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Brought a smile to my face, but yeah... needs Alan Ruck too!

Oh my, nice basket! 

[Spencer Nero]

Thanks for taking the time to give such detailed feedback brian - very much appreciated!

As the writers have already left their comments I'll just blether on about my bits;

I was kinda going for a 70s Marvel Doc Savage vibe for my Spencer Nero art, so any criticisms of the pictures is completely down to me - I had hoped that the Naztecs came across as inbred and deformed so any foreshortening issues on them are deliberate - some are meant to have big arms, squat legs, whatever. If that wasn't obvious then I've failed (note to self; must try harder)
As Greg said, one of the mysteries of this story is the mask and how it works and that is slowly revealed over the coming episodes (I already have the next four scripts in, with a couple of smaller episodes to drop in as and when)

Jikan is my creation and I have to confess I have never seen Samurai Jack - it was only on looking it up on Wiki just now and reading the first sentence that I can see how similar the premises are.
Confession time; if any thing, he's based on the Hammer film Captain Kronos. I loved the idea of a time travelling do-gooder and wanted something similar. Kronos is based on the Greek word for time - can you guess what the Japanese word jikan means?

Any issues on the art on No Compromise are again down to poor choices by me

The thing I take away from the reviews for Mekkos and Icarus is that both would benefit from a story so far caption at the beginning of each episode. The story is explained on the contents page but this is obviously not enough for the casual reader. As editor I'll do something about that for future issues.

Huge thanks for taking the time to give such detailed feedback - it's been very instructive. I hope you'll stick around for issue 10 to see if the comic improves!

Just listened to the DROKK stuff there - not bad.
Anyone listened to the Chemical Brothers soundtrack to Hanna? That would fit pretty well into the world of Dredd

the guy that gets paid by Forbidden Planet to write comic reviews doesn't like it.

Does he actually get paid for it?

I don't think he does get paid for posting his opinions you know. Like us, he does it because he loves comics


Just spotted over at
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fSearchData[author]=PARAGON+comic&fSearchData[lang_code]=all&fSort=salesRankEver_asc&showingSubPanels=advancedSearchPanel_title_creator
that it's free P&P this weekend (until the 31st) so if you want to see what all the fuss is about, pop along and get a copy for only £2.50! That's cheap! (And the PDF version only costs 99p)

Some interesting points made here.

I sent Richard a copy asking him to review it on the FP blog, on which he gave his honest opinion - I don't intend to criticise his criticisms of it.

The comment that has really piqued my interest here is Daveks;

Found it difficult to read and follow in places - there were some nice bits but overall it did not inspire me to buy any more product.

I am not from the small press community so maybe I dont understand the culture/approach in comparison to regular publishers of comics?  Maybe your comic is more for comic creators to read/appreciate

In what way was it difficult to read or follow? Was it the fact the comic is episodic and you didn't know what had gone before? Or was it badly written or illustrated? Or something else?

(This isn't a witch-hunt - I'm genuinely interested in what didn't work for you. Any constructive criticism helps make future issues better)

I think everyone who dabbles in the small press does so because they love comics - I publish PARAGON because it's the kind of comic I want to read, and I'd love it if other people want to read it too, so any feedback from every reader is gratefully received.

Just out of curiosity - is there anyone here that buys PARAGON that hasn't bought a copy of The Jikan collection? Or indeed, bought the collected tales but doesn't buy the regular comic?

My wife thinks Newt Gingrich is a character in Harry Potter...

Review of this issue is up on the FP blog

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/paragon-issue-9/

with some nice things to say about cover star Spencer Nero...

but do you agree with the rest? Do let me know your opinions!

Crikey! I wander away from the boards for a couple of days and come back to see we are playing a scojo version of Where's Wally?!


To the new boarders - if you're not him, welcome aboard!

(For the record, I'm not him either)

http://youtu.be/7ezeYJUz-84

The fan version - and all the better for it! 

any extremist is a whack job, be they Muslim, Christian or Tellytubby

I would love to read a comic about a devout extremist Tellytubby, however I have no desire to read Frank Miller's work again  (ever since I threw his sequel to Dark Knight across the room in disgust - I thought it was shite)

I love the Shadow (especially the 80s series by Andy Helfer) so I hope to God Ennis doesn't turn it into a lot of nob gags and sex

I'm sure I've read somewhere (I can't think where) that Silver is 4 books in total - only one to go - and I can't wait for it! Certainly been a highlight of Cinebooks output for me!

Gentlemen! The first issue is almost decided upon!
However, we would like to include a 3 or 4 panel droid life-like horror-comedy/comedy-horror strip in each issue - anyone any ideas? (Scripts only please - this is something I want to draw )

We'll announce the line-up very soon!!