MEG 286 - Psycho Killer

dweezil2 · 03 July, 2009, 09:53:01 PM

I've had a strange reaction to Tank Girl. Skid Marks I just couldn't dig(who does?) but for some reason this latest story just worked for me. Everything seemed to gell and I think I'm beginning to get the joke and the humour. I'm not about to rush out and buy all the old graphic novels, but I'm beginning to accept its place in The Megazine!
Color me kind of converted.

DavidXBrunt · 03 July, 2009, 10:55:10 PM

See, for me, it's an odd strip Tank Girl. There's nothing actually bad about it but...it doesn't work for me. It was never the my favourite strip but always had a zeitgeisty energy. Couple the fact that it was always, deliberatley, ramshackle in it's plotting with the fact that it's not 1995 any more...

It feels like watching a weird Land Before Time film with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure exploring a mysterious valley. They cut through the forest and, insted of finding a herd of Dinosaurs, find Menswe@r in concert.

Stil, it's lined up for yankee reprint and it seems to be going down well but for at least one reader it's just sort of...there. In the Meg every month. Neither appalling or appealing. It's pretty and all but it's like the idea of Rob Newman performing History Today with some young comic. I'd rather he didn't.

Art · 04 July, 2009, 01:29:24 AM

I dunno, I can't really disagree but on the other hand I actually like that it's permenantly 1995 in tank girl land - happy days! 'course, I kept reading deaddline till the bitter end.

Trout · 04 July, 2009, 02:16:53 AM

Me too.

Tank Girl's just enormous fun. I hope it stays in the Meg forever.

- Trout

SmallBlueThing · 04 July, 2009, 09:42:22 AM

Call me facile, shallow and a pushover if you like, but despite never reading Deadline (the magazine definition of "trying too hard" and "being a twat") and only ever reading TG in passing, AND loathing the initial "Wacky Races" stylee storyline in The Meg, all it took for me to start reading it was a new jumping-in point and, er, Rufus becoming my friend on Facebook.

It's not my favourite thing in The Meg- ranking somewhere just above all the filler features, but I'm actually enjoying it now. And the art is lovely and funny.

I still have absolutely no interest i tracking down issues of Deadline or old TGs though, but it's earned it's place in my eyes.

Steev

Tiplodocus · 07 July, 2009, 11:17:16 PM

Not a lot in the Meg for me this month - I actually thought the BAD MANNERS free floppy was the best thing about it.

Didn't like the conclusion to the DREDD tale. I should have - it had giant bugs fighting robots. But it also had some terrible dialogue and coincidences and, overall, just wasn't an interesting enough tale to warrant the page count. Well, not for me anyway.

TALES OF THE BLACK MUSUEM was cute but ultimately filler that I wasn't bothered about. Note that this is far different from saying it was BAD. It wasn't; he art was great and it had lots of ideas chucked in it but it just wasn't the sort of thing that turns me on (in teh same way that I can see why people would find Jessica Alba attractive, I would never argue that she wasn't attractive but she just doesn't do it for me). I like to have a central character to these sort of stories and this didn't.

Not read TANK GIRL yet but I do love the art

I struggle to see the point of ARMITAGE at all. I don't think I've ever liked it - I can't recall anything about the characters (isn't one of them black or a lesbian or something?) and, this may sound bad manners but I do agree with all those editors who said that John Cooper's style just wasn't a good fit for modern comics. I don't think it is. And Longman will hate me for this but I find it "too cartoony!".

Incidentally, what is that DVD mag that they advertise on the back about? Is it a titty mag for people too fightened to buy titty mags? (says the man who has posted most on the UNDERWARE thread).

Colour me: UNDERWHELMED.

Mike Gloady · 07 July, 2009, 11:34:41 PM

Quote from: "Tiplodocus"Incidentally, what is that DVD mag that they advertise on the back about? Is it a titty mag for people too fightened to buy titty mags? (says the man who has posted most on the UNDERWARE thread).

Yes, what on earth IS that about. Deeply childish. I want every prepubescent who's faintly considering buying that magazine to just man up, walk right into his (or her) local newsagent and profer his money to the proprietor proudly exclaiming: "May I purchase some of your finest grot, please vendor?"

We all had to do it. These days kids get porn free with viruses on the internet, but the old way was at least character-building.

Don't buy that mag kids. Don't even buy the likes of FHM, it's just the rantings of the boring twonks in your local sandwiched between "tasteful" shots of microceleb silicone. Go and buy some proper porn. Preferably something that makes you taste a tiny bit of sick. The world will be a better place.

James Stacey · 08 July, 2009, 11:17:10 AM

Quote from: "Tiplodocus"this may sound bad manners but I do agree with all those editors who said that John Cooper's style just wasn't a good fit for modern comics. I don't think it is. And Longman will hate me for this but I find it "too cartoony!".

I guess its down to personal preference though. I got a real thrill seeing new work from John Cooper. I grew up reading Battle and action force which he drew a lot for. Pity the story he was illustrating seems dull so far.

SmallBlueThing · 12 July, 2009, 07:40:33 PM

Quote from: mikegloady on 07 July, 2009, 11:34:41 PM
Yes, what on earth IS that about. Deeply childish. I want every prepubescent who's faintly considering buying that magazine to just man up, walk right into his (or her) local newsagent and profer his money to the proprietor proudly exclaiming: "May I purchase some of your finest grot, please vendor?"

Hang on, isn't that Allan Bryce's mag- that in a previous incarnation was 'Video World'- and which has been around since the very dawn of home video, championing the nasties, running features on the kind of films other UK newsagent mags wouldn't touch, beautifully having at least half the mag dedicated to smut and generally allowing 14 year old boys who's only local newsagent was staffed by people their mum knew to get away with buying, basically, a jazz-mag from right under their noses?

That's proper, working-class video-boom history, that is. And, isn't it the very same magazine that is now giving away Jean Rollin movies on DVD with nearly every issue (I await Les Deux Orphaline Vampires with barely concealed vinegar strokes)

Of course, it may very well be another magazine that I've got it mixed up with. In which case: burn the filth!

Steev