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#16
Other Reviews / Re: Dredd: The Complete Case Files
29 September, 2023, 09:59:04 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 September, 2023, 07:29:20 AM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 September, 2023, 11:33:04 PMWhy would they do that, Jim? It didn't need improving. The new "E"s are worse, with their shortened bottom line, and the "M" is all curved and too big for its boots.

After Tom's death, his family felt it would be appropriate to 'retire' Tom's custom lettering font, so I imagine that any existing Frame digital lettering that, for whatever reason, hadn't been converted from live text to outlines would need substituting for something that looked reasonably close to the Frame droid's work.

Given that it's based on someone else's hand lettering (Marian Churchland's, obviously!) the Churchland font is a surprisingly good fit, although I run it with the horizontal scale up a little for the 'Frame tribute' style I use on Spector.

It's possible that Rebellion hold/held a copy of Tom's original font from back in the day, but there are any number of reasons why they might not be able to use it (not least because it might well be in the deprecated .ttf format, which a lot of print workflows will no longer accept).

So... my money is on an automatic font substitution routine that hit a glitch here and somehow slipped through the net.

(Please note that everything I've said here is speculation: I have no insight into the production/pre-press pipeline at Rebellion.)
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 September, 2023, 07:29:20 AM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 September, 2023, 11:33:04 PMWhy would they do that, Jim? It didn't need improving. The new "E"s are worse, with their shortened bottom line, and the "M" is all curved and too big for its boots.

After Tom's death, his family felt it would be appropriate to 'retire' Tom's custom lettering font, so I imagine that any existing Frame digital lettering that, for whatever reason, hadn't been converted from live text to outlines would need substituting for something that looked reasonably close to the Frame droid's work.

Given that it's based on someone else's hand lettering (Marian Churchland's, obviously!) the Churchland font is a surprisingly good fit, although I run it with the horizontal scale up a little for the 'Frame tribute' style I use on Spector.

It's possible that Rebellion hold/held a copy of Tom's original font from back in the day, but there are any number of reasons why they might not be able to use it (not least because it might well be in the deprecated .ttf format, which a lot of print workflows will no longer accept).

So... my money is on an automatic font substitution routine that hit a glitch here and somehow slipped through the net.

(Please note that everything I've said here is speculation: I have no insight into the production/pre-press pipeline at Rebellion.)

Thanks, Jim. That makes sense and I am glad it's likely a problem arising out of respect. Not that it helps those affected.
#17
Other Reviews / Re: Dredd: The Complete Case Files
27 September, 2023, 11:33:04 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 27 September, 2023, 11:25:47 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 27 September, 2023, 07:58:10 PMHow bizarre. Hard to know how that happened. And just for one bubble. (This is also in the digital file, FWIW.)

I'd bet hard cash that's font substitution. The original is, I suspect, un-outlined text in Tom Frame's own font which has been substituted for Comicraft's MarianChurchland font in the new one, hence the reflow in the first balloon. Somehow, the bold/bolditalic hasn't been substituted at all in the second and the words have dropped out entirely...

Why would they do that, Jim? It didn't need improving. The new "E"s are worse, with their shortened bottom line, and the "M" is all curved and too big for its boots.
#18
Prog / Re: Prog 2350 - 2000ad Battle Action*
21 September, 2023, 09:29:17 AM
Quote from: broodblik on 21 September, 2023, 03:52:45 AM
Quote from: scrotnig on 20 September, 2023, 10:18:46 PMBring back the Chrome logo! The campaign starts here! (Even though it will likely be a one man campaign that everyone will laugh at).

Second

Thirded
#19
Prog / Re: Prog 2350 - 2000ad Battle Action*
17 September, 2023, 02:24:43 PM

#20
Prog / Re: Prog 2350 - 2000ad Battle Action*
17 September, 2023, 02:22:38 PM
My favourite too. Seeing it against the black, two thoughts occur to me.

First, the three lines at the bottom are graphic design genius. They give heft and weight to what would otherwise be a quite flat logo.

Second, this looks like a knuckle-duster.
#21
Off Topic / Re: Quoting Scripture
01 September, 2023, 11:17:52 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 01 September, 2023, 11:16:46 PM"I know lots of things. Cat's cradle!"

(PJ Maybe's first words to Dredd, I think)

#22
Off Topic / Re: Quoting Scripture
01 September, 2023, 11:16:46 PM
"I know lots of things. Cat's cradle!"
#23
Creative Common / Re: Does my Art look big in this?
31 August, 2023, 10:35:59 PM
See also: "The Enigmatic Dr X"
#24
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 28 August, 2023, 07:14:12 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 August, 2023, 10:14:50 PMThe "e" key on my laptop's* keyboard has stopped working. Without an xtrnal usb kyboard all my sntancs ar rally hard to rad.


*It's a dcad old

A bloke goes to the doctor because he can't pronounce the letter "f" or the letter "t".

The doctor says, "you can't say fairer than that, then."
#25
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
19 August, 2023, 09:45:16 AM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 19 August, 2023, 09:28:34 AMI think there's a difference between a Western and a film set in the old West, but it all depends how you define a Western and there's no set criteria. This is the sort of stuff you can debate endlessly: my Mum pretty much thinks anything is a Western if they're wearing cowboy hats and therefore the Dukes of Hazzard qualifies.

Having thought about it, I don't think there's a checklist of stuff that makes something unquestionably a Western, but I do think it needs to have a lot of elements and that they need to be to the fore of the film, not only in setting and structure but also in its mood and the 'soul' of the picture.

I don't think adding elements of another genre disqualifies a film from being a Western although if its not the defining feature of the film it could be questionable. In High Plains Drifter, although the ghost element is the main thrust of the plot, it's full of the tropes and elements we associate with Westerns - frontier setting, rugged characters, guns and horses and the like but also personal justice, lawlessness, individual isolation, retribution through violence - that saturate the film more so than the supernatural elements, so its a film about a ghost, but I'd argue its a Western foremost and not a ghost film foremost.

Interestingly having written that above list out they do also feature in Hateful Eight as well, but I don't think they're part of the soul of the picture. Quentin Tarantino is very good at putting genre elements and homages into his films but he's making something different, partly because he's working in a different cultural zeitgiest. In the same way, I'd say that Kill Bill is a revenge movie with a lot of martial arts in it, but not a Kung Fu movie in the same way that the Hong Kong films he's paying tribute to are, nor is it a Wuxia film. I thought HE was a whodunnit because the whodunnit elements seemed, to me, to be the overarching crux of the film (I've only seen it once though and happy to told otherwise!)

It's like film noir: there's a lot of films made influenced by that genre and containing elements of it, but it could be argued there's not really been any major film noir movies made since the 60s. It all really depends on how strictly you define the film genre in question though, like I say - there's no talking in definites here.

TLDR: it's subjective.


If there's a gun-shot with a PSH-WHAMMM ricochet sound it's a western. Otherwise it's not.
#26
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
14 July, 2023, 10:50:39 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 July, 2023, 01:50:38 PM40 Years of Scream! Hardcover, 464 pages, 25 April 2024

464 pages!  Could this be every issue of Scream reprinted in a single volume?  Has "Diceman" kicked off a trend?  Will we soon see the Complete School Fun for everyone to, er, not buy?

I really want this but would like to order from Rebellion. When's it going on the Webshop?
#27
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
14 July, 2023, 10:47:05 PM
Origins was...mmm...eight years ago, tops. Something has gone wrong with time.
#28
The Road

The best book I didn't enjoy
#29
Film & TV / Re: Black Mirror
30 June, 2023, 10:20:02 AM
I was disappointed with this latest series. It felt like there was no real social commentary. It was more a set of short plays than a twisted taking of a modern idea to its ultimate and absurd conclusion. They were good, but not Black Mirror.

With the exception of Beyond the Sea, which had a mind-boggling plot hole: why were their human bodies in space and replicas on Earth? Surely you'd do this the other way round?.

(I can't find spoiler tags, so have put the plot hole in white after the above colon - highlight to see it)

#30
Off Topic / Re: Boys Adventure comic blog
24 June, 2023, 10:57:47 AM
Quote from: Richard S. on 24 June, 2023, 07:05:11 AMThe rarest Marvel UK comic there is...yes it's 'The dangerous breakfast' - good luck tracking this down!

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-dangerous-breakfast.html

Just a quick note to say I really enjoy your blog and always click through on these links.