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As for the reference to them as being the Tuatha De Danaan... those were the immortals in Irish mythology. Not the humans,which is what the folk of Slaine are supposed to be.

The immortal, faerie-like race who reigned in ancient times and passed into another realm to make way for the coming of the humans, yes?

Slaine simply takes the conciet that by the time of the celts proper, many centuries after the events of the strip, Slaine and his people had passed into legend and various imperfectly remembered myths and deeds have sprung up around them, such as their supposedly having been a race of fey-like elder beings.

One thing I found myself groaning at was the huge stone buildings. As someone who has studied a bit of celtic history, I know they rarely ever built in stone, and even then, never castles.

But as you said yourself, these aren't actually the celts, but the people who later came to be the celt's mythological ancestors.

Anything that involves Redondo gets my vote. EE please!

I'd like to stress I'm not having a go at Ian Gibson, I think he's great. It just annoys me because I know he's capable of so much better than we're seeing here.

I don't mind having Robo-Hunter back, though judging from the effort Gibson has put into the art, he does.

I was re-reading Halo Jones III just before Robo-Huter returned last week, and the contrast is heartbreaking. It's like Gibson just doesn't care any more. Dull scribbles, murky colouring, with big empty slabs of background space (and the script doesn't help here - while the other stories average six to eight panels a page, this averages a mere five or six, panels in which not a great deal is happening anyway).

Dredd is sublime, Defoe is corking, and even Greysuit has got me wondering if I've been a little too hard on it.

The 86ers, meanwhile... I want to invest in the multi-strand story line, but it just keeps coming across like a poor man's Battlestar Galactica. It would be nothing without the Rogue connection, and yet conversely, it adds very little to the strip, seems to constantly hinder it in fact.
I'd much rather all the effort and prog space had been put into more Caballistics, given that its return later this year is supposedly going to wrap everything up - suggesting the finale could be a pretty rushed and unsatisfactory one, with so much potential still there to explore. It also means we're surely not going to have enough strip to fill a third TPB of Cabs, which is pretty dissapointing.
Gorgeous art - I'd just rather have more Cabs instead.

video removed from you tube :-(

Link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=battlestar+razor&search=Search" target="_blank">Plenty more where that came from...

Bingo! And there's my inspiration for my art comp entry. :-)

I've already promised Jon my firstborn somewhere else on the board if the Complete Ro-Busters TPB becomes a reality.

I stand by that.

Sounds like Button Man Book I's showdown at Monkey House to me. 'Moody visuals of the countryside' just makes me all the more sure.

They're still languishing in the Justice Department vaults. When Death was last released just prior to escaping into the Cursed Earth in 'Judge Death Lives', we saw the other three imprisoned in their own crystal things beside Death. I think later during the story while reflecting on things he makes a woeful mention of how his brothers are still prisoners, and vows not to give up on them.

Judge Fear also briefly escaped for a text story by Si Spurrier in the Meg.

What happened to the second Steel Claw volume Titan were supposedly going to bring out?

Hope it's ok if I start a thread on this. Someone will at some point anyway...

Or at 9.43 this morning...

;-)

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=20345&Replies=3" target="_blank">Ta-Daah!

Thryllseeker came close once as well, I remember.

Why the hell was Judge Giant of the 3-part Meg classic "Giant" suddenly morphed into yet another generic 6ft plus ADULT Judge when he was a dynamic kickass mofo as a diminutive "baby" Judge? The potential for Giant as a teeny Judge was MASSIVE. If a lowly letterhack has to point out the dramatic potential of a baby Judge who`s Dredd MK2 complete with all the exciting visual possible of having young Giant lay down the law with perps twice his size, etc then summat`s gone wrong, very wrong. Bring back little Giant! Anyone else agree?

Now that you mention it... yes.

Glug away, ARRIS, safe in the knowledge that you'll get wonderfully soft skin (apparently). Lots of vitamin C, too.

Jesus. James got it spot on. He's got the whole of time and space to play with - he could choose a spanish conquistador, a cyborg, a viking, a knight templar, a squid-man, a big floating brain, a mediaeval witch hunter, a being made out of gas, a victorian music-hall star, a tree-lady, a down-and-out from a far-future dystopia, a 17th-century pirate, an intelligent yeti-type thing, a galactic bounty hunter, an ancient egyptian, a dog-headed man, a cavalier... and that's just off the top of my head, as I write this. Christ, think how interesting some of those would be!

Instead he chooses the silly bint he met last christmas.