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Megazine / Re: Meg 468: A Storm is Coming
Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 06:47:51 PMQuote from: IndigoPrime on Today at 02:52:39 PMI've read Toxic before, but I don't remember much about it
Well, it started pretty strong:
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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by Swerty - Today at 06:44:25 PMIf you go to the webshop some of the colour pages are on display which confirms it's from the Eagle reprints
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General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
Last post by broodblik - Today at 04:04:06 PMHardback Cover for The Stainless Steel Rat - Color Omnibus:
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Megazine / Re: Meg 468: A Storm is Coming
Last post by broodblik - Today at 03:25:06 PMThis months meg was for me much better. Having Dreadnoughts back elevated the meg for me. The Dredd was wacky but in a good way. Armitage was really good although I did not like the first episode. The rest are serviceable but nothing special.
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Megazine / Meg 468: A Storm is Coming
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 02:52:39 PM
Nice cover. Also, interesting editor's letter, which says one of the reprint slots next week is being replaced "with a pair of brand-new stories". Woot! Lovely to hear, not least because I've cooled on the reprint since the Matt Smith IDW Dredd and Ruckley Rogue Trooper ran out. (I need to re-read Johnny Red, though; not sure I gave that a proper airing.)
Dredd: I loved D'Israeli. I'm rarely convinced he's a good match for Dredd. But it works here, with an increasingly absurd tale that's a lot of fun and doesn't overstay its welcome.
After a whopping ten pages of interviews (all good), we get a Steve Roberts kluge pin-up, before the final part of DeMarco. I need to re-read this tale as well, because it's kind of washed over me. It didn't really stand out. By contrast, I'm enjoying Armitage more than I have in a long while. It's blazing along nicely.
Another interview (newcomer Helsby) leads into a slightly odd piece on Ted Cowan (given that there's naff-all info about him in the wild), and some Robot Archie. As is often the case with this stuff, it's an extended trailer for the book, although it just about works well enough in giving us some bite-sized mini stories of sorts.
Reprint-wise, Hook Jaw wraps. I couldn't stand this. I get that a lot of it was pushing extremes on stereotypes (choice dialogue: "I'm gonna slaughter every last one of these pirate sonsabitches then coil out asteamin' American deuce on their corpses."), but, I dunno. I just didn't care about any of it. I guess at least it ended well.
I'm fairly certain I've read Toxic before, but I don't remember much about it. Other IDW Dredd that feels a bit off, but I'm sure that will be perfectly serviceable. And then we wrap up with two originals: a new Harrower Squad has Yeowell having fun with stompy blocky robots, but the star is Dreadnoughts, which is its typical mix of grim and compelling. Alas, the editor's letter refers to it as a "short series". Hopefully not too short.
In all, a bit of a mixed bag, although I the majority of the original material was very good. That bodes well if there's going to be more of it as of next month.
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Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...
Last post by broodblik - Today at 11:53:18 AMA very good prog or rather a high 5 prog this round.
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Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...
Last post by norton canes - Today at 11:41:23 AMYeah it's a thrill-powered five out of five this week, made even more impressive by each strip being so spectacularly different. Interesting quote from Dredd in the aftermath of 'A Better World':
"Forget personal independence. Compliant and obedient - that's what makes good cits."
It's almost like the Dredd scripting hydra's heads are really talking to each other.
"Forget personal independence. Compliant and obedient - that's what makes good cits."
It's almost like the Dredd scripting hydra's heads are really talking to each other.
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Books & Comics / Re: SPACEWARP - New Venture fr...
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 09:57:36 AMLooking online, there was quite a backlash against his Roger the Dodger, which I think says more about the sensibilities of old fart parents than children. Lots of "this isn't the Roger I knew". Well, yes. It was much funnier and sillier, but still smart and mischievous. By comparison, the current Roger feels very safe and a bit dull. (Mind you, that in itself might not be the worst thing. The Beano has its own voice and feel, and that's neatly countered by The Phoenix, which to some degree fills the IPC/Fleetway equivalent from when I was a kid – more anarchic.)
As for The Dandy, perhaps that in the long run was a good thing, in giving DCT some razor-sharp focus. The Beano seems to be on reasonably firm ground these days, and The Dandy survives to some degree with the annuals. (I don't really count the specials, which are mostly reprint and staggeringly expensive for what they are.) They also just started flirting with Zoom, presumably following on from The Phoenix doing the same. Although the first Beano session was weirdly long and weirdly late in the day. I'm not sure how many of the target audience would be fully attentive during a 75-minute(!) video that didn't start until 7pm. Maybe Scottish kids have later bedtimes or something.
As for The Dandy, perhaps that in the long run was a good thing, in giving DCT some razor-sharp focus. The Beano seems to be on reasonably firm ground these days, and The Dandy survives to some degree with the annuals. (I don't really count the specials, which are mostly reprint and staggeringly expensive for what they are.) They also just started flirting with Zoom, presumably following on from The Phoenix doing the same. Although the first Beano session was weirdly long and weirdly late in the day. I'm not sure how many of the target audience would be fully attentive during a 75-minute(!) video that didn't start until 7pm. Maybe Scottish kids have later bedtimes or something.
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Film & TV / Transformers 40th anniversary ...
Last post by rogue69 - Today at 09:16:56 AMJust seen that the first 4 episodes of the original Transfomers animation are being shown in cinemas on the 15th, 18th & 19th May as part of it's 40th anniversary, an exclusive behind-the-scenes table read appears on a split screen with episode 1 the other 3 shown as normal