tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66062653084051687522024-03-12T21:22:29.181-07:00THRILL POWER OVERDOSEDavid pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-4415187442001606172013-09-14T11:59:00.001-07:002013-09-14T12:02:41.364-07:00State of the slog Adress no good news chums I promiseSo....<br />
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My computer really hates me. It seems to be conspiring me from either continuing the slog or my Nikolai Dante articles. Well no more let us continue this slog....with one difference.<br />
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I am dropping the Megazine from the slog....not out of malice mind you though Repo-Mex....god damn repo-mex....however someone more competent at writing than me is tackling them at his own blog.<br />
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So if you want your meg fix from a better writer than me check out Simeon Brewers blog at the link below....it is really good and does the meg more justice than I can.<br />
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I will however continue to do the prog as well as the extreme editions and maybe the floppies from the meg just as an excuse to talk about older tales.<br />
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See you all soon as we continue through the dark times....David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-10616205595765879192013-03-05T04:42:00.001-08:002013-03-05T04:44:36.952-08:001363, 22nd October, 2003: In the line of fire<br />
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Sorta fitting in with the semi theme of this autumn attack the series begins its downtime slot by focusing on sassy velma dinklyalike Hannah chapter as she plots to kill an old friend who done her wrong unaware that a group of people under the employ of the mysterious old man seen at the end of the previous story are spying on both her and the rest of the group. As this short series goes on we get an interesting and tantalising glimpse into the lives of the other members culminating in a large scale attack in prog 2004</div>
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David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-54290540458660841572013-03-04T09:04:00.000-08:002013-03-04T09:04:14.828-08:00oops vol 2Hi again...<br />
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so err after three cataclasmically awful computer messups i am back. This long hard slog i am on will continue and be monday to friday for the foreseeable future so i can get out of this shit period of the comic i am stuck in.<br />
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Stay tuned folks...David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-62920011628637513862012-08-13T12:30:00.001-07:002012-08-13T12:30:15.299-07:00OopsBeen kinda busy lately writing a new too cool to kill so normal service will resume tomorrow sorry for thatDavid pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-66958127422991869242012-08-11T13:22:00.000-07:002012-08-11T13:22:31.317-07:00zenith mandala part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Theres nothing quite like…<br /><br />God do I have to do this? My original intention to do stuff all month was to burn through some of this shit. But doing it in a lump is causing me severe brain pain. I have tried to add some other odds and sods to lessen the pain but it is still there.<br /><br />So this is the Autumn offensive and man is that an understatement. I am sure I will likely go through these fully in future episodes. In one case a four minute rant of sobbing and odd anime clips…yep the daily hate is returning and its not Sinnamon who is getting the treatment!<br /><br />So we have Durham red on the first part of her farewell (sorta) tour. The aforementioned Sinnamon written and drawn by the same team as that abortion which was covered in the first Daily Hate. And Dead Men walking…<br /><br />Also on Dredd we have the baffling return of Dean ormston on a story which could have easily been a future shock minus the Dredd elements and still would have stayed the same. So we’ve got a group of Juves who want to get into the “in club” and speed to get there. Dredd executes them all for speeding and we find out the in club is an afterlife club and…this is stupid even me typing it is stupid…David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-88180475866795302622012-08-08T11:32:00.001-07:002012-08-08T11:33:17.448-07:00210: Let's go to Wok<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let’s go to Wok…insultingly racist or awesome? You decide! So yeah we are onto part two Gordon Rennies three part “backdoor pilot in disguise” Judge Dredd stories with personally what I thought turned out to be the weakest of the three characters.<br />
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Judge Dredd heads to Hong Tong to try to stop a perp running racket and is forced to join forces with peoples justice ministry inspector Liu Chan Yeun better known as Johnny Woo<br />
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Judge Death Bullshit alert: The guy who famous puts his hand into peoples chest and squeezes their hearts uses a sawn off shotgun…yeah…David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-66784239794914687212012-08-07T05:41:00.000-07:002012-08-07T05:44:37.982-07:00Zenith: Mandala part 1For your enjoyment? A supremly rare annual story featuring the character of Peter saint John from Zenith<br />
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Leviathan, a ship containing over 28,000 passengers. It’s almost like a huge city rather than a ship. The ship never reached its destination and the whereabouts of the mighty ship is unknown. Which leads us into the story bearing the name of the ship.<br /><br />Detective sergeant lament (who bares a slight resemblance to David Jason’s character Inspector Frost) investigates ritualistic murders on the ship and finds out the horrible truth of their endless journey. The architect of the ship had bound a demon called Hastur within the bowels of the ship. The demon makes a deal with Lament. Freedom for both of them…<br /><br />The trapped souls are freed and the ship finally reaches its destination. Almost killing Bert and Ernie expies at the same time.<br /><br />A wonderful one off storyline which funnily enough continues to have elements of it present in the prog be it several one off tales of Leviathan or several references in other strips such as red seas and Ampney crucis investigates.David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-89317193742559903982012-08-05T13:56:00.001-07:002012-08-05T13:56:34.702-07:001359: Land of the Rising Sin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sinister Dexter go on a desperate rescue mission in order to save their friend Wendy Go after she is kidnapped just before her wedding. This causes some trouble for the boys as their appearance there threatens to end Finnigans ex wife Carrie Hosanas reign as queen of the underworld.<br />
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You see she had faked their deaths in Mission to Mangapore (covered way back...) and their appearance amongst the living is being used as a tool by rival ganglord shinzen in order to usurp the Gaijin who had stolen his rightful throne.<br />
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A great story which shows Sinister Dexter did do some good sometimes...<br />David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-19187850175858868692012-08-04T10:12:00.001-07:002012-08-05T13:57:17.296-07:00Batman: The animated Series: On leather wings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Story: a half-bat/half-human creature flies past a police blimp, breaks into the fourth floor of Phoenix Pharmaceuticals,
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the laboratories. This is the latest in a series of such break-ins at
pharmaceutical companies. The report from the blimp and the wounded security guard leads Detective Harvey Bullock to petition Mayor Hamilton Hill for a special task force designed to eliminate the strange "Batman" that has appeared around the city. Commissioner James Gordon objects, stating that the police are already on the case, but the mayor grants the request and D.A. Harvey Dent promises Bullock immunity. In the days following the Phoenix break-in, Bruce Wayne as Batman
investigates the robberies. Gaining entrance to the crime scene by
dosing the guarding police officer with knock-out gas, Batman attracts
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Dr. March seems quite obsessed with bats, which he insists are the
only creatures able to survive the next evolutionary cataclysm, while
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As Bruce Wayne, Batman asks the zoologists to analyze the evidence from the crime scene, passing it off as a pest problem at Wayne Manor.
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with any species known to man. Dr. March calls back and gives a
perfectly plausible scientific explanation: the hairs are from a common
brown bat, while the sounds are actually a mixture of sounds from the
bats and a nest of starlings in the chimney. The only problem is, the
explanation is false, given the Bat-Computer's inability to find a
match. Batman concludes that March is lying, and the zoo staff are
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Langstrom working alone. Working from his father-in-law's theories,
Kirk has created a formula
that temporarily transforms him into the Man-Bat. Kirk has become
addicted to the formula, to the point where he thinks of the Man-Bat as
its own independent being, taking the necessary steps to continue its
existence—i.e., stealing the chemicals necessary to keep making the
formula. Now that he has destroyed Batman's evidence, Kirk is only one
component away from a formula that will make the transformation
permanent—but Batman has interrupted the process.<br />
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Kirk finally transforms and attacks. In the fight, the Man-Bat
drags Batman through the sky across half of Gotham. Both of them fly
past Gotham Air One, allowing Gordon and Bullock to see that the Man-Bat
and Batman were, in fact, two different people. Batman manages to subdue the Man-Bat. Taking him to the Batcave,
he analyzes the chemical makeup of the formula and reverses the
transformation. He then delivers an unconscious but fully-restored Kirk
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<br />David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-31048698512936352692012-08-03T08:57:00.003-07:002012-08-05T13:57:37.953-07:00Nikolai Dante: Too cool to kill masterlist part 1I have been slowly spreading the word of Dante onto the masses thanks to my Articles on <a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/">everything comes back to 2000ad</a> here is a masterlist of all episodes thus far<br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/too-cool-to-kill/">0 Intro</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/too-cool-to-kill-ep1/">1 The adventures of Nikolai Dante</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/too-cool-to-kill-ep2/">2: The Romanov Dynasty</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/too-cool-to-kill-ep3/">3: Russias greatest love Machine</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/too-cool-to-kill-4/">4: The gentleman thief</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/too-cool-to-kill-5/">5: Moscow Duelists</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/too-cool-to-kill-6/">6 The Gulag apocalyptic</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/too-cool-to-kill-7-7-5/">7 The Trouble With Arbatovs and Cruel Britania</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/nikolai-dante-too-cool-to-kill-8/">8: The great game</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/nikolai-dante-too-cool-to-kill-11/">11 fun with the family 3</a><br />
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<a href="http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/too-cool-to-kill-2/">12: Fists of fury and last dance on the transiberian express</a><br />
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Well enough of that nonsense...Anyway lets ignore those covers now and actively despise tharg for such shameless promotion and look at the judge Dredd episode this prog and just marvel at the insanity within and how ironic it is that I cover it...<br />
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This…is a Judge Dredd/Nikolai Dante crossover with a heavy referencing to the apocalypse war and the former Sov bloc as a whole. Drawn by Simon Fraser…<br />
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There’s nothing quite like a….wait WAUGH is still running?!?<br /><br />Yes Devlin Waugh and the reprints of Darkies mob continue…we okay darkie will be leaving next episode but Waugh will be around until the next relaunch issue!!!!<br /><br />Okay lets ignore that for now and check out the new stories within these pages. We have cover boy Judge Death returning in a sequal to the infamous “throw Anderson off a roof as punishment for the monkey story” series known as My name is Death. He is now on the loose in the cursed earth and will within the next few months will be built up as a legitima….bwah-ha-ha-ha…sorry can’t keep that up. If the sight of Death on a buggy does not tip you off as to what will come then keep your eyes peeled as I will chronicle the complete ruination of Death….<br /><br />Elsewhere this issue two new series Xtinct and yet another pilot by Gordon rennie appears in judge dredd. Also returning is a much welcome repeat for harry Twenty on the high rock and a return appearance of the banditti vendetta but we’ll cover those stories in later entries.David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-67921256509761568002012-08-01T11:20:00.000-07:002012-08-01T11:20:00.296-07:00August Insanity!Everyday this month expect a brand new entry every single day!<br />
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and if thats not enough I will doing reviews of a certain cartoon series in the style of my too cool to kill entries (I will likely be putting those up here soon too)<br />
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which Cartoon series I hear you wonder?<br />
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you'll find out soon...<br />
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next bat time, next bat channel.<br />
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(or look at the tabs)David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-51145324622680435212012-07-16T05:50:00.000-07:002012-07-16T05:50:33.547-07:00updated entries no 1http://thrillpoweroverdose.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/1247-flamin-hell.html<br />
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http://thrillpoweroverdose.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/1249-hells-teeth.html<br />
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http://thrillpoweroverdose.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/1250-featuring-judge-dredd-yeah-no-tag.html<br />
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These entries have been now changed to written ones. 1249 still has its original video because for the full telguuth experience you need it read out by a stuttering scotsmanDavid pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-57671413938214489672012-07-13T15:49:00.000-07:002012-07-13T15:49:03.413-07:00entries will be sparse for a few weekswhile back ago I decided to replace those awful video reviews with some written episodes. I am planning to do this now.<br />
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So for the next few weeks I will be replacing the video entires (I will keep the killing time one as I am proud of that one) and deleteing the videos forever!<br />
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this means that new entires will be one a week at best until the written ones are all done.David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-35386260832326087102012-07-11T04:01:00.001-07:002012-07-11T04:01:31.780-07:001357: The Descent has begun (or been going on for weeks...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why do I keep doing this to myself? This is what three entries now where the main story I cover (and let’s make this clear if you haven’t realized by now…I usually cover only the cover story when talking about 2000ad) is utter irredeemably crap. Okay irredeemably is strong as far as this story and the Dredd one covered last entry goes they both at least have good art.<br /><br />This story is from grace. It is the story of Kaith, leader of a tribe of winged people who share an uneasy existence with a much larger population that is wingless. It is set in a wasteland and the entire narrative is about Kaiths descent into being a complete bastard.<br /><br />The problem for me is Kaith is too much of a bastard. There’s some genuinely shocking moments and the art is amazing. But you just never care for anyone in the story and it just makes it feel like a five part future shock.<br /><br />Maybe it’s just me though as this story has been reprinted and it does have its fans though….<br /><br />I really need to go back to the Meg and find a decent story to write about. This is seriously killing me…<br /><br />Next: Judge Death rides again! Err yay?David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-46545246550434760112012-07-09T01:11:00.002-07:002012-07-09T01:12:38.937-07:001356: Last Rites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grant Goggans fave prog!<br />
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I kid Grant, seriously though this is something I have been dredding to cover. Not quite Repo-mex bad but god…repo mex wasn’t written by John Wagner.<br />
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Let’s start with the awful cover. I gave Charlie Adlard stick recently during my ongoing look back at Nikolai Dante on the everything comes back to 2000ad blog. But he is a good artist. I like the walking dead and some of his other 2000ad work (barring some awful early Meg stuff) is wonderful. But look at that cover…<br />
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He does the inside art which is nice but John Wagners plot for this story hurts it. Dredd is trying to save his niece Vienna from some devil worshippers but is tricked when Vienna reveals she has been brainwashed to be one of them. Now as the cover shows Dredd is tied to a rock and is being prepared to be sacrificed.<br />
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Head baddie is possessed by a demon and I am not sure if it’s me but I really…don’t like supernatural stuff in the Dredd strip. It just feels off, I wonder if that’s why I don’t like Anderson…<br />
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Anyway head demon raises his knife ready to stab and God strikes him down!<br />
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I am not kidding god friggin fries him with lightning and Dredd quips that someone up there likes me! He takes down the rest of the cult and ends the story wangsting about Vienna…<br />
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I hate doing this blog sometimes…I hope next issue has something decent…<br />
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Next: falling from grace….shitDavid pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-45297341104603865052012-06-22T07:57:00.000-07:002012-06-22T07:57:26.344-07:00208: The worst strip in the Galaxy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay deep breath it’s only been like two weeks….yeesh…<br /><br />Madon<br /><br />Bato loco has his own strip now he started off as a bit character in a dredd strip and managed to get his own strip. A similar fate would happen to two more of Gordon Rennies characters but I am sure we’ll talk about them in the future.<br /><br />Carlito Argarra is known as Bato loco the crazy guy. He is trying to make creds but continues to face up to the might of the mobs and the judges but this issue faces his most dangerous foe. His girlfriend who may be even crazier than he is!<br /><br />A fun series which will return and I welcome it….which is a nice segue way into the reason this entry has been postponed so much…<br /><br />Now before I say this I like David Bishop. He has written wonderful things in particular the Nikolai Dante Novels which I am rereading for my too cool to kill series for Everything comes back to 2000ad he contributed to the dredd audios from big finish which should be re-released for the movie and he wrote thrill power overload which I have gushed about in the past. Heck I even like some of his more maligned strips from the past Straitjacket fits was fun, had no place in the Meg but it was fun!<br /><br />This however…oh god this…<br /><br />The editorial spins Repomex as a new strip they are proud to present and wish for people to let them know if they wish to see more…<br /><br />Kind of stinks of desperation as if they knew they had a clunker but decided to slip it in anyway. <br /><br />Anyway let’s try to talk about this strip. So there’s this hotel and a bellhop is seduced by a sex-mech but it turns out he is being set up as he is led into a hotel room and is then attacked by criminals. Turns out the sex-mech is some kind of bounty hunter and something?<br /><br />And it ends with the bellhop being forced into being a repomex which is apparently the worst job in the galaxy?<br /><br />I am sorry I really do not like this story. If I was still doing videos this would merit a daily hate of its own it’s that bad…<br /><br />I am just glad it’s over I mean there won’t be a strip in the future worse than this right?<br /><br />Err right?<br />David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-70582516634911290092012-06-20T06:59:00.001-07:002012-06-20T06:59:16.476-07:00Yeah....This new entry is taking much longer to write than expected...sorryDavid pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-55958891719551418772012-06-13T12:03:00.001-07:002012-06-13T12:03:59.707-07:001354: Slime to die!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Note: Next meg entry has been pushed to friday due to insanity leaked brainage due to a certain strip...I hoped to battle said insanity with a decent strip...but....<br />
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Bec and Kawl take the cover which means I by blog law need to write again about them. So yeah theres this shit which is basically wicker man except Bec is being sacrificed to a slug god and some shit...<br />
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Kawl is teamed with a vaguely offensive french stereotype bug killer and they plan to do battle with the slug god and save bec and the noodles in my head are exploding nuse!<br />
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Strontium dog returns and this time Johnny Alpha and Wulf stern hammer have a very unwelcome tag along on their attempt to claim the bounty of the sinister unrighteous brothers.<br /><br />Meet Orville P Paxman the taxman. He is on Johnnys ass for unpaid taxes which stretch back as far as the bounty hunters Starlord days and he will go to any means necessary to collect those taxes…to the point of handcuffing himself to Alpha and swallowing the key.<br /><br />So now Alpha hunts evil villains with a damn taxman strapped to his wrist. Hilarity and much death and explosions ensue…<br /><br />Also want to see what happens to Jack Bauer when he finally snapped…<br /><br />Then you can by winning Phone Booth in this prog!<br /><br />Next time: Bato loco and possibly the worst strip in the megs history…and that’s saying something…<br />David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606265308405168752.post-33878137641326783242012-06-08T08:37:00.001-07:002012-06-08T08:37:21.389-07:001350: Resolving That Cliffhanger!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It’s a relaunch prog again and three double sized stories start off in this prog. The Dredd story and strontium dog will be covered in future installments but today we are looking at the return of Slaine!<br /><br />Previously on Slaine the evil demon moloch was given clemency by the council and then proceeds to backstab them by raping and killing Slaines wife Niamph. Slaine is understandably pissed and decides to dump the comedy sidekick ukko and go after the evil bastard on his own. They fight and the two end up spiraling off a cliff to a certain fiery doom…<br /><br />So how does Slaine get out of this cliffhanger….he sticks his axe into the cliff the kicks the hell out of Moloch and feeds him to an elder god…<br /><br />But not before getting plot from the demon and then he heads off into his new quest to stop a second invasion of the fomorians.<br /><br />Proper Pat Mills mentalness in this story and while the out of the cliffhanger is a bit…lame the story itself is great and I look forward to experiencing this story again.David pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.com0