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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 13, 2013 19:10:08 GMT
Halo Jones at £1.99 is a no-brainer.
A definite essential digital purchase.
Andy
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Post by legios on Dec 13, 2013 19:24:50 GMT
Yep, I saw that was today's cheapie and my reaction pretty much boiled down to "Yoink!"
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 13, 2013 19:42:52 GMT
Book 1 of Halo Jones is awful. Barely readable gibberish...and yet book 2 is amazing and book 3 is utterly sublime. Well worth a read.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 14, 2013 6:37:23 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 14, 2013 19:42:48 GMT
Have that in dead wood format so will pass on that.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 14, 2013 21:33:02 GMT
A question: how many copies of the original Judge Death strip do we all have?
Case files
Dark judges mini trade
Eagle Dredd 1
IDW free comic book day Dredd
Digital dark judges
Digital IDW FCBD
A CBZ made from free images off Barney
7! I probably owned the actual issues too at some point!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 15, 2013 8:07:50 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2013 7:07:05 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2013 23:56:46 GMT
Had forgotten how much I loved the Alien War segment of the Judge Child. Class stuff.
The whole of that volume is great, a steal at £1.99
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2013 0:02:52 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2013 7:24:51 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2013 12:06:27 GMT
HoHoHo, anyone else spotted the really subtle crossover between the Dredds in Prog2014 and Meg 343 ? Fabulously well done.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2013 6:20:29 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2013 17:22:30 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 20, 2013 0:09:41 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 21, 2013 7:57:36 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 22, 2013 6:30:08 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 23, 2013 0:04:52 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 24, 2013 7:14:35 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 24, 2013 19:42:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2014 17:43:28 GMT
Read Andu's copy of the complete Zenith in one sitting. It's good!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 13, 2014 21:17:15 GMT
I told you it was!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2014 22:13:56 GMT
Oh it is a good read. It's not 'great' though. It's no classic and its reputation has clearly been conflated by the difficulty in being able to read the series cheaply in recent years. Art is solid and expressive throughout and a pleasure to look at and phases 1 and 2 are fine but then there is the train wreck of phase 3. Ancient beings with silly names from beyond everything who want everything are always one-note and boring to me so most of that fell flat. It is a logical extension of what went before though. Things pull back in phase 4 which has a clever conceit which is guessable early on but still works well and brings everything to a nice full stop. The less said about the Prog 2001 story the better. What a confused mess. Perhaps it seemed a good idea at the time but it's awful and does detract from the end of phase 4 somewhat.
The other major flaw is that the title character is rubbish. Utter rubbish. Couldn't give a toss about him. Remove him from the story and hardly anything would change. Did not give a flying fook about him. I think his shallowness and state as a cypher was part of the point but he was just too much of a non-entity. Rubbish hair and costume too. Every single other major character was immeasurably more interesting or engrossing. A few hours after reading and some of them are still in my mind (Payne especially) but as for Zenith himself? Can barely recall him at all.
However, despite the flaws it is a rollicking read and I did enjoy it. It works well read as one unit in one sitting and held my attention throughout. It's not something I would go back to but I did generally enjoy it and it deserves to be in print.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 29, 2014 19:03:26 GMT
Prog 1866: Titan. Yeah I saw that last panel coming a mile off. Unlike last week's which was a surprise
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 11, 2014 14:34:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 11, 2014 19:23:21 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2014 9:33:39 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2014 12:26:31 GMT
I'll be honest: Case Files 22 goes badly, mainly thanks to TEN issues worth of Crusade. When I went back to see who wrote it it turns out it was Mark Millar and Grant Morrison who, if you recall, have $#!+ Dredd form to their names in Inferno, the worst Dredd story ever
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Post by blueshift on Mar 15, 2014 12:34:27 GMT
What was so bad about Inferno?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2014 13:03:01 GMT
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