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Great idea, some nice dialogue, but overall a convoluted mess

Take somethign simple and make it really really complex - the landmine itself is complicated - it has all these bells and whistles that we need to keep explaining.

That carries over to every otehr aspect.  The coropration wont keep a soldiere alive for 4 weeks to recuperate, but will allow their child to be supported indefinitely. 

The emotional beats just seem really weird - the child doent seem to understand anything that is going on, but everyone else is acting odd too.

Ruby wanders into what is clearly a warzone without any kind of trepidation - Ruby is also happy to take a moment to grin at the view while the Doctor is STANDING ON A MINE!

I'm going to shout and shoot the man standing on a mine which will explode and potentially take me out because he is holding a tube.  No one seems to quite understand the situation or any consequences, they just do the thing that moves the plot along to the next beat.

It was all very odd.

N-AI-Mand leaning into Dick-Dredd with this one.

Does anyone "like" their Dredd to be such a wanker?  I mean, he's a bastard, and he is morally dubious and I dont look up to him in a Garthy way, but when he is blowing his own trumpet about how cool he is it's just plain and simple unlikeable.

Make me hate Dredd by having him oppress the masses please, not having him having a daystick swinging competition with people he would recognise as useful allies.

Presumably this is another collected Eagle comics?  Was any of the art reworked for it (and if so, by whom?)

I think he mentions being there on the interview he did with Mark Millar on youtube

Abslutely loved the art on that one - Edmund Bagwell using a pseudnym IIRC - remember being quite annoyed that it never led to a erguar gig on Dredd for him, as he captured MC1 brilliantly

That metallic cover Mega Special was a better, if only for the Dredd story that occupied most of its pages.

Nothing deep or meaningful, just Mega City gang warfare at its absolute peak.

After 40 years, we now know what IT stands for....

As for status quo shifts, I'm still of the opinion that Chaos Day shouldn't have happened – at least to that extent. Or at least without Wagner having plans regarding what to do next, rather than destroying the city and wryly going "get out of that then". It wasn't ultimately consequential, and only rarely addressed.

Which is really not Wagner's fault (unless he didnt mention what the outcome of Chas Day was going to be, and evven then, thats kind of editorials for not being curious!).  Wagner presented the writers with a whole new potentially interesting set up (two if you count the end of Origins) and instead we get Millar-Bear and N-AI-Mand Bog Paper Nostalgia.

entering the last 72 hours!

funded and unlocking stuff - Next stretchgoal only needs one more person to sign up.....

Thought a few of you gaming squaxx would be interested in the boardgame endeavours of former of this parish Paul Von Scott (with a bit of art from me for full disclosure!)

STALAGBITE!

Already funded, but stretch goals to be had (should really inseert a Solar Wind style advert at this point)

I initially bought the official story, though if pushed to point any fingers, I'd go with the Grennie based more on Ken's Twitter feed than the increasing verbiage of the N-AI-Mand strips

Before 301 drops just wanted to say that brought a manly tear to my eye! 

Theres no piece of media I look forward to more than a new SS2000.

Such good news!  It has genuinely perked me up more than you could ever know to have this back! 

Might even get me reading my growing pile of mostly unread progs, though thats a topic for another thread

Yeah, I wanted the Flinty cover so was waiting for it to turn up in Forbidden Planet, but no show and now sold out in the 2000AD Shop?

I believe the reason for the connection between comics and more adult fare is that stocking comics allowed adult bookshops to avoid certain licencing laws? Sure I sawsomething along those lines amny years back - so the pron came first if you pardon the expression

As for comic book guys,my nemesis was Jason in late 80s Nostalgia and Comics.....