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Yay for the extension!

1.   Uwe de Witt - Dillon Tribute
2.   Adrian Bamforth - The Long Walk
3.   Nic Freeman - Star Pin-Up

HM - everyone else for some really bang up jobs.

What Cosh said.

That's some great werewolf, Neil! Bravo.

What a prog! It arrived today and was well worth the wait (don't ever make us wait again!).
I'm enjoying every strip in the current run so far, but this week's "tip of the hat" goes to the final 2 pages of Flesh. Absolutely spellbinding.

Remember when some of his artwork for City of the Damned got lost, and he had to redo the pages in double time?

Weren't they - years later - reprinted side by side in one of the Sci-Fi Specials or annuals? Firstly, you couldn't tell that the "rush job" pages were rushed. secondly, some of the slight changes to the "camera angles" he'd made on the second pass seemed to my mind to actually improve the story telling.

That level of skill actually boggles my mind. Jeez but he was good. He was SO SO DAMNED GOOD!

As many have said over the years about 2000AD, it reached me at a time in my life where I believe it had a hand in shaping my developing brain. I have deeply imbedded neural pathways now that our comic and all it contributors helped to shape. To a degree that will be measureless 2000AD has had a part in making me the person that I am now. Steve Dillon is right there in that mix; inextricable from that alchemy that is now and forever more a part of me.

What I'm trying to say is thank you. Thanks, Steve. Thank you.

1st   Andy Lambert1 - Me and My Shadow
2nd   james newell - Rogue
3rd   IAMTHESYSTEM - Rogue Reflections
4th   amines2058 - Rouge Trooper
5th   Whatley - Rogue Trooper

I can only gaze in slack-jawed amazement at the levels of talent on display here.

It's also made me nostalgic for the days when I used to sketch with a biro.

I received 'Misty' in the post yesterday and am really looking forward to diving into it at the weekend.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Bad City Blue, the other entrants and both voters (winky face).

Genuine thanks, I'm a happy Squaxx.

Spurious prediction: I can't see Vienna actually being in her apartment. There's no way Dredd would leave her dangling like that. All those undercover judges are guarding a decoy. PJ's going to get his comeuppance by story end.

Ever since PJ was a wee baby
He's always been, well, kinda crazy.
Will Dredd catch the creep
Or will Peej make Joe weep?
Maybe not, but then again, maybe.

Here's a Ballad we'd all like to sing,
From The Hoop to a life wandering.
"Where did she go? What did she do?
"Out and Everything."

Joe Dredd, Torquemada, Halo,
Robo-Hunter, Ro-Busters, Defoe,
Anderson: PSI,
Revere, Nikolai,
Shakara, Skizz, Ace Trucking Co.

[Black Shuck]

It would have been great if the end of this book had been the only partially seen chronicler of the Black Shuck mythos putting down his real ale and battered paperback, turning to the camera, and announcing 'I know all this is true, for it is I, Black Shuck, and I live yet still!'.

This is EXACTLY what I thought was going to happen.

Black Shuck has had two bites of the apple now, and I'm sorry but it's time to put this mutt down. The promise of the return of another canine, Gene the Hackman, has been more exciting than the entire run of Shuck.

On the other hand, getting the gears turning on book two of Brink needs to be an immediate priority! I've not been grabbed like this by a new thrill since Nikolai Dante.

Well how about that? For some reson I'd always just assumed that a "greenie" was...well...a bogie. I never thought to question what God (or Grud) would be doing on a bogie, though. Ever.