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#1
Prog / Re: Prog 1776: Grand Target
24 March, 2012, 08:49:47 PM
Loving most of it.

Dredd is incredible. I can't wait to read this in one go when the trade comes out. I reckon that it will read brilliantly. It has been superbly paced, I can't think of a longer lead-in to a story before. Love it.

Dante equally great, building to a climax.

Zaucer I really like. This would have been in Revolver twenty years ago and I don't know if I'm alone but I loved Revolver. This feels like an acid house 90's throwback but with more humour.

Flesh I can take or leave, I find the artwork a bit confusing. I like the spreads though. To me, Flesh is a classic of the early days and while this feels close to the original in tone and sudden death count I would have preferred it left there. I don't really like any of the characters or care about them so when they get killed it doesn't matter to me.

Wolf, not a favourite can take it or leave it.

When all's said and done three out of five. Mind you I'd happily pay £3 for Dredd alone it's so good.
#2
Prog / Re: Prog 1773 Fathers Day?
10 March, 2012, 08:56:16 AM
I like the nakedness. How about creating 2000ad's and sci-fi's first ever naturist story?

I echo the earlier sentiment about Dredd too. I think that this might be my favourite Dredd epic ever.
#3
Prog / Re: Prog 2012
17 December, 2011, 01:59:19 PM
Like it all. Not sure that I think that it was the best end of year prog ever. It's always nice when there's a strip where something massive happens that is going to have big repurcussions in the coming year. While there's good stuff going on none of it felt that big or surprising if that makes sense.

I liked Dredd, very clever and funny but I'm really enjoying the slow pacing and heavyweight feeling of events in Day of Chaos. I wish we'd had a normal episode of that too like a couple of years back with Tour of Duty. We had the regular Dredd and a Christmas one off. There's big events going down in Dreddworld and this felt like a distraction. Still loved it though and probably would have even more if it hadn't dropped in the middle of one of my favourite Dredd stories for ages.

Wasn't mad on SinDex, felt like an anticlimactic and rushed end to a big story arc. It felt a bit like City of the Damned, like Dabnett just wanted it finished and quickly.

The rest I did really enjoy. I have to say though that along with Aquila which was brilliant, I loved Dandridge. What a throwback. It really reminded me of the old Van Helsing's Terror Tales in the House of Hammer (for those of us old enough to remember). And great to see a good Christmas ghost story too. Very Seasonal. Brilliant.
#4
Prog / Re: Prog 1762: Zero Mercy
30 November, 2011, 08:25:15 PM
Now I've not been around for a while but feeling the need to post.

I'm absolutely loving this Dredd, nice long slow build, I'm really intrigued by it. I love the slow pace it makes a change from the breakneck speed that a lot of stuff has to move along at due to the format of the prog. It's like reading a really good novel and will make a superb trade. Good to see the pace picking up though, although I suspect that it will slow down again before it kicks off for real. I don't know where this is going like all good work by Mr Wagner. I do wish Tharg had kept his gob shut a few weeks ago though, now I'm waiting to find out who dies, I'd rather have been shocked by it. How about a 'spoilers' tag Tharg?

Unlike most, I'm not particularly enjoying IP. Just a personal thing. Not really my bag. Ditto AZ although both strips are ok. Not disasters on a Dominator X scale (is that what it was called?). Lowlife was ok too but I didn't enjoy it as much as the last one.

I like Sindex, always do, although I admit I've not read this weeks one yet.

Can't wait for the big prog though. Dante's back and coming to a crescendo. Still there you go, different strokes for different folks!

#5
The Kings Heath WHSmiths is notorious for being shite for 2000ad. The tobacconist across the road or the one opposite the post office were always better alternatives for me.
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In saying that...

Still no prog in the post, got the last one in the shop today. From where?... WHSmith in Kings Heath!

The other shops had none.

I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
#6
Just beeen to two trustworthy sellers in Kings Heath in Birmingham, one being WHSmith. Nothing. Still progless. Bollocks.
#7
Still waiting... bloody bloody bloody snow.

To make matters worse I switched gas and electricity suppliers a few months back. Been waiting for the letter to tell me that I should expect my first direct debit to come out ten days before payment. No letter but had a £400 quarterly bill come out today without warning. Last week my mobile was cut off without warning, apparently they had sent me a letter to tell me.

Maybe it's just me but if the Post Office are trying to clear their backlog maybe they should be doing more deliveries. I've had nothing for a week, can't see how that will help.

Yours, pissed off, needing to do Christmas shopping and starved of thrill power,

Ochs
#8
Prog / Re: The break after Prog 2011?
11 December, 2010, 07:56:18 PM
Of course back in the good old days we used to get progs every week, a Christmas prog and then a New Year one. Christmas Day also meant 2000ad and Judge Dredd Annuals.

I particularly remember the year after the Apocolypse when the two progs had Night of The Radbeast as the Dredd story. Read the first at my nan's whilst half watching Saturday Superstore and getting very excited about Christmas.

Good days... good days.

God... I've turned into my Granddad.
#9
Prog / Re: Prog and Meg snow bound?
11 December, 2010, 07:50:43 PM
Got 1714 on Thursday. No prog 2011 today though. Typical, the whole family have been out all day and I could have sat peacefully and read it cover to cover... damn you postie!
#10
Prog / Prog 1702: The Law at Your Door!
16 September, 2010, 02:57:13 PM
Damn! Thursday and still no prog, have had to phone subs for a replacement. Subs said there have been a few calls about missing progs this week.

Must be the Dictators of Zrag attacking the Post Office.
#11
Games / Re: Dragon Age Origins
16 September, 2010, 02:55:21 PM
had this on the shelf for a while, started playing this week, becoming more and more engrossed. Took a while though, does remind me of BG and BG2. I loved them and played them both all through many times.

Slightly worried about the mages tower thing though. Doesn't sound too promising!
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 1697 - Card Sharks!
09 August, 2010, 07:54:31 PM
Not much to add, loved it all, apart from as others have pointed out, the first panel in Dredd. It works in the weekly format but will look really odd if collected. Mind you maybe I'm missing the point.

The worst thing is, now I'm going on holiday and won't be here to collect the prog for three Saturdays leaving me hanging on for all of the endings... BLOODY HELL.
#13
Megazine / Re: MEG-300
05 August, 2010, 03:10:29 PM
OK. I admit it. I've been a Meg ship jumper. I had a sub but after getting bored, I stopped reading just after the most recent Blood of Satanus story. Bought it when it changed format to have a look at the floppy, Tank Girl etc but still wasn't convinced.

However 300 is superb, loved it all. Will definitely buy it next month and if the quality stays like that I'm renewing my sub.
#14
Prog / Re: Prog 1696 - Know Your Enemy
31 July, 2010, 03:39:48 PM
I've been reading 2000ad since the very beginning on and off.

Todays Stront has shocked and moved me in a way that I can't remember feeling reading a comic before.

Really harrowing and disturbing but in a good way. Didn't see that coming at all.

All bow down at the altar of the great Wagner.
#15
Off Topic / Re: England v Algeria
19 June, 2010, 10:03:19 AM
And to top it all, uber rich Wayne Rooney blasts the fans for booing! What a tosser, it's cost people a lot of money to get out there and they deserve to see their team playing football with passion. I am a football supporter and all winter long I have to watch my team (Coventry City) playing piss poor football. When a tournament like this comes around it's the one chance in my life to see a team compete for something.

Thanks England.

Oh well, I'm off to watch England lose to Australia in the rugby, that should lift my mood.