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#31
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
01 February, 2024, 03:33:15 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 February, 2024, 01:51:05 PMMaybe Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon...

as Mr Brass and Mr Bland in the live action version  :lol:
#32
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
01 February, 2024, 03:27:58 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2024, 01:17:03 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 February, 2024, 09:04:52 AMI'm devastated we missed the chance to have Windsor Davies as Major Magnum.

SHUT UP!

And Gloria as Venus Bluegenes
#33
Prog / Re: Prog 2367; A New Direction
31 January, 2024, 04:49:03 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 27 January, 2024, 09:30:50 PMProg 2367 - A New Direction?

Mr Robinson on cover duties may be slightly ironic but only for those looking backwards.

Dredd; Better World

Okay, let's start with Mr Flint on art duties.  Simple: wow! This is absolutely someone who is at the top of their game.  Possibly someone this story deserves.

Williams and Wyatt on scripting duties.  Well, there have been comments about the issues this story is dealing with.  Most specifically the behaviour of a certain type of channel and presenter.  How it influences practitioners ... "the law is impatioanl above all else".

Isn't that the point?  Maitland is completely impartial.  She follows the data.  Her approach is predicated on data.  Dredd neglects politics because his focus is on the law. Layers upon layers and then we get to Major Domo!

3Rillers: the English Astronaut

These are always a challenge.An extended Future Shock but can it work over 3 issues?  Certainly you can't fault Helsby's artwork. (Unless you are being particularly anal about military uniforms of the '50s).  Where is this going?  Hard to tell from part 1 but certainly the idea of time anomalies is in play. Does that have implications for the present day?  Good question, well posed, deserves an answer ...

Full Tile Boogie
Ocean's artwork is impressive, to be sure.  In fact there is little if anything to criticise from that perspective.  From a script point then: nope.  This is laying out the challenges the crew face: an 'ancient regime' intent on exacting retribution, the implications of clonage (gosh, I've got "Friday" on my mind ... ) and all the political ramifications.

Now this is where Regened works to my mind.  It take the sensibilities of modern mange, merges them through the punk mind-set of Tooth and then extrudes the most extreme aspects of SF (TBH I'm thinking of Heinlein right now but I also get a Reynolds' riff).

Enemy Earth. Hmmm, a. it of a Chris Carter moment here.  So all of the events to date are predicated on the 'dinosaur killer' event of yore.  Not a problem because that just laid the scene for all of the events to date.  TLDR: things are seriously hotting up.

Thistlebone.  Davis captures that seventies film-making sensibility that many of its intended audience will appreciate.  Where are things going?  Isn't that the question?  Certainly there are plenty of questions.  Isn't that the whole point though?

TBH this has proven to be a far stronger prog than many of late.  Full Tilt Boogie is one of the stronger offerings from Regened and really does seem to capture the sensibilities of Tooth.  3fillers are always hit or miss.  It's a challenge to work out whether they should have limited themselves to a FS or pushed the script to its limits.  Two more weeks to see ...

Overall though, a far better offering than we've had of late.


100% agree.
#34
I know, but take away the subs (and therefore progs and Megs) the clothes, mugs and special editions, what have the Romans ever done for us eh?
#35
Quote from: broodblik on 23 November, 2023, 12:50:01 PMHellman Of Hammer Force - Downfall Webshop Exclusive Edition:



Aye, this looks the biz, this and the Action special  BUT

why the feck can't we use our Subbie 50% savings on these?  :'(

You can't use it on clothes, specials, mugs and patches...

WHAT THE FECK CAN YOU USE IT ON?
#36
Announcements / Re: The Letters Beast - Online!
26 January, 2024, 11:35:55 AM
sook.
#37
Prog / Re: Prog 2366 - End of the Road
26 January, 2024, 11:28:36 AM
'A Better World' and Thistlebone were excellent.
#38
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
26 January, 2024, 11:05:01 AM
I've always wondered what his accent would be, gruff obviously, but is he a Mancunian?
#39
Other Reviews / Re: Which thrills have you skipped?
26 January, 2024, 10:31:22 AM
I'm quite harsh and skip, skip, skip stuff :-[  There's normally at least one story per prog I've given up on: life is too short!!

I can vary from totally skipping, to just top and tailing a story (first and last frame), to skimming the art and getting a general feel just in case it hooks me or the art is worth following.

The Meg gets the same treatment, but I always, always read Dredd, altho City of Courts was at my limit.
#40
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
26 January, 2024, 10:02:01 AM
I'm thnking I could Cosplay Armitage!!  :lol:
#41
General / Re: Wrap It Up
05 January, 2024, 03:08:34 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 02 January, 2024, 03:14:02 AM02 - Under Pressure

1980's prog 169 provides our second wraparound, and it's an odd fish. Tagged as "A Scene From the Civil War in Post-Atomic America", it's got nothing to do with anything inside the comic, but is instead depicting a scene from an only hinted at past conflict.




Inside the prog we're in the middle of The Judge Child saga, in the middle of an unconnected conflict on a far distant world.




At the time, though, this cover was compelling because it spoke to a history and a depth that other comics didn't have. It's as if you bought the original Star Wars movie on VHS but the box had a scene from the clone wars. It doesn't hurt that it's a McMahon, either, with Dredd standing up in the middle of a hail of bullets, as if they can't touch him.




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So, was Robin Smith thinking of the McMahon cover when he created the layout sketch for Bolland's classic prog 236 cover from 1981? This layout was presented in the floppy with Megazine 448:




This scan is missing a sliver of the left side, and the crease is clearly visible:




This one fills in the missing part from the previous one, and has a less noticeable crease. Notice the detail on the Block Mania lettering, and the texture visible in the group of perps on the left - especially Siouxsie Sioux's hair.




This tidied up version looks clean and neat, but loses a lot of the detail mentioned in the previous image. Also, the price is in the wrong place. It's such a surreal image, which marks it out as iconic. Why is Dredd standing on top of a block? The flying saucer things are great, but don't actually feature inside (like, ever).






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Next: slippery shenanigans...

Two of my favs there!!!
#42
Fair point.
#43
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 21 December, 2023, 03:11:06 PMDredd . No Dredd at all, which is bad,

Shirley the Dead Man counts?
#44
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 December, 2023, 10:43:45 PM
Quote from: HeidTheBaw on 19 December, 2023, 08:43:12 PMSee also Devlin Waugh in recent years

Really? I thought Ales Kot's handling of the character in his most recent outings has been excellent.

seconded, for me it was a vast improvement, just miss the whole Tom of Finland vibe.
#45
Well I settled down for a lengthy, long awaited, Zarjag festive read..

And was disappointed.

Dredd was well splendid, and strangely SinDex was top notch too, the best its been since it started IMHO.
Anderson was entry level stuff in both art and story. While Rogue's Nort speak almost had me reaching for the Babbel button, but thought, really why introduce this double speak now after all these years?
Everything else seemed, well, weekly and lacking that 'annual'feel.

Dissapointed of Edinbra.