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(Talbot's debut on Nem - had already done the Wages of Sin with Alan Moore a couple of years earlier).

A somebody who already has the Titan editions from the 1980s, I was really pleased with the first volume in this series - looking forward to seeing Talbot's debut in this format.

Did you ever cover Hardware?  Unofficial adaptation of Shok! but forced to credit Steve MadManus and Kevin O'Neill on video release so technically the first adaptation of a 2000AD IP.

Sort of: 
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Oh, I have actually listened to that episode - coincidentally just a month or so after watching Gwangi for the first time this century!

I'll be announcing it on the feed, but we'll be going every other week for the forseeable future. Next up is:

BM1 47: Megazine Vol 2, Issues 67-69 (nice)
BM1 48: Judge Dredd Yearbook 1995
SS2k 301: 2000AD Progs 916-919
SS2K 302: Winter Special '94
SS2k 303: Spinnies 94
BM1 49: Meggies 94

Then we cross the border to 1995! I hear there's a movie coming out!

Did you ever cover Hardware?  Unofficial adaptation of Shok! but forced to credit Steve MadManus and Kevin O'Neill on video release so technically the first adaptation of a 2000AD IP.

On Judith Curry: "It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it."

If we're serious about this carbon thing, I thought, then why do we still have fizzy pop? Beer and cider and sparkling wine, sure, these things are entirely necessary. But fizzy pop? Rotten teeth, diabetes, and climatological ruin?

I'd argue that fizzy cider is not necessary (and that real cider is much better - now I can also say it's more environmentally friendly too).

The Battlestar Galactica (reimagined)* callsign route...


* the first time it was reimagined if you're reading this in the future and the second reboot has occurred.

I have no skin in the Rogue Trooper game as I've not read any, but I used to be in the camp of "one-off films are better than TV or film series" but my views have changed over the last decade or so.

A standalone film never seems to be sufficient to tell a complex or detailed story without feeling rushed, incomplete, or just badly edited.

I'd sort of agree, but as much as we all love 2000AD, it isn't Marvel or DC and we have to assume there won't be any direct follow-up film unless we're all very lucky.

The Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Massacre.

That's easy for you to say.

Really enjoyed that - great to have you back, lads!

Alex is right about the Inspector Morse influence - I seem to remember Daves Bishop and Stone being fairly explicit about that at the time.

Which made it a bit weird to see Charlie Gillespie's muscle-bound, shirtless Armitage fighting monsters like He-Man battling against Skeletor's forces, instead of morosely pondering murder cases over a pint.  I did like Charlie's naked Lisa Marsh at the time, though.

As a teenager when Armitage first appeared (and Inspector Morse was on TV at the time, even if I didn't watch it) there was absolutely no doubt that the look was directly influenced.  It'd be like denying M.A.C.H.1 was based on the Six Million Dollar Man when the prog started.

The Green, Green Gas of Home.

As for the film - it's not a well-known internationally famous franchise, so planning a three-film arc might not be the wisest of ideas.  Concentrate on the best one-off they can - though perhaps leave it open for potential sequels - the TG dies, but it's in a flaming shuttle and we don't see the body, so disfigured TG can appear in the next film.

Personally I'd love to see Fort Neuro, so not sure how well it would translate - though I'm all on board for robo-runners!

With Mark Proksch as the Traitor General

Oh, Colin Robinson actually does look like the Traitor General now you say it (after the shuttle crash).

Now, what's the name of that giant tank in the teaser image?

Well, having the rebellious clone called Rogue, the sharpshot called Gunnar, the quartermaster called Bagman and the one who ends up in the helmet called Helm might be a stretch on the big screen, so I'm not that unhappy if they call the lead character clone 19 instead.

Should point out it won't even be the first animated film that Jones has directed - World of Warcraft...

When I heard Neimand say he had 'briefly interviewed Noam Chomsky' years ago I thought for a moment he might be journo Ian Dunt moonlighting as a fiction writer

If he interviewed Noam Chimpsky Chomsky then chances are he's on this list. Let's get  to it!

My money's on the following:

Turkey and The US War On Iraq. Anonymous interviewer. April 3, 2003.