remember correctly, he was involved in recolouring the Marvel Miracleman reprints too. The delays involved there will surely have had an effect.
#11
Megazine / Re: Meg 372 - Let's be Blunt
30 May, 2016, 08:53:56 AM
Where's the love for the Dark Judges short story chaps? For me it was the best thing in the meg bar the supreme Lawless!
#12
General / Re: Dan Abnett is now DC Exclusive
27 May, 2016, 06:58:08 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 26 May, 2016, 10:57:51 PM
On Twitter, someone asked "does your dc exclusive mean no @2000ad work?" and he replied: "No, UK work is entirely separate."

Phew!!
#14
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
24 May, 2016, 02:49:56 PM
Do we have enough material for another Strontium Dog book yet?

We've had 2 stories since life and death right?
#15
Books & Comics / Re: Dept. of Monsterology Book 2
24 April, 2016, 09:10:21 PM
Very late to the party with this one, bought the book at Christmas but manged to lose it in the pile.

Anyway, really enjoyed the book, congrats to all involved on a great follow up. Really enjoyed how the structure of the book continued with multiple plot lines all occurring simultaneously but this time with different combinations of team members, kept the story fresh and also upped the number of crazy things PJ got to draw!

And those pygmy Hitlers. I mean, hard not to laugh at that!

So yeah, hope it did well and really looking forward to the next book! Heartily recommend it to everyone on this forum, very much in the 2000AD vein.