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I'm really looking forward to this.  Year One and Mars Attacks were good, but the main series has dropped off a bit.  This looks like it could get the IDW series back on track.

Agreed!

Just not feeling anything for Damnation Station - artwork's a mess and i'm just not interested in the story...stopped paying any attention to it two progs ago..
Apart from that a great read 

At first glance I thought the Stallone one was a very bad waxwork 

Me too

Considering the other work Bisley's been putting out lately the cover seems a little lazy to me...

Biomega #1 by Tsutomu Nihei...
very cool

The adaptation of DUNE by Bill Sienkiewicz has to be seen to be believed.

Cool, never knew about that.

[Well done everyone involved!!!]

Just back from seeing it ...FUCKING WOW! Immediately one of my favourite films ever...they totally nailed it across the board and the one sticking point with me, the bikes, actually looked pretty damn cool in action...i want to see it again, and again, and again and then some more...

Well done everyone involved!!!

[Dredd]

Strange Prog for me personally...
Dredd was good fun as filler goes.
Brass Sun - Excellent, truly excellent...and like everyone else i hope it runs forever.
Clint Langley's ABC Warriors always makes me feel like i'm watching a 3D film with broken specs...just can't get into it at all.
Lovely Harry Harrison Tribute.
and then i turned the page to find Grey Area - which was me thinking "Oh dear, not again" followed by a swift return to Brass Sun

So the finale hinged on the fact that [spoiler]some days you just can't get rid of a bomb[/spoiler]?

Well spotted! It is, isn't it!

I'll need to watch it again, but I certainly did not see his actions as callous or a stooge. He has, as you said, been trying to contact Wayne about the problems. Not stooge like behaviour, I think!

I got the impression that it was the focus on the [spoiler]reactor programme and its moth-balling[/spoiler] that crippled Wayne Industries' finances; that the [spoiler]diversion of funds absorbed profit in ways Lucius couldn't explain to the board[/spoiler] and I took the 'not answering your e-mails' line to be more of a refusal on Bruce's part to discuss [spoiler]the decision to mothball the reactor[/spoiler] than half-hearted attempt by Lucius to flag up an eight-year programme of mismanagement of the company.

That said, I've only seen the film once and this wasn't foremost in the things I was paying attention to, so I may have that wrong.

See, this is where i get confused...i thought Bruce Wayne had been a recluse for eight years? But did he work on the reactor, have it moth-balled and then become a recluse while the emails piled up?
Shite, does this mean i'm going to have to watch it again now too?

There's a difference between breaking into a building in which he (presumably) designed the security for, and buying enough shares to be a majority shareholder on the board of a multinational company.

And visiting an old friend...?

My point being - Lucius shows over the first two films that he is no callous moron or anyone else's stooge...so why have him act like one all of a sudden.

I'll need to watch it again, but I certainly did not see his actions as callous or a stooge. He has, as you said, been trying to contact Wayne about the problems. Not stooge like behaviour, I think!

I'd be interested what you think when you do.
Because if he isn't a board under manipulation's stooge...then it does raise the question 'why would this guy, who knows Wayne is Batman and knows the family and Alfred well, just allow the money to disappear while he just sends some emails?' Seems pretty callous and moronic to me, mate

There's a difference between breaking into a building in which he (presumably) designed the security for, and buying enough shares to be a majority shareholder on the board of a multinational company.

And visiting an old friend...?

My point being - Lucius shows over the first two films that he is no callous moron or anyone else's stooge...so why have him act like one all of a sudden.

The board managed to get rid of him in the first movie - it was only the eventual intervention of Bruce Wayne, through duplicitous methods, that got him back in.

Certainly, although he was never really out was he...just shunted down to a lower divison... and it's Bruce Wayne who enables Lucius to get back into Wayne Industries once his security pass is revoked too, i take it...?
"Why, i wouldn't have thought that'd stop a man of your talents"

the same kind of character development is found in Lucius deciding to allow the Wayne money to disappear over eight years without even taking the time to visit Bruce or Alfred in person

Does it say he never visited? I can't recall...
Also, he's only one of a board of directors. The board was[spoiler] being manipulated by [/spoiler] old fella-my-lad (can't remember his name) who was [spoiler]in cahoots with Bane[/spoiler].

Not as far as i remember...he did say something along the lines of "if you don't read your emails, Mr Wayne" though.
Ah the board huh? Since when did the board ever stop Lucius doing anything before? I'm talking about the man...Lucius knows this guy is Batman, knows Alfred and the family well...and he relies on emails...? Well, of course he does..it's called development   

[You still haven't given up on me?]

Bruce Wayne: You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth: Never!

...well, until part three that is, when you really need me...[spoiler]and then i'll leave, and when you 'die'... i'll cry because i've let your father down.[/spoiler]

Because that's the faithful Alfred Pennyworth we all know and love.

Alfred did what he had to do to get Bruce back in the game. He knew he was sacrificing his relationship by doing so, but his love for Bruce was such that he was prepared to take the fallout.
That, to me, is as faithful and loyal a friend as you could have.

Interesting...so he deserted Bruce to allow Bruce to get back into the game...not because he felt Bruce had reached certain limitations and wasn't prpared to watch him fail, as he suspected Bruce wished to do?

Because that's the faithful Alfred Pennyworth we all know and love.

He's not an automaton. I don't see anything wrong with characters developing or doing things 'out of character' in certain situations, lfe tends to be like that too. They even do it in comics y'know.

Not an automaton...certainly, that's why i said 'faithful' instead of 'faithful & phlegmatic', which would reflect what Alfred is like in the comics. So, anyway, that's development then?
I see....that does kind of make sense...and i can see the same kind of character development is found in Lucius deciding to allow the Wayne money to disappear over eight years without even taking the time to visit Bruce or Alfred in person...what can i say, irrelevant of comics that does indeed make sense within the framework of the trilogy.