Bit puzzled by the direction Brink is taking - didn't Dabnett say he'd be exploring the setting with different characters after the third series? Instead we seem to be heading deeper into Kurtis' backstory and the gears of the HSD. Not that I'm complaining, I love Bridge and I could happily have the strip in my prog 50 issues out of the year, just wondering if I misunderstood Dan's intentions.
Talking of wishing things were in the comic each and every week, Dredd: Guatemala is powerful work from complete craftspeople. That second-page splash will take some beating as Page of the Year, glorious imaging from MacNeil and Blythe. It does feel like there's way too much set up here to resolve in a half-dozen pages, and El Presidente surely has more stuff to strut? But you know Wagner, kill your darlings and repent at leisure.
Defoe continues to grab me, still Mills strongest latter-day strip, and given a new and increasingly confident spin by Moore.
Hope is lovely as always, but for me the sudden-but-inevitable betrayal undermines a bit of the investment I had in the gumshoe antics of the previous parts.
Deadworld looks more amazing every episode, but I wonder if we lost a bit of momentum this week - we seem to have been rescuing each other in the anonymous corridors of Sector 13 now for ages, while big events rumble on outside. The end of Gates-emoth was surprisingly touching, but as that thing freaks me out I'm glad to see it go.
