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Wow! What a prog!
Thats the closest thing to a "perfect prog" Ive read in manys a year. Not a foot wrong anywhere, love all the strips, all the stories, all the art. Fantastic.
This is the kind of prog you could give to your mates and say "here, read this, this is why I buy this comic, now go and get it!"

Loving Cradlegrave. Someone else here hit the nail on the head, it just has a really creepy vibe about it even though nothing obviously creepy happens.....theres a strange unsettling atmosphere about it. Brilliant ! I would personally like it NOT to involve Indigo Prime at all but since theres a very real possibility of this happening, Im just going to prepare myself for it, so I wont be as disappointed as I was at the end of Dead Eyes.

Super prog. Unfortunately, if rumours are correct, Dante will end next week (seems a bit abrupt) to be replaced by Slaine the following week and that might possibly put a damper on things for me, as Im not a big Slaine fan. Oh well...

Forgot about Indigo Prime, you lot!  I did the twist reveal last time - I'm not gonna do that *ever* again.  (When Indigo Prime does return, that's what it'll be called.)  "Cradlegrave" is a stand-alone story.  No other 2000AD continuity elements in it...

Want to bet?!?

I actually had newborn babies with muzzles burrowing through The Iscariot's mass as well as those cute floppy eared wabbits... Which thinking about it, would have been a bit sick!  (Especially if Chris had actually *drawn* that!)

Afraid I don't remember off hand - and the script's on a floppy disk somewhere (which my current PC won't accept).  I'd just put it down to Chris's fervid imagination!

For my many, oh so many sins, yes...

Good on yer, Wake!  Should save me asking daft questions in future!

I usually just loiter with intent...  Getting very pissed off with the 2000AD newsgroup/Google group now the dreaded Sc*j* has been let out of the loony bin again...

Jesus, that was quick!  Thanks for the info!

In Prog 1163 there's a "Pulp Sci-Fi" story called "Feast of Skin" - drawn by Chris Weston and recently reprinted in one of "The Megazine"'s bagged collections.  Just for my reference, can anyone tell me how many pages long it was?

Thanks in advance!

This tune's much better!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDsMdRFlIw


Hope I'm replying to the right post here.  Wouldn't want to add a P.S. with the world's worst insult in it - gosh no!

Haha!  If only that were true!

Well what a storm in a tea cup THIS is - serves me right for putting my head above the parapet on this fucking forum...

By the way, Dark Jimbo - is "dick" worse than "twat"?  Will have to check out the BBC swear-word guidelines on that one!

The thing is - and it's entirely about semantics, I know - that I still feel my interpretation of D.J.'s "offending" post remains the same.  Re-read it.  He's given up on reading it (snidey aside: I'll bet he reads it NOW!  So who wins that one?!?) because it's a "dead loss" with an "inevitable" ending, compared to blah-blah-blah...

So far, so speculation.

But then:  "I just wish he wouldn't resort to the same old ending quite so often."  Fait accompli.  As if you KNOW that THAT is how it IS going to end up...

Don't you see the logical non sequiteur in that?  Or is it just me (obviously yes, to your virt-mates on here!)?  You're conflating your opinion - all fair enough, otherwise I could spend all my time on here trying to justify myself to naysayers (which would be even more pathetic than I sound right now) - with a blank statement of fact.  As if that's how this story IS going to end.

Now, really thinking about this and re-reading Jimbo's post, yeah, you could interpret it from both points of view, but since I'm me and he's he (she's she?), guess which POV I took when I read that post?  Jimbo's tarred this story with the same brush as previous ones - and already made his mind up.  Like I say, he may or may not be right.  It's just an attitude that really bugs me and - obviously! - pisses me off.  Presume and assume, fair enough; I do it myself all the time.  (Not just comics but "Heroes", "BSG", "Lost", "Dexter" - shit, "Coronation Street" when the inlaw's around!) And it's great fun!  But to state something as fact before you know it to be so is incredibly galling and, erm, unscientific, and, ah, err, illogical?

Anyway - I'm getting increasingly pissed on an aeromalleate alcohol fluid which, combined with certain narco-cannibanic vapours, is rendering my attention on this spatio-temporal event as worryingly juvenile and/or over-sensitive, so a cheery technoburble to all of yez!

>Burp!<

Just puzzle on this poser:

Who criticises the critics?

Eh?  Eh?

>+++Now should I click on that bloody "Post Message" button or not?+++<

m. Well. Didn't expect that, and, quite frankly, don't think I deserved it.

I did try to point out that I wasn't making sweeping assumptions - 'we seem to be' rather than something like 'Oh god, fucking John Smith, here we go', because, well, it did honestly seem like it based on this part's ending.

Still jumping the gun a bit, admittedly, but at the end of the day that's the nature of trying to review successive episodes of a weekly serialized story; it's always going to involve a certain amount of guesswork and there's always going to be a far greater amount of in-depth analysis than each individual part warrants. You'd think you, of all people, would know how it works, given you write for the comic in question?

And hey, guess what? I can't take the series as a whole, because as you said, it hasn't finished yet. All I can do is make best guesses as to where it's going based on the parts already published. If I really had a bloody crystal ball I wouldn't have to, would I?
These prog review threads would be just a little bit redundant if we weren't allowed to comment on stories mid-flow, after all...

I even tried to make it clear that I'm not one of those guys who hates all John Smith work out of hand, it was just that I didn't like the turn this was taking - because I hate posters who mindlessly slag off something that, at the end of the day, the creators have put a lot of work into. If I'd known you were going to resort to name-calling I wouldn't bloody have bothered.

Dick.



Baby!

You said: "That makes me sound like a Smith basher, which I'm not - I just wish he wouldn't resort to the same old ending quite so often."

There.  In your own words!  Now eat 'em!
(Coz you don't know it's gonna have "the same old ending", do you?)

That reply to Dark "the Dick" Jimbo, natch!

For fuck's sake - it hasn't finished yet!  You see the ending in your crystal ball then?

Quite a stupid and lazy assumption there, no?

Decent ending to Dredd. Can't wait to see this story collected in a trade alongside Macneil, Flint & Ezquerra.

Savage makes me wonder how explosions can be boring.

Finally, the real John Smith is in the house. The last half-page of Dead Eyes brings the shatterlight which this story has been missing. I was idly perusing Prog 2007 last week and noticed that this was originally down for Lee Garbett on art. Was this just a case of Marvel snapping him up before he'd even had a chance to draw the story?





Ummm... yes!
This strip should've been out last year - shit happens - but I've got a great artist who's doing the story justice (I think - but then I would, wouldn't I?) and I've also got the luxury of rewriting the dialogue so it's bang up to date.  It is a contemporary conspiracy thriller, after all... isn't it?  (Lee told me he thought it was a road movie.)  Don't keep pre-judging it on every episode - that's the nature of the beast when reading a weekly anthology comic (Get over it - isn't that Guillemots' tune just great?) - just wait and see what happens.  You'll never guess how mad it goes - though I dare you to try!

>Pissed mode off<
>Bed mode on<


What a fucking egomaniac, eh?  Checking himself out on the internet before he goes to bed...

It only gives you nightmares, you know?

No.  Why would I want to do that?
Also, don't assume "Dead Eyes" is based totally around the army just because the first episode was...