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[Bogie Man]

Bogie Man.

[Jaegir]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Jaegir. Obvs.

Middenface McNulty and/or Young Middenface.

Great piece by David Roach on assembling the Bolland Apex Edition:
https://www.tcj.com/creating-the-brian-bolland-apex-edition-a-how-to-guide-for-the-rash-and-enthusiastic/

Deadlock for Henry's art.

[Missionary Man]

Unsurprisingly, I vote Missionary Man.

Devlin Waugh

All praise the 'anti-pagan agenda'!

[Rose O'Rion]

I vote Rose O'Rion as part of my 'anti=pagan agenda'. ; )

amazing work! suspect the 90s would look very different if split into two halves...

When the quality is that good, get out the way and let the creators do their thing.

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Wait until next week! I would make a case for next week being the strongest single week in the tourney so far...

Finally, that Straitjacket Fits vs Soul Sisters battle of the titans!

Colin's theory is accurate. Suspect I may have stated it somewhere in TPO. Short version: inspired by Steve Mac's Golden Age, I opted for a similar strategy: longer runs, use Dredd and two reader faves as the tentpoles front, centre and back. Then the second and fourth slots were free for new strips, experiments and places for emerging talent to experiment/learn their craft.

Both Sin/Dex and Dante were commissioned before I moved over to the weekly on 18 Dec 1995. It took another 15 months before Dante was ready to run, with enough episodes in the plans chest to give the strip a decent residency in the comic. Sin/Dex got extended as a stopgap when another strip [Slaine? Finn?] wasn't ready. By the end of that initial run S/D was rising up the reader poll, building an audience.

Once S/D and Dante proved they had legs, I was very happy to make them the new tent poles so the likes of Friday and Johnny Alpha-free Stronts could be retired.

It wasn't a strategy that could last forever, but seemed more likely to succeed than a poker player asking for four new cards every chance they got in the hope of finding something better.

Putting my thumb on the scale.

Misread Round 26 as Necronauts vs Time Quiche.