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"Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in historic criminal trial"

that's a 3:2 split right:left.

And you're being incredibly generous in saying that.

Damian Hinds - Con, so right wing.
Nigel Farge - ultra-right masquerading as an affable middle-Englander.
Piers Morgan - anti-progressive populist - smells right-wing, but a fair-weather wanker.
Bishop Rose - anti-humanist, but also anti-racist & anti-sexist. The wild card. Centrist?
Wes Streeting - can we call him left wing? Strong Blairite. Centrist?

It really is a shitty panel.

[Oz Gallery]

Oz Gallery

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It'd be good if there was some kind of rotation feature for images, but you'll have to just tip your screen (or your heid) for that one. (I'm cheating a little with the Glenn Fabry one, which was circa Song of the Surfer, but it fits with the theme).

Liam Sharp (559)	Barry Kitson (566)	Will Simpson (567)
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Barry Kitson (568)	Liam Sharp (569)	Glenn Fabry (662)
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Bonus (Chris Weston, real prog 2011):

I liked the Oz saga but I think it suffered a bit from having too many artists on it.

Interesting that this was celebrated at the time - and perhaps far more the norm. These days we expect the same artist to be on a strip for entire series of books. The Wilderlands crossover stuff felt odd jumping from Ezquerra to Hairsine.

From sheridan's blog:

"A new catchphrase is introduced for Sam C Slade – the C stands for Crafty, Chirpy, Courage and Ch-ch-chicken."

Eurovision was sixteen days ago and has always been shite. Therefore, you are Sideways Scuttleton and I claim my five crindar.

[Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I saw Fury Road three times in the cinema, and several more times thereafter. That's my problem right there. Furiosa is just a variation on something I'm rather too familiar with. Tonally and visually, this is Fury Road all over again.

I'm in a weird space where I don't want to see it because of how good Fury Road is.

Project!

It's batshit - I love it.

I noticed that the newspapers the day after the Prime Miniature's speech had all touched up the photo to make him look less pathetic...apart from the Daily Mirror, whose front page showed him walking away looking like a drowned rat, with the headline "GOODBYE".

I saw "Drown & Out". Newsthump had fun with "Rishi Sunak still not dry".

One has to assume that this is not how they wanted things to play out (re. Regened), so they're making the best of a bad hand. Like Devlin, they're making a good fist of it.

In terms of the economics (re. the idea that they could cut out a bunch of stuff and still have it be viable), I assume the bean counters at Reb-Central know their shit from their Shinola.

Lastly, cast your minds back to March 2000, and Megazine 3.63. After two years of Preacher reprint (and Daily Star Dredd, with only one new story per issue), we were heading for a relaunch. The event was marked by a Wagner-scripted Dredd analogy of the Megazine's woes: J.D. Megson: A Near-Death Experience. "Half of it's recycled - old fittings they picked up cheap from Ennis Dillon Conapts."

Twenty-four years later, it's still standing.

Sir Jaysen of Kangsley's entirely fictional response that I'm making up for the purpose of satire:

"In medieval times, talking genital automatons were often part of family entertainment. This time on Modern History, we reenact a typical village play involving a gay, vampiric exorcist, filled with ennui, whose only companion is a jolly phallus possessed by a demon!"

I dipped a tentative toe into the 77 Farcebook with my cornflakes this morning. One thing that struck me as amusing was how many people equate mature comic content with swearing, as if being a grown up means having access to swears. Then they'd linked the Regened announcement to some kind of imagined threat of their swears being taken away.

Coprolites.

(It does bend the mind a little to imagine some poor parent trying to do the right thing and maybe cutting out the Pandora Perfect pages so their little darling doesn't accidentally flip the page to a Titivillus scene.)

Tempting to imagine that Rishi has perhaps laid a large bet on Labour winning, and his decision to announce the election in the pouring rain was just one in a series of deliberately engineered moves. That would explain pushing through a doublethink law that says Rwanda is safe even if it isn't.

They really are the most reprehensible shower of fuckers.

They really are.