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Prog 2240 - In with a bullet!

Started by Colin YNWA, 13 July, 2021, 09:09:22 PM

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Colin YNWA

Hold on its Tuesday evening and I've bagged the Prog thread - what's that all about! My Prog landed today and I've had a chance to read it this evening and its an absolute corker. I real humdinger.

Dredd What a way to start a story. A opening scene that is both shocking and funny. Then snap into an unfamilar setting a church, a shake down, a lack of forgiveness. Then bang straight into an apparently unconnected crime scene. Things will be linked I'm sure but at the moment its just three wonderful seperate 2 page package of fresh picked intrigue. So invested in this one already!

Aquila just superb, from a staggeringly designed flashback page rich in guilt, to an act of self appeasement - or at least an attempt, to villains circling this is just wonderfully done.

As is Department K Blackcurrent's dramatic entrance to short lived our heroes enter an alien nest and seem to face danger, but that's as short lived as Blackcurrant's enterance giving us a fantastic ending and so much to learn.

Skip Tracer... well last weeks gave this potential and this week it lands it. Lands it very, very well. This is a superb episode and its a crying shame, almost cruel that its still the least good thing in the Prog BUT this time it is nothing to do with the story here, rather how good - how exceptional the things around it are. In many Prog I'd have happy hailed this top thrill... or there abouts. We've been given a reason to cry. Blake is given the humanity, he needs and that means all the action and the turn on the last page is made to matter. Now come on keep this up and we might have a story as good as the second one.

And after a Prog this good Tharg can still save the best until last. Chimpsky does not does nail the landing, the story it lands the double-double dismount. This is just fantastic. Brutal and charming, chilling and thrilling, funny and sad. Just a perfect strip and I'm sop glad this series, given its chance to blossom outside of Dredd has not only seized it opportunity but grabbed it with both hands, squeezed all the thrillpower out of it and injected same straight into out thrillglands. Just bloody brilliant stuff and I can't wait for this to be back.

So yeah we had some great prog in the last few years but this one is right, RIGHT up there. Just a shame we had to wait until Tuesday to hear all about it!

DrRocka

"Many atomised husks have been found clutching my Mighty Organ"
-you dirty boy, Tharg (hyuk hyuk)....
Never ever bloody anything ever

broodblik

A good solid prog

Dredd – Another Wagner Dredd this time art is provided by John Higgins. Great introduction to the new arc especially the first two pages. Higgins's art is superb especially the colouring by Sally Hurst. As the story progress we are introduced too few characters and this night be a tale about revenge, but the last panel might suggest something different.

Aquila – As our heroes' journey continues it is a time for reflections about our memories/sins/misdeeds. A lot more talking this episode and some fun moments to add. The story ends with a nice cliff-hanger and our heroes will face the "wrath of a god".

Department K – The story continues as another set of heroes continue perilous journey into the heart of the beast. Our heroes are stalked by an external threat as Blackcurrant realized. A good climax ending with our heroes facing the threat. Good art by Cornwell and the story has certainly picked-up.

Skip Tracer – Well this episode was quite good as it did not follow the normal episodic formula.  We now know what the title of the story means and where the plot will lead us. We also get introduced to an old friend as the episode closes.

Chimpsky – The first solo series of Chimpksy comes to an end and it was a delightful debut series and hopefully this is not the last we see off our hero. 
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

broodblik

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

broodblik

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

wedgeski

We're going to have to start reviewing the Nerve Centre because this week's intro was top-shelf Tharg.

IndigoPrime

Quite rare that the Prog hits a 5 out of 5, but it did this week. Although there wasn't anything that blew my socks off (the Chimpsky ending came closest), Dredd started well and the other three strips — which  I'm not usually bothered about — were all engaging. Top stuff.

SmallBlueThing(Reborn)

Behind that Nineties-tastic (in the best possible way!) cover, lies a prog that may well be one of the few in living memory where -almost- everything is just magnificent. There is one strip I'm not feeling despite a great start- and that's Dept K. Every other page was just splendid. Skip Tracer has finally arrived- this story is excellent, and if it had been this good from the start it would have been a modern classic by now. Chimpskey ended with me now wanting a second series, like, immediately, Aquila is great (though a couple of bits of dialogue this week felt off) and how bloody fantastic was that Dredd?

Thanks Tharg, happy Earthlet here.

SBT

broodblik

I can even say that this episode of Skip Tracer was the single best Skip Tracer episode ever.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

Timothy


oshii


Leigh S

Yeah, that's [spoiler]Gort Junior and his brother Simson - Hester and Gort Seniors two boys[/spoiler].  Excellent stuff!

The cover is none more 90s, but not in a  good way for me.

To continue my contrarian streak, I'll say Skip Tracer hits  new low for me in this episode - It's already a Fleischeresque strip, but making the main character a total arsehole just pushes it completely into Junker territory - Denying a child is his, shouting at the mom and generally being a dick about the situation.  Doesnt help that Nomrod reminds me of Fleischers version of Artie Gruber.  Also there's a weird emphasis on the last panel of page 1 "HER name is Eden" - as if Nolan had referredto the child as a "he", which he doesnt. 

Aquila is fine even with a bit of casual homophobia to add to the 90s vibe from the cover and Fleischery ST (and yes, I'm aware that makes the character homophobic rather than the strip, but even so - not quite Ducky from Millar Robohunter, but not sure its a good look for the main protagonists sidekickto be the one expressing it?

Dept K is not really grabbing, but Chimpsky is good, if only wrapping up in a way that wasnt entirely unexpected.

But that Dredd is a super smashing great enough return to the 80s to overlook the 90s stylings elsewhere


Quote from: oshii on 14 July, 2021, 04:41:17 PM
Quote from: Timothy on 14 July, 2021, 01:10:40 PM
Is that Gort Hyman?

That's what I was wondering.

broodblik

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: Leigh S on 14 July, 2021, 06:05:44 PM
Yeah, that's [spoiler]Gort Junior and his brother Simson - Hester and Gort Seniors two boys[/spoiler]. 

Quote from: Timothy on 14 July, 2021, 01:10:40 PM
Is that Gort Hyman?

Oh excellent spot you two. That one flew right by me. This could get very interesting and I'm wondering if this will tie to Beeny in some way. Colour me even more interested.

broodblik

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.