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The Second Best Future Shock* of All Time…?

Started by Jim_Campbell, 15 April, 2020, 08:04:09 PM

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abelardsnazz

Quote from: sheridan on 16 April, 2020, 10:07:19 AM
Quote from: abelardsnazz on 16 April, 2020, 09:25:06 AM
Chronocops. The noir-style narration, the visual jokes, the names. Just great.

Interesting.  Somebody with the username abelardsnazz goes for something that doesn't feature Abelard Snazz in it! :)

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AlexF

My Moore/Redondo pick goes to Sunburn, which makes me laugh every time.
But my real answer is aFuture Shock whose name I can't recall. It's definitely Belardinelli art, I think in the 600s, and is about art and creation. Might be the one called Still Life? There's a two-panel sequence with a repeated abstract painting where the first one says "a masterpiece of originality" and the second says "Oh grout, not that one again." It's very meta, my kind of thing.

Funt Solo

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You got it: Still Life, prog 616 (S: David Anderson, A: Massimo Belardinelli).

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Magnetica

For me The Last Rumbe of the Platinum Horde is by far the best.

The second best is The English / Phlondrutian Phrasebook.

After that it's The Abelard Snazz stories and DR & Quich Have Fun on Earth (if that counts).

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: Magnetica on 18 April, 2020, 11:14:52 AM
For me The Last Rumbe of the Platinum Horde is by far the [ second ] best.

The [ second ] second best is The English / Phlondrutian Phrasebook.

After that it's The Abelard Snazz stories and DR & Quich Have Fun on Earth (if that counts).

FTFY. :-)
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Colin YNWA

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 18 April, 2020, 01:53:06 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 18 April, 2020, 11:14:52 AM
For me The Last Rumbe of the Platinum Horde is by far the [ second ] best.

The [ second ] second best is The English / Phlondrutian Phrasebook.

After that it's The Abelard Snazz stories and DR & Quich Have Fun on Earth (if that counts).

FTFY. :-)

That's very kind of you to acknowledge the superiority of my nominations Jim...

what...

huh...

...not what you were doing...

...sorry don't get it...

Jim_Campbell

Last Rumble of the Platinum Horde can't be the best, only the second best, per the terms of the thread. :-)
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Richard

Quote from: AlexF on 16 April, 2020, 09:42:15 PM
But my real answer is aFuture Shock whose name I can't recall. It's definitely Belardinelli art, I think in the 600s, and is about art and creation. Might be the one called Still Life? There's a two-panel sequence with a repeated abstract painting where the first one says "a masterpiece of originality" and the second says "Oh grout, not that one again." It's very meta, my kind of thing.

That's Termination Explanation in prog 672, by Paul Carstairs and Massimo Bellardinelli. Still Life was something else (also Bellardinelli).

Buttonman

Candy and the Catchman published in prog 491.

Grant Morrison and John Ridgeway - great world building for a one and done and a fine twist - I was that soldier!

Dash Decent

Another vote for Chronocops.

It's all so very good, but especially the homage to the artwork of 1950s MAD, plus the panels with the cops returning to base.

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