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Image have a creator-favouring model that manages to shift risk and reward firmly onto the creators.

Image are an outlier because you essentially pay them to publish your comic (the number I heard for buying-in was around 3000 dollars), a model obviously meant to be attractive only to the biggest name draws working in the industry, but other publishers offer different terms ranging from the Image deal to what is more or less WFH on house or licenced properties.  There are many publishers now, all knowing they have to be competitive by offering better terms than creators can get elsewhere, which is essentially how an industry/capitalism is supposed to work anyway.

1. Bang the drum for creator rights and the sharing of the grand wealth that's being spent on imaginary yachts.

2. Expose Rebellion's publicly available financial information in such a way as to depict it as a busted flush, utterly devoid of profit.

Square that circle.

Most indie publishers already have.  A great many of them are in worse financial straits than Rebellion and yet not only still manage to treat their creators more fairly, but several ex-2000ad creators are regular sights on their publication schedules.

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

There are a few black and white clips at the very beginning for some reason, unrelated to the 70's, get past that and you'll be surprised how many old memories this brings up.

It was more of an issue in the days before digital broadcasting was the norm, but in the analogue days of only 3/4 channels, the UK was/still is broken into dozens of different transmission "regions" with their own proprietary schedules in off-peak hours and in those timeslots assigned to factual programming like the news.  To fill awkward gaps in schedules that they didn't know what else to do with, regional broadcasters would often purchase really cheap filler from the US like movie serials and tv shows from the 1960s, which is why so many people (from certain regions) who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s know about Champion The Wonder Horse or Undersea Kingdom.

Why would you turn out to vote when alternatives are presented as being worse?

Same, tbh.

...it's really important to get him and Sharky in the same room and film what happens.

I don't want to be overly sensitive here, but are you guys suggesting this person as an opponent or an ally? Because, y'know, if it's an ally then, from the sound of it, I might as well chop off my thumbs burn my 'phone right now...

My inference is that you would not get along.

I can't remember who it was, but there's some conservative talking head on Youtube who got asked how he ratified his objections to socialism with the need to maintain infrastructure necessary not just for the civilian populace but for the capitalist class to use in pursuit of profit, and he just goes off on one saying "you think you got me with them bitch-ass roads, but I don't care about no motherfucking roads."  Then he said the army and cops weren't socialism, "because they ain't."  I am really trying to remember his name because I think it's really important to get him and Sharky in the same room and film what happens.

If it wasn't for his horrendous decision re Iraq, ...

Oh, just that little thing.

Jimmy Saville raised a lot of money for kids' charities, so on balance he did more mathematically-quantifiable good than harm, and in the end, aren't the numbers more important than the ethics?

He'll be invoked like a tangerine phantom every time a journalist asks if there are currently any children in dog cages.

Was thinking today how odd it is that the entire Marvel film/tv universe was more-or-less kickstarted by Iron Man - a decidedly C-list character who was so obscure that Marvel - when desperate for cash and filling for chapter 11 practically couldn't give the movie rights away, leading to the marvel cinematic universe as we know it.

I've been watching Legends of Tomorrow (the CW tv series, that's basically a DC comics series) and thinking how odd it was that the entire CW tv series was more-or-less kickstarted from the Green Arrow who, presumably, DC couldn't get arrested in a film, leading to his tv success.

Point of Nerd Order: Arrow was based on the breakout success of the Green Arrow character that appeared in Smallville, a show about Superman, DC's most recognizable character.  The Green Arrow in Smallville was in turn heavily inspired by the lead character in Marvel's Iron Man movie.

Who owns a hat rack in 2021?

On top of that, you have to remember the DUP is notoriously shite at politics.  They'll boycott negotiations until it's too late and things have progressed without them, then afterwards they'll play the victim.  If they have any plans beyond that, I'll eat my hat.  From my arse.

Helter Skelter's ending cut Dreddworld off from the alternate realities of other 2000ad stories - at least until End of Days decided that no longer applied - and I assumed the intent was to avoid this kind of nitpicking so Dreddworld didn't have to tie itself in continuity knots explaining something minor.  If something from another 2000ad story happened in Dreddworld's past (IE: in stories already published), then that's fine, because those realities/stories still existed as possibilities at that point in the past, but not anymore because of the events of Helter Skelter.  Except End Of Days said that doesn't count anymore, so whatever, I guess.

Quantum Wave Theory Time travel wibble-wobble posits that no future is set in stone because that future doesn't actually exist and is merely a possible outcome of all events that are currently in motion, and even if you collapse the waveforms into a singular observable point go into the future, it doesn't mean the future you observe will definitely exist, because once you travel back to the past, the waveforms are un-collapsed everything is in motion again and events can turn out differently.

In other words: Dredd and Anderson went to the City Of The Damned, but that wasn't how their future turned out.

Still waiting for the explanation why Hot-Shot Hamish is from Newcastle now.

My only niggle about all this is the perennial false flag issue - it was all remarkably convenient, but just as much for the anti-Trump as the pro-Trump lobby.  It's harder to imagine a plausible scenario where this rabble could have have achieved much more than murdering a bunch of Trump's enemies (not to minimise the human cost) and slightly delaying Biden's certification before the irresistible force of US military stamped it out, than it is to imagine multiple endings where it creates a huge anti-Trump backlash, justification for cracking down on internet freedoms and a Patrician excising of no-longer useful elements of the right in the manner of the Rohm Purge.

Not to justify the conspiracy theories or anything - don't want to trigger the Fact-Checker General - but you assume all things being equal, TB, rather than our having a firmly-established media environment in which many people exist in an alternate reality and already believe batshit-crazy things thanks to deliberate conditioning - a huge number of people already believe that antifa dressed in MAGA hats to frame Trump supporters.  Who in the media was going to speak on behalf of The Left if this had turned into a massacre?
After 911, the US public didn't look inward and consider the cost of their training and funding Al Qaeda operatives, they found an enemy at their gates and they embraced hatred for it that endures to this day, and a massacre in the Capitol would have been a gift to American authoritarians, with Republicans speaking fondly of their poor dead colleagues from across the aisle who simply cannot be allowed to have died in vain - these socialists who stormed the Capitol must be stopped.

I'm sure I've mentioned before how US corporations funded a million-strong private army of fascist veterans to march on Washington DC with the intent of removing FDR from office and installing a military dictatorship in America in the 1930s, and how over time it's been reframed - even on that Wikipedia article - as "a hoax" despite official records of it still existing in presidential and congressional archives.  The capitalist fash of the military-industrial complex has precious few new ideas, just newer methods of execution.

To the Tories, this is just solving the surplus population question.  Their only concern is with the optics, and four years away from an election, with the media still very much on their side and the opposition playing purity-politics games that keep the working classes split, the Tories aren't even particularly concerned with optics.

[you were never going to vote]

His 'woss the point in voting when naffink changes' schtick of a few years ago got on my tits something rotten.  Those who listen to Brand and don't vote: Young, liberal and progressive.  Those who don't listen to him, and vote: Tory and Ukip fans. 2020: Labour all but disappears and the Tories become a Ukip tribute act.

I fear you might be insulting the agency of the average human in suggesting they are mere thralls to the impeccably-reasoned arguments of Sir Russell Brand QC, but as the forum's democratically-elected left unity candidate and wallet inspector 1st class, I feel the need to point out that if you're the type who will only vote if the guy who divorced Katy Perry via text message says you should, you were never going to vote.

Brand has a massive social media presence and he uses it to promote left-wing ideas to an audience conditioned to be apolitical, and it seems foolish to assume that that same audience, faced with everyday concerns, would refute electoralism entirely on the say-so of a celebrity anarchist.  Brand is essentially encouraging critical thinking to teenagers and white van drivers, and their material conditions and experiences will decide whether or not they become politically-engaged and/or active after that.