worst thrills!

[Emperor]

Tyranny Rex

Oooooooooo controversial. I re-read them all recently and "Soft Bodies" is painful to read, I'll grant you, but that is partly down to the art. However, some of those early Dillon stories and a lot of the later ones (especially Deus Ex Machina and The Comeback) are great - my campaign for a Tyranny Rex collection continues

[quote author=Slip de Garcon link=topic=233.msg594489#msg594489 date=1301412912something from the mid-80s I can't remember the name of, but it was drawn by Bernardinelli and had some women with really big hair in who owned spaceships. Anyone remember what it was called?[/quote]

Moonrunners?

[Slip de Garcon]

Moonrunners?

That could be it. Bernardinelli was an odd one - when he was good it was incredible but the bad stuff looked so 2D.

As for Tyranny Rex, I've got no beef with the art (Dillon is generally a good thing) but the story and her character just sort of wandered about. John Smith IIRC, so no surprises there.

[Greg M.]

Tyranny Rex

Oooooooooo controversial. I re-read them all recently and "Soft Bodies" is painful to read, I'll grant you, but that is partly down to the art. However, some of those early Dillon stories and a lot of the later ones (especially Deus Ex Machina and The Comeback) are great - my campaign for a Tyranny Rex collection continues

I would love a Tyranny Rex collection... I didn't even know there was a Comeback (must've been during my thrill hiatus.) Deus Ex Machina in particular was wonderful stuff... Elvis Machines, Termagants, demonic extradimensional seahorses.... oh, yes.

[Emperor]

Tyranny Rex

Oooooooooo controversial. I re-read them all recently and "Soft Bodies" is painful to read, I'll grant you, but that is partly down to the art. However, some of those early Dillon stories and a lot of the later ones (especially Deus Ex Machina and The Comeback) are great - my campaign for a Tyranny Rex collection continues

I would love a Tyranny Rex collection... I didn't even know there was a Comeback (must've been during my thrill hiatus.) Deus Ex Machina in particular was wonderful stuff... Elvis Machines, Termagants, demonic extradimensional seahorses.... oh, yes.

DeM is a real highpoint. The good thing is though, that it isn't like the Indigo Prime stories where you've got to slog through the early ones until Chris Weston gets on board and that weird alchemy happens - getting Steve Dillon on early doors is a big help. Some are variable but the crossover with Indigo Prime is another goo early one and then it builds to DeM. A trade would have good selling points too as Steve Dillon and Mark Buckingham are big name draws for American comics buyers.

And yes there was a comeback:

"The Comeback" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1395-1399, 2004)

It introduced new elements and really laid the groundwork for a big return and then... nothing. A big pity. Lovely full colour Steve Yeowell art too.

[Greg M.]

And yes there was a comeback:

"The Comeback" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1395-1399, 2004)

It introduced new elements and really laid the groundwork for a big return and then... nothing. A big pity. Lovely full colour Steve Yeowell art too.

That was probably published only a month or two after I stopped reading. Typical! I will probably have to track those down. Shame nothing came of it, Tyranny's a great character, and despite what happens to her at the end of Deus Ex Machina, I wouldn't have found a return especially implausible, given the rules of reality in the Smithiverse.

[Tombo]

Seems to me like it was a good thing I stopped reading 2000AD for a while in the Mid 80's,early 90's.  There seem to have been some right stinkers.  I'm starting to dread (no pun intended) the next few Case Files after 17.

As for stuff I have read I think some of the worse thrills were the parody/"quick lets cash in on this" strips, Space Girls and BLAIR 1. Single joke concepts spread too thin to make anything more than at best a couple of two parters.  Not to sure about the Balls Brothers either although it did seem a little (just a little mind) better when I re-read it in the floppy.

[Emperor]

And yes there was a comeback:

"The Comeback" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1395-1399, 2004)

It introduced new elements and really laid the groundwork for a big return and then... nothing. A big pity. Lovely full colour Steve Yeowell art too.

That was probably published only a month or two after I stopped reading. Typical! I will probably have to track those down. Shame nothing came of it, Tyranny's a great character, and despite what happens to her at the end of Deus Ex Machina, I wouldn't have found a return especially implausible, given the rules of reality in the Smithiverse.

It was a bit of a reboot to make the character viable and it laid the foundations for a whole host of new stories with new characters and technology (as you'll see when you read "The Comeback"). I'm not sure how much beyond that John had planned or why it never got the momentum it needed for a proper comeback - TPO doesn't have much on Tyranny Rex. It does have an intriguing mention of an adult version done for Revolver with 6 ten-page scripts all done and paid for, with John Hicklenton having completed the first part just before they shut up shop. I don't know where the Revolver rights lie but it'd be great to get that as an extra in any collection.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Or alternatively get Brendan McCarthy to draw the remaining episodes now He's ensconced at The House Of Tharg again.

[norse_sage]

Can I say pretty much everything in the trade paperback "Mega City Masters" vol 2?
It honestly seemed like a 'worst of' collection...