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Superb stuff.

I'm just amazed how quickly people were able to get the answer!

Oh no Dreddheads has gone all blank on me - what am I missing, what am I missing...

But do you not think that this weeks episode of Brass Sun (if you have read it as a sub?) is a great example of how you don't need to have read all that's gone before. It brings you up to date brilliantly while still telling a good story. So many stories do that these days I don't get the problem. If they don't its just poor writing or a reader expecting to have ever detail of every little thing that's happened?

I really hope they carry this series on as soon (I think after Volume 4?) it'll get to the stuff from the Meg that I don't thinks ever been reprinted and I'd love to get my grubby hands on.

  a complete Johnny Nemo is in the works too, which is great news.

Oh yes! 

Who, what, when... this is fantastic news. Where did you come across this gem? I treasure my old. Was it a Penguin edition... whatever, can't wait for this.

Poll the readers on what they'd like to see EVERY week alongside Dredd.   Let this be the lineup for the year 2015 (I don't think for a minute this train can be turned around in less than a year.)  2015 should have two slots for recurring series that are in for damn near the whole year.  The other two slots kept as-is.

Uhh then 2000ad can do its own version of something else from popular media, the fan vote, interactive comics. I'm quite sure there would be all sorts of practical problems to prevent this but it all sounds such fun.

In many ways there's strong evidence for this type of thing working so well in the past. In the rocky days of the early 00s the addition of regulars Sinister Dexter and Nikolai Dante really turned the good ship around and got it moving in the right direction after what is often seem as the comics worst period in history. The thing is 2000ad has such a strong line up these days the pressure to do this type of thing just might not be there in the way it was in those dark days.

I just saw this and want it very much but have no idea when its coming out...

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-bojeffries-saga/717

Be mindful that's been there for a while and is very possibly like my much longed after Bacchus Omnibi (spelling?) and are on the books but not scheduled. Top Shelf are a small company and they can't get all the things they'd like out. So its possible it might be some time. I asked the owner when we might get Bacchus at Thought Balloon last year and he said he really wanted to get it out but costs meant it might be some time. I'd guess this might be the same... except with Alan Moore's name attached you'd think it was a fairly safe bet?

I wrote this long post comparing this perceived change to a change seen in comics in general and other storytelling media, telly in particular but even film. All my blathering has been lost to the mists of the internet error nether-worlds but can be summed up by asking is it not merely reflecting changes we see elsewhere in the wider world of storytelling?

Whats wrong with Murray Gold? I think his skill as an orchestrator are a great asset to the series.

I find his work work utterly overbearing, a bit like I find the favour of ginger. Not intrinsically unpleasant but it tends to wash away everything else. A musical score is meant to subtly enhance the emotion you are drawing from the show, not try to drive that emotion.

In some ways to me people who write musical scores for telly and film are a bit like letters to comics. They're meant to be the unnoticed support, not the main feature... does that comparison work???

What is going to hurt the series is that it's going to be reprinted in US standard comic size. After seeing the inch and a half boarder on the Dredd reprints I've decided to drop all the IDW color 2000 AD reprints.

I'm pretty certain the period they're starting with at least is from the brief time (two years was it?) when 2000ad had US proportions. So for the first few issues at least this won't be a problem.

Is Battlefield Los Angelas any good. It looks like a bit of dumb fun and might be just what I'm after tonight when its on telly?

Watching it at the minute, but only because a DVD would require standing up and walking across the room.
It really wants to be Black Hawk Down with aliens, but is, so far, much too po-faced and every line in a cliche. But I see Michelle Rodriguez has just popped up, so I shall continue watching...

Yeah I'm watching it, but suspect I'll be off to bed in a wee bit. Its not very interesting, or even that much fun is it.

Yeah my shop has it on their Diamond shipping list for next week not this.

Well I finally did it, well am doing it as I type. I've had 'The Spirit' on my rental list for an age as much as I worry about what I've read and I'm not fussed with comics becoming films any more, I was curious about all the fuss surrounding this one. BUT jesus it really is as bad as people suggest. As a massive fan of Will Eisner's work I've tried to put that aside and see if it stood up as a film and it simply doesn't.

I do wonder if Frank Miller was trying to create a new visual style for cinema in the way Will Eisner did for comics. He (I think) was trying to be as bold and innovative as Eisner, just in a different medium. He was taking no prisoners and wasn't afraid to do anything to crash the boundaries. He just failed to do it in a way that had any soul or heart, that conveyed character, held a story together or engaged an audience (well this audience). The fact that he did it with a 'property' as significant as The Spirit is testament of an arrogance I now perceive in the man.

Oh course Frank Miller spent a lot more time with Will Eisner than many and from what I've read of Eisner I suspect he'd have been far more forgiving of the innovations that Miller tried here. So I try to put aside what I see as an affront to a genuinely important and magnificent part of comics history. I'm entirely happy to settle with what most of the films audience, those that have no clue about Eisner's genius, had seen and that's a man completely over stretching this talent and ability as a film maker and in doing so turning any attempt to innovate and be creative into utter farce.

Not the funny kind either.

What a shit film.

Is Battlefield Los Angelas any good. It looks like a bit of dumb fun and might be just what I'm after tonight when its on telly?

Uh never read The Maxx but have heard nothing but good things about it. I'll defo be checking this out. Thanks  for the heads up on that one. Am I reading this right and its being reprinted as a monthly floppie? If so I'll be trying that I reckon.