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#16
Quote from: BadlyDrawnKano on 01 March, 2024, 11:45:46 PMI'd really like to check out Elektra Lives Again at some point, but it seems to sell around the £30 mark and given that it appears to be for only 80 pages it's a bit too pricey for me right now.

Story-wise, it's pretty insubstantial (as the low page count attests) but it's peak Miller/Varley — the visual storytelling is masterful and it looks gorgeous.
#17
I think this is a great idea. People tend to forget that Leslie Nielsen was a 'straight' actor for far more years than he was a comedic one, and his ability to deadpan his way through the hailstorm of gags that was Police Squad/Naked Gun/Airplane is a huge part of the appeal.
#18
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
29 February, 2024, 08:02:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 29 February, 2024, 06:28:36 PMI vaguely remember someone saying that film, whose name escapes me, about a Mad-Max-style dystopian Scotland walled off from the rest of the UK was supposed to be a sequel to 28 Weeks Later, but maybe that was just fan-fuelled speculation. There were no zombies in it, anyway.

Sounds like Neil Marshall's Doomsday... I haven't seen it, but I also haven't met anyone who says it's any good. These two things may not be unrelated.
#19
It's also easy to forget exactly how divisive Elektra was at the time, or how narrow the range of art styles that many comics fans found 'acceptable' was. Certainly, in my local shop, and amongst my comic-reading friends, people who liked it were very much in the minority. Letter columns in comics mags and fanzines were full of people howling "What is this crap?"

(Mind you, Mazzucchelli's art on Year One wasn't greeted with universal acclaim, either. Lotta people hated that at the time, too.)

I loved it, but I put that down to a certain M. McMahon more or less re-wiring my brain a few years earlier, in respect of what 'good' comic art was, and what it could do, with Slaine.
#20
Prog / Re: Prog 2371 - Smash the State
29 February, 2024, 12:23:15 PM
Quote from: Vector14 on 29 February, 2024, 11:38:19 AMI thought it was a bit odd how much power Glenn has.I feel like in Dredd strips of old a TV presenter would be instantly shut down and thrown in the cubes for inciting a riot.

He's pro-Justice Dept and anti-reform, isn't he? The judges will leave him alone for precisely as long as he's useful to them.
#21
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
29 February, 2024, 11:47:14 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 29 February, 2024, 11:39:47 AMThere is a distinction between legislation and law - and you're absolutely correct that morality plays a big part in that distinction - law (at least in theory if not always in practice) protects everyone

No, there isn't. That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying. Once again, we reach a point where it's impossible to discuss anything with you because you insist on redefining perfectly well-established terms to meet your rhetorical/philosophical stance, rendering them meaningless in the framework of the discussion.

Carry on being you. I'm done with this.
#22
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
29 February, 2024, 10:58:51 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 29 February, 2024, 10:54:54 AMSo, whenever a government passes legislation to commit murder on a certain group of people for any reason, that's fine, is it? It's lawful to kill some people just because some other people wrote it down?

Again, you're confusing morality with law. Law is law because people with the power to pass legislation say it's the law. That's how laws work. Something being law doesn't make it right — literally everything the Nazis did was legal, it just wasn't moral.

Inventing a different category of 'law' doesn't miraculously make it so, I'm afraid. You mean morality. Calling it something else also doesn't make it so.

Seriously, Shark — there are eight-year-olds that understand this distinction. Your obtuseness on this point does you no favours.
#23
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
29 February, 2024, 08:11:14 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2024, 11:01:08 PMThis is the consequence of conflating legislation and natural human Law. All humans are equal and anything to the contrary, even if (especially if) it's written down, is bogus. Legislation is all very well as a guide, but it should never and must never be seen as equal with Law. That way pogroms lie.

You continue to assert a difference between "legislation" and "law" that exists only in your head, as was clearly explained to you earlier in this very thread.
#24
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
28 February, 2024, 08:10:48 PM
Quote from: Rogue Trooper on 28 February, 2024, 07:10:34 PM- Okay, boys - cut down that old growth to make way for the new growth!

What could possibly go wrong...?

#25
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
28 February, 2024, 07:05:33 PM
Quote from: Rogue Trooper on 28 February, 2024, 06:44:57 PMA BBC article exposing a tax-subsidized power station that magically doesn't get counted as carbon-emitting.

IIRC, the original idea behind Drax was that it grew its own trees and then burnt them for power... which is broadly carbon neutral because the only CO2 it returns to the atmosphere is the same stuff that was sequestered by the trees it grew itself. Because those trees were on its doorstep, there's negligible CO2 added to the equation for transport of fuel. Broadly speaking, not a bad idea.

This, however, is not that.
#26
Prog / Re: Prog 2371 - Smash the State
28 February, 2024, 03:11:44 PM
Pah. Dredd took a sniper shot straight through the head and he was better by the end of the following episode. No stamina, these modern judges.

#27
Megazine / Re: Meg 465: Night Terrors
25 February, 2024, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 February, 2024, 05:29:01 PMPoppers! I'd forgotten they existed.  They used to be legal here in Ireland but I'm not sure if they still are.

Good Lord... what a waste of perfectly good drug time those things were. Someone gave me some once, and my overwhelming memory is of the world's worst headache. I appreciate that poppers have... other things to recommend them, but those weren't my thing. As a 'high'...? Keep 'em.
#28
Off Topic / Re: Random Pics from Comics
22 February, 2024, 03:35:33 PM
Quote from: Rogue Trooper on 22 February, 2024, 03:23:28 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 22 February, 2024, 01:42:44 PMI never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience

Oh, really?

Can't speak for anyone else, but the thirteen-year-old me absolutely cringed at the sight of that cover...
#29
Off Topic / Re: Random Pics from Comics
22 February, 2024, 01:42:44 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 22 February, 2024, 01:15:51 PMthis really underlined that the comic was no longer for me.

On the other hand, it did allow Alan McKenzie to pay himself for yet another page he was writing under a pseudonym which, I'm pretty sure, was really the point of it.

(And, no, I never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience demographic, so the music pages' fairly strong focus on that seemed both baffling and off-putting to me, too.)
#30
Megazine / Re: Meg 465: Night Terrors
21 February, 2024, 02:09:10 PM
Just a quick heads-up for digital Meg subscribers who downloaded the current issue this morning — the last four pages of MC-2099 are supposed to have lettering. If it's missing on your copy (either PDF or CBZ) then download it again — it should now be fixed.