Prog 2030 Fearful Symmetry

[Eamonn Clarke]

Scarlet Traces:
I grok Martian, or at least Doopspeak:
It's all nonsense and not plot points I'm afraid.
I don't know if this is from Ian, Matt or Annie but it does read like some strange martian poetry.

[spoiler]Got a hole in your panty
Got a big behind like Frankenstein
Going beep beep beep
Down Sesame street
In your ear with a can of beer
Up your butt with a coconut
You got big red eyes like cherry pies
You blow up like a toad and then explode[/spoiler]

Daphne & Celeste?!?  Tomorrow morning can't come soon enough.

Thanks, well spotted. They are indeed the lyrics for Ooh stick you.

[norton canes]

Only just bought the prog, haven't even opened it yet, but what a cover. What a cover!

[staticgirl]

Also popping in to celebrate the cover. It's also a case where the byline and the image work perfectly together. Props to all concerned.

[Smith]

Sons of Booth is an interesting one...Terrible acronym btw.
TBH,I'm really feed up with everything else.

[Proudhuff]

Scarlet Traces:
I grok Martian, or at least Doopspeak:
It's all nonsense and not plot points I'm afraid.
I don't know if this is from Ian, Matt or Annie but it does read like some strange martian poetry.

[spoiler]Got a hole in your panty
Got a big behind like Frankenstein
Going beep beep beep
Down Sesame street
In your ear with a can of beer
Up your butt with a coconut
You got big red eyes like cherry pies
You blow up like a toad and then explode[/spoiler]

Daphne & Celeste?!?  Tomorrow morning can't come soon enough.

Thanks, well spotted. They are indeed the lyrics for Ooh stick you.

Had to google that and still none the wiser....

[norton canes]

Cover: As I implied upthread, it's an exquisitely rendered work of utter beauty

Dredd: Intriguing. Plenty of satirical focus of course, I'm sure there'll be a great story to go with it. There seem to be some references I'm missing - from Sons of Anarchy? 'Sprayy'?

Defoe: Sets up what I presume will be the plot for this arc. What's 'Vizard'? Mills-speak for 'wizard'?

Brink: Glorious. I think this is a comics version of AMSR. It just completely blisses me out. What are those blue things swirly around in the last page? Some sort of torch projections?

Scarlet Traces: Still the only under-performer. It's a decent read but it's not gripping me like the other strips.

Deadworld: Speechless!

[The Corinthian]

What's 'Vizard'? Mills-speak for 'wizard'?

It's a type of mask. Mills has appropriated it as a 17th century synonym for "superhero".

This being a Mills strip, superheroes are obviously treated as noble and incorruptible beings whose motives and conduct are beyond reproach.

[Smith]

Yes,this being the man who inspired Garth Ennis...

[Rara Avis]

I'm not usually a fan of Deadworld but the strip this week was phenomenal.

Re: Brink, I'm a bit confused about what's happening here. [spoiler]When did Junot Snr go missing?
What was in the last Brink run?[/spoiler]

[Tiplodocus]

Loved the prog  from cover to cover.

Who needs a tv series?

[Magnetica]

I'm not usually a fan of Deadworld but the strip this week was phenomenal.

Re: Brink, I'm a bit confused about what's happening here. [spoiler]When did Junot Snr go missing?
What was in the last Brink run?[/spoiler]

Re [spoiler]when did Junot Snr go missing[/spoiler] - it is mentioned in the dialogue in the first episode of the current series.

[TordelBack]

Scarlet Traces:
I grok Martian, or at least Doopspeak:
It's all nonsense and not plot points I'm afraid.
I don't know if this is from Ian, Matt or Annie but it does read like some strange martian poetry.

[spoiler]Got a hole in your panty
Got a big behind like Frankenstein
Going beep beep beep
Down Sesame street
In your ear with a can of beer
Up your butt with a coconut
You got big red eyes like cherry pies
You blow up like a toad and then explode[/spoiler]

Daphne & Celeste?!?  Tomorrow morning can't come soon enough.

Thanks, well spotted. They are indeed the lyrics for Ooh stick you.

Holy crap, just read the episode - I thought you were kidding, but that's actually the transliteration!  Cheeky buggers!

Some context for the innocent: https://youtu.be/_hnxies4Wtk

[Rara Avis]

Is that the first mention of it ever? It's not referencing a previous story?

Re [spoiler]when did Junot Snr go missing[/spoiler] - it is mentioned in the dialogue in the first episode of the current series.

[TordelBack]

Is that the first mention of it ever? It's not referencing a previous story?

It is in the sense that the climax of the last series was [spoiler]the sudden disappearance of Mercury[/spoiler], and that's where the gentleman was, as established in the first episode of the current series.  The local repercussions of a larger mystery, essentially.

[moly]

anyone received this week issue yet ?