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#31
Other Reviews / Re: Which thrills have you skipped?
26 January, 2024, 10:31:22 AM
I'm quite harsh and skip, skip, skip stuff :-[  There's normally at least one story per prog I've given up on: life is too short!!

I can vary from totally skipping, to just top and tailing a story (first and last frame), to skimming the art and getting a general feel just in case it hooks me or the art is worth following.

The Meg gets the same treatment, but I always, always read Dredd, altho City of Courts was at my limit.
#32
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
26 January, 2024, 10:02:01 AM
I'm thnking I could Cosplay Armitage!!  :lol:
#33
General / Re: Wrap It Up
05 January, 2024, 03:08:34 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 02 January, 2024, 03:14:02 AM02 - Under Pressure

1980's prog 169 provides our second wraparound, and it's an odd fish. Tagged as "A Scene From the Civil War in Post-Atomic America", it's got nothing to do with anything inside the comic, but is instead depicting a scene from an only hinted at past conflict.




Inside the prog we're in the middle of The Judge Child saga, in the middle of an unconnected conflict on a far distant world.




At the time, though, this cover was compelling because it spoke to a history and a depth that other comics didn't have. It's as if you bought the original Star Wars movie on VHS but the box had a scene from the clone wars. It doesn't hurt that it's a McMahon, either, with Dredd standing up in the middle of a hail of bullets, as if they can't touch him.




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So, was Robin Smith thinking of the McMahon cover when he created the layout sketch for Bolland's classic prog 236 cover from 1981? This layout was presented in the floppy with Megazine 448:




This scan is missing a sliver of the left side, and the crease is clearly visible:




This one fills in the missing part from the previous one, and has a less noticeable crease. Notice the detail on the Block Mania lettering, and the texture visible in the group of perps on the left - especially Siouxsie Sioux's hair.




This tidied up version looks clean and neat, but loses a lot of the detail mentioned in the previous image. Also, the price is in the wrong place. It's such a surreal image, which marks it out as iconic. Why is Dredd standing on top of a block? The flying saucer things are great, but don't actually feature inside (like, ever).






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Next: slippery shenanigans...

Two of my favs there!!!
#34
Fair point.
#35
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 21 December, 2023, 03:11:06 PMDredd . No Dredd at all, which is bad,

Shirley the Dead Man counts?
#36
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 December, 2023, 10:43:45 PM
Quote from: HeidTheBaw on 19 December, 2023, 08:43:12 PMSee also Devlin Waugh in recent years

Really? I thought Ales Kot's handling of the character in his most recent outings has been excellent.

seconded, for me it was a vast improvement, just miss the whole Tom of Finland vibe.
#37
Well I settled down for a lengthy, long awaited, Zarjag festive read..

And was disappointed.

Dredd was well splendid, and strangely SinDex was top notch too, the best its been since it started IMHO.
Anderson was entry level stuff in both art and story. While Rogue's Nort speak almost had me reaching for the Babbel button, but thought, really why introduce this double speak now after all these years?
Everything else seemed, well, weekly and lacking that 'annual'feel.

Dissapointed of Edinbra.
#38
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 04 December, 2023, 09:35:03 AM...with you mentioning The Fade Out, I will say I that was possibly my favourite series of theirs alongside Kill or Be Killed. Interesting to see which of their other series makes your list.

THis^^^

I only recently got into this pairing, and am now getting the hardbacks as they come out! Will now thrack down Fatale, now I know its a limit series.
#39
Quote from: moly on 02 December, 2023, 10:16:26 AMMine get smaller every year


tell me about it!! :o
#40
Other Reviews / Re: Smash! 2023 Miniseries
07 December, 2023, 01:51:14 PM
Agreed, an improvement however, it felt very much of its time, even if it wasnt!!
Some surprising nonsense from the Archie droid, is his body a TARDIS ffs!
#41
Off Topic / Re: Comic shop memories
01 December, 2023, 03:34:47 PM
The Science Fiction Bookshop on Causewayside West in Edinburgh.
As a young sprog I picked up my Savage Sword of Conan there. Half the shop was comics and half Sci Fi novels.
You could get PKD dimestore novels there as they can out!

If you were lucky Joe Callis ( Rezillos/guitarist, later Human League member) would be on the till.

#42
Megazine / Re: Meg 462 - In the public eye
01 December, 2023, 03:15:46 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 23 November, 2023, 09:27:21 PM
Quote from: staticgirl on 23 November, 2023, 06:41:18 PMI used to love Johnny Red best of all the stories in my little brother's comic which I nicked after finishing my Bunty.
In the days before there were any other comics in the house, I used to read my big sister's Buntys (although given my age at the time, "read" is probably too strong a word).
Perhaps the next crossover could be a 2000AD/Bunty special?
The Four Dark Marys, anyone?
Halo Jones, where we replace the robot dog with a pony or something?
And when you think about it, the earlier part of Portrait of a Mutant needs only the slightest tweaks to turn it into your classic blind-ballerina-with-wicked-stepmother story.

YES! YES! YES!
#43
Cheers Colin, enjoying this thread, nothing I've read here yet, but a few I've been curious about.

 
#44
Film & TV / Re: Dr Who: The Star Beast
30 November, 2023, 01:45:34 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 26 November, 2023, 10:58:31 AMAn anniversary Dr Who special? Based on comic by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons...? And there's no thread for it? Jeez... they'll come round and take your geek cards away, folks!

Anyway... I enjoyed that. A whisker short of an hour, and zips along at a decent pace. Meep, the spaceship, the Wrarth, are rendered with remarkable fidelity to Gibbons' original designs and the plot maintains the broad strokes of Mills' story.

I suspect a big part of the success (or not) for the viewer will be how one takes (or not) to Catherine Tate. I've never particularly cared for her, but I always liked Donna as a companion, not least because it finally took out the unwelcome romance aspect between the Doctor and his companion, so I really enjoyed seeing Tennant and Tate back.

I'm sure there are gammon all over the internet losing their shit about the non-binary/transgender representation in the story but, hey, I'm OK with that.  :D

It was great fun, and I'm very much looking forward to next week's special.

This^^^ with the caveat that the music was annoying as feck!! really don't need emoting music to tell me its exciting or sad!
#45
I forgot to add Wild's End, another great one.