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Books & Comics / Re: Whats everyone reading?

« on: 26 February, 2021, 02:59:45 PM »

I've just started the final book in Alastair Reynolds' Revenger trilogy - really enjoying these so far and the blurb 'Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly' is reasonably accurate.  Add a dash of Black Sails (although not for the pace or the tits) and you're getting there.

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General / Re: Favourite Artist - Champ of Champs - Ron Smith or D’Israeli

« on: 16 February, 2021, 02:08:06 PM »

This one's a really difficult choice but I think I have to go for D'Israeli here.

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General / Re: Favourite Artist - Champ of Champs - Cam Kennedy or Simon Fraser

« on: 16 February, 2021, 02:07:15 PM »

Cam Kennedy

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General / Re: Favourite Artist - Champ of Champs - Mike McMahon or Colin MacNeil

« on: 16 February, 2021, 02:06:48 PM »

Mick McMahon

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Classifieds / Re: Advice on selling original art

« on: 16 February, 2021, 11:16:08 AM »

I sent you a pm, Huey - not chasing the art, just wanted to avoid clogging up the board with my waffle.

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Classifieds / Re: Advice on selling original art

« on: 11 February, 2021, 07:21:08 PM »

I'd definitely spend time getting a feel for what a decent price may be for these - you'll probably find some sharks in the water and receive offers a fair bit below what these pages might otherwise realise.  The first offer(s) you get may well be on the low side, people being people.  Get some ball-park figures from a few different sources if possible and avoid falling for the old 'I'll give you these magic beans' line; these sound like decent pages and if someone is really interested you'll make a fair few quid.

My finger isn't really on the original art world pulse these days but I can at least say 'no, I'd hold out for more than that / that seems like a fair offer' if you want my opinion (not that there's any reason why you should).

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General / Re: FINAL!!! Favourite CURRENT art droid D’Israeli or Colin MacNeil

« on: 11 February, 2021, 07:12:27 PM »

D'Israeli

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General / Re: Prog drought!

« on: 09 February, 2021, 12:56:42 PM »

2214 and 2215 showed up today - glad I held off hassling subs peeps about it; just a bit of patience required these days.  Hopefully the other issues will dribble in in due course.  I'm just glad I don't have a UK-sourced mail-based lobster subscription.

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General / Re: Favourite CURRENT art droid - 3rd Place Play-off - Simon Fraser or Simon Davis

« on: 09 February, 2021, 07:52:47 AM »

Simon Fraser

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General / Re: FINAL!!! Favourite CLASSIC art droid Carlos Ezquerra or Cam Kennedy

« on: 09 February, 2021, 07:52:19 AM »

The only way I can approach this is to ask myself "who would I want to see one more strip from, at the height of their artistic peak?".  For that, I'd go for an early-ish Carlos Strontium Dog, thankyouverymuch.

So, Carlos.

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General / Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - 3rd Place Play-off - Mike McMahon or Ron Smith

« on: 08 February, 2021, 10:01:35 AM »

Mick - closer call than I'd have expected but definitely Mick!

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General / Re: Prog drought!

« on: 07 February, 2021, 07:13:35 PM »

In my case, I discovered that the system had decided not to reward me with weekly thrill-power anymore  and had cancelled my subscription for me on New Year's Day!!

I'll check my subs status but I'm fairly sure this isn't the problem - my annual sub didn't renew until early February (and I got the automatic email letting me know that payment had gone through okay).  I think it's just Brexit-related postal meltdown or something.  I'll give it another couple of weeks and then contact subs about whatever issues haven't made it through (the last four, pretty much).

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General / Re: Prog drought!

« on: 06 February, 2021, 08:46:51 PM »

My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.

My Progs seem to no longer come at all. 

My annual subs renewal payment went through today - starting to wonder where my Progs are though - nothing has arrived here in Norway since the bumper Christmas issue.  Not even sure what I can do about it at this point...

The latest Meg hasn’t shown up yet. I contacted Rebellion on Monday and they have promised to send another, which is pretty good customer service as far as I am concerned.

It's not the customer service element I'm worried about, more the systemic problems there seems to be in getting large-envelope-printed-stuff through the post from the UK to Norway lately...  The Phoenix now seems to be getting through but I'm missing so many Progs and I don't know whether to assume they're lost or just held up somewhere, and that's not something customer service can assist with.  I don't want to hassle them for replacements when they might just turn up so I've held off up to know - if there's no sign of Prog life in a couple of weeks I'll see if anything can be done I guess.

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General / Re: Prog drought!

« on: 05 February, 2021, 03:49:04 PM »

My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.

My Progs seem to no longer come at all. 

My annual subs renewal payment went through today - starting to wonder where my Progs are though - nothing has arrived here in Norway since the bumper Christmas issue.  Not even sure what I can do about it at this point...

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

« on: 05 February, 2021, 01:36:40 PM »

As far as sports films go, I have a soft spot for The Club...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/jul/22/retro-film-review-the-club-is-an-australian-classic


Also: the Norwegian title for Cool Runnings is Kalde Rumper (cold buttocks); not quite up there with the titles  used for The Shining (Hotel of Evil) or Deliverance (Picnic with Death) but still pretty good.