The film’s an odd beast, often feeling like an exploitation thriller given a multi-million-dollar 3D treatment. Individual scenes are often strong in themselves, but they don’t necessarily add up to much.
Pat Mills, co-creator of Charley’s War, Slaine and Marshall Law, amongst dozens of other series, interviewed by Jenni Scott about the largely unknown side of his career, on Jinty, Tammy, Misty and other girls’ comic weeklies.
Gunshark Vacation & Murder 101: I found these two books at £3 each in a remaindered bookshop, and after really enjoying the end of Abnett’s Heroes For Hire #1, I was pleased to snap them up.
I was quite harsh on Garth Ennis’s writing when I reviewed the previous volume. In this, he seems to be grasping Dredd and his world rather more substantially. It’s worth noting here that I think that this is one of the great comic creations, a memorable central character in a complex world that offers immense possibilities for all kinds of action, adventure, comedy and satire. The series would be kind of unacceptable without that final element, without the sense that the government on show is not being offered as a wholly good thing, but in fact it’s the thrill power that stays with me.
The 2000AD Xmas special proves to be not so much special as, by and large, a fatter regular issue.
This video – the first 1500 covers of 2000AD, spooling past your thrill-addled eyes in 3 and a half minutes – surfaced on YouTube this week. Here are fifteen things I noticed about it.
An artistic generation was long past by 15 years into 2000AD’s history, but even when the art wasn’t great Dredd was generally good entertainment: the main trouble is here that most of it is by Garth Ennis, who was pretty dull at this stage of his career.
