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Other Reviews / Re: The Battle of Britain Special - BATTLE PICTURE WEEKLY

« on: 22 September, 2020, 11:52:02 PM »

I'm reading this slowly because I want it to last. Anyway I've just read Alan Grant's story (I'm not reading them in order), and I think it's the best story he's written in ages. That artist is superb too.

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General / Re: Dredd's birthday???

« on: 20 September, 2020, 11:05:43 PM »

There would still have been a date on which the clone emerged from the vat.

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General / Re: Dredd's birthday???

« on: 20 September, 2020, 06:12:47 PM »

His birthday has never been given. A story about his birthday was published in prog 829 which was dated 3 April, so you could argue that it's then, but it's hardly conclusive.

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General / Re: Sinister Dexter - a 25th anniversary reading guide

« on: 20 September, 2020, 06:08:47 PM »

If there is a new reprint of Sinister Dexter, then it needs to include Downlode Tales and Malone. The original series of reprints left out Downlode Tales, which was an integral part of the story, so it skipped from Eurocrash (when Sinister and Dexter fell out with each other) and jumped straight to Exit Wounds when they're friends again.

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Prog / Re: Prog 2200 - Beyond The Frontiers Of Future Fiction!

« on: 20 September, 2020, 05:59:17 PM »

Hook-jaw looks humanoid to me. His shadow looks like a head and shoulders, and he seems to have a human nose. So it may be a very different story to what went before.

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Prog / Re: Prog 2200 - Beyond The Frontiers Of Future Fiction!

« on: 19 September, 2020, 10:27:19 PM »

Very impressed by this week's Sinister Dexter!

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Megazine / Re: Meg 424 - Thirty Megnificent Years

« on: 18 September, 2020, 12:44:17 PM »

4.15

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Other Reviews / Re: The Battle of Britain Special - BATTLE PICTURE WEEKLY

« on: 18 September, 2020, 12:34:45 PM »

It's an anthology, so I think it's fine to have different kinds of war stories, even polar opposites, appearing together.

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Other Reviews / Re: The Battle of Britain Special - BATTLE PICTURE WEEKLY

« on: 17 September, 2020, 09:21:43 PM »

I couldn't disagree more about War Child, I thought it was brilliant! As for "woke," people were writing anti-war stories long, long before political correctness. And if you can't oppose child soldiers, you have something wrong with you.

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Megazine / Re: Meg 424 - Thirty Megnificent Years

« on: 14 September, 2020, 11:35:32 PM »

I also got last month's card. I also got three or four copies of it last month!

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Books & Comics / Re: Limitations of comics

« on: 13 September, 2020, 04:26:17 PM »

And an enormous box to put it in.

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Megazine / Re: Meg 424 - Thirty Megnificent Years

« on: 13 September, 2020, 03:01:51 PM »

Yes anyone can start a review thread, it's a race!

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Classifieds / Re: Dave Pugh's M.A.S.K. CLEARANCE SALE!

« on: 13 September, 2020, 02:55:44 PM »

What a fantastic artist! Tharg should get him back in the prog immediately if he's still working.

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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Eagle Strips

« on: 11 September, 2020, 05:39:06 PM »

If DDC sold the rights to the non-Dare strips, the contract could include a clause that allows them to print Eagle covers with non-Dare characters on them.

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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Eagle Strips

« on: 11 September, 2020, 01:34:02 PM »

Why can't the Dan Dare Corporation just keep Dan Dare and sell everything else? It's not as if they're doing anything with Doomlord and Bloodfang.