Main Menu
Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Messages - GordonR

#3361
General / Re: Recomended age for 2000ad?.......
15 March, 2002, 06:55:53 PM
Another follower of the secret Cult of Shako!

Bring back Shako, Tharg.   Never mind Rogue Trooper, the VCs and Robohunter, the earthlets demand the return of the Great White Death!
#3362
General / Re: Recomended age for 2000ad?.......
15 March, 2002, 05:34:43 PM
Ummm...isn't there aztec human sacrifice and heart-munching going on live before your very eyes in the Missionary Man story?
#3363
General / Re: judge dredd on cd
14 March, 2002, 04:10:36 PM
I think the second one - 'Death Trap', due out 29th April - features Judge Death.
#3364
General / Re: The trouble with Dredd when no...
13 March, 2002, 07:02:10 PM
To be fair, John Wagner's done the odd poignant little Dredd story too.  'Bury My Knee At Wounded Heart' comes to mind, especially.

He just doesn't ladle it on quite as thick as Robbie seems to.  'Born Under A Bad Sign' was a good well-written story, but it was also a pretty bad Dredd story.
#3365
General / Re: Where's my bleedin' prog??????...
13 March, 2002, 03:52:57 PM
Yep.

Day 3: the Great Prog Drought continues.  Will live-giving thrill-power arrive in time to save these parched earthlets?
#3366
General / Re: Geek preview!
13 March, 2002, 06:05:53 PM
Looks great!

The Staz Johnson Rogue Trooper pages I've seen also look great.

2002: the Summer of Retro War-Thrills!
#3367
General / Re: What are 2000AD's 'limits'?......
13 March, 2002, 04:54:16 PM
I don't think so, since Max is supposedly Marvel's Vertigo-style 'mature readers' line.

Oh yes.  Very mature...
#3368
General / Re: What are 2000AD's 'limits'?......
13 March, 2002, 04:05:56 PM
>>I would have thought that vulgar and obscene elements would appeal to the younger, adolescent readers>>

You've obviously not seen the line-up and promo copy for the forthcoming Marvel Max line.

"It's Marvel.  Bur with ultra-violence!  And tits!  And swearing!  And smoking!"
#3369
General / Re: What are 2000AD's 'limits'?...
12 March, 2002, 09:39:17 PM
On swearing:

'Bastard' has appeared a couple of times now, even in Dredd.

John Wagner had a 'fuck' in Button Man 3.  If you see what I mean.

There was also some rather explicit language sneaked into Glimmer Rats.  I'm guessing that Tharg probably doesn't speak German or Spanish ;->

And I'm fairly sure that Nicolai Dante has also got away with some pretty rude things in Russian too.

 
#3370
General / Re: A bit late, but
12 March, 2002, 08:33:27 PM
I hear there's an Atavar cover coming soon.

Should make a big splash on the newsagent shelves.

(Milo, always happy to dig up the cheap old jokes)
#3371
General / Re: Talking of similiarities.........
13 March, 2002, 06:41:29 PM
Heh.  

Yeah, the Christ parallels are pretty blatant in the latter section of Dune...

...which makes me think that the New Testament wouldn't half be a better read if it had more giant 1000 feet-long sandworms and flying gay fat psychotic aristocrats in it.
#3372
General / Re: Talking of similiarities.........
13 March, 2002, 05:40:43 PM
>I'm not even sure if Lucas would have read the Dune books.

Yeah, because they're only, like, the most famous series of books in sf.  ;->

Dune is the sf equivalent of Lord of the Rings, a rites of passage thing which everyone seems to have read at some point in their teens.

Cue predictable message board chorus of "Well, I've never read it, so there.")

Dune has been mentioned way back as a source of inspiration for Star Wars.  Backwards desert planet?  Big galactic empire?  Young male hero with a secret hidden destiny which could change everything?

No, trust me, George Lucas had read Dune at some point in his life before he wrote Satr Wars.

#3373
General / Re: Talking of similiarities.........
13 March, 2002, 12:02:02 AM
>Navigators to traverse Hyperspace

Granted.

>The Emperor of humanity

A psychically powerful and pretty sinister master of mankind emperor overlord who can see into the future?  Sounds a lot more like the Star Wars emperor than the Dune one.
 
>Unruly feudal lords (Imperial Guard/ hive worlds)

The unruly Rebel Alliance, led by feudal-titled (PRINCESS Leia) commanders?
 
>Sardaukar - Space Marines

Or Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers, who are supposed to be an elite fighting force.  ("Only Imperial Stormtroopers are that accurate"...still the funniest line in Star Wars.)

>The word 'Lasgun'

Hardly the biggest of rip-offs, even if it did really appear first in Dune.
 
>Emphasis on hand to hand fighting

What about all those Star Wars light sabre duels?
 
>Religious subtext

Jedi Knights and all that Force mumbo-jumbo bollocks.

#3374
General / Re: Talking of similiarities.........
12 March, 2002, 08:46:44 PM
Old H.R. seems to get miffed very easily, and apparently falls out with a lot of people who hire him for film work.

I remember reading an interview with him where he spent most of the time complaining about the producers of Species.  Something to do with a giant biomechanical train which he built and then they didn't end up using (although there's a blink-and-miss-it shot of it in the final film.)  he seemed to have built it for his own amusement and then went in the huff when they wouldn't pay him for it, even though it wasn't what he had been hired for.

I think he also went in the huff when he didn't get a gig on Aliens.  Possibly the clash of egoes between him and James Cameron would have been too much for lesser mortals to withstand.
#3375
General / Re: Talking of similiarities.........
12 March, 2002, 08:02:18 PM
I'm not talking about copyright or rip-offs, but I think there's more than a superficial resemblance between Vanguard and Warhammer 4OK.  IIRC, Colin went straight from his Games Workshop Battlefleet Gothic work and onto Vanguard, and didn't seem to have consciously switched off from Warhammer mode when it came to designing the look of the 2000AD strip.