Themed Prog?

[Smiley]

am I being extreme?

Not at all extreme. Hey, each to their own in fact. For example, I wouldn't even whizz on a Prog that got turned over to Sword & Sorcery, but people do enjoy that sort of thing. Erm... enjoy the axes and dragons and stuff, that is. Not the getting whizzed on. Heck, they might enjoy both.

Nah, Musical Prog was really an example of the sort of consistency and practicality that I'm after, and the example itself probably stems from the belief that you can apparently get away with musicals in "cult" TV. I dunno what a popular theme would be. Turning the Prog over to sidekicks or underdogs for a week might be fun, giving them their own title logos and that. But that'd probably have to do for strips that don't have ensemble casts, which are getting rarer, or ensemble casts that have yet to be fully explored, which don't even exist AFAIK. Maybe a villains only Prog? Judge Death gets to twat Dredd once and for all and normal service is resumed next prog, kinda thing? Or is that too Marvel?

I'm certainly not after any creator-centric theme. That might cause all sorts of internal whinging that I, for one, really don't wanna know about. Just corralling droids would be hassle enough.

See, looking back, it occurred to me that my fave Dante episode is still Russia's Greatest Love Machine, which was in the Sex issue. And one of the two, maybe three, Sin Dex episodes I've enjoyed was London Town in the Brit one ("There's been an eruption!"). Some of the funniest Dredd parodies have been in themed progs, like the Drokk Green one and that one where Dredd goes medieval.

So there's definitely something about the odd themed prog now and then that brings out the best in some strips and feels like a breath of freah air.

[The Monarch]

Hey if we got a one off canon fodder I would put up with anything millar wrote...

except for robohunter another series of that and I may go mental