Title: prog 1169 Fear the Deviant (not naughty)
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 20 September, 2004, 12:11:46 PM
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 20 September, 2004, 12:11:46 PM
Hi ho, I`m sick of not being first with reviews so thought I`d do this one from my rereading frenzy.
gee wasn`t this a good one? It gets better with age too. Here I am, up to prog 1169 in my great reread.
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Matters after all this time. November 1999.
Terrific cover, by an artist I`m not normally crazy about, Colin Wilson. Here though, it`s a brilliant, well coloured picture of Nemesis
Dredd story; a quiet, funny little story of Dredd cleaning up after the robot war, being mean to his neighbors and reintroducing Walter the Wobot after some time. Dredd sentences Walter to probation with a new owner. Walter assumes it`ll be Dredd, giving rise to the best line in the prog; `I said probation. Not purgatory` (he assigns Walter to Mrs Gunderson). Good fun
Dante still jocular but getting grimmer and with an especially grim ending as Dante`s brother kills an innocent girl. I found Dante annoyingly juvenile the first time around, but it gets better every time I reread it.
Nemesis; Absolutely brilliant madness by brothers Flint and Mills. Good dialogue, fantastic Mills storytelling and imagery. This story was my first exposure to Nemesis.
Pulp Sci Fi: a pretty pedestrian story by Colin Clayton and Chris Dows, made very groovy by Dean Ormston`s art and colours. Ormston makes any story better for me, more profound, characters more real.
Devlin Waugh; I hate to admit it, but this story also improves with age, although I wouldn`t go so far as to say it`s actually great. The story moves along and the nonsense isn`t as grating as it was first time around, when I couldn`t wait for the bloody thing to end. Finishes with a nice big shark picture at the end
gee wasn`t this a good one? It gets better with age too. Here I am, up to prog 1169 in my great reread.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
I
F
I
T
Matters after all this time. November 1999.
Terrific cover, by an artist I`m not normally crazy about, Colin Wilson. Here though, it`s a brilliant, well coloured picture of Nemesis
Dredd story; a quiet, funny little story of Dredd cleaning up after the robot war, being mean to his neighbors and reintroducing Walter the Wobot after some time. Dredd sentences Walter to probation with a new owner. Walter assumes it`ll be Dredd, giving rise to the best line in the prog; `I said probation. Not purgatory` (he assigns Walter to Mrs Gunderson). Good fun
Dante still jocular but getting grimmer and with an especially grim ending as Dante`s brother kills an innocent girl. I found Dante annoyingly juvenile the first time around, but it gets better every time I reread it.
Nemesis; Absolutely brilliant madness by brothers Flint and Mills. Good dialogue, fantastic Mills storytelling and imagery. This story was my first exposure to Nemesis.
Pulp Sci Fi: a pretty pedestrian story by Colin Clayton and Chris Dows, made very groovy by Dean Ormston`s art and colours. Ormston makes any story better for me, more profound, characters more real.
Devlin Waugh; I hate to admit it, but this story also improves with age, although I wouldn`t go so far as to say it`s actually great. The story moves along and the nonsense isn`t as grating as it was first time around, when I couldn`t wait for the bloody thing to end. Finishes with a nice big shark picture at the end
Title: Re: prog 1169 Fear the Deviant (no...
Post by: Jared Katooie on 20 September, 2004, 02:49:42 PM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 20 September, 2004, 02:49:42 PM
I really loved that cover. I think it's great when an artist is given something to draw thats a bit different to what they normally do.
As for the rest...
More Paul Marshall!
No more Dante!
Dean Ormston's style isn't as good as it was in Raptaur!
And Devlin Waugh was the most average story ever, if it was a D&D character it's alignment would be true nuetral. Eyhhhh. Forget I said that...
What I remember most about this story was the awful colouring. I moaned about it for ages until D'israeli actually drew a story. Then I could curse him no more...
J. (nostalgic)
As for the rest...
More Paul Marshall!
No more Dante!
Dean Ormston's style isn't as good as it was in Raptaur!
And Devlin Waugh was the most average story ever, if it was a D&D character it's alignment would be true nuetral. Eyhhhh. Forget I said that...
What I remember most about this story was the awful colouring. I moaned about it for ages until D'israeli actually drew a story. Then I could curse him no more...
J. (nostalgic)
Title: Re: prog 1169 Fear the Deviant (no...
Post by: VampiraJen on 20 September, 2004, 03:34:53 PM
Post by: VampiraJen on 20 September, 2004, 03:34:53 PM
mine must be lost in the post...................
Title: Re: prog 1169 Fear the Deviant (no...
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 20 September, 2004, 04:31:57 PM
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 20 September, 2004, 04:31:57 PM
I must read this raptaur some time........