Anderson was a goodie this week. I loved the mind trick she played on the other judge. It made a change from the "putting your hands on someone's head and looking like you need a poo" trick of yesteryear. Can anyone recall Anderson doing similar stuff in old stories? All I can remember is scenes of her reading people's minds.
Jaegir was a nicely ram-packed episode that took an unexpected turn. It's always a highlight of the prog for me. In a sense, this strip is a throwback to the old character-driven stories.
Scarlet Traces reminds me of being 12 and staying up with a bag of crisps and a cup of Ovaltine to watch old sci-fi films on Channel Four. Yep, it's that good.
Outlier hasn't really held my attention unfortunately, but I'm strangely attracted to the blonde woman because she reminds me of someone I used to work with.
Dredd was a weird one for me. It seems like an anti-climactic death for a long-running character but the thing that makes me doubt that he'll still be around is the way they've been trumpeting the death of a major character, so much so that Tharg went on about it in the Nerve Centre. To me that precludes
Maybe living on in a conventional "baddy escapes yet again" way because 2000 AD
usually steers clear of lame stuff like that.
So to me, either Mr Wagner was so bored with the character he's truly gone for good or he'll come back as some kind of supernatural being. Perhaps everyone clearly being sick of the Dark Judges is in itself quite a good reason for a new supernatural foe to come in and shake things up. Everyone seems to be taking the suggestion of a DJ connection to mean they themselves would come back, but to me there's room for a new ghostly baddie who only has quite a tenuous relationship to them.
Having said that, Occam's Razor suggests the guy's outta here.
