Hi ho, I`m sick of not being first with reviews so thought I`d do this one from my rereading frenzy.
gee wasn`t this a good one? It gets better with age too. Here I am, up to prog 1169 in my great reread.
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Matters after all this time. November 1999.
Terrific cover, by an artist I`m not normally crazy about, Colin Wilson. Here though, it`s a brilliant, well coloured picture of Nemesis
Dredd story; a quiet, funny little story of Dredd cleaning up after the robot war, being mean to his neighbors and reintroducing Walter the Wobot after some time. Dredd sentences Walter to probation with a new owner. Walter assumes it`ll be Dredd, giving rise to the best line in the prog; `I said probation. Not purgatory` (he assigns Walter to Mrs Gunderson). Good fun
Dante still jocular but getting grimmer and with an especially grim ending as Dante`s brother kills an innocent girl. I found Dante annoyingly juvenile the first time around, but it gets better every time I reread it.
Nemesis; Absolutely brilliant madness by brothers Flint and Mills. Good dialogue, fantastic Mills storytelling and imagery. This story was my first exposure to Nemesis.
Pulp Sci Fi: a pretty pedestrian story by Colin Clayton and Chris Dows, made very groovy by Dean Ormston`s art and colours. Ormston makes any story better for me, more profound, characters more real.
Devlin Waugh; I hate to admit it, but this story also improves with age, although I wouldn`t go so far as to say it`s actually great. The story moves along and the nonsense isn`t as grating as it was first time around, when I couldn`t wait for the bloody thing to end. Finishes with a nice big shark picture at the end
