Only real problem is the cover. Its a fine cover BUT if you look at it quickly (or quint) the colouring makes Dredd shoulder pad look like his chin and he appears to have a Desperate Dan jaw. Once seen it can't be unseen I'm afraid
Heh, true.
So,
'The Citadel' ends. Obviously lots of discussion here and on
Tjm86's excellent dedicated thread, don't really have time to comprehensively collect my thoughts on it, so excuse the bullet points
- I'll go along with the consensus that it's been a great story which maybe hasn't lived up to its game-changer billing
- Wait - Semper's tracking device was designed to "warn the Sovs off"? Even when they had the real Dredd in their sights?
- Why wouldn't the Judges want the people to know that the Sovs were producing Dredd clones? You'd think it would be a priority to get that knowledge out there. And why such a problem that Dredd killed one?
- Despite John Wagner's claims that it's a one-and-done, I'm guessing it's the start of a big theme for 2000 AD's 50th. Watch me get proved spectacularly wrong!
Lovely stuff in
Brink - the close-up on Bardot's eye, obviously, but my favourite panel is the one with the passers-by on the second page - artists enjoy portraying future fashions but what I love about this is that different characters are all sporting the same scale pattern tattoo. Obviously the current trend on Ludmilla habitat!
More noir freakiness in
Hope, though it is slightly disconcerting that Tiff Crize is morphing into Ian McKellen. It's about time we had a Hope cover, isn't it?
Fiends is an agreeable read, with some lovely expression work from the Trevallion droid.
TOP THRILL though without a doubt is
'Relict' (n. - "a thing which has survived from an earlier period or in a primitive form", didn't know that!), which really harks back (ironically) to the creepy, unsettling Future Shocks of the very early progs, proving that a discomforting denouement is more satisfying than a trite twist. Although it's not quite as good as my Thought Bubble idea. Oh well.
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