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Anybody missing their fix of Simon Fraser should order up Grindhouse (doors open at midnight) #3 & #4 for some great Dante-esque ladies and fights art. The bad-gal even looks like the spit of lulu. Bobbins-to-okay story, great art.

Having picked up two of the 'little' Tomorrow Queens' they are terribly little and, tbh, not very good. The size means the material for the outfits can't be cut convincingly so doesn't look like a dress but a band of material. They also look like they'd break easy as the limbs are incredibly slender. Makes me think doing mongrol in 1/6 may have been a mistake (too big / expensive) but doing humanoids in 1/12 is also an error - too small / fragile.

Consider this 'plus 1' for turning Titan into a six monther. Williams, Flint and Giannis Milongiannis on fills.

Why would I be trolling? Or a sarcastic twat? I've stoutly defended all mills Langley work from those that continually attack it on here. For me the colour seems potentially unintentionally faded on the mongrol dialogue page and then totally un-naturally faded on that final page. As they are sequential right hand pages I was wondering was there a printing error with my copy. That image looks like it's meant to show more detail, as it is it's just a faded 'structure' lacking any impact. I can accept it's an attempt at a fog effect but well, it dosent work for me. No biggie, no need to call anyone names. Thanks for taking the time darkjimbo and eamonn.

Yeah. That can't be on purpose can it?

Holy Balls Titan is the best non-Wagner Dredd in ages. That Williams droid, he's the great (judge )whitey hope.

Horribly late as I've only just got this...

Anyone else have a non-existent final page on the ABC Warriors? There's sort of an outline of a nuclear explosion but the only distinct thing is the 'bomb happy' text.

Has joe mccullough / tucker stone featured it on their TCJ / CBABIH output yet? They normally love and push 2000ad creators output.

Hello, can we have no mode 'Dredd with a monster enveloping him' for a while?

3 points - 1836 - Defoe - stark design, beautiful art and the best fat hero of the ages.
2 points - 1832 - sin/dex - just a great pose and atmosphere embodying the return to form of sin / dex, a strip that rocks when it's protagonists are taking a kicking and rocking the Hammett vibes.
1 point -  1830 - needs the retro logo etc to really work but '235p Earth Money' brought one of the biggest smiles all year

Honourable mention to 1848 (more McMahon in prog please) and 1847 (more bad visual puns please).
Honourable honourable mention to Henry Flint for being unable to draw a less than awesome cover.

Interesting! A pity he's gonna be killed soon, as his mag must be empty now, what with all those massive spent cases flying about

Maybe the bad guys are chucking them at him?

Worth pointing out, I think, that those of you having trouble getting DoM really need to have a moan at your comic shop owner about this, especially if you're not seeing pre-orders fulfilled. Renegade jumped through all the hoops Diamond insisted on, and has shipped every issue on time.

It bodes ill for the comic industry, IMO, if the monopoly distributor insists on a system whereby it knows to the exact copy the number of issues that have been ordered and still can't get the correct number of copies to the retailers on the agreed date.

Cheers



Jim

I'd imagine alot of the problem lies with the shop itself.

In my (big franchise LCS) on average 1/4 of my orders 'don't turn up.' But thats because their order system (write it on a piece of paper, lose paper) and their filing system (hummm, yeah.... you got that? right?) is crap. And advance knowledge of new titles is non-existent (the sort of knowledge a casual knowledge of Bleeding Cool would show up - like the return of A1 or Dark Horse Presents). They have about 6 full time members of staff of whom half have zero interest in comics and only one an interest in the customers 'interests'. In December alone I had to use ebay to get The Thought Bubble Anthology and Shaolin Cowboy #2 as well as point out that they missed the penultimate prog of the year from my haul. From the 6 issue run of A1 they managed to get #1 and #4 in, plus they completely failed to try and sell me the special edition hardback even tho it was in stock and I must have been the only person buying the series.

I was listening to a good podcast with a guy who had just stopped working in a LCS and he was saying he was glad not to have to read 'big 2' stuff anymore but that he had for the time of his employment because he believed a functional working knowledge with this stuff was important to help the shop make sales. Some chance of that happening where I shop.  It is, frankly, fucking pathetic but I'll always persist because I think having a comic shop on the street is better than it all being 'online'.

You're all just grumpy because you got socks again for Xmas. I thought it was fab and terribly touching. Hurrah.

Voted and gud'luck. Some totally weird choices in those categories.

Are they moving to a two week issue programme?
the hack pages seems to give that idea

That was the initial idea but they scaled it back to 18 issues a year I think. Maybe 20.

The art has suffered terribly as a result. The full page of Maggie in 118 look amateur and the dynamic and decay from when it was just CA on art duty has been lost.

Lobster Random should be one of the modern stars of 2000AD, its five outings so far have been amongst the best things each year of its publication. Spurrier is comics gold and it would be a shame to see him slip from the stable... he was prolific in 2013 but sadly not a single page for 2000AD.