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I am tempted! Prog 225 might just be the finest issue of 2000ad ever.

Welcome aboard! New reader? Returning reader? How did you find 2000ad and wheer did you hear about the 40th event?

Welcome aboard! I am going to plug Nikolai Dante as a must read strip outside of the Dredd world but there are of course many many other brilliant strips to choose from.

What makes Nemesis essential reading for 2000ad fans is the main villain Torquemada. He is the best villain ever to appear in 2000ad - perhaps Judge Death is the only other one who comes even close.

For me it was prog 300. I was 9 and only bought it for the free gift but after reading it I went straight back to the shop and bought progs 298 and 299 which were also on the shelf.

Sam Slade was my favourite and was what hooked me in.

I can see where you're coming from but they're launching the Switch with a Mario game 9 months off, a 3 year old Mario Kart game, a Zelda that's available on the previous hardware and no Metroid game on the horizon.
What exactly is there to get excited about?

Well, it is a pretty amazing thiing for children - remember that children have not seen it all before. The portability aspect is pretty nifty for children as they can play in their rooms when they can't use the TV and they can also take it to friends houses to play. Children are far more likely to do this sort of thing than adults are.

It is okay that the Mario game is a while off as this thing won't hit its stride until xmas anyway. Most children are not fortnate enough to get these things given to them during the year.

Nintendo can re-hash old games like they do because they are high quality and a large proportion of children won't have played them before because they were too young or not even born when it originally came out.

There is nothing to get excited about for young children when it comes to PS4 and XBox One as there is barely anything on those that caters for them. This machine is the only console on the market for the younger age group and it's biggest competitor is actually the ipad and iphones of the parents. The games on those are far cheaper but few are in the same league as the top Nintendo releases.

There is a lot of talk about 3rd party software here but do Nintendo really need it? They have set themselves apart from MS and Sony by keeping focused on the younger market, instead of the young adult market of the other two and so they don't need Call Of Duty or Grand Theft Auto type stuff. They have the potential to sell millions of copies of their own top franchises (Mario platformers, Mario Kart, Zelda, Metroid, etc) and at a high price point too.
Wii U may have confused the parents as it was sometimes perceived as an add on to the Wii so they need to make clear that the new one is something new and then they will likely have a success given the quality of their games.

The thing with symbols is that they are easily misappropriated by others. This doesn't mean that they should not be used.

Take the Swastika for example: a Hindu symbol for many years before being hijacked by the Nazi's and turned on its side! Should Hindu's stop using it because others might be offended? I would emphatically say, No!

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I used to live in Wood Green in North London where there was shop that sold fairly exotic fruit, veg, foodstuffs as well as accessories, jewelry, scarves, and various other stuff and their plastic carrier bags had columns of swastikas on either side. I was never sure what the shop was supposed to be as it was a strange hybrid of oriental Indian culture with Caribean and South American stuff thrown in for good measure. I was fairly certain it was not some kind of right wing extremist thing though.

I think that maybe because it ended up on a list of duff stories in the prog.

I'm not saying I love it, but I didn't hate it either.

I don't know if it was intentional but it is precisely because of this that the Dead Man worked so well for me. The Dead Man seemed similar at first to Hell Trekkers in that it looked similar and was another Dreddless story set in the Cursed Earth.

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Hi Peter, I have always loved your art. It sounds like a truly awful ordeal you have been through. Get well soon and take care.

I have seen 41 of the current top 250 which is more than expected as I am not much a film fan. The only one on the list that is onw of my top 5 favourites is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I mainly like comedy and Bedazzled (1967), Airplane!, and Withnail and I don't get a mention in that list since there is almost no comedy there. Two M Python films make the list though and they are pretty good.

I think I have seen Shawshank Redemption because I recognise the white actor being in it and I know it is set in a prison but I can't remember anything else about it. I am sure it is not a patch on Airplane! (not my exclamation  mark - that is in the title of the film),

For me, Time Killer was where Slaine took off and became a proper 2000ad classic.

The story for me, but if the art is really bad that can sap my will to continue with the strip.

I must say though that stuff by Garth Ennis, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and the like has been pretty poor.

I think it was necessary to go through that period for us to end up where we are now where we have multiple writers who can produce great Dredd stuff. You have to see it all go wrong to get a better view of what is right about a good Dredd strip.

Having said that, I quite like several of Garth Ennis's ones.