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Help! / Re: Fear the Badge - Fanzine

« on: 14 July, 2020, 08:58:18 PM »

I was right.

Cover of Prog 443

Can't figure out how to link to it though ("cannot access uploads path")

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Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

« on: 13 July, 2020, 08:01:44 PM »

Makes me glad I have never been on Facebook.

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Help! / Re: Fear the Badge - Fanzine

« on: 13 July, 2020, 07:52:11 PM »

Have I remembered this tag line wrong?

Respect the Badge
Fear the Gun
Dredd the man?

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Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...

« on: 11 July, 2020, 04:43:48 PM »

The Old Guard, the latest from Netflix.

Same Old Garbage more like. Predictable and comes across as a pilot for a series that will never be made...

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Prog / Re: Prog 2189 - Hunger Strike

« on: 09 July, 2020, 07:52:53 PM »

Can't help but wonder if this was rushed into the prog at the expense of build up, in order to meet production deadlines in lockdown. Tharg probably has a drawer full of mega epics in case a page is late.

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Prog / Re: Prog 2189 - Hunger Strike

« on: 06 July, 2020, 10:53:30 PM »

Never mind the links in the badge chain... where's the zip, man?

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General / Re: The comic that 2000AD killed

« on: 06 July, 2020, 10:29:04 PM »

Ooh. I want to read that, I do.

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General / Re: The comic that 2000AD killed

« on: 06 July, 2020, 09:14:01 PM »

Is there really a month between progs 366 and 377? Blimey. I did not realise that. Too little at the time, I guess, and too old now!

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Website and Forum / Re: How to make a healthy vibrant forum?

« on: 04 July, 2020, 04:32:49 PM »

I'm here most days, but I really should make more of an effort to post.

Me too

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Games / Re: Last game played...

« on: 04 July, 2020, 12:54:44 PM »

Control

Specifically, its first DLC - Foundation

For me, Control is THE game of the last generation. A heady mix of decent powers, gunplay, metrovania exploration (but not too much!) and hard core sci-fi story. With great visuals, great sound, and great little touches. Man, even collectibles have great little stories in them.

From a tooth point of view, I think there is an nice John Smith vibe to the insanity. Some of the set pieces - an inter-dimensional invasion of clocks for example - are straight from the comic, as is the Board (300 foot high maggots with a single rotating mecanical eye and spindly insect legs).

Really looking forward to the next DLC, which is an Alan Wake quasi-sequel.

If you have not played this game, you are missing a treat.

How much did I like this game? It is the only game for which I have made the effort to get all the achievements.

CAVEAT: Some of the optional boss battles are super hard but, gee, the satisfaction on taking those guys down,

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General / Re: Ultimate Not Wagner Tournament - Winner DAN ABNETT (+ what's next?)

« on: 02 July, 2020, 01:30:11 PM »

I didn't always vote, but I have enjoyed this competition and it's been really good for the board.

Well done! Thank you!

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Other Reviews / Re: 2000AD SCI-FI SPECIAL 2020

« on: 02 July, 2020, 01:00:18 PM »

Up with this kind of thing!

Really enjoyable new strips, in a daft and fun and one off kind of way. Perfect summer special stuff.

Great curated strips.

Interesting text throughout, not just the interview but also the intros.

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Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...

« on: 29 June, 2020, 10:00:58 AM »

Twister, which I've never seen but is one of my wife's favourite films from her youth so whenever it came up she was incredulous that I'd ever watched it. Finally sorted that, and it's pretty damn good! Always love Paxton and him and Helen Hunt are both excellent, pretty much all the effects hold up surprisingly well, properly exciting and also very touching in places. Glad I finally saw it!

It is great fun, and I'm sad that I'm unlikely to ever see it in the cinema again. Feeling your sternum vibrate to the roar of the wind adds to the experience!

Regards,

Robin

I imagine it made a fantastic big screen big soundsystem movie! Wish I'd seen it at the time myself now.

Twister is being remade for 2022.

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a32964576/twister-remake-back-to-the-future-frank-marshall/

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Off Topic / Re: The Death of Verbal Cultural Memes

« on: 29 June, 2020, 09:57:58 AM »

I have always found this to be more a family thing.

My extended family regularly quote Fawlty Towers and Still Game.

(If anyone hasn't watched Still Game, it is on Netflix and I would argue it is the greatest comedy of the last 20 years - plus ideal viewing for anyone grumpy about ageing).

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Prog / Re: Prog 2188: Chronoclysm!

« on: 28 June, 2020, 11:23:31 PM »

Dredd

Enjoyed muchly. Feels very 1980s. That’s a good thing.

Dredd not affected by famine microbes feels a step up from having flea bites and not scratching.

Surely he’s the incarnation of Death? If you were going to choose a human personification of a rider of the apocalypse, then the planet’s biggest murderer would be a go-to choice.

Maybe famine didn’t want to hurt the boss?

The Order

Surely the worst named story ever?

This feels a chaotic shambles. I’ve no idea what’s going on. Stuff is dropped in at random and so many folk have died or been reincarnated that I’m lost. If Bobby Ewing stepped out a time shower, I’d not be shocked.

The Out
Good fun. A very 2k strip.

Diaboliks
Scene setting still but it’s great to have any Cabbalistics.

Full Tilt Boogie
Not for me. Feels light and stodgy at the same time. It’s as confusing as the Order but with the draining zaniness of a kids’ cartoon instead of ominous historical figures.