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...or: we know the real reason why you dress up in that toga, sunshine

hey watcher! if you can bear to peel your binoculars from emma frost for 5 seconds then turn to the mongoose publishing listings on page 473 of the august 2002 previews for not only the latest two slaine rpgs but the saucy new addition to dredd's canon (ooo-er, missus!)& a glorious testimonial to the dogged thoroughness of modern spellchecker programs.

we can only hope that ian gibson provides the art!

brown paper bag, sir?
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i hope that you don't mind me asking, but i'm curious as to what sort of shampoo & condition you use.

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because i'm in oz, but i do have the brand new saint etienne single!

props to wake for manning the pumps & steering the message board off those lord howe island rocks

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hope that neither of you girls broke a nail:P

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picked up fort #1 on the way through to work this morning; had a quick flick trough in the shop & it looks skill, fraston mate. loved the pov for the rain of fish.

also grabbed 100% #1 from paul pope, who's somebody i'd love to see work for 2000ad sometime in the future.

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my apologies for wilting your poll, pvs, but roxilla's column wasn't devoted exclusively to dance music. i don't have any of the relevant progs with me here at work, but i remeber being well chuffed when she gave props to lush (in their psychedelic early cocteau twins with their amps turned up to 12 phase too!).

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...i wonder if i'm the only poster on this board who hasn't seen attack of the clones yet?

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hello jock,

i hope that you don't mind me asking but your recent postings regarding your upcoming work on tor cyan & lenny zero reminded me that tharg's nerve centre once made mention of you painting the next devlin waugh epic. is this still happening?

cheers,
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>After finishing up the celebration of Judge Dredd's 25th birthday across the pond, Rebellion Entertainment is looking to bring Britain's favorite strong arm of the law stateside via an all-new American series.

obviously this is referring to the forthcoming wagner/diggle & kenny who? dredd vs aliens series for dark horse.

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the smell of wet geraniums is wafting through my window.

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>Over the last n years there have been plenty of artists/styles that I didn't really like ...McMahon's 'Howler' style

i can't disagree with this posting more than any other i've read on this board, oddyboygirl (with the possible exception of those who claimed really & truly was pants, because it most vertainly wasn't!)

mcmahon's work on howler is extraordinary; using cubism he transcends the limitation of the drawn page & unlike most comic book artists conveys real, actual movement on the printed page. witness when howler wipes the floor & cleans the loo with dredd... the whole thing just takes my breath away.

whenever i read this (& mcmahon's other recent work on muto maniac in toxic! & his war of the worlds sequence for abc warriors) i think; "do we really nedd movies when comics can do this?!"

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just picked up the latest previews (can't miss it, it's the chunky big catalogue thing with the kevin o'neill cover for league of extraordinary gentleman volume ii with lots of red in it!) & see titan soliciting strontium dogs: portrait of a mutant with a painted ezquerra cover for july release.

tor cyan apparently "learns the ultimate truth of his origin" (well, you see, son, when a clone man  loves & clone woman...) coutesy of john tomlinson & jock in progs 1298 & 1299 (here's hoping that jock can make sense of tomlinson's action sequences!), whilst prog 1300 is a relaunch issue featuring
*strontium dog
*the vcs
*"...and the original rogue trooper is back in the fray on nu earth, courtesy of gordon rennie, staz johnson & david roach."

megazine vol 4 #13 features the conclusions of both judge dredd: citizen sump coutesy of wagner & higgin as well as missionary man: place of the dead.

megazine vol 4 # 14 sees the return of lenny zero in wipeout, whilst both issues contain bad company & hellboy reprints reprints in addition to installments durham red: the scarlet apocrypha (no creative team listed).

also of note are automatic kafka by joe casey & ashley woods from wildcat(superheroes, but i might give it a try, must read those wildcats trades i bought for the sean phillips art someday!)

dc brings us animal man: origin of the species trade (collecting #10-17 plus the story from secret origins #39), the resolicitation of garth ennis & phil winslade's goddess trade (ooops, september 11!!! however that didn't stop marvel shipping an issue of ennis & dillon's punisher also featuring an airliner crash the following week...oh, but the punisher caused it to crashed into the bad guys, so i guess it was okay then) as well as the announcement of several forthcoming miniseries under the vertigo pop banner, one of which is london! by peter milligan & philip bond (minky swoon!).

oh, & the flash:time flies prestige one-shot isn't by garth ennis. pro--from image--howerver, is.

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wot, no brendan mccarthy? did you hit every branch when you fell out of the stupid tree, laddie?

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the haircuts in 2000ad never had such class!

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http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=prog&page=specialcover&choice=tornado14">

or "dave gibbons in tights scandal"

hey wake! briefly skimming through the tornado section that's recently gone up (instead of writing copy forb a six by seven promotion) & the angry planet cover for issue 5 is definitely an ian kennedy, as are also the covers for tornados 10 & 18.

tornado 15's cover is unmistakably byrobin smith, & i reckon that 17's  is an eric bradbury too.

just thought that you'd might like to know; must really get back to work!

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"they've set dobermans on me...i;m finished!" ah, they just don't do coverlines of such class anymore...

oops, bit of an expensive week for me at ye olde comic shoppe.

not only did the trade paperback of daniel clowes' 'cariacture' finally turn up, but in addition to my monthly titles there was the first installment of dark horses' english language translation of the mighty atom (hooray!) & 'the art of simon bisley' hardcover.

the biz book is the business, with wonderfully vibrant four colour reproductions that leave that murky soft cover that verotika did a few years ago for dead (& on the shelf, which is where i certainly left it). there are 8 pages dedicated to unlettered horned god artwork, 6 of which are full page reproductions.

there are 4 pages of dredd, nothing essential if you've already judgement on gotham & his heavy metal dredds. there's a couple of pages of his grant moorison doom patrol covers (sadly no single page reproductions here) & an introduction by alan grant  featuring some amusing anecdotes about signings.

that said, there are countless pages dedicated to simon's portrayal of mrs kevin eastman herself, julie strain (this is a heavy metal publication, after all), the abysmally graituitous rape scene from fist full of blood (beautifully pencilled by simon--if you can call the sight of a rapist being shot through the palm of his hand then the head as he ejaculates beautiful, all of which is tastefully framed by the pnuematic pornstar protagonist's inner thighs and pubic mound, of course--abominably penned by mr eastman) & no abc warriors or nemesis. what's the dice?

oh, & it finishes of with a nice piccy of post-millennial simon; he's had his haircut so he now looks like a member of smash mouth.

praise the machine!
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fort: prophet of the unexplained--what's the dice?

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>To be honest, I'd rather 2000 AD put more effort into creating new strips than relying on former glories.

but how about a revival of disaster 1990, but this time told from shako's perspective?

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just begun reading roger zelazny's 1968 novel 'damnation alley' on the bus this morning, & can happily report that both brian bolland & mike mcmahon are drawing it black & white in my head as i go, with brian illustrating the sequences featuring hell tanner in california & mike doing the scene in boston.

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>heard a couple of tracks off it, though. sounds good. what do you think of it?

my apologies for taken so long for getting back to you on my thoughts regarding cornelius's new album 'point', wood (no doubt you've already scored yr own copy by now!) i've been mulling over it for awhile, & whilst it's not as bonkers eclectic as fantasma, it's still a mighty fine record.

speaking of eclecticism, over the past weekend i continually listened to cornershop's 'handcream for a generation' & can happily report that if when 'i was born for the 7th time' was their 'screamadelica', then this latest is their 'world clique' (ie, a very fine thing in my eyes... bit of synaesthesia for you there). badly drawn boy's soundtrack for 'about a boy' sounds a charm, & i can highly recommend the new 'blank tapes cd sampler #4 '(see link below for more details)

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