Mark Millar's CLINT

[BPP]

i have no idea. It was only a gag.

After all Neil Gaiman couldn't save The Face.

[Richmond Clements]

You should go on one of those "I love" shows

If they pay me for it, then yes.

[Alski]

okay...

i found it today in a Motorway service station, which was an anwesome surprise as I didn't know it was out yet!

The cover is pretty shoddy, partly because Frankie Boyle looks like an utter clint in that beard. Shave it! If you flick betweebn front and back cover he looks like the smelly bloke out of "Kane & Lynch"...

Kick Ass 2 was a welcome viewing, and I completely understand why they would want to stretch it out. The downside is that it hasn't gone anywhere and will have unnatural breaks in it.

Turf was new to me, but I have wanted to read it. Pretty good, although definitely over worded at times. I want to know what happens next, and that means it works for me!

Rex Royd was... well, pretty rough to be honest. I don't know what's happening and the art is not very good. I hope it gets better.

Nemesis is another I wanted to read, and I loved it. McNiven is a good artist, and it looks like being a nice, visceral thriller without too much in the way of intellectualism.

The short story at the end was good, although i don't get the use of Huw Edwards.

The articles were almost all horrendous, stuff many people on here could bang out after ten minutes on Wikipedia. A waste of Steve O'Brien, if you ask me. the Jimmy Carr interview was interesting, but that's it. I want text articles that speak to me as a comics fan, and as the vast majority of the mag is strips that can't be too much to ask. MILFS? Embarrassing interview questions? Embarrassing "dopehead" article? Redundant Manson piece? All present, correct and SHIT.

overall 8/10 for a great effort and three strips I want to carry on with. Good to have full issues of Turf and Nemesis, and I will be very disappointed if they start cutting them like Kick Ass. Sort out the articles and this could be a real winner.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

i have no idea. It was only a gag.

After all Neil Gaiman couldn't save The Face.

Didn't he used to freelance for Mayfair or similar?

[O Lucky Stevie!]

i have no idea. It was only a gag.

After all Neil Gaiman couldn't save The Face.

Didn't Gaiman used to freelance for Mayfair or similar?

Stevie's ordered CLiNT through Diamond, despite not being a big fan of Millar's writing. He'll give it 6 issues & then will decide if he'll keep it on his list.

[TordelBack]

I suppose my negative reaction stems a little from the price, which I appreciate is not outrageous (even allowing for the volume of reprint) - I struggle to find the money for the Meg each month, and both it and the Prog, and the exchange rate, have seen that amount rise even as my income freefalls.  Clint would have had to be something a lot more special to part me from €6, and that title and that cover both sap my will to try.  

[Jim_Campbell]

Found it, bought it, read it. Not for me. Which is no surprise.

I wish Mark well with it -- when I researched a proposal for a very similar product ten years ago, I came to the conclusion that I would probably end up publishing a magazine whose target audience I was not actually a part of, and so it is here. I don't know the current target market well enough to judge whether Millar has pitched it right. I really, really hope he has.

More comics on the shelves can only be a good thing, the resurgent UK industry of Millar's ultimate goal (described upthread) is one that I support unreservedly, and one that can only be achieved by expanding the reader base. You may not like how he's trying to it, but at least he's trying.

Cheers!

Jim

[radiator]

Read Kick-Ass and Nemesis so far and while they didn't blow my mind, I found them more than enjoyable enough to make me a regular reader.

[Satanist]

Bought it and read all the comics which is much more than I could say about the last years worth of Meg. I mostly enjoyed the comics with Turf being the highlight, did Ross get paid per word?

Articles reek of pish, the absolute definition of filler. A sweary wordsearch? Just leave it blank so I can doodle a picture of a cock if that's what you think of the reader. Actually that's probably half a page in next issue.

Saying that I'll be buying this again and if it was this versus Meg then on one issues evidence this would win.

[BPP]

am just going to buy issue 2 so that they 'gain' a reader and the drop off figures don't look so horrific 

So anyone wants to chuck me issue one feel free. It has got a free space spinner - right?

[dweezil2]

Bought it and read all the comics which is much more than I could say about the last years worth of Meg. I mostly enjoyed the comics with Turf being the highlight, did Ross get paid per word?

Articles reek of pish, the absolute definition of filler. A sweary wordsearch? Just leave it blank so I can doodle a picture of a cock if that's what you think of the reader. Actually that's probably half a page in next issue.

Saying that I'll be buying this again and if it was this versus Meg then on one issues evidence this would win.

That's a bit harsh. Have you picked up the last two Megs? They were all kinds of wonderful!

[staticgirl]

Well it made me angry.

I knew it wasn't going to be aimed at girls/women but then there aren't that many comics that are. However, comics like 2000AD don't make me feel degraded after reading it. I always assumed that teenage boys might be obsessed by tits and football but still have a brain. However, I might assume they don't from this. Kick Ass 2 seemed to have some heart and I liked the artwork. Turf I love anyway and I will continue buying that from Image because it is equal parts old-fashioned, lush and fun with excellent character development.  I thought the artwork was excellent in each comic. Everything else was just nasty or underdeveloped like a 99p pizza (a shame in the Huw Edwards one because I think that does have promise - just a flat, rushed ending spoiled it). The general graphic design seemed a bit boring - copying the Zoo/Nuts style is fine but does it stand out from them enough for people to see it?

I applaud Millar's intentions to bring comics back into the mainstream in the UK but if that involves playing to the lowest common denominator then I feel it's not worth it. I'm tired of women getting a verbal and visual kicking and I'm tired of characters with very little to them except malice.

[George Dread]

I meant it when I said they could lose nothing by shelving it between HEAT and FHM. Spread the appeal and hit 3 birds with one mag. It's got TV interest in there already, why not expand its audience a bit more, rather than the acquired taste, humour extremist? Titillation cross pollinated with more postulation would do a lot to clear its greasy, acne smeared contempt. If it spreads the interest to the opposite sex, it could become a real couples mag, bog reading, must have. TURF already has a strong feminine appeal to it. Not only Staticgirl but leading female, feminist critics.

It's a pity features are a real handful to get right in any comic saturated info-mag.

[TordelBack]

Not only Staticgirl but leading female, feminist critics real women.

Brave of you, boy.

 

[JOE SOAP]

I meant it when I said they could lose nothing by shelving it between HEAT and FHM. Spread the appeal and hit 3 birds with one mag. It's got TV interest in there already, why not expand its audience a bit more, rather than the acquired taste, humour extremist?

Though sometimes you end up hitting nothing when you spread your taget too wide as the product can seem less than satisfying for the individual buyers. If someone wants a lads mag, they will buy Heat or FHM anyway cos they're better at it, the same goes for a comic. I think the potpourri format rarely works.