The last DFC

It's the final issue of the DFC on Friday. Wanting to mark it somehow, just off the top of my head here are some favourite moments:

Robot Girl by John Aggs: "How many giant robots can the girl have?" Quite a lot as it happens... (#8).

Frontier by Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman: "What in tarnation is it?" The wheat field coming to life in #31.

Mo-Bot High by Neill Cameron: "Honestly. Kids." Our first look inside the janitors' room (#9).

Monkey Nuts by the Etherington Brothers... Well, there were so many great, funny, dramatic moments but the corker has to be the jaw-dropping two-page spread from #21. WhooooSHOOOM!

Mezolith by Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank: everything from the first teaser in #12 (should have been just that amazing image & logo and nothing else on the page imo) to Poika finding the handprints in the cave (#36). Special mention though for Talja's meeting with the giantess (#24) which is indelibly etched onto my memory.

And this marvellous scene from The Spider Moon by Kate Brown:

Bekka: "IS IT FIXED? HAVE YOU GOT IT?"
Shopkeeper: "Yes. Now don't break this one."
Bekka: "YES!"
Shopkeeper: "You mean no."
Bekka: "NO!"

What a lovely introduction to an engagingly boisterous character - a masterclass in comic storytelling in three or four panels. I saw that scene in the PR leaflet btw but don't remember it appearing in the comic (?).

There's been lots of other fantastic stuff. Such a lot of great talent came together in the DFC. Foolish to even try to pick any faves, really.

Biggest regrets:

• That we didn't get to see Iain McCaig's bonkers and brilliant Dinosaur & Wolf after the dummy issue.
• That we never got to see Garen Ewing's Nazaleod strip. Hoping for an early book release for that one.