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Off Topic / Re: This is the News!

« on: Today at 08:19:30 AM »

It feels very hypocritical coming from a man who hounded his predecessor for evidence of his birth place and built a his campaign on "her emails".  Pot meet kettle.

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Nikolai Dante vs. Survival Geeks Rd 5 Heat 16

« on: Today at 08:09:27 AM »

No question it's Dante. Not to say I didn't enjoy Survival Geeks - I did it's great and I had been holding out for a volume in the UC (doesn't look like that'll happen now alas). But Dante is in a different league.

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Brass Sun vs. Savage Rd 5 Heat 14

« on: Today at 08:07:45 AM »

Going to go with the "which would I rather see more of" and that's undoubtebly Brass Sun. Love Savage for all it's gritty violence but Brass Sun stands out as something different in the prog where gritty violence is a bit of a given

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Kingdom vs. Rogue Trooper Rd 5 Heat 13

« on: 10 August, 2022, 07:26:27 AM »

Kingdom. It's far more consistent than Rogue which for every great moment has some meh.

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Other Reviews / Re: Sandman TV Series

« on: 09 August, 2022, 11:26:26 AM »

Finished the series last night. Really enjoyed it. Hoping they manage to keep it running, seems to be popular so that's a good sign at least.

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Skizz vs. ABC Warriors Rd 5 Heat 12

« on: 09 August, 2022, 11:09:34 AM »

Skizz is great but ABC Warriors is the clear winner here

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Journal of Luke Kirby vs. Ampney Crucis Rd 5 Heat 11

« on: 09 August, 2022, 08:00:57 AM »

Crucis

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Other Reviews / Re: Sandman TV Series

« on: 08 August, 2022, 04:15:05 PM »

I can't help but feel there's a whole raft of comics that suffer from trying to be too clever around this era. You've got Mills banging out Slaine epics that mostly seem to exist to show off his research of <insert historical epoch here>. Moore is producing From Hell with it's extensive appendicies of notes detailing all his research into the ripper and victorian London. And Cerebus is left in a holding pattern while Dave Sim shows us his literary nerd credentials/aspirations with Melmoth (and that only gets worse with Form and Void and Going Home with their notes/rambles about Hemingway and Fitzgerald).

As someone who came to this stuff later in life it does feels a lot like (some) comics writers in the 90s had a chip on their shoulder about not being considered "proper" writers and over compensated.

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Insurrection vs. Nemesis the Warlock Rd 5 Heat 10

« on: 08 August, 2022, 11:05:14 AM »

Gonna join the chorus of votes for Nemesis

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Lawless vs. Thistlebone Rd 5 Heat 9

« on: 08 August, 2022, 11:04:32 AM »

Ahh such a shame to have to loose either of these both great thrills with superb art. Vote has to be Lawless much as I hate to see Thistlebone go down.

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

« on: 06 August, 2022, 10:15:46 AM »

A book of Niemand Dredd would be awesome

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

« on: 05 August, 2022, 01:40:27 PM »

The fact it's a new authors revival of the character makes it feel like the Devlin book will stand alone from the MC vols fairly well. A Lawless book dropping into the story after the end of the MC book might be tougher. Still holding out for a 2nd Stickleback vol here

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Low Life vs. The Out Rd 5 Heat 8

« on: 05 August, 2022, 01:34:52 PM »

The Out

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Bad Company vs. Red Seas Rd 5 Heat 4

« on: 04 August, 2022, 09:32:38 AM »

Bad Company. Red seas is superb and more consistent but it never hits the high of those early BC tales.

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General / Re: Forum’s Fav Thrill - Sinister Dexter vs. Feral and Foe Rd 5 Heat 1

« on: 03 August, 2022, 09:04:09 AM »

sinister dexter