Okay let's look at the positives.
The art of Cadet Dredd is great hope to see Joe Currie again soon. Love it. The story was pretty good too.
And then... nothing, absolutely nothing. Regened continues to be drab and utterly uninspiring. Its such a shame that this is the case. The Nerve Centre highlights what a great idea Regene is, how it can work as it references just three of its successes, Pandora Perfect, Department K and Full Tilt Bogie and there have been more. There is nothing even close to that quality in this issue and hasn't been for sometime.
Lowburn High is once agin over long, poorly plotted, utterly uninspiring and the art static and poorly framed. An example of the issues I have with this the fifth page when Maisy's parents are told of her high levels of magic, an apparently dramatic event and yet the page hangs off a central image of someone pulling a file out a draw, while craming the parents poorly realised reaction into a panel dominated by the drab background. Then the whole inspection thread, built up for so long is handwaved any and exposed as utterly superflous.
And again we get 20 pages of this tepid stuff. 20 bloomin' pages.
The Future Shock has art right out of the muddy 90s and a twist that is... well poor.
Renk, well its dull and daft.
Regened used to be something to look forward to, to see what 2000ad could spin with it new direction. Its was hit and miss, but at least it was something that played with potential. This is a pretty good Dredd with great art and the rest is all utter miss.
If you can't get the talent to do this well maybe its time to call this a day, though one assumes sales still prevent that.
So disappointing.
The art of Cadet Dredd is great hope to see Joe Currie again soon. Love it. The story was pretty good too.
And then... nothing, absolutely nothing. Regened continues to be drab and utterly uninspiring. Its such a shame that this is the case. The Nerve Centre highlights what a great idea Regene is, how it can work as it references just three of its successes, Pandora Perfect, Department K and Full Tilt Bogie and there have been more. There is nothing even close to that quality in this issue and hasn't been for sometime.
Lowburn High is once agin over long, poorly plotted, utterly uninspiring and the art static and poorly framed. An example of the issues I have with this the fifth page when Maisy's parents are told of her high levels of magic, an apparently dramatic event and yet the page hangs off a central image of someone pulling a file out a draw, while craming the parents poorly realised reaction into a panel dominated by the drab background. Then the whole inspection thread, built up for so long is handwaved any and exposed as utterly superflous.
And again we get 20 pages of this tepid stuff. 20 bloomin' pages.
The Future Shock has art right out of the muddy 90s and a twist that is... well poor.
Renk, well its dull and daft.
Regened used to be something to look forward to, to see what 2000ad could spin with it new direction. Its was hit and miss, but at least it was something that played with potential. This is a pretty good Dredd with great art and the rest is all utter miss.
If you can't get the talent to do this well maybe its time to call this a day, though one assumes sales still prevent that.
So disappointing.