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The final bump. Just in time for Christmas.

dANDb

The sheer joy of spreading Thrill Power is, in itself, more than sufficient reward.

Well, almost.

dANDb

Bump...

It surely is!

There comes a time in a Deca Thargo's life when either the loft ain't big enough or the mice are - one of the two.

I have 2000AD from Prog 1181 to present, Megs from April 2000, all the various Extreme Editions and collections that came bundled and most of the specials (possibly all of them as I'm not sure what was published in the first place).

£200 the lot.

Bonus item!! You get a trip to sunny Bournemouth to collect them.

Message me. Go on... You know you want to.

damnANDblast

Hello all.

Some old faces, mostly new faces, all sad faces.

I knew Logan in the post-Co79/pre-Zarjaz days when we were active on alt.comics.2000ad. Like many of us on the board he was the first person I got to know due to his unofficial role as Meeter-and-Greeter-in-Chief, and we subsequently met in person many times during the years I was involved in small press.

Everything everyone has said here about Stewart rings true. I remember him as being the ultimate expert in all matters 2000AD, more so than any self-professed uber-geek, yet he wore his passion lightly: he was (how strange and terrible the tense) as far from a 'comics nerd' as you could imagine. He made it acceptable for a bloke in his 30s to be into comics, which was a considerably more difficult feat then than it is now.

He always had a good story: some implausible, some unprintable, some (like the one about the 2000AD pinball machine) which can only be passed on by word of mouth in a pub, but there was one story he told me about his Army days which I will repeat here as it is easy to imagine him at its centre.

He was stationed in Cyprus manning a checkpoint in the UN Buffer Zone. One day, a message comes down from on high that a senior officer from a foreign force (Italy was suspected) hadn't been properly saluted when visiting one of the checkpoints. Apparently he'd been in a helicopter at the time so no-one could have known, however protocol is protocol - especially in the Army - so the order went out that in future soldiers on duty should stand to attention facing any approaching helicopters and salute until the machine departed, turning to keep face-on. This, of course, gave carte-blanche to all the pilots to buzz checkpoints, flying in circles, watching the soldiers slowly screwing themselves into the dirt. The thought of him pirouetting on top of a hill with blasphemy of the finest quality and a prodigious quantity issuing from his pursed lips always makes me smile.

I've dined out on that story a number of times and for that, and for everything else that has been said about him, I'd like to thank him. I should have told him, of course. I sorely wish I'd kept in touch after I quit small press, but I didn't. More fool me.

My utmost condolences to his family.

Nigel

Ho! (ldmeclosedon'tletmego)

Strictly lurk-alicious.

N

It played perfectly for me on WinXP. The MC1-by-night shot is exactly how I've always visualised it.

A thing of beauty indeed.

Nigel

"My favourite was the renaming of Christmas Steps (a thorough fare running into Bristol City Centre)"

Thoroughfare? It's only 6 ft wide and steep as hell. Is the joke shop still there at the bottom? Best plastic turds in Brizzle, that place. We used to go down from school and pick up the latest Freak Brothers and liquorice root from the hippy shop at the top, then stock up on the other essentials of a schoolboy's existence e.g. fart powder, fake blood etc.

Them were all fields etc. etc.

Nigel

Logan,

One of the selling points of PDF (Portable Document Format) is that you can't edit the files. You can create PDFs with a number of applications but you can't change them; you have to edit the file in its native format and then publish/re-save it as a new PDF file. You can sometimes copy and paste the content if the creator has allowed, but you can't edit the document. At least, not to the best of my knowledge.

Now someone will tell me I'm wrong...

Nigel

I'm 41 in February, so possibly you are. Sorry.

As for the 'too old to read comics' comment, that's a load of dingo's. I reckon I enjoy - and appreciate - comics more now than I did as a child and teenager. I don't see any difference in aesthetic or creative terms between novels, comics, films or any other medium: they're all as potentially enjoyable as each other, personal taste notwithstanding. The problem with comics is that everyone *else* thinks I'm too old for comics.

Nigel

About 10, and the occasional cigar.

Nigel

Have kids. As a portable guilt trip they know no equal.

I gave up by using patches 5 years ago, and the only thing that stops me smoking in moments of weakness (i.e. in the pub) is knowing how much I want one, and how easily I could become an active smoker again. Like alcoholics, you'll never be an 'ex', you'll only be temporarily not indulging. The trick is to make 'temporary' last a lifetime.

Whenever I feel the urge I pretend to smoke - I hold two fingers up to my lips and inhale deeply. I swear that gives me as much of a buzz as nicotine ever did. It's cheaper, too.

Whatever works for you, works. The only consistent factor that I know of is that you have to want to stop. 'Course, you might not realise you want to stop until you try, so give it a go.

On the down side, I'm on a bottle of red a night.

Good luck.

Nigel

*bump*

Ignored, bored or floored? C'mon, *someone* must be interested in going to this.

Nigel

Good evening, my quiz-tastic fellow squaxx. I have two tickets to the Alan Moore/Melinda Gebbie interview in central London on 12th October at 7.00pm. I can't go so I thought I'd offer them to youse guys. They'll go to the the first correct answer to the following Brain-of-Britain-a-like question:

What word links Douglas Adams, Jock's other job and boxing?

In case that's either too easy or too obscure there's a tie-breaker: complete the following limerick -

"Of course it's pornography" said Moore,
...

Responses to this thread by midday on Friday 6th October so I have time to post them to you.

Nigel

(This competition is not open to members of the Totnes posse past, present or future, or their direct family members. Damnandblast's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into unless he really, really wants to. The prize must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred unless you know Alan Moore personally. There is no cash alternative. Damnandblast does not accept any responsibility for late or lost entries due to the internet, your laziness or his incompetence. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt. Proof of receipt is not proof of receipt. Tell me Grasshopper, what is proof of receipt?)

Link: http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=12134" target="_blank">Event details