Having a subscription is great! No longer shall I have to wait until Wednesday to pick up my Prog and Friday night to read it!!
Cover: Nice and all, but spoilerizes something not revealed until page 3 of the actual story. One look at the cover and I was thinking "oh - she's got robot arms: I didn't know that."
Judge Dredd: Haha! It was just bedroom role-play all along. I wish I'd been paying more attention to the cliff-hanger last week, because I didn't register any suspense. Darn it. I'm really glad my old job contract is totally fulfilled now and my outside office hours time is finally my own again. The comedy is most welcome. The intrigue isn't bad either, even if I am unmoved by it.
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Comic Heroes: interesting, even if it does look a bit juvenile. Maybe that's the approach a new magazine of comics news needs to take, depending on the audience they have in mind. At least it doesn't look dull.
ABC Warriors: another instalment in which the story sort goes "this happens, and then this happens, and then that happens":
Mek-Quake escapes, the G-Men move in on the ABC Warriors with their nail guns, Z is able to withstand the the nail-gun assault and fights back with napalm. There isn't another story in 2000ad at the moment with such a shallow and linear approach to storytelling. It's like a feature film shot on a single camera which has to be constantly pointed at the action, so there are no reaction shots or sub-plots and it all unfolds in real time. If I were being generous I'd say it was a deliberate attempt to observe the Aristotelian unities of place, time and action, but I'm not and it isn't. More science howlers this week, but I'll save them for later. You know the ones I mean anyway.
Stickleback: All is revealed, and the mystery of the Mistral's construction is solved. The fight actually took place on the lower walkway, with no hydrogen-filled bags whatsoever in evidence and the ignition risk quite low; and the gas bags are located in a separate chamber above the protagonists' heads, accessed by a ladder well, up to yet another walkway. Might have been sensible to have it sealed off with a hatch, but hindsight is always 20:20.
It was a big, melodramatic finish, with the villain typically staying to fight on a burning platform until it's too late to make a getaway. I loved the visual of the Mistral exploding. There a couple of other revelations too, but I'm a bit under-invested in the Stickleback character, so I'll leave them to others to ponder.
Zombo: That Zombo - he's a funny guy! Some nice, quality writing here, and the visuals are none too shabby.
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ComicsExpo: That's one ugly layout and colour scheme. It looks like technicolour sick.
Overall: 7/10
