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Any Terrans that haven't yet purchased their tickets, there will be a limited number on the door available to buy, so don't miss this chance to join the party of the Thrillennium.

We recommend that Squaxx meet up beforehand in the zarjaz Crobar, 17 Manette Street, W1 - a 2000 AD-themed bar just around the corner from Madame JoJo's - for the ideal pre-party snifter!

See you there!

SPLUNDIG VUR THRIGG!

THARG THE MIGHTY

Link: Tharg's Newsround

I'm there. Piss head that I am.

I'm all on my lonesome, so when my collegues found out I was going to 'Madame Jojo's' in Soho, I got ripped apart.

8'**!!

I can't find any decent, cheap hotels near Tottenham Court Rd. Any help would be appreciated fellow Sqauxx, zarjaz fans..

decent, cheap hotels near Tottenham Court Rd.

Ahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaaahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahhh....

You've not been to London before, I take it?

Well I told myself I was going to make it along to this but it's not looking likely that I can get to Londinium that night. Everything good seems to happen there...

Sod it. I just won't book anywhere. If the bash is crap, I'll get the last train home. If it's good, I'll stay and find a B+B somewhere. (Probably pissed out of my head).

Sleep on the night bus. Get the right one and you should be fine for a couple of round trips to Middlesex and back.

M@

Have a good time you guys.

Bolt-01

pah! who needs a 2k anniversary bash when liverpool are playing chelsea in the champions league?

try not to bump into those sore blue losers tonight when they rampage around town after liverpool have whupped their sorry mockney backsides...

have a good time everyone

thinky-0

I'd love to go, but, y'know... Desperate Housewives is on...


Have a good night!

Hope everyone has a blast!

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!! Grand Designs was just too good to miss.

Well, here I am, BACK in Liverpool to report on this evening. Left at 8.45pm. The bash was more of a get together while listening to hard rock from the late eighties-early nineties. I can't believe they played the music to Terminator 2. Met Colin MacNeil, having thought he was John Higgins for the first five minutes.
It was ok, but it wasn't for me. I was told that John Wagner was MIGHT show up. That 'MIGHT' went a long way with me considering I nearly blew £80 plus on a hotel room.
So, I opted to get the last train home instead.

It was just a get together. That's all.

I enjoyed it.
Saw Colin MacNeil, Rufus, Boo, Siku, Clint Langley, Greg Staples, John Burns, Al Ewing, Colin Wyatt (art editor 1978), Logan, Dale, Wake and Tom Frames Daughters and had a great chat with them all.

Al Ewing is a SUPERB dancer by the way.

I had a lovely chat with Colin Wyatt. He was is a remarkable gentleman and he was pleased to discuss his hugely varied and porolific career-fascinating stuff. Also managed to mistake two people for David Bishop....ooops!
Shame Carlos was a no show, though.

Boo, Al, Natalie and SomeoneelseIdontknow dancing like their lives depended on it to the haunting strains of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds theme is possibly one of the strangest and yet loveliest memories I shall ever pick up.

I apologise to anyone I spoke to.  Or shouted at.  Or spat on.

I was drunk.  What can I say?

That dancing windmill was Al Ewing!

Shouted at? No.
Spat on? No.
Being in your vicinity though did cause me to develop the most gawd-awful Judge Death-type rictus grin ever.
I mean, what's going on? I don't smile like that. Its like i'm being pulled by an invisible hook and line.

Apart from the above warning against the demon drink, we had a good time.
Went pretty fast, what with all the nattering, meeting folk for the first time and catchings up.
Really pleased to have a good talk with Greg Staples about stuff and it was nice to talk to Jason Kingsley.
Haven't been clubbing in London since the Sprogs were born and it made a nice change to be with Tooth-minded folk without the usual convention trappings.

Me and Logan.
Relax girls, he's armless

Me and Cheryl with Rufus
*Insert caption here*

man that was a good night....paying for it now mind...

a cute pre-bristol warm-up,and some great verbal mayhem was shared. discovered that jeff wayne just isn't quite funky enough to really let rip , but al certainly brought the funk to new a level...

had my hands washed by smiley tony  - they should've made him wear a tharg mask or summink...

i was really getting into the swing o things when i had to leave for my train - which i missed , then had to walk the streets of london like a confused ralph mc.tell,being refused entry to gay bars etc. til 4am then went to gatwick for some real fun , bought some beers from m&s (it wasn't just beer - it was cold smooth luxuriously wet india pale ale)and shared them with 'che', a mechanic from tooting.....got home at 6.45am....

nice.

see yas at brizzle!

boo.

bought some beers from m&s (it wasn't just beer - it was cold smooth luxuriously wet india pale ale

Funniest thing I've read all day1

Sounds like it was a good laugh, maybe one of these days I'll make it along to one of these things. Although if I'd travelled all the way to London and no-one was masquerading as Tharg with a rubber mask and styrofoam cups and all the trimmings, I probably would have felt disappointed.

"*Insert caption here*"

Convention attendees should be careful to remember to bring a sketchbook or artists may be forced to draw on their bare flesh.

Boo, Al, Natalie and SomeoneelseIdontknow dancing like their lives depended on it to the haunting strains of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds theme is possibly one of the strangest and yet loveliest memories I shall ever pick up.

I'm just waiting for the pictures to appear. Probably on LITG if we're really unlucky.

Boo and Al had the better disco moves.I couldn't compete in the leg swinging....

I only took 2 photos during the whole evening. Unfortunately it was too dark to see the LCD screen or throughthe viewfinder.

Cheers,

Wake

Had a good night - just about feeling human now ;)

However it was more like a convention evening than anything more, so I can see why some people might have been disappointed.

As for the dancing, Boo can really bust some moves!  And who knew that Al Ewing drew his Rogue Trooper from life!

Dan

I used to have that Slaine T-Shirt (still do somewhere)

I had two of those slaine shirts.... can I find one of them now?

Can I fu

Here are a couple of Al on the dance floor.

Here is one of Rufus and Wolverine

... and Colin McNeil growing out of Rufus' neck

boo's shapes are awesome....

I can do a saturday afternoon in oxford, but hotel,day off work etc. was just too much for a lowly 'i just read tooth' fan.

Can't anyone in the know, splice together the Boo bits and animate 'em?
Bung a bit of music on then youtube it?

'Wake Up Boo'?

Absolutely loads of people took pics of the 2000AD Formation Dancing Team, so who knows.
With a bit of luck we should see some more pics posted over the following days!!!!!!

"Mamboo Number Nine"

The bloke in the Slaine t-shirt is that Boo Cook?

he looks like he';s performing a kata.

In first picture he looks like he's grabbed some invisable person by the shoulders and kicked them in the nuts and in the second left uppercut to the jaw.

Link: I thought this would be very apt.

Some of you do look like the Young ones.

Well at least Matt agreed (nodding head equals agreement doesn't it?) to a new ACE Trucking story......

Steve (It works for Alan it will work for me) Roberts doing the pencils and Boo (I'm more aerodynamic than ever) Cook doing the colours...

It's a winner I'll tell ye!!!

Well, I thought it was fun enough, even if I did somehow manage to spend almost £70 on alcyhol. Oddly enough, the Terminator soundtrack seems to fit surprisingly well after DJ Shadow and Unkle, whilst for some reason the final song of the night was Bernard Herrman's theme from Vertigo - there were about six of us left by the time the bouncer asked if I'd mind vacating the building.

Unfortunately, my hangover the following day was not helped by being caught up in a burning building on Oxford Street, but that's another story...

You stayed all the way through till 3am then? I was feeling surprisingly normal at work the next day. I think this was helped by Rob making fried egg muffins when we got back home. True love,innit?

It ended at 01:45 when the large doorman came down to ask politely if we would mind sodding off.

Leonia and I had a great time, even though we didn't get to speak to that many people (reading the other posts I was surprised at how many of the creators were there).

I was a little disappointed that Tharg himself wasn't there. Still, his Human Representative Matthew Smith was friendly and approachable as ever.

We took a few photos but as we're only just back from London the camera is still at the bottom of the bag and I can't be arsed digging it out at this hour. Tomorrow, maybe.

Anyway, even though I'm not normally a pub or club person, it was fun and I'm more than glad we went!

See you all at the 40th...

Mike

There is only one comment to be made about that-

"sigh..."

Bolt-01

Ah, only fifteen minutes after we left then.

There are some photos there that would be very tempting to deface.

"It ended at 01:45 when the large doorman came down to ask politely if we would mind sodding off."

I think it was closer to two when I actually stumbled my way out of the building. Possibly five past two, which is the time I have in my head, for some reason.

"sigh..."

You're not my dad, Dave - you can't tell me what to do anymore!!

It's a wonder that the people that run hese funcion dont have their club house.

It's a wonder that the people that run hese funcion dont have their club house.

Eh?

A club house.

Your, clubhouse. Where you can drink and party as much as you like.