...thought you'd like to know that the next edition is has a parody theme and includes J.D. in 'Twister' and Bix Barton in 'Carry on Barton', so there...
What no canon fodder who must I complain to?!? Besides if it includes what i think it does i have most of it Canon to the extreme!!!
Parodies?
Oh dear.
You've just mentioned two stories I hated, Arris.
- Trout
I'd have bought a Bix Barton special or a Chopper special with Twister in, but I'll pass on this.
Look forward to seeing what is in EE 6 though
Oh well?I won't be getting that one. The parodies are among the very worst stories in 2000 AD, and "Carry on Barton" was that character's nadir (although some of the other stuff was okay).
Looks like a second ee i'll be passing on sadly
im a subber, and get the EE as standard issue.
but i have learnt in recent years.
never think it will be that bad until you read it.
depends on who is writing the scripts.
but bix barton. as a parody. it cant be any worse then the orignal.
""Whats in Mr Barnes' 'mixed bag' of quarterly fun !??"
Ooh, I say! I think that's between Mrs Barnes and I ...
Um, we're 'knocking up' the cover at the moment. I shall 'stop messing about' and 'reveal all' in the next few days ... yak yak yak ...
Alan"
Do you think Alan was giving us a clue?
Bix Barton is the king of parody , in 2000 AD yearbook 1993 thers a tale about a dating agency , i actually ripped his advert of and stuck it in the local newspaper "looking 4 love" ads, i got 4 replies, but thats another story.
Ah, I love Twister. A great tale that I can't imagine being reprinted anywhere else. And the Barton tale is an interesting one. What else is included, I wonder. For ?2.99 it's worth picking up as it'll pass a trip to work entertainingly enough.
Bix Barton was genius... it's a shame he's not getting a whole issue to himself really...
Twister 4 episodes (Progs 588 to 591) 25 pages
Carry On Barton 6 episodes (Progs 723 to 728) 33 pages
58 pages worth out of a possible 103.
I hope that the Alan Moore Ro-Busters/Thunderbirds parody doesn?t see the light of day.
Twister's really funny, Bix Barton so-so.
Other parodies could be Carry On Judging, any number of one off's (He Met The Moonmen / This Island East Dulwich / Bad Timing / Hemlock Bones, Superbean etc) BLAIR 1, Space Girls, Dash Decent, Captain Klep, Bonjo, Dinosty...
I expect Freaks might get an airing ahead of Faces in the next one.
BLAIR 1 Extreme Edition?
Nooooooo!!!
Carry on Judging makes me laugh though, so as long as that's in there, I'll be happy.
Stormeagles are Go! Heck, I'll be surprised if it's not in the EE. It's only 6 or 8 pages anyway, so that's still another 40 pages to fill, and I have no idea what they could be. 2000 AD's non-Dredd parodies tend towards the low end of the thrillpower scale, and I can't honestly see Babe Race 2000 or Space Girls getting the space.
Possibly more parody Dredds? There was a Carry On Judging story in one of the late 1980s Mega-Specials, for instance. The Game Show Show? The Big Sleep? Bat Mugger? Elm Street Nightmare? Twin Blocks? Blind Mate?
No, see, reprint the Thunderbirds parody as a quick cash-in on the flick and have big BY ALAN MOORE hype on the cover, if that doesn't shift a Space Girls reprint nothing will. It's sound economic sense. Or something.
I likee
Not read any of the confirmed stories so far. Yay!
Haven't read that particular Bix story yet and dont really want too he's one of the few characters I wont have nowt to do with in tooth, although I did like Michael Cane 'bout the only funny thing in the entire strip.
CU Krestel
carry on judging was good.
as was the if justice dept where to advertise. that was fun also.
I thought the Barton carryon story was one of his better outings really..but I dont think I'll be bothering with this one..sorry
I liked Carry On Barton despite never having seen a Carry On film, so apparently the humor must have worked in some fashion. And it has a killer leek.
Plus I could identify one of the killers as being Sid from Hancock's Half Hour so Jim McCarthy did a good job, whereas in some of his other work (Fatted Keef, Grudge-Father) he just looked sloppy and slapdash.
--Grant
"What no canon fodder who must I complain to?!? Besides if it includes what i think it does i have most of it Canon to the extreme!!!"
i must agree there wasnt much miller did 4 2kad but cannon fodder was one of them
enough tales i wouldnt read the first time round and make with the good stuff
It's a shame they couldn't do an Extreme Edition with the first series of Red Razors and the first series of Canon Fodder, backed with that Marconi story from Tales from Beyond Science and The Uncanny Dr Doctor. Then you'd have all the decent Mark Millar 2000 AD work in one package and never need worry about reprinting any more.
--G.
Red Razors is getting the DC GN treatment, so unlikely to go the way of the EE.