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#1
Not a bad prog.  Thistlebone wrapped up nicely, even if nothing spectacular happened - The whole story was more a series of connected creepy events than a cohesive plot, but it worked for me.

I liked Dredd, though was also a bit confused by Dredd's decision at the end.  Nice art but there was something very strange about it - it was kind of like the artist had never seen a Dredd strip before but someone read a few of them out to him. The Lawmaster's skinny wheels were particularly weird; it gave it the look of my very unimpressive 125cc Suzuki.

Rogue was a decent little tale but I like my Rogue strips morally ambiguous, rather than a white hats / black hats dynamic like this.  The whole idea that Southers never commit atrocities sounded like Rogue was drinking the Milli-com Kool-Aid.  Bagman had a pretty brave stab at it at the end of Cinnabar, though maybe that hadn't happened yet in the timeline.  I like Paul Marshall but I don't think he's ever bettered Firekind, and Rogue's torso and arms fit together a bit oddly.

I'll get back to the rest of the prog soon.
#2
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
26 March, 2024, 10:45:07 PM
The first time I watched The Department, over half the film had run by the time I realised Matt Damon and Leonardo diCaprio were two different people.
#3
Megazine / Re: Meg 466: Shoot ’em up
26 March, 2024, 10:39:32 PM
Quote from: Le Fink on 24 March, 2024, 01:02:28 PMI like Austin's portraits of Devlin - he brings out the bastard.



Now you mention it, that is an intrinsic part of Devlin's character that seems to have been lost a bit, and that I'd forgotten myself.  He truly is, as you say, a bastard - for all his airs and graces he's a violent sadist at heart.  Becoming a vampire didn't shake him all that much, as he was already the type who'd torture someone with a blowtorch to the face to get information. 
#4
Quote from: Jacqusie on 25 March, 2024, 07:41:22 PMA DIY / Domesticated themed cover this week, Dredd looks like he's been doing a bit of painting the back drop and he's been using his big stick to stir the paint pot.



That backdrop definitely needs a second coat, too. 

Snidiness aside, I love that cover.  John McCrea is one of the old school now, and has never stopped developing his style, so spanner-festooned hats off to him.
#5
Off Topic / Re: What have I missed?
25 March, 2024, 08:01:40 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 15 March, 2024, 07:21:57 AMNah, pretty boring in all honesty.

(JBC, did you get the tickets to Stonehenge yet?  Know they're only one way and don't worry about luggage, so long as you've got your robes, you'll be fine ...)

Ooh, I can't wait. Is there going to be cake? I like cake.
#6
Megazine / Re: Meg 466: Shoot ’em up
24 March, 2024, 10:27:43 AM
A very quick review of the bits I read.

Dredd
- I'm not really a fan of these 'Dredd-fights-a-scary-monster' strips.  I don't really see him as much of an action hero any more; more a very old copper and soldier who involves himself in politics.

Devlin was fine, though basically just a fight with wordy captions.  Did anyone else notice the stitching in Devlin's back pockets?

Harrower - I'm not crazy about Yeowell's modern style but I really like this strip.  Not sure why but it ticks a few boxes for me.  An otherwise familiar area turned into a bizarre post-apocalypse nightmare - I like it.  And good to see that Slush Puppy will still be sold at least up until World War 3.

The text stuff was interesting - Dan Abnett being a mate of Stewart Lee's was a pleasant surprise for me (see my other thread on this).  David Micheline, well, interesting to know there's been a creator droid who's been uncredited for decades.  Shame about the creations.

Warwick Fraser-Coombe's mixed-media thingy - I don't know what the feck it is, but I like it.  It's either MC1 or the Cursed Earth, or both, or neither.
#7
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
24 March, 2024, 09:48:11 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

And here he is again, in the pages of the latest Megazine.  He's a mate of Dan Abnett - who knew?  (Him, I suppose, and Dan Abnett.)

I've seen him do routines about his Hulk comics collection - little did I know that our Dabnett got him back into reading them.
#8
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
23 March, 2024, 06:25:24 PM
Fair play.  I remember my Mam in the 80s pouring scorn on our Spectrum games, all of which she said were variations of the theme of 'little men running along shelves' (and in fairness, there were a lot of Jet Set Willy clones back then).

She's 80 in a few weeks and these days she's Candy-Crushing away with the best of them, along with many other phone games.
#9
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
22 March, 2024, 03:54:13 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 March, 2024, 02:53:31 PMWell Debbie Harry was Anderson...

... who now looks younger than Debbie Harry did when she inspired Bolland to create the character's look.  They're only pictures in a comic, I know, but it gets on my wick something rotten.
#10
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
22 March, 2024, 03:51:39 PM
Ha!

Yeah, I'm guessing the referendum was a big factir in it, but I think that was just a part of the bigger picture of the ruling parties steadily hemorrhaging popular support, and Sinn Féin mopping it up.

Not that Sinn Féin will be getting my vote either any time soon, mind you.
#11
Megazine / Re: Meg 465: Night Terrors
22 March, 2024, 03:43:38 PM
And yes, I wish these posts were editable too, having forgotten to delete the bit I realised was a bit too harsh.
#12
Megazine / Re: Meg 465: Night Terrors
22 March, 2024, 03:42:33 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 21 March, 2024, 11:20:56 PM"How many big heids can you fit in one wee bottle?"

Is what we used to ask about poppers thirty years ago when one of my pals had the great idea of each taking a big sniff then trying to play Street Fighter.

"Dude! That smells like ass."

Is what an American friend said to the young man who tried to offer us some in a Belfast nightclub ten years ago.

No further incidents to report.




The mate who gave me my first sniff assured me I'd feel hornier than I'd ever felt before. Unless being horny means your face feeling like it's going to burst in an explosion of blood, and having a pounding migraine into the bargain, he was very much mistaken.

I think I said it but I like Harrower Squad a lot. The absolute shitshow going on outside the cities is far more interesting than nonsense any radioactive whisky silliness.

#13
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 06:43:09 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 March, 2024, 05:57:46 PMI'll give it to you straight...

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one.



Well, he was only a slip of a lad back then, writing into a Saturday morning kids' show and hoping for his first real grown-up record.


He was twenty eight years old.
#14
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
21 March, 2024, 04:16:46 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 March, 2024, 02:40:01 PMI remember well (in 1985) when ColinYNWA & JayzusB.Christ (then employed as "Mek-Quakers" by Tharg) dragged Gerry Finley-Day out of King's Reach Tower by the hair and gave him a good kicking in an adjoining alley.

Yep, back when I was 10 we were punky punks from a punk background who loved punking around punkishly with other punks from the punk era.[/Pat Mills] [/Grant Morrison for that matter]

I love Pat Mills' classic work and I'll reread it forever, but I generally tend to take his angry reminisces with a pinch of salt.  It seems sometimes that apart from him, EVERYONE involved in the editorial teams of comics were various incarnations of the Antichrist.  The misogynist label I hadn't heard before, though, and just to be horribly petty, it's a bit rich from someone whose writing defines a female lover as someone 'who will stick one in your back'.  I don't really think he's a misgynist, of course, though I do remember a female Squaxx asking Tharg what Pat's 'major malfunction with women' was.


#15
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 01:42:28 PM
I tried to post this,  but no luck. Here it is again - read it and weep.