Forum’s Fav Thrill - Strontium DogS vs. Ampney Crucis Rd 4 Heat 32

[Colin YNWA]

Final week of Round 4 and Round 5 beckons. As ever some interesting match ups, but again this feels like a week when some 'weaker' thrills will end their runs and Round 5 will have unbelievably tough calls, not that Round 4 hasn't but the quality will just keep ranking up and up as we go on.

Last tie of the round and rather than say anything celebratory all I can really do is emphasise the 's' at the end of one of the contenders. The 's' is VERY important

Form book:

Strontium Dogs - Bye; Tharg's 3rillers    Counterfeit Girl
Ampney Crucis- Bye; Sooner or Later; Simping Detective

Strontium Dogs - more info

Vs

Ampney Crucis - more info

Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.

Match ends early on the morning of Sunday 31st July and the winner gets a place in Round 5 (of 9!!!).

What on Earth is ALL of this?

For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules

Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!

[broodblik]

Ampney Crucis

[Aaron A Aardvark]

Ampney.

[Blue Cactus]

StrontS

[sintec]

Ampney Crucis. The 2 vols of the DogS in the UC so far have been middling at best.

[abelardsnazz]

Ampney Crucis.

[Barrington Boots]

Strontium DogS for me
More of an anti-Ampney vote than any recognition of quality on Dogs part. Sorry!

[AlexF]

Ampney Crucis continues its run of defeating 'S' thrills.

[IndigoPrime]

Ampney. Dogs had its moments, and had Hogan been allowed to continue might have been a great strip. But it was taking too long to get anywhere, and – with the exception of Monsters and Heartses – Ennis's work on the strip is the nadir of that continuity.

[rogue69]

Strontium Dogs

[paddykafka]

Because this* version of Feral was one of my favourite members of the SD supporting cast, and because I also love the Gronk, I'm going with Strontium Dogs.

*I have chosen to disregard the reboot [spoiler]on account of how he was depicted and the horribly sad end that he met. Of anything that Wagner has written, this is the only story of his that I can recall actively disliking. [/spoiler]

[IndigoPrime]

Mm. That bit in the spoilers really didn't sit right with me, and although [spoiler]Wagner was obviously going for a playful jibe with the 'notorious fantasist' thing with Ho-gan, that came across as mean-spirited[/spoiler].

[AlexF]

Can I please remind voters that later Strontium Dogs was so poor that even the artist drew thrill suckers into it...

...and also that Ampney Crucis features scenes of naked satanic zombie septegenarians running amuck in a seaside town?

[SmallBlueThing(Reborn)]

Ampney Crucis gets my vote, for reasons expressed above.

SBT

[paddykafka]

...and also that Ampney Crucis features scenes of naked satanic zombie septegenarians* running amuck in a seaside town?

*Just because it features the average 2000AD reader demographic, that still doesn't make it the better strip IMO.