Prog 1674 - All the President's Men.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I thought the tea-spit was Dredd suddenly having a revelation of sorts, e.g. getting security work as a way of infiltrating Sinfield somehow.

But the idea of him simply being shocked at the idea of doing a normal job for money makes much more sense, in retrospect.

[House of Usher]

In my recent read of the backlog, I've found ABC Warriors to be almost the best (as in most entertaining) thing in the Prog this year.

The only thing I've read that was better was the segment of Stickleback with Potts in an air balloon.

[TordelBack]

One word review:  Bebe! -sniff-

Cover:  Not for me, I'm afraid.

Nerve Centre: Tordelback's predictions of the return of triple-breasted journos bear delicious fruit.

Dredd:  So few pages, so much arsom.  Ah Sinfield, pissing off Joe Dredd is one thing, pissing off PJ Maybe is another...  Crossing Dredd you know an appointment with the Resyk conveyor is only a matter of time, but with PJ they'll probably have to seal your bubbling remains in plasteel and fire it into the heart of the sun.  Sexy Hershey is sexy.

Stickleback: Black armbands all round this week.  Great payoff on a great setup.

Terror Tale:  Yet more puzzlement ensues as to why Bagwell doesn't have his own Vertigo book.  A dense, well-observed and sumptuously rendered tale.  Best TT for a good while. 

ABC Warriors:  Ro-Ger, Blackblood and Mek Quake are brilliantly funny, everything else makes me twitch like a Gloady testicle in an A&E waiting room.  In an effort to give Mills an nth chance, I had a quick scan over The Shadow Warriors trade down the library, and sure enough the stuff with Juanita, Joe and the President, and the peculiarities of the city and its rulers, all follow on clearly from that earlier fun tale.  Unfortunately what worked under crisp Ezquerra and Flint B&W seems to be lost somewhere under the odd mix of Joe Soap, Deirdre's Photo Casebook and explosions. 

Dante:  Aaaarggh stop it, the tension of these weekly cliffhangers is killing me.  If you want to really feel the fun, I advise a complete re-read.  This is just a masterful piece of work in context.  But I am missing Fraser.

Summary:  Great Prog!

[Mikey]

Mongrol's been known to smoke a cigar or two.  Wonder if robots in the meg do, though.

See, that gets on my wick as well - why in the name of shitting Jebus would a robot be smoking a cigar?

M.

[Colin_YNWA]

...why in the name of shitting Jebus would a robot be smoking a cigar?

Cos peer pressure mistakenly leds them to thinking its cool?

[Dandontdare]

Mongrol's been known to smoke a cigar or two.  Wonder if robots in the meg do, though.

See, that gets on my wick as well - why in the name of shitting Jebus would a robot be smoking a cigar?

M.

Because those 'power-paws' could never manage a roll-up.

[Mikey]

Cos peer pressure mistakenly leds them to thinking its cool?

Tsk! Peer pressure would mean other robots so we're still in the same boat here...

M

[Richmond Clements]

Mongrol's been known to smoke a cigar or two.  Wonder if robots in the meg do, though.

See, that gets on my wick as well - why in the name of shitting Jebus would a robot be smoking a cigar?

M.

He's a Bill Clinton fan?

[Dark Jimbo]

It's actually explained in Volgan War #1.

[Mikey]

Oh...

[Jared Katooie]

Cover: Yeah alright.

5/10


Dante: If Kevin Smith wrote this it couldn't be any worse.

2/10


ABC Warriors: Funny moment with Ro-Jaws and Mek-Quake helped alleviate the pain of having to read the rest of the plot. I wish they'd just make a Mek-Quake series where he goes around smashing people and being a moron. I'd like that a lot better.

4/10


Stickleback: A bunch of two-dimensional characters get killed. Oh no. I wish Freddy and Scooby-Doo would just show up and unmask Stickleback so we could wrap up this series.

3/10

Terror Tale: This, and last week's Future Shock, have kept me going during this Wagner drought. A few flaws, but overall an involving story with interesting characters. I wish I could write a bit more about this, as I have a few thoughts I want to express. I'm too tired though.

6/10

Dredd   
8/10

[Tiplodocus]

Good stuff was Dredd (though am I the only one that thought Dredd spitting out the tea was not very in character - surely he's been faced with worse stuff to break his old Stoney Faced demeanour?)  and the Terror Tale.

OK stuff was Stickleback and Dante   (just don't care about the secondary characters enough in either tale)

Bad stuff was the ABC Warriors.  The dialogue between Ro-Jaws, Mek Quake and Blackblood was piss-poor.  And what should have been a dynamic panel of Joe busting through a wall on a wrecking ball to rescue a hot, busty maiden was flat and lifeless.  I really can not see what anybody finds to enjoy in the script, story or art.  As said before, sure it's full of bonkers ideas but so is a pissed up bloke down the pub and I wouldn't want to take him home.

[Roger Godpleton]

I don't recall saying that anyone else was permitted to use the Stuff Scale.

And Jared's review wins the thread.

[postcardjackuk]

I,m only leaving this post to see if my new profile picture is working..

[postcardjackuk]

Yay !