Incident on Zeta V The Gronk Affair - Bolt-01 Cup - Qualifying - Short: Game 03
They may be short but some of these pack a mighty punch. Games 3 and 4 from the Short Region and game 4 might start to firm up Group 1...might...
All you need do is vote for your favourite between:
Incident on Zeta - more info (https://2kstages.github.io/stages/progs/stage16.html)
Vs
The Gronk Affair - more info (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hiss-weerd/4005-82773/)
Just reply in this thread naming your favourite of these two stories at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easy) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.
Match ends early on the morning of Sunday 1st August and the winner (I'll count up who gets the most votes basically) gets 3 points towards qualifying... huh...
... there's a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F3W5KkY37ZcH39J93nq5hR5_RhPIvaOapv7sZ0EmvUQ/edit?usp=sharing) to make following easier... if you fancy. If not, don't worry just VOTE!!!!
What on Earth is all this? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47697.msg1064493#msg1064493)
Why (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47696.0) on Tharg's Earth head are we doing this?
Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN!
The Gronk Affair for me. Love those Weerds! This story is REAL nasty, mind.
The Gronk Affair
Definitely The Gronk Affair here. It is a grim story! I remember being horrified by all the skinning and Slugg eating the Gronks. The showdown at the end between Alpha and Wulf and the Weerds is great. Com up shooting - or come up dead!
The Gronk Affair for me
The Gronk Affair for me too - shame the Weerds get wiped out, but otherwise a little classic in a brilliant run of post Portrait stories.
I do wonder if Carlos hadnt been called to duty on Dredd, we would have seen The Killing. Moses and Outlaw a couple of years earlier - the 1983 annual Dog House feature hints at the return of the Stixes, so it as clear that Wagner and Grant had stuff planned out.
The Gronk Affair
Incident on Zeta barely makes any impression. It is only one episode long, in fairness - but then Mutie's Luck managed to be memorable and important for continuity with the same page count. I like the idea of Alpha taking on an all-girl gang, but it gets hardly any chance to go anywhere.
The Gronk Affair is by turns sweet, sad, funny, thrilling and horrifying. It's also the Weerd Brothers' five minutes in the spotlight, and they're superb - shame they didn't stick around at least one adventure longer, perhaps replacing the soon-to-be-massively-overused Stixes as an antagonist.
Gronk Affair
Feel stupid but I don't remember either of these.
Gronk.
The Gronk Affair
Can't immediately recall 'Zeta' so it has to be 'The Gronk Affair' - love them Weeirds.
The Gronk Affair. The Weerd bros poor heartsies didnt stand a chance.
The Gronk Affair
Whoops a busy morning conspired to mean I missed voting on this (and giving a final warning for time) on this one. However poster privilege means I can always afford a quick vote at the end before the result. Though in this case I'll only do that as it won't affect the result.
Like everyone The Gronk Affair offers so much from a definitive period of the strip and takes this one easy.
VOTING CLOSED
No interestin battle or twists and turns here. Its a simple tale of vastly superior stories mercilessly hunting down its defenseless victims... fitting huh for an easy victory for:
The Gronk Affair
The Gronk Affair 3 14
Death's Head 0 0
Incident on Zeta 0 -14