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Not sure if anyone will care but thought I'd take the opportunity that I've fallen out of love with something that I've loved for years and it's time to split the assets and try going our seperate ways.
I used to love this place and spent hours here, idle chat, answering questions and just having the most fun.
With the start of the movie news and chat I've come to realise that I no longer feel the same and it's time for the trial separation.
I'll miss some of you but can no longer read the board without wanting to thrown my iPhone through the nearest window.
Whilst at times we don't all like the same things in general people have been eloquent about why they don't like stories, creators or related stuff but that seems to have changed.
Whilst this board does a lot of good I wonder how many negative quotes will be pulled from here before the movie sees the light of day?

This place will always hold a special place for me but think it's time to try and live without it 8-?

Dredd Says No To Parking Tax

Just waiting for delivery of my IPhone and wondered if any of the Hivemind could reccomend any Apps that they think are essential or even just a good waste of time.

[Now waiting for PJ to put up a very long list  ]

Now I reckon I'm a bit of a Dredd fan but how long til any possible film comes out and the board is starting to fill up with the most mundane of Dredd film related threads. At this rate we'll be reading on what board members think the colour of any Judicial underpants will be.

SD Starlord Centre Spreads

ABC Warrior Centre Spreads, various artists:

I presently dont have access to my e-mail and will soon be changing my e-mail address completely.
If you want my new address message me and I'll send it to you before my old account is deleted.

Has anyone a pic handy of Fink Angels calling card, the stick angel with a halo?

I probably have one of the best 2000AD collections going, every Prog all the free gifts that I'm aware of, all or nearly all of the variant Progs, a complete run of Megs, Specials , Annuals, a huge selection of graphic novels especially the run since Rebellions DC deal and doing them in house and associated paraphernalia, including a standee, 2000AD diary printers proofs, phone cards etc.

Now if I was to sell everything what would be the best way without having to use e-bay or spend hours selling small chunks?

Saw the trailer online for Star Wars In Concert and though that'd be a good day out and something different til I saw the prices.

Now I know I could look at the 2000 AD Books site and probably find the answer but its late and why do something today that someone may already know the answer to 8-)
The last Graphic novel I got was Ace Trucking 1 so what has been printed since?

Spotted in todays Guardian:



Pow! Comic-strip heroes fight against corruption

It is a comic book collection without a cape, dodgy mask or death ray in sight. There are, though, plenty of baddies.

This week sees the publication of a new anthology aiming to encourage young people to get interested in – and angry at – corruption in its many forms and guises.

The people behind the project are Ctrl.Alt.Shift, which describes itself as an experimental youth initiative. It was set up last year by the international development agency Christian Aid and aims to use art – whether comics, film or music – to create a new generation of activists.

"We are all about politicising a new generation, and comic strips, with their rich, subversive history, seemed a perfect match for us," said the group's director, Katrin Owusu.

The resulting anthology contains stories which cover everything from state-sponsored brutality and murder in Colombia to the systematic ravaging of Congo's natural resources. Two of the most powerful stories are based on the real experiences of anonymous sources. One, by Judge Dredd writer Pat Mills, features the son of an Iranian ayatollah who rebels against the system and exposes corruption. The other exposes corruption surrounding Aids relief to villages in China.

The anthology is coedited by Paul Gravett, founder of the annual Comica festival, which runs at London's ICA from Thursday. He is convinced that comics, in these days of information overload, can play an important role in getting people angry. "Comics can grapple with these big questions very provocatively and they lodge in people's minds better, somehow, than the constant images we see on TV and on the internet. We want to engage with people and get them to feel that they can actually make a difference."

Gravett said comic book writing was flourishing as an art form. "It went through something of a dip in the 90s when there was a hope that the graphic novel was going to make it big and somehow it didn't quite click. It's taken a while for it to come round again."

Its boy's club reputation is also being lost, according to Gravett, helped by the huge success of graphic novels such as Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's account of her childhood in Iran, and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, which was Time magazine's book of the year in 2006.

No subject is off limits. One of the most successful graphic novels this year was Robert Crumb's interpretation of the book of Genesis, while one of the most anticipated is Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza.

The anthology will be accompanied by an exhibition at London's Lazarides gallery which will feature some of the more well-meaning but toe-curling attempts by comic books to engage with serious issues – for example, a Lois Lane comic entitled I Am Curious (Black)! in which Superman's girlfriend takes on the body of a black woman for 24 hours, and Heroes Against Hunger, which sees Superman and Batman visiting Ethiopia during the 1986 famine. There will also be an edition of Reagan's Raiders, in which Ronald Reagan's face is superimposed on Captain America's.

Some of the best-known comic book writers are represented in the anthology, and it includes contributions from writers better known for other things such as music stars VV Brown and Lightspeed Champion.

Owusu said she had been "absolutely blown away" by the work and imagination that had gone into the strips.

Corruption, she said, was all too often seen as an issue which affected only war-torn states and tinpot dictatorships. It was also used too much as "a get out of jail free card" with people shrugging "that's the way it is over there".

"The subject absolutely struck a chord with writers and artists I think and we got so much material, we couldn't get it all in a book."

The £4.99 anthology will be available at Ctrl.Alt.Shift's website as well as comic book retailers, and while – because it is about corruption – there is much doom and gloom, Gravett said: "There is also humour in there and there's passion and there's anger and there is hope too. There are strips which say 'we can do something'."


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Well its that time again where I dissapear in to the wilderness for 100 days. It's no secret that the new board just infuriates me so lets see if one of my trips in to the wilderness makes it look better when I return.

As I've said on the board I'm now the Squadron Sergeant Major and during my 100 days away I'll be doing my paperwork and preparing for my Officer selection board at Westbury.

During my absense I'd like a proxy vote in any of the art competitions and that vote goes to Jim Campbell, over the last few of his entries Jims work has channelled that old school 2000 AD vibe better than anyone else.

Is it just me or does the unread post function not work?

Just wondering if anyone with their finger on the pulse could tell me what graphic novels have been released since Ace Trucking: The Complete Ace Trucking: Vol. 1?

Cheers,

Mrs Logan's laptop seems to be on the blink. When she turns it on it just says:

Operarting System Not Found

any Ideas from the Hive Mind on what she can do to sort it out.

I have a big hammer on stand by if none of your suggestions work.

Just wondered if there had been any releases since the Ace Garp Collection?

Today whilst walking through my local town I nipped in to the library to get out of the rain. Within 10 minutes I'd flashed my ID card, joined and walked out with 5 graphic novels.

What I'm after isn't your all time favourite comic/graphic novel but something thats appeared in the last 5 years or so since I gave up everything except titles from the house of Tharg.

The title and a very short reason why would be much appreciated.

What TV Programmes would 2000 AD Characters watch in their down time?

How about Slaine watches:



Tir Nan Og

Celebrity guests are invited to contemplate their personal Tir nan Og - a fantasy island of the ever young where you can spend your time feasting, gaming and partaking of love and music. In conversation with Derek Mackay, the guests discuss what things they would like to take across with them to the island.

just after a bit of help from any boarders. Why cant I play Dredd V Death on my new laptop?