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#14266
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
26 September, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 26 September, 2013, 01:11:22 PM
It's hard to make out but it looks like:
Progs 916 - 939
Meg 2.69 - 2.80


Bloomin' heck that means the next one will be up to the point when I've let go of my Megs and I'll have to start picking these up. That came around fast!

Mind that said the next one (or the first few after that) will also get to some of the finest Wagner Dredd stuff there is, for me at least. Just getting towards the end of a re-read of all the Wagner Dredd's from 950 onwards to date and there really is some golden stuff coming soon, even by his mighty standards.
#14267
General / Re: SEPTEMBER ART COMP - GERRY FINLEY-DAY
25 September, 2013, 07:13:49 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 25 September, 2013, 03:50:33 PM
Love the Dads Army spin.  :lol:

Who do you think you are kidding Traitor General
If you think those Norts have won.
Just cos your boys killed all on a crystal plain
One of our blue boys will hunt you just the same.
Cos who do you think you are kidding Traitor General
If you think the G Is are done.
#14268
General / Re: Ebay watch.
24 September, 2013, 08:46:19 PM
Done they come up on the UK site quite often for reasonable price? I got 'Death to all aliens' pretty cheap as I recall.
#14269
Prog / Re: Prog 1851 The Red Road
24 September, 2013, 08:37:26 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 24 September, 2013, 01:54:38 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 24 September, 2013, 12:47:39 PM
I still haven't got my copy in the mail :| hope i get it soon or may go into thrill withdrawal

I also have no copies! They usually arrive on Mondays...  :'(

isn't it great that some one livin' the dream and writing the Prog is still put out when it turns up late. Goodon ya Mike.
#14270
Help! / Re: Thrill protectors.
24 September, 2013, 03:30:07 PM
I've bagged and boarded all the pre 520 issues. If for no other reason than cos I do re-read stuff regularly and so it protects them when I get them out and put them back. I do keep my progs on shelves all nice and erect (prevents spine role I'm led to believe), but makes them an all mighty pain to shuffle about the floppy old buggers.

The post 520 stuff I don't worry about too much for two main reasons. Firstly, as said if they get knackered they are easy enough to replace, secondly they are generally of more robust stock. Oh and also bagging and boarding means they take up even more space!

I used to get my bags and boards from Silveracre, have a very nice snug fit, but I'm led to believe they no longer supply. Someone here about's did mention another supplier but for the life of me can't find that thread. Ideas anyone?
#14271
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 24 September, 2013, 02:04:57 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 24 September, 2013, 01:14:10 PM
Likewise I tend to struggle with prose version of stories and characters I associate with comics, can't for the life of me articulate why.


Probably because comics are better at immediately staging scenes and establishing the drama of what's going down in any given situation without the need for pages of descriptive text. Comics are basically showing us the situation, not telling.

Novels, obviously, need to take their time to establish, through description, what's happening with the staging and the characters at each moment (a comic can do this in one frame) which is why novels are better at depicting stories of internal conflict and comics and films are better able to tell, and more importantly show us, stories involving exterior conflict with the outside world (physical/behavioural relationships between people; pace and visual tone and action-scenes etc.) which in turn makes it easier and necessary for them to generally move faster through story and plot. These things are all by degrees in each medium and doesn't of course mean you can't tell a variety of stories in either but established technique makes certain stories more apparently suited to certain mediums.

When comic characters are transposed to novels it can slow everything down and there's a certain need to make the content a little more internal than the types of stories we're used to experiencing with these characters- more external and more immediate. It can seem a bit odd.

When I said I couldn't articulate what it was, what I meant to say was this. It was on the tip of my tongue...

...honest...
#14272
General / Re: Beyond Zero
24 September, 2013, 01:23:04 PM
Detonator X wasn't that bad, sure it was a bit of a jumbled mess and the characters fell a bit flat, but it was very readable.

And hey Steve Yeowell art - RESULT!
#14273
Likewise I tend to struggle with prose version of stories and characters I associate with comics, can't for the life of me articulate why. I really didn't get on with the Dante books I tried for example, but having read that Doctor Who book I'll make an exception here. That (the DW book) was aimed at younger audiences but it fair bounced along and was tremendous fun.

As people have said hopefully it will also turn some of his vast Warhammer crowd onto more 2000ad products.
#14274
Books & Comics / Re: Custom 70's style comic rack
24 September, 2013, 01:07:41 PM
You can normally get them from library suppliers but they do charge a lot for them.

Takes me back the first newsagent I went to when I first got into American comics had these things.
#14275
Well this is very exciting news.

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/dan-abnett-to-write-novel-based-on-kingdom/

Having read one of Dan Adnett's books (his Doctor Who one) and enjoyed it a lot this is right up my street, and  I imagine others.

Good stuff.
#14276
Help! / Re: Strike breaking
24 September, 2013, 09:12:33 AM
We get strikes at College and while I was always reluctant to cross picket lines they shouldn't exist when the College is open to students. At the end of the day, for me as a worker in said College, since its not a strike I'm officially involved in I'm obliged to go in and do so willingly, regardless of any belief I have in the issues being fought for, as the students must always come first and need support on that day. Striking colleagues are always very understanding of this and do not raise issues.

The other concern for you as an outside contractor, I would imagine, is ensuring that the people you need to train are there. If not of course you will all be wasting your time.
#14277
General / Re: Beyond Zero
24 September, 2013, 08:18:01 AM
I thought the first couple of stories while looking great really didn't quite fit together. As I recall Below Zero really started to turn things around and was great. Alas just as things ended!
#14278
News / Re: The Complete Zenith
24 September, 2013, 08:09:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 September, 2013, 11:11:50 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 23 September, 2013, 08:07:23 PM
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!"

Not amused - I have woken one of the children with my hearty guffawing.  I will be sending you the alcohol bill, Mister Campbell.

While I fully understand the need to force alcohol onto children to get them back into a drunken slumber its best not to mention it on a public forum. Social services really don't approve!
#14279
Quote from: Skullmo on 24 September, 2013, 02:27:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJOphc0BD3w

ABC Warriors Trailer.


Arh every time that one comes up I weep that it never got made. I think something like this aimed at the younger market would have done the comic a power of good. Alas didn't work out.
#14280
Classifieds / Colin's Tat (dum dum) Is so class*
22 September, 2013, 07:58:16 PM
If you have any respect for yourself and your desire to be a comic fan left in your soul you can do nothing less than feast on the bargains to be had from my return to eBay (has it really been 2 months since the last free listing weekend or have I just been missing them?)

Check um out here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/colin-at-home/m.html?item=261292524554&pt=UK_Books_Comics_Magazines_US_Comics_ET&hash=item3cd63f840a&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

*For anyone who lived on Merseyside you must surely recognise that being based on the St Helen's glass radio adverts from back in the day?