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#16
Books & Comics / Re: Bargains and deals
28 March, 2018, 01:46:55 PM
I'm not sure it's a company-wide thing but the Middlesbrough branch of Forbidden Planet is having an absolutely massive clear out of trades and GN's to make way for...  Frakking Funko Pops (as if they don't dominate the store already).

In the last four weeks I've picked up over twenty books all for around a fiver (including nine volumes of B.P.R.D Hell on Earth).
#17
Prog / Re: Prog 2065 - Snow Escape
21 January, 2018, 08:56:41 PM
Quote from: WhizzBang on 21 January, 2018, 08:44:35 AM
(is there a reason why Dexter's eyes are white and he has a FONY tattoo?)

He's had a device called a "Headcase" installed which beams TV shows and movies directly into his brain.  The original "Sony" version got fried by an EMP pulse so he had a bootleg version fitted (hence Fony/phony).
#18
Quote from: Tombo on 09 January, 2018, 03:21:22 PM
Quote from: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 02 January, 2018, 08:10:26 PM
4. long lost - only one issue so far, but probably my comic of the year. every word and image perfectly judged. reader is so involved, and therefore so ready to be horrified.

I saw the third issue of this whilst trawling through Comixology for forthcoming releases so on a whim I ordered the first two issues off of E-bay, should be delivered tomorrow.  Sounds like I made a good investment.

Well they came yesterday, I've read them and yep pretty good going so far, will certainly order the rest when they are released.  One slight quibble is that the art style sometimes edges towards "tumblr-esque" but on the whole a good read, would recommend.
#19
Quote from: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 02 January, 2018, 08:10:26 PM
4. long lost - only one issue so far, but probably my comic of the year. every word and image perfectly judged. reader is so involved, and therefore so ready to be horrified.

I saw the third issue of this whilst trawling through Comixology for forthcoming releases so on a whim I ordered the first two issues off of E-bay, should be delivered tomorrow.  Sounds like I made a good investment.
#20
Help! / Re: Name that Shock!
15 December, 2017, 04:10:02 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 06 December, 2017, 03:41:04 PM
The other FS that springs to mind is one of Alan Moore's (I think) involving students at a lecture talking about life being wiped out.  In the denouement it turns out that the students are dinosaurs.  Not sure which prog though.

I remember that one.  It was actually two lectures - one about a theoretical nuclear war and one about the death of the dinosaurs.  Both lecturers use the same lines about the effects (nuclear winter, end of the world) and at the end its revealed that the nuclear war lecture is by dinosaurs who laugh at been replaced by "stupid mammals" and the other is set in the now and the students laugh at been replaced by insects.

Sadly no idea of the name or Prog, and nothing on either Barney or Touched by the Hand of Tharg ring any bells.
#21
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 October, 2017, 09:12:13 AM
It's tricky to guesstimate how much Dredd in the MC volumes so far, since some Dredd volumes have non-Dredd in them in, and other non-Dredd volumes have Dredd stories, but say 40?  And not all of those at the maximum page count either, so maybe 9,000 pages done, leaving 6,000 to do. 

To date the MC has 601 entries in my Index, 531 of which are stories the rest been "In Detail", Interrogations, and sketch books.  Dredd comprises bang on 300 of those (not including Heavy Metal Dredd or Fetish [which I consider a Devlin Waugh story]), so slightly more than half of the MC is actually Dredd.

Actual page count is another story which I'll pass on to someone else.
#22
Quote from: Magnetica on 08 September, 2017, 07:14:58 PM
There is still a Tour of Duty volume to come.

True, but it will be covering the run up to Dredd's exile (Mutants in Mega-City One, The Facility, The Secret of Mutant Camp 5, the Edgar Case) rather than those stories from his actual tour.
#23
Quote from: abelardsnazz on 20 August, 2017, 12:52:21 PM
Volume 69 I think would be one that links the Cursed Earth back to the city - a Long Walk theme perhaps?

There's a few Cursed Earth/Mutie Incursion stories that haven't been reprinted yet including: Alabammy Blimps, Dog Soldiers (and the other ToD stories that seem to have been forgotten), Monkey on my Back, as well as Radlander and Damned Ranger.
#24
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
07 September, 2017, 09:56:33 PM
Has it been confirmed that Red Seas isn't been reprinted.  By my reckoning there are still 7 or 8 volumes with unconfirmed content so the whole series could easily be squeezed in.  I known none of the cast appear on the spine but neither do anyone from Meltdown Man, Hewligan's Haircut, or Sooner or Later. 
#25
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
03 April, 2017, 07:10:25 PM
Quote from: Mardroid on 03 April, 2017, 05:24:33 PM
I've often wondered how Would got so obsessed with cucumbers being a viking, as isn't it a New World fruit?* Then again, the Norsemen did cross the great divide centuries before that Columbus chap.

I suspect he picked it up later, though.

* I'm sure it's technically a fruit having seed thing inside.

According the Wikipedia cucumbers were first cultivated in India around 3000 years ago, and they're mentioned in the Old Testament. The first recorded mention in France is from the 9th century so maybe he visited France on a raid.

Botanically they're a fruit but they're treated as a vegetable from a culinary point of view.
#26
Quote from: The Monarch on 25 March, 2017, 08:41:48 AM
not all of them

Huh, so they weren't  :-[.  I'd completely forgotten about three entire stories (The Whisperer, Deja Vu, and Damocles).  I guess they could show up in "Independent Operators".
#27
Quote from: The Monarch on 12 March, 2017, 07:45:36 PM
i can see the demarco stories showing up in independant operators actually

A couple of pages (and weeks late) but the Demarco stories were reprinted in the Simping Detective volume of the Mega Collection.
#28
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
22 January, 2017, 04:28:00 PM
I was reading the Mega-Collection version of "Chasing Herod" last night and suddenly noticed that Lucy Melmoths' rather fetching zebra-print outfit had an actual tail attached, although it would appear to have been dropped by the time Pussyfoot 5 was published.
#29
Books & Comics / Re: 2016 in Comics
15 December, 2016, 10:24:32 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 December, 2016, 09:29:25 PM
Cheers - reckon I'll get the 2nd trade but if it's coming out so slowly it's not going to break the bank. I started buying Chew and those seemed to pop up evry five minutes, I've now got 11 books with no sign of a let-up!
The Autumnlands is indeed a good, if infrequent series.  There has in fact only been five issues this year.  Lucky for you DDD chew finished last month so Volume 12 is the final one.

This year has been fairly good to me with regards to both old favourites and new series.  Highlights for me include Black Road, The Discipline, the Black Monday Murders, and Cry Havoc.  Two series which I did not think I would like based on the art, Snotgirl and She-Wolf, have also secured their place on my pull list.

Interestingly between Cry Havoc, She-Wolf, and the recently started Moonshine there have been three werewolf-based comics this year (that I know of).  Could they be replacing zombies as the "next big thing" in comics.  Another trend I've noticed recently is series set in small towns/backwoods places - Dark and Bloody, Cannibal, Moonshine, plus last years Black Magick, and Slash & Burn.  Guess small towns are good places for secrets.

Of the old favourites Saga ([spoiler]Izabel NOOOoooooo![/spoiler]), Shutter, East of West Deadly Class (despite a bit of wavering mid-year), Paper Girls, Monstress (best art in comics at the moment I believe)  Wayward, Unfollow, and Clean Room all remain on my pull list as does Revival despite the fact that I haven't got round to reading it for nearly a year.  The James Bond stories from Dynamite have also been fun romps.

The only series I've tried and dropped this year was a Dark Horse series called the Shadow Glass.  Set in Elizabethan England with lovely art I picked up the first issue and just couldn't find it interesting.  Apparently I wasn't the only one because Dark Horse dropped it and the creator (Aly Fell) had to go through a print on demand company to get the last two issues published.  Dark Horse are printing the trade next year so I might pick it up if I see it on offer anywhere.

here ends my longest post in a long time.  Now who's gonna start the "Comics to look forward to in 2017" thread.
#30
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
26 November, 2016, 08:42:26 PM
A murderous, homophobic, corrupt, tin-pot dictator who subjugated millions of people has died (thirty years too late in my opinion) and the left is acting like a holy saint has passed away.  Fucking hell the man was one of the last hold outs of an outdated, evil ideology responsible for more death and suffering than fascism.

I hope he rots in hell