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I tell a lie - its in the Megazine

The cover for Death trap is in the same issue of Dreamwatch

Handy tips on how to keep the thrills rolling til the delayed progs turn up..

1: Get the Megazine.  For some reason it's out a week early in my local comic shop, which is good news for anyone suffering thrill withdrawals.  The "Thrill Power Overload" feature is the most revealing installment yet.

2: Buy Dreamwatch.  There's a feature on the Strontium Dog audio that features the full unexpurgated art from the mid-80s Titan Stront book - - the holy grail revealed unto me!  I've been searching for this for 15 plus years (it was advertised in a prog, but issued with the art partially obscured by a big black border).

3: Buy Death Trap next week - even if your not a fan of the audios, the cover (Flint again) looks bloody marvellous!!

The Mechanismo reprint book only covers the McNeil original run and the Doherty follow up - the final Mechanismo book by some foreign chap whos name eludes me is a direct continuation into Wilderlands and should be reprinted NOW!  At the same time, am I the only one who absolutley loved the 'Dead Ringer' Megazine epic - if only that had run on longer, getting more ludicrous as it went, I would have been a very happy Watcher - REPRINT!!

Alan McKenzie was also Sonny Steelgrave

IIRC, Andy said the script had Alpha moping around for an hour, without drawing his variable cartridge blaster in anger once!  He therefore made sure the scripts were rejected as unsuitable (which by the sound of it, they were!)

Haven't got Zeniths 4 and 5 (phase 3)- Dont know if Wake might be able to help you out with these.  Dr & Quinch doesn't have an intro as such - the new reprint has the same intro as the old - a treatise entitled "What is Life?" by DR.  Don't know whether this was written by Moore. The Shocking Futures and Twisted Times and Zenith 1-3 are no prob. I'll sort them and the Halo Jones stuff out tonight.  

Hello again Dave, it's Leigh here- I have the three Halo Jones Books, and your address, so I'll photocopy the intros get them to you tomorrow - any other intros you're after?

Have to agree about Clint Langleys art - the computer stuff he's done here is great stuff.What a difference this makes - compare and contrast with the effort a few of weeks ago. If Clint had had this technology to do his Slaine story, (instead of the drab colouring it got), it would have lifted the story no end.

If Clint's art lifts "Telguuth", Marshall's bland work dulls an otherwise good Dredd.  When you consider that the original "Atlantis" was by the Great God McCarthy, it looks even weaker.  I've no objection to clean lines, but this is just too simple - still, better than many past Dredds (Ronald, Brashill, Sampson, Coleby etc.), so shouldn't complain.  IIRC, Marshall coloured his own work in "Escape from Kurt Russell" back in the 900's and that wasn't so bad.

Wheres my sub!?

I notice that Wake hasn't put up the new prog, so I assume everybodies copy is late AGAIN!  I can understand the odd weeks going astray due to a one-off problem at the printers say, but to regularly be late is not on - surely something can be done to fix this  - just what is the problem?

By jove PVS, you've done it again!  The major problem with most non Wagner interpretations of Dredd is that they attempt to portray MC1 as this dank ,dark, dystopian future.  Now MC1 is not a nice place to live, but the beauty of the strip was that MC1 was a huge, bright, neon filled, garishly painted wonderland, populated by the disaffected, crazy, stupid and ridiculous.  IMO, McMahon is the artist who epitomises this in his work, and it is an important layer that makes Dredd stand out from any number of "world gone wrong" Sci-Fi scenarios.

Coming from someone who's just admitted to liking Simon Coleby's art, thats a little rich IMO, Logan :)

Just repeat after me

Horror of Fang Rock.Horror of Fang Rock.Horror of Fang Rock.

What Grade should have done is film the Wagner/ Mills stories - they were bloody great, some of the best Who stories and some of Mills/Wagner and Gibbons best work (esp. the one with the Bloodbugs!!)!  Now if Titan want to reprint them, I'd have no objection.

By now you'll have noticed that I have created an uncanny TARDIS-like effect with this message - it's wider on the inside than on the outside!

Well, Room 101 was interesting, and confirms what I've always believed to be the case about the cancellation of Doctor Who.  

Basically Grade didn't like it, so undermined it by keeping JNT in place when it was obvious that the show desperately needed a new approach.  Instead of trying to fix the perceived weaknesses, he ordered Colin Bakers sacking out of spite for the rumpus he caused in the press, and hired a deeply unlikeable buffoon to replace him, thus sealing the show's fate. I seem to recall reading an interview with JNT where he said that whenever Who got bad press or falling ratings, he'd get treated to lunch or some other perk by Grade!
Interesting to see that he attempted to "cancel" rather than "rest" the show, as was the story put out when the Beeb had to back down.  Of course, after three years of Bonnie Langford, Ace and McCoy, it was no trouble to axe it....

Now if Grade thought it was cheap, why didn't he put more money into it?  If he thought it was out of date, why not bring in fresh blood?  The fact that Who, while admittedly well below par when first cancelled was pulling in more viewers than Wogan and Match of the Day is amazing.  The fact that Grade didn't care one jot when this was put to him proved how utterly unsuitable he was for the job.


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Actually, IIRC, Garth complained about being rewritten on his 2000AD work at the time - it would have been interesting (and a definite purchase!), if these had been "Directors Cuts", with Garth restoring any changes made to the scripts (where possible obviously).