Well that was a fine comic.
Dredd does fall a little into that cliche of some of the other Judge's are even bigger bastard's than Dredd... but then that is 'true' in a story sense and this is very well crafted and a satisfying read.
Tales from the Black Museum is a super little done in one. Gloriously creepy and nasty. As said well paced. A real winner
As is the Devlin Waugh one off. These two strips are fine, fine examples of how to make a one off story work so perfectly and this is just great and Patrick Goddard puts in a great shift on art.
Blunt also provides a great tale a satisfying if heart breaking end to this series that I think will stand up well on re-read.
All of which is great, and many a time one or other of these strips would have been a real stand out. In so many comics, even Megs, I'd have been raving about the Tale of the Black Museum, how superb that Delvin Waugh was, what a wonderful way for Blunt to wrap but... but... then you get to Lawless and the effortless way it tells just brilliant stories. The way it works as a beautiful, self contained single episode, yet builds so wonderfully on what gone before. The way Dabnett throws us another fresh way to present the tale, an original angle to keep this feeling utterly original. The way Phil Winslade makes such painstaking art tell a tale so effortlessly ... the others strips are all very good comics and yet they are utterly put in the shade by the masterclass that is Lawless. Man I love this series and this episode shows quite why its just so brilliant.
To to good...
Nice text pieces, whimsical typos to keep some with nowt better to do entertained and feeling good about themselves, an interesting idea for the floppie even if it didn't work for me (and I'm in the middle of those Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales in my re-read so good as they are I got nowt from them). But heck damned fine effort and nice to see the floppie pushed into different places so I'm good with that even if it didn't work for me. Over all an absolute triumph the Meg this month.
