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I'm glad you brought that up. To get us back on-topic, it's worth pointing out that vacuum is used to adhere protective tape to the front surface of lens blanks (y'know, for spectacles) before the grinding and surfacing process.

Don't think about it, don't think about it...

Products don't exist in a vacuum

Except for electron microscopes, GPS satellites and some supermarket products.

Nice to see the Mills Bashing happening on the traditional Tuesday (or Týr's Day, as it was in Sláine's time*). These traditions are important.


*Naturally, I've not been paid for my research.

I've been teaching full time since 2010, in the same school. There are, of course, positives to my situation - but I've had a couple of years of being super-close to burning out.

This year it feels like my pipe dreams are a bit more practical - in terms of what else I could spend my time on that would be productive. I've been wondering about starting up a laser-etching and small scale milling business.

I know it wouldn't be a panacea.

A couple years ago the people behind FCBD decided that there could not be any anthology comics

Where did you get this info?

Thing is, last year 2000 AD put out an FCBD offering that is an anthology. So, if FCBD had disallowed it "a couple of years ago", then..?

[20 - Judge Dredd / Batman]

20 - Judge Dredd / Batman

There were four Batman crossovers for Dredd, and the first and last got the wraparound treatment from a couple of artistic big hitters...


Judgement on Gotham (1991; Simon Bisley) places the titular characters front and center, with the threat relegated to the back cover and haunting Gotham.





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The second book of Die Laughing (1998; Jim Murray) brings in all four Dark Judges and the Joker. It looks gruesome, but there's some fun to be had if you play a game of Spot the Builder's Bum!




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Next: throw open the gates...

Well I'm having one of those melancholy days. Just one of those cases where something feels...off inside.
I'll keep myself busy and hopefully it'll go away, I could really do without spiralling again.

Besides the fact but I hope folks who've been having a rough patch lately are doing well.

I know the feeling - I've had a few myself of late.  More than a few, in fact.  Just trying to keep myself in check till things improve.

Hope you're both doing well today. I crashed yesterday, just plummeted. Went from being Mr. Capable to Mr. Flatline all of a sudden. My wife cheered me up by sending me out to walk the dog in the rain. Much as that might seem like a wrong-headed move, and there she was feeling bad about it when the rain started to come down hard, it was actually nice just to get soaking and cold.

All the best, any road.

three of these in once day is just going to lead to thrillchaffing

I'm not sure where you guys are getting your figures from - I'm pretty sure that a quick eye check up is only in the region of twenty or thirty quid.

[Cover]

Cover: sort of last week's cover. This is happening a lot these days.

Fudge Bread vs. Mega-Shako: Dredd should take some advice from Vito Corleone - never tell your enemy what you're thinking! This also leads to a bit of a parsing crime (5 months cube-time, Williams!) with Dredd's unwieldy "I promise you this, however, creep: I will get you back to the city and you'll see the inside of a cube for what you've done." Parsing crimes aside, this is till solid gold.

Blackhawk: More parsing criminality here, but then it is hell. Perhaps Titivillus has bled over from the Megazine. "For fear is the true chains that keep us slaves"? I know, I know - you can't say "for fears are the true chains", and you can't say "fear is the true chain". Anyway, it was a tense moment for Spartacus, so we can forgive him. Unless we're Hannibal.

■■■■■: somehow some people meeting and walking through some hallways is thrillingly disturbing and works as a terrible cliffhanger full of foreboding for the horrors to come.

Periwinkle Supreme - entirely worth it for the "malignant Mr. Punch outbreak". (And as long as Depp's a balloon, we can carry on.)

Salamander Irk - even worse, emotionally, than Maitland! But is it as final as it looks?

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In the pipe, five by five. And a win for Titivillus.

On Indigo Prime - was there ever a time in which the series was about Agents encountering and (attempting) to solve problems?

The series 'Killing Time' is exactly that. Without spoiling - two agents attempt to stop the end of a reality. It's self contained and is absolute Gold.

Kev has it right. In the early days, we got three operative-pair tales:

Winwood & Cord: Downtime (680-681)
Fegredo & Brecht: How the Land Lied (682)
Winwood and Cord: Killing Time (735-744)


There are also the Fervent & Lobe tales, but those operatives start off in a Tyranny Rex story:

Tyranny Rex: Soft Bodies (595-598, 604)
Fervent & Lobe: The Issigri Variations (642-649)
Fervent & Lobe: Holiday on Ice (WS3)

I can't remember where I heard the quote, which was about media, but it was "90% of everything is shit". And then there's Shogun.

Think that was pope John Paul II

In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, nonaginta centesimas omnium rerum stercore est. Amen.

Rogue Hooker

The untold story of what went on in Cinnabar between the panels.

(By John Smith.)

I was going to say this sounds like another book of Periwinkle Supreme.

(There are interviews in the Megazine with Adams and Broxton - do those ever get included in reprint stuff?)