Meg 303

[Zarjazzer]

Fantastic stuff. Al Ewing has obviously been to the future and walked the streets of Mega City One. If he could kindly PM me next weeks Euro-millions numbers I'd be grateful.
 

[House of Usher]

Lilly Mackenzie has been quite the best thing in the Megazine in recent months. It is easily the most coherent, legible, consistent, evenly paced and easy on the eye of all the strips that have been featured lately. Some of the other multi-part strips have had hard-to-follow stories with quite capricious plotting, while others have been hard work to look at on account of how crowded and garish the images are on every page.

[Leigh S]

I've only just finished reading Al's Dredd - I started reading it last week, but appropriately couldnt be bothered to finish it for some reason.  Glad I did, as it is very good stuff.  I like how Al's stories are Als stories (Dr Demotivator is very Al), but his Dredd is DREDD - thats all I ask really.  Compare and contrast this to the 90s throwback strip in the progs and it perhaps throws the prog one into a harsher light than it possibly deserves, but it also makes me realise how lucky we are to have Mr Ewings Dredds doing the business.

Rest of the Meg, well I've read the Lily McKenzie thing on the internet as far as its appered here, so must have been decent enough to have me read this far.  The interviews are always welcome, but the rest I can take or leave, though in the case of Anderson and Hondo thing, I'm leaving at the present.

[Proudhuff]

Yeah and it has a Proudfoot shaped turd spread all over it! Damn that American holiday, I'm still paying for it in more ways than one!

And a loverly KINGDOM GN arrived this AM, ARSOM indeed!

[vzzbux]

cover please? 

V

[James Stacey]

[SpongeJosh]

Sweet cover! Is there somewhere I can get a poster of it

[leebrown1990]

Cover:Cliff Robinson, so you know it's good, I always just find my self staring for minutes on end at the line work he puts into Dredds suit. He's up there with Bolland for drawing the best Dredd for me.

Dredd:Okay, decent art and stroy. Few laughs, especially like the Farther Ted reference.

Hondo City Jutsice:Ended pretty abruptly but defintley went out with a bang. Really looking forward to the next story so we can see more development of Inaba and the rookies relationship.

Lilly Mackenzie: Flawless as always, really well executed action scene. Frasers art is so dynamic. Still wondering where this is going though.

Anderson: A big action finale should be good, but this time round; besides the D-Tox plant reveal their wasn't anything paticularly cool here. Cooks art is awesome as always, but his Anderson does look a bit she-maley at times.

Features: Loved both the reviews, intresting and Leigh Gallagher is such a nice guy. And excelently timed as I finally managed to track down my new local comic store and got Amerika and Shamballa for a fiver each :-) Liked the film reviews as I follow a lot of these quirky animation releases, and they were films that were already on my radar but hadn't had a chance to watch.

Chirascuro:Really, really enjoyed it. Read it all in one sitting and got very into it. I've never been a big horror buff, and I've always wanted to read some horror comics so this was a treat, I mean it's not paticualrly scarey, but the atmosphere works well all the same. Smudges art is pretty tidy too.

Meg: 3/5 Top Thrill Hondo City Justice.
GN: 4/5

Cheers,
Lee

[BPP]

Everything brilliant apart from Dredd. The villian was just too loony toons and the story too self-consciously wacky. A rare meh from an otherwise excellent writer.

Much like the 'too many rookie' stories of late we've now had

1) a meg and prog featuring stories about sprinters coming out at the same time
2) a meg and a prog with a mad scientist (replete with origins flashback) coming out at the same time.

is this the new trend?

That cover really is something else even for the sublime Mr Robinson.

[DrJomster]

A good Meg, but not as good as 302 for me.

Dredd was very good. I even got MrsJomster to read page one, that's how good I thought it was!

With Hondo I could almost see the Flint-weirdness of the aliens but wasn't really grabbed by it. Although this could well be because I only jumped on last Meg.

Liking Lilly. Very nice art and visualisation/design.

For me the best thing in Anderson was the colouring. Not that the rest was bad, mind.

Chiaroscuro was interesting to see too. A bit of horror that didn't really work for me, perhaps due to the visualization of the Big Bad... Was a jarring contrast to the Balls Brothers from 302, which may not have helped!

All in all though, roll on 304!