Extreme 08: Here Be Dragons

[shazhughes]

Lovely cover and John Smith weirdness but why after messing with your head do we get 6 episodes of Invasion.
Nothing against Bill Savage but its like when my friend puts tomato sauce on his Sunday roast they just don't belong together.

[shazhughes]

Cover: Doesn?t really do anything for me.

Dredd: D?Israeli continues to give us some wonderful visuals but his depiction of Dredd feels like its lacking something but his views of the city are wonderful.

SCB: This one?s a slow burner and I?m really beginning to enjoy it.

TSDM: Story, Art and Colours have yet to make me want to read more but its early days and may be better read in one sitting.

Low Life: This one has lost my interest and never really had it to start with. Visuals are ok, but I still miss Henry Flint and Dirty Frank just doesn?t cut the mustard. I want Low Life to be grim & gritty, if I want humour and Mega City One I?ll read stories by John Wagner, Alan Grant & even Gordon Rennie.

Dante: At least the Prog ends on a story that has me interested.

For me the Prog starts well but has a real dip in the middle before rising at the end before I put it in the bookrack in the loo waiting to read it again when I?m in the bath tonight.

[Funtwangle]

is that the fire kind one

[ukdane]

yup, firekind and more savage.

[Tordelbach]

If this isn't on the shelves on Thursday, there's a newsagent in Churchtown that'll wish he'd never been born...

[Bad Andy]

Sick of Invasion being used as filler. You've used the best ones already. Bored now.

I enjoyed Firekind collected a lot better than when it was in the prog. Think I checked out for a while mid way through its run actually. Certainly don't remember the ending. Anyone fancy filling me in? I'm not in the mood to go looking for the answers myself.

Well written, though the dragons were hardly in it! What would Anne McCaffrey think?

[WoD]

Firekind has to have the best opening episode of any self-contained series, Page 2 is fantastic.

I've only had chance to read Ep1 and the start of Ep2 in the latest EE.  A quick skim through though reminds me of how good the look and feel of the story was.  

[The Amstor Computer]

Reading my EE makes me realise how I was to skip Firekind first time around. It's a fantastic strip, and one of the very, very few jewels from that period of 2K.

Big thumbs-up to all involved in the repro - it looks like it's been scanned from progs again, but this is far, far better than the work on Dante & Swimming in Blood. A few blurry lines & some odd colours aside, this is a fantastic reproduction of a classic strip, and I only hope that it gets revisited at some point for a trade release to give it the longevity and wider audience it deserves.

I may moan like a bastard at times, but I've no hesitation in applauding when something is this good. Thanks for the great read!

:-)

[Devons Daddy]

firekind

looking forward to this. i consider the EE to be the perfect format for this kind of reprint. allowing us a more mature re evaluation of the material.
first time round i did not really get it. but i do believe i am going to see its true value this time.

[Dan Kelly]

In shops now.  Read the first few parts at lunch, and apart from some muddy repro I'm loving this (again).

Also like AB's intro.

Dan

[Satanist]

I've just bought EE and the prog which I'll read when I get home.

I'm really looking forward to this as never read Firekind and usually dig Smiths work.

[thrillpowerseeker]

I'm getting this one

[DavidXBrunt]

Oh this is ?3 well spent. I read the first half on the bus home from Manchester and got so deeply engrossed that I missed my stop. It's perfect for the E.E. treatment, and a really good story. Almost a little too wordy to work for me at the start as I found myself caught up in the narration and not looking at the images, which is rather missing the point in a comic. But it's great stuff. Really got me excited for the upcoming creator reuinion as well. Nice.

And if, a couple of years from now, this gets the Euro style reprint treatment I expect I'd be sorely tempted to shell out for it.

[Dan Kelly]

Finished last night, but noticed a possible error - not in the printing (although I'm not sure that the missing chapter 7 was as importent as AB makes out in the intro) - but in the script/art.

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In chapters 1-6 Henrick is fretting over his filter mask, and we see the consequences when it is lost.  Infact nothing that comes next could occur without its loss...

... However, when we meet the bad guys, who have been running around the planet for a while, non of them have filter masks...

Explain that please, of great and mighty hive.

Dan

[WoD]

Not finished my read-through yet, but I keep getting dragged forward by the art, skipping through to check out each page and then having to dash back and 'read' it properly.  Don't remember having to do that before.