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I remember enjoying it at the time, and still think some of the design touches are inspired, though it always felt like a much more interesting science fiction movie that was awkwardly shoe-horned into a Bruce Willis/Die Hard vehicle in the third act.

Didn't Moebius work on it? There are also strong similarities to The Incal.

The Fifth Element is good fun and one of the better science-fiction films of the 90s.

I like the look of Valerian as well. It looks akin to Guardians of the Galaxy, which is still the high-point of the Marvel films.

We will never be free of Nigel Farage. So it is all bad news.

We now live in Faragist Britain. Despite never achieving any kind of electoral mandate, UKIP policies have been adopted wholesale by the Tories.

The dates don't seem to tie up in Brink. It says Yuliya habitat was built 2075AD, but the pilot and two characters at the end were born on Yuliya before then. Or have I missed something?

I guess families of people working on the construction of the habs lived there before they were opened.

And that's before we get to Dan Abnett saying that Brink is set a couple of hundred years in the future on the last podcast. All very confusing. But Brink is definitely the top story in the prog at the moment,

These are a definite improvement over the old style.

But that doesn't explain why BBC Scotland so frequently trot out the hilariously dim-witted kipper David Coburn. UKIP are pretty much the definition of a fringe party in Scotland. Even the Scottish Socialists have a better history of electoral success.

The Scottish Greens are also a separate party, so their numbers wouldn't be included in that figure, but it would be reasonable to add them when considering UK policy. They also have six MSPs, which is six more than UKIP.

The dates don't seem to tie up in Brink. It says Yuliya habitat was built 2075AD, but the pilot and two characters at the end were born on Yuliya before then. Or have I missed something?

Does anyone else think that Finnigan Sinister looks like Tony Wilson wearing a wig on the prog 1508 cover?

[Honorable Mention:]

Honorable Mention: Ro-Jaws (my 3 year old loves the character and asks me to tell stories about the adventures of her and her robot pal Ro-Jaws who eats garbage so she can cross impassable paths *note that I dont actually read her the progs...yet )

There must be something about robots. My 3 year old refers to Star Wars (which she hasn't seen) as "the R2D2 movie".

The artwork on Brigand Doom saved it. It'd be a good candidate for a floppy, assuming Tharg isn't going to bring out a collection which would have limited interest.

Same problem here (using iTunes).

The new run of stories begins and it hasn't immediately entranced me the same way the last lot did. Though that may come from my not having read any prior Scarlet Traces. Or Deadworld. Or Brink...

Yeah maybe the Prog isn't aimed at me at the moment.

It does seem odd that, after all the publicity of the 40th, Tharg has chosen a few stories that are continuations rather than fresh starts.

I'm happy to see Scarlet Traces and Brink back. Deadworld isn't for me.

How on earth has this thread gone for so long without anyone mentioning Halo Jones?

Anyway, this week they are:

• Dredd
• Halo Jones
• Anderson
• Zenith
• [spoiler]Freely[/spoiler]/Lawson

Still furious that I didn't know their was an option for a hardcover of The Last American, and I missed out

There was an option for about 24 hours. I don't know why they don't print more.