Prog 1934 - Warp Factor Ten!

[Steve Green]

Really lovely prog all-round.

Great to see Mike and Colin back in there especially, and I love a Edginton/Disraeli tale.

[JudgeOiNK!]

(Oooh, Day of Chaos Mega Collection... tempted, tempted...)

Tempted isn't the word that comes most readily to mind...more like compulsory...even after having recently borrowed the 4th Faction from my local library, and having the Progs relatively to hand.

Yeah, might take a while to get here through Case Files....

[Pete Wells]

Do we know what replaces Slaine?

Did I not read that it was Outlier 2 somewhere?

[Timothy]

(Oooh, Day of Chaos Mega Collection... tempted, tempted...)

Tempted isn't the word that comes most readily to mind...more like compulsory...even after having recently borrowed the 4th Faction from my local library, and having the Progs relatively to hand.

He's right. I've not got the progs - it was during my great hiatus - but I do already have this on digital. £10 for a spiffy hardback copy of (half of) the most important Dredd story of modern times can't be turned down though.

[Hawkmumbler]

Do we know what replaces Slaine?

Did I not read that it was Outlier 2 somewhere?

No, that starts next week.

[Geoff]

Great prog!

Macneil on Dredd and a very promising opener.

Not that familiar with Absolom but like it.

Enjoying the art in Slaine still.

Helium, 10 pages and not a single one wasted - superb stuff.

Roll on next week.

[Ghost MacRoth]

Cover:  Nice.  Hard to find anything else to say about it, it's just....nice.

Droid Life: One day, I may actually smile at one of these.

Judge Dredd: Good start, look forward to seeing them back in Murphyville!

Absalom: Too early to say.

Slaine: So the exposition express pulls into Explanation station, and Mills continues to grind this out.

Helium: Not a big fan of D'Israeli, so had no expectations to like it.  So far, I am correct.  As pointed out before, it feels very much like a repeat, but worse still, it's a repeat of something I didn't really like the first time round.

Bit of a let down overall really.

[jabish]

Disappointed that Absalom didn't get a 'previously in..' Page. We were spoiled on the last jumping on issue and I was hoping it would continue for series that have been away for a while. Big pity.

[Prodigal2]

Do we know what replaces Slaine?

Did I not read that it was Outlier 2 somewhere?

Thanks Pete. Great news that.

[Dark Jimbo]

Michael Carroll's Dredds have been really quite hit and miss for me, but early as it may be this seems like it'll be a good 'un. Joyce is a great character and it'll be a breath of fresh air to get out of the Meg for a while. We may have had the twin space jaunts of Dark Justice and Titan, but it must be years now since Dredd's gone to another city - it feels like the strip's about to go on holiday for the summer!

Lovely to have Absalom back with us. One of the best new strips of the 2010s. Harry himself can annoy a bit as a character, though - he's got the same line in laboured, long-winded sarcasm as Hannah Chapter from much-missed parent strip Caballistics, and it wasn't very funny back then either.

Yeah... not really enjoyed this Slaine outing. It's just been talk, talk, talk, and worse still it's the same old dialogue on a loop - I could happily never read the words 'Obey like a dead body obeys' ever again.

Helium - the bad. It does read like a laughably self-parodic Edgington script. Written by anyone else I'd be a lot more excited about this than I am; there's just too strong a sense that we've been here before. Agree with Cosh about his dialogue, too - all those contracted 'you' sounds are already starting to grate, and it's only episode one!

Helium - the good. Still, it's a fantastic premise and - best of all - no subtitle! I love getting invested in new ongoing series, but there are too few really good one-and-done serials in Tooth these days. It's an overlooked format that plays particularly well to Edginton's strengths - give him extended serials like Brass Sun and Red Seas and the story starts to meander all over the place before limping to a so-so conclusion; but Kingdom of the Wicked, Leviathan and Scarlet Traces and the other jewels of his crown are all fairly self-contained narratives, so this should be a good 'un. Intrigued by the sidekick character and love D'israeli's 'chunky knitwear' aesthetic, which makes total sense for a high-altitude society.

[Grant Goggans]

Then we get to the story that's a little hard to work out... well its not, but it is. I mean Helium should surely feel like a pastiche of everything that Ian Edginton has done before. So many motifs are there. Surely he and D'Israeli have done all this before, surely this is tired and dull, a well worn path that feels cliche. A greatest hits collection for a band for whom you have all their albums anyway. BUT you know what its bloody brilliant...

My heart did sink at yet another autocratic regime keeping things The Way They Always Are and telling the protagonist not to interfere.  My heart sank so far that it never did rise high enough to call this brilliant, but I am curious what will happen next.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Slaine: So the exposition express pulls into Explanation station, and Mills continues to grind this out.

Well said...even though I haven't got his one yet 

[Molch-R]

Unusual that a Thrill is carrying over to a jump-on Prog.

Prog 1934 isn't a designated 'jumping on' Prog, it just so happens that most of the stories are new. One of those quirks of scheduling.

[robert_ellis]

Great great prog - a really fantastic mix! Slaine still baffles me but lovely art & good to have Absalom back

[Link Prime]

I've being dying to see the Carroll Droid's take on The Emerald Isle for years, someone put me out of my misery- Spud Guns?

[spoiler].......not as yet![/spoiler]   

Ah here! Maybe next week!