Yet to read beyond the letters page but I will say...
Taggart, Steven 'Charlie' Purcell, Wellington's traffic cone, neds who'll knife you for a 50p, vinegar on your chips, tacky shops, an justifiable sense of inferiority, the Old Firm, Billy F*ckin Connelly! Buttonman can you hear me Buttonman?
Your boys took one hell of a beating in the getting a letter printed stakes... oh just a minute reading on, ah well done Stephen nice letter. :-[
The consistency over the last year or so with the meg has been impressive considering its sometimes patchy past. Still can't warm up to the film reviews but that may be more because of having an SFX subscription and so simply not seeing the point.
Dredd finished off nicely although I found it a bit difficult to see an admin bod fronting off to him like that. It was believable for Edgar because of the power she derived from PSU. Being picky I know but it just didn't sit quite right.
Need to go back and reread Anderson from the start of this story arc again but not a bad one overall. Boo Cook's art is warming on me, after Ransom it was quite a change considering most of his earlier work but it is evolving nicely.
NumberCruncher still just ok for me. Enjoyable but also forgettable. Same with Samizdat squad
Thank you Tom. Most kind. Sadly yours was, to quote the man of 'The Wire', sheeeeeeeeet. Actually it was fine apart from the closing suck up statement that kind of undid all the previous nit picking. Mine on the other hand remained kick ass throughout apart from the mild pleasantries. And total sucking up. Like you I've yet to get beyond the letters page but a flick through suggests lots to like.
NUMBER.
CRUNCHER.
My mind is breaking. I want more!
Overall: a great Meg. I like Samizdat a lot and I love Boo's art. I was very sad to read about Brett Ewins' health problems but I'm glad to hear he's drawing, albeit slowly.
- Trout
For me the Cook droids art saved the Anderson story. A far too predictable ending. [spoiler]Yet another sector gets vaped and scores of judges lost in action. At this rate Dredd and Anderson will be the only judges left.[/spoiler]
Perhaps Anderson will go the Corey route next outing.
V
Anyone else spot the lovely little tribute to Queen Firey-Bou in the Anderson strip...?
Only now you've pointed it out! Thanks for that.
Am I bad for only reading Dredd and Numbercruncher? Everything else just doesn't really do it for me at the moment...
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 17 July, 2011, 02:58:46 PM
Am I bad for only reading Dredd and Numbercruncher? Everything else just doesn't really do it for me at the moment...
I hope you don't include my great letter in what you deem skip worthy!
I was enjoying the conclusion to this Dredd story right until[spoiler] the end, savouring the moment when Dredd drags bitch-judge down for a full SJS interrogation, or executes her on the spot ... but then he just walks away? WTF? Apart from Francisco, who I can't see authorising this, there's nobody who outranks him in Justice Dept, and yet he seems powerless to do anything without proof.[/spoiler] That just didn't ring true at all.
Haven't read the rest yet, watch this space..
no proof = no standard ex , sneeky little 'M' type person
A couple of days with the SJS (as we've seen Dredd endure as a 'routine exercise' once) may have shaken some proof out of her. He just seemed to give up too easy. He may as well have shook his fist and said "why I oughta..."
fair point well made!
Hopefully it's a set up for more to come. It reminds me of Judge Stich and his Conspiracy of Silence.
Despite having forgotten who all the characters are (time for a re-read) I was enjoying Samizdat Squad right up until the last panel. "Raise it to the ground"?! Rigellian hotshot, toot sweet.
Everything in the meg (and the prog, but that's for a different thread) pleased me this time. But i want to particularly mention Mercy Heights.
Wasnt expecting to like this, as have few memories of it from first time round and have never gone back to it in the intervening fourteen years- but it blew me away this evening. Lovely idea, strong characters, great designs, a proper mystery plot and some very funny bits threaded through. Looking forward to next month's now, and the oncoming war.
SBT
Soopa Meg! Mercy Heights a real bonus for me having missed most of the story. Haven't read it all yet but Boo Cooks cover is a work of genius! Samizdat Squads art just seems to get better every time I view it. Especially the exploding palace of badness or whatever it was.
Dredd was a bit odd but still an interesting set up.
Yeah, Mercy Heights was surprisingly enjoyable. It remains to be seen if this will be sustained over the next two Megs, but having expectations to be dashed is preferable to waiting for the next chunk of rotten Flesh to drop onto the mat.
Numbercruncher has lost me somewhere along the way, but I'm looking forward to giving it another go when it all wraps up. One thing I'm fairly certain of, those random things he's doing? They're neither random nor evidence of insanity.
Samizdat Squad is much improved from the first story, but I was also shaking my head in disbelief at that typo.
Best of all was the news of the new series of Koburn next month.
Rest assured I was properly appalled when someone pointed that typo out and expect at least a minor mangling by Mek-Quake as a result.
I thought it was a pun as they blown it UP :D
I'd like to read Mercy Heights, but Alan Craddock's colours are physically repelling me.
I remember back in the day the artist change was extremely jarring to me, to the point where i stopped reading it. Possibly i was being a little unfair.
As unfair as myself Art. I think it's because I liked it too much and suddenly felt betrayed by it. This by the way, doesn't happen any more. What's doing my head in is that I'm just getting into it and; to be continued pops up! AAAAARGH! Really enjoying it. Was Tomlinson talking about how romance didn't work in 2000ad? Was MH, the volume he used as an example? I think the character frictions work really well. I'm enjoying the comedy touches in the latter parts of the story too.
And Matt! That planet work is excellent! And check out his instrumental panels and screens. No, I can't agree, the colouring is as much a character within the story as everything else.
Nah, I can't get on with the colouring either - I didn't much like his work on the Pit either I'm afraid.
I've been catching up on my reading recently and I came across something that might be interesting for people who like Numbercruncher - Rudyard Kipling's short story "On the Gate: A Tale of '16". It's more light-hearted and optimisitic than Ewing's Thrill, but it has a similar basis in the afterlife being a pervasive bureaucarcy with the angels as bored civil servants, so it should be enjoyable for squaxx who want more in the same vein.
The four strips in the Meg are really bloody good and importantly varied - SS & Anderson are light and straight forward thrills, Number is next level stuff and frankly that Dredd was brilliant - the first part had underwhelmed me but the turn around with the special ops and that unflinching 'supplies clerk' behind it all. Fabulous.
I did think the 'they aren't even...' dialogue was a bit confusing - were we meant to take it she is about to say 'they have human rights and they aren't even human'? In which case that tabloid easy logic hardly fits with a character who has gone so far for ideals and principles. It also struck me that it read a bit cumbersomely whereas if it was a script for actors then the 'dredd' would have made clearer the subtext by the tone of his contribution. Mind you thats a very minor quibble - it really was a fantastically good Dredd by Mr Ewing and certainly should be read by all. Already looking forward to the return of Judge Bachmann (that is if she isn't busy running for the Republican ticket)
Again the Meg is a winner - why it gets so few reviews is a mystery.
Quote from: BPP on 07 August, 2011, 02:44:12 AM
Again the Meg is a winner - why it gets so few reviews is a mystery.
I think you may have answered your own question, when the Meg is good it seems to have a short thread, but
if it wobbles a bit the vultures gather...
I save my reviews for the letters page. And for this hard work I got a 'Red Razors' book. Happy with this. Honestly!
Quote from: Buttonman on 16 August, 2011, 05:47:39 PM
I save my reviews for the letters page. And for this hard work I got a 'Red Razors' book. Happy with this. Honestly!
haha! they were giving that away at HiEx!!!
Catchin' up on my Megs...
V enjoyable Meg this. Agree with the End Of Dredd comments though.
I'm also gathering I should actually read the floppy!