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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2021
« on: 01 March, 2021, 10:06:03 PM »
It’s a hardcover. I have that confirmed from a power-that-be.
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Whether this is to move things easier into more 'Dogman' sized volumesI don’t know. I part wondered if it was down to costs at one point. It’s pretty clear The Phoenix has had to make some tough decisions during COVID (hence the uptick in not-great text content, that short period of ‘remastered’ reprint, and the way the covers are now done.
Sales data I can accept, "small but vocal minority", I'm not so sure.On that point, Rebellion is a business. If something isn’t working, it would stop. Given that Regened has continued, it must be working in a manner that 2000 AD is happy with, even if some of the readers aren’t. And, yes, I’m happy with some of these strips, in the same way I’m happy reading mini-IP’s Phoenix or blazing through Usagi Yojimbo and Lumberjanes. Good comics are good comics. My main disappointment with 2000 AD over the past year hasn’t been Regened’s existence, but that we haven’t yet seen more Dept K and Pandora Perfect. (Well, that and an OS HC of The Out doesn’t yet exist, but I suspect that’ll have to stay in my daydream wish list.)
Maybe on this forum, but for the regular readers who don't waste their spare time on here?
You'd have to wonder.
Full Tilt Boogie gets an exclusive limited edition hardcover, but Thistlebone and End Of Days don't?Thistlebone is HC. It’s (currently) wrongly listed as paperback on the 2000 AD store.
I am equally unconvinced that kid's tastes have changed too dramatically in the past 40 years, based on nothing more than first hand experience with every child in my family / circle of friends that I have ever known. Like ever.And yet if we look at The Beano alone, that comic has changed subtly but noticeably from just a few years ago. Although the strips and artists are intact, the tone is wildly different from how it was in the middle of the last decade. Readership is up. Also, given that many adults won’t touch B+W comics now, good luck getting kids to.
But c'mon - who could put their hand on their cholesterol clogged heart and say they actually want to read this stuff?I couldn’t give a stuff about Cadet Dredd. I’d be happy if it was dropped entirely. But I’d love to see a Pandora Perfect series start next week in the Prog. Dept K was superb. I’ve enjoyed some of the ‘young character’ strips enough to justify their presence (such as that initial Strontium Dog test one, which was pretty funny).
at present apparently unlikely to get long covidUnlikely but not zero. There are cases.
... and yes, at secondary level it is an absolute bloody joke. In year 10 and 11 when kids have to move to other classroomsWhen I was at secondary, class movement began in the first year (now year 7). So we would move between 6–7 rooms per day. COVID doesn’t follow the infected—it sits in the air. Things then only get worse. (We had sets from year 8, not year 10.) So for a secondary school, the bubble is effectively the population of the entire school. But then even in primaries, there are risks. If that new variant gets in, it blazes through kids and families, as we saw locally in December.
The cartoony, kid friendly approach has no longevity - kids will grow out of it pretty quickly. It doesn’t have the staying power that has kept me reading the prog for 35 years.What kept you reading the Prog is presumably that it evolved. Ultimately, it’s now aimed at old gits that comprise most of the readership of this forum. If it’s to survive — if Rebellion’s comic line is to be more than catering to a dwindling pool of adults and a small number of nostalgics — it needs to broaden its scope accordingly.
2000ad is working already as it is. I get that that it’s good to try out new concepts or writers and artists, but there must be better than this out there. Or maybe not and that’s the problem.For very young children, there’s loads of choice, assuming you want a magazine full of generic puzzles bagged with plastic tat. Oh, and there’s Hey Duggee, which on transforming into a sticker magazine to save money actually massively improved the entire product. Even so, it still only has two comic strips. There are the Lego comics, too, which are, objectively, a bit shit. But you’re really buying that for the covermount.
The thing is, schools are like any other premises. Owners / management can set out what is worn.That’s only true to a certain extent. Our school’s head was forced to write to all parents to ‘clarify’ her previous demand about parents wearing masks at drop-off and pick-up, and state that this wasn’t mandatory and instead was voluntary. Enough people had complained over her head. So who is the owner/manager at that point? The LA? Once you’re above the headteacher, you’re well beyond anything you can seek to influence.