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H'okay. If the blonde is barefoot, it's Sinister Dexter - 'Hand Maid in Downlode' (Prog 1087) Page 1. Art by Andrew Currie.

Any chance of more info on the Sin Dex one?

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Cheers for cobbling that last hamfisted sentence together, DD ;)

The Pit isn't really an example of what makes an epic feel epic, brill as it was. That was really more of a soap opera (even going so far as aping the will they / won't they kiss soap standard).

Epics aside, what really makes lengthy ongoing stories such fun is the worlds or settings they're in. Mega-City 1, Termight, Nu-Earth, Downlode, Dante's Russia... all detailed enough to capture the imagination, big enough to have something new always around the corner.

Duh, that last bit should have read "aspect of the larger tale".

I don't know what the wonder discussion on Ninth Art has to do with a sense of adventure, but I figure it boils down to being able to read a story knowing that by next episode the motives / goals could have shifted. The current Devlin Waugh's a case in point, I thought suicide bombers using explosive decompression was a stroke of genius (wonder), but how long have Devlin and co been on that bloody boat now? Months!

So a 24 week uninterrupted epic isn't really the answer, unless there's a different tale (or aspect of that tale) to be told each week.

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You made the gods angry.

Good job that armoury was next door!

Channel 5 rarely inspire confidence, managing to make really annoying arbitrary cuts to movies all the time. What with Dredd tonight and Mad Max 2 in the week, is it gonna be worth it?

"The plane, boss, the plane!"

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They've finally cracked it, apparently.

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge020118.html" target="_blank">ABC News - Here Comes Spider-Goat?

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I don't think it's a problem with characters, per s?. More to do with stories.

This is an entirely subjective view of course, but the difference is British comic characters tend to be part of an actual story, where the background or setting is as important and as well thought out as the protagonists. Unlike American chracters, who tend to be stand-alone (perhaps shallow) archetypes, where the worlds they inhabit revolve around them. There's less to 'tamper' with in American comics, story wise, so the characters adapt better should the stories change.