So we're well into the second half of the 1st Round and stats fans this week sees us cover 14.2% - 16.3% of the tourney over all... oh gosh... I wish I hadn't typed that... I'm sorry...
Two video game thrills here. Urban Strike was bizarrely based on a computer game about a helicopter. Dandridge even more bizarrely had a story with a ghostly Pac Man thing...
Which most rattles your thrill-receptors:
Urban Strike - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=urban)
Vs.
Dandridge - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=dandridg)
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 10th December and the winner gets a place in Round 2 (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!
Dandridge
Dandridge.
This time, surely this time, we can get one of those long-expected whitewashes?
Urban Strike isn't the worst thing in the Prog by a long short shot, but it's a hard one to imagine having fans. If you like future swearing, or the work of Jeph Loeb* though, it's worth a look.
Dandridge, on the other hand, is excellent, and the only bad thing about it is that there wasn't more.
*The writer of bad Hulk comics and the excellent movie Commando did not write this strip, but it's a pretty close parody...
dandridge
Dandridge
Dandridge
Dandridge, because objective reality.
I'm in a minority here, clearly, but I quite enjoyed Urban Strike. It didn't take itself too seriously, and I get the impression the writer was taking the piss.
Dandridge was OK but always in the take it or leave it bracket for me.
Nonsense Strike was one of the deciding factors in me taking The Long Walk back in the day.
Dandridge.
Cheers
Two mutherfunstering comedies - one, the tale of a brave Helicopter gunship crew's attempts to break the world record for Most Collateral Damage in a Single Mission and the other, the tale of a ghost dedicated to debauchery but continually interrupted by needy miscreants.
Urban Strike:
(https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/UrbanStrike/UrbanStrike.png)
Dandridge:
(https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Dandridge/Dandridge.png)
Given that the first one is just a slightly veiled marketing tie-in, and the other has stupendous art and ended too early - it's kinda obvious but my vote goes to Dandridge.
Urban Strike
I'm genuinely delighted that, so far, every single story listed has had a least one supporter, even if it's only beause they dislike/don't remember the other option.
It also occurs to me, and this might break Colin's sanity chip, but what are you gonna do about the NEW thrills that will hit the Prog even before we complete Round 1 of this Meltdown-Man-length Epic Tourney?
Austin 3:16 says - I just voted for your ass.
Dandridge left me stone cold, whereas Urban Strike had at least some choice Mick Austin (*where is he now) artwork.
Urban strike man
Urban Strike was right in the middle of the infamous nineties period, in more ways than one!
Dandridge gets my vote, unreservedly.
Sorry, but I kind of liked Urban Strike, as an out-and-out piss-take. Maybe it's mainly because it marked a time for me when the prog was on the mend (Two Wagner Dredds per prog, for example) but I'm giving it my vote.
About Urban Strike, I wrote:
"With tongue planted firmly in cheek, this was partly a joke, and partly a cynical marketing ploy for a classic helicopter gunship game (sequel). Whacking "TM" next to the title was either subversive or a legal requirement: it's not clear which. The heavily-armed "Mystery Machine" is crewed by a bunch of action movie stereotypes who use polite metaphors in place of swearing, whilst also providing the birthplace of the expletive portmanteau beloved of Sinister Dexter: funt. They take gung-ho to new heights (or depths) in their mission to ... blow stuff up - usually innocent bystanders (like in Team America). The joke has been told by the first episode, but this spins out of control for another five."
I didn't enjoy it much at the time, but it was fun on a re-read. It gets subversion plus points for all the gratuitous death created by the out of control military.
"We come in peace. Shoot to kill!"
From the gimmicky number one single Star Trekkin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE).
So just as Trash is doing okay Urban Strike is doing a lot better than I expected. How will this one go with the last day of voting today and I'll announce the result in the morning.
Stevie has never been a fan of obvious humour. Doubtlessly the script droids has a lot of fun concocting the panto for gamers that was Urban Strike, but it had a bit too much of the Mark Millars for this squaxx.
On the other hand, the Past Imperfect that introduced Dandrdge was beilliant & left this particular squaxx wanting more. When the retro-futurist fop finally found his own position in the prog, this promise was well & truly exceeded with bells (https://youtu.be/XlTqcshkmc8) on. Bells.
So the allohistorical days of Ford Cortina takes the flag this round. Dandridge it is.
VOTING CLOSED
Well far from being a white wash as this seemed like it was going to be after the early votes Urban Strike made quite the come back in the second half of the tie. It fair stormed but BUT
Dandridge
Had built a comfortable enough cushion to ghost his way into the second round.
Please can we have Dandridge back in the prog? Asking for a friend....