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Mega City Zero (IDW)

Started by JOE SOAP, 11 July, 2015, 06:53:55 PM

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Dreddzilla

For the record I already like this artist over Nelson Daniel. Okay, I think it really helps that this story ark starts out as a fish out of water/mystery story because the moment I saw those mech units I realized this story takes place in the future so Already I'm curious enough to want to know how Mega-City ended up like this and if this future can be prevented. I'll be buying the next issue.

dweezil2

Quote from: sheridan on 17 December, 2015, 01:17:38 AM
First thoughts: I've read through it once, have the standard cover (which is all we saw of the new series for the longest time), though quite like the look of the retailer incentive cover (the wrap-around Mega-City One cityscape which has done the rounds for a few months now - but I wouldn't want to put any comic shop through the hoops they'd have to go through to get one).



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Quote from: dweezil2 on 18 December, 2015, 06:47:27 AM
No hoops required, just order one from Disposable Heroes!

http://www.disposableheroes.co.uk/this-weeks-releases/idw/judge-dredd-ongoing-1-1-10-variant/prod_224984.html
I was under the impression that comic shops had to order large quantities (50+) to get the retailer incentive covers, though the line 'JUDGE DREDD (ONGOING) #1 1:10 VARIANT' suggests the ratio is ten comics to get this particular cover.

jacob g

Quote from: sheridan on 17 December, 2015, 01:17:38 AM
Story-wise it packs the first episode of a 2000AD-style tale, but in twenty pages instead of six, but this is a well-known difference between UK and USA comics so I won't labour that point...

Actually in comparision to many other monthy US books first issue of Mega City Zero tale have more action than other can squeez in few issues. And it's only 20 pages with 12 page of adverts (for real? 12? for 4 dollars).
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Geoff

The cover's beautiful (standard one) and the main reason I bought it. The story is intriguing though and I'll be getting no. 2 despite the kids being rather grating and the art a bit muddy. Interesting to see where this is going..

W. R. Logan

I thought after there first attempt that IDW might have learnt a few things from their failure to get a Dredd comic right.
How wrong could I have been, truly awful and with 5 different covers it seems as if no matter how much we moaned about multiple covers in the 90's the comic companies are still trying to screw every fanboy as much as they can.

I've got this on order and will persevere til issue 3 and if it remains this bad then I'll pick up the issues in the bargain bins as I did for the initial IDW Dredd's.

Magnetica

Yes I read it. It was ok I guess, in as much as it was an improvement on the previous one, but if that turned up in the Prog or the Meg, I don't think I would be too happy. For what it is worth I have subscribed.

Now that reminds me, I still haven't read the last few episodes of the last run, what a year later?

hmmm - must get round to it. Problem is I have too much Mega Collection to read, not to mention Dan Dare and (original) Harlem Heroes, and .....

BPP

The good - the art was better than I feared. He gives good Joe face and helmet. Although Dredd does seem to have a broken shoulder all the time. The colours masked where the lines got to messy but it was not bad. However page composition wasn't great and characters relative positionings jumped around.

The bad - the story. It's inept.
1) as an issue one there is no reason to like Dredd or any way to get who he is. So bye bye new readers while the loyal will be thinking...
2) 'this' Dredd is inept - why randomly escalate v one mechanismo then turn your back on the second standing right beside it?
3) you get the Dredd playpen to play in and you immediate remove everything key about the character - ie MC1, its citizens, it's enemy's, the tension in law and justice?
4) why is Dredd trying to cube kids when he knows there are no cubes, he's not in MC1 and everyone is doing far worse? What?
5) verbose talking Dredd. Talking to himself. Instead of chucking his internal processing into boxes here we have Joe wandering around musing on his situation like the bard.

And yet still it is far far better than the two previous 'all' IDW efforts. But honestly I just don't get it. I don't understand how IDWs editors aren't thinking this thru better. 

I know rebellion are quick to stand up for IDW and that IDW do good work in comics but the way they are trying to sell Dredd in the states just baffles me.
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Quote from: BPP on 15 January, 2016, 12:48:46 PM
I know rebellion are quick to stand up for IDW and that IDW do good work in comics but the way they are trying to sell Dredd in the states just baffles me.

The only thing that's certain about trying to sell Dredd in the States is that unadulterated, straight 2000AD-style Dredd doesn't sell. There's thirty-odd years of efforts to do so that proves this, including sticking out collections with the names of some of the biggest creators in comics on the front, and the Merkins still won't buy it.

If we're down to 'chucking stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks', it's hardly surprising.

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BPP

C) give it someone who brings an audience and loves the character... Like Archie did with their various reboots.

It's not as if Dredd isn't popular with US creators and well crafted SciFi has been booming under Image and BOOM. if things like Coppertown are hits then there is no reason a quality product around Dredd  2000ad quality couldn't be. Instead it's badly edited, low page rate, badly written. I get the feeling this stuff is skimming a profit rather than aiming for success.
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Professor Bear

I've always thought IDW aimed to produce content to access not 2000ad fanboys or curious North American readers but the trade collection market that services bookstores, newsagents, schools, libraries, prisons - as well as foreign territories in translated form.

As for the dissonance between IDW Dredd and 2000ad Dredd, isn't that just the "if Wagner didn't write it" thing again?  Some Dredd writers just do it differently.

IndigoPrime

Not really. It's marginally better than the DC Dredd, but so far removed from actual Dredd that it's almost an entirely separate character. To be fair, that's also happened sometimes during 2000 AD/Meg history, but only really during the bad old days, and also only rarely. The odd modern Dredd is sometimes a bit off, but not nearly to the same extent.

dweezil2

I actually really enjoyed #1.

It's got that slighty 70's dystopian movie vibe going for it which appeals to me and, as noted, it's so far a better stab at the character than IDW's last attempt, although the Anderson and Year One mini-series' I really enjoyed.

It's a different take on the character and I personally don't have a problem with that.

It's early days yet, but I'll stick with it-the art is great too!
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Ghost MacRoth

All I'll say thus far, is I will get the next few at very least.  Not overly impressed at all, but happy to tag along to see if it's got something interesting up it's sleeve.
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sheridan

Quote from: Magnetica on 10 January, 2016, 03:55:23 PMNow that reminds me, I still haven't read the last few episodes of the last run, what a year later?

The last few episodes were better than most of those preceding, for the SJS Judge (which was about the only thing worth reading the whole series for).

Quote from: BPP on 15 January, 2016, 12:48:46 PMAnd yet still it is far far better than the two previous 'all' IDW efforts.

Two previous all IDW efforts?  Year One and Mars Attacks! both featured script or art droids.