Thrillpowered Thursday

[House of Usher]

Bump.

[Grant Goggans]

Tough guys in Antarctica!  I'm afraid to say that the new Thrillpowered Thursday has reached "Crusade" in the latest installment... can I say anything about it, good or bad, before my brain switches off in protest?

Link: http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/2000+ad" target="_blank">Crusading Nowhere...

[Grant Goggans]

Thrillpowered Thursday returns from vacation today!  unfortunately, prog 933's pretty weak, so I talk about London newspapers and the Daily Star strip this week instead...  Enjoy!

Link: http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/2000+ad" target="_blank">That Time in London

[Funt Solo]

Yeah - that nobody without the original progs gets to read all of Zenith is a bit of a crime.  (And then there's Halo Jones...)

[Leigh S]

Yay! another daily Star Dredd that i havent seen!  You didnt get any more did you HD?

My calculations make that part 2 of the story (out of 42, the standard length they were running at by this time) - If only you'd remembered and bought Saturdays edition, we'd have another story title by now!  :)

[Grant Goggans]

I'm sorry the scan's not better, but that's the only one I saved, on account of it being so stupid, and it's on one of my scrapbook pages, which wouldn't lay on the scanner evenly.

Each of my three trips to London had a similar "duh" moment... when I visited in December 1993, I bought the oversized Christmas editions of both the Radio and the TV Times, not knowing that the Radio Times had added listings for commercial television since my previous visit.  Durrr.

[Grant Goggans]

This week in Thrillpowered Thursday, Heap Molinsky goes to the White House, Armitage vanishes without a trace, and Alan McKenzie clears up the mystery of Sonny Steelgrave.  Don't miss it!

Link: http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/2000+ad" target="_blank">Thrillpowered Thursday

[Funt Solo]

They were planning to renumber the prog (log)?

I'm glad that never happened.  (Mind you, I can see the reasoning - being on issue 1553, and with Dredd having started in issue 2, one could consider that an intimidating barrier to entry.)

[Grant Goggans]

Thrillpowered Thursday continues this week... it's movie time for Judge Dredd!  And advertising time for Urban Strike!

Link: http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/2000+ad" target="_blank">Thrillpowered Thursday

[The Monarch]

uggh urban strike...

[The Monarch]

Also I remember in that return of rico redux story that there is a massive time paradox in it which I am shocked that Mills did since it invoves his own story...

[Grant Goggans]

I usually stop by the board every other week to remind the Hive Mind about Thrillpowered Thursday.  But this week, I remembered because a strange man in an old black suit told me that I'm supposed to.  He was very odd.  It was 10 pm and he still wore sunglasses.  And his skin was pale blue.  And he told me that UFO I saw last week was really a weather balloon...

Link: http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/tag/2000+ad" target="_blank">Secret government conspiracied Thursday

[Floyd-the-k]

Good stuff, oh Hipster.  I like the generous observiations on your son's reactions.  I also agree that a Vector 13 TPB would be good stuff

[TordelBack]

I also agree that a Vector 13 TPB would be good stuff

You're dealing for a peeling there, Floydy.  Maybe an EE to remind us all of teh Dark Times (I presume this is the logic behind reprinting Mean Team II), but no further.

[Grant Goggans]

Oh, I disagree hugely.  Firstly, the film seems to mark the turnaround; by September 1995, the comic's moving out of the "Dark Times" you mention.  All of the worst moments - Michael Fleisher, three Millars a week - are in the past.  But more importantly, Vector 13's really not bad.  It's got work by a pile of good creators, including some of Dan Abnett's first work for 2000 AD.  Of the first nine episodes, at least six are really good.  Check out "Marion" in prog 956, the story by Abnett & Sean Phillips about coincidences driving a housewife mad.  It's creepy as hell - the best one-shot in 2000 AD in many years.  And there are four or five other V13s in that first run that are of comparable quality.  "Circle of Evil" by Nick Abadzis and Kevin Cullen is another great one.

Sure, there are occasional misses - I'm not gonna defend the one about the sabre-toothed tigers - but there's a danger in letting the quite justifiable boredom with the MiBs and the way they got run into the ground in 1996-97 obscure the quality of the actual stories.  As a harbinger of editorial excesses to come, yes, Vector 13 is pretty cringeworthy.  But as a collection of stories by some 2000 AD's best creators, it's very good and deserves reconsideration.  Sez me, anyway.