Prog 1423 - Slam City!

[Jared Katooie]

Cover: Very good. 75%

Dredd: PVS isn't alone in that I too disliked this. Maybe I'm being unreasonable but I feel that only Wagner should write stories about Dredd's supporting cast. The way the characters behaved didn't seem right. The idea of Dolman with a girlfriend also seemed very wrong to me too. Only wagner should write something that significant. The art was good though hampered by poor colouring. 20%

2nd city blues- Readable. It's something a bit different from the usual tired formulas so thats enough to keep me reading. 55%

Slaine - Dont care. 35%

Cabals - This was very good. A fight, some plot develoment and a mystery. Great art as always. 69%

Dante - Dont care. Fed up of reading Dante. 20%

[Dudley]

Blimey - since this thread is still around I'll inflict my thoughts even though everyone';s busily digesting next week!

Anthony William's art on the Dredd tale was... surprising.  In a good way.  The cartoonishness of what he does usually makes him ideal for the knockabout silly stories - to see him of a character piece like this was an odd choice, but he seems to have put in the work to make it pay off.

Dante - Great

Caballistics - could be great, could be jumping the shark soon.  An awful lot hangs on next wek's episode.  Don't like the way it's suddenly been tied so firmly into a Christian universe.

SCB - Nope, still can't see it.  And the flashing was just wrong.  She's about 12, for f***'s sake!

There were also a few wasted pages in the middle, not sure what they were called.

Cover wasn't the bomb I was hoping for from Mr Cook - but the helmet rocked.

[GordonR]

Angels and demons, and heaven and hell aren't the sole property of Christianity.  

I wonder, would you have written re. something like Black Siddha, "I don't like the way it's being tied so firmly into a Hindu universe"?

[Krustabi]

I think the fact that it featured a Vatican funded demon-buster gave at least some indication of where it was going.

[Dudley]

No, you're right, I wouldn't.  Then again, B.S. is presented as being based within one particular religious world view (whether it is or not, I haven't the wit or knowledge to judge), so it would be a pretty silly criticism.

Whereas I had seen Caballistics (and it's probably my mistake) as occupying a free-floating mystical universe, in which various magical/spiritual forces were finely balanced.  This enabled you to bring Kaballah, djinn, Gods of film, etc into play without losing coherence.  To bring it all down to the old monotheistic/Abrahamic (sp?) God felt a bit deflating.  

[Oddboy]

I see it as being set in an exaggerated version of this universe - ie. all those ideas/theologies/myths and so on exist in our world (whether or not they actually exist, or only exist as ideas). In Cab Inc - everything could exist, with a healthy dollop of imagination & gentle fudging of any totally contradicing theologies.

[Dudley]

Probably the first time Gordon's been accused of "gentle fudging", but I take your point.