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 Great site, I'm kind of pleased to see I had the good taste to prefer this to Terra Hawks, specially as my taste back then was seriously odd; prefering Eagle to 2000 Ad, the Action Force inserts being my favourite part of Battle. Looks like I got my choice of militaristic puppets right though.

Yay. On Doomlord my Dad used to roll his eyes in the back of his head like Doomlords victims and say he was going to suck my brains out. And my girlfriend wonders why I'm weird.

 The original caption to this was "Squeal like a human City Boy."

 Something which has been bugging me recently. I remember a crap 1980's cartoon with a villains hench man who was basically a mauve Rogue Trooper. Anyone out their able to tell me what the show is?
 aAnd on the subject of rubbish I watched when hopped up on Kia-ora was their some jap puppet show about space ships and flying robots in the early 80's? No one seems to remember this but it's really stuck in my head, it was possibly called Space Fleet? I'm fairly sure the villain changed sex for some reason though this may be the tartazine talking. Back then i was banned from the too rough 2000 Ad and weaned on the Eagle. Any one know of any web sites for the 80's photo story "classic",particularly Doomlord? And has Eric Bradbury ever worked on 2000 Ad? Used to love hte strips he drew in Eagle.
 Apologise form the rambling, I'm working nights at the moment and the insomnia is killing me.  

No, he drys the wood lights it and burns every issue containing Wireheads.

Rambo, couldn't agree more about Mr. S's screenplay. I've only being using this site for a fortnight and it seems to dominate here. The dialogue is clunky as hell but I think I have a solution. If we can persuade Glen Larson or Irwin Allen to remake some of their TV "classics" then theres a ready made staff writing job for Scojo.

 I know it's not a popular view but here goes; Dan Abnett isn't crap. Comparing his Flesh story to the Legend of Shanara(?) he's written a tight little thriller whilst the latter story is a sprawling mess. Sinister Dexter combined with Dante and the Pit were the first shoots of spring after the mag had been dire for the best part of 5 years and his Legion for DC is great. And whilst I -shudder- agree with scojo about some of the dialogue in Sinister Dexter it's still a quality strip. And at least we don't have to put up with paranoid ramblings from Abnett when he gets stick.  

 Yeah but free gifts that destroy your comics are a great British tradition. I recently came accross a pile of Battle Action Forces from my youth.(insert obvious joke here). I'ld pulled out the action force sub-section and cut out all the back page "Collect them all" multi-part booklets they used to stick on the last page. End result big pile of tat. If the yanks ever want to get the collecters market going again they shpuld start doing this as dumb 7 year olds do their best to destroy their collectoions with a pair of badly weilded scissors and some Pritt stick.

 reading a lot of the messages about dialogue for Judges in the screen play extracts I thought you might be interested in the opinion of a copper. I'm a shift officer in a built up city area and  I find that as an interviewer one of the most important skills you can pick up is having an ear for peoples speach patterns as it's a very good way of telling whether someones feeding you a lie. To do this you have to speak naturally and in colloquilisms as any more formal speach puts people onto the defensive and it makes it that much harder to tell if they're being honest or not. The other thing you notice in a job full
of new graduates is how quickly people adopt regional expressions. I think -admittedly fictional- judges would talk in a non-stilted manner if only to faciliate communication with the public.

This has been bugging me for some time Scojo; are you Gerry Finlay-Day?

Yeah hopefully. I've really enjoyed the later Dante stories and the Pit was the best Judge Dredd story I've read. On a related subject it's interesting to have read the "new" version of Rico's return and Blood Cadets at the same time. It's almost as if Mills and Wagner are disagreeing about what the original story means for the character.  

I recently picked up a large stash of progs from the time just before the Dredd movie came out up to fairly recently, having given up a good few years ago and wondered if some one can tell me what the hell happened to Pat Mills? Finn and Slaine are almost unreadable and if there is a softer target than the christians Mills keeps on kicking I can't think what it is. I used to be a big fan Charlies War in Battle Action Force was great and Nemesis and the ABC's were interesting characters but now the subtext has dropped the sub  and it reads like a rant half the time. Any thoughts?  

 Dissapointed Mother Earth isn't on the Death Row list, that was the straw which broke this camels back and led to me taking the long walk from 2000 Ad for a good few years,

 Before you do Hi Ex give some of the strips a chance, when Battle was at it's creative peak it was as far above th other war comics as tooth was above dreck like Wildcat.
 I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

 Aiiiiiiiiiiiii! Great news about the Battle deal, only read very few Darkies mobs but I think it looks cracking, if Charlies war, Major Eazy and Rat Pack turn up then I may explode!
 Interesting point about language, old war films are just about the only place I can listen to the kind of thing said and not cringe internally, not sure where I stand on the use of it in comic strips, I'ld have thought the readers of the meg were too mature to take it out of context, but I'ld be unhappy to see it in Commando. I realise that may not sound particularly logical but hey ho! Incidentally it is the generation bought up on these "racist" war comics who have done the most to stamp out racism.