Sinister Dexter: And Death Shall Have No Dumb Minions
 

OK. Latest part of Sinister Dexter, as seen in prog 1468. After all the shockers we've been seeing in the current story (not least that stuff is actually happening in Sinister Dexter), they haven't... I mean, surely... they can't have done what I think...

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...they can't have bloody gone and killed Dexter, have they?! Coz it looks like they have! An exit wound that big, he'll have turned kosher by now!

Offing one of the characters the strip is named after? That's balls of steel right there, Abnett.

It'll be about time that they shook things up a bit. I have to say that Sinister Dexter is one of my least favourite strips; I liked it in its early days, but every time I look on it, it seems to just be running on autopilot.

I really enjoy Sinister & Dexter. I can understand why people don't, but I'm a fan.

Having said that, they should kill the pair of them off.

In doing so, an opportunity to explore Downlode and the world of S & D will open up, like the few 'Tales from Downlode' they did a while back.

The world they inhabit has potential and plenty of stories left to tell, S & D themselves... Not so much.

Later

Stu.Art

I think the last time I enjoyed the strip was back around 1998, when they killed Demi Octavo off, split Sinister and Dexter up, and explored their world a bit more with the Download Tales stuff. So I suppose I'm in general agreement with you about their future. There is a good setting there that isn't being explored enough.

Oh, I'm so far behind on 'Tooth it's not funny. I have about seventeen week's worth of 200AD and the Megazine waiting for me to read them, and every week the pile gets bigger.

Hopefully I'll have time to tackle them over Christmas...

The upside to this is you can read Leatherjack, Judge Dredd: Mandroid and Savage: Out Of Order all in one go.

The downside is, unless you covered your eyes, you just got the SinDex storyline spoiled for you. Whoops!

Mandroid was excellant, a real high point in 2000AD. You're in for a treat!

Leather Jack was absolute dross, I thought personally. I'm pretty sick of all this supposed high brow 'epic' sci-fi/space opera nonsense like Avatar and I really wish they would stop it!

Savage was very good again and this gets better as it goes, as I wasn't so keen on the first 'new' batch of stories on this old character.

Unfortunately the best read the Megazine has to offer is the articles at present! The 'History of...' being especially interesting I thought ( I got an extra insight into this after having a chat with Sean Philips at Brighton and getting his take on the 'drama' surrounding his involvement with the megazines conception).

How many weeks do you got off school over christmas these days Regie? 3? 4? I'm sure we only used to get 4 days off when I were a lad! :)

Stu.Art

Oh, don't worry - I've got such a bad memory that spoilers don't affect me all that much these days. Besides, it's not really the what, it's the how that is interesting...

Leatherjack was high brow? At least, any more high brow that every other bit of twisted weirdness John Smith pumps out? (OK, Firekind was high brow, but apart from that)

And you can't go wrong with a space-opera sci-fi involving spinsters piloting scissor-shapped CensorShips, a planetary library run by insects, upper-class undead torturers with pet rabbit-monsters, and huge dollops of ultra-violence.

Awww no! You can't be telling me you don't like The Simping Detective! :(

Wanda Maximoff says "no more Sinister Dexter strips".