Forum’s Favourite Thrill - Pandora Perfect vs Death Planet - Round 1 Heat 32

[Colin YNWA]

Yeah more Nigel Dobbyn was always a good thing. Such a lose to the Prog then and of course more significantly now. Would have liked to have seen this.

[IndigoPrime]

That synopsis sounds fun. It would have need to be a short series to not outstay its welcome, but it feels nicely in keeping with 2000 AD's tendency towards black humour.

[BPP]

It makes the fatal error of having a Death Planet that doesn't seem that deadly and indeed the final threat is a bunch of Pirate types.

Yeah I was all up for a Helltrekkers style gradual elimination of the survivors by the deadly planet. I'm not sure why we needed the space priate plot at all. And the ending was pants.

For my money, Zombo was never quite as good as that first series, because it lost that Death Planet vibe - I loved that each episode ended with a survivor count - 'Four survivors remaining!' Week-on-week that made it a whole lotta fun.

I'm still sad that Tharg never picked up Nigel Dobbyn's '101 Gronks' pitch.

Zombo always fell really flat for me after an amazing first series due to that and the comedy songs and zane. He's a great character but badly deployed imho. That dredd meeting was good tho.

[sheridan]

Shame we didn't see the 101 Gronks, and it wouldn't be the same with other creators.  Though it could be a good idea for an art competition / bit of fun creativity - each entry has a page, image or short story, each one offing one or more gronks...