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[Brink!]

Brink!

[The VCs]

The VCs

[Durham Red]

Return to Armageddon is a weird and wonderful stand-alone series with lovely Redondo art. Red by contrast has been a wildly inconsistent strip but I tend to enjoy most iterations of it, including the current version which I hope to see more of soon.

I don't have the nostalgia factor for Armageddon cos I didn't read it until the collected edition came out, so I'm going with

Durham Red

Uhm ... nothing happens in that frame.

I thought that too! What's Armitage doing here, just standing and staring grumpily into space?

[Luke Kirby]

I like Armitage as a character but the actual stories aren't all gold. My favourites were the later stories with John Cooper on art, I thought the strip really settles in and found what it should have been doing all along there. Fleshing out the main characters, procedural stuff in corrupt brit-cit.

Luke Kirby is probably better although I know most of it from the graphic novel having missed it in the prog. So I don't feel much personal connection to it whereas I'm fond of Armitage, and Steel, who I think is one of the great supporting characters.

Tough call but Luke Kirby. Must mention, some terrific art on that series - Ridgeway and Parkhouse. Would love to see them back in the prog actually.

[Revere]

Revere

[Demon Nic]

Demon Nic

[Rogue]

Rogue for sure.

[Full Tilt Boogie.]

I'm sure there were some decent Vector 13s although it's a long time since I read them.

Full Tilt Boogie. Looking forward to more.

[Breathing Space]

Breathing Space

Yep, I hear ya. Put me off buying the collections it was so bad - I'll stick to my tatty old original uk issues from the 80s

It's a real shame. Had the UK Classics books continued (themselves with some pretty dire decision making, alas), I'd have stuck with them. But I did want the entire classic run in HC. Not sure getting rid of my Titan books was the best move given what I now have in return but there you go. (Furman's decisions on story order were also deeply suspect. I understand them from an individual issue standpoint, but straight chronological would have been better. Sigh.)

I was totally oblivious to the Titan volumes coming out so I missed them. But yes, the full run in a decent collection would be a treat.

It could be worse: Hachette could have outsourced to India, whereupon a semi-automated process could have been run across all the colours (and, er, dialogue balloons), thereby removing the moiré (and, er, lots more).

(Yes, I'm still pissed at IDW's treatment of Transformers.)

Yep, I hear ya. Put me off buying the collections it was so bad - I'll stick to my tatty old original uk issues from the 80s!

[Meltdown Man]

There was a cliffhanger in Stalag 666 where the prisoners are trying to tunnel out and this weird burrowing creature thing bursts through the tunnel wall and attacks them. At this point I remember thinking maybe this strip is going to take a weird turn for the better; what actually is out there beyond the prison walls? Are they actually in purgatory and about to enter some kind of bizarre hell dimension (hence the 666 in the title), which would also give the snake nazis more of a surreal aspect than I had thought previously? This could go into some really weird and mindboggling directions here!

Turned out it was just a nasty burrowing creature, which they killed.

Meltdown Man all the way.

I have wondered, based on absolutely nothing, if Skip Tracer was commissioned as some kind of bridge between Regened and the regular prog. Action-packed, easy to follow at any point for new readers, appearing very regularly, nothing challenging for younger readers (not that I think younger readers can't handle and enjoy a challenge). But who knows. It has felt to me like someone made a list of stereotypical 'elements that go into a 2000ad story' but without the weirdness, wildness, humour, surprise, subversion or off the wall stuff that really constitutes 2000ad. Nice art and colouring, mind.

Oh and Hookjaw in the floppie already!

Oh really? Too soon!