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22. Let's see, so 8 years ago you would have been...
Hmmmmmm.

Scuse the double post, but:

Re: Real Sense Of Community
by Godpleton on Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:39 am

I would like to apologise to all of you and I promise to never say anything that could be construed as sarcastic or snide ever again. Can you find it in your hearts to forgive me?

Hmmmmmmmm.

Heck no. I wish I had been 14 eight years ago. I was in fact 26 when Death Monkey was around. Was actually just curious to see if he was still around or if anyone remembered him.

No you're not. Irrelevent is ir big grey animal with ir pair of tusks and ir trunk.

Heh. My name's Jayzus. I can be nice. And I can be nasty. Smoke, pal?

Very sorry to hear that, Fishy.
I was out with my Dad today, who's also 65. I realise now how lucky I am to still have him.

Apologies to some of the newer boarders, but does anyone remember a member called Death Monkey from a long, long time ago? He was a 14-year-old boy called Owen, as I recall, and did his best to be obnoxious and anarchic but simply came off as a 14-year-old trying trying to be an anarchist. Think i responded once and ignored everything else he ever did, and finally he issued a grovelling apology to everyone and a plea to be accepted.
Weird, how these things stick in your head - suppose he sort of did his job after all, given i still remember him about 8 years later. Are you still here under a different name, Owen? he'd be a grown man by now - step forward, old chap, if you're here with a different user-name, silly things you do when you're 14 are not taken into account when you're an adult

Think he did some pictures once, in a grid of boxes on a page, with these white bubbles floating round with all writing in them. Hope that helps?

I didn't like her much, but she didn't deserve that. And her family definitely didn't deserve it.

Wow, never knew Richard Elson had been on the scene for that long. That said, I must be about the only 2000ad reader alive who isn't really mad about his art. Go on, hit me, I can take it.
That was Clint Langley on Dinosty I think, the first Flint stuff I've seen was on Rogue Trooper (also in his Bad Friday incarnation).

. The art was a little dodgy and colouring terrible BUT the story was superb and it ended wonderfully. Great story and a great example, unlike for me Tribal Memories which I've discussed before, of where a story is completely contained and a sequel really wasn't required or desirable. Brillant stuff.

I loved Shadows too. Not quite sure whether you're saying you like Tribal Memories or not, but i thought it was one of the best stories 2000ad has ever published.

I couldn't agree more. In fact, like a sad pretentious bastard I'm going to quote my 27-year-old self of 2002 (sob). I haven't changed my opinion.

Now, me and my working colleague also had differening opinions on Judgement Day. Me, i thought it started well but became childish and boring, showing bad characterisation of both Dredd and Johnny Alpha. The nuking of the cities, in my opinion, was badly handled for such an apocalyptic event, and the assault on Sabbat's cave became almost farcical near the end. Also, Dredd's 'I'm a hard man' last speech bubble in the series did not befit a Mega City Judge, if I may say so. Also, it came far too soon after Necropolis, a really good epic that tied up plot-strands that had run for years (Judgement Day was gracelessly dropped into the Dredd timeline like a rock).
Oh sorry, i almost forgot, my friend thought it was excellent; a typically brilliant Judge Dredd mega-epic.

To add to that, I hadn't read The Apocalypse War at the time, but now see that Judgement Day was a failed attempt to recreate the exhiliration of that epic.  There weren't half enough follow-up stories considering Dredd had decided to nuke half the civilised world.
Now I'm going to have a long look at my life and wonder where the years have gone.

Yeah, the latest cover's wank alright. Give me the close up smiley any day. Why do publishers feel that a complicated but uninteresting picture is better than a classic icon? I noticed they've taken the one-eyed bowler-hatted man off A Clockwork Orange too and replaced it with a photo of a glass of milk. I piss in your milk.

EDIT:

The Smiley cover is the US edition, the UK edition has the group shot, due to the Smiley being trademarked over here

Ah, that answers my question. I really must start actually reading threads before i shoot my mouth off.

You're runny.

any ideas what the turkey is being served to the knot top?

Sorry to interrupt but does that turkey have four legs? Some kind of GM turkey in the style of Bubastis or the giant squid, or are me peepers proper dodgy?