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No oneone else get their Meg?  No prog for me, so this had to suffice.  Sadly, Wagner remains absent, though Arthur Wyatt's and David Roach's Dredd tale at the end had a decent stab at an old school "gimmick" one off (not a criticism!).

Elsewhere Alan Grant continues to pour the misery on Anderson... not really interested in Grants stuff at the best of times, though this does try to throw a bit of Day of Chaos aftermath into the mix... I'd have preferred to see what Anderson was actually up to in DoC than another chance for her to despair at the world/humanity.

American Reaper more than made up for it - I'm in the camp that would much rather the art was drawn than compu/photo/manipulations, but I'm not as offended by the actual result as others - plus, I can happily buy into Mills world plot conveniences and exposition conveniences and just enjoy the way he creates imaginatively conceived worlds that draw me in like no other writers.

For a first time in a long time I enjoyed the meg more than the prog this week

I have made up my mind to start buying the meg regularly from this month (been buying the prog for a year). I keep getting mixed signals about its quality  on here but I am just going to live dangerously.

'Bootknife'.
What a great Dredd by Mr Grant. More JDH on Dredd please Tharg.




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Got mine! No Dreddlines again - that's only 3 in the last 9 Megs (or 4 in 10 if you like round numbers).

Like the Dredd/Anderson tale although I'm not sure a big pile of bodies would putrify enough to let swim about in them but I must defer as I haven't attempted this myself.

The other Dredd was OK but it was another tale mined from an old idea but it had some good touches and nice art.

Hondo was fun and I just know Robbie won't have this as a by the numbers zombie yarn.

Reaper did nothing for me - a dozen pages of talking heads - yawn!

Overall a solid pass from me.

Whats the floppy this month? I dropped the prog a few months back to save money over the christmas season for presents (intend on back ordering said megs in the next sale) so i'f it's volumes 2 of eith Finn, Download Tales or Dissaster 1990 i'll know to just leave it for now.

This month's floppy is the second, and thankfully last, instalment of 'Disaster 1990'.

Quote from: Buttonman on 13 January, 2013, 08:58:16 PM
This month's floppy is the second, and thankfully last, instalment of 'Disaster 1990'.

Then on the waiting pile it shall go.

Quote from: Buttonman on 13 January, 2013, 05:31:11 PM
Got mine! No Dreddlines again - that's only 3 in the last 9 Megs (or 4 in 10 if you like round numbers).

Like the Dredd/Anderson tale although I'm not sure a big pile of bodies would putrify enough to let swim about in them but I must defer as I haven't attempted this myself.

The other Dredd was OK but it was another tale mined from an old idea but it had some good touches and nice art.

Hondo was fun and I just know Robbie won't have this as a by the numbers zombie yarn.

Reaper did nothing for me - a dozen pages of talking heads - yawn!

Overall a solid pass from me.

Yeah That about says it all, can't believe 14 pages of Sexy Ostriches  :(

As a prospective new reader (I have bought the prog for a year) I have to say AR leaves me cold. I want to buy the meg but dipped in for a few samples ie bought back issues and Reaper might stay my hand. Loved the Insurrection trade though-its back in March innit?

it would be good to cut the floppies and american reaper since they both get mixed response from even the die hard fans and get the meg back under a fiver.  Til then its funeral bells for me cos I'm a pauper x

Quote from: Judo on 14 January, 2013, 11:24:55 AM
it would be good to cut the floppies and american reaper since they both get mixed response from even the die hard fans and get the meg back under a fiver.  Til then its funeral bells for me cos I'm a pauper x

I think it's current price is spot on, you get a helluva lot of reading for it's price tag. I'm always running out of things to read though so it's always gonna be a case of "more, more, more!" for me.

The thing is, covermounts/extras are a means of adding perception of value; however, from a pure production process, they're usually extremely cost-effective. If the Meg removed the floppy, I imagine some readers would expect a huge price drop, but they wouldn't get it (in the same way if a mag with a cover DVD removed said DVD, it'd probably only drop the price by 50p, if at all).

I'd rather new material or a lower price than stuff I've already got elsewhere x 

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 January, 2013, 11:56:53 AM
The thing is, covermounts/extras are a means of adding perception of value; however, from a pure production process, they're usually extremely cost-effective. If the Meg removed the floppy, I imagine some readers would expect a huge price drop, but they wouldn't get it (in the same way if a mag with a cover DVD removed said DVD, it'd probably only drop the price by 50p, if at all).

This.

would still like to see 61p trimmed or if determined to have the floppy extra then a 1st issue of a new indie comic to help build profile for up and coming talent x

Quote from: Judo on 14 January, 2013, 12:18:19 PM
a new indie comic to help build profile for up and coming talent x

Which we'd have to pay for the production of, adding even more cost. In fact, probably about couple of quid. And from previous bitter experience we'd run out of material pretty quickly.

there's plenty indie creators who would give an issue for free for the promotion (not that I ever agree with not paying creators).  Either way its too expensive for me at 5.60 x

Quote from: Judo on 14 January, 2013, 12:30:50 PM
there's plenty indie creators who would give an issue for free for the promotion (not that I ever agree with not paying creators).

Waitwaitwait ... you're suggesting we do something you don't agree with to get you to buy our comic?

well my order of preference...

1) Paying and promoting new up coming talent
2) Promoting new up coming talent
3) Meg at 4.99
4) Re-running old talent

I actually really enjoyed American Reaper. I think the extended page count really works for this tale. I think the script could do with a touch of tightening up in places, but on the whole I think it works a treat and am glad to see it back.

In fact, I'm pretty happy with the Meg right now. I reckon the current line-up works nicey.

Can't get past the photoref in Reaper I'm afraid, it seems to be even more noticeable this time around.

Just not for me.

Loved the rest, even if it was piling on the misery for Anderson again, (although how far down was she jumping? Looked about 60 foot, nimble lady...)

A vote for Return to Armageddon for the floppy please.

I think Reaper would benefit more without photo ref art. I did actually enjoy the storytelling on Reaper though which will make me dig out the previous megs for a series one re-read.





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You can take apart Mills plotting and dialogue, but no one touches him when it comes to telling a story with engaging and bonkers ideas - its the young vs old, its poor vs rich, its dad vs daughter - it may not be answering or addressing these things particularly deeply, but in contrast other stories offer (for example) zombie samurai vs hot judges... OK, I can see the appeal there, but really, it's not what I pay my money down for.  There's a fire and a spark and an engagement I get with Mills, even at his 'worse' that I dont see in many other writers stuff.

If this was drawn by the artist who does the adverts, it'd be the best thing I'd have read in the past few years I reckon

Really liked this month's Dredd story. Clearly following on from that last Anderson outing but with a nice dose of gruff Dredd to offset that and a truly disgusting central idea. Good stuff.

Quote from: Steve Green on 14 January, 2013, 02:02:47 PM
Can't get past the photoref in Reaper I'm afraid, it seems to be even more noticeable this time around.

This.

Enjoyed new Hondo with it's samurai and the Dredd and Andy show, Reaper just not really for me so i skipped it, freebie pretty disappointing, didn't read all the re-print flop though as I'd had quite enough of it . :|

Thoroughly enjoyable Meg this month. I read it last night at work and it flew by, only gotta read the interview still and I'll do that tonight. I even enjoyed Reaper, the story I must add and not so much the Jackie style photos, which I found quite hilarious as I looked at all the expressions.

My favourite bit was the final picture of Anderson in the first Dredd strip, poor Cassandra :'(

Loved the idea that perps are now assigned to work gangs in the post DOC Meg. Have we seen this mentioned before in the new status quo or is this the first time we've seen this concept. If so nice idea by Grant. It adds to the feeling that things have changed in Mega City 1.

Quote from: Richard T Field on 17 January, 2013, 10:19:34 PM
Loved the idea that perps are now assigned to work gangs in the post DOC Meg. Have we seen this mentioned before in the new status quo or is this the first time we've seen this concept [?]

We've seen it in most of Mike Carrol's post-DoC tales so far (including rather prominently in the Prog 2013 Dredd) and at least one of Al Ewing's. Pay attention at the back, there!

Cheers for the heads up. Its my age I'm afraid (38). I struggle to remember what happens in the prog from week to week. Yes deffo my age and my children, constantly stealing my time and filling my head with stupid precious memories instead of cool future facts!

Loved David Roach's art this month, and the promo for Witch's Promise was great.
Hope we see more of this AAA Droid this year.

Quality Meg!

I'm glad that American Reaper has returned, I enjoyed the first part immensely. The story is excellent and the artwork is striking/vibrant to say the least. Best story this month easily!

Regarding the floppies; I appreciate they're inclusion. Sometimes the reprints are of less than stellar tales, but it all comes down to personal taste, and I can't understand why so many of the so-called 'die hard' fans have a problem with them.

If you don't like it - don't buy it! Rather than get all 'Mary Whitehouse' about it! (if I don't like it, nobody should like it).

Cheers

Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 January, 2013, 09:17:51 AM
Quality Meg!

I'm glad that American Reaper has returned, I enjoyed the first part immensely. The story is excellent and the artwork is striking/vibrant to say the least. Best story this month easily!

Regarding the floppies; I appreciate they're inclusion. Sometimes the reprints are of less than stellar tales, but it all comes down to personal taste, and I can't understand why so many of the so-called 'die hard' fans have a problem with them.

If you don't like it - don't buy it! Rather than get all 'Mary Whitehouse' about it! (if I don't like it, nobody should like it).

Cheers

There's been a lot of grumbling about how bad Disaster 1990 is but I've enjoyed it. A lot of the early 2000ad material hasn't aged well at all (that goes for the Dredd stuff too) but that doesn't make it bad, "Disaster" was good dumb fun IMO. I thought the post-apocalyptic world under water was novel and loved just how dumb some of the ideas were like how the University kept people away with their field of knock out gas.

I always wondered if the Disaster 1990 universe Bill Savage was the one killed in Armoured Gideon?...

Quote from: sheldipez on 18 January, 2013, 09:28:49 AM

Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 January, 2013, 09:17:51 AM
Quality Meg!

I'm glad that American Reaper has returned, I enjoyed the first part immensely. The story is excellent and the artwork is striking/vibrant to say the least. Best story this month easily!

Regarding the floppies; I appreciate they're inclusion. Sometimes the reprints are of less than stellar tales, but it all comes down to personal taste, and I can't understand why so many of the so-called 'die hard' fans have a problem with them.

If you don't like it - don't buy it! Rather than get all 'Mary Whitehouse' about it! (if I don't like it, nobody should like it).

Cheers

There's been a lot of grumbling about how bad Disaster 1990 is but I've enjoyed it. A lot of the early 2000ad material hasn't aged well at all (that goes for the Dredd stuff too) but that doesn't make it bad, "Disaster" was good dumb fun IMO. I thought the post-apocalyptic world under water was novel and loved just how dumb some of the ideas were like how the University kept people away with their field of knock out gas.

Agreed, I found it all really enjoyable and typical of the comics of the time: Defend the city with Swans! Gerrcha type baddies, insanely silly stuff with no regard for geography, if your gonna do this go totally overboard!   

On the front of the floppy it looks like Savage has been visiting Greggs far too often. How many chins?




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Quote from: vzzbux on 19 January, 2013, 09:57:33 PM
On the front of the floppy it looks like Savage has been visiting Greggs far too often. How many chins?




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Pete was a stand in model then.

Can't fight the Volgs without yer pie and chips.

Why does the Sgt. Streetwise thing I can't bring myself to read have to take up 16 pages? (18 if you include the less visually ...um ...experimental intro).

Wow!

I'm not exagarreting when i say that this months Megazine has been the best read since the Dredd Bumper Movie Special (#328). All the strips were rocking big time.

We started off with Judge Dredd: The Pits by Alan Grant and Jon Davis Hunt. It was a really great read involving Old Stoney Face and Judge Anderson, who go after a criminal ring that are stealing dead bodies from the Cursed Earth and selling it on the market as clothing/ fashion accessories! The artwork by Davis-Hunt was superb. The last panel in particular was great, showing poor old Cassandra at the end of her tethers...

Next up was Hondo City Justice: Revenge Of The 47 Ronin Part One; this was my first introduction to Hondo City and i have to say i really enjoyed it. The opening page was outstanding, giving us a glimpse into the history of the 47 ronin in feudal Japan. Robbie Morrison's writing coupled with Mike Collins magnificent artwork (and Cliff Robinson's superb inking) is a match made in Zarjaz heaven. The potrayal of the undead ronin in Hondo City 2135 AD was really cool, especially on page 6 with all their Sandman style speech bubbles and everything. Our protagonist, Judge Inspector Inaba has one hell of a case in her hands, especially where the undead ronin are concerned. Great opening, really looking forward to reading more of this strip.

American Reaper II Part One was up next. Written by Pat Mills and artwork by Cliff Langley and Fay Dalton - it was an absolute blast! I was apprehensive about the story because of the artwork - which is very photoreal, in fact it is possibly real, but my initial reservarions were totally blown away when i read the strip. The story is set in the future, New York 2062. Relating to identity theft wherin victims (mainly young) have their minds and personalities erased and their bodies stolen for rich, ageing/ dying donors. Special agents known as 'Reapers' are tasked with hunting down those that have illegally transplanted their identities, and take them down. It may sound quite far fetched (and believe me i couldn't help but grin when i read about people's consciousness or the 'soul' being transplanted from one person to another), but reading it was a surprise. You almost believed it could happen, and because of the style of the panels it almost felt like i was watching a live action film. Almost. The last couple of pages were really chilling, showing the ruthlessness of people driven by money, youth and long life. Pat Mills may not be firing on all cylinder's in the Prog right now, but here in the pages of the Megazine, he has firmly gotten the attention of this reader here. I cannot wait to read next months instalment.

Judge Dredd: Inversion was the last of the comic strips in this issue, and one i thoroughly enjoyed. But my enjoyment was more down to the outstanding artwork by David Roach. Rendered in black and white with grey tones and nice ink work.

As for the features Interrogation was a fascinating read, not least because Inversion's very own David Roach was under interrogation by Michael Molcher! It was nice finding out about Roach; his love of comics and his background. Such as collecting nearly 90% of British comics from well known ones to the obscure ones with his friend, and archiving them. Not to mention being an comic historian/ author aswell as artist on top of all that!



Some of the shots of his artwork were absolutely breath-taking to behold such as the one on the opening page (see above), which is for an upcoming Dredd tale entitled 'Witch's promise'. The level of detail in that panel is beautiful to behold. It was a great read. Normally i read all the Megazine extra's until last, but this time i read everything from start to finish, which made my reading of the last strip, Inversion - all the more enjoyable knowing that Roach was on artistic duties, and a story he mentions in his article too. That was really great.

Overall the Megazine was a really enjoyable read. In fact more enjoyable than this week's Programme if i'm honest and definitely the best since the Dredd Movie Special.

5/5

An EDIT button, an EDIT button, my kingdom for an EDIT button!  :D

Sorry about the typo's guys...

I've been meaning to say for a few weeks, Mabs, but I really enjoy your Meg/prog reviews. Always a really good read in themselves with decent, even-handed critique and in-depth analysis. Your enthusiasm for this stuff really shines through and reminds me of when I'd just discovered Tharg's goodies for myself a decade (and a bit) ago and I couldn't say enough good things about it all - it's inspired me to try and be a bit less jaded in my own reviews - I think I've been spoiled by too much of a good thing!

Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 27 January, 2013, 03:58:52 PM
I've been meaning to say for a few weeks, Mabs, but I really enjoy your Meg/prog reviews. Always a really good read in themselves with decent, even-handed critique and in-depth analysis. Your enthusiasm for this stuff really shines through and reminds me of when I'd just discovered Tharg's goodies for myself a decade (and a bit) ago and I couldn't say enough good things about it all - it's inspired me to try and be a bit less jaded in my own reviews - I think I've been spoiled by too much of a good thing!

Thanks Dark Jimbo, really appreciate your kind words! What can i say i just love comics and just can't get enough of it. Since a young age i've devoted a large chunk of my life to it, and ever since i discovered 2000AD/ Judge Dredd Megazine not too long ago, its like a whole new world has been revealed to me. And being a fan especially of sci-fi comics (films and literature also) - its like i've died and gone to Zarjaz heaven!  :D and what a time to jump on board too with the whole preceding Trifecta storyline and so on - i've been spoiled rotten, lol.

Look forward to posting more on the Prog and Meg.

Cheers!  :)

Quote from: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 11:02:59 PM
Loved David Roach's art this month, and the promo for Witch's Promise was great.
Hope we see more of this AAA Droid this year.

Wow- thank you so much Earthlett. It does seem to be my month- with 2 Dredd strips and an interview. I hope to do some more as soon as I can. But, st the risk of sounding a bit out of the loop... what's an AAA Droid?

Quote from: sheldipez on 18 January, 2013, 09:28:49 AM

Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 January, 2013, 09:17:51 AM
Quality Meg!

I'm glad that American Reaper has returned, I enjoyed the first part immensely. The story is excellent and the artwork is striking/vibrant to say the least. Best story this month easily!

Regarding the floppies; I appreciate they're inclusion. Sometimes the reprints are of less than stellar tales, but it all comes down to personal taste, and I can't understand why so many of the so-called 'die hard' fans have a problem with them.

If you don't like it - don't buy it! Rather than get all 'Mary Whitehouse' about it! (if I don't like it, nobody should like it).

Cheers

There's been a lot of grumbling about how bad Disaster 1990 is but I've enjoyed it. A lot of the early 2000ad material hasn't aged well at all (that goes for the Dredd stuff too) but that doesn't make it bad, "Disaster" was good dumb fun IMO. I thought the post-apocalyptic world under water was novel and loved just how dumb some of the ideas were like how the University kept people away with their field of knock out gas.

I agree- I really liked seeing Carlos Pino's art collected together in one volume like that. The story's are perhaps not particularly deep, but it's good fun stuff nonetheless.

Quote from: Mabs on 27 January, 2013, 03:32:35 PM

Wow!

I'm not exagarreting when i say that this months Megazine has been the best read since the Dredd Bumper Movie Special (#328). All the strips were rocking big time.

We started off with Judge Dredd: The Pits by Alan Grant and Jon Davis Hunt. It was a really great read involving Old Stoney Face and Judge Anderson, who go after a criminal ring that are stealing dead bodies from the Cursed Earth and selling it on the market as clothing/ fashion accessories! The artwork by Davis-Hunt was superb. The last panel in particular was great, showing poor old Cassandra at the end of her tethers...

Next up was Hondo City Justice: Revenge Of The 47 Ronin Part One; this was my first introduction to Hondo City and i have to say i really enjoyed it. The opening page was outstanding, giving us a glimpse into the history of the 47 ronin in feudal Japan. Robbie Morrison's writing coupled with Mike Collins magnificent artwork (and Cliff Robinson's superb inking) is a match made in Zarjaz heaven. The potrayal of the undead ronin in Hondo City 2135 AD was really cool, especially on page 6 with all their Sandman style speech bubbles and everything. Our protagonist, Judge Inspector Inaba has one hell of a case in her hands, especially where the undead ronin are concerned. Great opening, really looking forward to reading more of this strip.

American Reaper II Part One was up next. Written by Pat Mills and artwork by Cliff Langley and Fay Dalton - it was an absolute blast! I was apprehensive about the story because of the artwork - which is very photoreal, in fact it is possibly real, but my initial reservarions were totally blown away when i read the strip. The story is set in the future, New York 2062. Relating to identity theft wherin victims (mainly young) have their minds and personalities erased and their bodies stolen for rich, ageing/ dying donors. Special agents known as 'Reapers' are tasked with hunting down those that have illegally transplanted their identities, and take them down. It may sound quite far fetched (and believe me i couldn't help but grin when i read about people's consciousness or the 'soul' being transplanted from one person to another), but reading it was a surprise. You almost believed it could happen, and because of the style of the panels it almost felt like i was watching a live action film. Almost. The last couple of pages were really chilling, showing the ruthlessness of people driven by money, youth and long life. Pat Mills may not be firing on all cylinder's in the Prog right now, but here in the pages of the Megazine, he has firmly gotten the attention of this reader here. I cannot wait to read next months instalment.

Judge Dredd: Inversion was the last of the comic strips in this issue, and one i thoroughly enjoyed. But my enjoyment was more down to the outstanding artwork by David Roach. Rendered in black and white with grey tones and nice ink work.

As for the features Interrogation was a fascinating read, not least because Inversion's very own David Roach was under interrogation by Michael Molcher! It was nice finding out about Roach; his love of comics and his background. Such as collecting nearly 90% of British comics from well known ones to the obscure ones with his friend, and archiving them. Not to mention being an comic historian/ author aswell as artist on top of all that!



Some of the shots of his artwork were absolutely breath-taking to behold such as the one on the opening page (see above), which is for an upcoming Dredd tale entitled 'Witch's promise'. The level of detail in that panel is beautiful to behold. It was a great read. Normally i read all the Megazine extra's until last, but this time i read everything from start to finish, which made my reading of the last strip, Inversion - all the more enjoyable knowing that Roach was on artistic duties, and a story he mentions in his article too. That was really great.

Overall the Megazine was a really enjoyable read. In fact more enjoyable than this week's Programme if i'm honest and definitely the best since the Dredd Movie Special.

5/5

Mr Mabs, you've made my day! Thank you so much for such a kind and generous review. I should give a lot of Credit to Arthur's script which was wonderful and gave me so many interesting things to draw. I honestly think it's the best Dredd strip I've ever drawn and it's so rewarding to hear that it's gone down well. We artists tend to live fairly secluded existences- drawing away for days on end and when we send the work off we never know quite how it's going to be received so it's so pleasing to read comments like yours- thank you!

No problem at all Mr. Roach! It was an absolute pleasure discovering your art and when i did, i wanted to spread it to all four corners of the internet, sharing with others about my find! I just hope we can see more of your outstanding artistic output in the pages of the Megazine and Prog soon. Thank you!  :)

Quote from: Mabs on 04 February, 2013, 01:25:58 AM
No problem at all Mr. Roach! It was an absolute pleasure discovering your art and when i did, i wanted to spread it to all four corners of the internet, sharing with others about my find! I just hope we can see more of your outstanding artistic output in the pages of the Megazine and Prog soon. Thank you!  :)

I echo this and may I say how pleasing it is to be able to thank a man for his incredible talent and to get a sense of his incredible down to earthedness (sorry Tharg) despite the wondrous artistic gifts he brings to the table. Hugely uplifting all round.

Thank you sir.

Quote from: The Prodigal on 04 February, 2013, 07:54:30 AM

Quote from: Mabs on 04 February, 2013, 01:25:58 AM
No problem at all Mr. Roach! It was an absolute pleasure discovering your art and when i did, i wanted to spread it to all four corners of the internet, sharing with others about my find! I just hope we can see more of your outstanding artistic output in the pages of the Megazine and Prog soon. Thank you!  :)

I echo this and may I say how pleasing it is to be able to thank a man for his incredible talent and to get a sense of his incredible down to earthedness (sorry Tharg) despite the wondrous artistic gifts he brings to the table. Hugely uplifting all round.

Thank you sir.

This is exactly why I love 2000AD. There's an interacting and kinship between writers and artists and there readership that seem's to be lacking elsewhere. :D

Quote from: artdroid Roach on 03 February, 2013, 11:03:41 PM
But, st the risk of sounding a bit out of the loop... what's an AAA Droid?

Slightly smaller than an AA droid

b'dum tish!

Quote from: artdroid Roach on 03 February, 2013, 11:03:41 PM

Quote from: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 11:02:59 PM
Loved David Roach's art this month, and the promo for Witch's Promise was great.
Hope we see more of this AAA Droid this year.

Wow- thank you so much Earthlett. It does seem to be my month- with 2 Dredd strips and an interview. I hope to do some more as soon as I can. But, st the risk of sounding a bit out of the loop... what's an AAA Droid?

You're very welcome David. The 'AAA' ("Triple A") is in reference to the high regard I've held your work since 'Purity's Story' many moons ago.
It's very nice of you to pop into the forum- keep us posted on any upcoming work!

If I come across as humble that's probably because I have more to be humble about than most! But again, thank you for all the praise- it's really heart-warming I can tell you.

Quote from: Link Prime on 04 February, 2013, 10:50:25 AM

Quote from: artdroid Roach on 03 February, 2013, 11:03:41 PM

Quote from: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 11:02:59 PM
Loved David Roach's art this month, and the promo for Witch's Promise was great.
Hope we see more of this AAA Droid this year.

Wow- thank you so much Earthlett. It does seem to be my month- with 2 Dredd strips and an interview. I hope to do some more as soon as I can. But, st the risk of sounding a bit out of the loop... what's an AAA Droid?

You're very welcome David. The 'AAA' ("Triple A") is in reference to the high regard I've held your work since 'Purity's Story' many moons ago.
It's very nice of you to pop into the forum- keep us posted on any upcoming work!

Wow- that is going back. I was only 21 when I started drawing for 2000Ad... and I think it shows! i'll definitely let you all know when I'm next doing something for the Mighty One. In the meantime if anyone would like to join me on facebook you can see the vast amount of interesting artwork I post there ( most of it not by me you'll be relieved to hear!)- you might find it interesting.

Quote from: artdroid Roach on 03 February, 2013, 11:03:41 PM
Wow- that is going back. I was only 21 when I started drawing for 2000Ad... and I think it shows! i'll definitely let you all know when I'm next doing something for the Mighty One. In the meantime if anyone would like to join me on facebook you can see the vast amount of interesting artwork I post there ( most of it not by me you'll be relieved to hear!)- you might find it interesting.

Will do!

Enjoyed the Meg a lot this month. Probably more than I enjoyed the last Prog I bought (1818).

The Pits was enjoyable enough, I loved the [spoiler]double bootknife to the third guard's head and throat[/spoiler], but the ending made me wish that Anderson could get a break eventually.

Hondo-City Justice was a right rollicking yarn, full of [spoiler]undead samurai[/spoiler] and ritual suicide. Probably my favourite thrill of the month, I look forward to more of this!

This was my first time reading American Preacher, and it doesn't seem to be particularly well thought of around here. The story seems exciting enough, but I'm not really sure about the artwork, there were bits that I thought worked quite well, like the guard being beaten by the Reaper, but then there were parts where the emotions on people's faces didn't seen to match the dialogue (the daughter: "I'm so SICK of hearing this!" with a completely calm face.)

Inversion, the second Dredd story was good, with some nice black and white art from David Roach, who is interviewed elsewhere in this month's Meg. I liked the idea of [spoiler]growing old in mid-air as a result of hitting a 'zone of dimensional distortion'[/spoiler]. Basically wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. The 'Griff Rhys' on the side of the building on the first page made me think of Super Furry Animals, whose lead singer is called Gruff Rhys (note the spelling), which is always nice!

Also, there's a nice interview with David Roach where he talks about his obsession with recording every British comic ever produced.

All around a very good issue!