Round 3 heads towards its conclusion and things aren't getting any easier. It's time to start thinking about how hard Round 4 is gonna be cos lets face it as we near having just 64 thrills left we know they are all (well almost all) gonna be beauties and the tough ties we see this week will be the regular head scratchers in a couple of weeks time. Arh remember how easy Round 2 was!
Doghouse double bill today and the deadly and delightful Durham Red, doubles down on the Top Dogs ... appearance... damnit couldn't think of a 'd' word there. It's all her iterations we need to consider here, which makes DR a much trickier thrill to decide about. The thrill only just saw off Return to Armageddon last round. So goes into this against new favourite Feral and Foe, who've only had a see off Juliet November, as a slight favourite? Let's see how that plays out
Feral and Foe - more info (https://shop.2000ad.com/series/feral-and-foe)
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Durham Red - more info (https://shop.2000ad.com/series/durham-red)
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 Saturday 25th June and the winner gets a place in Round 4 (of 9!!!).
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Feral and Foe
Durham Red.
Durham Red
Feral and Foe by a very slight margin, primarily due to it so far being fun and consistent. Durham Red: I like a lot of it, but re-reading the older stuff showed up the strip's weaknesses. I do want to see more of the current incarnation, although I'm aware how divisive it is.
Feral and Foe for me too. Fun and consistent is right. I think the solo Durham stuff is patchy and whilst it's had some enjoyale moments in places I'd rather read more F&F.
Feral & Foe
F&F is fun to read. Red's a bit of a downer.
Feral & Foe
Weird to compare one thrill that has had consistent writer and artist and tone with another that has had at least three major incarnations. Partly because of that variety, I've got more out of Durham Red, and am generally more excited to see her back in the Prog, either with more of the same or something completely different again!
Fantasy just isn't my bag anyway, so an easy vote for Durham Red.
Feral and Foe
I dislike both to the same extent... for vastly different reasons. But the whole Red Sonja bikini tips the balance...
Feral and Foe
Does this include future Red? Regardless, Durham Red it is.
Quote from: Southstreeter on 22 June, 2022, 04:43:27 PM
Does this include future Red? Regardless, Durham Red it is.
Yes it does.
I rate the more recent Durham Red tales, and the entire Future Goddess arc was also interesting. But, I'm hip to the modern energy of Feral & Foe.
I've yet to get round to reading (or should that be re-reading given I read it in the Progs?) the Abnett & Harrison Ultimate Collection Scarlet Cantos, which came out two years ago. And I do want to see more of the more recent version, but I look forward to Feral and Foe much more.
I've seen comments else where that it's not as good as some other similar strip published else where, but since I don't even know what that is, I'm going to ignore it.
For me it's simply good fun and I welcome it every time it's it the Prog. I'd even go as far as to say if the Abnett Elson combo can only do one strip at a time, I want it to be this over Kingdom.
Durham Red.
Quote from: Magnetica on 22 June, 2022, 11:54:43 PM
For me it's simply good fun and I welcome it every time it's it the Prog. I'd even go as far as to say if the Abnett Elson combo can only do one strip at a time, I want it to be this over Kingdom.
I'd go along with that - mostly because it felt like they'd dried up a little bit on Kingdom themselves. Feral & Foe - I really enjoy. I know that its self-awareness grates for some, making it a bit of a Marmite strip, but it's my kinda Marmite. (And I hate Marmite, so really it's my kinda blackberry jam.)
Durham Red
Although I was a little suspicious of Kingdom at first (bit Thunderdome language vibes), it quickly turned into one of my favourite 2000 AD strips. But also, I like where it ended up. There's surely space for more stories, but I won't be upset if we don't get any. (I would have been had it just stopped, say, two books earlier. COUGH Brass Sun COUGH.)
Feral and Foe I think. I like Red well enough but it has been a very inconsistent strip which hasn't allowed her to have much character development over the years. Hopefully the current version, which I'm really enjoying, will rectify that.
Feral and foe
Fezzer and Foz, as us cool kids say.
SBT
Think one thrill has really pulled away here, which is surprising as I thought it would be much closer than it appears to be but my eye scans have decieved me in the past and as such those last day votes might change things. I'll count up in the morning.
VOTING CLOSED
Thought Durham Red would have put up more of a fight here. The strip has had some many rich and interesting interations, from classic Carlos and Alan Grant, Mark Harrison, then Mark Harrison and Dabnett himself and the recent hard western thrillers (my personal fav) but no. The power of a new Dabnett strip dominated here. Backed up with Rich Elson's muscular art
Feral and Foe
will be bickering into Round 4