Prog 2382: Beware Iron Teeth

[norton canes]

I like the idea of ending on a deliberate high note

Absolutely, and also that we didn't have lengthy waits between chapters. The light which burns twice as bright...

[The Monarch]

i could have sworn we already knew this was the last series months ago i recall some of us talking about how to get the series completed in the ultimate collection because of that news

also yeah the gorbals vampire popped in my mind before it did....is this just a scottish thing?

[broodblik]

i could have sworn we already knew this was the last series months ago i recall some of us talking about how to get the series completed in the ultimate collection because of that news

Quite true, I even think that Mike Carroll mentioned on his twitter feed this but I think the problem is a lot of us is in denial since whom wants such an excellent story to end

[Colin YNWA]

i could have sworn we already knew this was the last series months ago i recall some of us talking about how to get the series completed in the ultimate collection because of that news

Quite true, I even think that Mike Carroll mentioned on his twitter feed this but I think the problem is a lot of us is in denial since whom wants such an excellent story to end

Yeah that's defo true. If I knew this I completely blanket it out!

[Funt Solo]

Reading the digital prog here, and Intestinauts is a struggle. A lot of the lettering is difficult to read. At 100%, the entire comic double-page spread can be viewed on my big monitor, and text is usually legible. Intestinauts needs double-magnification to read, because the lettering on the call-outs and building-alarm-voices is ... not good.





I don't know much about lettering, but aren't those I's just not really fit for purpose?

[Le Fink]

Reading the digital prog here, and Intestinauts is a struggle. A lot of the lettering is difficult to read. At 100%, the entire comic double-page spread can be viewed on my big monitor, and text is usually legible. Intestinauts needs double-magnification to read, because the lettering on the call-outs and building-alarm-voices is ... not good.





I don't know much about lettering, but aren't those I's just not really fit for purpose?

The red-on-white ones are not easy to read in the hard copy either. The 'I's are distinct at least.



The green-on-black ones are easier to make out. The text is still too narrow and tight for comfort though.

[Funt Solo]

Fudge Bredd - excellently spooky stuff that (because of the artist) made me think it might be Dark Judge related - especially since those stories have started adding in newer DJ varieties. Now that I'm reading it, it seems more its own thing, but still has echoes (naturally) of Necropolis.

Blackhawk - a wonderfully done wrap-up to this section of the tale. I imagined that Nero (?) might mwuah-hah as soon as he was free, but the story usurped my expectations there. (I do wonder if there's still time, though - what with leopards and spots.)

Bumskulls Battalion - a really tight first part, and lots of fun to be had with the diagrammatic establishing view of their HQ.

■■■■■ - given that dialogue often drives this, I got a bit lost on a page where the two characters seem to be talking at cross-purposes to each other. Still very good, but that was distracting, and it felt like it might be a mistake. (I'm blathering on about "I can get you a tour." followed by "You're saying people disappear?" I realize it might just be Kurtis trying to stay on point and cut through the bull■■■■.)

Numskulls Vex - wait, is he full up with the little peeps, or is it like a married couple? It's reminding me a bit of that twin AI in The Algebraist (Banks), but I also like that these guys are little tardigrade things in a mad exoskeleton. Even though I can see a through-line from Nemesis to Shakara to Vex, this has become a firm favorite on its own merits.