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#1
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
25 February, 2023, 06:44:41 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 02 February, 2023, 01:51:38 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 02 February, 2023, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PMFour years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....



Good call. Whip um out Spikes

Any original art to share with us?


Ha, I think I was pretty much retired from the art collecting game even before my break. So not a lot new tbh.
 
Will have to check.

And find a new photo uploading site!
 
I am waiting on a Hershey commission from John Burns courtesy of Wiggz. That's been 4 years.... and counting... The Order is definitely keeping him too busy :D
#2
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
25 February, 2023, 06:25:37 PM
Star Trek The Next Generation. Watched the complete boxset over the Christmas/New Year period. The episodes look and sound aces on bluray. A joy to revisit all told.

Swiftly followed by The Wire. A first time watch for me, so I'm very late to the party, but what a fantastic show and a uniformly excellent cast.
Again this looks aces on bluray, and you'd be forgiven for thinking it was shot only yesterday. The use of payphones and then the novelty of early mobile phones reminds you of its age.

On a kinda related note; Homicide: Life on the Streets has been recommended. Worth tracking down? 
#3
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
22 January, 2023, 09:44:55 PM
Everyone likes David Crosby.

(Now that he's dead).



And it had somehow escaped my attention that Kelly Monteith had passed. Sad news, used to like his shows and gentle style. RIP, Mr M
#4
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
22 January, 2023, 09:38:41 PM
Quote from: JWare on 20 January, 2023, 10:24:57 AM
Still though, it's a grand old forum

'Appen.
#5
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 January, 2023, 09:18:22 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*

How you doin old timer?

I'm doing well thank you Rich.
Hopefully all is good for you and for t'others on here.

Four years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....

#6
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*
#7
Events / Re: Thought Bubble 2019
21 February, 2019, 10:56:46 PM
Mick McMahon! Dave Gibbons! Excellent!

#8
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
12 January, 2019, 12:14:15 PM
Such sad news, if not wholly unexpected. A good age, in his early 90s wasn't he, but still...

I absolutely loved his work on Dredd. So many of the stories he illustrated are forever first in my mind when I think of Dredd. And nobody captured the bizarre and eccentric nature of MC1, and it's denizens like Ron.

I never got to meet him, alas. I missed his last signing appearance at FP back in 2013? I kicked myself not long after that, for not going. To have met him, and to have said thank you, would have been a memory to cherish.

A quiet and a unassuming chap - in regards to his talent, it would seem.

And for a period, not a Dredd artist that had gotten much in the way of the applause he so rightly deserved. Pleased in later years that many folks, on here and elsewhere, shared the love they felt for Ron and his work.

And very pleased, that via Facebook, his daughter and grand-daughter, came to learn of the very high regard we fans held him in.

So, to Ron Smith. The quiet genius, who's work remains a fundamental part of the bedrock of Dredd.

Thank you, and may you rest in piece, sir.

#9
Film & TV / Re: Shane Black's The Predator
01 January, 2019, 06:08:16 PM
The bulk of it is/was on Youtube. T'was shite.

That ending.  ::)

More laughable was the alternative endings. One featured Ripley coming back through time to battle the Predator. T'other one substituted Ripley for Newt.

Yes, really. 
#10
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
01 January, 2019, 06:02:49 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 01 January, 2019, 01:11:51 PM
Dr Hook & the Medicine Show singer Ray Sawyer has died aged 81.

He was the one with the eye patch who wasn't Dennis Locorriere.

Great tunes though.
#11
General / Re: 2000AD Original Art Thread
01 January, 2019, 05:55:58 PM
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 19 December, 2018, 09:00:51 AM


All I want for Xmas is a John Ridgeway page from The Dead Man. Thank you, Santa!

For those who want to know the price [spoiler]£353 from eBay[/spoiler]


Very nice indeed. The Dead Man is a stone cold classic. Always good to see pages from this pop.

I used to own the previous episode's last page to this. Wish I'd kept it now, but it went to a good cause.
#12
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
01 January, 2019, 05:26:03 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 December, 2018, 03:14:06 AM
I really need to watch breaking glass - I love Hazel O'Connor. Until I watched that vid (followed by Will you) I'd forgotten about the movie, but what a couple of fantastic songs (though I do remember sneaking a look at one of my big brother's collection of bongo mags that featured her in its 'celebrity nudes' section - an old glamour shoot that had her posing on packing crates in some dusty attic *nostalgic sigh*)

Always had a soft spot for Breaking Glass - it's cheesy and overwrought in equal measure, but I loves it.

Hazel was touring the UK recently, and I caught her at the Engine Shed in Lincoln. Great night - A showing of the film, plus a Q&A afterwards and then she performed songs from the film, and elsewhere, for over an hour.

You certainly get yer moneys worth with Hazel.

#13
General / Re: 2000AD Original Art Thread
01 November, 2018, 05:28:20 PM
Lovely pieces all Rich.
The Coleby droid really does produce some stunning work for Jaegir. A page by him is essential in any tooth art collection, I'd have thought. Thank Grud, for the 40th bash, eh?
#14
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
01 October, 2018, 04:03:10 PM
Such sad, sad news. We all have so much to be grateful to Carlos for - a true 2000ad/British comics legend.

And such a nice guy as well. I count myself as being very fortunate to have met him in person on two occasions, as well as receiving a commission from him. Bespoke art from the master - something I treasured then, and more so now.

RIP King Carlos, and thank you.
#15
Events / Re: Thought Bubble 2018
21 September, 2018, 08:41:56 PM
And I shall be there tomorrow as well. Which will be my 2nd Saturday running attending a Con. Next week, I'll be having a lie-in....

Have a grand time everyone!