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A recent Dredd digi paint

Love the chunky colours and the lighting on this.

Ah, never mind - knew I'd messed it up! And thanks!

My favourite genre of all is the point and click adventure, especially the classic old Lucasarts stuff. Of late I've really enjoyed the Darkside Detective and I'm mostly done with the brilliant Thimbleweed Park. Another absolute favourite is The Last Door, which just blew my socks off with pixely Lovecraftian goodness.

Any other fans of point & clicks out there? I really only play games on the Switch now and it's not spoiled with them but there's a few good ones buried...would love some decent recommendations too!

I hope this works, I am still getting used to posting on a forum - hopefully have attached a bigger version of my avatar there! Getting back into drawing over lockdown has been a big thing for me, and I'm hoping to try some more 2000AD characters - I have a Nick Stone sketched out!



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I think they are still in the process of re-releasing these new volumes, they are really nice editions. It's such a great concept. I believe there are movies too, which I may check out once I eventually get to the end.

In absolute agreement on your second point of course, but thankfully there really is very very little of that, certainly as compared to many manga series.

I'm just so impressed with the way he keeps you on your toes with the plotting - he does things that in most stories would be considered insane risks. It's hard to talk about without spoiling things, but the movement in time of the story is absolutely ingenious.

It's reminiscent of later McMahon - those big feet and super-skinny legs.

Welcome aboard 

And those Grandville books are beautiful things as well as being cracking stories - digital comics would never give you that experience.

McMahon is my all-time favourite! Nothing says 2000AD to me like his art, I could go on for hours about it. And absolute agreement about Grandville, I only have book 1 so far but it is lavish and lovely.

Welcome. I really like your avatar

Yep this. I mean welcome abord have fun and all that BUT man that avatar is fantastic!

Ah thank you! And (I'm assuming from your name) congrats on picking up the trophy last night!

I have been picking up the deluxe editions of Naoki Urasawa's '20th Century Boys' and they are so good - he does plot-twist thrills so well. I'm on volume 4 just now so it's hard to do much reading on the series while avoiding spoilers, but it's great. I enjoyed his 'Monster' series too, one of the very few manga I have from beginning to end.

Is anyone else a fan of his work?

It's just fantastic - like a baroque Thundercats fever dream.

These are just brilliant and would make a fantastic book collection.

Welcome. I really like your avatar

Thank you! Learning to use a tablet for drawing, a first for me!

I'm just flicking through - it's amazing how they can feel completely removed from your memory and then as soon as you open one you're like 'I remember every detail of this!'

A lot of my time during lockdown has involved spending too much money on trades - Meltdown Man (which I missed out on altogether), Lawless and 2000AD-adjacent stuff like Grandville.

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I love Full Tilt Boogie, it feels fresh and quick on its feet. A really nice manga influence on Ocana's art - I could well picture the series as a long-running anime. I think this is the way forward for the regened style if the aim is to bring younger readers on board, I teach 11-12 year olds and I know they'd be much more likely to get caught up in a story in this style.

The Out is also wonderful. The Prog is on great form at the moment!

Hi there - long-time lurker and longer time reader of the Prog here. Started with 2000AD about 89/90, took a break in the late-90s/early 00s and came back maybe 5 years ago. Lockdown has inspired me to dig all the old progs out of the attic and do a wee bit of drawing - also a whole lot of listening to the fantastic Mega-City Book Club has definitely helped!

Anyway, looking forward to joining in the chat here.