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being in 0z i don't expect to see this strip (no pun inteneded)for another month or two, but it sounds like some sort of shamanistic ritual to me.

i seriously doubt that anybody remotely connected with 2k or any of you posters out there can truthfully deny ever having masturbated, so why not a character in the comic if it's relevent to the story?

let's face it,it's a lot more honest that john wagner wishing that he & carlos had initially given dredd a bigger gun! (now there's the one person who's most likely to have absteined... ol' stoney face, that is!)

maybe you're all just scared that next time you're deeply engaged in a spot of onansim, visuallising cassandra anderson/galen demarco/really something & truly amazing/metamaid/devlin waugh/[please insert preference here] when all of a sudden mr moth eaten caveman should pop into your mind...

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steven lenfant terrible

well, the story's entitled 'love story III', for grud's sake! i for one would have been completely surprised if bella bagley didn't rate an appearance, so i don't think that any spoiler warning is neccessary.

it would be like sitting down to watch 'dr who: the dalek invasion of earth' & going, "oh, so this one's got daleks in it now." when the dalek emerges from the thames at the end of the first episode...

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steven l'enfant terrible
(i'm comin' down)

doug's reply to scojo in thread 854. sheer, absolute genius.

laughed so much i almost vomitted.

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steven l'enfant terrible
(who's now moved on to 'everything's alright forever'. sorry, wood, but i'm kinda in early 1990s creation mode at the moment. will get back to you regarding cornelius soon).

>and that feeble childish graph paper scribbled Logo replacement for the classic Dredd Logo with badge.

you'll be delighted to hear that this font has been adopted by the Adelaide Festival 2002, in that belle de jour orange at that. gives me quite a chuckle to see it used advertising the likes of michael nyman, nick cave & the bad seeds, david suzuki, fabrik potsdam & do-theatre st petersburg, etc, in highbrow arts press & on the sides of bus shelters...

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steven l'enfant terrible

i was of the understanding that he who isn''t the mighty polar bear was in fact warren ellis... it's no wonder the man can't get round to writing another issue of planetary with the amount of time he spends on the net!



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steven l'enfant terrible

ain't life just grand, milo?

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steven l'enfant terrible
(who as a small boy rated shako higher than dredd)

i'm with wood here.

really & truly is one of my absolute favourite 2000ad strips...a sassy post-literate hanna barbera (circa josie & the pussycats) roadtrip across the ecstasy zeitgeist--featuring two drop dead gorgeous female protagonists & clunky soviet space programme hardware (& laika, oh my f*cking god, it had laika in it!). what was there not to fall in absolute love with?

judge dredd:inferno featured some gobsmackingly gorgeous painted ezquerra art (remember that? carlos was at the absolute height of his powers with the brush during the early 1990s); the layout of the first page alone always takes my breath away.

big dave: brilliant updating of the m.a.ch. one concept. you were repulsed by big dave's attitudes? you were supposed to be! big dave was the ultimate englishman (morrison had previously explored similar territory in "new adventures of hitler"). uproarously hilarious, because morrison & millar were attacking big dave with such manic zeal, laughing at him the whole time.

maniac 5: another highly enjoyable updating of a year-one style thrill. steve yeowell art, cutting edge technological concepts (tele-prescence).

can't add anything to what wood said about slaughterbowl.

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ateven l'enfant terrible
(on my third consecutive listen of the minky new cornelius album 'the point')

>I'd rather the cover was left blank or you dipped a walrus in paint and gave it shock treatment in the hope that a decent cover could be painted .

i take that as a vote for john hickleton then, pvs!

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steven

& if colin's unavailable it would be paradise anow if you could persuade simon harrison to pick up his brushes once again!

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steven l'enfant terrible

just reread my posting & noticed that it should read "rape is a harrowing crime (the motivation for which is power, not the sexual act itself)".

i'll also take this opportunity to expand my closing sentence to "unlike mark millar, who gratuitously uses rape as a threat for its mere shock value alone, which is unconscionable".

britney in zzzenith.com is a metaphor, just as robot archie is. sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy grant's story, blackblood & pvs.

steven l'enfant terrible

my reading of this wasn't that he was attacking britney of a person, but the sexualized pre-adolescent persona that the media has created for her & actively celebrates. rape is a harrowing crime (the motivation for which is power, not the sexual itself), but in the context i think that morrison is justified in using it as a narrative device to ask uncomfotable but valid questions (& yes, i know women who are very dear to me who have been the victims of sexual assualt, as well having dear friends who work with victims of sexual assualt).

unlike mark millar, who uses rape as a threat for its mere shock value alone.

steven l'enfant terrible

was that glinting amongst the guano? zzzenith.com, a wonderful one-off piece of satire. morrison relizes that there is no logical way he can top the threat of the lloigor (spelling? sorry, i'm typing this at work!), so he focuses on another aspect of the series: the social commentary.

what it asks about the hypocrocisy of a society whose sexualises pre-adoloscents whilst simultaneously demonising paedophiles is valid; those very same tabloids that dehumanise these criminals (who are still ultimately people, albeit people who are very ill) printed topless photos of samantha fox (amongst others) at age 16 for the sole purpose of sexual titillation.

& tony blair being the psychic puppet of john st john (who, despite his political affiliations, is ultimately the most sympathetic character in the zenith saga) is spot on; even more so in light of the churchillian mantle that blair took on after the september 11 terrorists attacks on america.

then there's the whole modern digital communication realising warhol's celebrity utopia angle too.

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steven l'enfant terrible  

believe it or not, some people allegedly even enjoyed outlawrppp... jeez, i don't remember eating carrots

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steven l'enfant terrible

>Oh, one more thing. Where the hell does 'I've wet my knickers come from'?

from peter milligan & shaky kane's rhapsodic "judge planet" in the judge dredd mega-special 1991; easily the best non-wagner/grant/mills judge dredd story ever written, one of my absolute favourite of ol' stonyface's exploits ever. won't say any more because i don't wat to spoil it for you, other than it moves me to tears every time i read it. in the words of the cocteau twins' 'heaven or lost vegas', "such exquisite stuff" indeed.

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steven l'enfant terrible

>Ace Trucking needs a proper send off.

as much as i loved ace trucking co, for me the series came to a logical conclusion: after all those years of cheating, lying & doing dodgy deals--as well as his ill treatment of feek--ace garp finally get his comeuppance, & the reader a final laugh.

i've wet my knickers,
steven l'enfant terrible