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"Are you going to stop making personal attacks? Are you going to leave this message board?"

I believe I have as much right to be here as you. There are no personal attacks, and this is not bullying, my friend. Simply trying to get you to acknowledge that your rather barbed comments were unnecessary. You are not a Hicklenton fan, and that is fair enough (he's pretty wild, and in my opinion constrained by the limited size of the Meg...).

You have just acknowledged that you over-stepped the mark, and that is gracious of you.

 "I always have made an effort to support negative comments with some sort of detailed, thought-out criticism, and I'll continue to do so."

I shall endeavour to do the same... and keep the personal comments to a minumum...

I'm just quite excitable...

Adwah

"But if we remove all negativity from the board, and only post nice, happy thoughts about 2000AD and the Meg, what would be the point in having a board? The feedback is important, or so I've been told."

This is true Trout, so when you make a negative comment about an artist, qualify it, rather than just calling it "shit". This was my only point of contention with your comments.  

Adwah

"I'm not keen on the film reviews either, but not because of anything inherently wrong with them- I just don't want film reviews in the Meg, they're irrelevant. The articles on Pat Mills and British comics characters were good, although I think the Mills interview could have been split over two Megs- too much text hurts my ignorant brain."

I'm in complete agreement. I used to avidly by 2000AD etc. as a teenager, and have returned to sporadically buying in bursts when the mood takes me. I was pleased to still find a good broad spectrum of crisp art, but disheartened by the film reviews / interviews / articles...

call me old-fashioned... but I want more art, and less chat...

I hereby vow to stop complaining...

 

Since I seem to be offending everyone I speak to on here...

just thought I'd say that, as a whole, I thought Meg 261 was great. Nice cover, good stories, good interview with Mills. Didn't rate the film reviews (as always) but I've leave that little rant until next Meg...

Look in the mirror and say "I'm Jim, and I have lots of love to give." 5 times. You know, like a mantra...

"Don't try pedantry with me. Honestly."

What about paediatrics?  

"And you are a trolling twat."

Is that a twat with a penchant for the sport of trolling, or is trolling a new verb?

Take a breath, Jim.

It's all going to be okay...

"You've made several comments directed at me, including use of the words "impotent" and "misguided"."

If these comments are hurting you...perhaps it will make you think twice before opening your own mouth.

What gives you special dispensation to give it out, but not receive it? I suspect, 'King' Trout, that judging my the amount of posts you've put on here, that you would very much like to be more involved in 2000AD than you actually are. Stunted dreams that never flowered to fruition.  

But I'm no psychologist.

That's just my opinion.

I hope it doesn't cut too deep.

All my love, Adwah.

We're all adults, Mr. Trout, and if you're going to hang your ideas out for all to read, then you have to expect a little flack...

"If it was a TV show and we found it hard to follow, it wouldn't be allowed on TV."

erm...does that mean that films that are dense and layered should be ignored because they take some time to understand?

You are a fool. Call it whatever you want. My honest opinion. Anyone that feels the need to justify their thoughts with the comment "I'm a happy and fulfilled person" generally is not.

You may well wonder why I've only signed up to this post, 'King' Trout. You see, my life is filled with other exciting things. Unlike your good self, the highlight of my month is not picking up a comic book, and perhaps if you sucked  
the marrow from life a little more, you might offer something more than hot air.

Here's hoping...

"Problem is, what starts off as criticism too often tails off to just simply become 'X was shite'...Also, is it just me or do people in this country seem to be quicker to complain than they are to compliment?"

Amen to that...perhaps it's hardwired into the national psyche to complain...

I also can't help thinking that if someone like Bisley, for example, logged in here... his comments would not be as vitriolic as some of the navel gazers here who have never picked up a pencil...

For Art to be consistently stimulating and interesting, like anything else, it needs to be tested, broken, transcended... Opinions are subjective, naturally, but I feel a healthy respect for anything challenging or different, even if it is not to my personal taste. Creative freedom of expression is to be celebrated, not denigrated simply because it doesn't float your own particular artistic boat.

The obsession with tradition and consistency, particularly when it comes to the hallowed ground of Dredd, is tiresome. I want to see new, different interpretations of Dredd. What I like about the current Meg is the diversity in the artwork, leaving the coherence of the stories aside for now...

Extremes are good, and I don't want to read a comic where the artists first thought has had to be "I've got to make sure Dredd has six buttons, and his visor points don't go out further than the visor..."

Let them go wild. There be gold in the madness...

It's a valid comment. Like film critics who slag off films without ever having picked up a camera. Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

"i don't like this story"
That would have been fine. But his comments were more barbed than that, and deserved rebuking. To say Hicklenton's artwork lacks skill, however much it may not be to his own particular taste, is simply idiotic. That's not "a bit much". That's a fact. "Facts do not cease to exist simply because you ignore them" - Huxley.

"disproportionate abuse"

Read his comment again. Then read mine. I have no shame...

"You don't need to be able to do art to have an opinion on it."

Absolutely not... I just find it disheartening to hear people talk such rubbish. The story is convoluted, for sure... but radical stories, and art, should be encouraged, not lambasted. Trout may not like the artwork, and he is entitled to his (misguided) opinion, but he should remember that it is far easier to destroy something, than to create it.

In terms of "baiting and goading", I think I was rather restrained...

"This isn't creativity. This isn't radical comic art. This is confused, slapdash shit."

You're a fool. Plain and simple. Open your eyes and flick through the latest Meg. Then re-read the drivel that you've just written...

Xface on the Fux news channel with his puppet Judge...the "I am the law" Dredd shot, the exquisite detail of Satanus.

It may not be your cup of tea, trout boy, but to say it lacks creativity and skill shows how impotent your artistic insight is.

Upload something you've drawn lately...

show us what "radical comic artwork" looks like nowadays in your world...

I'd love to know...

"I just can't look at the artwork."

Why is that? Does it scare you?

It really shouldn't, not now that you're a fully grown man who's left home and everything...