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#31
General / Re: Why no 2000 AD calendar?
08 January, 2024, 10:17:24 AM
I think that 2017 one in the link is the one that was listed but didn't ever appear to come out.
#32
General / Re: Why no 2000 AD calendar?
02 January, 2024, 01:31:29 PM
There's been two that I know of - one back in the 1980s, featuring Titan cover artwork, the second in the 2010s.  There was going to be a third, also in the 2010s, I think, but that didn't appear to happen.
#33
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
13 December, 2023, 09:16:16 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 December, 2023, 08:26:34 PMOh no. Only just got my copy of Lifeboat - reading that will be a lot more poignant now
Same here - ordered the day before Ian died, received the day after.  Not read it yet, but I had a quick look through and the saddest page is the one that says "To be continued..."
#34
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
12 December, 2023, 09:33:26 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 November, 2022, 12:02:39 AMWow. Like I said, I was 11.  The telly was showing the Real Ghostbusters to my age group, while Tharg was providing a naked man drinking his own bath broth shortly after shagging a goddess in front of a crowd, and ripping someone's heart out through his throat.

I only found out last month that Winston in the Real Ghostbusters was played by Arsenio Hall* (best known to British audiences from the role in Coming to America).

* series one to three only.
#35
News / Re: Send your love to Ian Gibson
10 December, 2023, 03:26:45 PM
All public posts from Ian's FB.

Quote from: IanGibson2 December at 19:56  ·
free at llllllllllllast

6th December
Quote from: IanGibson3 d  ·
Not feeling so good but thanks for all your kind messages and Merry Xmas to all, cheers

8th December
Quote from: IanGibson2 d  ·
goodbye thanks for all your love.
#36
News / Re: Send your love to Ian Gibson
10 December, 2023, 02:38:39 PM
from the Imagination of Ian Gibson facebook group, posted around noon today.
QuoteSteve Bull  · 2 h  ·
Hi All
I've been asked to share by Ian's family:
'Ian is now under sedation and his wishes are to remain this way for the time that remains.
We'd like to thank everyone for their kind messages and all were read to  Ian whilst he was awake.'
I'm sure each message provided a special feeling and I'd like to share something Ian said but long ago that sums up the humour we all witnessed though his work and knowing him.
'I'm not very good at this dying thing'
What a legend😁
I'm always reminded at times like this of a favourite quote
Don't cry because it's over
Smile because it happened
❤️
Steve
#37
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
07 December, 2023, 12:10:22 PM
Benjamin Zephaniah, 65 - writer, poet.
#38
Off Topic / Re: Comic shop memories
07 December, 2023, 08:43:43 AM
Quote from: rogue69 on 01 December, 2023, 09:19:46 PMMy first comic shop was American Comics Enterprise (ACE Comics) in Colchester in the mid 80's. From finding the odd American comics in local newsagents to finding a shop full of DC & Marvel comics alongside old British ones. I mainly started going there to rebuy old 2000ADs I was made to throw away by my parents then found comics with names I recognized from 2000Ad like Marshal Law, Luther Arkwright, Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N, Outcasts & other pre-Vertigo comics which set my love of US comics. It is just a shame that ACE Comics has now moved away from concentrating on the shop to mainly be a online company

The comic shop where I completed my 2000AD collection (as in the last back prog to fill in the gap).  Also bought my copy of Prog 2 from there for much less than it would fetch these days.
#39
Help! / Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
28 November, 2023, 02:27:34 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 30 September, 2023, 09:13:30 PMThe obvious one would be MCM in May as it covers everything from comics, cosplay, books, table top games etc. Hotels are very expensive around the excel but if you go out a bit further i.e. Stratford you can get straight on the tube/DLR to the venue. Only downfall is that it normally falls on the same weekend as Lawless

Excel is on the Lizzy line (though it's the south branch, so from the Essex branch they'd have to go down to Whitechapel, then head back to Custom House from there).  There's no direct DLR from Stratford, but they could change at Canning Town.
#40
Off Topic / Re: Comic shop memories
27 November, 2023, 12:20:10 PM
Now that I've "Um, actually"d other people's contributions, here's mine.

My first comic shop was Fantasy World in Hanley (had adverts in 2000AD and White Dwarf so many here will be familiar with it, even if they've never been to the Midlands).  At that point it was RPG and games downstairs (though I think it was the year that Warhammer Battle was released, so mainly games other than wargames) and upstairs was almost entirely comics and books, along with T-shirts and badges.  Over the next few years it had more merchandise and martial arts equipment for a while.  When I visited the area again it appeared to have been bought out by Forbidden Planet, or maybe it just closed and an FP opened nearby.
#41
Off Topic / Re: Comic shop memories
27 November, 2023, 12:16:54 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 26 November, 2023, 01:41:13 AMForbidden Planet in Denmark Street for me was just the best. It wasn't the same when it moved to New Bond Street, but that was miles ahead of what it is now on Shaftesbury Av. It's hardly even a comic shop now. It's spiritual successor, Orbit has gone now, leaving a huge gap. Only Gosh remains in London. But gone are they days when there were boxes and boxes of back Progs. Guess I should have bought them when I had the chance.
New Oxford Street, not New Bond, and it was Orbital, not Orbit!
#42
Off Topic / Re: Comic shop memories
27 November, 2023, 12:15:49 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 25 November, 2023, 04:04:57 PMPlus Andromeda Books just around the corner and Mega City comics which didn't even bother with tables the one time I managed a visit.

Tables?  Do you mean literal tables in the middle of the shop?  Confused by this - most comic shops I've been to didn't/don't have tables.

QuoteThere was that peculiar place in Ipswich that had stairs just inside the door up to the actual shop itself.
Globe Fantasy Bookshop (Globe Fantasy still appeared on the receipts from Central City Comics when it moved) though I remember the stairs going down from the entrance, not up.
#43
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
22 November, 2023, 09:22:25 AM
Annabel Giles, 64, presenter, model, actor
#44
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
20 November, 2023, 09:38:47 AM
#45
Suggestions / Re: Judge Dredd TV series
16 November, 2023, 12:22:39 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 15 November, 2023, 10:46:23 PM"I don't know Judge Kingsley - what is the difference between a tavern, an inn and a ... one chance - HOTSHOT!"

Thanks to naming one of our four kittens Hotshot, we can't hear that word (or Armour, Hi-Ex or Heatseeker*) without thinking of our cat.

* the word Hotshot appears more than the others, or at least is more prominent when it is mentioned.