Prog 1730 : HORROR OF THE HANGMAN!

[Darren Stephens]

Awesome cover by Davis-Hunt, as featured on Pete wells covers blog. A beaut!

Dredd: Great little self- enclosed story by Micheal Carroll, but the main attraction here is the return of Brian Talbot to 2000AD, ably assisted by his son, Alwyn on colouring duties. Stunning artwork, some really great background/incidental touches in there, too. More please Tharg?

FLESH: Business as usual here. I'm loving this, personally. I've a new found respect for McKays art on this, after struggling with my contribution to the weekly themed art blog thingy! Drawing dinos isn't easy and these ones are brilliantly realised. That last panel is a doozy...

Dandridge: Wraps up this week. I've enjoyed this run more than the first, thanks in no small part to Jon Davis-Hunts gorgeous artwork. I look forward to its return.

Twisted Tale: A fun, simple but rewarding tale. Serves 'em bloody right, that's all I've got to say on the matter...!

Red Seas: Business as usual here, too and that's no bad thing.  So, Dancers in the firing line now. Nice stuff. Top dialogue, especially from 'Jimmy Riddle'. Love Red Seas, me.

[Colin_YNWA]

Mixed bag for me this week. I'll start from the bottom and work up I guess. Dandridge finishes and frankly I'm not fussed either way. Couple of nice touches but over all I'm not getting any real connection with the character, his friends or his world. Won't miss it, won't be appalled if it returns.

Normally I'm a big fan of Bob Byrne's Twisted tales but this one felt a little light to me. Wonderfully realised as ever but what's realised is nothing to write home about for once.

The rest is all good stuff. Red Seas is building nicely and I'm really enjoying where this one's going.

Flesh is fine, no more than that its rollocking good fun. I kinda wish there was more of a sense of the journey they are on. I know they are on a journey but I have no sense of how that's going or the over all impact that Gorehead's having on the herd and its wranglers. This story has massive scale, its just that its sometimes hard to get a complete perspective on that. Still crazy to worry too much about that as it all really enjoyable and McKay continues to impress.

I loved this Dredd. The art is fine but its the story that blow me away. Mike Carrol is really hitting it out the park with his Dredds. It might seem an obvious comparison given the ending but I got a real hint that this was a nod of the head to Eisner's Spirit story Gerhard Shnobble in many ways aside from that. Brilliant stuff.

Okay Prog.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Horror of the Postman, more like.

No prog for me!

[Trout]

Horror of the Postman, more like.

No prog for me!

This. Privatise Royal Mail*!

- Trout










* Not really.

[Buttonman]

In the Dredd the Judges fair messed up - that citizen was clearly guilty of concealing a large pair of bazookas under her coat!

[House of Usher]

Horror of the Postman, more like.

No prog for me!

Likewise me.

[The Cosh]

Horror of the Postman, more like.

No prog for me!

This. Privatise Royal Mail*!

- Trout










* Not really.

Pshaw! Good bless the loyal, hardworking servants of the Crown who ensured my Prog was delivered in plenty of time for me to enjoy with my morning crumpet.

[Proudhuff]

Just a quicky...great great prog, great Dredd and Red seas twin peaks of thrill power!!

[mygrimmbrother]

Dredd - a great tale from Mike Carroll but the artwork - well, I'll just say that style isn't for me, not at all.

Really, reaalllly looking forward to Absalom.

[oshii]

Really didn't like the look of Bryan Talbot's art in the Bleeding Cool preview, looked far too computer gamey.  However, the finished article is really far more subtle and organic and really rather lovely.  Fantastic script too.

Twisted Tales did nothing for me, but everything was fairly solid.  I'm starting to like Mckay's stuff on Flesh - seems a bit smoother this week

[Lee Bates]

Did Pat Mills just tell me that Parasaur's screams can KILL ALL LIFE FORMS in range of their voice because it's so piercing and they can also RELEASE POISON GAS?

Really?

Really, really???

No but, really?








REALLY???

[Toni Scandella]

Yeah, but... when I am reading a story about future cowboys going back in time to be eaten by t-rexes, I am quite happy to suspend disbelief a little :>

[Lee Bates]

Yeah, but... when I am reading a story about future cowboys going back in time to be eaten by t-rexes, I am quite happy to suspend disbelief a little :>

Well yes, but there's 'suspending disbelief a little' and then there's 'throwing logic out of the window whilst laughing like a lunatic'.

This story is beginning to fall into the latter category. What next? A Stegasaurus with heat vision? A fire breathing Triceratops?

[strontium71]

Great Dredd Mike - what was turning into another citizen taking the suicide route out like in the Megs Freefall episode , turns out to have a nice twist in the end

[House of Usher]

Well yes, but there's 'suspending disbelief a little' and then there's 'throwing logic out of the window whilst laughing like a lunatic'.

This story is beginning to fall into the latter category. What next? A Stegasaurus with heat vision? A fire breathing Triceratops?

Oh, I have so been holding back and waiting for the day somebody else would say it first.