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[[/ineed]]

It actually says [spoiler]"Judge Joseph Dredd of Mega-City One, you have something inside you that I [/ineed]".[/spoiler]

Aw. I was really hoping that they would get on board with the fact that the Joe in Dredd should be based on [spoiler]José[/spoiler] and not [spoiler]Joseph[/spoiler].

Yet another case of white, privileged men appropriating something other than them.

Bardinelli, that's who I was thinking of. :p

(EDIT: And while I'm here, not having seen it yet, did they change [spoiler]'Judge José Dredd, you have something I need inside me'[/spoiler]?)

Dredd Not Showing His Face: no spoilers here, but it's the standard, dating back to the Bolland strip where it was covered by a big 'censored' stamp and the perps dropped dead from the paroxysm of seeing the sheer horror of it.

And even if he's had reconstructive surgery and rejuve-treatments, whatever facial features he has under the hood are irrelevant. Dredd's FACE is the one that has the hat on.

Thanks. And I just noticed that i posted this i completely the wrong place.

Then again, if Dickens were alive today, he'd be saying 'Why am I 200 years old?' And also writing something like The Wire, so it's sort of appropriate to Books.

Having finally given in to the pressure of everyone saying it's the Best Thing Evar, I've invested twelve quid in getting season one.

And it is. It's everything I've ever wanted in writing stuff, and it's showing me how to do it every episode. Where's the thread about it?

The (spoiler) is something I've always assumed Dredd to be, and in the actual script I qualified it a bit more for the sake of covering my continuity-bases. Since that was edited down to say it flat-out, I can only assume that it's canon.

Insert smiley.

You do, of course, realise I was saying that as just a general person who writes stuff wherever I happen to, rather than my secret identity of OMG Man, the Man Who Once Got Paid For Something He Wrote Ever and so Must Be Regarded as Some Inside Authority to Whom You Must Kneel?

Who doesn't actually exist. I wish he did.

Here's an end on't:

1) A proper, published graphic novel can be any length it likes and tell the story at any density it likes. You look at how thick it is, look at the price, pays your money and makes your choice.

2) A story in a 22-page monthly, or 6-pages or whatever in a weekly, can clip along and play with the pace and density to quite a wide extent, so long as over that month it's a generally satisfying read. A six-page segment that's All About the Cliffhanger, for example, is perfectly okay, given that the resolution is gonna be coming along quite soon.

3) A monthly publication, selling at like six quid a pop, requires that the material be compressed and encapsulatory, even if it's part of a series. More bang per buck, effectively. It must aspire, at the very least, to have enough density, nuance and ambiguity to be be re-read and reinterpreted over the month until the next one comes out.

4) Twelve pages moving the plot from C to D in a monthly might be permissible is there were any factors that might make the trip a bit more interesting. Yet another sodding frontispiece, then an entire double-page spread of effectively nothing is (almost) literally pissing on the reader with such contempt that one assumes they think it's beer.

These people have pocketed page-rate money with a cynical exercise that cheats the reader who was expecting something good, the publisher who probably thought they were gonna get something good, and the publication that relies on people thinking it might be good. This is my opinion of American Reaper. But then you probably know that anyway.

I'm just wondering what Bragnah's version of it has to do with anything.

It's the single best Shakespeare comedy, redone and rewritten by the nearest person - and I'm really not being hyperbolic about it - to Shakespeare in this modern life. Who wouldn't wanna see it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing_(2012_film)

Just saying.

I'm only saying this cos I happen to be on. But, yes. Yes, it gets better.

Just be prepared to inculcate a state of mind where if you see the words American Reaper, or twelve pages that look like an old photo-story from Jacky lit by fluorescents, can blank over it and pretend the horror never happened, then things will be good.

Just to point out that the jokes I really, really liked in my stuff were cut in the editing stage. Stay tuned for when I finally get around to updating my site, when you can precisely why they were.

Cleopatra 2525    I remember it!

God but it's good, and brought back so many memories. Just picked up the first season box set in Replay for three quid.

Well, Joss obviously did.

You do realise he spent his formative years in the UK, and was exposed to all the really classic SF telly during that time, right?