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More Robbie Morrison
More Rob Williams
More Henry Flint
Clone Henry Flint
Where's Fay Dalton?
Someone ask Mick McMahon what he'd like to draw
Bring Back Simon Fraser
Beg Brandon Graham
Bring back Star Scans
Get some decent crime writers to write procedural Judge stories.

And none of this is criticism of Tharg - I think 2000AD has been phenomenal the last decade. Sure there are one or two artists or writers I don't dig but...  anthologies and all that....

1) scarlet traces
2) grey area (Harrison makes such a difference)
3) Brink

The female droid special - ace
The superhero British comics special - ace
The 2nd Misty / Scream Special - ace

Top Work House of Tharg.

Am sure all the NI board members had a teary moment at the end of Derry Girls tonight. Beautiful stuff juxtaposing the joy of teenage friendship against a devasting moment in Ulster's history.

I just don't think Michael Carrol gets Dredd. His scripts are all over the place & when it comes to Dredd and supporting characters, they are behaving in very odd ways. Take Hershey in that Texas mess, she was portrayed as a lame duck and she really isn't. Dredd's getting on a bit sure, but he's still Dredd and a damn a good Judge.

It's stuff like this that's making me wonder if I too have out grown the prog after 30 years. I'm not enjoying the fragmented nature of Carrolls stories and the way Dredd's been allowed to go. I miss the world building Wagner did so well, including some great supporting characters in Dredd's world, that we just don't get any more... it's a real shame...

It's not you, it's Carroll. He's been dire for Dredd with dull epics and constantly badly using classic characters and back story or adding in his own tired 'orishness all over the place. I appreciate he has a lot of goodwill from his tenure on these boards but every week his name is on a Dredd credit it's another dull week. Take the current story - the horned baddie is dull, the fish-man lackey is dull, another dull feisty independent (Irish) lady is on board, the dialogue is dull. Zero humour, zero character, dull action, zero interest.

Let Carroll create his own series for 2000ad and see if he has anything beyond fanboy knowledge of Dredd because after many years on Dredd his writing offers very little.

Yeah not fussed on the statutes (tho they look very nice) but would upgrade for the covers books. All intel appreciated..

The top shelf humble bundle is worth the money for Essex County alone. That's a great collection if you haven't read it.

Is the Mick McMahon Who stuff in any of those £5 books?

Not too sure Durham Red in a sports bra is really in line with the batgirl / vampirella re-jigs.

The Vampirella re-design is particularly bad - sportswear meets steampunk. Baffling for the character. Batgirl just looks like a prebucesent girl cosplay and as I assume that's the readership so that's fine. It is just a superhero outfit on a less sexualised frame.

'Half way house' outfits like that vampirella one make little sense - if you're grounding the character and making the outfit more 'practical' then she's not going to wear cycling shorts, she's going to wear practical light but protective trousers. It's seems more an exercise in 'showing skin but not showing SKIN'.

The whole 'urban warrior but female' shorts / big boots / pads / wrist gloves / practical but some how revealing around the chest / thigh outfit is a bit played out in comics and video games. Embrace the unreality of the whole idea and make something unique. That's what 2000AD always did... c'ummon he's wearing a fupping eagle on his shoulder!

1) Stray Bullets
2) Spy Seal
3) Punisher - The Platoon
4) Southern Bastards
5) Lady Killer 2

Yep, happy Xmas to all who worked at or just loved the galaxy's greatest.

Off trots the best actor to have played the doctor (and boy was he great at dying over the last three epsoides) and a good old crash bang wallop start for the new one. Gold Star from me.

A great read, and very welcome in such an august periodical, but sadly that was the only hint of anything 2000AD related in all of WHSMITHS this morning.

Weirdly Tescos NI has the end-of-year prog too. Something I've never seen there before.

DeathMan The Gathering is what Henry Flint was born to do.

Make it happen Tharg.


'Forget It Lads, he's a Nazi. No class.'

Over here Easons (regional newsagents / bookstore) has them and 2000AD / Megazine but not Scream / Misty

Whereas Tesco has Scream / Misty but not 2000AD or Partworks.

Asda has neither / neither / nor.

Make of that what you will.

You offering Steve, cause that hat is totally working for me.