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The influential William Friedkin, Director of The Exorcist and The French Connection. Terrific legacy of work.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/william-friedkin-remembered-exorcist-ellen-burstyn-1235558010/

William Friedkin's 'To Live and Die in L.A' is on Film4 tonight. Will have a watch - not seen it before. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090180/

Excellent, very professional. Really got the Gibson look to it. Loved your Chimpski too.

If you sat him up you could recreate the story 'In the Bath'.

Ha - I loved that story. He was complaining (a bit) about feeling old and tired back then (IIRC) - and that was, what, 30 years ago???

Dredd does look like an eighty year old on that cover. Not so much in the episode though. Good start from the reliable Kenny Who? (an AI?), Foster, Blythe and Parkhouse droids. Did Chris Blythe colour the previous stories in this series?

Azimuth, I did feel a tingle at first with the reveal but in all I am a bit disappointed that it's falling back to an existing series. I was all up for the John Smith meets Moebius virtual reality technobabble premise but now... well, we'll see.

Black Goo is carrying on nicely. More characters introduced. The lift part reminding me of the 13th Floor. Art terrific.

Void Runners - as others have said, great fit for Boo Cook, who's art I sometimes struggle with a bit, in this case it all looks terrific and story barrelling along.

Hershey looks great as usual and plenty of action. Will Frank get (yet) another life?

All in all a good prog - just Azimuth for me jumping the shark a bit. Let's give it a chance though!

I had forgotten about that Nightbreed adaptation. Jim Baikie on art duty - will look out for a collection.

Thanks for highlighting these FP bargains. I'd kind of given up on comics but seeing the Light and Darkness War reminded me of an anthology that it was collected in that I had a few issues of, may have been called Meltdown

Thanks, I was trying to remember what I'd seen it in, I had a few issues of that anthology too, don't think it lasted long. Didn't it have Akira in it as well?

Within was something that has remained in my mind ever since, as my tiny brain could make no sense of it at the time. And here it is for a fiver in hardback:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/152692-the-adventures-of-cholly-flytrap-hardcover/

This rings a faint bell too...

Welcome! Glad you enjoyed the Out. Have you seen Brink, by the same writer, different art collaborator, and a completely different proposal? The first 4 books have some of the best stuff I've read in Tooth. If you like hard sci-fi, dystopia with some police procedural and Lovecroftian influences, then give it a whirl.

As a young reader, I liked Asimov - most of his characters are adults. Am I an edge case?

If so, I am too. Asimov, Terrence Dicks (Doctor Who) and EE 'Doc' Smith among others in my case. All or mostly adult protagonists if I remember right.

Anyway I've been reading Oink! online; one of the rare 80s funny comics for kids that was actually funny.  Lots of death, blood, piss, shite and bums - that's what kids really wanted, unless that was just me.

Much of which was written by Charlie Brooker in one of his first jobs

No kidding... I remember reading his video game reviews in PC Zone. And his TV reviews in the Guardian were a bit of a Saturday highlight. They also featured bums quite heavily.

...Full Tilt is trickier, given that it doesn't lend itself to standalone episodes and would lose momentum if stretched out across bi-monthly Regeneds.

Yes in general the Regened format is up against it a bit - Make something dramatic and complete in just 12 (or so) pages, then do it all again in a few months when it's hard for readers to remember what happened the last time! Can't be easy.

[An Impossible Journey]

An Impossible Journey

The Cursed Earth was like the first Star Wars film...

I've not seen that artwork before. It's awesome. Thanks for sharing JW!

I agree 100% what you saying and maybe I ma just venting because out of the regen we got Pandora, Full Tilt Boogie and Department K which all translated well into the prog. The last few issues were not good at all.

Interesting point is Regened a victim of its own early success. Those early strips really landed BUT to give them the momentum and space they deserve as strips they have been removed from Regened into the Prog 'proper' and Regened is struggling to replace them.

Someone mentioned down thread its starting to remind them of the 90s (Broodblik I think - apologies I'm too lazy to look back properly) and this may be right in more ways than one. Then the talent disappeared from the Prog to the better paying US market and folks had to be brought in arguably before they were ready to fill the gap. Is the same thing happening on a small scale with Regened?

Does look like it. It feels like I've not seen those strips for a while in either main or regene progs either.

As I'm new I really don't know quite what happened, but I sent a message via the contact form on the main site and was suddenly able to post again today, so presumed it was due to using that word. I understand why it might be too, it's an unpleasant word that I'd never normally use, but I didn't think twice at the time as I just wanted to post about the graphic novel I'd enjoyed so much.

Shortly after I joined I was unable to post because I'd used up the maximum number of posts allowed to a non-member. I got in touch with customer support and they bumped me up to member at which point I could post once more. It was only 10 posts IIRC so possibly not the same thing.

Welcome to the forum!

I'm still enjoying The Order (or I enjoyed the recent 'final' series) but did somewhat prefer the earlier stuff which had a bit more characterisation, a bit less frenetic battling. Art has been wonderful throughout. Everything bar the last series has been collected in one of the Hachette volumes I think.

Hope hasn't grabbed me either, but I'm yet to read the first series which probably doesn't help, and the realist portrayal of film star faces rather takes me out of the story. Otherwise I think I'd really appreciate the art.

Ah. Script: Michael Fleisher.

Nuff said.