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I have weekend tickets for my first ever comic con. La Fink will be in Bristol too but won't be attending the Con. Will be good to put some faces to names, looking forward to meeting some fellow boarders.

If you have any tips on where to stay, do share.

Does it really start at 9am?

Yep good prog. Still, a bit surprised there are some saying the prog is noticeably better than what we've had recently. For me, the likes of Poison, Helium, Feral & Foe and Azimuth have been grade A thrills.

Maybe Devil's Railroad was so unappealing for some that it felt like it was dragging the whole prog down? I was enjoying it but the last couple of episodes were too unpleasant. It's perhaps a relief it's done.

There used to be a Recent Posts page which listed all topics in order of the latest post.

I still have the Recent Posts link (along with Unread Posts and Updated Topics) at the top of the page, just under the Main Menu link. Browsing using Safari on my iPhone. I always start with Recent Posts when I visit the forum! The only irritation is it only works in landscape orientation. I have to twizzle the phone 90 degrees before I can click on it. Really bizarre. I also have the link when viewing on my Mac.

And, er, good news on the Rogue Trooper film! Looking forward to it!

Top work Trooper. The paint job is excellent!

Thanks - I've got a lot of time for the Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy Dredds. Is anyone nowadays quite so quirky?

Another Olympian review Colin, and this time one I've read - thanks!

When I read it at the time I was a little disappointed with the art - quite gloomy and not flashy enough for younger me. Maybe too realistic, and too down to earth. I didn't appreciate at the time how the drawing was (seemingly) effortlessly telling the story. And what a story.

I think I would now probably prefer to read this one than Dark Knight Returns so I think they have swapped places in my affections. Or perhaps I've just read DKR too many times. Looking forward to your DKR review, on the list or not.

Going back to the first ten or so, I've picked up a few volumes of these:

133 - Copperhead
130 - Orbital - got the first 3. Quick skim reveals lovely art.
129 - Nowhere Men - got the first volume.
126 - Avengers by Roger Stern and John Buscema (and Tom Palmer) - ordered the single Hachette volume with the raid
124 - Lazarus - found a few second hand

I'll look out for:
125 - Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev
123 - Fatale
122 - Dan Dare by Garth Ennis

I've only read some Copperhead so far - first two volumes. It's really solid stuff, nice western sci-fi vibe, and I'm into the characters. Thanks for recommending!

Fatale made me revisit and finish Fade Out, which I'd only got halfway through first time. It's a great achievement, a work of art really, just a bit too grim for me. Not sure I'll be reading it again.

Before we carry on tomorrow with Number 109 another quick rundown of what's been on the list 119 - 110.

Really enjoying your write-ups Colin - almost too fast to keep up with! Keep 'em coming!

It's hard to think of anything else with quite that level of pulling power.

There's Dredd of course - have we ever had a definitive type edition of, say, the Judge Child Quest? Maybe with the related Angel episodes and City of the Damned. Some choice McMahon, Bolland, Dillon and Ezquerra in there.

I stopped reading the prog not that long after The Horned God - caught some of the post THG Fabry and Power stuff - and only came back because of the Hachette collection. I found reading through the remaining Slaine collections a slog. The stories were repetitive (art still very good). If I was getting it weekly as part of an anthology I might have liked it better.

I prefer the earlier black and white stories, where Slaine had no responsibilities, Ukko for comic relief, and he looked like he was having fun while carving off someone's brainball. The Horned God, nice art aside, was when it got a bit too po-faced. So I'd love everything up to the tomb of terror in the definitive format. Horned God would be a bonus, mainly for the art.

I had just turned 14! For me it was just a comic I think, but the initial line up was really strong, and it left an impression. I carried on reading it... don't think to the end though.

New Statesman - I was a bit too young to get all the references. The religious connotations near the end lost me. Otherwise loved the story and art. I was really put out when Sean Phillips drew an episode some way through as IIRC Jim Baikie was running behind. I heard later Sean was told to draw it to look as much like Baikie's style as possible - so of course it was a bit of a disaster. He got a bit of criticism in the letters pages. Looking at his collaborations with Ed Brubaker his style is now kinda similar to JB's. He painted the final episode or epilogue as well I think, in his own style, and it was fantastic. Duncan Fegredo did a couple of episodes, I think they were pretty good.

Third World War was just so readable. Yes I was being lectured a bit but the cast was interesting, stories exciting and being 14 it was a bit of an eye opener. Mostly Ezquerra, art a bit rough and ready, but vivid and energetic. I think Angie Mills also did an episode? Which was pretty good. I was certainly invested in Eve's story. Didn't enjoy it as much when she returned to the UK though. Did Ezquerra stop at that point?

Troubled Souls also good, True Faith was pretty nasty. Sticky Fingers I didn't get on with the art at the time but would probably enjoy it more now. The Hitler one I really didn't get. Wouldn't mind revisiting it now.

I personally think we'll get some more sin dex volumes to take us to the end of bulletopia at least.

Sounds good

every extension has to have at least one chunk of pat mills so its gotta be either mach 1 or sigh american reaper

There's still some Savage and Defoe and ABC warriors, I think, I'd be happy with those

as much as i hate it skip tracer seems more likely now

Maybe it'll read better collected??? 

the pedant in me wants canon fodder and tharg the mighty though i know no one else does xd

Fine by me, maybe Future Shocks and 3thrillers with the Tharg?

maybe feral and foe?

Big yes from me

anything else?

Older thrills: Ant wars? Machs 1 and 0? Wolfie Smith? Disaster 1999?
Newer: Brink, Deadworld, Dredd, Helium, the Out, Devlin?

Hello! Welcome! Fave strips/creators?

And I'm expecting a certain end of year tradition to be mentioned any second now...
^{Are you there, Trooper?}

Yes something like that would work nicely.

I would like to see the Dan Dare story Servant of Evil concluded. If they cannot get Gibbons onboard then Patrick Goddard will work as well. Script can be done by Michael Carroll, he once mentioned that he is up to the task.

Surely this could actually happen? There is an audience for this! Come on Tharg!

Goddard subbing for Gibbons is inspired. Brilliant idea.

Seconded! As shown by PG's Rogue.

In a perfect world, I'd letter that in my best digital imitation of Dave's lettering style into the bargain.

Yes!

[Death of Dredd]

Death of Dredd by Wagner and Pete Doherty
^{I've heard John W has it planned out -let's see it! Doherty great for pathos}

I still think that it would be a great idea too have such a strip as an alternative take on history very similar too the Zombie prog. Justs that it should be at least something like a 10 parter

He dies mysteriously in the first episode, or the whole story is post-Dredd, Beeny and Rico investigate, a la Poison?