Nice day, isn't it...
Cover: another cracker from Mr Robinson, of Defoe this time.
Dredd: continues to be of a straightforward romp, thoroughly enjoying this and McCrea's art id superb.
Defoe: speaking of superb art, wow! MacNeil hits us with sepia tinted reeks (similar to the 'Fiends...' style he used years ago) and the opening splash is all kinds of wonderful.
Brink: the thick plottens. Brilliant comics, this is.
Scarlet Traces: my least favourite thrill at the moment but Mr Brooker's art is a wonder to behold. Some interesting plot developments this week.
Cursed: brilliant, just brilliant. And gruesome, that panel with the spoon...nice! Well done, Dave, I'm pretty sure that's a first for the prog.
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Quote from: hippynumber1 on 08 April, 2017, 02:38:02 PM
Nice day, isn't it...
Cover: another cracker from Mr Robinson, of Defoe this time.
Dredd: continues to be of a straightforward romp, thoroughly enjoying this and McCrea's art id superb.
Defoe: speaking of superb art, wow! MacNeil hits us with sepia tinted reeks (similar to the 'Fiends...' style he used years ago) and the opening splash is all kinds of wonderful.
Brink: the thick plottens. Brilliant comics, this is.
Scarlet Traces: my least favourite thrill at the moment but Mr Brooker's art is a wonder to behold. Some interesting plot developments this week.
Cursed: brilliant, just brilliant. And gruesome, that panel with the spoon...nice! Well done, Dave, I'm pretty sure that's a first for the prog.
Shit me, look at those typos! ("the thick plottens" is intentional though, obviously!)
Now that's what I call Proggage 2026.
As you were - and since were is bloody superb that's alright thank you very much Tharg. Just another great Prog. This year has been absolutely uninterrupted brilliance. This weeks dosh goes a little something like this.##
Dredd - its just been constructed perfectly. I'm now absolutely rooting for Harvey but the knot in my stomach tell me Wagner has a firm grip in the rug and could wipe it out from under me anytime now... is Harvey going to become too human?
Defoe - never been by favourite but this is a good episode and by George doesn't it seem like Colin MacNeil is going to be a perfect fit for this series. Should be the prettiest thing in the Prog... buts its not
Brink - just genius another glorious conversation which tells us so much and a nice touch at the end. If it wasn't for Lawless this would be Dabnett's finest hour... the fact that I hold it in almost as much regard is the nbest compliment I can think to pay it! Oh and this could have been the best looking think in the Prog... but its not
Scarlet Traces - is the prettiest thing in the Prog. To say D'Israeli knocks it out the part would be an utter, utter understatement. The thing that raises this up from his normal magnificence is the colouring. Its just devine. Its another expoistion heavy episode but it does it with such purpose and guile as to get away with it. The plot is well and truly thicken!
Deadworld - I need to go back and read the previous outings - cos I didn't really like them. This however is quite brilliant stuff. Was it me before? Has the strip just moved up a notch? Cos this isn't the strip I remember. It does a superb job of balancing the grim, dark atmosphere with enough character to really make it work.
We're 1/4 of the way through the year. If you can keep this up Tharg your 40th could yet be your best yet!
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 08 April, 2017, 05:26:21 PM
Scarlet Traces The thing that raises this up from his normal magnificence is the colouring. Its just devine.
For an amazing artist who normally puts so much analysis into things, his choice of a "keyboard" texture for one of the planets in the DNA structure diminished things a little for me. A bizarre choice and quite jarring, I felt.
Scarlet Traces top to bottom
War of the Worlds 1953 film
Invaders from Mars
It Conquered the world
I married a monster from outer space
Robot monster
Don't know???
The Outer Limits: Sixth Finger
This Island Earth
Oh, found it
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 08 April, 2017, 02:38:02 PM
Nice day, isn't it...
Defoe: speaking of superb art, wow! MacNeil hits us with sepia tinted reeks (similar to the 'Fiends...' style he used years ago) and the opening splash is all kinds of wonderful.
MacNeils art is indeed glorious when he get this particular pencil case out. I was wondering how he might follow on from Gallagher & what style he might be using.
I'm not a great fan of his computer coloured work, it looses his craft and pen work, but this is wonderful, just appreciating the details on the reeks is going to be a delight in itself, never mind the story. I agree that Defoe is Pats best creation this side of the millenia and there is a freshness that the ABC & Slaine no longer have.
As for Dredd, we still await the twist in the tale, but at the moment how can he fail Harvey when he's this good? A dilemma for ol' Joe that may, or may not be taken out of his hands...
Good proggage :thumbsup:
Defoe is back! We had a spoiler free review just go up: http://all-comic.com/2017/2000ad-prog-2026/ (http://all-comic.com/2017/2000ad-prog-2026/)
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Great Prog this week.
Dredd continues the neat trick of feeling familar yet fresh. It had the best line for a while: "you'd rather talk to him!" "Dredd? Uh...w-well maybe not".
Top stuff.
I have previously posted I would take Colin MacNeil's new style over his fully painted stuff if it meant we get more stuff from him... Who I am I kidding?... This looks like America or Mechanismo series one, but in sepia. Honestly comic art doesn't get much better than this. Just brilliant stuff. And the story seems to flow in a way it just didn't before. Don't think I have ever enjoyed an episode of Defoe as much as this one.
There had been a lot of talk that Defoe is currenly Pat's best thrill. I wonder how how of that is down to the fact it hasn't been around long enough to get the flashback / re-telling of previous tales treatment?
Brink. Just great. Lawless level great. All praise the might Abnett. Forget having a rule there should be a future shock in every Prog, there should be a rule there has to be a Dan Abnett story in every Prog.
Scarlet Traces. I don't normally like dream sequences and with this one being so exposition heavy, I was like "really" but then came that statement. It's gonna be rough from here in I guess.
Deadworld. Got to love military grade stealth suits. Been missing them since Trifecta.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 08 April, 2017, 05:26:21 PM
Now that's what I call Proggage 2026.
As you were - and since were is bloody superb that's alright thank you very much Tharg. Just another great Prog. This year has been absolutely uninterrupted brilliance. This weeks dosh goes a little something like this.##
Dredd - its just been constructed perfectly. I'm now absolutely rooting for Harvey but the knot in my stomach tell me Wagner has a firm grip in the rug and could wipe it out from under me anytime now... is Harvey going to become too human?
Defoe - never been by favourite but this is a good episode and by George doesn't it seem like Colin MacNeil is going to be a perfect fit for this series. Should be the prettiest thing in the Prog... buts its not
Brink - just genius another glorious conversation which tells us so much and a nice touch at the end. If it wasn't for Lawless this would be Dabnett's finest hour... the fact that I hold it in almost as much regard is the nbest compliment I can think to pay it! Oh and this could have been the best looking think in the Prog... but its not
Scarlet Traces - is the prettiest thing in the Prog. To say D'Israeli knocks it out the part would be an utter, utter understatement. The thing that raises this up from his normal magnificence is the colouring. Its just devine. Its another expoistion heavy episode but it does it with such purpose and guile as to get away with it. The plot is well and truly thicken!
Deadworld - I need to go back and read the previous outings - cos I didn't really like them. This however is quite brilliant stuff. Was it me before? Has the strip just moved up a notch? Cos this isn't the strip I remember. It does a superb job of balancing the grim, dark atmosphere with enough character to really make it work.
We're 1/4 of the way through the year. If you can keep this up Tharg your 40th could yet be your best yet!
Well Colin YMCA we're back in agreement... with the exception of deadworld, I think its me and the artwork that don't agree, but I've always been a less is more sorta chap.
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 08 April, 2017, 04:40:06 PM
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I forgot to mention that we had no less than
two new artists on Reek duty this week.
Cliff Robinsons great rendering of brains leaving a Reek from the gun of Titus is wonderful. The perspective is spot on and the colours of the Reeks a lovely hue of greeny blue. Great work again by THE 2000AD cover artist.
Quote from: Jacqusie on 11 April, 2017, 05:20:56 PM
..and the colours of the Reeks a lovely hue of greeny blue.
Which is thanks to the mind-bogglingly talented Dylan Teague, who has been expertly colouring the Robinson droids magnificent inks for a while now.
Loving this cover, too. It's fantastic.
Really wish Cliff Robinson would do some work
inside the prog again...
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 April, 2017, 12:41:21 PM
Well Colin YMCA we're back in agreement...
And all is right in the world again. Tharg certainly have everything for you men to enjoy.
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 09 April, 2017, 08:21:11 AM
Scarlet Traces top to bottom
War of the Worlds 1953 film
Invaders from Mars
It Conquered the world
I married a monster from outer space
Robot monster
Don't know???
The Outer Limits: Sixth Finger
This Island Earth
I actually came to this thread to get a bit of help identifying those - you didn't let me down, Eamonn!
Quote from: A.Cow on 09 April, 2017, 04:15:19 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 08 April, 2017, 05:26:21 PM
Scarlet Traces The thing that raises this up from his normal magnificence is the colouring. Its just devine.
For an amazing artist who normally puts so much analysis into things, his choice of a "keyboard" texture for one of the planets in the DNA structure diminished things a little for me. A bizarre choice and quite jarring, I felt.
I was a bit confused by the circuit board, keyboard and clockwork worlds. There's also a green textured world on the other side of the marbled red and yellow planet from clockworld which looks a bit artificial, but maybe that one's been terraformed?
Im thinking Harvey might get his own spinoff?
Colin MacNeil :o. Bloody hell, that is remarkable work. Imagine being able to do something visually new with zombies in 2017, and actually make them as disturbing and terrifying as they should be. I thought Defoe just wouldn't work without Gallagher's intricate art: I was totally wrong.
Quote from: Smith on 12 April, 2017, 05:58:53 PM
Im thinking Harvey might get his own spinoff?
Robo-Judge... the future of law enforcement?
I'd buy
that for a dollar!
QuoteCursed: brilliant, just brilliant. And gruesome, that panel with the spoon...nice! Well done, Dave, I'm pretty sure that's a first for the prog.
Christ, yes, that was dreadful. I don't think I've ever had to look away from a 2000ad panel in revulsion before. I loved it.
I love Harvey too. I really want him to get through this - Whereas you just knew Dredd failing Kraken and Rico failing Sinfeld's clone were good decisions, it would seem cheap and churlish* at this point for Dredd to fail Harvey. Maybe Dredd's brain could eventually be transplanted into Harvey's...nah, never mind.
Great to see Colin McNeil get his paintbrushes out again. I haven't read anything else yet.
*I only recently learned what 'churlish' meant.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 12 April, 2017, 09:11:43 PM
Quote from: Smith on 12 April, 2017, 05:58:53 PM
Im thinking Harvey might get his own spinoff?
Robo-Judge... the future of law enforcement?
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Appropriate reference there. :)
Does anyone see a way where Harvey can stay with the strip as a recurring character? I think that might where Wagner is going with this.
Quote from: The Corinthian on 13 April, 2017, 09:27:17 AM
Does anyone see a way where Harvey can stay with the strip as a recurring character? I think that might where Wagner is going with this.
We'd all love this to happen. So naturally Wagner will kill him in an off-hand manner, because we can't have nice things. I'd say the very best we can hope for is back into storage.
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 April, 2017, 09:50:32 AM
Quote from: The Corinthian on 13 April, 2017, 09:27:17 AM
Does anyone see a way where Harvey can stay with the strip as a recurring character? I think that might where Wagner is going with this.
We'd all love this to happen. So naturally Wagner will kill him in an off-hand manner, because we can't have nice things. I'd say the very best we can hope for is back into storage.
I'm still not over the fact
Boots never returned.
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 April, 2017, 12:29:57 PM
I'm still not over the fact Boots never returned.
Noooooo! Why did you re-open
that wound?! :'(
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 April, 2017, 12:29:57 PM
I'm still not over the fact Boots never returned.
Maybe Harvey is secretly Boots' brain in a upgraded housing, and while TekDiv thinks it's the 'RV' programming creating his good judgin' it's actually the result of working with Dredd, Beeny and Rico... then when they put all-new models on the street without the benefit of a Township apprenticeship it turns out their programming is actually based on PD-314 and (long pause to create tension, affect gravelly stage whisper)
all hell breaks loose.Boots might even have had those wonderful robo-hensile feet under his, errr, boots.
Quote from: Smith on 13 April, 2017, 05:36:31 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 12 April, 2017, 09:11:43 PM
Quote from: Smith on 12 April, 2017, 05:58:53 PM
Im thinking Harvey might get his own spinoff?
Robo-Judge... the future of law enforcement?
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Appropriate reference there. :)
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Another quality prog
Dredd is cracking and I to want to see Harvey do well but I think Wagner is going to pull the rug away at the end...maybe he'll sacrifice himself to save Dredd or something
Scarlet Traces and Brink just continue to be brilliant really enjoy both these
Defoe looked amazing
Cursed keeps going strong and imaginative uses of cutlery are always welcome
Great prog and at this rate 2017 could be one of the best years for quality since the millennium
You're not wrong Moly. Four months of pretty flawless proggage so far.
Thinking some more about Harvey, I'm guessing he'll go the same way Minty did - giving a citizen the benefit of the doubt, and getting blown away for his naivety. That's where his programming diverges from the Comportment, so that's where he'll fail. It'd be great if Dredd gave him the option of the Long Walk once he's been patched up, or even just sent him to the Townships.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 08 April, 2017, 05:26:21 PM
We're 1/4 of the way through the year. If you can keep this up Tharg your 40th could yet be your best yet!
Quote from: moly on 14 April, 2017, 11:08:02 AM
Great prog and at this rate 2017 could be one of the best years for quality since the millennium
The arrogance of a self quote just to emphasis that Moly ain't talkin' folly.
Only read Dredd and Defoe so far.
Dredd's its usually excellence with a fantastic Wagner script and brilliantly kinetic and vibrant art from McCrea and how superbly creepy was the opening part to Defoe?
And the art? :o
Absolutely stunning Progidge!!! :thumbsup:
I'm lukewarm to Defoe but damned if this isn't the purdiest comic i'll read all year. Colin MacNeil, ya'll, is a bloody good artist!
Cover: Luscious work from Robinson and Teague
Judge Dredd: ++ TOP THRILL ++ Breathtakingly plotted, absolutely cannot wait to see how it resolves. Does it matter if Harvey's destroyed? They'll just build plenty more.
Defoe: Nice set-up but it's all about the art here, Pat Mills wisely giving Colin MacNeil every opportunity to shine - which he does, with aplomb
Brink: Another 'quiet' episode in the slow-burner. No less of an engrossing read, but hoping for energetic developments soon (which I'm sure we'll get)
Scarlet Traces: Mad. I've gone from 'its' not clicking' to 'no idea what to think of this', which I guess is a step forward.
Deadworld: Ew! The creepiest thing about the cutlery assault frames is that as each cadet is attacked the others seem to be just watching, paralyzed by the horror of it. Nice!
Quote from: norton canes on 17 April, 2017, 02:45:53 PM
Judge Dredd: ++ TOP THRILL ++ Breathtakingly plotted, absolutely cannot wait to see how it resolves. Does it matter if Harvey's destroyed? They'll just build plenty more.
How can you say that? Don't listen to the bad person, Harvey, they didn't mean it!