Prog 694 - so new Harlem Heroes isn't such a great leap forward, and my goodness some of the dialogue scripting has not chuckle come off well in the last couple of installments as I'm sure you stoned out readers are fully aware. But there's still something there, it's just a shame the over the top chatter drowns out a bit of the suspense in the strip - which the artwork could easily carry. However it's head and shoulders above Dry Run, which takes a huge amount of character background for granted whilst not trusting the artwork to show anything without a caption box describing whatever scene transition or bit of action we should be looking at - and still in places even with these clues the images are indecipherable. It's hard to think of the last time something fell this flat without immediately summoning Angel or Rick Random.
Necropolis is still advancing, pushing it's characters slowly together, and the anticipation is still there but it feels like it's getting dangerously close to the end without becoming really explosive - so I hope there's still plenty to come. Slaine is also somewhat stately in pace, but this totally befits the grandiose storyline. I like it a lot more than I thought I would. And I still enjoyed the recent run of Medivac 318! Hope it returns.
So...Strontium Dog. Why? Why bring back the story in a new format for 5 parts and a recap just to kill off Johnny Alpha? It feels like story for The Final Solution didn't have a proper resolved ending, they just ended it as quickly as they could. And Johnny dying over 3(?) progs after such a long gap from the rest of the story felt like the character was short changed - what was it for? This could have been done so much better, instead, it feels like a complete waste. I'm mystified.
Necropolis is still advancing, pushing it's characters slowly together, and the anticipation is still there but it feels like it's getting dangerously close to the end without becoming really explosive - so I hope there's still plenty to come. Slaine is also somewhat stately in pace, but this totally befits the grandiose storyline. I like it a lot more than I thought I would. And I still enjoyed the recent run of Medivac 318! Hope it returns.
So...Strontium Dog. Why? Why bring back the story in a new format for 5 parts and a recap just to kill off Johnny Alpha? It feels like story for The Final Solution didn't have a proper resolved ending, they just ended it as quickly as they could. And Johnny dying over 3(?) progs after such a long gap from the rest of the story felt like the character was short changed - what was it for? This could have been done so much better, instead, it feels like a complete waste. I'm mystified.