Penultimate week, just two weeks to go - which if you consider that we started this Round in January is quite something. Enjoy these dog days of Round 2 as while we have some meaty ties in these last two weeks it's going to be nothing compared to some of the sinkers you will have in Round 3. You'll look back at the easy days and decisions you've had to make in Round 2 with fondness. Just check out Funt Solo's wonderful Round 2 so far (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.msg1070150#msg1070150) thread to get a sense of what Round 3 will be...
Now fair to say that Samantha Slade's time in as the led in Robo-Hunter is pretty much a direct sequel to Sam's and as such since I've lumped Inferno in with the original Harlem Heroes why on earth haven't I done the same here. The answer ... well dunno really... Mind I suspect we're not going to have to worry about that too much longer...
Robo-hunter (Samantha) - more info (https://shop.2000ad.com/series/samantha-slade)
Vs
Revere - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=revere)
Just reply in this thread naming your favourite thrill of these two series at the beginning of your post (or use Bold tags so I can spot it easily) and say what you like about these wonderful stories after that.
Match ends early on the morning of Sunday 1st May and the winner gets a place in Round 3 (of 9!!!).
What on Earth is ALL of this? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.0)
For those that need 'um and can be bothered to follow 'um there's some simple rules (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=48011.msg1070150#msg1070150)
Any questions, just ask as ever - and have FUN
Revere for me - a year ago I would not even blink when choosing Sam but after I have read the complete edition for the first time since it was original published (I had a big dislike in it then) I enjoyed it
Revere.
Cheers
Has to be Revere for me, Simon Harrison's art is a perfect foil for John Smith's script.
Revere. Next!
SBT
The answer is written in water: Revere.
Revere
One of my all time favourites. Can't wait for its publication in the Ultimate Collection.
I know I'm in the minority here, but Revere just isn't for me.
Samantha Slade was ok, but it was a long way off the glory days of the strip.
So I'm voting Robo-Hunter.
Revere
Revere
Love it or loathe it, Revere still stands unique in comics - even among the oeuvre of John Smith, there's not really anything else quite like it. A fascinating experiment, and probably the apex of Simon Harrison's comic work, too. Quite a legacy for a thrill that barely scrapes 100 pages.
By contrast, the Samantha Slade stories are a fairly tired and uninspiring reboot of a classic thrill that saw one of the truly great prog artists bow out on a really sour note (even if it was his own fault). A tarnished legacy all round.*
*It wasn't all bad - Stim! (in particular) and Casino Royale are great stories, that absolutely encapsulate the fun, thrill and whimsy of the original. And then Grant and Gibson stopped caring again,
Everything Dark Jimbo said. Samantha Slide added little and ended badly. Revere is divisive but shows imagination and soul. An easy winner for me.
Tough call as both of these were great tales.
I'm going to go for Sam(antha) Slade by a whisker. A lot of fun, some good proper gags and helped wipe away the memory of the '90s version. I don't know why it didn't get more love and it serves as a big reminder that I should be writing into the prog more regularly even if it's just to say what I'm liking.
The first couple of Samantha Slades were kind of amazing in their ability to summon up the memory of the early Brit-Cit caases of the original Slade. But rapidly it was clear Grant wasn't going to bring anything especially new to the table.
Revere is always and only about bringing totally new things to the table, then disappearing through the table (it's one of those late 80s mirror tables with coke on it) and into some entirely new world of impenetrable nonsense beautiful poetry.
I effin' love Revere.
Revere
samantha
Tricky one - I know Revere is well regarded but I've never been a fan - it was all too abstract and surreal. On the other hand Samantha Slade's Robo-Hunter was an interesting premise, but didn't have that chock-a-bot density that I enjoyed about early Robo-Gibson. Too many gradient fills. I can do gradient fills. Gie's a job!
It's an art vote, then. Revere.
I love Revere - a bold experiment that, for me at least, succeeds brilliantly.
Great to see Samantha getting some of the credit her strip deserves. The series might have gone off the rails a bit at the end, but it had a fun start. A match for Revere, well clearly not. You have today to make your call if you haven't already.
VOTING CLOSED
For me Revere is about John Smith slipping into a caccoon and blooming into JOHN SMITH and by the end he was almost entirely fully formed... which is kinda poppycock as it came out 3 years after New Statemen which is my fav John Smith story (possibly) and he was fully formed there. But there really felt like there as something transformative about it. Samantha Slade was almost the opposite it was about taking something good and just trying tor reproduce it. And for a while it did that very well, but did drift by the end and we never got to Paris and no more was said. So its hardly surprising that
Revere
leaps into Round 3.