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Title: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 July, 2022, 06:22:20 AM
Well we'll start Round 4 with no gush of excitement. No giddy anticipation of the tough, enthralling ties to come. Instead to really fire up those juices with a service announcement! Turn around is so fast I've not been mixing up these thread openers the way I intended and just kept rattling on with the same ol' format (for the posts the comp ain't changing). I had plans and maybe next round but for now, well if it ain't broke and all that... what and EXPLOSION into Round 4 hey!

Hastily rescheduled tie as the previous one on the slot hadn't actually finished its Round 3 predecessors at the time of typing! Battle of intricate art maybe. Both excellent tales as well, but you know (well if you read along) by view on the thrill deserving of a place in the final here!

Form book:

Mazeworld - Bye; Janus PSi Division; Damnation Station
Lawless - Bye; Samizdat Squad; Chimpsky's Law

Mazeworld - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=adamc)

Vs

Lawless - more info (https://shop.2000ad.com/series/lawless)

Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.

Match ends early on the morning of Friday 8th July and the winner gets a place in Round 5 (of 9!!!).

What on Earth is ALL of this? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.0)

For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.msg1070150#msg1070150)

Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!

Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: moly on 05 July, 2022, 06:44:07 AM

Lawless
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: broodblik on 05 July, 2022, 06:53:54 AM
Difficult one but it will always be Lawless
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Trooper McFad on 05 July, 2022, 07:25:51 AM
Lawless
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: rogue69 on 05 July, 2022, 08:35:59 AM
Mazeworld
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Aaron A Aardvark on 05 July, 2022, 08:54:39 AM
Mazeworld has a lot going for it and is a unique thrill. On the other hand, Lawless is Lawless.

Lawless
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: IndigoPrime on 05 July, 2022, 09:09:53 AM
Mazeworld still holds up. It's got a lot going on, and manages to do well with the complexity surrounding its lead. But Lawless is among the best things ever published in the Meg and easily a top-three Dreddworld tale. So that wins it for me.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: AlexF on 05 July, 2022, 09:29:03 AM
Surprisingly easy choices for me this week, despite the high quality of all entrants.
Mazeworld has flawless art and decent writing.
Lawless has flawless art and flawless writing.

Ergo, Lawless.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: SmallBlueThing(Reborn) on 05 July, 2022, 09:31:33 AM
Lawless. Because Mazeworld is terrible.

SBT
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 05 July, 2022, 10:36:44 AM
mazeworld
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Huey2 on 05 July, 2022, 10:39:09 AM
Mazeworld
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Barrington Boots on 05 July, 2022, 10:52:03 AM
Lawless for me too. Mazeworld is amazing artwise, but Lawless is amazing artwise and storywise.
Some tough choices today!
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: sintec on 05 July, 2022, 11:55:04 AM
Mazeworld has some stunning art but storywise it's diminishing returns after book 1.  Lawless just keeps on building it's world and it's characters and has stunning art.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Magnetica on 05 July, 2022, 12:41:03 PM
Lawless.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Blue Cactus on 05 July, 2022, 02:56:44 PM
Lawless.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: abelardsnazz on 05 July, 2022, 03:02:40 PM
Lots of fully deserved love for Lawless but Mazeworld just edges it for me.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Funt Solo on 05 July, 2022, 04:51:42 PM
Mazeworld looks great, but has a very slight story.

Lawless gets my vote - for all sorts of things, but most especially for having so much love for itself (if that makes sense) that we got a real, honest to goodness comic musical in Badrock Melody.

I do sometimes find the cut-out-and-keep bowler-hatted minions a bit silly (I *think* that was starting to get to particularly silly levels of Wacky Races silliness in Long-Range War), and the art can sometimes etch its way into Where's Wally? territory, but these are nit-picks given the overall quality of both the story and its presentation.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Southstreeter on 05 July, 2022, 09:50:34 PM
Lawless\
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Rogue Judge on 07 July, 2022, 12:09:44 AM
Lawless! A top Abnett thrill, second only to Kingdom.
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 July, 2022, 06:17:33 AM
This one seems a little closer than other early ties in Round 4, but who can tell for sure... well me, tomorrow, when I count it up! I'll tell you then...
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 07 July, 2022, 08:40:02 AM
Mazeworld
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 July, 2022, 03:44:43 PM

Lawless
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: NapalmKev on 07 July, 2022, 08:07:06 PM
Lawless is a strip that I wasn't initially keen on but it grew on me and I now look forward to reading it. It's very good and will probably win this round.

Mazeworld, on the other hand, is one of those rare 2000AD gems. The art and storytelling, for me at least, are top notch. I do think the final series is the weakest of the three but overall it's a great read.

So, yeah - Mazeworld it is then.

Cheers
Title: Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Mazeworld vs. Lawless Rd 4 Heat 4
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2022, 06:26:13 AM
VOTING CLOSED

Its interesting to compare the results here with the other tie today. Mazeworld would have lost out to DR and Quinch (???) one imagines, but it might have been an interesting tie. Anyway Lawless doesn't do quite as well against Mazeworld as Dante did against DR and Quinch. So will we see in this round an indication at least of which thrills are the front runners and Lawless, justified darling of the Meg though it is may still be hampered by being in the Meg?

Lawless

Still defends the barricades in Round 5