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It's nice to see that someone else is nearly obsessional as myself. I went through all the previous two volumes, as well as back-up features, so as to work out the next two series. I claimed this was done so as to explain the upcoming story to a mate, but actually I was just pandering to my own obsessive archivist nature. My understanding is that the next stories are all linked by British Intelingences growing concerns over the encroaching into our world of the 'Lands of Fiction', as represented in the two Alice tales, stories of the 'Blazing World', and various others. This should also be linked into the so-called 'Cthullu Mythos' of the Great Old Ones. The next series should work as a lead in for the next, which should conclude this narrative, although as the comic is creator owned, and Alan and Mina, our cetral characters and guides to this multi-universe, are immortal, it can carry on to any period of literature. Moore has already said that he is going to introduce a character from William Borroughs in Vol. IV, as well as possibly some Kerouac characters.

(ps. the preview image is of the rejuvenated Alan Quatermain, after his visit to Ayesha's fire of eternal youth, posing as his son who died in 1888. The mirror image behind them is of Alan and Mina as they apppear on the front cover of the first volume, in which Alice herself can be seen in the mirror that reflects Mister Hyde)

Don't worry, I'm not especially bothered about missing Krul. Again.

Now, if I missed Clash of the Titans I'd be really annoyed.

No, someone stole them all from the warehouse. I think we've got Goblet of Fire and Chamber of Secrets, but I couldn't say whther they were in at the moment. As for being busy, well our local network intranet has gone down, and we're reduced to the primitive, stone age version of issuing and discharging items (otherwise known as our dreaded offline system). So I am actually pretty damn busy: I've served two people, dealt with a phone call, helped four people with enquiries and tried to finish reading Private Eye whilst I've been writing this!

(ps. it's now two phone calls and five enquiries)

It's nice to see some can waste their Saturdays lazing around like some kind of minor royalty. Some of us have to work, of course.
That's hard graft, rather than loafing around like some bloody marquis!

It was on channel five last time it was on as well. My mate made me watch it with him for the moment with the giant spider that 'terrified' him as a child. He still refused to believe that it wasn't an 'amazing effect' but just rubbishy old cack instead.

Still, Bernard Bresslaw and freddie Jones are always good though. Poor old Peter Yates: bit of  comedown from his sixties peak, wasn't it? Still, it could have been worse, he could have been directing Dragonslayer or something.

Anyone interested in Hat Wearing Simians should check out the fron cover of the new 12" from Taskforce and Braintax, Arrest The President.

A. Decpeticons, as they have the power to turn into rocks, as well as snazzy looking jets, guns and old style casette tapes.

Q. My dog has no nose. How does it smell?

Q. Is it a rich man's world?

A. Yes, but they own no lease-holding rights to the moon, which has been bequethed to the worlds poor.

Q. George Lucas, during the period of the original Star Wars and Indianna Jones trilogies, had a chin, but now does not. How did George Lucas lose his chin?

FACT: Polar Bears are left handed.

(Tut)

Yes, it does all seem to have gone rather oomshcka, doesn't it?

[Ro-Busters]

Sorry to muddy the waters, but isn't the building of Mega City One mentioned in the last episodes of Hammerstein's War Memoirs, back in Ro-Busters, which was set after Invasion (and also  gave mention to the Harlem Heroes as well) and must have occurred in the early part of the Twenty-First Centuary. It is therefore perfectly acceptable that Mega City One could have been built by 2032, even if that means that the issue is even more contentious than ever(!)


(ps. BRING BACK DAVE!)

(pps. if not, what about SON OF DAVE? Just a suggestion) :ph34r:  

Slaughterbowl was one of the best stories to appear in the Summer Offensive. No, I'm not joking.

It had great understated art by Paul Peart, and an intelligent script by John Smith. If it had just been criminals savaging each other on the back of dinosaurs, it would have been crass and uninteresting. But Smith pulls the rabbit out of the hat by making it a reality tv event, orchestrated by a fascist police state. And the main character is one of the most pittiable, put upon characters to ever appear in a comic, and who may or may not actually be a vicious serial killer.

It's of a much higher calibre than most of the dross on this list, and it's certainly the only story that seems heartfelt.

[Also, in a list of crap stories, where Witchworld?]

If the will is there...

Shako was excellent! He'd eaten some kind of radioactive pill, and now everyone, including the CIA, the KGB and one lone eskimo (this was before Innuit) are after him. But he's one vicious bastard of a bear, the Great White of the snowy wastes, and he turned the snow white in his trail.
The whole series is clearly a metaphor for our current situation with the 'War on Terror': the Americans and Russians interfering in a sovereign country (Afghanistan in reality), creating a problem (or an angry bear) that will one day come back and bite them on the arse!

What about Rogue Trooper: The Golden Fox Rebellion?

"Just out of curiosity, could you tell me what the Mekon b*ggering Dan Dare with a variety of alien dildos was a metaphor of?"

Perhaps Frank Hampson's financial shafting by successive publishers that eventually drove him out of comics and to later attempt suicide?