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Rats, I've had to tape it since my other half is an ER fan.  Then it'll probably get put in the pile of tapes that I'm waiting to watch, till I forget what it was and tape something else on top of it.

I'll definitely be giving this a look, I missed the first series.

The Rotters Club is also quite promising, the first episode had me and my girlfiend spotting all the stuff we remembered from the '70s...skill!

But he co-invented 2000ad so he's not all bad...perhaps he overdoes the supposed irony sometimes and leaves us confused, but he sure does know how to pick an artist to work with.

A most enjoyable prog this week, much to admire in all the stories, interesting to see what kind of discussion this week's Slaine provokes - all the reverse logic reminds me of "opposite day" from Calvin and Hobbes, but the art is fantastic  -tattooed crazy women with multiple piercings an go go - and the purply hue is a nice rest from the orange.

A copy of The DaVinci Code turned up at Zeep Acres this Christmas, but it'll have to wait 'til after The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night (brilliant), A Short History Of Nearly Everything (surprisingly readable to a scientific grexnix like me) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Grange Hill on broomsticks, but who cares?)

Oooh, but when Brucie boy got his inverted - didn't that make you wince?  Last week he nearly got himself into a vicious stick-fight in which he would undoubtedly have been beaten to a bloody pulp.  Yoinks!  Masochistic, no?

I'm really enjoying this programme despite vague niggles that it's a bit Victorian Explorer-ish, with all the imperialistic guff that entails.  Damn good TV though.

Wow, that's quite a strange thing to hear...just lots of white noise, basically but weird and wonderful to hear something recorded on Titan.

Am currently reading A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson which is helping me grapple with the HUGE distances to even our neighbouring planets in the solar system, quita a feat to say the least to not only get something out there but land it and succesfully beam back sound and pictures...well, hats off to the Huygens-Cassini guys.

Kurt Vonnegut has written loads of relly good stuff, Slaughterhouse Five was briliant, and Cat's Cradle and Sirens...Galapagos was really good too.

First pics back from Titan, kind of makes me want to reread The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut since it's long enough ago since I read it that I've forgotten what happened...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4175099.stm" target="_blank">Huygens pics & story

1421 arrived today, a mere three days behind 1420, which in my slothful state I wasn't even expecting till this week.

Great "stare into the fanny of the Goddess" panel in Slaine ;-)

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Looks like I was right about Kostabi being the young lad who kicked the ball over the wall.
A fine caballistics story this, some story threads are tied together whilst further possibilties spiral out in all directions.

Rest of the prog pretty good too.

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Ooops.  I either hadn't quite read to the end of the thread before replying, or my post was deflected by a jive talkin lazer guided time travellin' shell...

Isn't there an episode during the Judge Child quest where Dredd unlimbers some enormous piece of sniperesque kit, allowing him to shoot a guy dead over several miles?

Wasn't that called "The Long Gun"?  I seemed to remember that the sights on that pointed way below where the barrel did, thus presumably allowing for the drop.  As for wind speed, you could have some futuristic laser/sonar beam thingy that shot out from the end of the sight and somehow measured average wind speed along the length of its beam and corrected the relative position of the image within the sight.

I thought Crisis was great, but then I only read the first couple of dozen.  Mrs Zeep still has the "Basta!" sticker on the side of her stereo.  New Statesmen I didn't quite get at the time, but read later as a GN it was fantastic.  And I loved 3WW but then I was a young hippy at the time.

I thought Deadline and Revolver were noble attempts to take the British comic genre somewhere, thing is I don't think they knew where either.  Rogan Gosh was reat but finished enormously depressingly...there were great little one-off things in both publications IIRC.

Electric Soup, anyone?

Progged up and happy...can I be the first to point out that it's prog 1420, not 1320?

a few observations:  2nd City Blues reminds me very much of "Action" stories, - like "Sport's Not For Losers" but set in the future, which is no bad thing...art very reminiscent of that period in comix.

Slaine becomes more contorted as it re-revisits old ground...let's get this straight, he died, went in the cauldron, had an excellent adventure through time, then came back to his own time, presumably alive again,(how did that happen?) and now he's gone back (alive) into the cauldron of death and rebirth... it's a bit confusing.  And I miss Ukko.

Cabs - Gnat's Chuff Ahoy!  And...what became of the little boy who went over the wall for his ball?  I speculate that he might turn out to be a young Kostabi.  I liked Ravne's demonolgical pocket watch.

I'll leave it there .

Z

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