Meg 260 - Family Feud

[thinky]

ITALICS OFF

[dweezil2]

By Jove, I had a letter printed in this months Meg! If you're reading this Thargy boy, The second Caballistics Volume wouldn't go amiss!
I'm Ashley Beeching, by the way(darn, cover blown.

[dweezil2]

By Jove, I had a letter printed in this months Meg! If you're reading this Thargy boy, The second Caballistics Volume wouldn't go amiss!
I'm Ashley Beeching, by the way(darn, cover blown.

[dweezil2]

By Jove, I had a letter printed in this months Meg! If you're reading this Thargy boy, The second Caballistics Volume wouldn't go amiss!
I'm Ashley Beeching, by the way(darn, cover blown.

[dweezil2]

Apologies for the triple post!!!

[Buttonman]

You letter has been monitored and critiqued on the 'Writing to Tharg' thread. You are well known to us following your notorious 'Waugh's spunk' letter of recent date. Keep the faith!

[johnone]

Alright

Dredd Night School
Brilliant story which looks at Dredd, his family, the justice system and the effects of Judicial training all in nine pages!!!!and a brilliant final HMPH!, Its these stories that make dredd what it is.

Carl Critchlow  an Interesting article

History Of Horror Ok Now compared to last months horror article far more interesting , prehaps because anyone with an interest in the history of comics know about the American horror comics debacle , this covered a  far less well known aspect.

Big Robots ...Why do I get the feeling this is going to be very very silly before it finishes.

New Comics hardly anything new or revealing

Blood of Satanus....Trouts comment "Fucking Shameful" is being too kind to what is quickly becoming the worst thing ever printed by the house  of tharg.....Gentlemen HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME!!!

Small Press... a lovely piece of writing by Robert Curley  topped off by some brilliant artwork by Declan Shalvey.

The God Fish...The God fish?!?!?!? bizzare  choice for the Meg , not a bad story but for the Meg???

New Films: Same as always

Dredd Files: This is just pointless filler really.

Angel Gang: This has become the second Lead strip as far as I'm concerned  it really is enjoyable and is the way the Angel Gang should be written.

Overall a fair issue except for Satanus which is dragging the Meg Down but I fear no one is listening to the readers complaints otherwise why do they keep printing it? Guys I promise you if you drop it now no one would complain , no one would notice because no one would care!

[MIKE COLLINS]

The God Fish...The God fish?!?!?!? bizzare choice for the Meg , not a bad story but for the Meg???

No one was more surprised than me.....!

Oddly enough I found my original script for that just this week- in a stack of my old Action Force stories! well, the original carbon, as that was back in the days when we used 'typewriters' whatever they might be...

[satchmo]

Cheez, I was a bit worried about Dolman for a minute there! A beautiful story, Vienna shouting at Dredd on the stairs was a classic moment. Also a nice companion piece to developments in the prog. Ive read two brilliant Wagner Dredds in one day today, what a privelige. Cheers Tharg!
havent read owt else yet I need a lie down after too much thrill power :)

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Is there a reason why Satanus III is being printed? Seriously, I wonder if there is something contractual about it, or if a hand is being forced somewhere and there is no option to print it.

It is the worst thing I have ever read. Anywhere. It makes Soul Sisters look like a work of genius.

All you need is a pair of eyes to see the drawings (I typed art, then "art" and thought about scribbles) are a mess. And the dialogue. Jesus fucking wept, it transcends corn into whole new dimensions of cheese (hey, maybe that's the idea?).

That's all before you stop and think that it's a Dredd story. The value, the integrity, of Dredd is being reduced by this tripe (busty witch/ judge hybrids? Fat demons?)

This is an insult.

[Tiplodocus]

Loved the Dredd story.  I liked the way you knew it was Dolman as soon as arses were getting kicked. And how good was Doherty's art.

Enjoyed the Angel gang and Big RObots as well. Execution - heh!

My views on SATANUS are aptly echoed above.

Small press piece was a bit... er... trite. But I liked the art.

Never read the Horror article, it just looked like it was a list of things (I remember being disappointed that Bish-Op's history of BATTLE was also a list where TPO had been such fun).

[Byron Virgo]

Well, anything that covers such a general topic as 'horror comics' in such short a space is going to in part end up as a list of things. I'd like to think that the interviews and such help to place it all in some sort of historical context, as well as detailing concurrent social movements like the anti-comics campaign in Britain of the early 1950's.

As I say, I'd *like* to say all that, but I'd probably just be talking a load of old shite...

By the way, for those that are interested, you can see some of Kev O'Neil's pre-2000AD comic work from the fanzine Legend Horror Classics:

Link: http://david-z.blogspot.com/2006/10/legend-horror-classics-dracula.html" target="_blank">Dracula

[Byron Virgo]

Link: http://david-z.blogspot.com/2006/10/legend-horror-classics-frankenstein.html" target="_blank">And Frankenstein

[Bico]

I liked Molcher's piece on the British invasion, but thought the omission of Paul Jenkins was a tad odd.    I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but he's had a run on Hellblazer, was the number two writer on Spidey for about four years, wrote Wolverine: Origin, and the entirety of Marvel's Civil War: Frontline series.

[Byron Virgo]

To be fair, Paul Jenkins has been around for more than a decade, so he's not exactly 'invading' as 'already well-established' and his work's rather mediocre to boot.

Anyway, Mike's probably never heard of him in the first place, the damned lazy journoswine...

:-P