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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #30 on: 22 July, 2004, 12:51:21 AM »
Cover- terrible.
Droid life- mildly amusing.
Dredd-OK
SinDex-decent art, some witty dialogue, forgetable plot.
Tyranny Rex- complete turkey. Always thought this character was crap,of all the stuff that could have been fetched back- why this? As someone else has already pointed out, who gives a shit about an "unkillable" character anyway. Also despite plot being reasonably interesting, artwork does little for me personally.
Terror Tales-  best thing in the prog. Decent art and I didn't quite guess the twist.(Thought they'd fall screaming to their deaths as the house vanished)
Low Life- OK. I know everyone else rates this, I like the art but think it really needs a kickass story that'll grab me by the balls to make me rate it as highly as everyone else does.
Overall verdict- usual mediocre offering that makes me wonder why I still bother. When I can vividly remember strips I read 20 years ago but can't remember what happened 2 weeks ago in the prog it really makes me question my loyalty. I really hope prog 1400 lives up to the hype.
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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #31 on: 22 July, 2004, 02:35:58 PM »
Cover : Probably one of the poorest this year

Droid Life : Raised a smile

Dredd : Cracking stuff with a real downbeat ending. Really enjoyed this.

Sin-Dex : Never a fan and dont really know the history, but alternate versions of earth? Come on, 2000AD can do better than this surely.

T-Rex : I never liked her and if this is anything to go by I never will. I find the dialogue makes me think poor mans Grant Morrison and I couldnt give a toss about her. Some nice art along the way, thats the best I can say about this.

Terror Tale : Lovely art and the story was onto a winner straight away with me, as Im a sucker for haunted house stories. I really, really liked the first page with the history.

Low Life : Well I never saw the end coming. I quite like this as well & laughed out loud at the Jokers fetish.

All in all an alright end of run Prog...actually better than most ends but by no means great. I suppose it doesnt help that I dislike two of the stories but hey,roll on next week.
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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #32 on: 22 July, 2004, 02:51:18 PM »
Cover: Average fair.

Droid life: It's always a nice distraction. Like a little bonus to ya prog.

Dredd: Great, but wonder if it was really 8 issues worth of story.

Sin Dex: Gosh! who will Sin Dex kill next? Who cares. Pointless.

T-rex: Wah wah wah wah wah. And a whole page to show the bomb going off. Is Steve Yeowell sleepwalking through the artwork?

Terror Tale. Erk! Has this been lying in the vaults since the days of the Bisley Clone epidemic?

Low Life: Cool. Like the murder mystery that wasn't. Keep up stories like this and Aimee Nixon could be climbing up to join the ranks of the great 2000ad characters.

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #33 on: 22 July, 2004, 04:14:42 PM »
Cover - meh.  Functional, bit shlocky and generic.  I think it needed a few textures in the colour application to stand out, but as it is, it looks too flat and lifeless.

Droid life - always good to see.  Like it.

Dredd - usual downbeat ending for a Wagner multi-parter.  All loose ends tied up, evil punished, etc.  Damn good.

Sinister/Dexter - where did all those zombies come from?  I understand that everything else was just random images from the other side of the dimensional gate (Croak, Moses, etc), but what about the zombies?  Or thos hands coming out of the walls at the end of part one?  Still good, if not to everyone's taste.

Tyranny Rex - Is that it?  I expected a bit more from Smith, but this wasn't up to much at all.  The first page was crawling with his usual "poppadom seaweed, scraping the glass of children's eyelids" babble, too.  Poor.

Terror Tale - guessed the end by the time he was looking at pictures of blue sky, but it wasn't the ending that Ewing wrote.  The point is that it's supposed to be a surprise, though, isn't it?  Good effort, and I loved the visible textures from Thomas' acrylic board - a nice change from the ever-present dodgy digital colour.

Low Life - Liked it.  I was worried it was just going to be some leftover from the Megazine, but it's chucked off the Sin City trappings and Williams has turned in a good 'un.

Nice wrap-up to the stories, good prog overall.

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #34 on: 22 July, 2004, 04:42:47 PM »
With reference to Al's comments earlier, Why didn't he know who was drawing his script? Surely good manners would mean that Shaun Thomas (Who turned in a stand up job) would drop Al a mail to say hi, or at least someone on the rebellion end would.

Or am I being too naive?

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #35 on: 22 July, 2004, 06:27:47 PM »
You're being too naive. I've got no problems not knowing who's drawing it - the biggest worry I have is 'are they going to buy the next one off me?' Anyway, there's not much I could do with the knowledge besides badger the guy over the e-mail...

Also, I did actually write that ending - the nooooo-we're-falling ending was nixed at the synopsis stage and Matt suggested that one, which I went off and did.
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« Reply #36 on: 22 July, 2004, 06:34:16 PM »
No offence, but the new ending was better.
Not that the old one would've been terrible, you understand - it's not like you wanted to destroy the world in the last panel or anything.

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #37 on: 22 July, 2004, 06:39:47 PM »
None taken. But why stop there? Why not have the whole universe as a really big were-universe - and it's - choke - A QUANTUM FULL MOOOOOON!! GRRARRR!!
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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #38 on: 22 July, 2004, 06:52:42 PM »
I have a funny feeling that one might turn up at Dreddcon as a pitch.

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #39 on: 23 July, 2004, 04:00:43 PM »
Were-universe sounds brilliant actually. Entirely stupid, but brilliant nevertheless.
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« Reply #40 on: 23 July, 2004, 04:56:02 PM »
>Or am I being too naive?

Unless its a specific project most writers are to busy working on their next pay cheque to worry to much about whose doing the art to a script they may have turned in weeks ago.

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #41 on: 26 July, 2004, 07:48:49 PM »
Thoroughly enjoyed this prog myself.

Can I just add my voice to the praise for the Terror Tale.  I really have got pretty sick of Future Shocks these days - especially the predictable "Oh no, my greed has condemned me/us all" endings - but I've found the Terror Tales and Past Imperfects a bit of fresh air. Especially as I don't think they always have to have "a twist".  I found this one creepy and unsettling and though I guessed the house was a ghost, I din't guess the actual ending.  And I liked the art - just right for this.

DREDD - all loose ends lovingly wrapped up - nice to see that the job goes on and on even after Sonny's tale ends. I think the art in this episode isn't as good as in the first ep - back to those whole panels of red or blue (or green) that cursed Devlin.

SIN/DEX  - the odd funny line doesn't stop me from thinking this is flogging a dead horse.

TYRANNY - Heh heh - the Dying Game indeed.  Might be interesting to see more of this but it still seems like every other chick with a gun story we've had recently.

LOW LIFE - interesting twist on this one (i.e. it was just suicide) but I'm sure twenty years agoe this tale wou;d have been told in 6 pages.  I still find the art a bit too ragged

And I looked at the list of creators who will be appearring in PROG 400 and thought wow!


PS: Al, did you send in a script for your "He's a funny guy" pitch? How did you get on?
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« Reply #42 on: 26 July, 2004, 07:55:51 PM »
That was pitched during a time when Tharg was up to his eyeballs and didn't have a slot, so you'll be able to find it in FUTUREQUAKE #3, whenever it appears... that's right Wyatt, isn't it? ISN'T IT???
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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #43 on: 26 July, 2004, 08:02:13 PM »
prog 1399..

Dredd - mmm aren't the democrats going to get a bit suspicious that another one of their members gets stung by a scorpion fly. Disappointing end to a disappointing story.
Sinster Dexter - don't care
Future Shock - pretty filler
Tyranny Rex - Better than I expected it to be
Low Life - it's dead simple handcuff Flint to Dredd. He is easily the best "Judge" artist in either the Meg or the Weekly. Rebellion should take advantage of this obvious talent before he up sticks to the state

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Re: prog 1399
« Reply #44 on: 26 July, 2004, 08:15:17 PM »
Philt - not sure without reading back, but dont think that Sonny even mentions the Scorpion fly to anyone but Zondra...