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That's the Badger! Thanks chaps.
Wish I could re read it now but that prog is in the run that papered my bedroom ceiling many moons ago.

Usually I can sleep for Britain but last night my brain was set to random. I remember a one off from years back where a future space geezer on a planet was being offered his choice of a pile of lethal exotic weapons for a contest / duel. There was a pistol that vaporised a mountain and a hand held nuke or something. Anyway I can't remember what he chose and how it helped him win, other than it was curveball ending. Kept me awake for awhile. Was it some kind of helmet? 
Any ideas? 

Oh no it isn't!

I liked the sections where they were defending the walls of MC1 but the whole solution with the international Judges, the airdrop with robosuits, turncoat cowardly foreigners (you can't trust em) and Sabbat's creatures etc was all...less good.

May 2009 for me talking about the haunting of sector house 9 and delurking at the same time.

...that was my first experience of Dredd, when as an impressionable 9 year old my dad bought me my first 2000AD.
Shortly afterwards Dekker became one of my heroes and she still is, despite the tragic waste of killing her off in the sub-standard Judgement Day, at least she died stoically, with her boots on like a good Judge should.

Tooth has had me in it's grip ever since. I redecorated my ceiling with prog covers 380-500 as a kid (ouch), infected my uni mates with my addiction, stopped reading for that bit in the 90's and have had a sub for the last 4 years or so. I was even tempted by the freebies and subscribed to the Meg this year for the first time too.

I've been lurking here for years, since the days before DD went walkabout, when Bou and Trout were in their rampant prime and all was young and fresh with the world. Don't know what is making me come out really. The new board is if anything even friendlier, lots of new blood being welcomed and I have the shared issues of a common age, young kids, cynicism and a love of 2000AD.

Oh and I know about naked Sundays. And your cheeseburgers are in the post Godpleton.

Minky

I feel like Henry is a member of our board.
How many random tech support questions can one not-a-couple generate? 

But seriously, the rice tip is worth trying.

Always save it for Christmas anyway. Best thing in my stocking!

Cover: Great perspective, great background, great cover.

Dredd: Ha, called it! 

[spoiler]
Dredd: Hope that Marvis doesn't undo all of Dredd's good work by bringing down the block. [/spoiler]

It has been a fab run, and the shock ending just underlines that this is business as usual, block after block, day in and day out. It has been a treat.

Greysuit: Sorry Pat, still not feeling it and that singing Sarge  . I see that I was too harsh about the previous shower assassination though. In light of how Family Man gets his, Old Blakey is obviously offing them with a sense of poetic justice. Getting in close to mess up the poser's face before finishing him off was obviously part of the plan.

Stickleback: Brilliant and poignant.

Ichabod: Nasty but awesome. The HACK HACK HACK of the monster on two panels is quite disturbing. The KLAKKLAKKLAK is very effective and the SCHLOPPPPPPPP masterful.

Kingdom: Great finale. Letting the pictures tell the story with only a few lines of dialogue. Gene has a weird smile though.

Thanks everyone,

Mike I enjoyed 'The Cold Light of Day' which you recommended when I got my Kindle, so I shall check out your New Heros series and 'Concrete'.

To expand i've been thinking about it a bit and I reckon if a normal person, say you dear Squaxx for arguments sake, were to suddenly get Justice League level powers and everyone else was normal still, it might pan out in one of several ways:

1) Denial, suppression, hiding it. Probably the most sensible thing to do.

2) The Spiderman. Fight crime/do good at a local level trying to keep your identity secret and live a normal life alongside. Probably not going to manage both.

3) The Superman. Fight crime/do good at a national/global level either a) independently or b) working for or with MI6/CIA or through a personal relationship with a world leader. Could easily do more harm than good, would almost certainly lead to 4), could be a slippery slope to 5).

4) The Zenith. Celebrity, fame, power, merchandising, money.

5) The alternate world Zenith apocalypse. If you had a few screws loose (like most of us boarders) or were a teensy bit maniacal it could be people impaled on lampposts time. Either an insane dictatorship or just wholesale destruction.

Anyway, I'd love to read some novels that explored some of those ideas in a real world context and just how complicated and messy any kind of superpowers would be.
If there are not many around perhaps you could knock me up a few Mike? You know, in that bit of spare time you have got between dinner and supper.

Thanks Adventurer,
I was wanting novels rather than comics really but I will look them up!
 

I would like to read some stories, set in our world, where a normal person or people get superpowers in isolation and has to work out how to deal with it for better or for worse.
So no super baddies to fight, no superteams, no aliens, just some random who suddenly has powers.

Got any recommendations?

RE Minkyboy's query regarding the whereabouts of "skinny" Jack Skelton in that line-up of fatties; I assumed that was irony.

Ah, so I was being dense. Thank you.

That was terrible.
You can see what they were trying to do with the threads and themes through the series but it just didn't work. And it didn't work for me because I don't care about these people, I don't believe them.
Also, the total bunkum factor was through the roof, even for Who.[spoiler] People who died in 1756 getting rained on and then suddenly having a body again and constructing the metal and electronics from soil?[/spoiler] Good grief. [spoiler]Glad Danny Pink exploded, hope he doesn't come back.[/spoiler]

Dredd: "Block Judge" builds towards a showdown and keeps getting better. So much packed in here. Loads of dialogue but still feels tense and exciting. Hope that Marvis doesn't undo all of Dredd's good work by bringing down the block. And I can't see Skinny Jack Skelton - am I being dense? Loving how Carlos has drawn the M.C. for the Chowdown; the hair, the smile, just awesome.

Stickleback: I've got a lot more into Stickleback since his 'death', costume and inner doubts were revealed. Now that Bob is also a more interesting character the whole strip has pulled me in. I hope the dragon and Stickleback's ex are ok next week.

Greysuit: FFS. Worst assassin of the year award goes to...the man in a suit and shades standing in a shower on his own for half an hour, before opening the shower curtain and standing talking to his target. Yeah don't shoot him in the head from behind or garotte him or anything Blake. Gratuitous face-mangling, bosses taking tea and going 'he's coming for us' - AGAIN. Honestly I don't what is worse: the bland, stereotypical, tired tropes or the fact that it feels like a re-run of the previous story. Such a waste of a good concept and great art.

Ichabod: Is on fire! The writing on this is just sublime and the sense of energy and movement in the art this week fantastic. Love the panel with the massive Buffalo crashing into the town with the tiny silhouette of the horse and rider in the foreground. Previous runs of Ichabod have been ok, this one makes me want to urge all my friends to read it. Best thing in the prog this week by a long way.

Kingdom: Simple and superb. Loud and proud. Great fun. Great comics. [spoiler]I'm hoping for a reappearance of that little girl he helped escape into space before long. Orbital strike on the big bad bug? Yes please![/spoiler]

Tharg, you have made my Saturday as usual. Thanks Green Bonce.

Well done Doc!