yet another progless Saturday here in cal-hab :-(
Sorry but nothing to report.
I suppose most of the usual crowd are lucky enough to be at the 40th celebration...? Only read Dredd, so far. More Flint brilliance on the art, really enjoying this tale. Oh, the covers ace, too!
No prog in furthest Lancashire although the Meg did tirn up so that will keep me goong over the weekend.
Has the Mighty One issued an executive order banning Kingdom from getting a cover during this run? :P
Both the Meg and the Prog arrived safely yesterday along with the 40th Anniversary 'best of' GN.
Updated Thrill Power Overload is due from Amazon today.
You can't claim the Prog review thread with a post complaining that you've not got the Prog! This needs to be started again by somebody who has something to review.
Prog, Meg and TPO:40 pitched up yesterday. Carroll carrying on the conspiracy theory vein in Dredd. Flint art does it proud. Yeowell on Sin/Dex with a nice old school style tale with an inept target and lots of guards as targets
KingMaker continues to show its strengths with a fine fast paced episode, as does the Order. The highlight has to be Kingdom though and it's looking more and more like, and please excuse the Order related pun here, the worm has turned.
Overall for my money this has to be the strongest prog in a while. An outstanding roster or artists, good solid story telling even with the filler-esque Dredd and pointers to more interesting developments across the strips.
Also a nice little pun in the subsidiary tag line: "History burns in the wake of the worms."
Forty years on and still going incredibly strong.
The handsome greyhaired devil on the bottom left hand side, running away is your one and only Zenarcade.
My 40 year wait is over, I made the front page!! Z :D
Wow Sunday evening and I'm the second to review the Prog in the Prog review thread... lot of posts not many actual reviews... still I guess that in part might be to do with the fact its difficult to add much to what's been said about the Prog of late when its on this kinda form.
As anyone who makes the effort to read my error clustered post knows the additional of Sinister Dexter to the line up is only going to improve my love Heavens to Betsy the Prog is on fire at the moment. This is a slight but wonderfully realised episode of this glorious series.
Dredd builds wonderfully on what's gone before and throws us a line at the end that could really spin things down an intriguing path. Henry Flint is a Many Tenticled Art Dark Art God surely. Just amazing stuff.
Kingmaker goes exactly where I expected it to, but by heck it does it with such irrepressible panaches and gusto who cares if the events this episode have been a little predictable. Its just a great series.
There's nothing predictable The Order and by heck when the Wyrm turns in this one you know its going to be a goodie and by george it is. Oh and speaking of gusto boy does this series have gusto.
Kingdom now see while I've adored the other stories Kingdom somehow managers some way of romping ahead of the field. All the excitment of last weeks reveal is completely justified with this deftly executed episode setting up the new world order. Fuckin' amazin' stuff.
What a cracking prog, if only some bugger whose actually read it would come to the review thread and lavish it with the praise it deserves!
Busy weekend with the 40th and all the eBay listings to do yesterday.
Here is the combined image from the 2000AD Fb and Twitter droids.
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STILL PROGLESS HERE IN THE BURNS HOUSEHOLD. MUST BE THE GLASGOW MAIL CENTRE THATS HOLDING THINGS UP GRRRRRRRRRRRR , NOT HAPPY.
No prof in Essex, got the Meg though
Nope, not arrived in North Lancs yet...
Tuesday and my prog and meg finally arrive.
Not too bad a prog this week:
The only tales I read at the moment are Dredd and Kingdom, and its great to see Sinister and Dexter return this week. A wee bonus for me, as my surname on the front cover ( Burns ) haha
I'm not too fussed about the others, Kingmaker and The Order. I will wait until they finish and read it in one go.
Need to look out some books to be signed for next week in Edinburgh by David Bishop and Karl Stock. Going to see Colin MacNeil this weekend. :-)
Postie turned up with the prog just as I was hobbling my way to the bog.
Perfect timing!
Only read Dredd so far but the story continues to duck and weave and delight. The'box of tricks' perp was excellent and one of those that makes you think you would have seen more of his ilk in the past.
Final line teases for next week as a good episode should.
Loving the story as it extends and expands on what has gone before, fascinated to see how (and when) Carroll lands this although it is likely just another panel in his ever growing quilt so he probably feels okay to leave elements unresolved.
Great prog, but with that lineup what else was I expecting?
Dredd continues to be very interesting, I suspect that the truth about [spoiler]Duke's seemingly incongruous age[/spoiler]is imminent! Flint breezily handles a fight scene that must have been a potential nightmare to present in comics-form (how do you show umpteen judges firing point-blank at one guy who mows them down one by one?).
My usual fave Sin Dex seemed a bit muddled (and shouldn't that have been 'the principal' and 'wireless headsets'?) , but Abnett's other strip was astoundingly good - if only all talking heads exposition could be as thrilltastic as Kingdom exposition!
The Order is so good that I've run out of superlatives at this point. Suffice to say the phrase "Ritternet is go!" will be making regular appearances in my personal argot, and possibly even the marital bed.
Kingmaker oh Kingmaker, what am I to do with you? I have a few problems getting along with this strip, but the longer it goes on the more it starts to win me over. How much of this incipient detente is down to Leigh's stunning designs I just don't know.
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 February, 2017, 12:18:40 PM
Quote from: Frank on 28 January, 2017, 03:50:21 PM
Now Carroll's introduced the idea there were three escapees, and this story is supposed to be about the hunt for one of them, you've got to think there'll be a switch, where it turns out the third escapee is another character in this story, to whom we've already been introduced. Brass is the obvious candidate; Duke would take more explaining, unless his job title is 'The Shapeshifter'*.
* But then there's still those letters he writes to his dad. That would be a pretty elaborate piece of misdirection.
Dredd continues to be very interesting, I suspect that the truth about [spoiler]Duke's seemingly incongruous age[/spoiler] is imminent!
Yeah, but maybe he knows we'll think using a feminine pronoun is a bluff and it's actually a double bluff. Or maybe he knows we'll think it's a double bluff, so in fact his bluff is that it's just a straightforward bluff.
Maybe the third Sector Zero employee's talent is exploiting quantum uncertainty, and they'll turn out to be Brass
and Duke, simultaneously. Called it!
Another cracking prog, it's on a fantastic run at the moment
Dredd is brilliant with art and storytelling in perfect harmony, superb stuff and I cannot wait to see how it plays out next week
Kingmaker still really enjoying this, hopefully setting up the classic rag tag group against all the odds scenario...I'm a sucker for those
The Order not lost me yet so all good, still on board and can't ask for more than that from a strip that has lost me before in the past
Kingdom yeah this is good stuff
Now in the past Sinister Dexter hasn't always struck home with me for some reason but after having read the floppies from the meg recently I really enjoyed this outing. Thought it was a fun story
All in all another cracker and roll on next week for even more
Quote from: Pegasus P Artichoke on 16 February, 2017, 08:12:51 PM
Kingmaker still really enjoying this, hopefully setting up the classic rag tag group against all the odds scenario...I'm a sucker for those
Then Edginton is your one-stop shop! (Brass Sun, Red Seas, Helium, Stickleback, current Scarlet Traces...)
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 February, 2017, 08:37:21 PM
Quote from: Pegasus P Artichoke on 16 February, 2017, 08:12:51 PM
Kingmaker still really enjoying this, hopefully setting up the classic rag tag group against all the odds scenario...I'm a sucker for those
Then Edginton is your one-stop shop! (Brass Sun, Red Seas, Helium, Stickleback, current Scarlet Traces...)
Ah, thank you.
I have read the most recent Brass Sun strips and what to get the collected editions so I can get a better understanding of the story and the characters
I have read all the scarlet traces so far and it's an epic story, though I feel that the first one is an absolute cracker and the pick of the bunch so far
And sadly I haven't read any of the others you have mentioned yet...but I will
Quote from: Pegasus P Artichoke on 17 February, 2017, 07:51:13 PM
And sadly I haven't read any of the others you have mentioned yet...but I will
Not sad - you have all the more to discover!
This and the preceding prog read together today. That clicking sound is things finally working for me.
I've remained open-minded about Kingmaker and this latest Order, and now they're hitting their stride (not merely bias after meeting that nice Mr Kek-W last week).
Carroll's Dredd just gets better with every tale, and SD has become a favourite recently too.
Can't get along with the puntastic cat & dog story that is Kingdom, but loving the rest.