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Yeah, I think changes in packaging are a must. You so often see huge plastic cocoons around items, purely to make them appear more valuable. Food's also a major issue there. We shouldn't need plastic trays for four tomatoes. And yet even the largest supermarkets locally quite often have little or no loose fruit and veg.

I don't like over-packaging, but I'm not a fan when they go too far in the other direction either, and tomatoes are a quite soft and squidgy fruit...

I have found that in wh smiths they don't always ask you if you want one,i just wait til they finish serving me then ask for a bag (works better since ive had to walk with sticks cos they feel sorry for the old knackered bloke with no pockets big enough to carry a meg and a mag!)

Y'see, I find that walking with sticks is a reason not to have a carrier bag, as it gets in the way of the stick - I have a courier bag slung over my shoulder instead.

[Freaks]

I enjoyed the Interrogations and always enjoy reading Freaks which I have fond memories, though was this not reprinted at some point already? Plus - there was a sequel? I have no recollection of it at all so that'll be worth a read next month.

I don't know about any previous reprinting, but the sequel will be in next month's floppy.

As ever it appears to be the considered position of the authorities that they should just cease to exist and then everything will be fine, including the poop.

Yup, that's the way of Irish government. If you don't fit in, we'll pretend you don't exist till you stop existing.

Nothing particular to Irish government about that :-(

1. Shok!
2. Fearless
3. Maelstrom
Honourable mentions to Return to Death Planet and Food! though to be honest there weren't any I didn't like.

Hot on the tail of Prog 12 comes Prog 13 (the first prog to be called a prog instead of a programme).

There's a bit in the very early progs - the letters page in prog 8, or something like that - where Tharg describes Betelguesian females as being very alien looking, with tentacles etc.  Of course, when one finally shows up in the prog (Marg?) she's just a female version of Tharg.

I don't think I've come across that bit yet, and I'm up to Prog 12, as of yesterday.

Problems is with this film to be filmed, Neill Blomkamp's Alien will be delaying.

I don't think one precludes the other - all the big studios want to make multiple films with a pre-planned release schedule now - hence we can predict which films are coming up in the Star Wars (alternating between a new trilogy and various 'origins' pieces), Marvel and DC universes.  So a Prometheus and Alien film could co-exist like one big happy family.

What the studios aren't so keen on doing is anything new that isn't a sequel or remake (which has been the case for many, many years, but has got significantly worse in the last decade or two).

I'm hoping for a themed evening on Channel 4. Future Shock followed by Dredd, with intro and links by Pegg/Vegas/Wossy etc. Hell, why not throw in a late night screening of the Stallone movie for boozy MST3K-style fun.

Nice idea - though as much as you may want to be drunk before "I knew you'd say that" makes its appearance, I think that particular film is a bit more early-time-slot friendly...

Oh I have a soft spot for those stories.

I remember Killing Time quite fondly. I loved how hallucigenetic the art was and it all seemed quite trippy.

For a young kid with an imagination, it really drew me in!

Oh, the progs of that era had their high points, but not as many as preceding and proceeding eras...

(I agree about Killing Time)

A little about me -
I have been a long time 2000 AD reader. I was introduced to it by my dad (excellent parenting) in the early 90's when I was 4 or 5 years old.
I always enjoyed the unique nature of the stories and how they seamlessly balanced sci-fi and satire.
My favourite storyline was always been "Judge Death Lives" but I also have a soft spot for a number of Rogue Trooper stories.

Welcome to the board!

And well done for sticking with 2000AD during the early nineties - at least it's been getting constantly better in the time you've been reading!

apparently,max von sydow's character has been named...we still don't know who he is exactly but there you go.
and on a side note,just picked up my first order snowtrooper,he rocks! like him better than the original.

What's his name then?  Fargo?

I dont think any of the specific IDW judges were referenced or appeared. The Dreams of Deadworld ones were all a bit horrific and well designed, the IDW ones were all a bit .. well .. gash.

Here's a list of IDW DJs - can't remember if they were using Phobia and Nausea (in which case we have thirteen altogether, with the original four).

Judge Choke
Judge Burroughs
Judge Skinner
Judge Fistula
Judge Sleep
Judge Stigmata
Judge Sludgs

I prefer Garibaldis.

"Revolutionary biscuits of Italy,
Rise up out of your box,
You have nothing to looooose but your wafers,
Yum yum yum yum yum!"

In reverse order...

"Funny, really, you know, Zapata. He starts out as a peasant revolutionary, and ends up as a kind of moustache. Che Guevara, he's another one. South American revolutionary , ends up as a sort of boutique. Garibaldi, Italian revolutionary, ends up as a kind of biscuit. It's quite interesting, you know, the number of biscuits that are named after revolutionaries.You've got your Garibaldi, of course, you've got your Bourbons, then of course you've got your Peek Freens Trotsky Assortment."

Topps were around in the 70s?!

They're still going to this day...