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#1
General / Re: Audible Dredds
07 March, 2024, 09:33:20 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 March, 2024, 04:50:33 PMI've recently added Origins to my collection. Now, I have no idea how a non-2000ad reader would feel about it - I know what everyone in it looks like already- but I have another issue.

Dredd's voice was pretty good for the America and The Pit audiobooks - not quite as menacing as imagine it*, which is pretty much Dirty Harry - but I actually appreciated how understated it was compared to the old Toby Longworth version which I really wasn't into.

For Origins though, it was back to the 1940s gangster movie Dredd of the Judge Cal radio drama, if anyone remembers that.  Not my bag at all.

*Karl Urban remains my favourite Dredd voice, along with an obscure Dredd arcade game from the 80s or early 90s.

Was that the one that was broadcast in five minutes installments on Radio One?  They did another one as well - Apocalypse War?
#2
General / Re: Hivemind query: Name that story
28 February, 2024, 11:09:43 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2024, 02:16:12 PMI have a vague memory of a 2000ad strip where someone is listening to the lyrics 'to my mind she's my kind of girl', which Google tells me must be this and sounds very different in reality from how it was in my head.

On a tangent, but I wasn't familiar with that song, though the title of Matt Monro's My Kind Of Girl reminds me of a line from Haunted by Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan "But that's the kind of girl I am, He's my kind of guy"

Which reminds me of a further tangent, the American folk song Buddy/Brother Can You Spare a Dime has the lines "Say don't you remember, they called me Al, It was Al all the time" which may have inspired Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al.
The same song more famously opens with "Once I build a railroad, made it run, Made it race against time, Once I build a railroad, now it's done, Brother, can you spare a dime?" which is referenced in the song Lucretia My Reflection by the Sisters of Mercy with the lines "A long train held up by page on page, A hard reign held up by rage, Once a railroad, Now it's done"
#3
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
20 February, 2024, 10:48:09 AM
Apparently I'm about 51° north and saw a butterfly at the weekend.  This morning on the way to work I noticed a lot of blossom out, though somebody mentioned we were due to get snow next week.  That seems to be the wrong way around to me (though the blossom was white so might be some snowdrop-style thing*).

* they were on trees so it's not snowdrops.
#4
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
20 February, 2024, 10:44:50 AM
I've not listened to it yet, but it's downloaded to my spotify app (may listen on the way home tonight, or the way in tomorrow morning).
#5
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
15 February, 2024, 08:40:20 AM
To keep it separate from that discussion, my thoughts on the passing of Steve Wright - back when I was a teenager and had a roughly hour-long journey home from school I bought myself a personal. stereo (it wasn't a branded Sony Walkman, but you get the idea).  As well as playing Pop Art by Transvision Vamp I also listened to radio, and that meant Steve Wright in the Afternoon.  So yes, this particularly death is another part of my childhood gone.
#6
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
15 February, 2024, 08:38:50 AM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 14 February, 2024, 03:25:02 PMThe trouble is, that hardily anyone ever seems to post in some of the threads anymore.

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2024, 02:24:55 PMI didn't mean to suggest that nobody should ever post here any more - I have absolutely no problem with anyone paying their respects here to a person who had a genuine impact of one kind or another on their lives, and I'm happy to read these tributary posts.

I just don't think it was ever meant to be an exhaustive list of today's deaths, which I think is a pointless and somewhat morbid use of the forum.

On other forums that I (in)frequently visit, this seems to be the exact point of similar celebrity / famous individuals condolences thread(s).

Well, the first post on this thread didn't specify what the intent was - and contained the deaths of two unrelated people.
#7
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
10 February, 2024, 12:06:29 AM
I missed this at the time, but Bryan Charles Ansell, former MD of Games Workshop, founder of Citadel Miniatures and Wargames Foundry.  Being creator/co-creator of Warhammer, that takes the spotlight, but I'm pretty sure Bryan had something to do with the first Judge Dredd roleplaying game (it coming out at the same time Bryan was head of Games Workshop) and there was a pretty extensive though unfocused range of 2000AD minis from Wargames Foundry.
#8
(Talbot's debut on Nem - had already done the Wages of Sin with Alan Moore a couple of years earlier).
#9
A somebody who already has the Titan editions from the 1980s, I was really pleased with the first volume in this series - looking forward to seeing Talbot's debut in this format.
#10
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
07 February, 2024, 10:02:15 AM
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 07 February, 2024, 09:36:27 AMDid you ever cover Hardware?  Unofficial adaptation of Shok! but forced to credit Steve MadManus and Kevin O'Neill on video release so technically the first adaptation of a 2000AD IP.

Sort of:  ;)
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/11/242-hardware-and-valley-of-gwangi.html
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Oh, I have actually listened to that episode - coincidentally just a month or so after watching Gwangi for the first time this century!
#11
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
07 February, 2024, 09:13:28 AM
Quote from: SpaceSpinner2000 on 07 February, 2024, 07:57:57 AMI'll be announcing it on the feed, but we'll be going every other week for the forseeable future. Next up is:

BM1 47: Megazine Vol 2, Issues 67-69 (nice)
BM1 48: Judge Dredd Yearbook 1995
SS2k 301: 2000AD Progs 916-919
SS2K 302: Winter Special '94
SS2k 303: Spinnies 94
BM1 49: Meggies 94

Then we cross the border to 1995! I hear there's a movie coming out!

Did you ever cover Hardware?  Unofficial adaptation of Shok! but forced to credit Steve MadManus and Kevin O'Neill on video release so technically the first adaptation of a 2000AD IP.
#12
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
07 February, 2024, 09:04:38 AM
On Judith Curry: "It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it."

#13
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
05 February, 2024, 09:30:29 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 October, 2023, 06:02:14 PMIf we're serious about this carbon thing, I thought, then why do we still have fizzy pop? Beer and cider and sparkling wine, sure, these things are entirely necessary. But fizzy pop? Rotten teeth, diabetes, and climatological ruin?

I'd argue that fizzy cider is not necessary (and that real cider is much better - now I can also say it's more environmentally friendly too).
#14
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
02 February, 2024, 10:48:46 AM
The Battlestar Galactica (reimagined)* callsign route...


* the first time it was reimagined if you're reading this in the future and the second reboot has occurred.
#15
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
02 February, 2024, 09:30:10 AM
Quote from: Fortnight on 01 February, 2024, 03:17:26 PMI have no skin in the Rogue Trooper game as I've not read any, but I used to be in the camp of "one-off films are better than TV or film series" but my views have changed over the last decade or so.

A standalone film never seems to be sufficient to tell a complex or detailed story without feeling rushed, incomplete, or just badly edited.

I'd sort of agree, but as much as we all love 2000AD, it isn't Marvel or DC and we have to assume there won't be any direct follow-up film unless we're all very lucky.