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Time Flies - Ennis and Bond

DavidXBrunt

09:29 / 30.10.06

Just a quick note to say that the latest in Thargs el cheapo news-stand reprints is going to be Time Flies - perhaps the pinacle of 2ks "I'd rather be writing for Deadline" years. Both series are reprinted in full, it'll cost you £3 and it's on sale from Wednesday the first until Boxing Day.

Let joy be unconfined!

The Timaximus, The!

01:11 / 31.10.06

I loves me the Bond. As a USian will I be able to get this at the local comics shop, or will I have to order it online?

This was in Crisis, right? Does that bode well for a New Adventures of Hitler reprint?

DavidXBrunt

06:32 / 31.10.06

Time Flies was in 2000 AD and doesn't, as such, have any impact on the chances of The New Adventures of Hitler being released.

Extreme Editions are listed in Diamond Previews so you should be able to order them from your friendly neighbourhood comic guy.

DaveBCooper

14:33 / 03.11.06

Picked this up yesterday, and having only read the first series, was pleased to see the second one is included.

Maybe I've missed it, but I remember the series Canon Fodder with enormous fondness (first series, gather the second had a different writer, tch). Has that been reprinted in the Extreme edition format, does anyone know?

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

14:45 / 03.11.06

Canon Fodder was one of my favourites too, it hasn't been reprinted.

DavidXBrunt

15:01 / 04.11.06

However each issue of E.E. that comes out and doesn't include Canon Fodder elicits a response from a vocal section of Squaxx along the lines of 'Oy! Green Bonce! Where's Canon Fodder!" so it's not been forgotten.

There was a Canon Fodder art competition on the official site recently with some...interesting...results.

Haus of Mystery

16:09 / 04.11.06

Cannon Fodder was an early example of Millar's bad writing IMHO. Strong start, nice set-up, before attempting to cram the proverbial kitchen sink in there with a totally over the top unsatisfying ending. Another example of a series that tried to run before it could even stand (see Red Razors vol 2, The Grudge Father etc). Rather than the punk rock nihilism of the best 2000ad this just felt like it was written with contempt for the audience. Pish. One of the reasons I stopped buying the Galaxy's Greatest...

Time Flies however, was a strange beast from the second Summer of Love...a rather hokey (and not that funny) Ennis script saved by some beautiful Bond artwork. Free-wheeling fun in the spirit of DR & Quinch, Bradley and Hewligan's haircut.

iamus

18:18 / 04.11.06

Ooooh. Time Flies was my first exposure to Bond (And Ennis too, but I'm not really fussed about that). It was kind of a double-fister with him and Hewlett on Hewligan's Haircut pummeling my brain at the same time. Never really the same again.

I've only ever read the last few issues of it though, and I've been trying to track it back down for ages and ages. This is good news indeed.

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