Crikey Dredd ended on a down note!
Thought it was a stronger ending than some of Carrol's recent work. Also carrying on this questioning of how much longer the Judicial system can carry on subtext. Not bad as they go. It did feel like there was a bit more mileage in the story mind. This episode crammed a lot in it seemed.
Feels like a set up for a much bigger story. Return of Cal? :)
Nah, Ennis did that already.
C'mon super Eamon, get the cover up dude. Z
Cover: Bit ....I dunno.....think it's the colours, but it's just a bit......messy.
Dredd: Did not want this to end, but the end episode was grand. Think the 'rushed' part was last week....which is certainly better than rushing the last ep, so it allowed this last one to be rather good. The references to Cal's time were really well placed for me, and I definitely think this is not done. Look forward to see where Carroll takes it next, and I have to say I'd love Sexton to be the one who takes us there.
Kingdom: That other Aux has a mouth full of wrong! Beat his sorry ass Gene dog!
ABC- Busters: Is still going....but....meh.
The Order: Even when it tries to make sense it's mental. Lovde it. Not often I have to immediately re-read a script, but I think this will be one of them once done.
Strontium Dog: Familiar old ground? Yeah, but it's like old slippers.....it's making me comfy and I like it.
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Another fine Prog with everything in good shape. Dredd in particular. What a fantastic ending, gloriously downbeat and ominous. I agree with Ghost MacRoth to a degree last weeks was the one that pushed things along to allow this weeks a nice bit of space to finish things with the time needed.
Elsewhere as you were really. Kingdom continues to be definative 2000ad with a lovely return to stories past. Similarly Ro-Busters is of course wallowing in the past but in a nice fresh way. I get the feeling The Order has got all its ducks in a row and much like last time we're headed to a riproaring high octane conclusion. Strountium Dog leds were I expected and has its pieces in place to a dynamic conclusion as forces are driven into each other.
All good for me.
A fine prog! The only problem with it I had was the cover. The illustration is pretty fine and I rather liked its busy-ness and action. However the title 'Grease 'em' was not the nicest font (I might have gone more graffitiesque but I'm no graphic designer) and it was totally squished in, which may have been because there was no space left in the illustration. They might both have worked well separately with different pardners.
Well that was nice, Prog and Meg early at Huff Mansions and a couple o comic leftovers from last FP visit.
Damn fine cup of coffee, croissants and back to bed while it snows outside, nice morning.
Nerve Centre: Ad for Dullworld and WTF is Damage Reoprt about? seems Burdis' hand will have to go deeper into his pocket...
Cover: Bit ....I dunno.....think it's not for me, I'm an old codger who like white space, design, text all that eighties FACE stuff so this guddle isn't for the likes o me, the text is lost. They should apply the top deck test on these.
Dredd: Did not want this to end, but the end episode was grand.
Kingdom: Yeah! classic comic book hero fights himself and why not...
Dust- Busters: Is still going....going ....but I'm gone.
The Order: I have no idea WTF is going on, but enjoying the ride
Strontium Dog: Agnes and Senga Twist love it, Cheery Bye!
Letterspage alert! no Butt'man phew...
I actually like the cover....brings me back years. The old and the ultra modern covers sit well in the prog. Z
I love the cover - but I do agree that the text is not the best. Having said that I've had issue with all the text used on the covers this year. It's looked odd.
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 February, 2016, 12:49:32 AM
I love the cover - but I do agree that the text is not the best. Having said that I've had issue with all the text used on the covers this year. It's looked odd.
Glad to know I'm not the only one... at the risk of being flamed, I just don't think the font is used to best effect with the quality cover images that have are on show. The balance between the two hasn't been quite right & it has just rankled with me too.
Sorry 2000AD design bods, that's just my opinion, which I suppose ain't really worth many of them polystyrene cups...
Quote from: Proudhuff on 13 February, 2016, 08:12:38 PM
Nerve Centre: Ad for Dullworld and WTF is Damage Reoprt about? seems Burdis' hand will have to go deeper into his pocket...
A
Kickstarter!
My money is on
Dredd 2 :lol:
Only joking, I'm thinking a game, or the 40th Anniversary celebrations, or something else!
Metal Mickey bites the dust!
New Dead World tale coming up. happy days. cant wait. Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 17 February, 2016, 01:30:01 PM
New Dead World tale coming up. happy days. cant wait. Z
Ditto! That's pretty exciting and no mistake, but let's hope they don't milk it for more than it's worth! The last 4 parter was the appetizer, make this the main dish and maybe bring it back in a winter special every couple of years.
Great Prog, best bit was Gene versus Canis (Major): how I dreamed it would be - both dogs got the bone, but only one can be Alpha!
Quote from: Tordelback on 17 February, 2016, 02:39:47 PM
Great Prog, best bit was Gene versus Canis (Major): how I dreamed it would be - both dogs got the bone, but only one can be Alpha!
let's hope someone throws a bucket of cold water over them! :-[
As is so often the case Dredd was the pick of the bunch for me. It still feels a little like a Judda retread but it was nicely done, although it would have been nice to know just what the Sector Zero folks had been up to all these years? It's all very well for Badger to cite Necropolis, Chaos etc. but what did he and his cohorts do during (and between) all those calamities? If they were waiting for 'the right time' then surely that would have been post Chaos?
It definitely does increasingly feel like Mega City 1 is reaching some kind of turning point, I certainly don't see how they can keep having huge disasters that keep whittling the city down to almost nothing. If anything it'd be nice if the next Mega epic ended up with MC1 better off and stronger as a result (an influx of new citizens maybe? Mutants or from an off world colony). They can't keep going the way they're going or pretty soon Dredd's going to be policing a village!
The rest of the prog was ok. Kingdom is always fun and Strontium Dog may be a tad old school but so what, loving it. Don't really care about Ro-Busters anymore and just can't seem to get into The Order.
I keep thinking the same with Dredd. With 800 million to play with, you could have a catastrophic epic, whittle down the city, and know it'd grow again pretty rapidly. With 400 million, the same. With 50–80 (depending on the writer, it seems), you're looking at a UK or a Germany. Sooner or later, it'll be more like a Spain, then a Belgium, then a Malta, before finally being Judge Dredd: City Block, with the old git policing the sole surviving building in the entirety of Mega-City One, which is entirely dependent on Waitrose deliveries from Brit-Cit for sustenance.
Dredd: DROKK! They didn't deliver the synthi-bread again. Next time we get our retaliation in first!
NEXT TIME
Dredd: Hello? I'm calling about a problem with my order... Yes, I know I... Don't put me on hold ag— DROKK!
:lol:
So they lost half their pop in the Apocalypse War, another sixty million in Necropolis (as far as I recall), and I'm guessing another 300million+ in Chaos? I don't recall any numbers from the post-Enceladus ice judges attack but that did seem quite a devastating assault.
On the plus side I guess MC1 is still doing better than MC2 and East Meg 1!
72,000,000 is the latest figure.Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 19 February, 2016, 05:11:41 PM
72,000,000 is the latest figure
Wow! 2000AD's circulation has
really picked up since the 90s...
Cheers!
Jim
That was a really good prog. That Dredd tale really was a goodie but I couldn't help wondering how De Marco was able to kick so much ass when she'd been morphed to look like a normal citizen who actually looked quite unfit. Wouldn't the morphed body lack the strength and stamina to do the acrobatics she was doing? Or was it just a cosmetic morphing to make her look like the person?
Anyway, as others have said, the whole Dredd-verse seems to be falling apart these days, which makes the stories even more interesting. The centre cannot hold.
Highlight for me this prog was The Order. It's finally starting to make sense and fall into place. It confused me initially but there's something about the strip that's really grown on me and I love it now. I like how it just throws you into a fast-moving situation and challenges you to make sense of it. The strip has a really unusual atmosphere to it that I can't quite place. I can't think of anything else quite like it.
Just caught up on the last seven progs and just wanted to say how bloody brilliant Ghosts was! The set up was great, the change in focus engaging and the reveal of [spoiler]Demarco [/spoiler] superb!
Quote from: Bogbrush on 20 February, 2016, 05:21:57 AM
That was a really good prog. That Dredd tale really was a goodie but I couldn't help wondering how De Marco was able to kick so much ass when she'd been morphed to look like a normal citizen who actually looked quite unfit.
Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgVB3qsySQ
Wizards in Mega-City One!
Hey Joe, you really should have been paying more attention to the senior judges you've been hanging around for 40 years because that guy who we've never mentioned disappeared and suddenly trained a cult of elite judges behind our back. They were building a massive complex right on our doorstep, thought the electricy drain was for a new otto sump clinic. By the way he was training these uber judges who are all sureshots and totally have the upper hand till DiMarco fails to shoot one in the head and a ramp collapsed. Then they became total shit. But hey, justice ya know.. its tricky. I'm going to babble some things about fascism now.. hey joe? you listening joe? JOE??
...A cult of elite judges who don't appear to have actually done anything in the last 38 years, except an awful lot of combat training.
Section Zero was all a bit 'underpant gnomes' for me.
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Wow, these amazing insights have totally ruined all 'former colleague turned villain spends decades creating secret elite army under the heroes' noses' stories for me forever. It's a good job no-one else has ever written one, and that it isn't a SF/adventure staple of which this would be a perfectly entertaining version.