Is this Spoiler Progs forum on death rattle? as only few reviews, and most of those "My prog not arrived, I should destory the world!"
Yes I will try and make time for a proper prog review, although my prog deliveries from the newsagent have been... erratic so I'm often well behind.
Anyway for now, two thoughts on Savage:
- Pat seems to have everything the wrong way round - the Norts would be more likley to be based in Formby (they'd have probably welcomed them with open arms), as I doubt the people of Liverpool would have stood for Nort HQ being in the Liver Building
Oh and also I doubt you'd try and sneak someone off to Ireland from the beach at Formby as it is too open - it'd have made for a better invasion landing area for the Hammerstein robots as you are only a short jaunt from Liverpool and all the road and rail links there (although I'd have liked the idea of the Hammersteins landing on Crosby beach and getting distracted by all of Gormley's Iron Men). Instead you'd probably want to swing a small boat into the Alt where you could sneak people aboard quite easily (the Alt being part of my zombie apocalypse escape plan - steal one of the boats there and chug over to the Isle of Mann). - "depleted uranium bombs"? I'm not really sure there is such a thing - it isn't very radioactive (the depleted refers to the lower percentage of 235U, which is the key isotope for fission) so wouldn't be used in a bomb and their military use comes from it being incredibly dense, so it is better than lead for being used in the tips of bullets and missiles when you are trying to take out an armoured or hard target. The only use of DU in a bomb would possibly be in the tip of a bunker busting "guided bomb" but you'd tend not to call them "depleted uranium bombs." Googling it turns up only a few examples used in a rather loose (and inflammatory?) manner and know from an authoritative source (science or the military). Equally, while it is vile (of effective) stuff that I feel should be banned, as it stands its use wouldn't eligible in a war crimes tribunal. So has this ever been explained before in Savage? Yes, I know this is bordering on the flintlocks thread (but I am experienced in the use and handling of radioactive material, particularly uranium, so it did catch my eye) is just Pat is usually spot on with his research so I suspect he is getting at... something, I'm just not sure what it is.
Oh and:
And if I'm being picky I suppose I don't care much for the flat colouring on 3rillers.
The 3riller is good stuff, very clearly told and a good model for the type of stories this slot can handle (beginning, middle, end). I don't like to use words like this, but while the underlying art is grand, the colouring job is simply appalling. B&W would have been infinitely preferable to this ugly mess.
Norwichristmas took a ponderous nosedive after a good opening and I really dislike Yeowell's art being coloured in.
Now I am a fan of Steve Yeowell's work but I do prefer it with a heavier line in B&W (Zenith vs Red Seas, although I still love what he is doing in the latter) or with a richer colouring job (so I do think his coloured art does work - see Devlin Waugh and Tyranny Rex: Comeback as especially fine examples - D'Israeli and Len O'Grady, pre-moire, on the crayons there). The rather limited palette here does give it a bit of an old school feel, which might the intention here (it has a bit of a Maniac 5-vibe), but it just looks unfinished - like someone added the flats and forgot to come back and do the rest of it. Not a deal-breaker (that might come with the twist ending -
if it is his brother in the super-werewolf) but I am enjoying this one more than the other two and I think getting one of the many colouring droids in to ride shotgun on this could have really made Steve Yeowell's linework shine.
