Anyone know when this is due back in the prog?
I thought I saw a little ad in the back of one of the progs that said it was coming back soon but no sign of it as of this week.
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I'm actually quite intrigued by this strip, and I'm glad it's returning next week. Anyone else enjoying it?
Quote from: marko10174 on 27 July, 2017, 10:17:36 AM
Anyone else enjoying it?
I thought it was great, and Jimmy Broxton has the freshest style to grace the Prog since Jock.
I'd say Tharg liked the cut of it's jib too, as the first episode was re-printed in the FCBD Prog this year.
Looking forward to more.
Quote from: marko10174 on 27 July, 2017, 10:17:36 AM
I'm actually quite intrigued by this strip, and I'm glad it's returning next week. Anyone else enjoying it?
Yes. I was initially skeptical about yet another down at heel occult detective but I thought it managed to put a sufficiently different spin on it and, as Link says, Broxton's art was also a breath of fresh air. Hoping the second half of the story manages to keep up the quality.
It started slowly but I was really enjoying it by the end of the run. I think the length and timing of the break is unfortunate. Hopefully it won't have lost any momentum.
It ended way too soon as far as I'm concerned and I'm thrilled that it's almost finally back.
I should probably dig out the last run and re-read before next week.
"Yet another down at hell occult detective"? What other down at heel occult detectives have featured in the prog?
Carver Hale, I think? Plus John Constantine casts a pretty long shadow. The 40's Hollywood setting helps Hope stand out though. I'm looking forward to its return too.
I'm excited for its return, too. The 40s Hollywood setting is right up my street. Weirdly, the fact that the strip took a long break after quite a short run made me feel all nostalgic for the early 90s when this sort of thing seemed to happen all the time - you never knew when a strip was going to disappear or reappear!
Quote from: Rara Avis on 27 July, 2017, 12:13:48 PM
"Yet another down at hell occult detective"? What other down at heel occult detectives have featured in the prog?
In addition to Carver Hale and Eddie Whyteman, Absalom, Chapter & Verse, The Alienist and even Ampney Crucis on occasion tread similar ground. I'm excluding Dandridge cos he's so damn chirpy, and Inspector Strange cos he's so damn weird.
Guy Adams: [Opening a file] Right, OK. Carver Hale and Eddie Whyteman, Absalom, Chapter & Verse, The Alienist and even Ampney Crucis. What does that say to you about down at heel occult detective series?
Tharg: There's too many of them?
Guy Adams: That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is, people like them, let's make some more of them
Monkey tennis?
I'm not familiar with Carver Hale and only know the Constantine from the movie / tv universe. As for the others mentioned, I have been away from the prog for some time and only came back on board at 1954 I think. So I have missed out on all of those. HFTF is pretty much terra nova for me in the occult detective genre.
I am also following Black Monday Murders (I'm getting the trades and have only read the first one so no spoilers please) and while that is somewhat similar it's also very different.
I'm pretty excited to see where HFTF goes ..
Quote from: Echidna on 27 July, 2017, 12:43:10 PM
Carver Hale, I think? Plus John Constantine casts a pretty long shadow. The 40's Hollywood setting helps Hope stand out though. I'm looking forward to its return too.
Quote from: Echidna on 27 July, 2017, 12:43:10 PM
Carver Hale, I think? Plus John Constantine casts a pretty long shadow. The 40's Hollywood setting helps Hope stand out though. I'm looking forward to its return too.
Philip José Farmer's Herald Childe, from the novels
Image of the Beast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_the_Beast_(novel)) and
Blown, is an antecedent, also Cliver Barker's Harry D'Amour (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_D%27Amour) (
Lord of Illusions) and Fred Ward played Det. Harry Lovecraft in an occult-ridden '40s Los Angeles in the film
Cast a Deadly Spell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101550/) (1991). Three reasons why I'd say
Hope... is more than a little derivative.
[1][1] Being derivative never stopped Tharg before, of course.
I don't think Adams & Broxton know how to put a foot wrong. Great additions to the prog.
As far as setting, well it's your seedy 40's Hollywood again. As in The Fade-Out. Faith... is great but it's no Fade-Out (yet).
Hope is fresh stylish fun, regardless of any debts it may owe its genre. Looking forward to its return.
For reasons I can't remember I hadn't actually got round to reading the first six episodes of Hope. So I caught up with them last night.
Bloody brilliant innit! Looking forward to the new instalments.
No Hope in this weeks prog. I'm going to dig out the last few issues and see when it said it was coming back.
In the meantime I'll be listening to songs about waiting...
I thought Hope was getting good, right when it abruptly ended on a cliffhanger for... 4? 5? month? Hopefully it sticks around to its first run conclusion this time.
Does anyone know the reason for this gap? I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere.
Quote from: Taryn Tailz on 31 July, 2017, 12:20:46 AM
Does anyone know the reason for this gap? I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere.
Not sure Taryn, but it's a safe guess that there was a delay with the artwork.
I know that Jimmy Broxton currently has a stint on Vampirella, so that could have been the reason.
It'd be great if he sticks around as an Art Droid after the first series of Hope finishes, I'd love to see more of his work on Dredd and Sinister Dexter.
Quote from: Link Prime on 01 August, 2017, 08:21:57 PM
Quote from: Taryn Tailz on 31 July, 2017, 12:20:46 AM
Does anyone know the reason for this gap? I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere.
Not sure Taryn, but it's a safe guess that there was a delay with the artwork.
I know that Jimmy Broxton currently has a stint on Vampirella, so that could have been the reason.
It'd be great if he sticks around as an Art Droid after the first series of Hope finishes, I'd love to see more of his work on Dredd and Sinister Dexter.
That was more or less what I'd assumed too. Thank you. :)
Ok so the bad news is that there's still no Hope in this weeks prog but the good news is that it gave me the opportunity to post this gif...
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Tharg says it's definitely back next week, now that Hunted has finished.
Mean time if its seedy 40's Hollywood you want try The Fade-Out, no supernatural, elements but cracking tale... and those Black Monday Murders are just peachy too. Both highly recommended...
I can wait until next week I guess ... I suppose I'l have to :)
I am following the Black Monday Murders but not weekly so I have to wait for the next trade to come out.