I only received my prog yesterday - going from getting it the Saturday before to almost a week after the cover publication date is a big change which ISN'T WELCOME
Still, as long as they're arriving I can't grumble too much.
Dredd starts a new yarn well, with a solid opener. I really like Percival's work as a rule and I like how it gives a claustrophobic, humid and grimy feel to MC1 here. Perfect for the story matter.
And
Hope is continuing to be wonderfully chilling stuff! I don't know if I can add much more than that, but the quiet and understated way this is presented makes the horror all the more, well, horrific. Great stuff.
Number 3 on the spookometer roster is the frankly freaky
Deadworld. It's gruesome, relentless and a lesson in creating and maintaining a tone though multiple series - I think the art on this run is a new high for Kendal.
Defoe has zombies. I'm lost and don't really know what's going on anymore.
Last and best this week is the wonderful
Brink. Over to Colin...
Brink continues to be quiet genius. I seen folks say that this story isn't served well by being in short episodic chunks and I really couldn't disagree more. Each part and its defined sharp apartly simple scenes bring into sharp focus tense atmosphere, the sharp characterisation and the glory in the details, that final page. Then as you look back you get the slow realisation that week on week these small perfectly formed vignettes perfectly craft the wider piece and somehow a lot has happened. It just works so, so well.
...who sums it up perfectly.
Progs on good form Tharg!
