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Or, to put it another way, compare WALL•E (the Pixar way) with the dreadful Robots (everyone else's way).

Does anyone know if they plan to release Case Files of newer Dredd material, all in colour? What was the first 2000AD Prog that featured Dredd fully in colour?  

I suspect, given the experiment with third Nemesis the Warlock volume, that the Case Files will eventually morph into a colour/b+w mix during the period where Dredd was often in colour (mostly switching with Sláine in those days), and will then be a full-colour series (with thinner books) upon hitting 2000 AD's jump to three colour strips (in Prog 650).

Until that point, I suspect we'll see greyscale case files. However, if you're yearning for colour Dredds, take a look at the 'all books in this series' bit on this web page. Aside from the case files, the books are almost entirely full colour, and many contain pretty large story arcs. Of them, I would highly recommend the fantastic The Art of Kenny Who? as a starting point. (Some of the others—America, Mandroid, Total War—are also excellent, but it'd be worth reading through a few more of the Case Files volumes first, to get a better taste for Dredd's world, before reading more recent epics.)

It's possible to just read the first and last books and view it as a flawed classic.  It's when you read the rest of it that you realise there's probably better things you can do with your time.

Mm. That's kind of how I'm feeling about it. With something like Ultimate Spidey (or whatever), you expect a lot of it to be shite filler, because that's the nature of the beast. (That said, Usagi Yojimbo is an ongoing, and I've yet to be anything less than enthralled by those books.) However, for a finite series, there really shouldn't be so much fat to trim. I'm no big Preacher fan, but even that was fairly tight. And compared to, say, Lucifer or Sandman, Y is positively bulging with stuff that could happily have been cut. The funny thing is, had this been a 2000 AD series, it would have been one or two 2000 AD 'books', and probably all the better for it.

[SOONER OR LATER]

There probably isn't enough SOONER OR LATER to make a whole mini-trade is there? Eh, pad it out with some of Brendan McCarthy's "Brit-Cit"-era Dredd stories, and bingo! It's a book.

Alternatively, Sooner or Later plus Swifty's Return, although that might be too much.

Personally, I'd be happy to see a Brendan McCarthy Dredd collection from his exciting neon-nightmare period (such as the excellent She Devils).

The lost me at Y: The Last Man, to be honest. I'm really bored of the series, and once I've read the last two books (I hate leaving stuff in the middle of a series), I think I'll happily dump the entire lot on eBay.

For development reasons it would be nice to know what connection you lot have. So if you can spare the time, please vote above!

Probably worth noting two things:

- Home broadband can be somewhat variable, not only in terms of the connection you're paying for, but also in terms of the speed you get.
- Just because speeds are getting faster, that shouldn't lead to developers getting lazy. It astonishes me that many websites are slower than those I visited during the 1990s, because of assumptions made by developers. In an age of largely ubiquitous broadband, it saddens me how many relatively simple websites have a 1995-style 'loading' bar that take an inordinate amount of time to complete. Here's hoping the Galaxy's Greatest retains a degree of optimisation and efficiency.

Mm. Frankly, I thought WALL•E had more substance than most of the other Pixar movies put together, but there you go.

Can you honestly see them adapting "Y" in anything less that 3 parts?

Seeing as the book itself has so much filler, a decent screenwriter could create an adaptation based on the premise of the book. The problem I have is that with almost any story these days, creators yell 'trilogy!' without giving it a second thought. Hell, even Transformers is being touted as a trilogy in some quarters, which is totally ridiculous.

GameStation's running the offer, albeit at full retail of £19.99. Given that most of the other DS games in the offer are rubbish, you're better off grabbing SIE from Play.com for £12.99.

Caruso says that he sees the story as a trilogy

Oh, what a huge surprise! Why does everything have to be seen as a sodding trilogy these days? Gah!

On my shopping holiday, sorry, summer holiday, I was in a games shop, and they had Space Invaders Extreme for free if you bought one other game, I almost went for the Arkanoid rerelease as I love that, BUT in the end I didn't get either, and now I regret it.

The Arkarnoid remake is dreadful, so don't regret giving that a miss, unless you were planning to smash it to pieces with a hammer. SIE, however, you should go and buy right now, because it's ace.

I reviewed it for Retro Gamer (although I'm not sure what issue it'll be in) and will review it for Revert to Saved next week, so check the site then.

In short, it's not bad, but comparisons to Advance Wars are erroneous (they're very different games), and fans of Civ on PC or Mac are likely to be disappointed if they were hoping for a hand-held version of even an earlier release (such as Civ or Civ 2), since Civ Rev is massively simplified and stripped down. It's not a bad game, and is somewhat compelling in short bursts, but it could and should have been better.

For my money, Space Invaders Extreme is the best thing on the DS right now (and can be grabbed for as little as 13 quid), although that's about a billion miles away from the kind of game you're talking about!

I think that utterly sums up my view. The Vort was exceptionally alien, and the first future war story aside from Bad Company I've genuinely enjoyed in 2000 AD (and that includes Rogue and VCs). There was this great synergy between the art and script, and I was looking forward to seeing where it went, and also to future series. The rug-pull at the end just made me feel cheated, and that's despite really loving Lobster Random as a series.

I hope Si explores in some depth what's gone on here, rather than us getting a few parts of Lob getting his memory back and then returning to business as usual. Also, presumably we'll be getting a change of artist?

Saw it yesterday, it's great of course, I didn't expect such a savage critique of (let's face it) fat American consumers.

Me neither. Underneath the Pixar skin of this movie is some cutting satire, as I mentioned in the (*plug alert*) review I did for Revert to Saved.

However, I would place this above Toy Story 1 & 2. For me, WALL•E simply sets new standards for this kind of thing—it's great for kids, but has some adult themes that work very well indeed. I can't think of another animation that comes close, and in terms of films in general, this is the best I've seen since Eternal Sunshine.

You might say I rather liked it.

From what I've seen of the previews, it not only looks glorious, but actually seems to be far more in keeping with the comics. It's also great to see GDT experimenting with animatronics augmented with CGI rather than just using CGI, which still rarely looks convincing.