American Reaper is shaping up to be Pats best strip in years, and I say that as someone who thinks Pat already come along way from those mid-90s Tony Skinner collaborations! Still wish the artists were reversed though!
Al's Dredd was great I thought - a neat idea and loved the "Iso-block 87" line, which I take as a nice nod to Santas appearance in the Daily Star Dredd 174 and subsequent Heavy Metal Dredd strip... was there another appearance somewhere too - sure there was?
Maybe they were a bit wary of bringing up Dredd in the interview (or the Rogue film for that matter...brrrr, keep forgetting then remembering that piece of news). But it would have been the things of most interest to me as well.
Armitage is dead space for me unfortunately, though the art looks nice - Dredd teaming up makes it even less likely I'll pick at it to be honest.
Same kinda goes for Rico in Koburn, though at least this one got read. I like my Ezquerra goodness in stronty form as a first preference, but this is still Ezquerra goodness! Storywise seems to just fizzle out on a promise/threat, but for what - 40 odd pages?, felt pretty light on incident to afford to be a set up for something more meaty in the future. Especailly when I'm hoping for lots of meaty Stront - After all, why go to the bother of resurrecting him if the ultimate result is a story every year or two?
