2000ad Progs 2257-2258 - Not a TRUE Fan

[shakalooloo]

Dredd doing business as usual:






Script: Mike Caroll, Art: Simon Coleby, Colours: John Charles

The winner of this year's Art Stars competition:




Intergalactic music concerts:





Sinister Dexter on the run, but hey, robots!

Comments

[lucean]

It's kind of odd, in a positive way, that the Angel gang is still regarded with such fondness. They were awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's been so long.

[shakalooloo]

They keep getting brought back in some way or another. A few years back Gordon Rennie wrote an origin story of Pa that painted him in a sympathetic light, it supposedly bein' his exile by the judges that made him such an embittered psychopath. One of those stories it's best to fanon away as 'nah, never happened'.

[deh_tommy]

Aw, no Pandora Perfect this time round?

[shakalooloo]

Nah, her first serial wrapped up a couple weeks back. We'll have to endure a few more weeks of 'The Diaboliks' and 'Scarlet Traces' before an influx of any new thrills.

[mastermahan]

Wait, Scarlet Traces is still being published? Huh.

[shakalooloo]

I haven't followed it closely over the years, and now the stacked up history makes the plot mostly impenetrable. Some human-alien hybrids have recruited the nations of the moons of Saturn to join the fight against the Martians, who are operating a literal scorched Earth policy since their ability to procreate is gone. This involves entering the hive-mind of the Martians while in an exploding spaceship and also coming to terms with the discovery of a previously unknown offspring at the same time. For some reason - never addressed - there was a random two-page spread of a Yellow Submarine-style hallucination.

I hope it makes sense to those who've been following it!

[mastermahan]

I'm not surprised. There's a law of diminishing returns when you keep going back to alternate history stories. Scarlet Traces started as "What Happened After The War of the Worlds?" Which is a a great concept.

Keep on going, though, and instead it you've got "What Happened After the thing that happened after the thing that happened after The War of the Worlds?"

[deh_tommy]

:(

[tinygaylaura]

I get a strong Gal Pal vibe from this pirate mobster and her "Lieutenant" here which I hope I'm right about

[shakalooloo]

Certainly nothing confirmed yet, but you're not alone in seeing that!

[tinygaylaura]

I hope it's going to become canon as the story unfolds :)