Prog 1552 - You Are Being Watched, Citizen!

[JOE SOAP]

ABC Warriors has a nice twist to it this week that adds a little something to the history.

[Trout]

Hurrah! Another Scots prog arrives on Monday!

And what a great Scots prog it is! I loved see Glasgow trashed in Caballistics - although they could have broken Donald Dewar's specs, as happens so often - and I'm really looking forward to next week. The Kelvingrove Museum is a great setting for a fight!

Cabs was my highlight in the prog. I know it was a little light on text, but it's creepy and exciting and so much fun. The art's always a treat, but Dom's on top of his game right now. It's a pleasure seeing this strip back.

I can't fault the rest of the prog. I don't see any need to go into detail, other than saying I enjoyed it all.

The only flaw was the beardy Dredd. I know we're splitting hairs (boom boom), but when the readers have a sharp intake of breath, en masse, at a small detail, then it's probably been a mistake. Never mind.

Finally, Dr X's letter brings us a shocking moment. Tharg talks bollocks! It rhymes with "rogue".
:-P

(BTW Huffy, I also got a bill due to a bureaucratic error. Tomorrow, when they're back from their ill-deserved day off, the staff of Scottish Hydro-Electric are getting an angry phone call. They're not even my suppliers and they want £65 off me! Piss off.)

- Trout

[paulvonscott]

"Aside from the fact that I really don't think he'd actually allow himself to get stubbly"

A good judge would never put vanity before the law.

[Funt Solo]

::"They're not even my suppliers and they want £65 off me!"

A cunning way of making money from the unwary - although Scotland is hardly the place to try it.  That's it - I'm going to send out random letters asking for cash and see what returns I get.

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It's an odd thing - how can Tharg be so right about prog (rhyming with dog, in a non-colloquial, standard english phonetic pronunciation, before the accented hordes start piping up), and yet so wrong about the gap between "2000" and "AD"?  Aliens - so hard to fathom.

[Rio De Fideldo]

I'm deffo with the Prog rhymes with Rogue hordes.

Its short for Programme after all.

[Matt Timson]

'Hordes' ?

Illiterate few, more like...

;)

[Funt Solo]

::"Its short for Programme after all."

And bro is short for brother.

[Rio De Fideldo]

Prog ryhming with Dog is too much like Prog Rock for me and 2000ad was always Punk ,according to flaxen haired Pat Mills.

[Proudhuff]

'you lop-sided drum-banger'  heeheehee, hook line and plonker! Sorry old bean, pure mischivousness can't help that wind up. Wwhen it comes to Pat everyones soooo touchy round here.

Your right of course, I do point out that when the occasional character by Pat is female, she is likely to be a bit dodgy percentage wise. Pehaps Button-man could do a spreadsheet/piechart for this? ;p

Huff-imp

[Tiplodocus]

CABS is just brilliant but with one major error that ruins it entirely for me.

If Michael Magister had come to Glasgow, he wouldn't have got very far.  Smeato would have just walked up, tapped him in the nads and sent him packing back to Anthrax island.


I thought DREDD was a bit heavy on the basil as well but did enjoy Marshall's art - particularly the character design that had me thinking of Gibson and Ezquerra and their cartoonilly brilliant way of capturing the essence of these bizarre supporting characters.

Not enjoying Stone Island.

I didn't realise BUTTON MAN was by John Wagner.  I'm still waiting to see where it goes and don't anticipate it being anywhere novel given the setup so far.  In a way it might have been better if Edgington had written it - some of his trademark wierdness might have taken it places I wasn't expecting.  Except I've not enjoyed a lot of his recent output so I'd be stuffed there as well.

ABCs continues to amuse and confound me in equal measures. Both script and art lurch from brilliant cleverness to murky crapness but overall, I think it comes out on top.

Top marks for Dudders letter and brilliant innuendo.
 

[Floyd-the-k]

Cam Kennedy does a good stubbly Dredd. But his looks like Dredd missed a patch or two whilst shaving. This chin looks like Dredd listens to the Doobie brothers in his spare time

[Trout]

I can't imagine anyone but Wagner writing Button Man. It's creator-owned, so I was surprised even by the change of artist.

Also, there's film in the works, IIRC, so JW would be forgiven for hanging on to it like grim death.

- Trout

[IndigoPrime]

"yet so wrong about the gap between "2000" and "AD"?"

Having a space there is the correct (if informal) written form.

[Funt Solo]

By "wrong" I meant "right except that I disagree with him due to an assumption I made as a 9-year old".

Most of my arguments are based on a similar premise.

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So, is Ukko pronounced Oock-oh or Uck-oh?

[Wils]

So, is Ukko pronounced Oock-oh or Uck-oh?

Or even http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Jmx3UNvheV_wgM:http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/he-man/orko-200.jpg"> ?