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Photo Stories: Same as a comic strip, panels, speech bubbles etc, but with photographs instead of artwork.

Usually seen in girlie romance mags, though Viz did some great parodies...

The 'new' Eagle, I seen to remember, was an all-photo story sf comic whose main story was Doomlord

Gary

That'll be the Doomlord photostory in the 'new' Eagle then?

Gary

Visible Man was recently reprinted in the Megazine... good old 'old skool' shock-horror.

Gary

Err.. you could try buying the DVD and watching it on frame advance...that would be cheaper. And it's too expensive for me.

Gary

Yeah horses for courses?.

E?s artwork?s great in both colour and black and white (well apart from his noses? but of course that what make?s him unique!)

Frazer Irving stuff like Death and Dom Reardon?s two Terror Tales make full use of the potential of b/w and I don?t think could be improved with colour. And b/w will always remind me of when I first started reading comics in the first place?

But I agree that good colour can add to artwork. But Glimmer Rats is too over the top for me, basically unreadable?

Gary

Pretty impressive for a ?don?t call it a fish!?

Once met someone who liked it?

Gary

You forgot Orca knocking a house down? possibly the silliest scene in any film I?ve ever seen. I seem to remember that he also bit Bo Derricks leg off. And wasn?t he some kind of pro-environment whale, blowing up an oil refinery?

Gary

Well where advertising is informing me of a new product I might actually want, fine. If it's trying to create some sort of percived need for something I'd never think of buying then it can sod off... and if it's too annoying I'll bloody boycott the product.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising... a piece of genius that was all too true, no wonder it flopped.

I've got a new loathing in my life... the Specsavers ad... a poor parody of Trisha with non-actors and a budget of about ten quid. And you're only saving 30quid, hardly half-price or two for one, like Boots do, is it. And his 'horrible' original glasses look far better than the 'designer' replacements! And it's women slagging men... again.

Glad to have got that off my chest.

Yeah, piss-poor dubbed Euro-ads! Argh!!! And every car advert is a bland clone of the last becuse they cost a fortune and are multi-country. Oh for the days for Wally and his Yugo (and Marianna Whitiker)

There was a doc about the Posh and Bec's Japan experience. Bec's speach to the workers at the chocolate factory was a wonder to behold. Only the really downmarket ultrapopular brands can be bothered with this... so the Beckhams got a big wedge for advertising nasty chocolates and secondhand cars

God, she was on again tonight...

This has def stepped over the 'this advert is soooo annoying I will not buy the product that is advertised until I've forgotten all about' line

As often the man said it best... "By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself."

Ahh that'll be Sean Connory, the SNP representative for Bahamas East

No, why should we?

One of the big New York publishing houses has a slush-room, rather than a 'pile'