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Cabs, Stickelback, Kingdom, Shakara.

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AMAZING prog! Christmas doesn't feel like christmas until the end of year prog is in my hands.

Dredd - Wagner, MacNeil, mutants, Mayor Maybe, Rico, Fargo, Judge Child... enough said, really.

Shakara - How good is Henry Flint? LOOOOOVE it - although, having waited ages for an explanation of the Shakara, I'm a tad concerned that it might have de-mystified the central character. Ah well, great to have this back.

Kingdom - How good is Richard Elson? Some lovely and colourful lush countryside scenes there.

Dante - Love that ending. 'Spectactularly.' I'll miss Dante when it's gone.

Stickleback - Everything I love about Edginton. Class.

Sin-Dex - I've grown rather fed-up with this of late, but this little jokey effort completely won me back over. Stunning art, too.

Caballistics - Can't believe I ever doubted this, and great to see that it's very far from over. Zombie hussars!

Strontium Dog - Stronty Dog. 'Nuff said.

Speaking of SFX, I can't count the number of times the magazine of the same name drew my eye, mainly because the bottom of the 'F' is obscured by some image or other and it looks like an 'E'.
They know what they're doing.

I knew it wasn't just me!

There are 100,000+ lapsed readers out there - make the logo big enough and bold enough to smack 'em in the eye from the racks at WH Smith and say "Blimey! Is that still going?"

You never know, a few might even pick a copy up.

Well said. And it's true. I've seen just such a thing happen with Prog 1550. Some guy picked it up with fond remembrances glimmering in his eyes, and began enthusiastically ranting away to his bored looking son about the ABC Warriors as he paid for it. I don't think he could quite believe it was still about.

It made me feel all warm and happy inside.http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/hires/1550.jpg">

Only 61, probably in part because I only go to the cinema about once every two years (Button's track record boggles my mind!). Plus I haven't really seen any of the acknowledged 'classics' of recent years - The Godfathers, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribean, any CG animations post-Toy Story - not seen any of 'em.

But as Funt says, it's a pretty suspect list anyway. Deep down in their hearst, the voters must know that most of those choices won't last another two years on that list.

Nah, I saw the actual stage show years ago and really enjoyed it, so I'm sure I won't really have a problem with the film. I've seen/read various versions of the story over the years and liked them all, but the original will always be the best.

While I'm pretty stoked about this, I have to admit that I'll always like Sweeney's original String of Pearls incarnation best; an unapolegetic, sociopathic killer out for what he can get. No motive, no pity, no rhyme, reason or excuse. He's just a murdering bastard, and as such remains infintely more frightening than all the later attempts to humanise him or 'explain' his murderous tendancies.


Is this film based on the old stage musical, does anyone know, or an entirely new creation?

Dante is very much a finite strip. Both Morrison and Fraser have basically said that we're entering endgame. The supporting cast is gradually being killed off, and the pieces are being put in place for an epic finale. Dante is all the better for having an end in sight. It couldn't and shouldn't last for ever.

Sin/Dex is an endless strip where nothing much happens, so that the status quo can be maintained indefinately. Naive fool that I was, I thought after Malone and the one with the skeletons that we'd see an angry Finnigan blazing his way across Downlode during the War of the Moses like Johnny post-Wulf, all of us behind him willing him to avenge Ramone's death. And then it would end.

But, no. All the events that had made them interesting characters again undone; all the interesting new conundrums thrown up skipped over; and instead of one final big pay-off, a series of repetitive filler tales where nothing really happens. So I'm not holding out hope that The War of the Moses will be anything like the end.

When the nuclear wars come, all that will survive will be cockroaches and Sin/Dex.

Capital idea, Sir!



And I'm working on a little something art-wise for crimbo, thread or no thread. There, now I've comitted myself, and I'll have no excuse not to finish it.

Siku on The Ballad of Halo Jones. BLEUUURGGGHHHHH!

I thought that was the point of the Dredd Files, but it seems to have reverted to simpler (and duller) story reviews lately. For instance, I'm pretty sure that when a Munce truck features during that first Gila-munja story, it's the first ever mention of the infamous meat substitute... but the subsequent Dredd File made no mention whatsoever of the fact.




(God, Rennie's Meg Dredd really was spot-on, wasn't it?)

I'd like the blaze of glory option.

Afterwards, when the stunned med-judges reverentially inspect his corpse, they realise why he decided to go down fighting.

'He wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway. Riddled with syphilis.'

Yeah, that is the 'dunce' way of doing it, I'll admit.

I thought you were going to embark on the compiling of a dedicated database in the same vein as Button's letter graphs. :-)

The 'view messages by' button at the bottom of people's posts tells you how many posts they've made on the board in total. You can also work out how many they've made in a particular day, month or year, but only by manually counting the posts for that period... so it'd take quite a while to work out who the most prolific poster was.

48 - James Herbert. Pulpy, high-octane, uncomplicated stuff, but pretty horrific when it needs to be. Particularly good if you like all things World War II.

Why it's never been made into a film is beyond me.