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Not a webcomic as such, but a thread on the Something Awful forums where someone is asking for comments on their ongoing comic "Jaybird". The story mightn't sound like much (a baby bird looking after it's bedridden mother in a big house shut off from the outside world) but it's really atmospheric and the art is incredible.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3424156&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 (Caution for language in comments).

If you're watching, can you confirm it's got angela bruce in it? I spent years remembering it as her that played Dayna in blake's seven, and now i have it locked in my mind as her that played brigadier bamberra in dr who instead. And, does janet fielding have a cameo? Or am i getting it mixed up with an episode of shelley?
SBT

Indeed it does. Not only does it have Angela Bruce (the scene with her calling the fetish "Charlie" was the scene I could remember from childhood) and Janet Fielding but Marius "Maxtible" Goring from "Evil of the Daleks" as well.

Thanks to the mention of "Charlie Boy" which dredged up an old memory for me, I've found that someone has put up a load of "Hammer House of Horrors" on youtube.

That's today sorted then.

[The proper median average -- the appropriate statistic to use with skewed data like this -- is much lower (20% less, in fact) at around £19,000 per year.]

£24k is a mean average based on including ludicrously high salaries that shoot up exponentially.

The proper median average -- the appropriate statistic to use with skewed data like this -- is much lower (20% less, in fact) at around £19,000 per year.

Don't doubt it, but can you point me at the source for that?

Not the exact article, but a report on the BBCs website with details of average and median salaries that gives the median salary for all workers as £20,801.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stm

I did see a more recent article suggesting that the average wage had gone down by £2,600 since then but as the source was the Daily Mail, it can't be considered reliable.

Necropost, I know.

Are we getting a league sorted for this year?

To my surprise, the girl serving said "Ooh! Strontium Dog! I used to read that in my brother's comics."

I think I muttered something about them restarting it recently whilst paying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKCLH05WAo

Ha Ha! Guess I deserved that.

In fairness, she was about 12 years younger than me and I had just started seeing someone at the time.

Utterly superb!

Loving the Dante one.

Not sure if this counts.

Long before I got my subscription, I used to work in the town centre and would pick up my 2000ad from WH Smith.

One time, I finally got the front of a long lunchtime queue and put my copy on the counter. Looking at the covers on Barney, this would probably be prog 1305.

To my surprise, the girl serving said "Ooh! Strontium Dog! I used to read that in my brother's comics."

I think I muttered something about them restarting it recently whilst paying.

I'd still love to see more Ten-Seconders.

It's been more than three years since that last appeared.

Thread drifting...

I worked with someone who would happily spend 30p on 'Smart Price' midget gems and then throw out the third of the packet that were liquorice, rather than spend 80p on a pack twice as big with no liquorice sweets.

Back on subject.

Black and WTF. A photoblog of bizarre black and white photography (largely worksafe).

http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/

Cheese.

The answer's always cheese.

Cheese fixes everything 'round here.

Said before on another thread, but I'll say it again.

My sister bought me prog 2 whilst over my grandmother's house. As I was five at the time, the content went straight over my head.

The first prog I bought regularly was 250, after getting the 1982 annual as an unwanted Christmas present.

Stopped reading at 502 because the girls serving in the newsagent laughed in my face as I bought it. Came back at prog 901 because of Judge Death on the cover.

No mention of his brother, Koolandthegang?

Moon Star
Well Lucas has to get his inspiration from some where.





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Would have loved to have been in the NASA offices the day that picture of Mimas came back from Voyager.

According to 192.com, there's a Joseph Dredd on the electoral register.