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General / Re: Is 2000AD anti-religion.........

« on: 06 December, 2002, 05:12:16 AM »

On a personal note, living in a country that has for decades allowed the main religion to get away with the institutionalized abuse of children (among other serious violations of human rights), I like things that are anti-Christian.
Although straying from that cheerful note, I don't like Pat Mills forcing his 'Paganism rules OK' views down my throat, either. I enjoyed 'The Name of the Sword', but 5000 anti-Christian Mills stories later things got a bit boring.

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General / Re: infinite universe / 2000 ad......

« on: 06 December, 2002, 03:10:24 AM »

I never knew it was dead. Last I heard, it was an infinite number of universes theory.

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Prog / Re: latest red seas / writers rant...

« on: 06 December, 2002, 03:11:58 AM »

I've noticed LOADS in Preacher, if that's any use to you.

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Off Topic / Re: Space Elevators

« on: 06 December, 2002, 03:57:49 AM »

And does nobody call them 'lifts' any more, anyway?

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Off Topic / Re: Space Elevators

« on: 06 December, 2002, 03:56:38 AM »

It's like Willy Wonka's Great Glass Elevator, really.
'Dave6795 remembers when he didn't think about the content of the prog; he just read it.'
I think I know where you're coming from, but I fear I'm too far gone.

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Help! / Locating lost images

« on: 05 December, 2002, 01:25:43 AM »

I asked this question already, but I think it got lost in the swampy recesses of the 'SoWhat do they look like?' thread:
Does anyone know how to locate the URL address of an image attached to someone else's message? Some of the images don't seem to be appearing for me today.
Cheers

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General / I can't get no sleep

« on: 03 December, 2002, 09:19:33 PM »

Now, I realise this is a bit late and I'm sure I've missed another thread discussing the same thing, but I really, really enjoyed Gordon Rennie's Dredd story about him hitting the boozer on his time off. Just the kind of one-off I like, and one of Mr Rennie's best yet.
That is all.

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General / Re: jonathan woss

« on: 04 December, 2002, 12:58:44 AM »

Yes, and Jonathan Woss has to give his one back as well.

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General / Re: jonathan woss

« on: 03 December, 2002, 09:21:09 PM »

Can I have one?

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General / Re: Nasty or vigilant?

« on: 03 December, 2002, 09:15:31 PM »

I always read in on the bus home too, then read it again later and realise I had completely missed the point of most of the stories. On the subject of hangovers, I fended off a wine / Guiness one on Sunday by simply drinking again in the morning. I will not do it again for a long, long time.

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General / Re: Modern Classics

« on: 05 December, 2002, 01:08:55 AM »

What was 'To Thing with Love' about? I remember the name , but not the story. La Placa Rifa was excellent, as was Cardboard City (best line that I didn't get at the time but do now: 'Guess that's how you solve a problem like Maria').
Off the thread's subject, where is Maria now?

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General / Re: need to get this said............

« on: 04 December, 2002, 12:52:15 AM »

Really?
Well, that's my arguement well and truly fecked. In that case, it DID start to go wrong around 700, and I can honestly say that everything I said there was pretty much wrong.
Still, the John Smith stories and Zenith 4 were good. So was the democracy storyline. Other than that, apart from a few whimsical one-offs like Hewligan's Haircut, it wasn't too good after prog 700, just like the man said.
Now I feel a like a proper gimp.

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General / Re: need to get this said............

« on: 03 December, 2002, 09:35:15 PM »

Killing Time and Revere also kept me going through a disappointing era of 2000ad (Ennis and Millar Dredd, Deat Meat, Harlem Heroes).  Although I'm not sure if 2000ad all went wrong around prog 700: Wasn't that before the whole Necropolis lead up and final?, The Horned God, Cinnabar, The Final Solution (well, I liked it), Zenith phase 4, and loads of other decent stories too? Although around Zenith 4 everything else started getting a bit ropey, but I believe got better again eventually.

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General / Re: Scojo's age query

« on: 28 November, 2002, 05:39:00 PM »

I think I missed them. Any examples?

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General / Re: Scojo's age query

« on: 28 November, 2002, 05:26:56 PM »

Thirty years old? Really? Holy shite.
To elaborate to anyone who hadn't the pleasure of Scojo's company, he was probably this board's most frequent poster a few months back. Although my knowledge of him is sketchy enough, he wrote some not-too-hot Dredd movie scripts, asked for comments on the board, and attacked anyone who dared criticise them. He also often explained how John Wagner should write Dredd. Now I found that quite amusing, and didn't really mind him at all, but then I think he started making some lecherous comments to a female message-poster (if that's the correct term) called Jenny-Mek, which is pretty sad given this new evidence that he was 30 and never met the girl. Although I rarely checked this board at the time, I think that's why he got kicked off it by Wake.