megazine 213

[James]

The Dredd story was a bit of a let down(it's hard not to do puns-see there's another one). I think it would have been infinately better with a different artist. The thing with ol' Cliff is he's very meticulous and detailed. For a story like this you should have someone with a wilder, more passionate style. Like Gibson. Yum.

[Agrivar]

'Dredd = I loved the Dredd Sex Olympics Story. Made me laugh out loud several times when reading it. Best one-off Dredd story of the year IMO. Fantastic bit of writing by Wagner and great art (as always) by Cliff Robinson. Definitely the highlight of Meg 213. '

This is a joke right?????????????????????????????????

[W. R. Logan]

>You could say I'm over-reacting a bit, but damn, it's embarassing for some people who buy it.

Embarrassing, no way, read my issue whilst sat on the tube and then reread it whilst on the train from Liverpool Street back to Norfolk. Proudly showed my Meg to the world and about to show Mrs Logan my own routine.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[The Amstor Computer]

Erk! A little too much information there, Logan :-)

[Floyd-the-k]

Armitage was fine, especially the art.  Good strange and interesting stuff.  Apocalypse soon is a one-note joke but a good one.
  I totally agree about the sex olympics art - would have been much better with Gibson drawing it.  The only down side to the Sex Olympics was the "gosh aren`t we daring and modern and haven`t times changed" editorial.  
  Death is brilliant - frightening (as is almost everything Frazer Irving does) and funny.  I loved the Dog/Judge`s little speech of repentance towards the end.
  Charley`s War is cool.........really it`s all pretty kewl, as they say on South Park.  If this rain would stop, things would be perfect.

yours sleepily,

Floyd

Link: http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=1397473" target="_blank">Japanese TaTu movie

[petemaskreplica]

I thought the Dredd was great, but then I'm a simple minded fool with a smutty mind :) Nice to see Cliff Robinson doing something other than stock Dredd poses for covers, too :)  and I though the cover was funny, those speech balloons... heh heh.

Devlin was good, it made me want to read the whole thing through. I'm sure the only reason I haven't enjoyed this is because of the problems inherant in having to wait a month every 6 pages.

I can't make up my mind about Death. Today I'm in a good mood though, so I think it's doing a good job of treading a fine and precarious line between comedy and horror.

Unlike Armitage, which this month turned into just the sort of lame comedy tosh that did for Death in the 90's. A shame, I still think there's things that could be done with this character. Ridgeway's art was better than last month, shame the script went in the opposite direction.

I've really enjoyed reading Harry 20 again, it stands up well after all this time. And Charley's War is just stunning, in every sense.

XTNCT takes another unexpected turn. Still really enjoying this, too, it continues to surprise me, and I have no idea what'll happen next month, which is how it should be.

Apocalypse Soon: sorry, just doesn't work for me, as satire I find it too heavy-handed, a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel.

Grennie shamelessly recycles old chat logs over several pints to produce his best column yet :p

[Smiley]

Yeah, what Petemask said sums 213 up fer me on all points. Now off to read a years worth of Devlin in half an hour.

[Smiley]

Oh, was mildly disappointed at the lack of a cover splodge saying something like BRITAIN'S SPUNKIEST COMIC!

[Oddboy]

Haven't read it all yet, so I've not read the other posts on this thread... but....

Funny cover - I'm glad the subscribers copy was the 'censored' version because the speach bubbles are hilarious!

Armitage - is that it? Seemed a bit of a non-story.  Also - Wake - the page count on the site is 7, that can't be right, can it?

Dredd - very funny, wouldn't like to try some of them at home though! Fact-Finders Note: there's another Dredd tale called 'Crime of Passion' - a Daily Star Dredd reprinted in Meg 3.60.

Death - Still going good, excellent.

Apocalypse Soon - aha! there seems to be some plot development!

Not read XTNCT, Devlin or Charley yet.

[Rio De Fideldo]

The best thing in the Meg?

Apocalypse Soon-To be concluded!

Thank God.

[Krustabi]

I thought Dredd was actually quite alright. Surprisingly dark

[Waddie]

Spoilers






Cover & Dredd: Irredeemable smut.  Hurrah!

Editorial: Erm, maybe I was half asleep when I was reading it, but what precisely was the relevance of the Ring comparison?  It read like "Yay for tits and saying shit in the Meg!  This means we're grown up, like that Japanese horror film."  I should probably re-read it.

Devlin Waugh: First time it's actually entertained me.  Should have been maybe a three-parter at most.

Armitage: Amusing.

Death: Excellent.  Death making his getaway in a Judge-headed dog is probably the funniest thing I've seen in a comic all year.  And Death's scarier when he isn't just one-dimensional evil, you unsophisticated savages.

Apocalypse Soon: Still not very good.  God was impressive though.

Harry 20: Would have been a stronger ending if it'd been left with them splashing down on Earth, if you ask me.

Letters: Are these selected purely to demonstrate that this forum isn't even slightly representative?  Every time it's full of people raving over what's widely been derided here as dross or complaining about whatever's been praised here.  Speaking of which...

Charley's War: Splendid.  The interweaving of letter from home with the nightmare of going over the top was simply masterful.

XTNCT: SPRB.

[Wake]

Armitage probably should have a page count of 13 then. I probably replaced last month's count with this month's count rather than adding them. I'll check this evening.

Wake

[Oddboy]

While I was reading the Meg last night Oddgirl was watching 'Friends' on the telly in the other room but I could still hear it. It was the one where they find out Phoebe's twin sister is a porn star using Phoebe's name.
Some guy gets Phoebe's autograph & says "Can't wait to show this to the guys at the comic store!"

A hah. haha. hah.

[Devons Daddy]

this months meg.

armitage. wrapped up to quickly.but the baddie was a giveaway. liked it. good to see him back on the right track.

DREDD.laughed out loud, enjoyed every sily moment of it.but since when did dredd knock before entering? but it was a one off comedy. and damn good.

Xtinct.seems like such a futile end is in sight. which is so fitting. brillant.

Death. i like it. fun and offers some more depth to the character.

Devlin. a complete re read in one go will i think show this to a ripping yarn. loved the ending.

Charlies war.this is mind blowing stuff. page after page of gripping story. you feel for this character.wonderful.

harry twenty good then, great now. should have left him dropped in the ocean. but the end we got was written many moons ago. back then this was correct.

eds words
its ok we dont need to be told we are grown ups and this is a big boys mag. we all know that.

letters some decent ones here.

all in all. damn good. better then the prog at this time.