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Title: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 November, 2021, 06:11:28 AM
Week... eerrrr is anyone keeping count anymore? (well yes I am its 5) and you know what if I said Week 4 was a step up in quality, well I'd suggest this week is even better. See what you reckon...

Well we've had a Tax Consultant, why not an Accountant - makes sense to me. Add to that an early 2000ad invasion of Earth by... well Goblin type things as I recall. Cool robots, naff aliens, does Colony Earth off much else?

Which most rattles your thrill-receptors:

Colony Earth - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=COLONY)

Vs.

Numbercruncher - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=NUMBER)

Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.

Match ends early on the morning of Sunday 28th November and the winner gets a place in Round 2 (of 9!!!).

What on Earth is ALL of this? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.0)

For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.msg1070150#msg1070150)

Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: broodblik on 25 November, 2021, 06:30:26 AM
Numbercruncher
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Magnetica on 25 November, 2021, 07:36:17 AM
Colony Earth is at the same level as Death Planet and Angel.

So Numbercruncher it is.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Tjm86 on 25 November, 2021, 08:00:14 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 25 November, 2021, 06:11:28 AM
... does Colony Earth off much else?

You mean to say that Watson's art is so easily dismissible?  :-(
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 November, 2021, 08:08:46 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 25 November, 2021, 08:00:14 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 25 November, 2021, 06:11:28 AM
... does Colony Earth off much else?

You mean to say that Watson's art is so easily dismissible?  :-(

And also that should say 'offer', not off... me and my bloody typos! Anyway yeah that's a fair point, though while Jim Watson's art is great to look at I felt it looked a little of a time against the other art in the Prog at the time. Put yeah the art is quite something.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: abelardsnazz on 25 November, 2021, 08:12:04 AM
Colony Earth.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2021, 08:37:46 AM
Numbercruncher by a country mile. Got the HC!
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: rogue69 on 25 November, 2021, 08:41:56 AM
numbercruncher
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: broodblik on 25 November, 2021, 09:21:50 AM
Is Numbercruncher creator-owned or Rebellion-owned ?
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2021, 09:41:29 AM
Creator-owned. The HC was put out by Titan.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: AlexF on 25 November, 2021, 09:52:41 AM
Got no love for Colony Earth, even the art isn't my thing - it's overall just not very 2000ADish, barring the title.
I was trying to picture one of the small aliens in the latest epsiode of Scarlet Traces - was it one of the goblins from this very story?

Anyway, Numbercruncher is REALLY good. Easy vote.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: norton canes on 25 November, 2021, 10:02:17 AM
Ah I used to love Colony Earth when I was a kid. Feel kinda bad voting against something I've never read, but: Colony Earth
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Blue Cactus on 25 November, 2021, 10:20:49 AM
Colony Earth feels to me like it's from a slightly earlier era than 2000ad. Not terrible just not exactly fully thrill-powered. Numbercruncher is a lot of fun.

Numbercruncher
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: DrJomster on 25 November, 2021, 11:08:33 AM
An easy one! Numbercruncher was ace!
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Huey2 on 25 November, 2021, 12:42:48 PM
Colony earth
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: NapalmKev on 25 November, 2021, 04:24:53 PM
Numbercruncher.

Cheers
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 November, 2021, 04:27:34 PM
Colony Earth did feel a bit like pre-2K Annual fodder squeezed into the prog. Numbercruncher is the superior beast in this match up.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 25 November, 2021, 07:09:32 PM
colony earth
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: BPP on 25 November, 2021, 10:44:12 PM
Bastard Zane for the win.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: maryanddavid on 25 November, 2021, 11:47:24 PM
 I'm a sucker for a 'B' comic and I dont remember Numbercruncher to much, So Colony is it.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 November, 2021, 06:45:20 AM
Final reminder to vote on this one. Get them in today and I'll count up in the morning.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 November, 2021, 06:39:32 AM
VOTING CLOSED

Another pretty clear one, though with plenty opf votes for both thrills. Numbercruncher is a wonderful, fresh thrill - all be one that's a bonecrunching 10 years old (gulp), while Colony Earth did feel dated even back in 1978. It all adds up to

Numbercruncher

hitting the 2nd Round.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Link Prime on 29 November, 2021, 04:30:23 PM
Jaysus Colin, you're churning these out!

I've missed a few, but would have voted Numbercruncher here too.
Title: Re: Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Colony Earth vs Numbercruncher - Round 1 Heat 39
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 November, 2021, 04:37:16 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 29 November, 2021, 04:30:23 PM
Jaysus Colin, you're churning these out!

Well we've got a chuff load to get through.

2 a days, 4 days a week. Like badly typed clockwork.