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That rules.

I'm pretty sure I saw The Go! Team years and years ago with an old girlfriend. Not my thing but very cool to hear they're still going.

I've just got tickets to see Jungle Rot in a couple of months - last time I saw them in the UK there were only three paying customers in a pretty big venue (Dudley JBs, for old Midlands gig-goers). This time they're at the much smaller and more suitable Black Heart in London.

Appreciate your comments on Returners all. Sounds like I should check it out, but not as any kind of priority. The Hachette volumes are pretty affordable to I'll pick up a copy.

This is AMAZING!

I don't remember it coming from Tharg, but I do remember Milton Keynes being the butt of a lot of jokes in the 80s.

I'm pretty sure it was related to a tv campaign encouraging people to move out of London and into Milton Keynes, which was being pushed as some kind of utopia instead of the ultra-bland, characterless town that it was.

Age of the Wolf is not good. Great concept mind you...

Skimming over Hachette's site, Zenith is brilliant. Stickleback and Leviathan are worth a shot from recent relases imo.

As someone that didn't read it in the Meg, what is the forum verdict on The Returners?

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Monday Prog! I eagerly went through it on my tea break. I wasn't a fan of the cover when I saw it on FB last week, but it's got some cool details and has really grown on me, aside from the font on the tagline.

Dredd Wraps up neatly. I wasn't hugely into this Dredd story and the ending didn't change that. Neatly done with the spin on execs having 'killer instinct' and all that corporate jargon but it wasn't really a funny or exciting tale overall.
That said, the end reveal did feel very old school and I didn't think this was a bad Dredd, just not one I was into.
As various forumites have commented each week, the art is both good and a bit jarring with it's contemporary depictions of things (this week, the manor house). I did like the little medi-droids. Also was the axe guy using Slaines axe?

The Out provides a very wordy and very excellent episode. Stuff is revealed. The art is incredible. The Cheerio bit fell a bit flat, as he was a pretty unlikeable character, but the rest is tremendous.

I enjoyed this Future Shock - it was concise, snappy and had a suitably grim twist at the end, even though thinking about it now the whole thing doesn't really stand up: I'm not actually 100% sure what the deal was with the pheromones or why Hans or Zoe would act as they did. Great art, shows a little of Dave Roach in places? Promising stuff from two new Droids anyway.

The Order is... alright. It manages to be all action and a bit of a muddle all at once - it definitely feels like it's cramming stuff into each episode as it strives to reach a conclusion. "H-How's this possible?" says Clara at one point before saying something pseudo-nonsensical and I'm right there with her: This isn't the best series of the The Order and I find myself hoping it's got a bit more in it after this. You can tell Burns doesn't like drawing the big robots.

Vex ends in a crazy, apocalyptic and very dramatic manner. Tharg seems to imply this isn't the end of the series as a whole, which is good as for me this has been one of the finest things in the Prog for a while. I'm looking forward to going back and reading this as a whole - it's been an epic storyline brilliantly realised.

Regened next week, ho hum.

You had to be quick to get the limited pledges! Aly Fell art went whilst I was trying to back it!

Really happy to be supporting this.

You need to consult the Oreo at Delphi.

My favourite comment on this thread, bravo Shark.

Inspired by this discussion I bought myself some Animal Biscuits yesterday. These were NOT as nice as I recalled. I remembered them being basically tiny, animal shaped chocolate digestives but the biscuit now is all hard and dry and nasty and also there is no longer a squirrel. Essentially I endured the jeers of my colleague for nothing.

I must be alone in finding that The Order has become too much of a straightforward adventure strip in its recent outings.

I miss the timey-wimey stuff from the first four serials, with the sense that we're watching cross-sections of a history-spanning conflict in different time periods. The more recent chase-chase-fight stuff has been a bit more sedate to me, and puts me in mind of Tharg telling Moore and Gibson to tone down the future-slang and tone up the action for Halo Jones Book Two.

No, I agree with this - the first four series are 100% the best of the series. I wondered if there was a move to get away from this to avoid it becoming too close to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is a shame as LoEG goes well off the boil and The Order was doing great.
I'm enjoying (mostly) this run of The Order for its pulpy action, but it's certainly not as good as it was.

That's fantastic stuff Hawk. Huge amounts of respect to you for taking control of the situation like that.

That's perfect.

Definitely backing this. If it's ready for Lawless, will there be an option to pick it up there?

Yeah, I went back and did that afterwards. This playthrough was my 'trying hard to win' one.
It doesn't help in any way to kill him, although it is satisfying.

Yeah. I flicked through and I don't think it's possible to 'save' Foxglove. The best ending she can get is getting the sceptre and taking over the Rift, which is definitely on brand (but also causes you to lose the book). Getting that spider thing off her head at least gives her her own agency back.

Big fan of Foxglove, but also I think there's a lot of redeemed bad guy narrative stuff about, especially if the villain is a bit hot, where within every bad girls heart is a bit of good etc. I quite like Foxglove (and Cassandra) sticking to the darkside.

The stuff at Irsmuncast is great for bringing everything together from previous books. I didn't like Csaky, but really enjoyed having all the advisors back, Lackland showing his true colours etc. And I didn't miss the irony of the imposter being out to kill me because I murdered his grand master in Usurper... a bit of a mirror of my own mission to avenge the grandmaster who was murderd by Yaemon.