Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Maelstrom vs. Taxidermist Round 2 Heat 112

[Funt Solo]

Return of the Taxidermist is a classic - Olympic Staring, and that bit where an axe-wielding maniac sets about the synchronized swimmers and gets awarded top points from the judging panel. Taking the supporting act of Jacob Sardini out of Dredd and into a 72-pager was masterfully done.




Maelstrom was just too much a space-LARP. The best we can say about it is that it's a sort of proto-Insurrection. It *looks* good, but it turned the melodrama up to eleventy-stupid, and the hybrid pterodactyl-Judges didn't really work, visually or conceptually.

[paddykafka]

Taxidermist

[Link Prime]

Has to be Return of the Taxidermist.
Witty Wagner script + Lush Gibson art = Olympic gold.

[Magnetica]

Quick question.

Has the tourney ever thrown together two strips that were in the same Hachette book?

I ask as The Taxidermist was close-ish to Darren Dead, who appeared in Heat 98.

They weee both in Judge Dredd Mega Collection volume 72.

[Colin YNWA]

I'm really not sure. I've only cherry picked the Hachette stuff so don't really have a clear view of that. Sure there's smarter folks than me might be about to tell folks. Certainly happy to provide a list of all the ties to date.

[Dash Decent]

John, Paul, George and Ringo agree. It's the Tax(idermist), man.

[Colin YNWA]

With a day to go there won't be any surprises here either. Final day votes will of course be embraced and I'll count up in the morning.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Taxidermist for me. Sardini's version of animated stuffing was inspired.

[Colin YNWA]

Voting Closed

Strong performance here for Sardini and Co here. Good vote count, epsecially for a Thursday vote. Maelstrom wasn't without its fans, but was stuff from start to finish as

The Taxidermist

Beatles* his way into Round 3

*Look it makes perfect sense if you read Dash Decent's comment below