Messages

Tonight's episode was great stuff.
Why can't Torchwood always be this good?

Enjoying it so far.
Zombies a bit speedy, but I'll cope.

[spoiler]Loved Davina's slow slide into the water cooler[/spoiler]

I said I'd post this up for my local comic shop when I was there yesterday.

Gilbert Shelton - the man behind the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - is doing a short (3 date) signing tour in the UK.  The guy apparently very rarely comes over here, and it's for the new printing of the Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers collection.

He'll be at Dave's Comics down the lanes in Brighton on September 14th

Looks interesting PJ.
Very innovative use of technology to push what you can do with digital comics.

However, as I can't afford an iPhone and probably won't get one, how else can I read this madness?  More of you and Al in combination is a good thing.

Farscape is my favourite sci-fi show ever.
There are some outrageous things in it that just go beyond.  Rygel eating food that turns his pee into napalm was a good one.
I also liked that if you watch it close enough, there is a slight formula to their solutions of problems, which I have taken to caling the Farscape method.
I.e Make a plan, follow it for as long as possible, then kill everyone.
Surprisingly, this method works quite well in D&D too.

And apparently BOOM! Studios will be bringing out Farscape comics next year that follow on from The Peacekeeper Wars.
WAHOOOOOOO!

Yes, that was appreciated Mr Spurrier.

Now then, more Lob and Faster!

Marbles - look up the name of the agency in the Dead Eyes ending on this here site.

Agree with the Dead Eyes comments - I know what I now need to track down and buy as I haven't read it.

Ten Seconders - loved the first series as it ran, but I think this one's going to read better in a single sitting.  The last few episodes have picked up the pace and I don't like that last panel grin - they're all DOOMED!

Dredd - Bit puzzled by the ending - did Dredd authorise a forgery?  That was how I read it, and it seems out of character for Dredd.  Am I wrong here?  I feel like I missed something important about that ending.

Playing that game on my mate's Amstrad was my first introduction to Nemesis.  His older brother was a big 2000ad fan.
I didn't know it was a comic until, I guess about 10 years later.

If your opinions are negative then how can explaining negative opinion be less negative?

I think longmans point was not that your comment be less negative, but that it is made up of reasoning.

ie - That was wank.  X sucks because all his stuff does exactly the same thing.
Is negative.

I don't like this story at all, doesn't grab me, the characters are dull, boring and hard to tell apart.  The story seems like a long winded excuse to rant about the dangers of sugar sniffing - and the writer's is making the same points he did in "Sniffers" last year, but now with more added violence and random profanity.
Is still negative, but with an explanation.

It just means you need to put more thought into your posts on this board.

But the thing with real names is that you have to be willing to stand behind your comments.
I'm still trying to get a Future Shock past Tharg, so by using my real name it's going to force me to not act like a tool on the official board.

It will not however encourage me to spell or grammar check my postings!

"Call it 'The Day Tharg Turned on his Squaxx'"

I read that as The Day Tharg turned on Sussex.
Where the Mighty Green one came down on the South Coast county with Rigellian Hotshots to destroy the secret enclav of ThrillSuckers.
Huge battles, children screaming in the streets as issues of Spectacular Spider-Man were immolated on the shelves.  Women wondering what all the fuss was about and a small group of man-children scavanged the thrills scattered on the streets to hoard away for an evening's entertainment.

Or something.

Saw it a while ago.
It was quite good, not great, but not unwatchable shite either.

Knowing is half the battle

But if you forget to use your big stick after your soft walk, the other half gets your face kicked in!
Power to the revolution!  Big sticks to the face!  To The Face!

David Gemmell is one of my all time favourite authors and he's defintely an influence on how I write.
Legend of Deathwalker was the first of his I read, followed by the Jerusalem Man trilogy.  I'm about 3 or 4 books away from owning all of his novels.

Other ones that fired my imagination:
Redwall by Brian Jacques.  Read that while under 10, loved every page and have re-read it many times.  Definite through line from the Redwall books to my love of Gemmell.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov.  It was my first Asimov short story collection and it completely blew me away.  Bicentennial Man remains my favourite short story ever - which is why I refuse to watch the film, nothing I hear makes me want to see it.

Preacher - Ennis and Dillon.  It was the first comic that made my mouth drop open, and the first to fire the idea that there could be something exciting both in reading and writing comics.