As part of the boarders awards thats on a special page on this website, Im looking for nominations to go into the award for Most Improveded Droid. This can be anyone (Writer, Artist, Letterer) whose work has dramatically increased in Quality and Stature this, Im looking for somewhere in the region of 15 nominations, myself and bolts decision is final :)
Valid progs and megs are: 2000ad progs 2003, 1322-1370 (inc) Megazine 201-213(inc) as well as the two Extreme editions published this year.
The deadline for this voting will be Friday the 9th of January after that the award will appear as a poll on the Boarders Awards Page, so get Voting
Any Questions ask away on this thread or the other, Boarders Award thread.
Yer Slips
Any chance of rustling up a list of all the creators who appeared in 2003?
I'm lazy, no attention span etc.
Yes probably but youll have to wait :)
and forgive my spelling mistakes....
Yer Slips
The many, many creators of Bison, for their slightly better work on Synnamon.
- Trout
For general improvement in the quality of his scripts over the past 12 months (IMO): Simon Spurrier. Proving he has got what it takes!
For the same reasons: Pat Mills.
Chris Blythe.
He is more than a mere colourist...
...much more...
mr rennie,for cabbalistics, coburn,dredds as good as wagner.a year ago the onlt thing i could remmember of hid was rain dogs , and that was for the art
david
Me and him say Si Spurrier....Watch out will he be poached by DC?
clint langley as his art has come on leaps and bounds since his early dinosty work and those few dredd strips
his covers are also getting better too
hes doing a great job on slaine although i think it helps that his style suits the character and he really seems to be enjoying drawing these sea demons
Dom Reardon, who just gets better and better with every panel.
Pat Mills for the best Slaine story in ages - no pagan preachiness to be found, just cool action and blue-nippled Atlantean princesses
Floyd
who much preferred Bison to Syannon
Clint Langley pour moi
Langely for me too
Dom Reardon. Cabs: Going Underground ----> Cabs: Krystallnacht is a quantum leap in quality.
J-Bo-1
Maybe Cab Inc should be collected, so that you could better illustrate your point ;-)
I'll have to vote for Dom Reardon as well, a great artist is evolving in front of our eyes, improving in leaps and bounds story by story.
Dom Reardon, and for being such a nice guy, too.
I'd have to say *not* Dom Reardon - far as I can see he's been sh*t hot from day 1.
I'd like to go for Carl Critchlow for the reasons I just typed about in another thread - but as his improved style first appeared Autumn 2002 I guess that doesn't count.
Mills & Spurrier have both improved a lot this year.
I misread the title at first as Most Impoverished Droid...
domreardon his arts getting better and better
Gordon rennie who is slowly overtaking john wagner as my favourite writer
Simon Spurrier
Oddboy has a point.
This categories kind of damns with faint praise, or at least has implicit criticism built in.
I've loved work by the likes of Rennie and Reardon over the past 12 months, but I don't want to vote for them as "improved," because they've been very good for quite some time.
- Trout
the trout has a point who should i vote for then err....
That's why I think Simon is a strong contender for this award - his previous stuff (one offs, Bec & Kawl & the Scrap) were all good, but Lobster Random & From Grace really raised the bar.
As for Pat Mills, well yes, there is an implied criticsm in a way - he may not be as good as he once was, but he's a lot better now then he has been in recent years. Which is a good thing, for him, for 2000AD and for me.
We should have a special Pat Mills category:
Best Droid Who Was Really Great But Turned Really Shit And Self-Indulgent For Years And Is Now Starting To Be Just About Okay Again. Sometimes.
Not very snappy, is it?
- Trout
Mr. Spurrier
if we just put mills then he might get the message
The nameless droid at Rebellion who clinched the deal to buy 2000AD. Quality has been going up ever since. OK so it's off topic and possibly not even in 2003 but I'm entitled to my opinion.
Ian Edgington.
After making a false start with Interceptor, Red Seas and Leviathan really displayed what he is capable of.
IMHO
Bolt-01
Colin Clayton - I really liked a lot of Synnamon's plotting. (Now THERE's damning with faint praise, but that ending sucked the big one and spoilt the series for me)
...Dudley
Si Spurrier
always liked his stuff, but its got stellar of late.
Spurrier
Bison Boys
Pat Mills
Chris Blythe
Clint Langley
Dom Reardon
Gordon Rennie
Carl Critchlow
Ian Edgington
all go through
Yer Slips
S'gonna be one of the toughest to vote on this one. Who to choose...
As one of the people who nominated them, could I respectfully suggest that calling Colin Clayton et al "The Bison Boys" is perhaps a mite unfair?