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Title: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Colin YNWA on 31 May, 2020, 07:02:17 AM
The most important thing to consider here is why Ian Edginton isn't Ian EdginGton as my fingers and brain insist on calling him - or it is that we have our first qualifer and a Droid really rocking some great new stuff against one of Tharg's most prolific creators. This vote of whose writing for Tharg you prefer gives you...

Rory McConville - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RORYM (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RORYM)

OR

Ian Edginton - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RORYM (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RORYM)

What is all this nonsense you ask well we're finding out whose 2000ad (Meg and associated items) writing do you prefer? Voting - just add a comment here with whose work you prefer (and anything else you might wish to say to discuss their work). This vote closes some time early Wednesday 3rd June?

Want to know more https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46461.0 (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46461.0)

Two more Round 1 votes off start tomorrow.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: broodblik on 31 May, 2020, 08:20:54 AM
Ian Edginton link should be: http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=IANE (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=IANE)
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: broodblik on 31 May, 2020, 08:24:18 AM
My votes goes to Ian Edginton for some excellent stories: Red Seas, Kingmaker, Stickleback, Scarlet Traces, Brass Sun and Helium (still waiting for the sequel)
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: sintec on 31 May, 2020, 08:36:55 AM
Has to be Edginton . It's hard to compete with his superb worldbuilding.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: AlexF on 31 May, 2020, 09:43:43 AM
Oh wow I'm torn here.
Edginton has some top tiers hits - Leviathan, Helium, Brass Sun
...but he's written a number of strips that really bum me out, most notably Detonator X and Kingmaker.
Scarlet Traces fluctuates from amazing to weirdly bland. Red Seas flew out of the gates and then just kept on flying rather aimlessly.
Edginton's Dredd's also veer from 'fine I guess' to 'actually quite good'.

In McConville's corner, his Dredd work has been pretty much 'Wow that's really very good', and his dabbles in other sandboxes tick my 2000AD boxes hard. I'm desperately waiting for him to deliver an epic-length all-new series.

Screw it, I'm voting for McConville.

Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: rogue69 on 31 May, 2020, 09:54:07 AM
Ian Edginton
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: SmallBlueThing(Reborn) on 31 May, 2020, 10:12:56 AM
Ian Edgington.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: abelardsnazz on 31 May, 2020, 10:29:27 AM
Ian Edginton, for Brass Sun, The Red Seas and Scarlet Traces.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Richard on 31 May, 2020, 12:16:45 PM
Ian for Leviathan.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Bolt-01 on 31 May, 2020, 01:41:28 PM
Sorry Rory, you drew a tough one.

Ian Edginton for me.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Ghost MacRoth on 31 May, 2020, 03:42:29 PM
McConville, not because of what he done himself, but because Edginton has written some utter pap.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 May, 2020, 04:03:10 PM
Ian Edginton is one of the cadre of writers that lifted 2000 AD out from under the shadow of the 90s by writing consistently cracking thrills filled with imagination and wonder. Living, breathing worlds. Here's a selection:

- Scarlet Traces
- The Red Seas
- Ampney Crucis Investigates
- Brass Sun
- Helium (although, c'mon now - that wasn't the end, was it?)
- Kingmaker
- Leviathan
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 31 May, 2020, 05:25:03 PM
ian
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Rogue Judge on 01 June, 2020, 06:46:58 PM
Ian Edginton...for Kingdom of the Wicked. Can I say that? And a shout out to MCBC for guiding me to that masterpiece.

Edginton for Kingmaker as well.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: maryanddavid on 01 June, 2020, 11:28:38 PM
Ian
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Buttonman on 02 June, 2020, 12:13:35 AM
Ian Edges it for me.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Richard on 02 June, 2020, 12:47:06 AM
I bet he does, but who are you voting for?
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Dudley on 02 June, 2020, 06:41:42 AM
Edginton, for the imagination.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 June, 2020, 06:43:47 AM
Quote from: Buttonman on 02 June, 2020, 12:13:35 AM
Ian Edges it for me.

Quote from: Richard on 02 June, 2020, 12:47:06 AM
I bet he does, but who are you voting for?

Snigger - you can edge in a vote before this one wraps up early in the morning (Wednesday). Get um in.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: TordelBack on 02 June, 2020, 05:52:01 PM
McConville's written lots that I've enjoyed, and I'm sure he'll write plenty more.  But here he's up against one of the true giants of the modern prog.

Ian Edginton has created so many great series in the past two decades that it's bordering on the ridiculous.  I have no choice but to vote for him, even if I fervently wish he'd get on with continuing more than a few of them before his fecundity gets the better of him again. For Scarlet Traces alone he'd beat most names on the seeding list.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 June, 2020, 06:49:54 AM
A lot of love for Rory McConville in this thread, this writing has made a real impact in recent years and his Dredd ranks amongst the finest of the newer writers on the strip. However when any writer comes up against someone with as bigger and significent body of work as the winner they will have a hard time and so it is that

Ian Edginton

sails into the second round.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: robprosser on 05 June, 2020, 09:28:33 AM
Ian easily. One of the most original voices the Mighty One has.
Title: Re: Round 1: 6 - Rory McConville or Ian Edginton - Ultimate Not Wagner Tourney
Post by: Tomwe on 05 June, 2020, 10:51:25 AM
Ian Edginton wins. So many good strips.