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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2008 22:32:48 GMT
I have been thoughly enjoying the title thus far. Doing a very good job of showing how Dare as a character can still work today without going all 'retro' or ironic. It's just cracking rip-roaring adventure, with terrific cliffhangers. Can't wait until #4!
I don't think the strips from the 1950's can ever be surpassed but this series is damn good in its own right.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2008 23:01:39 GMT
I read Ralph's last week and I'd have to say it's a top notch book as well.
Andy
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Feb 21, 2008 2:00:54 GMT
It's a brilliant series, far more restrained and subtle than most people would believe Ennis capable of.
I also like Ennis' approach for making the Mekon scary despite his visual appearance of a skinny guy with a massive head - having him a barely seen presence, his attacks coming out of nowhere, whose very name terrifies everyone.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 21, 2008 20:50:17 GMT
True. The Mekon has rarely ever been so frightening.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 21, 2008 22:06:34 GMT
Been reading this for the past three months and I have been pleasantly surprised. I'm not always one to entirely enjoy Garth Ennis' work - it depends on what mood he's in really - but this has been very good. A nice updating of the universe, but at the same time leaving the core of Dan intact. It is nice to see that the basic idea of Dan Dare - that he is a brave, and thoroughly decent individual can still carry a book in this day and age.
Also, the Mekon and his Treen legion are indeed made much more effective by being kept off-stage and just casting their long shadow.
Karl
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Feb 21, 2008 23:38:21 GMT
Also, the Mekon and his Treen legion are indeed made much more effective by being kept off-stage and just casting their long shadow. If only the writers of the multiple "hey it's Unicron!" stories from Omega Point thru Cybertron comic had done something like that... |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 28, 2008 9:05:05 GMT
#5 is out. Not had chance to read yet though it was a struggle to pick a cover as both looked tops!
Also, the 'Reign of the Robots' HC is out.
-Ralph[
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Post by legios on Mar 28, 2008 10:04:19 GMT
#5 is out. Not had chance to read yet though it was a struggle to pick a cover as both looked tops! Also, the 'Reign of the Robots' HC is out. -Ralph[ Ah hah, next issue. Good, good. Shall have to obtain that. "Reign of the Robots" in Hardcover. Tarnation that is tempting. It's a fantastic yarn with some absolutely top-notch Mekoning in it. Won't really fit into the budget for the next couple of months but I could be persuaded by it in the future. Karl |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Mar 28, 2008 20:41:13 GMT
Due to mail order, I'm still on #4 - and damn, that scene with Digby and Dan at the end. Masterpiece.
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 28, 2008 23:31:08 GMT
Just read issue 5. I don't know how most of the characters can walk around without causing injury to their football-sized testicles. Great cliffhanger again.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Mar 29, 2008 22:42:51 GMT
#5 is indeed fantastic stuff. Classic British heroism, just in space. With Dan doing something terribly Dannish into the bargain.
One thing I do notice about this series is that it is superbly paced - it reads wonderfully as a monthly book, because it is clearly planned and plotted as such. Great stuff, has me anticipating the next issue eagerly which so few comics do these days.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 29, 2008 23:05:08 GMT
As much money as is needed must be thrown at the creative team to keep them on this book.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2008 17:37:38 GMT
Seconded I am loving this story,
I am pleased with the return of Dan Dare (after initially being introduced to his great great grandad who came through a timewarp ( I think it was something like that) in the Eagle during the early 80's by my dad.)
I was surprised by the sudden death of the cocky pilot he was introduced and died only a couple of pages later, very nasty way to go.
Does anyone else think we may not have seen the last of Digby?
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 9, 2008 19:23:27 GMT
Me. I figure the Mekon's keeping him in reserve to mess with Dare's head. Three objects were launched from that Treen ship before the Temeraire went up. Maybe they were torpedoes. Maybe they were something else. All I know is the fleet jumped before it went up and the Mekon asked "No Digby?" as if he knew exactly what went down. Not that I expected otherwise, I mean it is the Mekon...
The pilot's death was pretty horrific and very random, and is exactly what would happen in a five star clusterf*** that such an insane manouevre would inevitably result in if you tried it in real life teleporting a real spaceship into a real alien mothership. Yeah. Anyway, it's absolutely spot on and I await the next issue with baited breath.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2008 20:00:37 GMT
How many issues of this are there anyway?
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 9, 2008 21:22:25 GMT
I figured it was an ongoing. Haven't heard otherwise, anyway.
-Nick
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 9, 2008 22:11:29 GMT
I think it's an ongoing but the first story is either six or seven parts.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2008 15:47:28 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 1, 2008 21:38:46 GMT
I'm sure that someone will pick up the rights for a paperback when the legal shenanigans have been sorted out.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2008 22:13:15 GMT
I honestly doubt it. Few publishers have any interest in printing left-over stuff from a dead publisher.
I shall treasure my Dan Dare issues though. At least Virgin Comics gave us that. It was tops!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 30, 2014 23:07:22 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2014 23:48:23 GMT
Excellent!
Andy
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 8, 2014 14:55:13 GMT
People seem to have changed their perception of this series. It was seen as an aberration by Dan Dare/Eagle fans for many years, but people are actually excited to be getting reprints.
I hope this is cheaper than the 1960s Eagle reprints.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2014 15:33:15 GMT
I suspect rose-tinted spectacles at work. The Bellardinelli stuff at the start of 2000AD was so alien to the original Dare it just didn't feel right. Gibbons' art was better, but the scripts were still just not what Dan Dare is. I used to read the (new) Eagle too, which wasn't much better. I think the only Dan Dare stories outside the original run really worth bothering with are the strip that appeared in Revolver, which got away with being different because of its nature, and the stuff that Spaceship Away does, which is extremely sympathetic to the original, if expensive to buy. Spaceship Away reprinted some 50s Journey Into Space strips too. |
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Post by legios on Nov 8, 2014 17:03:12 GMT
I thought that the short-lived Virgin Comics run was pretty good. The aesthetic was a little different - very Yamatoesque design for a lot of the Earth ships whilst Treen ships kept their original look - but what I liked about it was that it had Dan stay true to the character from the original stories, even in a changed world - and took the view that Dan was the better man for it and his example made other people better.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2014 18:08:33 GMT
Is that the Garth Ennis one mentioned upthread that Dynamite collected into a hardback? I do have that, and have read it, but have a total mental block on it. I'll have to read it again!
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Post by legios on Nov 8, 2014 21:17:02 GMT
It is indeed the Garth Ennis one, and like his "Battler Britain" series forms one of the parts of his output I genuinely really enjoy. I think he is very good at that sort of old-fashioned heroism - far more so than the sort of thing that makes up most of his output to be honest.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 8, 2014 22:24:51 GMT
I am a big fan of his run on the Punisher. I thought he gave the character a new lease of life and one more fitting than the stories that try to make Frank work in the world of super heroes. Having Steve Dillon on the early issues was a double bonus.
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Post by legios on Nov 10, 2014 22:15:16 GMT
Is that the Max run? Because if so I've not read that but heard good things about it.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 10, 2014 23:22:55 GMT
Yes. He started on it when it was still Marvel Knights before it became Max. Certainly the first Ennis story, collected in a trade as 'Welcome Back Frank', is well worth a read.
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