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#1
Quote from: Funt Solo on 18 March, 2024, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 18 March, 2024, 04:03:34 PM...it's 100% the case that the frist two colletions breeze on by, while the rest of it feels more of a slog...

True dat.

I'd agree with this but will say that I found Century and the Nemo trilogy much more readable and in keeping with the early stuff than Black Dossier or The Tempest, which really were a bit of a slog. Spending page after page thinking 'I don't know what this is a reference to' isn't much fun. I think these days my favourite Moore to read is quite possibly Top 10. Wish there was more of that.
#2
General / Re: Wrap It Up
21 March, 2024, 11:55:37 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 March, 2024, 09:22:02 PM12 - Strontium Dog

Not only are Stont wraparounds rare, but finding high quality scans of them is a bit tricky. Forgive this post, then, for having some dodgy repro of these rare artefacts.

Carlos Ezquerra's The Big Bust is Go!, prog 417:




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Carlos Ezquerra's Slavers of Drule, prog 425:

(Points here for realizing this is a double-pun. Slavers is another word for drool.)

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Colin MacNeil's Dark Memories, prog 686:




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Next: just routine...

Beautiful stuff.
#3
General / Re: Crowdfunders you might like
05 March, 2024, 08:50:38 PM
And here's Chris Weston and Rachel Pollack's collected Time Breakers. Collects the original DC Helix run.

https://zoop.gg/c/timebreakers
#4
General / Re: Crowdfunders you might like
04 March, 2024, 11:58:27 AM
Great idea for a thread.

https://zoop.gg/c/fullyloaded

This looks interesting from Jimmy Broxton.
#5
Prog / Re: Prog 2368 - Fear on film
08 February, 2024, 12:04:24 PM
Having read loads of progs circa 300-500 and lots of Best Of 2000ads in the 80s when I was in primary school, I drifted away from the comic for a bit. A few years later I noticed a Best Of in the shop, reprinting The Black Hole, and it absolutely blew me away. I was so excited that 2000ad was still around and some of my favourite strips had continued all this time, I immediately placed a weekly order for the prog at my local newsagent. The first weekly issue I received was prog 883. And you know what? I was so over the moon that the comic was still around and was having my mind blown by the idea comic could be PAINTED and that Sam Slade was still going etc etc that I really didn't notice it being comparatively poor quality. And thankfully things were soon improving! I still have a soft spot for The Clown probably because it was in those first few issues when I returned to the fold, and that style of art was so new to me I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing.
#6
Nice write-up as always Colin.

I didn't see the Kano story at the time but read it in collected form years later. I still really like it - such a strange, dream-like atmosphere with this sense of trauma and existential dread underlying everything. Of course it's very different to the early stories but I enjoy it just as much. The most recent couple of series really did lose me, however - I should probably read them all in one sitting sometime as the plot felt so scattergun week by week in the prog.
#7
Sounds interesting - and it's bound to look great.
#8
I was nine when the first Tim Burton Batman film was released and became a big fan. At that time there was a great monthly DC reprint comic which featured the ongoing Grant/Breyfogle stuff alongside selected other stories - some earlier ones, strange obscurities and some classics like Year One. As such I'm still very very fond of the Grant / Breyfogle run but haven't read any of it for well over twenty years. More recently I also enjoyed the Morrison stuff. DKR I first read in my mid teens and found it a bit of a slog, to be honest, thought I did enjoy it. Some of that was down to the very deliberate slow pacing and Millar's tired, lumbering tank of a Batman, which was a big contrast to Breyfogle's fluid, shadow-flitting detective.
#9
Other Reviews / Re: Which thrills have you skipped?
29 January, 2024, 03:51:38 PM
I used to skip Dredd. For a while, when I was wee. There, I said it. I didn't really 'get' the strip, and I didn't think it was fair that Dredd got to be in every single prog.
#10
Prog / Re: Prog 2366 - End of the Road
29 January, 2024, 11:22:58 AM
Milligans's written lots of really good comics, for Tharg and elsewhere. I usually enjoy his work a lot, although I've not read much of his recent output. Every now and then I think about trying his Hellblazer run.
#11
Prog / Re: Prog 2366 - End of the Road
28 January, 2024, 12:40:04 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 28 January, 2024, 01:15:38 AM
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 23 January, 2024, 05:29:41 PMI didn't find the Scottish accent very convincing - having lived in in various parts of Scotland all my life I've never heard anyone say 'ye' in the same context as 'let me hold ye handbag while you carry your drinks'. If he's saying 'you' and 'your' in the same sentence, why's he saying 'ye' to mean 'you' as well?

I didn't flag it up on first reading, because my mind was still doing a sort of any-old-yokel-will-do. But, you're quite right - as a Scottish accent that second "ye" doesn't really work very well. It could work as "yer", and still have the later "your", without being odd. Like this (my bold on the alteration):

"Dinnae be like that. I'm only joking with ye, pal. But let me hold yer handbag while you carry your drinks, aye?"

With "let me hold ye handbag", it's more like Yorkshire. Vet'nary.


Glad it wasn't just me being pedantic!
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2366 - End of the Road
27 January, 2024, 02:43:03 PM
I saw a couple of people on Twitter asking for a Devil's Railroad collected edition. Generally I understand some people like some stories and other prefer ones that aren't my favourites, but I just don't see the appeal here, other than the artwork. Hardcore Milligan fans maybe?
#13
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
23 January, 2024, 07:15:12 PM
#14
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
23 January, 2024, 05:35:36 PM
Quote from: karlos on 22 January, 2024, 03:56:27 PMI totally see what you mean, IP, but as it's linked to Nemesis I thought it might be.

Wishful thinking!

(I'll settle for a Mek Files vol 1 reprint!)

I'd love this to be included to along with the Flint Deadlock story, but I just don't think it'll happen. Not even sure if Nemesis and Deadlock will be included but I'd rather have The Black Hole!
#15
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
23 January, 2024, 05:32:31 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 22 January, 2024, 07:57:03 PM
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 22 January, 2024, 06:09:52 PMThe name Rico has always (well, often) made me think of Captain Ric, the gun-toting spaceman mascot of the breakfast cereal Ricicles. You're welcome for this insightful post.

Helmet, visor, big boots, gauntlets. It can't be a coincidence.

We need a crossover!