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I'm also looking for cards, though no real priority - don't think I even have all the commons, though I'll have to check.  Currently I don't think I have enough to form two decks (i.e. minimum required to actually play a game!)

Theresa May now effectively saying EU residents will be a bargaining chip in negotiations. So we now have a Conservative going beyond what even Farage wanted to happen. Marvellous. (And God knows what this would mean for all the Irish over here. How the CTA is to be affected, no-one has any idea.)

I want to stay in the UK less and less with every passing day.

I've always wanted the UK to stay united, having English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestors in living memory.  This year for the first time ever I've come to think that if Scotland or Northern Ireland left the union my main thought would be 'good luck to you who have departed'.

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, influential in the 1970s culture that first brought us 2000AD.

Did I miss something, but how is

Bloody hell. They killed this guy off before he could even finish typing his comment!

Yeah, I do get a lot of hassle when using spoiler tags - had to edit the spoilered sentence back in...

Did I miss something, but how is [spoiler]Ma-Ma actually a legitimate queen?  She was only near the throne because of the supposed parentage of her sons.  Now that they're both dead, what claim does she have left?[/spoiler]

this issue will feature the first sequential comics work by Bolland for 2000 AD since 1987

Any ideas what this may be?  A second Dredd tale, after the Ezquerra one?  I'm struggling to think of anything other than an early Future-Shock and Walter the Wobot, non-Dredd wise, in the pages of 2000AD...

What are you talking about.  All this talk about a global financial meltdown and armageddon is just fear mongering from the Remain campaigners.  Everything will be fine once the referendum is over ....

... oh.

Sorry, got that one wrong.

They haven't admitted they got that one wrong yet - latest claims are that everything will sort itself out in a couple of days (!)

Fucking hell nearly 700 pages of this shite?

Only a matter of time until it's actually 700 pages :-)

...which leads me to wonder what the longest thread on the 2000AD online forum is/was...

Fucking hell nearly 700 pages of this shite?

Only a matter of time until it's actually 700 pages :-)

What I'm interested is, is how many similar collections are there out there?  I've very nearly got the same (except I have the Starlords and Tornados, and a few JDMs went missing during a house move a while ago - never house-share again).  Shall need to fill in the gaps as my prog slog continues (there's nothing rare missing, I just have to get everything organised so I know what to replace).

[Grabbers]

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I must admit that I wasn't really paying attention for the first 15 minutes because I was too busy trying to work out what I had seen the lead bloke in before. Turns out he was a much more Irish (therefore much more drunken) Moist Von Lipwig! I had to cheat and use Google, but I was well pleased when I could put a face to a name.

As far as the film itself goes I was expecting a horror comedy akin to Shaun Of The Dead. While it felt to me more horror with funny bits thrown in that a straight up comedy, it had some great gags. The monster effects were good too. Not a bad little film for a Sunday night in.

Richard Coyle also played Jeff in Coupling.

Cadet Jessica Paris: the female Dredd clone who was pregnant.

Please tell me this happened in the Meg? I have zero memory of this but it sounds interesting.

Pretty sure it was a  Michael Carol story in the Prog last year.

Arrrhh my mind is fleeing the country and finally taking custody of my memory after years of misuse!

Cadet Jessica Paris appeared in Prog 1830 in the first episode of The Forsaken.

Stevie is totally down with new Nemesis providing it's a flashback story ala Pat & Kev's loving, brilliant  tribute to the late Ken Reid -- Ego Trip. For the overarching narrative of Nemesis the Warlock is circular in structure, so as  TB so rightly puts it, there is indeed nowhere else it can go.

In what way was Ego Trip a tribute to Ken Reid?  I'm not overly familiar with his work, though have looked up what he did, and can't work out a link to Ego Trip.

Or Northern Ireland.  The educated London elites all voted to Remain, though, and we're certainly being reminded of that.

Yes, London - all educated elites.  No working class people at all.

Nobody's mentioned Dan Dare yet...

How did Torquemada die on the telegraph wire if he hadn't been sent back in time and was trapped as part of a gestalt entity with Nem and Seth for a million years?