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Having just read the post from that snakey hoor trying to plug his band, it reminded me that I once saw a band called 'Cursed Earth'. Up until then I pronounced it 'Curs'd' but then I started using two syllables like the band did. The shit film didn't help, using both pronunciations. Which way do YOU say it, kids?

This has nothing to do with the city wall and there is no Judge Steinbeck. Actually I - ahem-  just wanted to know if the carnival thing in Ant Wars counts as the first bit of proper nudity in 2000ad, and if not, what was? My money's on Slaine the Horned God. And I wonder did Tharg just get the artwork and think 'Hmmmmm... this IS still a kid's comic... ah, feck it, it'll do them no harm', or did he say 'Right, everyone, start drawing tits'.
Just out of curiousity, don't you see. And I just didn't want to look like a perv on the message board titles.

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This is just a short note to say that comics should use much, much less bold and italicised print. Read a good novel and you'll find that the dialogue runs nice and smoothly while hardly ever using italics. If the dialogue is good enough, the emphasis doesn't need to be, er, emphasised. And the bold type words are all too often in the wrong place. Look at Wagner - he rarely uses bold type, and his dialogue is among the best in comics. Pat Mills is one of 2000ad's main offenders: I'm enjoying Savage, but there was no need for emphasise anything in 'Don't talk about Jack like that'. (The tank slipping on soap is another issue). and Nikolai Dante scened are all too often ruined by when any cool sentence uttered by Dante is highlighted in its entirity to show how skill and witty it is. And loads of the wrong words are emphasised.
Now, Alan Moore does a lot of that too. But he always puts the emphasis in the right place.
Sorry, that wasn't a short note at all, it was a long and pedantic rant written by a part-time English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher who hasn't been long in the game of teaching emphasis, but always thought that about Nikolai Dante. Feck it, though, it's true.

Right. New Dredd story. Everyone's in. One frame per person, including dialogue. I'll start the ball rolling:

Frame 1: Dredd is standing in front of the Grand Hall of Justice. Instead of a Lawmaster, he sits astride a BMX bicycle. He wears a red ski-balaclava over his helmet (not the sinister-terrorist type, but the whole-face-on-display variety)
CAPTION: In Mega-City 1, Justice must sometimes go hooded.

Something I've been thinking about for a while, but haven't made up my mind about:
The Irish smoking ban I agree with, it's got me off the fags for a start, and will help the next pub-going generation not to start. But increased restrictions on drinking hours I'm not so sure about. The Irish government has already banned 'happy hours' and reversed its recent addition of an extra hour's drinking on Sunday. Being brought up in a small town and living in Dublin, the biggest problem I can see is forcing a lot of drunken people onto the street at the same time (be it pub or club closing-time). These people have been knocking back as many as possible in preparation for the fixed closing-time, and are frustrated (and often rowdy) at having to leave the pub or club when ordered to. Violence, vandalism and general chaos are an unshakeable fixture of the small hours of every weekend. Now, I'm speaking for Ireland where I live, but I've lived in the UK where closing-time seems to be even earlier and more strictly enforced, and the situation seems similar there.
Having spent some months in continental countries, where closing-time is generally at the establishment owner's own discretion, I wonder would society be better here if the continental policy was adopted? Or are the Irish and British drinkers simply not to be trusted? (Our two nations are bigger binge-drinkers than continental ones, I know, but could this be reversed with a more relaxed attitude to drinking?)
Nothing to do with comics, I know, but I'm interested in hearing opinions about this.

Yes, you heard.

Which, of course, Shakespeare shortens to the familiar expletive 'sneck'. Which in turn is my favourite 2000ad swear-word along with 'spug'.
'Truck', 'Funk', and 'Funt' (despite its popularity) are muck. And  I too believe that 'Funk' in Savage should be replaced with the phonetic cockney 'fack'. I think Grant Morrison did it in Zenith - 'I'm faggin' blind!'

There was a winter special I always wished I hadn't missed, featuring, I think, a Deadlock story and something called 'My secret life under the stairs'. Is it worth looking for? And how do you go about looking for things like that on t'internet?

THere was a Winter Special once, possibly about 14 or 15 years ago, that I always wished I hadn't missed. I think there's a Deadlock story in it, and something called 'My Secret Life Under the Stairs'. Does anyone know how I'd go about looking for it? And is it in fact worth looking for? Cheers

Well, it was yesterday, really. It was Good Friday, so no drink was available anywhere - but never mind, readers, I was on the absolute piss the previous night. Also stocked up with cans and wine for the next day (sorry about that, Other Jayzus). Anyway, I'm 29 now. One year of my 20's left! And what's more, I've been posting on this board for about TWO AND A BASTARD HALF YEARS!

Is John Wagner really going to  write this, or is it just wishful thinking on behalf of this board?
If it's true, does anyone know when it's going to happen?
And is the Bill Savage bleeding filfy Volg thing part of Dredd's history?

Anyone remember about 10 years ago when people wore shorts or combats, colouredy boots, and t-shirts? Hair was generally in dreads, and / or shaved except for the fringe, or in a 'half-head' style, or that old ponytail-on-the-top, shaved-round-the-sides-and-back look.  Preferred music was Carter USM, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Rage against the Machine and Pop Will Eat Itself. (tenuous comics link coming up...) Tank Girl was a role model. Everyone used to get pissed on cider and jump round noisy dancefloors in a violent way.
Anyway, did this whole thingy ever have a name? It was absolutely huge at the time, but disappeared without leaving a name for the 'revival' culture. I think I hung up (well, lost, anyway)  my tank girl t-shirt in about 1995.
Yours nostalgically,
Jayzus

Who's with me?

Which came first? The Meat Bingo in 2000AD or the Meat Bingo in Viz? Whoever gets both references, and answers my query, may (or, indeed, may well not) win a 'free prize' (as they used to call say on the Dreddlines page).

So what's the story with Judge Death then? How can I ask this question without saying 'is he dead'? By the looks of it he's not coming back, but his spirit was supposedly 'vanquished' before, I suppose. I think it's time the other Dark Judges took centre stage. Mortis was always scarier than Death anyway. Judge Fear isn't though, all he has to offer is a load of eyes.

Why are so many comic bad guys called 'Moloch'? I've seen it in at least four different comics. Even Watchmen had a Moloch, for Jaysus sakes. I read a serious article once, describing someone's arch enemy as 'his own personal Moloch' (that's all I can remember about the piece though). Who is Moloch? Where did it come from? If it pops ups again in comics I'll have a mickey fit. I will. I'll have a mickey fit.

This message is a test to see if my computer is still acting the mup. Next message will have my real point.

I was thinking of buying it. Is it actually like Mega-City 1? I've seen one so-so review of it in a magazine, and the reviewer wasn't too blown away. But I really want a go at being in Mega-City 1.

Can anyone tell me why the fecking heck it is that sometimes I can post messages on this board when I log on to it, and other times the 'Post Message' button merely presses uselessy, neither causing any little thumbs-up thing to pop up nor, more importantly, any messages to be posted. It only ever stops working on one computer (the one I'm using now), and seems to start working again without any alteration to the computer. Cheers!

I really hope the Megazine prints an exhaustive account of Dredd's World, like it hinted at a while ago. Is there any other 'universe' in science fiction as well-developed as Dredd's world? I mean, developments every week for twenty-six years. Nearly everywhere on Earth has been accounted for.
While I'm here, another thing I'd love to see is a story about the Great Atom Wars, set when they happened (will happen?). Has this been done already?