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Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 09:42
by SID
Being a long term Squaxx dek Thargo, I was really pleased when
2000AD announced that
Flesh was coming back and that it will be a direct sequel to the original strip (one of the reasons why I liked
2000AD in the first place).
FYI, this is what I got from the
2000ADOnline website:
2000ADOnline wrote:
Flesh Returns!
Head back to the Cretaceous as the dinosaur-farming cowboys of Trans-Time return for Flesh: Texas, a new series by Pat Mills and James Mckay, starting in 2000 AD Prog 1724, on sale 9 March 2011. Set directly after the events of the very first series, with the Trans-Time base destroyed by Old One-Eye's rampage, Boots McGurk and the rest of the survivors must herd their stock across dangerous terrain to Texas – but T. Rex Gorehead has other ideas...
I can't wait!
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 12:58
by ISPYSHHHGUY
About time as well....this was miles more entertaining than Spielberg's Jurassic Lark. I.ll never forget the ultra-bizarre image of three time-travellers who got their genes crossed with a T REX, then re-materialized as a mutated abomination in the 'arrival bay' in the 23rd Century......
---this was [rightly dubbed as THRILL OVERLOAD at the time......]
----------Unforgettable!
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 15:32
by SID
Couldn't agree with you more, ISPYSHHHGUY.
And I have now read the first instalment and it looks pretty good.
I must admit I need to get used to the artwork but the new T-Rek looks pretty good.
I love the fact that they are using the original 'Flesh' logo.
And the wrap-around cover doesn't hurt either.
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 16:52
by ISPYSHHHGUY
For the benefit of the uninitiated, here's the utterly
scrotnig FLESH cover from the early [1977] period of
2000 AD: featuring the nightmarish fusion between dinosaur and men:
All this time [over 30 years!] and I never realized until today that it was a BOLLAND-nibbed cover.....must've been amongst his earliest works for the comic............
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 18:41
by felneymike
I'd only just stopped getting Tooth, I may have to buy the first part of this and see how it pans out.
My brother used to get it in 1997, when the free facsimilie of issue 1 was bundled with an issue. Flesh was probably our favourite story in it... it had the most blood!
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 19:57
by ISPYSHHHGUY
'TOOTH'..........
------LUV IT!!!!!!!!!
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 05 Mar 2011, 20:47
by Black Max
Thought it was a good start, with a proper feel for the original.
The dinosaurs were great - just a shame the art wasn't inked with a finer line.
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 14:31
by SID
Still, story is good and the artwork fits in.
And I think Vegas Carter is a mighty fine woman. Far prettier than Earl Reagan.
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 28 Mar 2011, 20:04
by nottinghamian
Flesh was great in those early issues. Does anyone remember the Flesh card game
that came with 2000AD - or did I dream that?
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 01 Jun 2011, 12:30
by SID
Now that it has finished its run for the time being, what did people think of the new 'Flesh'?
Re: Original 'Flesh' is coming back.
Posted: 01 Jun 2011, 15:30
by colcool007
nottinghamian wrote:Flesh was great in those early issues. Does anyone remember the Flesh card game
that came with 2000AD - or did I dream that?
Ian, you didn't dream it. I remember playing it with my cousin many moons ago. I now wince at the thought of how many comics we had to cut up to play the game.
