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yeah that is me in the profile photo circa 1979....Still reading Bunty at that point.

I've been enjoying the Meg - having come to it after a break of many years. I used to love Tank Girl in Deadline but fell out of love with her when Hewlett and Martin temporarily grew her hair long and called her Rebecca during the rave era. I like Dayglo's art a lot - he has the spirit dead-on without being a slavish Hewlett copier. I just don't like that style of writing any more.

I don't think there's another strip I haven't liked in the last few months. I liked the Darren D'ead strip for the bitchy dialogue and the fact that there was a woman in it as opposed to a girl with huge tits. If you fancy boys the GWHTs can get a bit boring. I want some new man-candy please to balance it out.

Armitage I liked but the art is rushed. I know Cooper can do excellent art so I'm sad he isn't really exploiting Photoshop a bit more to enhance rather than detract from his work.  I like Canon Fodder - it was funny and surprisingly sad too and I can just about remember it from long ago...Generally I am liking the reprints as a way to remind me of some past goodies and also why I don't normally like fully painted artwork - doesn't seem to reproduce that well or at least it didn't in the early 90s.

I also can't be arsed with the film reviews. It seems out of place. I get film reviews in my newspapers, online and in SFX. So why not have something a bit more unusual like comics reviews or genre novels? Much more valuable to me.

The interviews I have enjoyed, every one of them. I don't mind them continuing as long as they don't run out of interesting people to interview.

I thought I had an account ages ago but clearly not.  I am a long time reader of 2000AD (1988  onwards) but with several long gaps, caused by skintness.  I'm back at the moment but for who knows how long. I love Slaine (Glenn Fabry era especially); I increasingly love Dredd and I am fond of the old classic stories and characters. A lot of the newish stuff seems really excellent - is the comic going through a good patch at the moment or what? I loved Cradlegrave in the summer.

I hope never to see the 'exciting news for our readers' banner on this comic. I hope it goes on until the 22nd century at least. I also hope that I will be wearing my jetpack and hoverboots whilst reading it on a overhead display generated by a chip in my head. It will be nice to have something to read whilst going in for regenerations eh....*

*dream on. We don't even have proper spaceships yet.

PS For some reason the board has shortened my name. I am supposed to be Staticgirl. SFX forumites will know me...
PPS Fixed!

Yes Lee Carter has loads of potential and I like his moody art a lot. Now that I know that Necrophim is one of his first gigs I am even more impressed.

Hallo

Am I right in thinking the artist in Necrowotsit is using Poser for his figure drawing reference? Generally I like his art but his characters are very stiff and have almost no body language cues making it hard to emphasis with them. Not much expression on their faces either.  Lucifer looks like a has-been rockstar - I assume he is supposed to? Apart from that I rather like the industrial nature of both Hell and Heaven.

And Cooper, I've loved his art since the 70s but he is now using Potatoshop to cut and paste heads from one character to another and it affects the line weight. Some characters look more detailed than others as a result. Bit of a shame really. Using the airbrush to do the shading lacks texture but he is clearly trying to work as fast as possible and I don't mind really.

I would like to see what is happening in Slaine a bit better especially as Langley's art is very pretty.

I think the writing on all strips is pretty good at the moment but Dredd and Slaine are my faves.