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Jsut watching a video on how he has bought a house in Henley, "coincidentally" just a few days after the current Tory MP announced he wouldnt be standing at the next election, so his plan is pretty transparent.

It seems clear from this statement that this is just a temporary necessity so he can ride in after a Starmer Victory to "defend" Brexit.  Though he has set himself a few hurdles as he would need to get himself a safe Tory seat to become PM again.

You'll want to catch up with Queen Adreena if you havent heard the marvellous Katie Jane Garside in 30 years - throw in some Ruby Throat while you're there!

Barbarians?

'There lived a little viking boy...' from People.

Mine is pretty good at pointing me in the direction of new stuff I like...or old songs I'd forgotten about. The other week, for example, it played me Love Your Money by Daisy Chainsaw, a brilliant song that I hadn't thought about in maybe 30 years.

Funnily enough Spotify has started playing that to me a lot at the moment as well?!?

I'm surprised you are defending ANY law, Sharky, given that you think people know how to behave so long as they arent told how to behave and society can organise itself just fine without anyone handing down any proclamations about what can and cant be done?

I guess we'll never know his true intent...

Warlord Games have just previewed their version of this wouldnt you know, but I cant find the image online.... hold on....

Any new pics of unrevealed minis or stats for as yet undisclosed releases?

Hey Trooper, yes, I was having a bit of a break from the channel to do some writing but I'm gearing up again to get gaming again!
I'll be commissioning my friend Simon to paint them again, he did the previous minis which I was delighted with (and he's just finished painting our Space Hulk collection of over 100 minis, more on that coming soon on the channel)!
Yeah, the stats for the Pat Wagon are in the new supplement (which I'm just sitting down to read now) so I'm excited to have that as well as Rico and Blanche Tatum who are also on the way!
Most of all though, I'm looking forward to giving the new campaign a go! Hopefully Billy Paxton Block will conquer the city!

Tom Foster?

I thnk this has a lot of potential

Always been a big fan of Juve focussed stuff - the text stories in the annuals, Chopper, Dog Deever etc.

So long as it keeps the social bite necessary, and has writers who can deliver on the settings potential, then this could be a real winner.  Disaffected youth should in theory flock to a story set in a plae where the youth are maximally disaffected!

If not steady, defintiely trending upwards

Wagner back on Dredd (mostly?) is a 20% jump - heck - more than that, as the strip has gone from actively punching me in the face to being a delight.

Hogan on Dogs may be drawn out, but its point the Oil Tanker in the right direction...

Steve McManus & John Tomlinson replace McKenzie in a few months, Sinister Dexter is not more than a year away? 

Is it though? While I don't think there are any Prog stretches with NO good stories in, there are a couple of runs in the 900s coming up with some real bad patches...


...and I can't wait to hear Fox 'n Conrad bitch and moan their way through them  - while also, I trust, finding some more diamonds in there. Mambo 2's a good 'un! Harlem Heroes 2 is ripe for some chuckles, too.

Where for arte though Space Spinner?  Miss my Monday fix! Just as we get to the slow and steady incline in quality....

Neimand's usually is pretty spot on (aside from the wordy speech which gvies it that teasing hint of Grennie to keep us guessing).

This isn't the first time you've mentioned this, and I did have to raise an eyebrow at your assertion that Niemand Dredd is more verbose than Wagner Dredd...

I;d point to three things

The example there is "reported by an unreliable narrator" Dredd, so thats a factor. It's also a long speech designed for a certain effect.  You can take as long as you like when its building to a point - so long as every word feels like it is there for a purpose

The verboseness I get from Neimands are just some redundancies and repetition or wordy phrases in one or two sentence balloons

To point to a few this week::

"Showing him the ropes as part of his pre-assessment street exp"

"and all the rest of it I havent even told you about yet"

"Wanna lead on this one, with us as your back up?"

It's in these smaller but slightly chewy sentences that I find the verboseness rather than blocks of text

Dont get me wrong, I am usually more than impressed by the Neimand, and I;m sure there are lots of examples of redundancy in Wagner stuff, but somehow he just seems to have a wy with words that makes everything he write seem economical, weven when he has a lot to say!

I did think about the long gestation of Pineapples potentially making the anti-vax reading a bit of a stretch, but the MMR vaccine nonsense has been alive and well for a good while before Covid - either way, I dont think its a good look for the story to say theres no "killer bugs" and that we should do our own research based on what we feel.

I know IP mentioned Pineapples as ChatGPT Mills, but I still say Niemand's Dredd have a strnger whiff of AI about them. It's the eternal dilemma of the Dredd fan - they want their Dredd to be Wagnerian, but when it is it can raise more questions than answers about comics as a franchise. 


Neimand's usually is pretty spot on (aside from the wordy speech which gvies it that teasing hint of Grennie to keep us guessing). That's better than the alternative, but do I love Dredd or do I love Wagner - I suppose you can love both, so let;s not go off on  Millsian creators rights tangent.

Especially when Mills is... oh dear.
I wasnt particularly enjoying this, ut I wasnt grinding my teeth at its inclusion and ask me most days and I;d say Mills would always be welcome in my prog - I was slightly miffed that Tharg had turned down  last book of Flash as the most recent example.

But on the face of this weeks, I'm kind of glad its all over.  Maybe I'm misreading an Anti-Vaxxer message into the "fake nanobots" narrative - maybe the real metaphor is that the Russian - I mean Volgan - bots represent how the West make up fears of Volgan - I mean Russian bots that we are told are propogating fake news but are actually just telling us the reality our own fake media darent reveal ... erm, not thats just as bad.  No subtext to see here is the best we can hope for.

I subscribe for the freebies and the discount really, though ahvng to buy copies when the sib doesnt turn up is eating most if not all of any discount

No prog by Friday here, which would suggest we are back into the Strike service, but as far as I can tell, there hasnt been anotehr strike in Feb? The RM website says they ahd to call off the one they had planned?

Whatever Tharg did a3 or 4 weeks ago, do that again!

aha, not too bad then, though has that "so close yet so far" feeling the Hardbacks have been giving me!

I;d stillb e up for a Judgement Day.BPC collection just so all the stront stuff was together - they could throw in the 3 text stories too!

Didnt realise that they'd skipped two shorts that could have been in the very flimsy "The Son" volume

At the risk of Tharg nuking my Sub even further, that's a tad slipshod. I blame the loss of Barney!

Maybe they could produce a final volume with Judgement Day, By Private Contract and The Judas Strain to round out the set properly?