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If there is more than one adjective from the same adjective group then you need to add 'and'.  So you can have a "big, green sign" or a "red and white sign"*, but not a "big and green sign" or a "red, white sign".

* like a barber's shop.

Well feck me, I've been teaching English as a second language for nearly 20 years, and never knew the rule about the 'and' or the comma with adjectives.

If I may be a pendant for a second, though, I'd say that 'really' was an adverb, not an adjective, and qualifies the adjective after it rather than the noun - you can have a 'nice car', a 'really nice car' but not a 'really car', as 'really' describes the niceness rather than the car. 

My defence is that it was close to the end of my break and I had to get back to work!

p.s. can't really make a post about grammar and complain about pedantry!

p.p.s. I'd consider you could say "big and green" but that it changes the emphasis of the sentence.

p.s. 'really' would be from the second group, so you can have 'really big' item.

I always said Souther like mother too

That's because of your natural sense of how English pronunciation works.  Southerly, Southern, Souther.  It's what makes us all say "the little green pot" and never "the green little pot".

That'll be the order of adjectives.

• quantity or number
• quality or opinion
• size
• age
• shape
• colour
• proper adjective (i.e. nationality, place of origin or material)
• purpose or qualifier

If there is more than one adjective from the same adjective group then you need to add 'and'.  So you can have a "big, green sign" or a "red and white sign"*, but not a "big and green sign" or a "red, white sign".

* like a barber's shop.

There's a thread with a title along the lines of "2000AD predicted it first" that has a collection of news items which were covered in the GG years or decades earlier.

Will we get an update in 2024?

stop it or this thread is getting locked.

To be honest, from the first post this thread has been pretty immature (and not in the fun pun way it went recently) punctuated by the adults among us being more realistic.  I'd be happy for a new Dredd TV series thread once there's any news to talk about.

p.s. those two / three I was talking about where only the ones which were standalone items - i.e. not free gifts with the megazine or cut-out / pull-out in progs and specials.

I think that 2017 one in the link is the one that was listed but didn't ever appear to come out.

There's been two that I know of - one back in the 1980s, featuring Titan cover artwork, the second in the 2010s.  There was going to be a third, also in the 2010s, I think, but that didn't appear to happen.

Oh no. Only just got my copy of Lifeboat - reading that will be a lot more poignant now

Same here - ordered the day before Ian died, received the day after.  Not read it yet, but I had a quick look through and the saddest page is the one that says "To be continued..."

Wow. Like I said, I was 11.  The telly was showing the Real Ghostbusters to my age group, while Tharg was providing a naked man drinking his own bath broth shortly after shagging a goddess in front of a crowd, and ripping someone's heart out through his throat.

I only found out last month that Winston in the Real Ghostbusters was played by Arsenio Hall* (best known to British audiences from the role in Coming to America).

* series one to three only.

All public posts from Ian's FB.

2 December at 19:56  ·
free at llllllllllllast

6th December

3 d  ·
Not feeling so good but thanks for all your kind messages and Merry Xmas to all, cheers

8th December

2 d  ·
goodbye thanks for all your love.

from the Imagination of Ian Gibson facebook group, posted around noon today.

Steve Bull  · 2 h  ·
Hi All
I've been asked to share by Ian's family:
'Ian is now under sedation and his wishes are to remain this way for the time that remains.
We'd like to thank everyone for their kind messages and all were read to  Ian whilst he was awake.'
I'm sure each message provided a special feeling and I'd like to share something Ian said but long ago that sums up the humour we all witnessed though his work and knowing him.
'I'm not very good at this dying thing'
What a legend😁
I'm always reminded at times like this of a favourite quote
Don't cry because it's over
Smile because it happened
❤️
Steve

Benjamin Zephaniah, 65 - writer, poet.

My first comic shop was American Comics Enterprise (ACE Comics) in Colchester in the mid 80's. From finding the odd American comics in local newsagents to finding a shop full of DC & Marvel comics alongside old British ones. I mainly started going there to rebuy old 2000ADs I was made to throw away by my parents then found comics with names I recognized from 2000Ad like Marshal Law, Luther Arkwright, Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N, Outcasts & other pre-Vertigo comics which set my love of US comics. It is just a shame that ACE Comics has now moved away from concentrating on the shop to mainly be a online company

The comic shop where I completed my 2000AD collection (as in the last back prog to fill in the gap).  Also bought my copy of Prog 2 from there for much less than it would fetch these days.

The obvious one would be MCM in May as it covers everything from comics, cosplay, books, table top games etc. Hotels are very expensive around the excel but if you go out a bit further i.e. Stratford you can get straight on the tube/DLR to the venue. Only downfall is that it normally falls on the same weekend as Lawless

Excel is on the Lizzy line (though it's the south branch, so from the Essex branch they'd have to go down to Whitechapel, then head back to Custom House from there).  There's no direct DLR from Stratford, but they could change at Canning Town.