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Got the Meg early today - not read it yet, but Darkies Mob is in COLOUR this month (well, bits of it are).

Forgive me I can bore for England on this :-)

Some of the pages in the original 1976/77 run in 'Battle' were in colour.

But the Meg reprints are based on the 1981 Battle reprints that were only in b&w, I think because they had nice handwritten lettering unlike the old-fashioned typed version in the originals.

HOWEVER some of the original run was never reprinted, not surprisingly given these issues featured some appalling scenes of violence in relation to their 9-10 tear old audience (personally I lapped it up!).

So the art from the original run has had to be used on a few episodes.
 
Weirdly I reckon the quality of the art in the Meg reprints looks a hell of a lot better on the odd occassion when the originals are used - so far only the Samurai fight episode in Meg 203 (havent seen 204 yet obv.)

Still I'm surprised they reprinted it in colour rather than in  greyscale etc. Cool.

On the colour pages, you can even make out little bits of woodgrain from the original newsprint paper, Its not much but it still helps add to that lovely feeling that your reading an authentic "old" comic.

Yeah - it's a brilliant touch and makes you wish more re-print stuff could be as adaptable, mixing colour & black/white pages.

In that case I could definitely buy a Complete Dredd starting where the last series finished, 520 when the colour pages came in.  Megazine format would be cool by me.

Darkies Mob, once again, pretty damn exciting.

I like the way this is going. It's like Wagner looked at his script and said 'Yeah, going well. But needs a little more. What can I add? I know! A monkey in a hat! That'll improve things no end."

And you know, there has never been a comic that couldn't have benefitted from a monkey in a hat.

Yeah, the monkeys cool.

In fact I'd like to ammend that earlier statement. After discussing this with several people I now believe that there has never been a story written in the history of stories that couldn't have been improved by the inclusion of a Monkey in a Hat. Maybe not as a main character, maybe just a cameo, or a bit part. But all novels, even 'Emma' would be better for the inclusion of a Monkey in a Hat.

"I now believe that there has never been a story written in the history of stories that couldn't have been improved by the inclusion of a Monkey in a Hat."


Can I take it you've not seen Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake then?


A monkey in a hat, yesterday.

Okay, now re-imagine that story without any monkeys in hats.

'Planet of the Marky Mark wandering around looking at rocks. And some horses. For two hours. And then he goes home.'

Nowhere near as good as Planet of the Monkeys with Hats, is it?

Where did the monkey come from? Where did it go?

He just turned up with his hat in one episode & then was gone, no mention of him the next episode.

BRING BACK THE MONKEY IN THE HAT.

Hmmm - Revised Dr Suess: "The Cat And The Monkey In The Hat"

Even the Simpsons (I think) can be improved. Isn't there an episode where a monkey in a hat out-thinks Homer? I think the hat made the monkey more clever. It then asks for the hat to be destroyed becuase it feels like a freak. If I remember right, this scene took place on or near a river. Can anyone confirm this?

Scarey - it was on sky last night!  I missed most of it but I saw the monkey.

Doc X - there is an episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets a helper monkey that would normally help people with disabilities and he almost kills it with neglect. With hilarious consequences.

The super-clever monkey with a hat that begs to die is from an episode of Futurama where Fry and Bender go to Mars University...

Odders, I'm sure the monkey was seen before, this was just his big chance to shine. Hopefully we'll see that little feller again.

one of the non-monkey related incidental pleasures of Darkie's Mob for me is spotting where they've censored the dialogue ;)
so what are these words which are now too awful for our delicate eyes?

Tharg(s), please don't read any of the following...


I'll send a lovely crisp twenty pound note to the first script or art droid who gets a monkey with a hat into a future issue of 2000AD or the Megazine.  

It's got to be a completely unrelated monkey and hat thing like the one in Darkie's Mob (so doing a Dredd or DeMarco story with the gangster apes doesn't count).

Anybody else want to dib up some money to make sure this happens?

Yeah, I'll match that. Not a gangster ape, just a monkey in a hat (not a Fez!). That'd be lovely.

it's got to be done.

I'll doo some free pottery tothe deal, even a monkey in hat mug if ya like.

we demand the monkey !! (in its hat)

Monkey!

ooh ooh aah aah!

you know it makes sense.

I bet Rennie is sorting one for Cabs season 3, as we speak.

rotts.

well mr rennie sir ? are ye ? shall we start preparing the bribes (classy monkey in hat mugs take some doing you know)..?

I reckon they've put in too high a bid there, I reckon a fiver would have got his attention.

Aw Peeves, give the man a chance. Sure he MIGHT be a money grubbing oik with less morals than a speculative fan-boy with a copy of prog 1208 to spare, but don't say he's CHEAP too! :)

rotts

He's done worse for less (i.e. nothing)

>In fact I'd like to ammend that earlier statement. After discussing this with several people I now believe that there has never been a story written in the history of stories that couldn't have been improved by the inclusion of a Monkey in a Hat. Maybe not as a main character, maybe just a cameo, or a bit part

Cant beat a monkey in a hat,

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

Link: Harry Heston

Yeah but Harry has got too many other clothes on.  And he's some fancy GM clone thing.


What you need is pure and simple.

A monkey.

In a hat.

Harrys an Ape-Judge, not a Monkey-Judge. You got yer primates all mixed up! Come back when you've got Flint drawing "judge Monkey".