American Reaper must be one of the most divisive things The Meg has ever run. Personally, I soon got fed up with it. The strip moved at a snail’s face, took up an absurd amount of each issue, and had art that just got boring despite its clear technical mastery.
This will be interesting to read as this is where I gave up The Meg. Will these reviews convince me to buy the back issues?You could've had them for free a couple of months ago so I hope not!
This will be interesting to read as this is where I gave up The Meg. Will these reviews convince me to buy the back issues?
...everything just fell back into the old rut.
In many ways that is the final page of Judge Dredd (and one of my favourite single pages, and central image, of any comic ever) - but it didn't need to be....
It could have been a radically new direction, effectively watching the remaking of the Judge system in an even grimmer post-apoc environment than before, but it would also have represented the killing of Rebellion's golden goose, just as the movie seemed to be promising renewed popularity. Without a single enormously productive and creative writer (or cohesive team) to shape a new direction, everything just fell back into the old rut...
There was a stage when they tried the cross-over story line and people complained about it. The only story recently that I can recall started in the prog and continued in the meg was done by Mike Carroll...
'More crossovers' is not really what Funt was advocating...
It's interesting. One feeling I get on my mass-read is that the Megazine has to play an odd game. It's the Judge Dredd Megazine, so nearly everything it does is set in the Dredd-verse. But then it can't really change Mega-City One: it's more like it's the poor cousin that only gets scraps from the table.
Over in 2000AD, for example, we had the Chaos Day arc, which decimated the entire city. In the Megazine at the same time: nothing happened. As the city burns (say, around, prog 1784), in Megazine 324 we get The Adjudicators, a joke story by Simon Spurrier about a justice department PR wing.
So, the Megazine has a problem. The MC-1 in 2000AD isn't the same MC-1 in the Megazine. With so much Dredd content, and so many writers with so many angles: it's just impossible to hold it together as a believable, consistent fiction.
It's interesting. One feeling I get on my mass-read is that the Megazine has to play an odd game. It's the Judge Dredd Megazine, so nearly everything it does is set in the Dredd-verse. But then it can't really change Mega-City One
I tend to agree. I have always considered the Meg as an accompaniment of the Prog and that if anything major was going to happen to Dredd or Mega City One it was going to happen in the Prog, not the Meg. So whilst I read it every month, it has never been “essential” Dredd
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Lawless: Welcome to BadrockI’m a bit jealous you get to read this one for the first time, and in a concentrated blast.
The page count of the meg went up when American Reaper was in it so ‘it took up too many pages’ arguments are a bit redundant.
So, yeah: you must have meant strip pages.
So, yeah: you must have meant strip pages.Are there any other kind? ;)
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