So no idea who the bloke on the otherwise-good
cover is... my first thought was Peter Mannion MP...
But onwards. This week is mostly about things that have happened before, it seems.
Last week I felt like I'd read vengeful-spirits-of-the-Apocalypse-War take it out on
Dredd several times before, this week the traditional Mike Carroll last-page-reveal-of-some-element-from-an-earlier-story suggested there might be more going on. Let's hope so.
ABC Warriors is probably my favourite thing this week, just because I was so damned bored of cigar-chomping Sgt Mongrol and it's good to see him go back to what he does best. Langley draws the heck out of this, and I especially liked the nonchalant leg-reattachment sequence. It's also hard not to like his Max Schreck model. However, I feel a strange reluctance to start into yet another break-up-the-Warriors run, just so we can do Mills' favourite get-the-gang-back-together routine later on. While I appreciate Pat's need for regular work, and Tharg's need for familiar faces, I do wonder if there is anything left to do with the Warriors if we're backl here again.
Well if there's one thing you could never accuse
Savage of, it's retreading old ground: now we're in weird haunted house territory, complete with parallel histories of murder with our world. Not sure why the Matrix Sentinel just gives up the chase after dropping Savage and Nika conveniently close to Bill's SF shooter, maybe it's part of a larger scheme. Fantastic art from Goddard, great sense of place.
Brass Sun gets back in gear (
geddit) this week, but it does seem like a peculiarly leaden pace to expend almost 3 episodes just to get us back to where we were 2 years ago. Still, we're off again, hopefully to pastures new. INJC's sense of design is really something, I'd love to see him do some animation in this style.
Speaking of glorious pages, Rufus and Dom Regan's work on
Bad Company is a wonder to behold. I had foolishly said to myself "ah well, at least they haven't dragged poor old Mac into this mess...", but there you go. So Mac appears to be missing his arm, which means that BCII happened, right? Earth wasn't lost, but Mac still lost his arm on one of its post-destruction ghetto worlds? Protoid still dead? Rackman? But not Thrax? Still not getting this, sorry. Could look at it all day, mind.
