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Qualifying 1- David Stone or Andy Diggle - Ultimate Not Wagner Tournament

Started by Colin YNWA, 04 May, 2020, 06:47:43 AM

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Colin YNWA

And GO! With the first face off in Qualifying between

David Stone - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=DAVES

OR

Andy Diggle - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=ANDYD

Whose 2000ad 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) closes sometime Monday 11th May?

What the heck is all this about? https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46406.0

Next face off starts tomorrow...

Greg M.

Can't say either chap's oeuvre particularly floats my boat, but we'll go Diggle.

abelardsnazz

Interesting choice to kick off with - I'm going for Dave Stone, due to his fleshing out of Brit-Cit, which we hadn't seen before, and for one of my favourite story titles, Apostasy in the UK.

broodblik

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.


Professor Bear

Dave Stone, who at least was interesting if nothing else - plus the aforementioned worldbuilding for Brit-Cit, which reformed a throwaway satirical concept in an early Dredd into something more, the kind of salvage work some of us had to wait significantly longer to see for our own little island.

Dark Jimbo

Andy Diggle, for sure.

Even his least effort, Snow/Tiger, is a legible action thriller with a clear beginning, middle and end. Stone's work is mired in that horrible 90's obtuse storytelling style that just makes things a pain in the arse to read.
@jamesfeistdraws

Woolly

Hmmmmm... I'm voting Dave Stone.
I do think Andy Diggle has a better pedigree of one-off tales, but nothing that beats the first series of Armitage in my eyes.

So, based on that and, as mentioned, the fleshing out of Brit-Cit... I vote for Stone!

Bolt-01


von Boom


Funt Solo

Tricky one ... but for pure entertainment value I've got to go with Andy Diggle.
++ A-Z ++  coma ++

maryanddavid

Diggle by a sliver,  the first series of Armitage is great, it was a series I grew to dislike. Would have liked to see Stone tackle something else.

rogue69