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Should we have a best writers poll similar to the artists one we had a bit ago?

I'd set one up, but either I don't have permissions to do that or I'm too dumb to figure out how to access that bit of the site.

Is what Scojo says true, Midnight Surfer, are you Arthur Wyatt in disguise?

Try reading the thread with Scojo killfiled. Its a quicker read, wittier and more fun. Scojo can't write for toffee and you can always figure out what the little shit has said from the replies, in a similar way to figuring out what Sooty or Sweep has said to Matthew from his replies.

Gets repetitive fast though.

I sense I may be in a minority, but I thought Big Dave was funny as hell.

Other than that, hmm...

My funniest overall moment would have to be either the bit in Freaks where the central character tries to explain to the aliens how to make an atom bomb (Well, you take a bomb and fill it up with atoms, and then it grows into a mushroom) or the bit in Hewligans Haircutr where they inexplicably arrive in Stevenage New Town. You have to have been to Stevenage to find that funny though. Think East Germany only less fun.

Why don't you hold your breath?

Wah! Wah! Wah! God, you are just a big child aren't you?

> Where do you meet? Can I join? Is there tea & biscuits?

At the secret writers pub of course.

Ah come on, I was just having a little fun. Anyway, its not like anything you or I do will ever have much affect on him. Scojo is an automated system, it doesn't think or feel or pay much attention to to outside world, it just posts.

Is that the one where Judge Death posts weird, delusional posts to as many message boards and newsgroups as possible, and then flies into a rage when people take the piss out of him?

I haven't got the prog yet, but do the events depicted in "13" take place between midnight and one in the afternoon on the day of the Californian state primaries?

"Dastard" is a word, its just archaic. As such I don't really think it qualifies.

"Hey, I'm a programmer, this is research! "

Me too, i'm learning PHP! Honest!

I don't thing a big link to Scojo on the homepage is going to make him any more popular.

As you read it not the bigness and fatness of its volumes, and wish that 2000ad reprints came in tomes as voluptuous as these.

Sorry. Deeply off topic. Continue the recommendations!

Definitely try all the other Alan Moore Windstorm stuff, though Tomorrow Stories and Tom Strong may seem a little twee, and Promethea can be hard to follow. League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is probably your best bet, though I don't know if its in softcover yet.

If you want to avoid Science-Fantasy/Superheros and read something really weighty then check out From Hell. Though its the size of a breeze block and a little difficult to get into once you're hooked you'll read it till the very last footnote.

(Please ignore shit movie of the same name)

If you like Top-Ten you may also like Planetary, by Warren Ellis and John Cassady the first two books of which are available as graphic novels. People may try and persuade you to buy the TPBs of Authority instead, but that's just dumb fun whereas Planetary is the real deal.