Messages

Back on topic (I think, I haven't read the first page), I built some shit for a Google ad a couple of weeks ago, using wood, elastic and fishing line.  My creations are the spinning YouTube hits counter, the blue basket, and the pop-up icon (operated by hidden catapult) behind it.
Being an artist, teacher and general wuss-about-town, I haven't done anything quite as manly as this in years.  Not since I worked in a metal foundry anyway (and even then I had to quit because of back pains).
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/emeraldextracts/google-celebrates-ten-years-in-ireland-with-a-thank-you-video-223814061.html

Another thanks from me, TB. 

But where those adventures change them. Not a constant reboot like US comics. Rather, the evolving but not ending life of a character or characters.

See now, this is why I used to love SinDex and don't any more.  Things get fecked up royally but everything always gets back to normal.

This is also why I came to love Dante.  It ended, fair enough, but when important things happened and huge changed were made.  Dante evolved hugely as a character, so did the world around him. 

And, of course, it's why I love Dredd.  We're still experiencing the repercussions of things that happened 30 years ago.  Dredd has gone from action hero through hardline fascist to wise eldster.  PJ Maybe has gone from child psychopath to adult psychopath.  Orlok is dead, and Mean Angel is a harmless old simpleton. The city's population was halved, then eighthed (or whatever).  As you say, things don't end, but they evolve.

As for Rogue Trooper, I believe the character and setting tended to be better than a lot  of the stories.  There is scope for a great story there but, John Smith's magnificent Cinnabar aside, things plodded a bit after the death of the Traitor General, and even a little bit beforehand.

I don't think it will be silly personally. The "grounded/fantastical" balance is an aspect to play with, but I don't think the out-there stuff is silly necessarily. This Death story looks pretty serious and terrific I'd say.

I really, really hope the new Death isn't one of the silly ones.  The Dark Judges at their grimmest, stalking the corpse-strewn wasteland of MC1, is a prospect that makes me very excited (and I have to admit I thought it was squandered a bit during the actual DoC storyline, being wrapped up very quickly by PJ's antics).

I remember the storyline drawn by Frazer Irving being utterly awesome, showing Wagner's considerable strength in being able to re-mystify Death in the very first episode.  Sadly, he didn't quite seem to be able to resist returning to farce again in the Megazine follow-up (do recreational drugs really work on animated corpses?).

But here's hoping - this  new Death storyline could be just the shot in the arm the prog needs right now.

I'm not enjoying the prog as much as I used to either.  At first I thought I was getting too old for it, but now I see it's not just me.  I can't really add much to what's been said already - for me, it's mainly the lack of Dante (though of course he MUST NOT ever be brought back) and post DoC Dredd.

It's usually the way: If Dredd's good, the prog's good.  At the moment Dredd is just ok.  And it's mainly because of what's already been said here once again.  DoC had a magnificent ending but it just hasn't been addressed seriously enough for my liking.  Necropolis and the Apocalypse War paved the way properly for hugely interesting new directions for Dredd (Well, until Ennis came along, but now is not the time).  Dredd's kind of meandering at the moment when the potential for original and entertaining storylines is huge.

You've really got to hand it to those behind the Make a Dredd sequel page, they really know how to run a campaign. Kudos to them.

Buy another copy on the 18th, hell why not.

Feck it, why not.  I'll pick up a DVD

Loads of barbecued burgers, sausages, shish-kebabs and corn on the cob in my friend's garden.

Separate continuity, mate.

Oh yeah... Damn! Hopefully Henry Flint nice to me and there's a graffiti in Dredd Sequel tomorrow's Meg? Damn I gotta wait till Wednesday!

Two mentions in the Dredd film not good enough for you then, old boy? 

Ha!

Very nice.  Just how I like my Mean Machines - psychopathic-looking and 'borged up to the nines.  I expect Mr Burdis there will be wanting one for his cellar?

Oz part 20 page f final panel "now get out there - do it for Mega-City One!"

Oy!  That was my one!  How dare you express the same opinion as me.

MC-1's vulnerability to other superpowers isn't as significant as it might appear - as conventional deterrents their nuclear weaponry is unlikely to have been affected, and we've seen that their spacefleet is still up and running.  In other terms, they've already lost the unconventional war with the Sovs, what more can happen to them?  In whose interests would an occupied or elminated MC-1 be?

Fair point.  It's not as if anyone would want their people to occupy such a monumental shitpit, and I suppose they haven't been aggressive lately to any significant foreign power other than the Sovs.

 

(may be applied to either 3D Death or the giant burger)

Slaine this week just made me wish Langley had done all his Sláine stories in the Bellardinelli style.  I agree with most folks about this series - for the most part it's looked gorgeous, but was largely directionless (which I believe Slaine has been for a long time, and can't see how the future can be different.  We've already had Slough Feg and Medb coming back to life, and it wasn't great the first time round.)

Liked Dredd a lot, but I still can't quite feel the impact of DoC - What used to be a city is now a pile of rubble and corpses, and is also no longer a world superpower.  Are they more vulnerable to attack from other megacities now?  I'm really looking forward to Death's reaction to the new, reduced MC1 - he'll feel right at home.

Still haven't read the other ones.

Also, Dredd to Chopper:
'Now get out there and do it for Mega-City 1!'
I'm a sucker for Dredd's decent side.