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Just curious but what grades did he get?

I've been umming and awing about this all afternoon.  Potentially this could spiral out of control since at present it looks like some of our's and our American brethren's 'democratically elected representatives' (careful now Sharky!) seem to suffer from permanent 'foot in mouth' disease.  That said, I do wonder if our political thread needs a light hearted cousin of sorts (in this case, perhaps mutated offspring of Donald Trump and Theresa May) where we could revel in some of the choicer moments, or perhaps cower in fear at the thought of the awesome power these muppets wield!

Anyway.  For me Jeremy Hunt has set a new standard this week.  He decides to question Hawkings' ability to appropriately critically evaluate scientific evidence.  Not content with shooting himself in the foot on this point he continues to try to undermine the eminent, world renowned scientist by questioning his integrity and suggesting that he is being mendacious in questioning the direction of travel of health policy in this country.  Do we have a winner for the political equivalent of the Darwin Awards?

.... we get a Wagner and still people find something to question. You lot are never happy!

<I'm not worthy abasement>If that was to me then my apologies sir.  I wasn't questioning what was happening, just my understanding of circumstances.  I will commit myself to appropriate penance for even seeming to criticise the great Wagner.  </I'm not worthy abasement>

Tidy.  Well done him.  Bristol has a pretty good rep to boot.

"He found Wintergreen at the Academy, eased into retirement, but the old man's mind was still sharp"

The Edgar Case, 1591, Wagner and Goddard

The same story, collected as part of Tour Of Duty: The Backlash, features Jefferson Kubitts, who left the department under the Justice In The Community programme 23 years previously, to become a private security contractor.

Thanks for those.  Forgot about the latter.  Never really thought of Judge Tutors as 'retired', more shifted from street to classroom.  Good point on Kubitts.  Also forgot Demarco.  Well, that's a face palm then

Well, posties delivered.  Fair dues.  Time to digest properly.  Had to dig out the Apocalypse War and flick back.  Remembered Costa but not the others.  The other one that threw me a bit was that I thought that Judges only had three choices; Titan, Death or the Long Walk.  When did it start becoming possible to retire?

All I'll say is, posties better deliver today or there'll be hell to pay!   

Bruce Forsyth.

Didn't he do well...

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Good game!  Good game!

That sounds like something from a future shock.  Bit of Bellardinelli art and we're away.

Fair point.  I think it is easy at times to invest perhaps a little too much.  To be fair, 'breezy' is probably an appropriate description of the story, aided by Marshall's usual high quality art work.   Let's face it, we've still got a loooong way to go to reach the nadir of the Millar / Ennis season.  Personally the parallels with the film mentioned would have worked a whole lot better if they had been a bit more blatant, I would suggest.  Perhaps it was just accidental that Carrol wrote a 'drug factory hidden on a train' mystery.   

[Dredd]

Ouroboros ^[2] was an okay story and she's a fun character, but the hard sell was misjudged.

Dredd has an action packed conclusion, with some wonderful moments and most excitingly what feels like a set up for the return and showdown with Vega. Fingers crossed its soon as she's a fantastic foil for Joe.

Personally, I got the impression that Carroll was hoping that none of us had seen Zootropolis.  Bit of role reversal with Dredd as the hapless bunny cop and Vega as the wily, scheming fox.  Reading the ending it is hard not to miss the parallels and be disappointed.  To be frank I'm thinking of another interpretation of that title and it's not particularly flattering.  Perhaps if it had been played more for laughs and / or the humour was a bit more overt it would have worked better.  I think the conflicting opinions about Vega sums up the character perfectly.  The handling leaves a lot to be desired at present.

Just want to take a moment to blame this collection for my upcoming bankruptcy. Re-started both my monthly Prog/Meg subscription and my Mega Collection subscription because I've got a bit more disposable than I did back in March, and I'm fully back aboard the 2000AD wagon. Dammit.


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That's how it works, see.  They offer you the odd prog to get you interested, then a monthly meg ...

The next thing you know you're mainlining partworks and OD'ing on the Cursed Earth saga in Welsh!

Because its hard to separate fiction from reality?

Dis aint ovah.

I'm going to refer you to Mr Gaiman's words on that topic, sir (or madam, don't mind which you prefer).

Maybe he'll be the main character to die this season in a suitably ironic way?

The rather pointed passing of looks between him and Arya seemed to suggest that he might need to watch his step around her.

So should we go ahead and and declare this show "Aborted" then?

Or we could, y'know, wait for some actual news one way or the other?

A calm, reasoned and rational response?  Oh look, a unicorn.