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Did anyone buy Zenith yet?

A mate of my mate said he's got 2 copies already, we are going down the park to look at them.

You make them sound like some tattered jazz mags you found under a hedge.

THAT'S AN 'O' NOT A 'U'

Actur?

Thanks!  It's beginning to make sense now.  I love quantum physics, but I'm really shit at understanding it properly.
I'd heard that Democritus came up with the idea of atoms, but as far as I can see, it was just an astonishingly good guess.

Fair point.  Who's the middle chap, though? I have a feeling I'll be appalled at the answer.

What I've often wondered is, how the feck did they discover the existence of atoms back in the 19th century?  Anyone got an easy-to-understand explanation for that?

Strange how little Zenith actually contibutes though - guess they couldn't sell the Heseltine like St.John as the hero.

Yeah, that's what I loved about Zenith as a character.  He never undergoes any kind of cliched Damascene epiphany, he just gets smugger, nastier and lazier as the serious goes on - eventually he isn't even a reluctant hero; he's just not a hero at all.
St John was always a brilliant character too - maybe it stretches credibility a little bit to see a (presumably) anarchist hippy become one of Thatcher's lackeys in less than 20 years, but as the MP he becomes he's totally convincing.
I also consider the dialogue of the story to be the most convincing that 2000ad has ever published.  That one frame where the kid pitifully cries that the Lloigor killed his mum is absolutely heartbreaking, even without any prior knowledge of the character speaking.  Better than any 'They killed my parents.  Now they gotta pay' nonsense any day.

Think so, aye.

I remember a great story by Nicholas Barber, possibly in a Mega-Special.  A failed cadet was sent home to his mother, who was deeply disturbed at having to live with a brain-washed human machine.  Eventually [spoiler]in an act of sort-of compassion the Justice Dept has him lobotomised, leaving him a near-vegetable but a nice boy.[/spoiler]  Great last line too:[spoiler]  'In many places this wouldn't be considered a happy ending. But in Mega City 1, it's the best you'll get.'[/spoiler]

I often think Nicholas Barber really got Mega-City 1 down to a T in his two one-offs, and could have been a very good Dredd scripter if he hadn't gone off to be a journalist.

So, how much is this going to cost me?

The collection will feature all four series, or 'phases' as well as later stories by Morrison and Mark Millar.

Wait, what? When did Millar ever write Zenith?

He did a text story about an old British working-class man being kept as an exhibit in a superhuman-dominated parallel world.  Not shit, not great.

But Jesus, Zenith collected, eh?   Alan Moore will be writing the next Halo Jones book next.

Suddenly it's become an Andrew Currie-style Dredd.  Like it.

Certainly.  Seriously, it's a piece of piss - just grab some glossy board, some old magazines, a sock and two cans of spraypaint.  You'll also notice I bottled it when it came to the big tree in the foreground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJy-jBsD62E

My first shot at spraypainting.  No artistic skills required, just followed instructions on YouTube

Now the thread nuking has begun, let's kill the Political Thread!

The Political Thread can't die.  Its role is to act as a sort of ideological concentration camp, containing people's more obnoxious, offensive and downright different-from-mine opinions, to stop them sullying other perfectly good threads.  You know, a nice sort of concentration camp.

-sigh- It's back to the Primark catalogue for me, so...   

(Mmmm, thermal leggings).

I've just been arrested while shunning in front of the Ann Summers store.

I forgot it was called shunning.  I'd just like to point out at this stage that I made that up.  Thank you, thank you

Aye, and I reckon it's this:  Fatty Kim has just remembered his weapons are shit.