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#32
Prog / Re: Prog 2374 - A World of His Making!
23 March, 2024, 04:58:41 PM
2000 AD is kicking it at the moment and I really enjoyed the prog. As has probably been mentioned, the cover is great but also has nothing to do with what's happening in the story. Last time we saw Death he was in a dentist's gown and very much on the back foot.

Dredd I liked, although the art style is ... different. There's lots to love (e.g. interesting H-Wagon designs, great attitude in the final panel), but it's also running a 90's Sampson vibe that pushes it a little outside of my comfort zone. Happy to concede that's really my problem, and we need new artists keeping things fresh.

Void Indiga is doing its job of fucking with our minds and also driving a plot forward, even if we're not entirely sure what that plot is (which is probably why it needs to keep up the momentum). The artistic storytelling, though, is masterful - switching from a Minecraft reality, to a multiversal singularity before turning Challis into a 2D plane and then rescuing him using 80s line art. Wow!

Full Tilt Boogie I'd been avoiding because I wanted to do a deep dive, so I read the "previously on" and first eight episodes in a single sitting. I really enjoyed it, with the switch of tones, settings and characters keeping things fresh. Is granny knowingly avoiding bad things or just lucky? The "trapped in a tube" scene, especially with that stonking cover from Alex Ronald, was superbly done. This episode keeps the stress levels up because we have no idea what is going to happen - only that it seems it won't be good.

Fall of Deadworld remains a favorite. This series did dip a little into the cheese with the Johnny Biker scene, but it's difficult to balance things if you accept all the canon. Something I think a lot of these long-running, multi-character thrills would benefit from is some kind of who's who graphic that would help readers out. It was done with Indigo Prime in prog 678 with an Organizational Structure chart, and we got The Family of Tomas de Torquemada in prog 250.

Before this series I did a full re-read of the saga, so I know who everyone is - although it doesn't help that Byke/Eunomia keeps skipping forms. The art is next level slaps, though. That full page of the triad's psychic shriek is worth the entry price alone.

Thistlebone continues to be both the best and most worrying thing in the prog. Every episode builds up the horror and we get this slow and steady ratchet, ratchet, ratchet. It's fucking creepy! Now, we have a double threat - the director is now fully a monster, and his insane misogyny is loose and aimed at Yvonne. Meanwhile, we've shifted from a very disturbing scene of gay bashing and homophobia into what looks like a planned murder. Thistlebone usually lets us off the hook in some way, at some point - but this is starting to seem hopelessly dark.
#33
Prog / Re: Prog 2374 - A World of His Making!
23 March, 2024, 04:28:04 PM
Quote from: The Monarch on 18 March, 2024, 03:12:53 PMvoid indiga  :D

For anyone not in the know, Indigo Prime first appeared in the guise of Void Indiga in the Future Shock A Change of Scenery in prog 490. It wasn't until the Tyranny Rex story in the 1988 Sci-Fi Special that they reappeared under the name Indigo Prime.

We got some retro-explanation for this in 2017's A Dying Art:

#34
Other Reviews / Re: Judge Dredd: A Penitent Man
23 March, 2024, 02:22:14 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2024, 11:01:37 AMI don't know if anyone else has suggested that he could be more than one person

Quote from: Funt Solo on 04 February, 2024, 05:40:21 AM5. Collective Irresponsibility: it's more than one writer.

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Wow, but you really didn't like that story. Which is fair enough. It's all subjective. I tend to favor N-AI-mand Dredd over pretty much anyone else's at the moment.

Reading some of your diatribe, it did come across as a little unbalanced. I'm not going to disagree, for example, that some frames of Dredd-on-a-Lawmaster can be a bit uncanny valley, but that's not limited to Tom Foster. The trick there for an artist is highly complicated - first, you've got a uniform that makes no physical sense, then you have to place it on top of a vehicle that makes no physical sense. It's like trying to draw Alpha's helmet. Any road - my point is that the best artists ever to grace the prog have fucked up the odd panel - we notice it, we move on. We forgive them because generally the quality of art on offer in the prog is fucking amazing.

I love McMahon, but wtf is this*:


I love Cam's work to bits, but there's something wonky-tonk going on here:


Inaki provided an interesting stylistic take, but perspective?



I suppose my point is that we could pick anything apart, but to what end?


*I know, it's an artistic choice, and not a mistake.
#36
Books & Comics / Re: Shift Comic - new UK anthology
22 March, 2024, 06:16:22 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 22 March, 2024, 04:59:28 PMWell you could knock me sideways.

With a shifty stick?
#37
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
22 March, 2024, 05:44:27 PM
Quote from: Vector14 on 22 March, 2024, 04:45:16 PMAre there any other characters that don't age (or get younger) in Dredd? Hershey was allowed to age. PJ Maybe didn't stay a kid forever.

Well, there's Dredd. Sometimes grizzled, sometimes fairly fresh-faced. There was that Carroll-Dredd in the Meg that indicated a regular full-dermal rejuvenation process, so there is a lore-ish excuse for his carrying on. (Personally, I think they could've killed him off, or sent him to the Academy and had Rico take over the main strip - a long time ago.)

Inspector Morse Armitage also seems immune to age, having started out rather old and then stayed rather old for decades longer than one would assume is reasonable.

I think the real reason that Anderson's daughter never seems to age is that her psi-powers are projecting an image of eternal youth. As for Anderson herself - where has she been for all these years? Maybe tutoring at the Academy of Law? Or did she find love with one of the Orlok clones?
#38
Creative Common / Re: Funny thing
22 March, 2024, 02:24:06 PM
You need to put ".png" on the end of the imgur URL (as otherwise it's a link to the imgur page, rather than the image).

Here you go:

#39
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
22 March, 2024, 12:41:13 AM
So did Varadkar resign because the recent poll thing was a bust?
#40
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
21 March, 2024, 07:43:19 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 21 March, 2024, 07:05:19 PMLook those video pictures show nothin' you got nuthuin' on us mate so I'd keep it shut okay.

I've never seen Colin go FULL THUG before, and it's got me worried.
#41
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 07:40:45 PM
He's let himself go.
#42
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 05:57:46 PM
I'll give it to you straight...

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

(Not as easy as it looks.)
#43
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
21 March, 2024, 02:40:01 PM
I remember well (in 1985) when ColinYNWA & JayzusB.Christ (then employed as "Mek-Quakers" by Tharg) dragged Gerry Finley-Day out of King's Reach Tower by the hair and gave him a good kicking in an adjoining alley. Tharg (actually a man called Bob Wiskerando*) at that point had just had enough of the ridiculous naming conventions in Rogue Trooper and anyway had a thing about people with hyphenated names. It was common to brutally assault the creatives at that time because it was important that they knew their place within the social hierarchy - something that had become confused with the advent of the revolting punk movement.


* Sorry if that comes as a shock to any Deep Squaxx.

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Not to derail the thread, though. That first episode of Slaine is very enjoyable, yes. I particularly like the topography of the village, and the old lady with a pet smilodon.
#44
General / Re: Wrap It Up
20 March, 2024, 09:22:02 PM
12 - Strontium Dog

Not only are Stont wraparounds rare, but finding high quality scans of them is a bit tricky. Forgive this post, then, for having some dodgy repro of these rare artefacts.

Carlos Ezquerra's The Big Bust is Go!, prog 417:




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Carlos Ezquerra's Slavers of Drule, prog 425:

(Points here for realizing this is a double-pun. Slavers is another word for drool.)

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Colin MacNeil's Dark Memories, prog 686:




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Next: just routine...
#45
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
20 March, 2024, 09:10:06 PM
Given Mills' notorious temperament, it's useful to hear both sides of that story.