Meg 224 - Incredible Thong

[Leigh S]

More thoughts... Perhaps the GIs were trained in seperate squads/classes of twenty troops, labelled A to T in each batch (or A to Z with letters M and such taken out for the senior officers).  

The names of clones could be a sick joke by the Genies, or it could denote the specialisms - Gunnar is shown as a crack shot for example - perhaps they had introduced subtly different genetic traits to the different clones in order to see which were most successful - or perhaps they were undertaking a nature over nuture experiment by specialising identical clones to see if it had any difference.

Perhaps if Rogue had been in a different place at the battle, we would have seen the continuing adventures of Sniper, Trilby and Packman!

The story where they are all stuck in the "wrong" slots suggests a specialism, as they all panic!


 

[Dudley]

OK, let's just say it.  This whole Meg is so good that there's little point picking at the odd tiny weak moment (y'hear that, Mr Spurrier?  I'm going to leave your self-indulgent columnette alone!)

In fact I'm going to hand over this review to Sharon Osbourne from "The X-Factor"

Cover - Fantastic
Judge Dredd - "Bite Fight" - shaping up to be an fantastic multi parter.  Some fantastic John Burns art, best I've seen from him in years.  And WHAT a fantastic surprise at the end!
The Simping Detective - the fantastic art mixes fantastically with the fantastic narrative to make this a stand-out favourite even against fantastic competition.  And the final frame - just fantastic.  Oh, and let me remember that thong one more time, fantastic drooling pervert that I am...
The John Burns interview is fantastically interesting and informative, even if he does come across as a fantastic grouch!
How fantastic to see Shimura back in the Meg, and it does look as though Morrison's got over whatever it was that made the last few Shimura tales a bit rubbish.  Introducing Dredd makes for a fantastic method of re-introducing the man himself, and I'm genuinely intrigued as to where this is leading.
Anderson - well, over the months I've continued to review this story with the single word "perfect".  I'll not change that here, though Ranson's art reaches a fantastic new peak.
The change of tone in Middenface is noticeable from the get-go, and Ridgeway's fantastic art enhances that change well.  Could this surprise us and actually be *more fantastic* than Traitor to his Kind?
Dredd - Meat Patrol.  Well, it may be filler, but it's fantastic filler, and I really like the way that Blythe's colours work on Coleby's art, which can occasionally be a bit too lumpy for me.

Overall, this was the Meg that finally did it.  I ran out of adjectives.  Fantastic!

[Spaceghost]

looks good in general, but does anybody care what simon spurrier and gordon rennie think about anything? i could do without people imagining that saying the most outrageous thing possible, like a geek with a loud voice in the pub/cinema/restaurant, is a substitute for journalism. don't get me wrong, i love both of their scriptwriting, i just don't paticularly want to read about their points of view.

[The Amstor Computer]

Heh, the text features were definitely the weakest part of the Meg.

The anime one was solid & quite interesting, but the Star Trek one was pish. Throwing in a few "humourous" adjectives and taking the mick out of The Next Generation does not equal a decent column. Si Spurrier's review of Spidey 2 was horribly out of date & pretty pedestrian.

GRennie's Bile Duct was actually alright, and he seems to be settling into a decent rhythm with these pieces. It's not great, but it's entertaining enough.

I've no problem with this number of text features, but I'd *really* like to see the excesses reined in so we end up with less "humourous" geekery and more of the interesting and thoughtful.

[paulvonscott]

Hmmm... people taking the piss out of Rogue Trooper again is it Watch?  

[W. R. Logan]

>Hmmm... more text articles means less comic.
They'll have to be good articles, but it sounds like the cost cutting has started on the Meg, so at least people can see how Preacher ends when they start reprinting that again. I'm probably just being cynical, though.  I'll wait until i read it before I pass comment.

More strip pages, no more 2000AD reprint which is the cheapest thing to fill those pages with. Instead Mr Barnes is paying people to write articles instead of walking upstairs to the Thrill Archive and picking out some film. The only expense that incurs is the wear on Alan?s shoes and the time that G1RL-01 spends cleaning up the scanned film.

More original strip, more features that have to be paid for, to me the new look Meg says that The Meg has money to spend and not that things are looking bleak.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[Oddboy]

Yeah, 'Fantastic' is the word I'd go for.

Dredd: Bite story - class stuff, good investigation, a little insight into the judicial celebacy issue, and O MY WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ***********?

Simping Detective - brilliant art, as usual from the Ir-ving droid (although I wouldn't have recognised the dame without the text to tell me who it was - mind you I suppose I wasn't really focussing on her face...), really enjoying these. Good simping. Liked Cliq, nice touch.

Anderson, PSI - not much happened, but it did happen very well.

Shimura - glad to have him back! Although *shock* I have complaints: I don't like Andy C's Dredd much at all - his helmet & face don't seem right to me. But I can cope with that. Linked, I don't much like Robbie M's Dredd either, based on past stories. Also, I didn't much like the previous Shimura meets Dredd story - I reckon Shimura works much better as a character when away from Dredd.
Having said that: this story completely changed my opinions on that - the Dredd bits where spot on. "Mega-City judges always get their man."

Dredd: Meat Patrol - great stuff, good artwork. Ultimately filler, granted, but nothing wrong with that when it's good.

Texty stuff: Didn't read the Fear story.
Enjoyed the Star Trek review. Agree with it even - people *should* be free from the "Trekkie" stigma when watching the original series. (If you're going to watch all the rest then you should just accept that you're a Trekkie & cope with it.)
Anime: Okay, I guess. Wasn't that interested.
Spidy: Entertaining and funny, even if Si's wrong. (AND YOU ARE WRONG, SI.)
Gordon: Continues to entertain.
Metro Dredds: I like the way they're spaced out over the pages, it gives the staggered effect that they're meant to be read in. Still fairly lame, but seem less lame when spaced out like that.

Nice square spine.

[Dudley]

You should read the Fear story - it's absolutely brilliant...

[Oddboy]

Okay then.

Haven't read Charley either yet.

[Jared Katooie]

Nah, the fear stories rubbish. Read it on this very site years ago.

Can any Irish individuals tell me if Easons got the meg in early? Not likely I know, but... it calls to me...

[DavidXBrunt]

On the contrary. The Fear story is a nice little piece. Like it.

Re-read the lead Dredd, the Simpin'D, and McNulty and they are top rate stories. I was more impressed by the Bite Fight thing second time around.

Interesting to note that Bendatti Vendetta is listed as 2002-present in the Burns Stripography thing which implies it'll be back. Good. Second series won me over and if Sidhe deserves a third stab at the corpse then so does Bendetti.

[Oddboy]

Oh - forgot McNulty!

Not much in this one episode, but looks like it could go far.

[Mangamax]

Thought i'd seen the thinnest thong on Durham Red.
What the hell is she wearing in that full shot? Cheese wire?
Give her a wedgie and she'll be sliced in two.

[W. R. Logan]

>Nah, the fear stories rubbish. Read it on this very site years ago.

No you didnt.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[Jared Katooie]

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it had the same name... is it an updated version?