Prog 1801 Green Death On The Red Planet

[Mattofthespurs]

Starts well with a beautiful wraparound A.B.C Warriors cover. Lots of shooting and general mayhem. Good times.

Judge Dredd. Not a fan of the artwork. Coming after the terrific art work of Weston last week this was always going to suffer in comparison. I don't like it. I want that one.

Brass Sun. Enjoying this so far.Beautiful double page spread.

A.B.C Warriors. The art by Langley is perfectly suited to a story practically dominated by robots. Jolly good script too. The story that most wants me to read next weeks prog.

Terror Tales. "Blackspot" As a horror fan I really enjoyed this. Not overly clever but fun none the less and does not out stay it's welcome.

Grey Area. I enjoy this but the artwork is all a bit 'static' for my tastes.

A good prog that alleviates some of the hangover from last week's party.

[Darren Stephens]

I've not read it yet, but the artwork on Dredd looks very "pixelated" in my prog. Surely not intentional? 

[James Stacey]

Is it just me who's Dredd strip looks like it was printed using low res thumbnails of the art ? I assume it's not a new style of PJs to make everything look like a cut scene from an Amiga game?

Edit- its not just you Darren.

[pauljholden]

Unfortunately, owing to technical reasons beyond my comprehension, the art on Dredd came out mushy - sorry if that's interefered with anyone's enjoyment of the strip.

(Mind you, if you don't like the art cause it's not Chris Weston, there's naught I can do about that...)

Here's page one in its less blurry original...

[Darren Stephens]

Ah, that's a real shame, PJ. Looks like cracking work under the blur. My eyes aren't great anyway, so it's not detracting too much!

[James Stacey]

Nope, the art (and story) are still great, it's just rare to see a lapse in production.

[Keef Monkey]

The art is lovely PJ, but yeah, I'd popped on here to see if anyone else's had been scanned a bit squiffy! Look forward to sitting down and giving it a proper read.

[IndigoPrime]

Clearly an error in production or at the printer. This is crap for PJ, but also terrible timing in general, given the movie being out. Sod's law.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I've not read it yet, but the artwork on Dredd looks very "pixelated" in my prog. Surely not intentional? 

Yep. There seems to be some kind of reproduction problem and the art suffers for it.

[Jim_Campbell]

Rigellian Hotshot for the repro droid who either didn't update the broken links to the art files, or left low-res positionals in place!

(Seriously… does anyone use low-res positionals any more? I mean, back when we were using 180MHz PPC processors and 32Mb of RAM, fair enough, but these days?)

Cheers

Jim

[Pete Wells]

WTF? On my copy, not only is the Dredd wrong, the big, beautiful DPS in Brass Sun has an image from another magazine ghosting over it!?!

[Jim_Campbell]

WTF? On my copy, not only is the Dredd wrong, the big, beautiful DPS in Brass Sun has an image from another magazine ghosting over it!?!

Might just be a one-off -- mine's OK. Sounds the print droids are in severe need of an overhaul, though!

Cheers

Jim

[IndigoPrime]

Actually had a read now. A decent Dredd, depsite art issues, a typically Smith one-shot (I mean this in a good way), and Brass Sun could easily be this generation's Nikolai Dante. Not so keen on the rest—Grey Area for me is OK filler and I can no longer bring myself to care about anything in ABC Warriors—but a strong issue overall, I thought.

[Spaceghost]

Oooh, that Dredd looks terrible. The Damage Report is all about how Robo-KEEF and How-LE have been left to 'ride this prog home to the printers' in the absence of Cyber-Matt and PYE-01.

Way to grass yourselves up lads!

[flip-r mk2]

Blurry Dredd and no ghosting on Brass Sun in my copy.


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