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#1
Any discussion of What The Kids Want from their comics these days just puts me in mind of Grant Morrison's solar cycles hypothesis. So now I'm imagining that in 5-10 years time Tooth will be putting out Regened progs that are even more savage, bloodthirsty and insensitive than the regular series, for an audience that finds Tharg's typical output too tame for their tastes.
#2
Prog / Re: Prog 2369 - Turning the World Upside Down
14 February, 2024, 01:45:47 PM
The English Astronaut felt like a severely cut down version of Paul Cornell's novel 'British Summertime'. But while the book is about something very serious and material (climate change), the point here seems to be a much more nebulous "modern life is confusing/rubbish/full of people disagreeing with me".
#3
Prog / Re: Prog 2355 - Dad of Night!
25 October, 2023, 08:34:54 AM
"The story continues in two weeks time!"

Great.
#4
News / Re: John M Burns Retires
03 October, 2023, 10:41:28 PM
End of an era.
#5
Prog / Re: Prog 2350 - 2000ad Battle Action*
20 September, 2023, 11:45:14 PM
I liked this but it kicked off my inner pedant, a little nagging voice that kept saying that if Battle had been merged into 2000AD in 1982 then none of the featured strips would have made the cut. 'El Mestizo', 'Hellman' et al hadn't been in Battle for years by that point and mergers always picked up current strips. 2000AD and Battle in 1982 would have had skiffy spins on 'Truck Turpin' and 'The Fists of Jimmy Chang' not 'Dredger'.

It also gives the impression that Tharg would have dropped 'Charley's War', which would be almost as wrong as trying to give it a Tooth spin.

But now I'm wondering what would have happened if 2000AD, not Eagle, had swallowed up Scream! in 1984 and if Tharg wants to have a crack at that for Prog 2400.
#6
Prog / Re: Prog 2347 - Demonised
30 August, 2023, 08:39:47 AM
Turns out I was right about the P&BG guest cameo, though I'm not sure his type of Wheatley-esque horror sits comfortably with the "monsters live among us and they're just like us really" camp on offer here.

Also "Cursitor" is an archaic title, not a name. Unless he and Dain had weird parents.
#7
Prog / Re: Prog 2346 - Maximum Thrill-Boost!
21 August, 2023, 06:10:37 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 21 August, 2023, 09:48:07 AMSomeone somewhere must be enjoying this.

Probably the same Earthlet who liked Skip Tracer.
#8
Prog / Re: Prog 2346 - Maximum Thrill-Boost!
21 August, 2023, 08:14:49 AM
I would totally be onboard with Cowborn High.
#9
Prog / Re: Prog 2345: Criminal Justice!
16 August, 2023, 08:26:18 AM
I've come to blank the Regened Progs but there's still nothing more dispiriting in a new prog than seeing the phrase "...returns in two weeks' time!" at the end of a strip.

Portals & Black Goo hasn't been doing anything for me but is it hinting at an appearance by [REDACTED FAMOUS COMICS CHARACTER I CAN'T NAME BECAUSE THE SITE WON'T LET ME INSERT SPOILERS ANY MORE] at the end of this prog's episode? Tomlinson haswritten for him before in Tooth (sort of).
#10
Prog / Re: Prog 2339 - Mob Blitz!
05 July, 2023, 08:17:58 AM
Can I be the dissenter and say I found 'Blighty Valley' to be one big disappointment? Ennis should be the ideal Rogue Trooper writer. It's insane that Tharg put Fleisher and not him on Rogue back in 1990. But this felt like he never found a story to fit his premise and from page to page it felt like a compendium of some of his worst writing habits. A huge missed opportunity.
#11
News / Re: Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024?
03 June, 2023, 12:29:30 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 02 June, 2023, 04:53:41 PMMost annuals are loss leaders. They are not profitable.

TPO says exactly the opposite: "These hardcover books were hugely lucrative for the company, selling large numbers at a high cover price. But the projects had such limited budgets a third of the pages had to be filled with reprints." (2007 edition, p76).
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2329: Fruiting bodies!
26 April, 2023, 09:41:49 PM
Short of turning over the entire Prog to The Order, I can't see how it could have ended any way other than the way it did: not by reaching a conclusion so much as rolling to a gentle halt. This is at least better than the way Slaine just seemed to stop randomly mid-story and gives the characters pleasing if not necessarily satisfying resolutions.

It's just a shame not just there were so many loose ends - including some that originate in the current arc, that hopefully the spinoff will explore - but also that the idea that we were seeing slices of a grand history-spanning conflict was reduced to an action-adventure runaround for much of its second half.

I had vaguely been wondering if the series was being curtailed because of the artist's advancing years (not being funny, but Burns is 85 now) so it's a welcome surprise to find he's doing something new.

Weird retro continuity time: do the developments about Clara in this episode explain why her presumed descendant Frank kept running into Armoured Gideon all the time?
#13
Prog / Re: Prog 2326 - Rogue's Return
05 April, 2023, 09:14:29 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 03 April, 2023, 04:36:12 PMThe Order remains vaguely coherent pulpy fun, but, man, it feels harsh to make Burns draw an entire army of robots.

It does seem a bit perverse in a series that seems to have been created specially so that Burns can draw the stuff he likes drawing.

I'm a bit torn on Blighty Valley. On the one hand, Garth Ennis should be an ideal Retro Rogue Trooper writer; on the other, it's so far feeling a bit over-familiar and settled into a comfort zone. But we'll see.
#14
Prog / Re: Prog 2324 - The Law Enforcer
26 March, 2023, 08:03:23 PM
But back to the actual Prog... I really can't see this is the end for Proteus Vex as there's clearly a lot more story to tell, not least about the Flesh Pilots.

Plus we were promised "wars to come" - plural - back in the very first episode. It's not over by a long chalk.
#15
Prog / Re: Prog 2324 - The Law Enforcer
26 March, 2023, 08:00:26 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 26 March, 2023, 09:02:31 AMKind of like JK Rowling using the name Robert Galbraith to distinguish her transphobic detective stories from her racist YA fantasy.

Once again I'm going to be that guy and point out that publicly opposing a misogynist cult whose goals include giving male sex offenders unfettered access to women's prisons and girls' changing rooms doesn't make one "transphobic". And the attempts to find examples of racism in the works of an author who dared to speak out against an atrociously antisemitic politician (who has since been kicked out of his former party in disgrace) is a really embarrassing case of sour grapes.