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Ahoy, matey, tech-heads! 2.0

I have been using the "Report to Moderator" function to report spambot posts full of dodgy links. They are no longer being deleted. Perhaps you should knight another of the boarders so they could ban hammer the shit out of those p(r)oxy malcontents!

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* pp14-15 have an article about "Time Breakers", including a link to the Zoop crowdfunding campaign. That sounded interesting, so I went to Zoop, but the campaign finished 2 weeks ago.

Mein Gott!

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

[Rogue Pooper]

Rogue Pooper

A sexy female Nort agent, disguised as a vid-vulture mechanic, poisons Rogue with a fast-acting laxative.

Neil: "Uhm, Vyvyan, can laxatives actually kill you?"
Vyvyan: "I dunno, Neil, but I'm going to stay around and find out!"

Any font-nerds around might appreciate this: Papyrus 2 - SNL

I thought maybe Durham Red as another option, but the hair seems wrong.

[Rome]

I'm 19 years late to the party but I just finished Rome. Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

Yes. Yes it is.

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[16 - Landmarks]

16 - Landmarks

The big numbers matter, and here we look at progs 500 and (one version of) 2000.


Prog 500's Special Souvenir Issue (from 1986) has, I think, twenty artists providing a gallery of thrills. Like any top twenty, it's probably safe to say that the passage of time would suggest a different grouping. This prog was a different size than normal, with shiny cover paper - heralding a bigger change coming twenty progs later.



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Prog 2000's Galaxy of Stars (one of the variant covers from 2016) takes a different position - with Tharg dominating and the space-bus off in the background and obscuring the characters. That back cover's not really doing much - even if it is an exploding star.




Who's that next to Slaine, being cool on the back seat? Also - everyone is smiling (even Kano) except for Dredd.


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Next: time-slices...

[trailer-spoilers]

I haven't seen it, but I've realized an irony based on the trailer. So, trailer-spoilers...

The complaint percolating through reviews seems to be that Alex Garland hasn't taken sides. Of course, this is entirely deliberate on his part, and he even has a scene in the trailer that explains clearly why.

A uniformed, armed man has stopped the protagonists on a roadside and is asking them which side they're on. One of the protagonists says that he's American. The gunman asks "which kind of American?" It's clear here that the wrong answer may well result in their summary execution.

Now reviewers are demanding to know what side Garland is on...

He opens by pissing all over Alex Garland's other films, so can I suggest his review is going to lack balance? Then he complains that Civil War is about a Civil War - which is, well, it's moronic, isn't it? Snakes on a Plane should've been called what?

I think I'll stick with Empire, for at least an attempt at balance, and a hiring and editorial process that would sort the wheat from the chaff.

Empire gives it four stars, and summarizes thusly:

"As a political statement, Civil War is provocative and occasionally exasperating; as a purely cinematic experience, it is urgent, heart-in-mouth, extraordinary stuff."

I don't always agree with Emp, but it's higher on my respect-o-meter than random net-worriers. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm guessing it's going to lean anti-populist, anti-fascist, anti-militant - but subtly because they want MAGA-heads to watch it as well.

Anderson has a daughter!?

Judge Anderson in 2127 (aged about 50):




Anderson's daughter in 2145 (18 years later):




The only thing that baffles me is that we never saw the story in which Anderson gives birth (or conceives a daughter through other means). Her daughter looks like she just graduated from the academy, so there's some missing tale left to be told.

I've only just figured out why they have the mirror-writing.

[Durham Dredd]

Durham Dredd

Yes, I'm just finding things where I replace the word "red" with Dredd. Still, a Durham Red / Dredd crossover is gold!

[Little Dredd Riding Hood]

Little Dredd Riding Hood

Let's see now ... Dredd's in a red rad cloak, supposedly meeting a mysterious informant in the undercity - but it's a trap set by those werewolves from that one time. Is Prager still a wolfman?