A tricky Meg to navigate because the relentless and sad nature of the obits is really apparent now. Don't get me wrong – I'm 100% for them in the publication. It's just that stark reality of how many people we are losing right now. Anyway, after a nice Goddard cover I can't find anywhere online:
Dredd: wraps up quite nicely with a reappearance from a character I'd totally forgotten about. So, um, that. It's fun and very silly. The dynamic art was a treat. The last panel was... sigh.
A Paul Neary obit follows and then a kind of tribute seven-page text feature that never made it to Comic Book Punks. As a fan of Marvel UK in my youth, I really enjoyed this (and now know who to blame for cancelling Zoids).
DeMarco continues to be quite good. Which I'm sure sounds like damning with faint praise, but it's not really. It doesn't for me have a standout sport, and yet it's consistently very readable. Probably the best version of the character since she quit the force.
The Black Museum short was a good one, with a properly old-school last frame. After which we get another obit (Romero), a short text feature on David Michelinie, and a DPS Moore Dredd pic.
Reprint! Some Hellman, which is fine. Part 3 of Hookjaw, which I'm apparently only reading because I hate myself, because this has now hit Mega-City Two badness levels. Then a brief slice of painterly fine art from Coombe before the penultimate part of Under Siege, which I'm quite liking, even though it's never quite nailed Dredd himself. (There are some great Mega-City One ideas though.)
Devlin is now at peak Not, which I imagine will divide the audience further. That last frame is... quite something. And then Harrower Squad wraps things up with an episode that for some reason I liked an awful lot more than the previous two. Perhaps it just needed time to bed in.
Next month: Armitage. Presumably alongside Armitage's walking frame and/or Stookie.
Black Museum > Harrower Squad > Devlin > Dredd > Under Siege > DeMarco > Hellman >>>>> Hookjaw
Dredd: wraps up quite nicely with a reappearance from a character I'd totally forgotten about. So, um, that. It's fun and very silly. The dynamic art was a treat. The last panel was... sigh.
A Paul Neary obit follows and then a kind of tribute seven-page text feature that never made it to Comic Book Punks. As a fan of Marvel UK in my youth, I really enjoyed this (and now know who to blame for cancelling Zoids).
DeMarco continues to be quite good. Which I'm sure sounds like damning with faint praise, but it's not really. It doesn't for me have a standout sport, and yet it's consistently very readable. Probably the best version of the character since she quit the force.
The Black Museum short was a good one, with a properly old-school last frame. After which we get another obit (Romero), a short text feature on David Michelinie, and a DPS Moore Dredd pic.
Reprint! Some Hellman, which is fine. Part 3 of Hookjaw, which I'm apparently only reading because I hate myself, because this has now hit Mega-City Two badness levels. Then a brief slice of painterly fine art from Coombe before the penultimate part of Under Siege, which I'm quite liking, even though it's never quite nailed Dredd himself. (There are some great Mega-City One ideas though.)
Devlin is now at peak Not, which I imagine will divide the audience further. That last frame is... quite something. And then Harrower Squad wraps things up with an episode that for some reason I liked an awful lot more than the previous two. Perhaps it just needed time to bed in.
Next month: Armitage. Presumably alongside Armitage's walking frame and/or Stookie.
Black Museum > Harrower Squad > Devlin > Dredd > Under Siege > DeMarco > Hellman >>>>> Hookjaw