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[Indigo Prime]

I mean, Interceptor is on a par or indeed better than some of those really early Indigo Primes - but it's not a patch on Killing Time or anything that came after the long hiatus.

Indigo Prime, easy win.

[Tribal Memories]

Tribal Memories isn't quite as good as the best one-and-done stories - but it's a damn sight better than Witchworld, the little series that couldn't.

Tribal Memories, please.

I vote for chaos - let all creators do what they will...

Hah! Nothing trumps childhood passion, can't argue with Magentica's logic there.

But by the logic of 'which merger resulted in a comic that had more good strips in it'...

2000AD & StarLord by a million miles.

I have to imagine that Mills wrote the script for Dragontamer before he'd declared that he was done writing comics for Rebellion - and I like to hold out hope that he will, one day, write more.

Not really sure at this point HOW he could 'end' the story of Slaine. As many have said, it ended pretty neatly after both Horned God and Books of Invasions, and the idea of seeing him die doesn't seem like a) it would add any value and b) that it would stop him being reborn...

[From Grace]

I did love the opening of Megatropolis but I can't help but feel it did start to go too far down the route of 'what if character x was retooled as character y in this new universe, and how fun is that'? I mean, it IS fun, but it's also distracting me from the story. From Grace is also quite a lot of showing off from the writer, but it's more coherent overall.

The art on both is beyond gorgeous.

From Grace.

[Survival Geeks]

I do love me some Shaky 2000, and I love the idea of the Soul Gun stories. Not so much the actual panel-to-panel plotting.
Survival Geeks is just plain great, with superlative art. I guess in conception it feels more obvious than the whacked out 60s space trip, but good is good.

Survival Geeks.

Being a total savage, I am unclear if there are going to be live events that I can tune into on some/all platforms, or if it'll be a bunhc of prerocred things I can then watch at my leisure later, or a bit of both?
Are we expecting a more detailed breakdown of which panels will happen at which dates/times, and how to find them?
I can handle YouTube, Twitch might be beyond me...

[Kingdom]

Nothing really wrong with Carver Hale (although I'm not a fan of the Cockney/Gangster story setting); basically everything is right with Kingdom.

Easy win for Kingdom!

[Shimura]

Probably I've derived more pleasure from more total pages of Future Shocks, and they have a massively important place in the Prog - although I can't shake the feeling that lately it's more of a 'Oooh, how well is this new writer/artist coping with the challenge' rather than 'Oooh, that's a clever/funny story'.

And perhaps on that basis, I'm voting Shimura, 'cos the good bits are just as good as great Future Shocks, and the overall character and world-building was impressive.

[Aquila]

I've a lot of fondness for Blackhawk but actually reading the big collection was a trudge at times. Aquila is classy comics all round, although I don't think I'd give it to an 8 year-old to read.

Anyway, I'm voting Aquila!

I'm glad Sláine continued, have enjoyed an awful lot of it (mostly in collected editions rather than in the weekly, it must be said) but I can't help but agree that the strip up to end of Horned God works really rather well as a saga of decent length. So yes, it should've stopped, and Mills should've given us more of his alternate history lessons using other/new characters instead.

[Counterfiet Girl]

Counterfiet Girl for me, too

- although I'm very tempted to vote Sooner or Later. Haven't, in the end, because I think more of the fun of that strip comes from McCarthy/Riot.

[Mambo]

No getting away from quite how deliciously horrific Nick Percival's art is on those Dark Judges. And Dave Hine has thrown in some pretty nasty ideas to match. But honestly, I think I'm more tickled by the imagination of his younger self. Rachel Verlaine, space cop, is merely ok... but Rachel Verlaine who is trying to repress her own true nature as the face warping Mambo is wicked. Also that one serial killer design in book 2 was creepy as. Mambo for me, please.

[Harke and Burr]

I, ont the other hand, am actively a fan of Harke and Burr and have no qualms throwing my vote that way. The best thing about RAM Raiders is how the costumes are an excellent time capsule for the mid 90s.