Week... eerrrr is anyone keeping count anymore? (well yes I am its 5) and you know what if I said Week 4 was a step up in quality, well I'd suggest this week is even better. See what you reckon...
Two spin-off thrills here. Plenty of questions about both BUT the only one that matters is...
Which most rattles your thrill-receptors:
Deadlock - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=DEADLOCK)
Vs.
Johnny Woo - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=WOO)
Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.
Match ends early on the morning of Friday 26th November and the winner gets a place in Round 2 (of 9!!!).
What on Earth is ALL of this? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.0)
For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.msg1070150#msg1070150)
Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!
Deadlock was everything that the nostalgia-fest of Nemesis Book X wasn't. It really felt like it was going somewhere.
Deadlock it is.
Deadlock
Deadlock.
No deadlock about this choice... It's Deadlock.
Deadlock.
Deadlock, a better end to Nemesis the Warlock than Book X was.
Deadlock.
Much as I love to be a lone voice shouting in the wilderness, Deadlock is just better than Johnny Woo. Even if this is including 'Wizards & Warlocks' + 'The Enigmass Variations'. (Is it? I'm guessing they might get their own slot?)
(Johnny Woo vs Skip Tracer - that would've been a fair fight. But whoever said knockout tournaments should be fair? Fair is rarely fun!)
Quote from: AlexF on 23 November, 2021, 10:18:11 AM
Much as I love to be a lone voice shouting in the wilderness, Deadlock is just better than Johnny Woo.
I have a pretty good memory for thrills, and even though I know I've read the Johnny Woo solo series, I remember
nothing about it. One of those series that was briefly just... there.
johnny woo
Quote from: AlexF on 23 November, 2021, 10:18:11 AM
Much as I love to be a lone voice shouting in the wilderness, Deadlock is just better than Johnny Woo. Even if this is including 'Wizards & Warlocks' + 'The Enigmass Variations'. (Is it? I'm guessing they might get their own slot?)
I'd stand to be corrected, but the Carl Critchlow illustrated stories were under the
Nemesis & Deadlock banner, I believe?
Quote from: sheridan on 23 November, 2021, 11:33:57 AM
Quote from: AlexF on 23 November, 2021, 10:18:11 AM
Much as I love to be a lone voice shouting in the wilderness, Deadlock is just better than Johnny Woo. Even if this is including 'Wizards & Warlocks' + 'The Enigmass Variations'. (Is it? I'm guessing they might get their own slot?)
I'd stand to be corrected, but the Carl Critchlow illustrated stories were under the Nemesis & Deadlock banner, I believe?
Quickly checks spreadsheet... and YES Nemesis and Deadlock stands on its own as a stand alone solo story as otherwise you have to make strange choices, like why is it Nemesis not Deadlock or vice versa.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 23 November, 2021, 02:27:20 PM
Quickly checks spreadsheet... and YES Nemesis and Deadlock stands on its own as a stand alone solo story as otherwise you have to make strange choices, like why is it Nemesis not Deadlock or vice versa.
Well, Nemesis
is [spoiler]Deadlock[/spoiler] - along with being the deathbringer, lord of the flies, etc.
Quote from: sheridan on 23 November, 2021, 02:59:41 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 23 November, 2021, 02:27:20 PM
Quickly checks spreadsheet... and YES Nemesis and Deadlock stands on its own as a stand alone solo story as otherwise you have to make strange choices, like why is it Nemesis not Deadlock or vice versa.
Well, Nemesis is [spoiler]Deadlock[/spoiler] - along with being the deathbringer, lord of the flies, etc.
Well yes but then you'd include [spoiler]Deadlock [/spoiler]in [spoiler]Nemesis the Warlock[/spoiler] and my head would explode!
I was doing some prep the other day and I've just about managed to cover my omissions with mistakenly entered and so far (touch would) its evened out so you'll never know what a fuck up the wole things been!
I've never been a fan of the extremely obvious cultural references as named characters thing: so Johnny Woo and Stan Lee (as characters in 2000 AD) leave me cold. I never minded Ro-Jaws & Hammerstein because, as a kid, I'd never heard of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Ignorance is bliss.
Deadlock, for me. (Plus, it was a good series.)
Colin, you're doing a great job, I'm really enjoying this whole thing.
Deadlock. Henry Flint is always incredible and this one was just an art tour de force.
Deadlock
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 23 November, 2021, 07:52:11 PM
Colin, you're doing a great job, I'm really enjoying this whole thing.
Seconded.
Deadlock was quite excellent.
Just today to get your votes in here and I'll count this one up in the morning. Looks like we know which way this one is going.
VOTING CLOSED
No real surprise here, for all my issues with Deadlock, that I have to say don't seem echoed in many of the comments here, it was always going to take this one. An exciting epilogue to one of 2000ad's corner stone strips was set up to topple a character that seems to be forgotten by many. So
Deadlock
makes it into Round 2.