Topics

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1725211,00.html" target="_blank">Grauniad Obituary

http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/ivor.jpg">

Possibly the strangest thing I've seen in a long time, courtesy of wfmu.org.  I think this is worthy of a horribly off-topic caption competition, so jump to it.  Most entertaining entry by Monday wins (a) a lifetime supply of eggy-in-a-basket or (b) whatever random tat I happen to have lying around the place.

minghttp://img24.imagevenue.com/initial/loc188/ab44c_incroyable.jpg">

There's a trailer up for the new Dan Clowes / Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Bad Santa) movie.  Looks interesting, if a little different to the original story (which I seem to remember mainly just laid into art-school sterotypes) through the addition of a romantic sub-plot.  I wonder if it will ever get to Norway?

Link: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/artschoolconfidential/" target="_blank">trailer

Apologies in advance, but it's time for some winter cheer.

Yes, it's time for 'the poodle game'.  Substitute one word from the title of a film (or films) of your choosing with the word POODLE.  Why?  Does there have to be a reason for everything?

My all time favourites:
My Big Fat Greek Poodle
Das Poodle

Over to you...

Does anyone have any news about this?  Rufus?  Anyone?  To say I'm eagerly awaiting this is a bit of an understatement...

Link: http://www.comxcomics.com/development.html" target="_blank">ComX in development...

http://www.comxcomics.com/developmentpopups/heavyplantdev5.html">

Well I always thought the giant underwater scorpions in Flesh were just stuff and nonsense, but then I read the article linked below, and now I'm converted.  I'm expecting someone to dig up big hungry and / or a one eyed tyrannosaur any day now...

Shakara! - sorry, wrong strip - I meant Aiiiieeeee!!!

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1654629,00.html" target="_blank">Giant underwater scorpions.

http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/mediumres/93.jpg">

...and here is an entertaining crop of lines from Star Wars translated into Chinese and then back into English for a dodgy pirate DVD.

I particularly like "I was just made by the Presbyterian Church"

This reminds me of an old list of subtitles from Kung Fu flicks, including something along the lines of "Ya-hah - Evil Spider Woman, I have you now by the short rabbits"

Link: http://americaninlebanon.blogspot.com/2005/07/backstroke-of-west.html" target="_blank">Backstroke of the West

I thought this article might strike a chord with certain boarders...

Link: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1536978,00.html" target="_blank">Oompa loompa!

Right all, I'm off on me hols - off to Montreal for the weekend, then almost four weeks of playing around Vancouver and the Canadian Rockies!  Yee-haa!

Anyone else heading anywhere nice this summer?

Cheers
minghttp://img14.imgspot.com/u/05/153/13/58198822nipNNXph.jpg">

I just listened to this BBC radio thing, and thought it may interest some folks here...  Lots of funny snippets about the origins and history of those scary dustbin things; enjoy!

p.s. Does anyone have a copy of the Dalek Christmas song?

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/artsdrama.shtml?bbc7/life_as_a_dalek" target="_blank">Daleks-a-go-go

I saw this and just kept wondering where Captain Haddock was.

If Ed's lurking, he might like this.

Link: http://www.apple.com/pro/video/cousteau/" target="_blank">Red sea sharks

Anyone else picked this up?

Geoff Darrow's other stuff is great (Hard Boiled, Big Guy and Rusty the Robot), and this looks like more of the same!  Can we get him on Dredd, please?http://img14.imgspot.com/?u=05/58/14/shaolininterior.jpg">

http://img8.imgspot.com/u/04/321/14/littlenap.jpg">

[Rogue Trooper]

Having mis-read Larf's thread title, I give you this one.

I'll start.

Rogue Trooper
Well, he has a flying, talking hat and the ability to disco dance like nobody's business.  These are his good points.  A lone crusader in search of the Traitor General?  Billy no-mates, more like.

[Strontium Dog Day Afternoon]

Strontium Dog Day Afternoon

Johnny Alpha and two accomplices are besieged in a bank after his attempt to steal enough money to pay for his male lover's sex change operation goes awry.



Any others?

[How did Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd horrify fans of the British comic 2000AD in its portrayal of the legendary lawman?]

From a quiz on the Guardian Film site:

How did Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd horrify fans of the British comic 2000AD in its portrayal of the legendary lawman?
?
- It gave Dredd a first name: Graham
- It showed Dredd's face
- It was set in Megacity Two, not Megacity One
- It was set in the 18th century and made Dredd a periwigged dandy with a penchant for snuff and a lapdog named Moncrieff


Heh.  If only they'd chosen the last one...

Rather than let Byron's HUGE pics, bits of scanners, etc. put anyone off, here they are in all their glory.

Nice work, M. Virgo!http://img3.imgspot.com/u/04/202/22/byronv1.jpg">

Anybody have any more info on the planned Romero zombie-fest?

Yay - more slow zombies!

Link: http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1262804,00.html" target="_blank">Romero zombies - the best zombies in the world. Pr

Fancy a pair of these?

Link: http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm

Okay, so I'm stuck in not-so-tropical Canada, still waiting for winter to end.  This means I have time to ponder life's great questions like "if Mr. T is so scared of flying, how did he get to Vietnam?"

Anyway, I've been reading a bunch of back Progs, and it got me wondering about the first appearance of Lady Judges.  Any advance on Prog 127? (Classic Bolland story, The Fog, with an un-named Fem-Judge.  I know she's a lady 'cos she's got lipstick and bumps, and she's got her badge on the wrong side).

Prior to this, I can't spot any Judges-with-bumps, at least in the Progs I have here.  I did notice a letter (Prog 124) demanding that Tharg print a story with a heroine rather than a hero - apparently "script robot Howard was supposed to write a story about a female judge but was unfortunately frightened by a dog on the way to the Command Module" (so we got the Doomsday Dogs instead) but a Judge Heroine was in the works.

A few progs later we got the first (?) named Judge (Harkness, In Death of a Judge) but she got a bit of a bum deal to say the least.  So I guess the first Lady Judge of a heroine persuasion would be ...Anderson.  Or am I wrong?


Anyway "Lady Judges, good or bad?"

And which fictional / non-fictional character would you like to see get a Lady Judge Makeover?

I vote for Judge Bridget Jones
(Tuesday.  My arse looks huge in this uniform; too many mock chocks v. v. bad. etc.)