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Anyone know what age Scojo was (or is, I suppose)? I would have put him at about 15 to 17 mark. He couldn't have been much older than that. Could he?

Have to admit, his was the only Hellblazer I read. There was one series that started brilliantly with Constantine becoming a tramp, and there was a skillfully done scene with him puking blood in his sleep, which somehow managed to be a sad scene rather than a sick one. Again though, the ending, was really bad:
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He just walks up to a ridiculously cliched city-gent type, magically influences him to hand over all his money, shaves, has a haircut and just stops being an alcoholic, all in about two pages.

I have to say I liked Helter Skelter, mind you.

I was talking about a whore's goat's legs, not yours, Mrs Coggins. I couldn't act such a fecker to someone I cannot see. It is a cool icon, by the way. is it a Simon Davis drawing?

Sorry, i wrote my reply without seeing your next two posts. i stand by the yellow legs thing, though.

Dear oh dear. Well, it does. Must get myself one sometime. ANyway, to elaborate on what I was saying earlier, Preacher, Garth, 2000ad, fiddlydee and a big whore's goat with seventy  yellow legs. I'm glad you agree.

Now, I'd be the first man to say that most of what Garth Ennis did for 2000ad was muck. I have done, loads of time.
But I have to say, fair bollix to him, because he'd be the second. Whilst Mark Millar bleats on about how his Robohunter was cool no matter what people think, Garth Ennis freely admits most of his 2000ad stuff wss tripe.
Then again, i suppose as one of the most successful comic writers around he can afford to. (Preacher started really well, but got a bit repetetive near the end; Hellblazer varied between great and terrible; and I haven't read much else of his stuff. Christ alone knows how he got the job in DC in the first place after 2000ad, but he has improved incredibly)>

I remember that, yes. John Smith always threw in a bit of adult content, though, even in the 80's: Cinnabar had a big alien orgy and Rogue Trooper shagging this woman; Fervent and Lobe had a scene where Almaranda seemed to have bitten off an arab bloke's, er, mickey; and also a scene where demons from hell were planning to wear the two boys 'prepuces' (I had to look it up at the time) on their horns. Filth.

Me too, except I think the odd swearword suits Rogue Trooper. One series it DIDN'T suit was Atavar, of which a sequel appears to be on its way. For the love of feck.
By the way, when did the word 'shit' first appear in 2000ad? About a year and a half ago I came back from 3 months abroad, and there was 2000ad suddenly effing and blinding all over the place. What happened there?

I ain't a-preachin' no more, Boudicca. 'Scuse my un-Christlike looks, and also my ungodly ignorance: How do you find that URL address in a someone else's message?

Hey, Slippo, did that photo appear on you computer? (It didn't on mine; and half the other pictures seemed to have disappeared too.) So I can't check the similarities between myself and my long-lost brother Si any more.

Well, El Spuriouso's picture seems to have disappeared, but I have finally worked out how to use my digital camera and got my mate Nay to put my picture online. But I really think i look more Spurious than Si himself here:http://www.geocities.com/dmrtn1975/images/bw2.jpg">

Thanks, Boudicca: i don't think there's a picture of me on the net (that I know of, at least), but I'll work on it.

Although I can't answer El Spurioso's post, I can answer that someone is as spikey and freaky as him, because that particular picture looks eerily similar to me. If someone explains to me how to post a picture, i'll show you all soon.

Although looking back on it, I'm not QUITE as frightening-looking.

Two people recently told me I look like someone from that series, Teachers. I don't watch it, though, so I'm not sure if I do or not.

Steve Dillon was a big surprise to me. I always thought he'd have that Tom Petty look that most of his characters do, but he actually looks like Oliver Reid.
And I imagine Alan Grant as a skinny bloke with curly black hair and glasses; a bit like Colin McNeill who always used to draw himself into stories.
Simon Davies has to be one of the characters he uses in Sinister Dexter. Not sure which one, but I'd imagine Sinister.
I seem to remember Pete Milligan looking like Se?n Hughes.