E.E.6 - Nobody did it better.

[DavidXBrunt]

I think I'd have bought this issue even if I didn't want to read the contents for that lovely cover alone. Soooooo much want a poster version, and it's lovelier in the flesh. Superb.

A real fun read this. The intro made me laugh, the inclusion of the Issue 0 pages a nice touch and the stories themselves...

I can well see why it was the most popular thing. The episodes Pat Mills contributed are great fun. Action packed, and I think we all know what that mean...violence in abundance and supid stunts a plenty. The other scripts are variable. John Wagners appears to have been fun to write and Alan Hebdon takes the concept further and looks like it's setting up a sequal. Did that story thread continue?

As for the art - John Cooper and Jesus Redondo are as good as you'd expect, of the others no-one else stands out, though the kids in the last part are creepily done.

So a nice collection, especially one so cheap. Can we have a Harlem Heroes collection soon? Then maybe a yesterdays heroes special reprinting more episodes of M.A.C.H.1, Invasion! and the Heroes?
 

[Bolt-01]

I enjoyed this immensely, but why were the stories run out of order?

It didn't harm the flow, but it didn't make sense.

Bolt-01

[Alan Barnes]

Grouping individual artists' episodes together (Enio/Dorey/Cooper/Redondo/Lozano) made the issue look less bitty, to my mind. Also - they were out of order in the first place! Prog 13's Airship takes place in 1988, but Prog 34's Everest takes place in 1983. So it seemed reasonable to juggle them around.

--Alan

[DavidXBrunt]

I assumed they were out of publication order becasue the stories would have moved around the weekly, some would have started with a double spread page, others with a single, and there were differing page counts.

Mixing them up seems to have allowed them to make the most of the page count, to fit more in.

[DavidXBrunt]

But, in the time it took to post that last message we get a proper answer...

Nobody did it better...
Makes you feel bad for the saint...
Nobody did it half as good as probe,
Although Lee Majors he sure aint.

[Keef Monkey]

Still got the last story to read but as my first Mach1 exposure I've really enjoyed it. It's good silly fun with some fantastic lines, my personal favourite being "And I'm gonna get you!'Cos you got me ANGRY IN MY SKULL!". Top stuff.

[Bolt-01]

Thanks for the reply Alan. Hopefully Probe will get a second set of stories, or have you run all the good ones?

Bolt-01

[Alan Barnes]

Oh, there's some great stuff left - the MACH 0 saga for one, plus the whole concluding story arc.

[McNulty]

Can anyone say why the stories from the annuals and specials are not included in the Extreme Editions?

[Bolt-01]

I remember MACH 0. It was running when the strike took the prog away for a summer.

Bolt-01

[Byron Virgo]

Didn't one of the John Cooper episdoes appear in one of the 2000AD Annuals?

I quite enjoyed this, and it went along at a thumping pace, but I was struck by one moment of absolute horror. I can understand the early fans of 2000AD wanting to see their favourite strips of yesteryear, such as MACH 1, Invasion and Harlem heroes, reprinted, and I'm quite happy to pay to read them like this. But a reprint of Meltdown Man?!?!?!

WHY MUST WE BE MADE TO SUFFER!?!?!

Want to see more MACH 1, as I was anticipating reading the final story, so I'd like to see more, especially the MACH 0 stuff.

[Grant Goggans]

Awww, Meltdown Man isn't as bad as you're making it out to be.  It's nothing special, but I really like that it's one 50-episode story, and not a bunch of shorter adventures that just ran for fifty weeks.  The creators did a great job of world-building, making a very believable setting for the adventure, and I like that snake, who's just incredibly desperate and evil.

The ending's pretty ridiculous, I'll give you that.

--Grant

[Oddboy]

Yeah, Meltdown Man is fab!
Also, Return to Armageddon is great, another *really* long story - with supurb art.

[Byron Virgo]

Oh GOD!!! Why am I being tortured in this way?!?!?

Yes, I like Bellardinelli. Yes, I like Jesus Redondo. But does that mean I want to sit through months worth of turgid, childish storylines when I could be reading stuff like Nemesis book II or Ace Trucking Co?

[Floyd-the-k]

yahoo, finally got EE6 last night. I`ll be reading it on the train today. I`m set for old-fashioned English tough guy Lee Majors rip off fun!
  For sure, they should have another Mach 1 EE and finish the thing.


yours never having read Meltdown Man