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Started by moly, 15 December, 2012, 08:11:19 PM

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Eamonn Clarke

I actually read the articles this time. Now I know why Annie Parkhouse uses the same Font all the time. Someone should tell Flint @ ECBT2000AD

Tombo

That last page in Anderson goes a long way (in my own mind at least) to answering the question of how she's remained such a fox despite being in her mid-fifties.  It's a psychic projection.  People looking at her see her as she wants them to see her rather than how she is.  That reflection shows how a woman who's been to hell and back (literally) and experienced everything Cassandra has should look.

Albion

I really enjoyed John Burns art in the Christmas Dredd tale (good story too Mr Carroll) but Dredd's badge really annoyed me and spoiled the last page.
Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side.

SmallBlueThing

Still no Meg hereabouts- two days late is the worst I've ever known it without the added hinderance of snow. Loads in town... argle!

SBT
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Trout

I read Disaster 1990. Hmmm... Now I know why it has never been reprinted. Absolute tosh.

Oh well.

Mabs

The cover art for Disaster 1990 is fucking superb regardless of anything else.
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The Prodigal

Agree with Mabs on the cover art-beautiful stuff. I also enjoyed the story in a daft old nostalgic way.

Hawkmumbler

Quote from: vzzbux on 17 December, 2012, 10:32:00 PM
Disaster 1990. A different Bill Savage in a different timeline.




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Possibly the one killed in Armoured Gideon?

johnnystress

I've just read the Christmas Dredd--nice idea, lovely artwork and I loved the 'Eha Nullig' pun...one for the gaelgoirs there

I think I'll save the rest 'til I'm off for the Christmas break. I'm not sure what happened this year but I was expecting the big end of year prog at xmas, for me it takes the place of the much missed annual

Mabs

Quote from: Tombo on 19 December, 2012, 08:54:22 PM
That last page in Anderson goes a long way (in my own mind at least) to answering the question of how she's remained such a fox despite being in her mid-fifties.  It's a psychic projection.  People looking at her see her as she wants them to see her rather than how she is.  That reflection shows how a woman who's been to hell and back (literally) and experienced everything Cassandra has should look.

I hadn't noticed on first reading but thanks to your post i had another look and you're right. Couldn't agree more, i thought it was a nice touch by Cook/ Grant.
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Mabs

Quote from: Mabs on 21 December, 2012, 01:26:29 AM
The cover art for Disaster 1990 is fucking superb regardless of anything else.

I also didn't realise that the lettering was disguised in the water! Its only after admiring the cover for the 3rd time that i saw it. A nice touch methinks. I'm also with you on the story; i'm halfway through reading it and i have to say i'm quite enjoying it! :D
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Arkwright99

'Disaster 1990' was the only reason I bought the Meg this month; even if it is tosh I still prefer it over the 'Ratfink' and 'Finn' floppies. (It's the old b&w strips that interest me more than the more recent colour stuff. Really hoping 'Return to Armageddon' gets a reprint one day!) Huge bonus to have John Burns on Dredd and I might even read the Annie Parkhouse interview but the rest of the Meg didn't do anything to make me regret dropping it two months ago. Still, 'Insurrection''s back next March so I might start picking it up again (dependant on what floppies we get in the meantime) then. :)
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SmallBlueThing

Finally got my Meg, and it's the now-usual mixture of good and bad, never quite hitting the highs that the prog seems to manage on a weekly basis. Best of the new stuff was some gorgeous John Burns art on curiously touching seasonal tale.

But absoute highlight this month was the DISASTER 1990 flopster. This could have gone either way for me, but i ended up wolfing it down in one sitting and am now keenly anticipating next month's. These type of strips are my meat and drink- they fuelled my young imagination by taking the normal world and twisting it into nightmare shapes. Comics were always doing this when i was a lad- mainly in the prog, but Action, Eagle and the rest were always at it too. As was tv, with the likes of Doomwatch, Survivors, The Nightmare Man et al. As ideas that couldnt be bettered on tv due to expense go, flooding Britain is genius. No way could it have been done on the box, and a movie- while nice- would have been a one-off. Here, we lived Savage's waterlogged adventure (cont)
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SmallBlueThing

(cont) for months. And it seems to get better with every installment, as GF-D plainly makes it up as he goes along and as situations occur to him- which is how i wish comics were done more often today. It's the difference between a drama series and a serial drama, and serial dramas are not the dumping grounds of shit writers and actors that lazy snobbery would have you believe. DISASTER is a serial drama that could have run and run. I'd imagine it petres out next month, as GF-D grew tired of the concept in the later stages. Still, be interesting to find out.

The cover is a late contestant for my personal comic cover of the year award, and while it wouldnt work necessarily as a stand alone edition for sale, as the front of a 'freebie', it's indicative of a fierce and hungry design sense, keen to kick some arse. Hope next month's is equal to it. Glorious, so much better than 90% of Rebellion's trade covers, and better than 100% of Meg covers this year.

SBT

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The Prodigal

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 22 December, 2012, 01:08:16 AM
Finally got my Meg, and it's the now-usual mixture of good and bad, never quite hitting the highs that the prog seems to manage on a weekly basis. Best of the new stuff was some gorgeous John Burns art on curiously touching seasonal tale.

But absoute highlight this month was the DISASTER 1990 flopster. This could have gone either way for me, but i ended up wolfing it down in one sitting and am now keenly anticipating next month's. These type of strips are my meat and drink- they fuelled my young imagination by taking the normal world and twisting it into nightmare shapes. Comics were always doing this when i was a lad- mainly in the prog, but Action, Eagle and the rest were always at it too. As was tv, with the likes of Doomwatch, Survivors, The Nightmare Man et al. As ideas that couldnt be bettered on tv due to expense go, flooding Britain is genius. No way could it have been done on the box, and a movie- while nice- would have been a one-off. Here, we lived Savage's waterlogged adventure (cont)

Great post SBT. Totally agree and thanks for the great memories evoked by your post.