..I don't see Dobbyn as 'generic' or 'bland' as the article asserts
Aye, about as far from generic as you can get - distinctive and individual I would have said (although I had never noticed the similarity of his faces to John Byrne's until Douglas pointed it out!), with a terrific sense of design. The visuals for the aliens and tech in (for example)
Medivac 318 were beautifully simple and wholly convincing, despite their perhaps less-than-entirely-original conception - the ambulance in particular stays with me as an example of what a plausible vehicle you can create with essentially a plain box, as long as the design is coherent.
That said,
Red Razors is complete crap and nothing Nigel could have drawn could have made it pleasing to behold, but I suppose after
Trash it must almost have seemed like a good gig. What madness led to this being collected and widely distributed is beyond me - surely even the most rabid Millar completist is just going to coming away thinking that his 2000AD work was missable shite? A shame, since some* of it is pretty good -
Beyond Science, for example.
Another great article from Douglas, mind.
*Some.
