Whenever Uncle Pat is involved I been to say this is about writing for Tharg - NOT - creating the comic! Can someone whose work creates such passion in so many unseat one of the absolute favourites to take the Godpleton Cup? Mills has written some of the best, but for some, some of the worse thrills for Tharg in his long and illustrous career for Tharg. Pete Milligan is one of Tharg's most inventive and literate writers. Its over to you.
Pat Mills - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=PATM (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=PATM)
OR
Pete Milligan - http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=PETERM (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=PETERM)
What is all this nonsense you ask well we're finding out whose 2000ad (Meg and associated items) writing do you prefer? Voting - just add a comment here with whose work you prefer (and anything else you might wish to say to discuss their work). This vote closes some time early Friday 19th June?
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Second two quarter finals will be up tomorrow.
Pat Mills
Pat Mills for me
Uncle Pat.
Pete Milligan, because of Bad Company, The Dead, Tribal Memories, Hewligan's Haircut, and Bix Barton - unique Thrills all.
And so, inevitably, my two favourite remaining authors come up against each other. I'm quite sure Pat will triumph, but I must vote Pete Milligan.
Three-quarters of Milligan's contributions count as some of the most unique and accomplished stories to ever grace the Prog.
But for all his clunky dialogue, structural ticks and overdone hobbyhorses, Pat Mills' ocean of work remains the heart of the comic. Endlessly inventive and challenging, a gift for the iconic, a writer who knows that partnering the right artist is essential for every story, and that reinvention can and should happen within a strip.
Love that Milligan, but there's only one Pat Mills. I didn't think it too many.
It's got to be Mills. Much as I love Bad Company it just can't compete against Nemesis, and the early runs of ABC Warriors and Slaine.
Mills.
Mills, for everything.
Pat Mills! Father of the prog.
Pat Mills.
I'd love to go against the grain here, but it just has to be the Guvnor, dunnit? Hard to see how any challenger's going to be able to unseat him, to be honest...
Pat MILLS.
Big Pat.
Mills. I really enjoy Milligan's writing, but I'm not sure that his best work has been for the prog. Mills, on the other hand, has contributed several of its greatest stories.
Pat Mills is 2000ad.
I hate having to vote against the writer of Bad Company, Tribal Memories and Sooner or Later. And I voted against Pat in the last round.
But Sláine, all the way up to the end of the Horned God. Nemesis up to the end of Deathbringer. ABC Warriors in the Black Hole. Dredd's name. And, somewhat significantly, 2000ad.
Slough Feg, in later incarnations as a senile, nostalgic old eunuch: best bad guy there's ever been. I also knew of Feg's Wickerman many years before I saw Lord Summerisle's one, much as I love the latter. The fomorian feeding pit. The injection into my brain of a far more exciting look to the dully described Irish legends I'd learned at school: Medb, Balor, the Red Branch; they were all in my shitty schoolbooks but I didn't give a feck till Pat made them cool.
Nemesis making Be Pure's mouth even bigger, and Torquemada slowly driving his underage wife insane. A hollowed out earth where traffic rules are everything, for grud's sake.
The dramatic deconstruction of each well-established robot hero, examining the minutiae of their damaged pasts, with only Deadlock and Ro-jaws escaping unscathed as unchangeable, incorrigible mad bastards.
Pat freaking Mills it is.
Mills.
The granddaddy of it all, Mr Mills wins this round for me
Mills.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 16 June, 2020, 02:37:49 PM
But Sláine, all the way up to the end of the Horned God. Nemesis up to the end of Deathbringer. ABC Warriors in the Black Hole. Dredd's name. And, somewhat significantly, 2000ad.
Now, now - we got told we're voting on work
for Tharg, not work
as Tharg.
Pat Mills
Quote from: sheridan on 16 June, 2020, 06:22:41 PM
Now, now - we got told we're voting on work for Tharg, not work as Tharg.
Seeing as Pat's time behind the Rosette seems to have largely consisted of re-writing scripts...
Pat Mills.
The first ABC Warriors series, Nemesis book I, III, IV, V,VI, Slaine up to the end of the Horned God....these are probably the greatest ever 2000AD series. So it's pretty hard to vote against Pat. (But I might have to if he comes up against Dabnett 😉).
Pat Mills, for all the
BIG JOBS!
Terra-Meks | Terror Tube | Terminators |
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Torquemada | Sky Ships | Metalzoic |
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Death | The Lord Weird! | Eve |
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Not a Slaine fan but Pat's footprint squashes almost all.
Pat get the vote, still no slight on Pete, his good stuff is top notch thrills.
Pat Mills. Don't care for Slaine or his preachy anarchy stuff, but he has written so many great stories...Cursed Earth and ABC warriors (Meknificant 7 and Volgan Wars) for the win.
Don't be I'Cosh - get your vote in on time otherwise this result might change ... I mean it might... so it doesn't look close but I've learnt my eye scans tell me nothing... I mean Pete Milligan might be storming this... its possible... no really...
Ends tomorrow (Friday morning).
Pat. Sorry Pete.
Pat Mills. Z
VOTING CLOSED - but feel free to add votes and comments but the call is made.
This one is a little omnious for the otehr contenders. There's been a lot of love for Pete Milligan's work in the votes he's been in. There's been a lot of vote for his work here. However despite that the winner got more votes that anyone else in any other vote so far. Will anyone be able to stop
Pat Mills
As he marches imperiously into the semis.