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Started by norton canes, 15 February, 2018, 12:47:17 PM

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BPP

Defoe was a good outing but much as McNeil is a great artist it definately lacked something without the diseased messy art of Gallagher. Deserved a vote tho.

Funnily I think brink and Scarlett traces rather similar (although many ways they are not) so the disparity in votes there amazed me.
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Jim_Campbell

I'm struggling to think of any way in which Brink and Scarlet Traces are similar...
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Blue Cactus

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 24 February, 2018, 03:51:44 PM
I'm struggling to think of any way in which Brink and Scarlet Traces are similar...

Bits of them are in space.

Magnetica

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Quote from: Blue Cactus on 24 February, 2018, 03:55:24 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 24 February, 2018, 03:51:44 PM
I'm struggling to think of any way in which Brink and Scarlet Traces are similar...

Bits of them are in space.

Not much of Scarlet Traces takes place in space. In the earlier books the action is on Earth, then Mars. The recent book was set on Earth and then on Saturn. The only bits set in space were the flight from Earth to Saturn which took about half a page, a page or two of the structure the Martian's are building around the Sun and Earth's fleet massing in Earth orbit and then the attack on Saturn.

To me any similarity between the two strips is in the art style, in as much as D'Israeli and Culbard have a fairly minimalistic style. And also in Brink contact is lost with Mercury.

I think Helium is more more similar to Scarlet Traces then Brink is. And at least they are by the same writer and artist.

Tjm86

I thought the latest series took place on Venus, but a) I could be wrong and b) that's just me being pedantic (and also possibly wrong, did I mention that?)

;)

Magnetica

Quote from: Tjm86 on 24 February, 2018, 04:48:56 PM
I thought the latest series took place on Venus, but a) I could be wrong and b) that's just me being pedantic (and also possibly wrong, did I mention that?)

;)

Sorry yes. Whenever I wrote Saturn I meant Venus!

BPP

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 24 February, 2018, 03:51:44 PM
I'm struggling to think of any way in which Brink and Scarlet Traces are similar...

1) the art styles, especially the use of colour
2) their relative newness to the prog
3) that both are firm sci-fi strips (As opposed to say Defoe or Absalom)
4) that they ran at the same time
5) one deals in racism, the other minority /social persecution.
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Jim_Campbell

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Tjm86

Quote from: Magnetica on 24 February, 2018, 05:02:39 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 24 February, 2018, 04:48:56 PM
I thought the latest series took place on Venus, but a) I could be wrong and b) that's just me being pedantic (and also possibly wrong, did I mention that?)

;)

Sorry yes. Whenever I wrote Saturn I meant Venus!

Hey, I'm happy to be right for a change.  According to my wife it's normally wrong.  Thank you for making my day month year decade.

Jim_Campbell

(I'm also going to confess to being fairly staggered that anyone can describe D'israeli's intricate, ever-evolving art style as "minimalist"...)
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Magnetica

It's minimalist as in there aren't as many lines as some other artists.

BPP

Someone got out of bed on the wrong side this year.

What's the point of contributing when a senior comics professional is going to sneer at a fairly innocuous statement that I found two strips shared some qualities that made me think of you enjoyed one you'd enjoy the other.

Plain rude and uncalled for.
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Jim_Campbell

Quote from: BPP on 24 February, 2018, 11:01:15 PM
Plain rude and uncalled for.

I'm unsure how observing that two strips with different writers, different artists, different concepts and different tones might not be that similar is 'rude'.

(I am, of course, monstrously flattered to be called a "senior comic creator" but I don't think lettering some books that barely trouble the bottom end of the ICV2 top 300 every month really qualifies...)
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BPP

'Oh, I didn't mean senior in that way'

Would be the level of response your 'flairly staggered' and 'oh noes' deserve but then I'd rather be polite and not engage. I'll just say maybe your tone doesn't come across quite the way you think it does. I answered you're question with five points and you reply with Twitter level glib posturing.

Anyways, i'm done. My observation stands in my opinion and you can go on grandstanding for all the Jim Campbell fans out there.
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