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#3286
Help! / Re: Trying to remember the title
19 August, 2015, 03:32:16 PM
Fantastic, that was it.  I had Noah in the back of my mind again but kept locking in to "last flight of Noah's Ark".  The copy I read had a cover from the TV series but I never actually saw it.  Might be tempted.
#3287
Quote from: Banners on 14 August, 2015, 11:49:00 PM
Slow moving trucks on single-carriage A roads. In Wales.

Is there any other type of driving experience in Wales?  If it's not slow moving trucks it's tractors, caravans, motorhomes or geriatrics that can barely see over the wheel!  What do you expect in a country that only has about 50 miles of motorway to its name?
#3288
Help! / Trying to remember the title
15 August, 2015, 07:10:42 PM
Hi all,
this is probably a long shot but I'm trying to remember the title of a novel I read back in the early eighties.  It was a children's love about life after some sort of crisis, I think the end of oil.  In the novel the father had been expecting the crisis and had set about stockpiling food in a hidden room.  It was this stockpile that made the family into a target.  I think it had the word 'castle' in the title but I wouldn't want to put money on it.  I know it isn't Man in the High Castle.

Any thoughts? :-*
Cheers
#3289
Prog / Re: Prog 1944 - House of the Unholy
15 August, 2015, 05:08:40 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 15 August, 2015, 01:19:13 PM


Mmmm Prog 1944...WTF! McCosh and Burdis! Is it Comic Relief Day already?! I didn't know letters in crayon and drool were allowed!

At least I have evidence of a classier outing for Dreddlines, although my Megazine has yet to appear to confirm this. A full autopsy will follow!

Now now, it takes a very high standard of grovelling and toadying to get a letter printed, especially with the low frequency of their appearances these days. 
#3290
I noticed the other day that the second hand book stall at our local market had loads of these in all of a sudden.  Including some of the non Dredd ones IIRC.  First time I'd seen them in a long while.
#3291
Classifieds / Re: GN Clear out.
11 August, 2015, 07:40:40 AM
Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 08 August, 2015, 04:50:29 PM

I remember buying the original Star Wars weekly with it's cardboard x-wing and TIE fighters. Obviously a bit older than you  :(


Ditto on the original weeklies (and perhaps the age  :( ).  Picked up a copy of issue 1 with the cardboard x-wing at a comic mart in Birmingham in the mid 80's for 50p as a nostalgia kick.  Still got it.  Some guy is trying to sell one on eBay for £99 with the original free gift.  Been relisted a couple of times!

As a complete aside though, I missed two GN's off my original list:
Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire Dark Horse editions.  £5 each inc p&p. if anyone is interested.
#3292
Considering that there was a sequel to Trapper Hag (Siku on art duty IIRC) and there are still a large number of Dredd alien encounters tales out there (Kiss of the Spider Woman for instance) I wonder if there might be a second alien encounters volume out there.  After all can the collection really be called 'mega' without 'The Starborn Thing' or the recent hairy satire?
#3293
Prog / Prog 1943: Cold Hard Kashan!
08 August, 2015, 12:33:40 PM
Well the cover by Rowland worked well for me.  Another quality piece for what is the highlight of the prog for me.  Coleby is perfect for the strip and again this is developing nicely, flicking between past and present to develop the lead character. 

Future Shock with art by John Higgins!  Reads a bit old school but works nicely. 

I think I've lost it a bit with this series of Outlier.  Going to need to go back and re-read from the start I think.  Richardson gets to let loose with a quality double spread.  Actually, thinking about it this again harks back to the good old days.

Helium lets loose with a couple of old cliches it seems that had been laid out over the last few issues.  Bit of a wordy filler compared to the action of the last couple of weeks.  Not horrendous, just a change of pace.

Judge Dredd starts channeling Game of Thrones as the White Walkers finally approach the wall.  Comedy timing from Dirty Frank:  "Dirty Frank always wants to go toilet when Judge Dredd is in immediate proximity.  But he feels safe too.  And look he gets a cuddle!"  Plus an interesting use of multiple artists for flashback.  Flint has really excelled himself though.
#3294
Classifieds / Re: GN Clear out.
07 August, 2015, 02:10:11 PM
I think the fight for space is a losing battle!  Built shelves to house the tooth collection and I'm already wondering what I'm going to do in about six months time.  For a precious 15 seconds it looked like loads of space had been freed up.   :|

BTW - LOEG claimed as well now.
#3295
Classifieds / Re: GN Clear out.
07 August, 2015, 11:41:31 AM
Walking Dead 16-18 claimed.

Ta
#3296
Classifieds / GN Clear out.
07 August, 2015, 11:11:08 AM
Well, in an attempt to clear out space The following will be going up on eBay soon but on the off chance that these might be of interest I thought I'd give fellow boarders first refusal. 

Walking Dead 1 - 6, 13 - 18 ( blame Charlie Adlard! Started collecting them then he flogged me a personalised Compendium)  £3 each. 3 for £8.

Star Wars: A Long Time Ago (Dark Horse reprints of the original Marvel run)  1 - 7.  £8 each or full set for £50.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century one shots. £5 for all three.

All prices include P&P.

Thanks folks.
#3297
Help! / Re: windows 10 problem
04 August, 2015, 03:36:12 PM
Quote from: pauljholden on 31 July, 2015, 01:42:28 PM
I had the same problem, turns out I just needed to smear cheese on the screen.

-pj

Careful!  Remember the last time someone suggested cheese as a solution to an IT problem!
#3298
General / Re: Just out of idle curiosity........
30 July, 2015, 05:12:23 PM
Quote from: Tarantino on 30 July, 2015, 03:23:32 PM
Well I never knew that. Thanks for that bit of info, I hope it comes up in a pub quiz one day  :)

Please tell me you didn't think that was serious!
#3299
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
30 July, 2015, 04:21:38 PM
Quote from: Scolaighe Ó'Bear on 30 July, 2015, 04:11:18 PM
When Corbyn's in charge, no-one will need passports, just a piece of paper that says I AM IN ISIS and they can go anywhere they want.  That's where we're headed.

My thing is, much as Corbyn is fairly innocuous he is the only one that recognises that there is a need for an alternative to the policies of this present government.  In about 4 years time when everything has had time to bed in and people realise how monumentally screwed they actually are, a lightweight Tory party along the lines we have seen the last few decades is not going to cut the mustard.

In many respects the behaviour of the other candidates in rubbishing Corbyn says more about their character.  Nobody is even remotely surprised at the press reaction which is overwhelmingly negative.  The bigger issue though is that until they sort out this internecine scrapping our beloved government is going to hammer home their agenda with all the subtlety of a battlefield nuke. 
#3300
General / Re: Just out of idle curiosity........
30 July, 2015, 03:13:49 PM
Quote from: Tarantino on 30 July, 2015, 02:43:41 PM
I have committed a lot worse sins in my life, for example I tool a 2 year break from 2000AD around 1985 when I joined the Navy. I do not think that can be forgiven.


If it was around 1993 / 94 then you could be forgiven, 1985 not so much.  Also it used to be a git getting tooth in the Falklands, never mind on board a ship in the middle of some piece of water (and I don't mean the boating lake at Roath park). 

Visited HMS Belfast with eldest daughter last week.  We passed the NAAFI and she asked what it stood for, automated response kicked in: Not Available Area Falkland Islands!