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#1
General / Re: MEGAZINE Cover of the Year Vote
30 December, 2017, 11:04:07 PM
1st: 390 - The World's End!
2nd: 383 - Riot Act!
3rd: 385 - A Town Called Malice!
#2
General / Re: 2000AD Cover of the year Vote 2017
30 December, 2017, 10:59:49 PM
1st: 2058 - A Frosty Reception
2nd: 2037 - Unexpected Item in the Fragging Area
3rd: 2016 - Texas Hold 'Em
#3
Books & Comics / Re: FACEACHE: The FIRST 100 SCRUNGES
01 December, 2017, 01:51:42 PM
I just had a reply from Oliver explaining the problems and everything's good from my end. I'm sorry to hear about the distribution problems, although ironically that worked in my favour by getting a correct copy of the book in my hands. I'm glad to hear that only a small number of the hardcovers are affected as it's an extremely nice production as it would have been a shame if the entire print run had been affected.
#4
Games / Re: Last game played...
01 December, 2017, 11:34:27 AM
Mass Effect for the PS3. I didn't have a PS3 so bought a refurbished 250GB Slim console from CEX for £80 last week and downloaded the PS3 Trilogy for £7 from the PlayStation Store. Only ever played the ME Trilogy on PC before and only ever played FemShep before, so I'm trying out BroShep for the first time. (Toyed with recreating my PC Renegon FemShep but then thought better of it. She was great but let's not spoil the memories, huh?) Just rescued Liara from Therum so I've got Noveria and Feros to complete.
#5
Books & Comics / Re: FACEACHE: The FIRST 100 SCRUNGES
01 December, 2017, 11:24:28 AM
I received my copy of Faceache Vol 1 hardcover this week but unfortunately it appears some copies have a printing error where pages 33-48 have been replaced with a duplicate set of pages 49-64. I've only seen this mentioned on an (unofficial) 2000AD Facebook group and haven't seen any official comments anywhere. Unexpectedly, I received a second copy yesterday (I only ordered one and I'm not sure why I've got two*) which has all the the right pages in the right order, so it's not every copy that's affected. The first copy was #46/150 and the second was #62/150. Does anyone know if Rebellion are aware of the fault and, if so, what measures they may be taking to resolve it? (I've emailed Oliver at Rebellion this morning about the matter so hope to hear back from him in due course.)

*I'm wondering if Rebellion discovered the printing fault in a small(?) batch of copies and just sent corrected copies to affected buyers automatically, but then I wonder why no official announcement or explanation?
#6
Quote from: robert_ellis on 09 November, 2017, 12:53:12 PM
The Anderson Print is sold out. Hope some boarders were lucky.
Indeed, it was the one print I really wanted. :D I also decided to get Carlos's B&W Strontium Dog variant as well (to complement my '1977-2017' Dredd print):

#7
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
16 October, 2017, 06:24:17 PM
Quote from: Rara Avis on 14 October, 2017, 09:25:57 PM
Just back from The Snowman. I honestly can't recommend this movie .. I felt there were bits in the trailer that never made it to the screen cut and the movie (like the book apparently) leaves a few strands of the plot unresolved. If you absolutely had to, it's not the worst way to spend a few hours but don't expect much going in.
100% agree. I was slightly concerned during the credits when I saw there were two separate editors - the legendary Thelma Schoonmaker and Claire Simpson (not a name I recognise but she edited Platoon, Someone To Watch Over Me & Wall Street, amongst others, so clearly not a neophyte) - but there are entire scenes/sequences in the trailer that simply don't feature in the final movie or are heavily truncated to within a gnat's crotchet of their life and it's almost as if they shot two films and left the better one on the cutting room floor.

How the Norwegian PD solve any crimes at all is the greatest mystery in the film. No-one in the department seems to have a clearly defined role or any sense of process and Fassbender's Harry Hole just wanders around picking up other people's files, having a shufty at cases he's not been assigned to and then sticking his nose in. Loads of time is spend on [spoiler]an utterly inconsequential Winter Olympics bid[/spoiler] which doesn't go anywhere and is swiftly dropped the moment it becomes even less relevant to the main storyline (despite there being the whiff of a Harvey Weinstein-esque scandal at its core.)

When it comes to the ending/reveal it's almost as though everyone got bored and decided sod it, let's just finish up and go home. To be honest, I can't say I blame them. Avoid, unless you want to see how far Val Kilmer has fallen from his glory days.
#8
I never read MISTY or SCREAM back in the day so I don't have much nostalgia for the strips revived for The Scream & Misty Special - although I do remember 'The Thirteenth Floor' & 'Death Wish' from Eagle - but I enjoyed the new stories a great deal.

Given that I didn't know anything about their originals, I thought the best of them was 'The Return of Black Max' with Simon Coleby's wonderfully moody art but 'The Dracula Files', 'The Return of the Sentinels' and 'Deathman' were all good potential launch pads for new stories and I'd be up for any continuing series. 'The Thirteenth Floor' had nice art but I wasn't a great fan of Max in the first place (despite the great José Ortiz) and 'The Fate of the Fairy Hunter', well, I doubt I'm the intended demographic for it so we'll let that pass. :)

Overall, a very nice Special. 9/10.
#9
Glenn Fabry's Diamond Exclusive cover for the Scream & Misty Special (source: MultiversityComics.com):
#10
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
25 September, 2017, 12:07:04 PM
Went and saw mother! last night. Can't say I was particularly impressed. Like last year's Nocturnal Animals, mother! is unquestionably well-made and, to be sure, there's the germ of an interesting exploration of the (male) creative urge somewhere at its centre, but I felt the narrative was largely formulaic, the allegory rather obvious, and rather like Nocturnal Animals, not without a trace of misogyny (although unlike NA I think it's unintentional or, perhaps, unavoidable given the allegory Aronofsky depicts). [spoiler]Narratively the film is 2 parts Polanski (Repulsion/Rosemary's Baby), 1 part Kubrick (The Shining) and 1 part Greenaway (The Baby of Mâcon) filtered through director/writer Aronofsky's own fever dream. And 'fever dream' is the only way to make a lick of sense of the film, which scotches any sense of peril for Jennifer Lawrence's central character.[/spoiler] I wouldn't say it's not worth seeing - and I can see Lawrence getting an Oscar nod for it - but it's perhaps a film you wouldn't want to expend anything other than your time on. In which case, wait for Film4 to screen it in a couple of years time.
#11
News / Re: Zenith returns in Prog 2050!
23 September, 2017, 11:49:51 PM
Quote from: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 22 September, 2017, 10:21:38 AM
My main issue with the prog is that I don't like them as physical objects...
Good News! You can now buy the prog in a digital, non-physical, format. And, as a reward from the benevolent Mighty One for not participating in the weekly felling of the Earth's tree population, a digital subscription is cheaper than the print edition. :D

#12
News / Re: Zenith returns in Prog 2050!
20 September, 2017, 01:30:41 PM
Quote from: Frank on 19 September, 2017, 10:29:46 PM
Quote from: Frank on 19 September, 2017, 10:01:33 PM
I agree that something's gone from (Yeowell's) art by Phase IV, but I blame that on having to alter his style for The Invisibles.

Nobody google that to make sure the chronology checks out. Trust me, it's fine.
There's a lot to like in Yeowell's art, even if Phase III is the *ahem* zenith of his career but I confess I never got on with Steve's work in 'The Red Seas'; it was too 'open', had too much white space, and whenever I looked at it the lines just slid off the page. Like the bottom four panels in the page below, I find my eye doesn't know where to focus and I lose the sense of narrative:

Doubtless it's just me but I feel had 'The Red Seas' been a coloured strip, a la Phase IV, I would have enjoyed it more.  :-\

But I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like the recent Milligan/Dayglo 'Bad Company' strip. Some thing's are better left in the drawer.  :(
#13
News / Re: Zenith returns in Prog 2050!
19 September, 2017, 01:40:56 PM
Quote from: Steven Denton on 19 September, 2017, 09:37:46 AM...Zenith is NOT a staggering work of literary originality...It's a knock off Alan more with a little HP Lovecraft, brilliantly repackaged for the Stock Aitken and Waterman generation.
Phase III, in particular, also owes a sizeable debt to Mike Moorcock (the Multiverse, Conjunction of the Million Spheres, 93 Mantra's Chaos symbol, etc.), an author Grant has ripped off 'paid homage' on more than one occasion, as well as the aforementioned Moore and Lovecraft.

Of course, it's not so much whether a work is especially original or not - there's an argument that originality is very rarely viewed sympathetically but rather it's the refinement of existing ideas that garner the most plaudits - but whether it does anything interesting. I think Morrison's Zenith was certainly interesting. Whether any non-Morrison originated material can also be interesting will be down to the specific creative teams involved (although I would say Yeowell's involvement in any future projects has to be pretty much essential for them to have any sort of validity).
#14
News / Re: Zenith returns in Prog 2050!
15 September, 2017, 12:59:11 PM
Phase III, especially for Steve Yeowell's wonderfully chiaroscuro artwork, which he's never bettered since (imho).
#15
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
06 September, 2017, 10:00:34 PM
Top Gun + Goodfellas + Lord of War = American Made. It's the sort of film that Tom Cruise can make in his sleep, so not particularly stretching his acting chops but I enjoyed it. Doug Liman brings the kind of directorial and editing flourishes, including splicing archive news footage and clips of older movies into the mix, that I quite like in a semi-fictionalised biopic.