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I mean, not only is he the worst-drawn strip in play at the moment but the plot is shockingly dull. And as if this wasn't bad enough it has to be the vehicle for redressing imbalances elsewhere in 2000AD land: so it gets the black lesbian. How about making her disabled?
Armitage - how Dredd would look if designed by Gordon Brown and Mandy.

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That first one does look like he's having a shit, or at the very least, farting. Maybe saying (and the pointing finger is the clue here) "Hang on... be with you in just a second... prrrrrp! That's better."
Possibly a little out of character, though.

I've found the very cutaway! It's worse than I remember. Just how much crap can you have down a barrel?

As a newbie I was just wondering. Do any of you old hands have any stories of suggestions from here that have actually materialised in print? Or is it just a way of letting us all vent our spleens or a forum for discussing "wouldn't it be great ifs"?

[Crazy Futuristic Flintlock]

Aw shucks! You guys! I knew anorakism would have one or two of you stroking your chins and nodding, but I didn't expect to be made so welcome.

Thanks a lot.

On the point of the Nikolai Dante Crazy Futuristic Flintlock type thing - I realise that it doesn't function as a C18 / C19 Flintlock, but I firmly believe that if, as an artist, you're going to use the visual references, you need to know exactly what it is you are "quoting".

I love the sound of the other quibbles you've all been having, like the square profile on the lawmaster wheels. I was always really wound up by a cutaway diagram of the early lawgiver (in an annual I think) which showed little levers along the inside of the barrel. Like that's going to help!

But thank you all for the warm welcome. I shall certainly stick around.

[Defoe, Red Seas, Nikolai Dante]

Hello Tharg, hello members of the 2000AD online community.
I'm 42, have been reading 2000AD since I was 12, I am a loyal subscriber, my wife and kids all read and love 2000AD. So this criticism comes from the heart and is intended to be helpful:

There are now 3 stories (Defoe, Red Seas, Nikolai Dante) which regularly feature flintlock muskets or variations of, and none of the artists are getting the mechanism quite right.

As a Napoleonic re-enactor I'm regularly firing a Brown Bess and it's French counterpart, the Charleville. The most common mistake the artists seem to make is in the flint itself. It is either completely absent (see attached Defoe cover of prog. 1640 where Damned(?) frizen is open and he has no flint in the jaws) or is a shapeless blob deep within the jaws of the hammer as appeared in a recent Red Seas.



I don't suppose it makes much difference to most readers but I'm sure the artists would like to get it right, and are presumably working from web images from museums which would not necessarily display guns with flints in.

I've put a short video on Youtube to show how the mechanism actually works.
I've also got some still pictures to show the three positions the hammer can be in relation to the frizzen, but I've got nowhere to upload them to except Facebooks so I don't know how to link them.

This is the You tube link. And yes, the flint falls out. But I couldn't be bothered to get my 11 year old daughter to re-film it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpLk6ihflo

Hope this helps. Keep up the good work.

Richard Delingpole
Worcester