I'm gonna read them all...

[Magnetica]

I have been biting my lip trying to stay out of this, but I can no longer.

I actually like Finn.  There I said it.

As to comparisons between Finn and Slaine...hmmm

So one is written by Pat Mills, has a talk dark protagonist who has a thing for his goddess, who goes around getting into fights and is battling ancient aliens / gods who want to enslave mankind. And the other one is Slaine. 

[Frank]

The prog that had the prog length sequel to City of the Damned was what killed my enjoyment.  I can remember thinking not even a wagner dredd is good anymore.

I need to dig that comic out and re-read it. I liked it at the time and can't understand why others don't.

I read it last week, for the only time other than its original publication. I'm going to employ the wise advice of Thumper's mother in Bambi, except to observe that the virtual reality storyline which began the 1994 DC Dredd series was afflicted by the problem from which all 'dream' narratives suffer, that nothing makes any sense while reading them, and once they're over there's a disappointment that none of what preceded really mattered.

Stories such as the ill conceived virtual reality plot sequence in the 1994 DC Dredd series always feel like the authors' solution to the problem of having to write a story, rather than something the author considered worth writing, or thought the reader would enjoy. That's what I thought was wrong with the virtual reality storyline in the 1994 DC Dredd series, but I'll keep my counsel concerning the sequel to City Of The Damned.

[Frank]

Paul in Third World War was actually quite readable once you penetrated the right on-ness of the strip. Maybe Third World War needs re-reading too!

Once the strip broadened out to follow the different characters' paths through the WalMart/Workfare world of Third World War, I thought it had real legs. Less pissing about with fewer artists might have helped give it a more cohesive feel, but there was potential to tell so many different kinds of stories, and that was the first time I'd been exposed to a lot of ideas about the relation of employment to social control which are now commonplace.

The first time I read of Chinese girls forced to live as nuns in Nike labour camps, my frame of reference wasn't Chomsky - my mind automatically leapt to Eve's pal who got pregnant by one of the pensioners MultiFoods employed as factory porters in just such a captive work environment. Maybe information concerning those kinds of employment practices was common currency in the broadsheets of the late eighties, but it was the dramatization of that scenario which made an impression and stuck with me over time.

[TordelBack]

Yep, risible and embarrassing though my ignorance was, I was made aware of lot of situations and ideas that I was previously totally oblivious to by the (contrived) setups in TWW.  And I was at the time an active member of Amnesty International.  I might not always have subscribed to Mills' skewed readings and rather stilted dramatisations, but they made me think a lot, and by the time I got to 3rd level education I found myself encountering supposedly 'new' ideas, about globalisation and 3rd world development in particular, that I was well familiar with thanks to Pat, Eve and Paul (my in-depth knowledge of Rastafari was also to prove useful).  Somewhat unusually for these things, the later less fantastic stuff was the better.

Which may explain some of my abiding dislike for Finn.

[Colin YNWA]

I seem to recall the biggest issue with Finn was all the characters seemed to have slightly weird noses.

Think that was Finn, if so really annoyed me.

[ZenArcade]

Good Grud above, prog 813: ' for rightly it is said...if one removes the serpentine 's' from the word 'Slaughter House', its true meaning is revealed...The Laughter House'. Well here's one squax who aint! Z

[Frank]

I seem to recall the biggest issue with Finn was all the characters seemed to have slightly weird noses. Think that was Finn, if so really annoyed me.

It's a common problem

[The Corinthian]

Dragging Finn back to the forefront, I always thought of it as a modern day Slaine especially in its general look.

Part of Slaine's appeal is the meticulously researched historical detail, so doing a "modern day" version of the same themes is inevitably stripping out one of its major dimensions.

[ZenArcade]

Finished Book Two, I really haven't the will to continue. However, some great artwork in the early 800's. The Revere stuff's way out there. I quite like Critchlow's stuff in flesh....jesus I even liked the Ennis Christmas Dredd the second time round: Christmas with attitude...don't go too near the west wall! Still however those were dark times for the prog. Z

[Trout]

Full marks for effort, ZenArcade. We salute you.

[ZenArcade]

Cheers Trout, it was a fair siege! Z

[I, Cosh]

Fair play. Can we now amend the entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide to "mostly utter bollocks"?

[ZenArcade]

Yep cosh we'll call it that! I picked up 1875 + 1876 from FP at lunch, double the thrill power this evening! Yessss Z

[Bongo_clive]

Have hit a brick wall with Slaines second story. Aliens? Leyser guns? Dimension jumping? What a load of bollocks.

Looking forward to it getting back to it's axe swinging best

[Jim_Campbell]

Have hit a brick wall with Slaines second story. Aliens? Leyser guns? Dimension jumping? What a load of bollocks.

Umm... Fabry?

Cheers!

Jim