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Apologies for not doing the 2nd day, wasn't feeling to well so came home early. Cracking night in the pub last night though. Can't wait for Connor or Liz to post the 3 minute Dredd drawings we all did. Peter Wells is a legend!!!! Great conversation and company from Bolt, Uncle Fester, Lady Festina, Owen and wife!!!, Dandontdare, Dunk, Kev Levell and the legend that is Peter Wells.

Don't know if anyone has seen these two documentaries. It's a case that happened in America in 1993. Three 8 year olds where found murdered in some local woods in West Memphis, Arkansas. The police arrested 3 local teenagers for the crime. These documentaries tell the story. It's fascinating stuff. The 3 lads were released in Aug this year after 18 years in prison, 1 of them on death row and in solitary. Don't want to give anything away but it's documentary film making at its finest IMO. There is going to be a third part which is doing the film festival rounds in AMerica at the min and it will be aired on American TV in Jan.
You can watch these docs online or download them. Sorry I haven't the link.

I am at the Novatel about a mile from Armouries and about 500 yds from train station. What is happening on the Saturday night? We all having a beer or 2?

Go to the General section and click on the very first page(500 something). His user name is Thread Zero.

Having nothing better to do this evening I have been trawling through old threads dating back to 2001 and man wasn't the Scojo guy a fruit loop. At first reading some of the posts I thought he's taking the piss here and winding everyone up but as I read further it dawned on me that this guy actually meant what he said. Some of the exchanges with Jim, Logan and Gordon where brilliant reading. Did anyone ever meet this guy for real? I think if he had had a go at me like he did some people I think I would have pulled his face off if I ever met him!!!
Great entertainment though.
Apologies if this has bought back unpleasantaries for anyone!!

How weird is that!!! I have just ripped both of these audio CD's (The day the law died and The Apocalypse War) and transferred them to my iPod. I haven't heard these for years. I am really enjoying them at the min. Curiously in TDTLD they replace Giant with Hershey. Suppose this was for the tie in with THAT movie.

Yeah can see your point Steven. What I was trying to say in my original post was that the early stuff just dosnt fit in today's Dreddworld. Would seeing Faro in his ring pull coat be completely be out of place in today's Dredd? Come to think of it I think Mean Machine and Judge Death would prob look a bit out of place. I think the "humanising" of Dredd in the last few years has contributed to more realistic characters. 10-15 years ago Dredd nemesis was an alien super fiend and a guy with a claw and dial on his head, today it's a calculated, intelligent mass murderer who Dredd has seen grow up. I am actually liking this new Dredd with a conscience, like I sad before it's just progress.

Joe i never said DREDD was about prediction or forecast!! It was just an observation that's all!!!

Been having a bit of a nostalgia week by reading some selected case files. As you get older you get a different take on the Dredd stuff from yesteryear and I was thinking about some of the stuff that John Wagner probably thinks he shouldn't have written. The most famous being the killing off of Mean Machine in The Judge Child (and come to think of it, the resurrection of Pa and Junior). For me the two things that I wish Wagner had never introduced are Time Travel and the plethora of aliens and alien planets. The latter was fine in the early 80's when 2000ad was aimed at kids of my age in their early teens but in today's Dredd world it just dosnt seem to fit as dosnt the time travel thing. It just seems inconceivable to me that in the next 100 or so years we will be cavorting with hundreds of different alien species and be able to travel in time. The whole Judge Child saga should have been left at the end of Destinys Angels. I always thought that CIty of the Damned was a weak story anyway and I didn't really enjoy it. The dimension jumping thing to was fine when in the Judge Death continuum but when it came to Helter Skelter it just got plain silly(yes I know this wasn't Wagner). Today's Dredd seems a world away from the early stuff I have mentioned and trying to put this early stuff in context with today's Dredd is difficult, but hey that's progression for you.

Weekend pass booked, train booked and hotel booked. Happy days.

Just got an early Christmas prezzie off my lad. Ticket for The Stone Roses next year!!!!!

Conversation with my other half today.............
ME I am seriously thinking of getting one of the Judge replica uniforms. I'll need to be measured up for it probably.
THE MRS While your at it get yourself measured up for your coffin too!!!!

Priceless.

I have read worse stories than Crusade. Mick Austins art is excellent, his depiction of Dredd is one of the best for me. I have always been a Mick Austin fan.

After speaking to Colin earlier we both found out that our birthdays are 5 days apart and we both thought to use this as an excuse for a Nort meet. We have suggested the 11th of Feb 2012 in Nottingham as it's fairly close for us both. Everyone welcome. Names below

Just looking at prices etc and was wondering if anyone would want to share a hotel room to keep costs down? No jokes please!!!!!!