Meg 218

[Quirkafleeg]

Arrgghhhh! You've given me a flash-back to Sister Wendy on 'his marvelous fluffy pubic hair' Arrrggghhhhh!!!

[philt]

mmm - the wheels have fallen off the Megazine - Dredd - it's alright I suppose
Middenface - don't care..
Mean Machine - everyones favourite turns up for another irony and laugh free misadventure....
Black Siddha - yeah great
What Ever Happened Too? Indeed Whatever happened to what ever happened to talk about wasting a great concept
The reprints - Helltrekkers? You are joking right - I read an interview with Grant and Wagner that they thought this was crap (in the Comics Journal perhaps with that nice Bolland cover? Late 80's?) Doesn't the F in F Martin Candor stand for F*c*? What next Hell Planet? Colony Earth? Some classic Millar Robohunter?
Charley's War - currently the only reason I buy it  
Everything else? undisguised filler
The downturn in the quality of the megazine apparent in the last few shows signs of developing into a full blown rut....I don't know if Charley's War on it's own is enough incentive to buy this any more?

[DavidXBrunt]

I really enjoyed Helltreckers. Maybe it goes downhill from here. Maybe it's due for a re-appraisal. Maybe I have no taste, after all I reckon they should repring 'The Final Solution' next. But it's not a bad Meg by any length. I enjoyed it muchly.

[Jared Katooie]

I liked this meg better than the ones before it. Loved Dredd and Helltrekkers and Middenface too! Awa' wi' ye, ye doobtin' scunners!

[d4rkside]

id have to say that i was so moved by the art in this meg that i signed up here to post a comment.

the art is seriously going down hill, the art director needs replacing or something. the ridgeway stuff is horrible, it looks like he really struggles with it, and the mean machine art looks like it was done in between heavy hash smoking sessions- its so lazy ...possibly the worst most annoying art ive seen in a meg.

look closley- mean is drawn in the same way the artist drew dredd in that awful episode from last year...in some sub bizley pastiche.. im really disapointed that these guys are getting away with this crap, they should have a hard long look at the likes of cam kennedy and dave gibbons.
take pride in the work boys!

[Dudley]

Germaine Screech replies

I think you've just cumpletely missed the point here.  The script for this tale is highly dictatorial, with almost no room for maneouver by the artist.  Since the "storytelling" comes from the script, this needs to be lewked at more as an illustration of a pre-determined narrative.  The nuclear destruction of Mega-City 2 shows precisely the point I'm making - would you really prefer to see yet another shot of a mushroom cloud?

[Mr C]

Yeah, but it's still crap.

Now get back in that kitchen and make me tea, there's a dear.

[Smiley]

Tom Apalling shrugs, waggles a bit, squeakily mumbles something about Greer mistaking accurate representation for literalism, manages to use the word "crux" twice before deflating completely and staring at the viewer with his mad dead eyes.

[Art]

I hate you tom aPalin. Your invasion handbook is shit and contains no useful information whatsoever.

[Quirkafleeg]

My mum's met both Tom Paulin and the Greer women and when I used to work near the beeb one nihgt I walked past the slaphead that writes for the Guardian. One of us had only got to meet the mockney twat below to complete the set...

"DEckard was is a replicant! Vader is Luke's father! He doesnt get on the Plane! And Burchill is a fat slag. Why did I ever marry her. Please read my blandtastic books."