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I do feel for Weston -- as much as I complained about the chance of a live-action Akira remake, and still have my doubts it would be any good, he seems genuinely gutted the project didn't work out. You can see from the work he's put into these boards that he was passionate about the film.

Those are great. Almost makes me wish they'd got the film done. But not quite.

I am well on my way to bald. And I do not look hard. Just miserable.

Yeah, it was only the fact that my mum kept it on the weekly paper bill for years while I was off being a student/traveller/squatter/temp that I managed to stick it through the nineties. She subsequently moaned for years for me to shift the bloody things out of the loft though!

All my old progs (500-odd), Yearbooks and specials are still in my mum's loft. Not yet found a space for them in my own home, so the task of sorting them will have to wait. I also imagine sorting them out will take days, as there's little doubt in my mind that I'll sit there and read them all one-by-one as I go.

Funnily enough here's what I thought (and did) when I read it again for the first time in years last year...

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,33756.0.html

For some reason there's no Reply button on that post, so when I'm ready to really start talknig about it, am I going to have to start a new topic?

Anyway: Agree on Baike, but Sean Phillips is the star on that series in my opinion, in the Epilogue episodes. Although Fegredo has some pretty impressive moments too.

Last time I read it, I'd recently watched the film (on a repeat viewing -- I actually like that film, even if it is an unpopular opinion). So I spent the whole read comparing the book to the film and then allowed myself one self-indulgent drunken rant at a friend about where the film was better and worse than the book, then promptly forgot all of my opinions on the subject.

The other thing that happened while I read Watchmen was I was constantly noticing the reasons why it was so good -- picking out the rhythms, the characterisation, all of the stuff that you've all already mentioned and described better than I'm currently capable of (long day at work). But that kind of threw me out of the experience -- it became an academic experience rather than an emotional one. So I can recognise it as a perfect/near-perfect comic, but it does prevent me from loving it, in the same way that I love other comics and works of art.

Howdy -- I'm in pretty much the same boat. What stories/creators are you into in particular?

Thanks for the welcome chaps!

Colin: Finished New Statesmen today, and as much fun as the first read through was, I'm immediately going to do a second one which I'm sure I'll enjoy even more. Because I'll be honest I got a little lost toward the end haha

Greg: Cradlegrave was the first thing I caught up on when I decided to catch up, and really enjoyed it. I think someone's said it elsewhere, but it would make a great film -- and one of the only Smith stories you wouldn't need an extortionate budget to do justice to.

Dandontdare: I'll be honest, at the time the girls/booze combo felt a lot like thrillpower.

auxlen: Yep, catching up is pretty awesome. Most of the time. I re-read Time Flies which I recall really enjoying when I was a young teen, and was sorry to see it's not aged too well.

If I was in the indoctoronation business I'd give some one Case Files 5 and stand back as they go broke.

I read 1,2 and 4 and loved them, but CF5 was INCREDIBLE. And I know everyone raves about Apocalypse War, but it really is superb. Was genuinely shocked by some of the brutality meted out in that story.

I'm 32. So, sort of in the middle of this range.

I remember Dobbyn's work quite well, and I agree with Jayzus -- his Gronk was good, as was so much of his work, but Harrison's Feral was brutal and animalistic and well... "feral".

Can't agree more that it'd be great to see more from Harrison. I love his work on Revere, and really liked his take on Strontium Dog -- in particular his take on Feral.

Hello all,

Just thought I'd stick with convention and say hello. As stated in the subject, I stopped reading some time around 1995/1996 as a teen when I moved abroad with my family, and when I returned I was too into girls/booze/cigarettes to return to comics. Only really came back with the return of Indigo Prime last year.

It will quickly emerge (so I may as well state it here) that John Smith is one of my biggest influences as an artist as well as my favourite writer. 'Killing Time' and 'Revere' got lodged in my unconscious when I was 11 or 12 and have been seeping out ever since. Currently reading 'The New Statesmen' for the first time, which is incredible on so many levels.

Still playing catch-up on everything else -- slowly making my way through the Dredd collected editions as I can afford them.

For anyone who's interested, I'm an artist/illustrator in my spare time, working my way through my own experimental comic 'The Intercorstal' Links to my work below:

Website here: http://www.grthink.com
My blog is here: http://garethahopkins.blogspot.com
Intercorstal blog is here: http://intercorstal.blogspot.com