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[I know there's been very little cross-over between our core 2000 AD long-term readers and the Best of 2000 AD readership who are primarily broader in their tastes and read global comics omnivorously']

This weird (to me) line from an interview with The Best of 2000ad editor, Owen Johnson, made me think of this amazing thread. I really don't understand what he's saying here

'I know there's been very little cross-over between our core 2000 AD long-term readers and the Best of 2000 AD readership who are primarily broader in their tastes and read global comics omnivorously'.

Well, I don't bother with the "Best of" something I already own the entirety of. The money I save from not buying multiple copies of the same thing, I can and do spend on other comics. Catch yourself on, Owen.

Aye, fair enough - but I was more thinking of E. Jean Carroll than Stormy Daniels. A sleazy affair is one thing, but rape is a whole different level.

It's a good point. He's such a prolific shit, that I'd actually forgotten all of the horrible things he's done.

but they're not trying to manipulate our perceptions, oh no, they'd never do that...

PR departments, spin doctors, careful messaging - of course politicians, governments, media organizations, advertisers and corporations are trying to manipulate our perceptions. It's not a secret.

Even after ... being found liable for sexual abuse, he remains the favourite.  Even in the very unlikely event of him serving prison time, I doubt this will make much of a dent in his popularity.

This is actually quite common, and has precedence. When Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, and the Republicans were desperate for voters to join in the moral outrage, it was tumbleweed time. Or Ozzie politician Bob Hawke - the public response was along the lines of "on ye, mate".

If you're a Trump fan, or a Biden opponent, the prosecution circling around a sex scandal probably seems partisan. It may well be partisan.

"Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in historic criminal trial"

that's a 3:2 split right:left.

And you're being incredibly generous in saying that.

Damian Hinds - Con, so right wing.
Nigel Farge - ultra-right masquerading as an affable middle-Englander.
Piers Morgan - anti-progressive populist - smells right-wing, but a fair-weather wanker.
Bishop Rose - anti-humanist, but also anti-racist & anti-sexist. The wild card. Centrist?
Wes Streeting - can we call him left wing? Strong Blairite. Centrist?

It really is a shitty panel.

[Oz Gallery]

Oz Gallery

Click the image to see a larger version.

It'd be good if there was some kind of rotation feature for images, but you'll have to just tip your screen (or your heid) for that one. (I'm cheating a little with the Glenn Fabry one, which was circa Song of the Surfer, but it fits with the theme).

Liam Sharp (559)	Barry Kitson (566)	Will Simpson (567)
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Barry Kitson (568)	Liam Sharp (569)	Glenn Fabry (662)
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Bonus (Chris Weston, real prog 2011):

I liked the Oz saga but I think it suffered a bit from having too many artists on it.

Interesting that this was celebrated at the time - and perhaps far more the norm. These days we expect the same artist to be on a strip for entire series of books. The Wilderlands crossover stuff felt odd jumping from Ezquerra to Hairsine.

From sheridan's blog:

"A new catchphrase is introduced for Sam C Slade – the C stands for Crafty, Chirpy, Courage and Ch-ch-chicken."

Eurovision was sixteen days ago and has always been shite. Therefore, you are Sideways Scuttleton and I claim my five crindar.

[Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I saw Fury Road three times in the cinema, and several more times thereafter. That's my problem right there. Furiosa is just a variation on something I'm rather too familiar with. Tonally and visually, this is Fury Road all over again.

I'm in a weird space where I don't want to see it because of how good Fury Road is.

Project!

It's batshit - I love it.

I noticed that the newspapers the day after the Prime Miniature's speech had all touched up the photo to make him look less pathetic...apart from the Daily Mirror, whose front page showed him walking away looking like a drowned rat, with the headline "GOODBYE".

I saw "Drown & Out". Newsthump had fun with "Rishi Sunak still not dry".

One has to assume that this is not how they wanted things to play out (re. Regened), so they're making the best of a bad hand. Like Devlin, they're making a good fist of it.

In terms of the economics (re. the idea that they could cut out a bunch of stuff and still have it be viable), I assume the bean counters at Reb-Central know their shit from their Shinola.

Lastly, cast your minds back to March 2000, and Megazine 3.63. After two years of Preacher reprint (and Daily Star Dredd, with only one new story per issue), we were heading for a relaunch. The event was marked by a Wagner-scripted Dredd analogy of the Megazine's woes: J.D. Megson: A Near-Death Experience. "Half of it's recycled - old fittings they picked up cheap from Ennis Dillon Conapts."

Twenty-four years later, it's still standing.