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I am the opposite where his earlier work did not work for me.
Define "earlier"! Early Coleby may as well be an entirely different artist. Contrast his work in the Rogueverse on Jaegir with these:
One artist whose development has been simply phenomenal. From Low Life on he can do no wrong.
New run of Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome was off to a decent start last week. New artist but not too jarring a change and no surprise that the sexy gladiatrix from the last series is press-ganged into the team.
That's got my interest... never saw the first run, has it been collected?
More importantly I have to say that this is the best work by Coleby in years. I've not been a great fan of his new style, I liked it but much preferred his original style as it had more clarity to it with it's open spaces and
clear line. His shadows and heavy blacks sometimes confused me. This works so well, it's more accommodating for O'Grady's colours and easier to read even at the smaller page size.
here's my review:
http://cool-stuff-you-will-like.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-vigilant-issue-1.html
All of the above, plus the next issue is the landmark #400 — a ‘jumping on’ issue. It also has the return of ‘Lawless’, one of the best strips in either the Prog or Meg of recent years. If you were thinking of starting reading, I honestly couldn’t recommend it enough.
Couldn't agree with Jim more on this.....the meg is consistently excellent. Lawless is also my favourite story of recent years (....andthe artwork is consistently breathtaking) and worth the price of admission on its own.
Makes sense for it to be a Dredd floppy in the 400th issue.....maximum Dredd I guess.
Just picked this up, and have noticed the next floppy (in #400) is another Dredd one. Thought it was supposed to be Return To Armageddon?
And, #400 is to be perfect bound. Whoop!
Rest of the Meg looks splendid this month too.
SBT
I thought it was supposed to be Mind Wars? Another great Redondo strip.
Some brevity/editing would be helpful, although perhaps that's just not the rhythm this writer is going for. I dunno. It just feels a bit off. (And I realise this is turning into a Rory McConville downer on my part, so I should probably state for the record that I mostly like his concepts, and his strips in general. Also, as I've said elsewhere, I'm gobsmacked by how prolific he's become in such a short space of time. That doesn't happen by accident.)
One thing I have noticed with Rory McConville scripts – in 2000 AD and the Meg – is there's a lot of exposition in caption blocks. It feels a bit prose-like at times, and very much tell rather than show. I suspect it's just a style thing, but it's making his Dredds sometimes feel a bit off for me, even though the underlying ideas are solid.
Now I haven’t read this week’s Prog yet so can’t specifically comment on that, but one of his Dredd’s a few weeks ago did exactly that, and I thought it just didn’t work at all. I don’t recall John Wagner, for example, using that technique.
As a postie, I doubt very much that it is being pinched in the delivery office(I realise you were probably making a joke) because we deal with so much post and anyone who frequently doesn't get something they have on subscription will complain. I should also say that Rebellion subs department is excellent and it's a very rare time that the prog isn't there to deliver on a Saturday.
2094 is now the third week in a row it hasn’t shown up. Last sub issue I received was 2091 on the 21st July. It’s pretty clear someone near the end of the line is lifting it as it’s specifically mine not arriving rather than one earlier in the chain where there would be greater numbers to lift and so less chance it being my copy.
I'd like to see Helltrekkers in a version I could purchase. It's in the Dredd Mega Collections, but you can only get those off of ebay here in the states.
Bloodfang, from Eagle. (Bloodthirsty dinosaur action by Wagner.)