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well, megazine 201 appears first on the page, so i'll tell you about that for the moment.
"the biggest & best megazine yet--" trumpets previews, "100 pages of entirely new material, plus a 48-page supplement containing the complete vampires-at-war-classic, 'fiends of the eastern front'--plus a huge double-sided poster & wall planner!"
wot, run out of space spinners, alan? (oh, & are you still wearing your biotronic stickers, logan?)
inside the megazine itself there's "a complete 20-page dredd thriller from legendary creators john wagner & carlos ezquerra; vampire adventure devlin waugh returns in red tide [hooray!] by john smith & colin macneil; 'the family' by rob williams & simon fraser; & 'bad karma' by pat mills & simon davis."
there's promises of, "masses more...a few surprises & two more installments of thrill power overload!"
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
If you squint at the cover in Previews, you can see something called "xtinct"?
Grrrreat!
there's also claim to "3 classic thrills"--squint away for the other two, watcher me lad!
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something which i'll leave in your capable hand, watcher. i really should be writing some copy on saint etienne.
though it's great to know that steve moore's still producing the goods, eh?
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Oh lordy Steve - I only squinted in the shop, so I'll have to rely on memory - here goes....
Banzai Battalion by Wagner and Gibson "save the fitz"
Nikolai Dante by Robbie Morrison and Burns
Slaine By Pat and Clint Langley
VCs "Eschers Well"(?) by Abnett and Anthony Williams
Rogue Trooper "angels" by Rennis and Coleby....
Dredd Vs Aliens of course.....ermmmm let me think.....
That is of Course RenniE...,sorry Gordon!
Cant think of any more, being the shop surfing cheapskate that I am! You'll have to fill in the blanks when your free Steve...
Slaine aside, that looks like an utterly fantastic lineup!
If Pat has managed to write a good story, I think Clint Langley's art will support it. His Telguuth was pretty good, and it's a lot lusher than the last Slaine artwork we had (David Bircham) which was very flat.
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---If Pat has managed to write a good story, I think Clint Langley's art will support it. His Telguuth was pretty good, and it's a lot lusher than the last Slaine artwork we had (David Bircham) which was very flat---
Well, I'll respectfully disagree, as I loathed Langley's art on that Telguuth - in fact, I don't think I've actually seen one piece of his that I've liked. Unless he's done a McMahon & changed his style drastically, even a decent Slaine story from Pat Mills (and wouldn't that be a nice surprise...) isn't going to interest me.
what, too distracted by wonder woman's womanly thighs, eh watcher?;)
as an aside, i arrived at my local this morning to find a trio of media studies students filming a documentary as the shipment arrived.
most of the clientele declined to be interviewed, which is especially odd when you consider that they were throwing away whta was surely for many of them the rare opportunity of not only talking with two intelligent young women but talking about comics (under those gruff fanboy exteriors they must be such shy, sensitive things), not even after watching my loud evoking of sturgeon's law & dismissal of most superhero comics as "male adolescent power fantasies" (though i championed milligan & aldred's reader-polarizing--well, at least in these here parts--'x-statix' as "being like a beastie boys song; big & dumb on the surface but put together with such knowing intelligence"), amongst other things.
i'm surprised that i was actually able to walk out of the place without being decked by a trekkie. i suppose that they must consider perpetuating the middle american cultural mainstream as being a good thing.
or maybe they're all old hands at this game & considered it a fruitless labour as the guy operating the equipment is always the egineering student boyfriend (for over the past half decade i've been averaging an annual appearance in some media studies or film studies students' project; never seen a single one of them, however).
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When are these out?
Meg #201 sounds fucking rad! I'll have to subscribe to the meg, can't be bothered waiting another few months for it to arrive in Oz. To let you know how it is, I went looking for the 'new' issue today (beginning of Lenny Zero) and was told 'next week'. bloody oath.
any thoughts about how you're going to follow this up, alan?;)
you could try your local comics shop, tu-plang. though they're only one moth late & mine charges oz$18 a megazine...
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Link: a friendly reminder (though not my work; which is
Yeh the whole thing sounds superb!
The stand-alone 'Fiends' reprint is a great idea -I hope its just a taster for many more reprints in a seperate 'Meg' format..
my local (robot boy comics) shut down a few months ago. the town of Launceston just isn't big enough to support a comic shopperea. Ah, robot boy was shit anyway. NEVER anything 2k-related.
dang! sad to here it, tu-plang.
however, from what i understand the hardcore scene is pretty intense down there.
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I said the other day it would be 'Fiends' in the reprint! Me so wise.
XTNCT, by the wasy, is a 7 part story about a group of people trying to bring about the end of the world. It's by respected 'Casualty' writer Paul Cornell.
Paul Cornell and you didn't mention Who - well done DXB! :)
Still, I hope it's better than his last Megazine outings - Deathwatch wasn't my cuppa tea at all -very dubious connection to the world of Dredd, and Pan African judges was too slow and ponderous for my liking....
Thanks. You don't know how tough that was.