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#11

General / Re: Exposition Death Screams

Last post by nxylas - 19 April, 2024, 05:43:06 PM

I do remember "Aiieee! Spider!" from the early Judge Dredd story You Bet Your Life.

#12

Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by IndigoPrime - 19 April, 2024, 04:50:21 PM

The Al Ewing Mega Collection book is a really great collection. And he certainly had the tone down. But... he left. I mean, I'm sure he had good reasons, but his body of work is contained, finite and done. So, for me, while I enjoyed those tales, I'd place Niemand in a different space now. Not everything he writes land, but his hit rate for me is really impressive. And I hugely appreciate his seeming interesting and willingness in the smaller stories – not just massive epics or ongoing arcs designed to shake everything up.

#13

Off Topic / Re: This is the News!

Last post by Proudhuff - 19 April, 2024, 04:48:29 PM

Haven't you been reading your Damage Report? Its all explained there.

#14

General / Re: Exposition Death Screams

Last post by Funt Solo - 19 April, 2024, 04:44:18 PM

A retro-AIIIEEEEE! from Sinister Dexter in "The Gangbusters":

[Fiends of the Eastern Front]

#15

General / Re: Exposition Death Screams

Last post by GoGilesGo - 19 April, 2024, 04:24:01 PM

The original run of Fiends of the Eastern Front, which was otherwise tremendous, has a few of these very clunky Show AND Tell moments. This is one of the worst

#16

Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by Proudhuff - 19 April, 2024, 04:22:43 PM

You make a compelling case that he IS the best non-Wagner to write Dredd, he sure evokes the early-ish funny ones in ways that few others have, without getting bogged down in telling his own long-running mini-sagas (coughWillimasWyattCarrollcough).

Agreed, I would add 'current' to that sentence, as the Ale-Wing droid is still up there with the big W for me.

#17

Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by AlexF - 19 April, 2024, 04:12:45 PM

My own rough scribbles -and i'd really have to cehck this but as you say it's tricky! - put the Neimand Count at 138 episodes for 2000AD/Megazine/Specials. One day I'll have to read over the lot and write up a 'Heroes' entry for him.

You make a compelling case that he IS the best non-Wagner to write Dredd, he sure evokes the early-ish funny ones in ways that few others have, without getting bogged down in telling his own long-running mini-sagas (coughWillimasWyattCarrollcough).

#18

General / Exposition Death Screams

Last post by Barrington Boots - 19 April, 2024, 03:05:07 PM

Best thing shouted whilst being killed in this weeks Battle Action Force from 1986 that I read on my lunchbreak.



You don't really get these exposition death screams in the Prog anymore. Stuff like "The teeth - biting me in two! Aaargh!". Part of me misses how clunky and terrible they are. What's the best / worst you can remember?
The Men in Black - Naaaaaahhh! is ridiculous on many levels.
This frame also has a classic AIEEEEEEE

(Best death in the comic that week is Parsons in HMS Nightshade. It's a classic.)

#19

Off Topic / Re: This is the News!

Last post by Funt Solo - 19 April, 2024, 02:29:10 PM

Maybe Glinner and Growling are lawyering up, buoyed by their recent culture war victories and looking to sue Rebellion?

#20

Creative Common / Re: Cover Puns

Last post by nxylas - 19 April, 2024, 02:24:15 PM

Wow! I just looked it up and you're right. Never seen that before. Very 90's.

To quote Kent Brockman (who was talking about the '60s), "what a shrill, pointless decade that was".