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Is that a broiled horse cock?

Trout - you should know better than to mention tactical thermonuclear warfare when Tweak is around!

Everyone - take your doors off their hinges and form a nuclear-proof shelter in your hallway.  Yeah, that'll work.

[passes Lobster Doug the chill pills]

Let's all, like, love each other and, y'know, stuff.

Okay, this was years ago, but it was the last time I actually genuinly wanted to punch someone in the face:

I got on a bus in Glasgow and the boy who was in charge of loading luggage was having a fly smoke around the back of the bus.  I put my own case in the luggage compartment.

When I got to my destination, I went to collect my case and it wasn't there.  I quizzed the driver, who said "did you load it yourself?"  Of course I had, and he explained that passengers weren't allowed to load their own luggage.  I explained why I had.

This went on for some time, until the inspector happened along to find out what the hold up was.

At that point, the driver went to a secret compartment at the front of the bus and hey presto, produced my luggage, which he'd hidden on me to teach me a lesson.

Oooh, but I really wanted to punch him in his jobsworthy, useless, miserable, mini-Hitler, buttfuck of a face.

Oi, Doggy Carrots:  enough of this banter - aren't you busy creating a logo of utter genius for my competition?

Has the web-site time always been an hour out or did this happen recently?

[image of Trout sneaking strychnine into his dads coffee in small doses]

re. The Bogie Man

When the concept of The Bogie Man, plus a couple of scenes, was described to an audience of middle-aged non-comic readers at Moniaive, there was much mirth amongst the crowd.

The trouble is, do any of them read the Megazine?  The Squaxx I could see nearby just sat in stony silence.

Any connection to Zancudo?

I can't link to it because the site is gone, but look up "troutmobile" on google-images and check out the fourth picture on the top row.

Oh, here's a thing:  so what's up with King, then?  He's obviously been under some kind of mind control - and the only Dreddverse thing I can think of (beyond Psi-influence) is the magic SLD-89 (?) that PJ Maybe uses to carry out most of his crimes.

So, what's the sketch?  How was he controlled?  If he didn't actually have an affair with a judge, then why did all the other judges think he had?  Or was it just him that thought it was another judge, and everyone else knew all along it was just an un-judicial liason?

Is the daughter a Psi?

For the record, and if that mighty Betelgusian is anywhere within earshot, I have to offer a rebuttal here:

Despite the fact that I once said "Synnamon should only be on toast, not in the prog", I did enjoy the backstory that was presented in Book II.  I'm a sucker for any kind of freedom fighting pastiche that is in any way reminiscent (sp?) of the Terminator movies (in flash-forward mode).

I absolutely loved Bison, in the same way I absolutely loved Family.  It was gritty noir in the style of Ellroy.  I still don't understand what anyone had against either of these stories (but it's all swings and roundabouts, innit?)

From what I can gather, nobody realised it was King in Breathing Space until last week and now people are decrying (sp?) it as predictable.  There have been some confusing sections of art (where I don't think it was the intention) that broke up the flow for me as a reader, but I love the setting and the style of the piece.

Comparing it to Wagner and Mills on top form is hardly just, methinks.  I will compare it to recent Robo-Hunter and pitch that it's an order of magnitude better than that.

Moving to Leatherjack, it's an order of magnitude better than the sprawling ennui that Atavar became.  

For me, the prog is running on an all time high for this year.  2 modern classics, 1 near-miss, 1 fantasy rollercoaster and some filler does not a bad prog make.

Renattos?  Did that used to be Donatis?  And what about Minerva, is that still there?

As for places to get the prog, my childhood paper shop in Conon Bridge is now a shoddy hairdressers.  *sniff*

Erm...if they'd put the logo on the other side, swapping it with the price & barcode stuff, then there'd be no problem with the gun.  (Phew...just on topic.)

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Dingwall?  Soon to be renamed Tescoville.  That's my hometown, that is.

And onto the prog:

Cover
Good, but not great.  Interesting name change for the comic:  "2000D".  Not sure it'll catch on and am expecting Tharg to revert to the usual name next week, or possibly 2000A, or 200AD, for variety.

Mandroid
I've dropped the "Judge Dredd" from the title, because he deserves his own series.  Okay, so we all notice the similarities with this and stories such as Batman and The Punisher, but in this case, Nate isn't the lead, and we don't know what the end result is going to be.  So, despite familiarity with the premise, we still have tension.  (Plus a sort of inside scoop of how Wagner might write Bats.)

Gorgeous, moody, sublime art.

Savage
Okay, so most of the threads of previous weeks have played out.  Now for the denoument.  Who did he kill?  What repurcussions will there be?

Leatherjack
In Firekind, a sort of god-like entity awoke and crushed what seemed like unbeatable foes.  In Leatherjack, a sort of god-like entity has awoken and is crushing what seemed like unbeatable foes.

Of course, in Firekind we had the human interest story and the emotive murdering of the villagers.  In Leatherjack we have an enigmatic killing machine with whom it's difficult to empathise.  Kind of like a dayglo Shakara.

It's good, still.

Terror Tales
Was this start with a punchline and work your way back?  Interesting art, with weird angles.  The script was just a trial to plod through.  Boring, really.

Breathing Space
I love this story but I don't think it's being told very well at all in it's second half.  A great setting, a great plot, good characters:  just not being told well, either by the writer (who I assume planned out the panels) or the artist.

Or am I missing the point?  King is supposed to be confused - we, as readers, are supposed to be experiencing what he's experiencing:  thus, it's confusing?

Hrmn...jury's out.

Permagibber and permagrin were used by stoners to describe talking a lot of stoned bollocks and not being able to stop grinning (respectively).