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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:16 am    Post subject: D257 One Wizard Too Many! Reply with quote
 New story started 12/15/2008
 
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 This Daily Started off well,,hope it'll be NOT ended up what we got in Captain Smash & Bookworm! Smile
By d way,while Mandrake's face-art is still good,it's like Fred don't give any attention in other characters!! Sad Like Narda in d 1st & 3rd panels of today's strip,,,very loose art imho! Sad Evil or Very Mad

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 This strip seems on a exciting track!! Smile In today's strip,Mandrake says "AM I IN AGRIP OF SOME UNKNOW FORCE?" ,,ohh,hope there'll some REAL mystery,may be some old enemy will return! Smile

And hey!I LIKED today's art,definetly not d best ,but much better compare to recent illustrations!! Smile

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 The artwork for the week of 12/29/08 to 01/03/09 is a significant improvement... The action is moving along much more briskly, too-- Mandrake goes from the plane straight into danger in just SIX DAYS-- good stuff!

This storyline has started off much more strongly than the previous tales. Thank you, Fred Fredericks! Cool
 
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 
jamesasaljr wrote:
The artwork for the week of 12/29/08 to 01/03/09 is a significant improvement... The action is moving along much more briskly, too-- Mandrake goes from the plane straight into danger in just SIX DAYS-- good stuff!

This storyline has started off much more strongly than the previous tales. Thank you, Fred Fredericks! Cool


DITTO!! Art has been improved,,but I didn't like d idea that Mandrake went alone 2 visit CoM!!! In past,Lothar always had been d companion and their duo always make better as a script too!! Smile

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 Finally we get to meet Hey U. Seems like a cheery fellow - I'm guessing, however, that looks might be decieving. I'm enjoying the pace and mystery of this story. Smile
 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 The Tourist, aka Hey U, last appeared, I believe, in the daily, "Space Glitch"

You can view/download that story (along with many others) in .pdf format here:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/6120a0a4-9c14-46ca-a9ec-9269074f5e27/Space-Glitch Very Happy
 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 
jamesasaljr wrote:
The Tourist, aka Hey U, last appeared, I believe, in the daily, "Space Glitch"

You can view/download that story (along with many others) in .pdf format here:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/6120a0a4-9c14-46ca-a9ec-9269074f5e27/Space-Glitch Very Happy


Thanks for the link. Smile
 
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PostPosted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 KFS needs to get a new artist for this, but that's probably not going to happen anyway.

Do any newspapers carry the strip at all any more?
 
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PostPosted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 Not sure about in print but quite a few newspapers carry it as part of the "Comics Kingdom" online package that KFS offers

Fred is 80 so I can understand his quality slipping - I wonder if the strip would continue if he retired
 
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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 Oh my gosh, is he 80? I did not know that....
 
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 The recent artwork seems to have slipped back to being mediocre; poor attention to details, etc.

With a new Mandrake movie in development (starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers), I think KFS has an investment in keeping the strip going even after Fred retires.
 
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 This strip has been repeating itself for about two weeks. Get to the point!
 
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
 does anybody keep tracking this strip??
I've stopped since long...being a hard-core Mandrake fan,I really feel frustrated in nowdays ordinary and pathetically slow-pace strips....even till 2007 we used to get good stories wid ok/good pace,but since then both stories and pace are in downfall!!! Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad

I rather happyly read and re-read all those Falk-Davis/Falk-Fredricks classics ...

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
 I wonder if...

A) Fred isn't at the top of his game due to his advancing age

or B) Assistants are being used

or maybe some of both
 
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