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Agreed, an improvement however, it felt very much of its time, even if it wasnt!!
Some surprising nonsense from the Archie droid, is his body a TARDIS ffs!

The Science Fiction Bookshop on Causewayside West in Edinburgh.
As a young sprog I picked up my Savage Sword of Conan there. Half the shop was comics and half Sci Fi novels.
You could get PKD dimestore novels there as they can out!

If you were lucky Joe Callis ( Rezillos/guitarist, later Human League member) would be on the till.

[2000AD/Bunty]

I used to love Johnny Red best of all the stories in my little brother's comic which I nicked after finishing my Bunty.

In the days before there were any other comics in the house, I used to read my big sister's Buntys (although given my age at the time, "read" is probably too strong a word).
Perhaps the next crossover could be a 2000AD/Bunty special?
The Four Dark Marys, anyone?
Halo Jones, where we replace the robot dog with a pony or something?
And when you think about it, the earlier part of Portrait of a Mutant needs only the slightest tweaks to turn it into your classic blind-ballerina-with-wicked-stepmother story.

YES! YES! YES!

Cheers Colin, enjoying this thread, nothing I've read here yet, but a few I've been curious about.

 

An anniversary Dr Who special? Based on comic by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons...? And there's no thread for it? Jeez... they'll come round and take your geek cards away, folks!

Anyway... I enjoyed that. A whisker short of an hour, and zips along at a decent pace. Meep, the spaceship, the Wrarth, are rendered with remarkable fidelity to Gibbons' original designs and the plot maintains the broad strokes of Mills' story.

I suspect a big part of the success (or not) for the viewer will be how one takes (or not) to Catherine Tate. I've never particularly cared for her, but I always liked Donna as a companion, not least because it finally took out the unwelcome romance aspect between the Doctor and his companion, so I really enjoyed seeing Tennant and Tate back.

I'm sure there are gammon all over the internet losing their shit about the non-binary/transgender representation in the story but, hey, I'm OK with that. 

It was great fun, and I'm very much looking forward to next week's special.

This^^^ with the caveat that the music was annoying as feck!! really don't need emoting music to tell me its exciting or sad!

I forgot to add Wild's End, another great one.

Hexagon Bridge

How you liking this?

He means Judge Graves from the previous prog.

Sorry, read them together, yeah thought he may have had history in the Dreddverse

You know who former chief judge Sinfield is! From Tour of Duty!

Indeed I do, I meant the Titan Judge with the wooden sign round his neck, is he from a earlier story? sorry cant find the redact button here to write the name.

There's a couple of other Cinebook series. Long John Silver which is a really good 4 part and done series.

Seconded

Soo... apart from Tooth and the Megazine what's on your current comic pull list?
I avoid men in tights and most shouty stuff.

So for me its currently its:


Ribbon Queen by Garth Ennis

Damn them all! Si Spurrier

Gone by Jock

Hellblazer Si Spurrier

Alien by Declan Shalvey

and the truly wonderful Hexagon Bridge by Richard Blake.

Only six, and all but one a limited series.

Why is my neighbour having huge rocket-powered roller skates (what else would it be?) delivered?

Could it be an anvil and parachute combo?

Nothing here worked for me except the cover. I really want these to work and I realise I'm not the target audience but they really are below par and a pale imitation of the Prog. I wouldn't hand this to a sprog as a intro to comics, especially 2K. These stories lacks darkness, humour, depth and feels like the worse kind of tokenism.

Hopefully we'll get a curmudgeonly misanthrope issue for the likes o me

Forgive me, but who's the reveal at the end of Dredd? ( googling his name only brings up the artist!)

A weighty tome with a fine heft, nice cover by Lex with Dredd, Rogue and Johnny Red all my top stories. Lawless doesn't hold any surprises, Demarco has a low noirstyle intro while Spectore seems like something from a 70's Lion annual. 2099 seems instantly forgettable, either that or I didn't read it, not sure which!

Over all a good read with some reasonable text bits.

Got my Axe badge through the post too.