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#1
Quoth Rich Johnston, over at Bleedingcool:

QuoteHidden in a piece for the Daily Record, comes the news that after Grant Morrison has finished writing the DinoGsaurs Vs Aliens movie for Barry Sonnenfied, he'll be writing a movie based on the 2000AD comic character created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons in 1982, Rogue Trooper.

The lead character, Rogue, is a futuristic gentically modified soldier grown as much as he is trained into the role, acccompanied by three sentient computers, each with the personality of a different, deceased soldier. These are manifest as his gun, backpack and helmet.

After Judge Dredd, Rogue is probably 2000AD's most popular character. I can hear Simon Pegg screaming at this moment, desperare for a part.

However the odds are that Sam Wothington wll be up for the role, as it his his company that is working on the project – Full Clip Production, who were previously attached to comics-to-film project, Damaged and Last Days Of American Crime. Will he go back in the blue?

#2
General / Frank Miller...
29 December, 2008, 03:30:03 PM
Rabid review for "The Spirit" have reminded me of Crazy Frank's long lost unlamented Dredd cover.  Does anyone have a .jpg?  I can't find it online anywhere.
#3
Off Topic / A Bus Campaign worth donating to...?
21 October, 2008, 05:10:41 PM
Submitted without comment:

//http://www.justgiving.com/atheistbus
#4
Books & Comics / Ghost Rider...
27 June, 2008, 05:57:23 PM
Seems utterly appropriate that my first post on this here new forum (very shiny, Wake -- good job) should be an act of shameless whorebaggery.

Lobster Random's back very soon - huzzah, hurrah, yay - but here's why it took so long: //http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080627-DannyKetchmini.html.
#5
Off Topic / Alien Footage: A challenge.
31 May, 2008, 12:26:09 PM
If you haven't seen the footage, well... Don't get your hopes up.

But here's the story, the video, and a challenge:

Link: http://simonspurrier.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Memespotter's Paradise.

#6
Film & TV / Del Toro to direct Hobbit Movies...
25 April, 2008, 11:50:46 AM
"According to studio New Line, the first will be an adaptation of The Hobbit, the novel Tolkien published before his Lord of the Rings cycle.

The second will be an original story focusing on the 60 years between the book and the beginning of the Rings trilogy."

Uh-oh...  Brace-brace-brace for the waves of Fanger.



Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7366375.stm" target="_blank">Del Toro to direct Hobbit Movies...

#7
With apologies for starting yet another thread about this puppy, I bring you http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=150677">FREE GASTRIC JOY.

Issue 1, online in its entirety, for the exclusive and gratis pleasure of them as ain't not seen nuffink yet.
#8
Help! / Asus EEE - Availability
06 March, 2008, 10:10:52 AM
Anyone know where I can pick up one of these at a not-too-ridiculous price, without having to wait eighteen years for a new delivery?

-s
#9
Finally, a date!

Sneak preview right HERE.

Plans to put Episode 1 online in its entirety are also afoot.  Watch this space.

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#10
Books & Comics / GUTSVILLE ISSUE 3
20 December, 2007, 02:19:55 PM
More self-pimping whorebaggery.  If you don't like it please place your faith in my eternal damnation, and karmic balance shall be swiftly restored.

First: an apology.  I'd expected Gutsville Issue #3 to be out on shelves at least a month ago.  Due to a series of unforseen Real World nastinessess that have befallen my long-suffering Pencil Monkey, delays have mounted with frightening rapidity.

But Be Not Afraid.  The third installment in the official BEST COMIC STORY* EVER should be with us shortly after the birth-pains of 2008 have passed.

To whet your appetites we've prepared a mucus-spattered preview to keep you smiling.  Cherish its gastric ickiness during the long Christmas Drought.

MAKE IT PUKE!







* (set inside a giant stomach)

Link: http://www.gutsville.com/previews.html" target="_blank">ISSUE 3 - SNEAK PEEK

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#11
Off Topic / Cast ye thy Pod -- 2kad 'n stuff.
18 December, 2007, 12:36:21 AM
Heads Up: Resonance FM just put online a little interview  I did at the Birmingham Comic show.  

Not *entirely* self-pluggage, here, 'cos there's plenty of stuff in there about the awesomness of 2000AD, the best ways of Getting In, the difference between writing for the Mighty Organ and working on yankee stuff, etc etc.

Link: http://www.archive.org/details/PanelBordersTheWorkOfSimonSpurrier" target="_blank">Linky linky.

#12
Books & Comics / Pratchett - Not Dead... Yet.
12 December, 2007, 02:38:09 PM
I used to be a biiiig fan of Pratchett's.  Less so now, but even so -- some very sad news:

Link: http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3689" target="_blank">Early Onset Alzheimers.

#13
Off Topic / Death Ray
22 November, 2007, 03:59:55 PM
Anyone here get today's Death Ray magazine yet?  I was supposed to be in the "Deep Thought" (no laughing) section, but I can't find a copy for love nor money in my sleepy little 'berg.

Ma Spurrier demands all cuttings for the Scrapbook, so if it's in print this month I'll make the trip into town to pick it up.  Can anyone confirm/deny?
#14
Links / Website Ahoy
08 November, 2007, 11:10:49 AM
I've finally sorted myself a little corner of the Interweb.  It's all pretty simple stuff (I'm a fucking writer - bells and whistles be damned!), but it was way beyond my paltry web-fu nonetheless.  Many thanks to Mr Carroll for his patient help.

I'll be trying to update the blog fairly regularly over the coming weeks and months.  All sorts of terrifying developments are rattling about at the moment - the World Of Publishing is Scary And Wrong - so I figured it'd be sort of amusing to document them.  When my career as a novelist officially crashes and burns it'll be bittersweet to look back and see where it all went wrong.

Anyway.  Check it our or don't.

s

Link: http://www.simonspurrier.co.uk" target="_blank">Simon Spurrier - Contravening Human Writes

#15
Books & Comics / Silver Surfer: In Thy Name
06 November, 2007, 11:10:35 AM
... is shipping this week.

It's my first foray into Superhero Stuff (if you can call a mercurial cosmic guru a Superhero), and it's drawn by the truly fantastic Tan Eng Huat.  He's used this amazing grey-wash over his inks, so I'm curious to see how the colourist has handled it.

Anyway.  Should be fun.

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#16
Help! / Web Design
05 November, 2007, 01:00:30 AM
Howdo.

Here's the skinny - please refrain from laughter at the technostupidity I'm about to demonstrate.

In a moment of boredom t'other day I decided to build myself a simple little website.  I'd already registered a domain-name yonks ago, and have been half-planning to do something like this for ages.  I don't have the hottest software, but then I really only want/need a very functional sort of website: forget the bells and whistles.

I promptly put a site together - 12 pages, pretty bland stuff - and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it all was.  After I'd figured out the whole FTP thing (this took a lot of patient explaining by a pal), I uploaded my site and prepared to bask in glory.

I'm skipping forwards a few hours now, to the moment when it slowly dawned on me that the software I'd been using - despite being full of "publish to web" type options - was in fact not a web design programme at all, but a DTP package.  Foolishness, thy name is MS Publisher.

I've since got my hands on a copy of MS Frontpage.

"No worries", I told myself - "this'll be a doddle."  I had all the content worked out, a nice simple little design all set up - surely it was just a matter of cutting and pasting from one MS application to another?

Reality bites very slowly.

So.  My appeal to those of you who know more than me about technstuff (all of you) is this:  Is there an easy way to shunt content from a .pub file into a MS Frontpage html?  Or is anyone so freakishly quick and slick at using a web-buildy stuff that they could effortlessly transfer one set of words, pictures, and dividing lines into another format without breaking a sweat?

As I say, all the content is written-up and etc.  I just need someone to help me... y'know... put it all together.

Advice/volunteers/fairy godmothers?

I can offer beer, Gutsvilles, acknowledgment-page textual handjobbery and Maximum Kudos.
#17
Help! / Current Population of Mega City One...?
24 October, 2007, 11:42:30 AM
Anyone?  
#18
Help! / Scots!
06 September, 2007, 12:57:43 PM
Could do with a little writerly advice of the Scottish variety.  

I'm required, for reasons too dull to go into, to write several blog entries in the character of an angry Glaswegian.  Now... It's one thing to write dialogue for a chap with a heavy accent, but text is a different kettle of fish: it tends to do away with all the flourishes, abbreviations and slang phrases that betray a speaker's nationality.

So the question is: how would a reader *know* from the language employed in the blog, without needing to be told, that the author is a not-well-educated Glaswegian?

I'm turning mainly to the Scots among us here, but anyone's observations are welcome.  To what extent do accents shine-through in blogs?  I can conceive of a few obvious words flagging it up ("wee" instead of "little", etc), but is it plausible that a blogger would be writing "couldnae" and all that?  

My instinct says no, but maybe there's some godawful accent-reflecting TXT SPK I could let this bloke slip into?  I'm keen to give it a spice of overt Scottishness without descending into daft cliches.

Any advice, examples or fried Mars bars gratefully received.
#19
Folks -

I'll be away on a beach for the couple of weeks immediately before this, so I thought I'd bounce-in with an early heads-up.

I'll be signing my novel Contract at the big Forbidden Planet superstore on Shaftesbury Avenue in London on Saturday the 6th of October from 1-2pm.  I think Frazer will be hanging around too to sign some Gutsville copies in stock.

The novel is only released on the 4th, so this'll be my first Pretending To Be A Real Author gig.  It'd be great to meet/catch-up-with/mud-wrestle any of you folks who can make it, and I'm pretty sure we'll repair to the pub as soon as the whole harrowing experience is over, if anyone fancies a beery natter.


Essentially I'm proposing an hour of hanging about among comics, shamelessly geeking-out, trading signatures, and then fucking-off for grog.  Helping me to not look like a desperate gimmer sat alone in a corner is a bonus.  Come!

Hope to see you there,

-s

Link: http://www.londonfreelist.com/details.asp?id=22279" target="_blank">http://www.londonfreelist.com/details.asp?id=22279

#20
Books & Comics / Gutsville Reprint
31 July, 2007, 12:55:39 PM
Just quickly, with apologies for off-topicness: I've had a couple of enquiries about getting hold of Issue #1 of Gutsville.  It's been sold out everywhere since last month, but thankfully - as of this week (or next, depending on how efficient Diamond are feeling) - there's a reprint available with a sexy new cover.

As ever, if your local shop hasn't got it: Ask!  If shop owners aren't aware of a demand, they'll never know to satisfy it.

Cheers!

-s

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