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Of course on teh internetz no one can read your mind. Just realised I hadn't put down what I actually do!

I'm an undertaker/Funeral Director.  I work alongside the police on occassion on behalf of the coroner.  Some of those we pick up are slightly less than fresh, hence the gas mask

I get to wear one for work occassionaly.  (Though to be honest it's not a full face one just covers my nose and mouth).  No pictures though.

A work related gasmask story (and I swear it's all true)
One time whilst wearing the mask the strap snapped at the back, not wanting to continue with the job at hand without it, I started trawling through the house I was in for an elastic band  The police also on the scene picks up a stapler with the idea of stapling the broken straping to the back of my head!  I think the tearful look of horror I was able to give him made him realise the error he was about to undertake.  Instead he picks up a sellotape dispenser and wraps sellotape around the mask around the back of my head and pats it into my hair just to make sure it really wasn't going anywhere

And they let some of these people carry guns...

Judge Head..?

I did hear that they are all already dead and the whole mega-city thing is just a waiting room for heaven or a dream or something.  And Hershey is really an angel.

Robocop was one of the seminal films of my formative years (I'll never forget the time my best mate at the time told me he'd managed to buy a copy from our local Woolies -the weekend couldn't come soon enough).  The film is damn near perfect as it is.  So I'm glad H/wood hasn't taken the opportunity to shat on childhood classics once again...

The thing I thought was the strangest difference between the comic and the 1st film was that the film had Eben (the sheriff) and Stella (his wife) going through "difficulties".  The comic was refreshing in that it didn't have a couple on the verge of divorce and it gave the ending that much more pathos and potentcy (in my own opinion of course)...


Also if I remember properly (been a while since I've seen the film) doesn't the comic have a different epilogue [spoiler]Stella resurrects Eben thinking he can get over his vampiric nature -he doesn't and immediately attacks her[/spoiler]

Thanks for the warm welcome from you all.

...and Withnail and T.  Now THAT would be an interesting Hollywood remake.  Robert Downey Junior as Withnail? Johnny Depp as Danny?

Knowing Hollywood they would probably end up with Michael Bay directing and turn it into some form of "blockbuster":

"What's your name? Mc-Motherf*cker?"

The original trades for Neil Gaiman's series The Sandman were exactly the same.  The whole run was un-numbered on the spine (or indeed anywhere).  Not so vital for some of the stories as they could be read out of order, but you certainly wouldn't want to read The Wake before Kindly Ones (which a friend of mine did). 

Subsequent reprints have numbered spines though

Currently reading "Feed" by Mira Grant.  Set in the near future in a world that has survived the zombie apocalypse and has learnt to cope with the massive changes to society that this has entailed.

The story focuses on a group of bloggers who are following the next bright star in the Presidential campaign.  It reads quite easily, with good detail on how things have changed, but I get the feeling that if I knew more about American politics I'd probably get more out of it...

Graphic novel-wise I've just finished volume 2 of "Chew" (Written by John Layman, Art by Rob Guillory published by Image comics)  A great comic that if you're looking for something different certainly fits the bill (book itself was great and continues from the first volume very well).

Bought the game over the weekend.  Loving it so far (but then I usually do love most of Rockstar Games' output).  The only thing that is a bit of a shame is the multiplayer Free Roam mode.  Everytime I join a free roam session it just seems to be full of people who seem to want to ride around shooting each other (mostly me)and not posse-ing up and exploring as I was expecting, so not really tried that aspect(interested in trying the co-op missions). 

I Have joined some of the quick games such as Gang Shootout and Gold Rush which are great fun! (mainly as I was expecting people to keep shooting me all the time...)

First one I remember getting was a Superman Pocketbook (still got it upstairs somewhere more for nostalgia purposes).  Funny thing as I got older the more I went off the "Man of Steel".  Think it was the whole underpants over the tights thing, I prefered Batman as he seemed to have a much darker edge.

First TPBs I bought were Titan book reprints of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.  Picked up Vol 6,7,8,9 and 11 from a remaindered bookshop on a whim at (what seemed like a fortune at the time) £3 each. 

Totally. Blew. Me. Away.

Changed my idea as to what comics were about and capable of (Moore will always remain a genius to me) and it's no exageration to say, looking back, buying those books was one of those life changing moments.  I certainly wouldn't have read things like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Sandman, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Invisibles (to name a very few)

It has since taken me years to track down the volumes I was missing.  And although DC have since released them all in colour (or should I say color?) I won't replace those original black and white volumes.

Blimey, I'm goin' all misty...

Eee, I remember when it was 8p (earth money).

I remember when i could do a weeks shopping and still have change from two and sixpence.

Was that about the time when all this was still fields?

Not much of a fist fight (just the one punch) but gotta be

"Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"

A classic!

As with everyone else -don't mind at all.  Still a bargain!

Been lurking for a while and thought it was time to say hello and introduce myself:

I'm sure my tale is full of the usual stuff, used to read Twoth a looong while ago (I can remember it being in the school pile of comics (we each were allowed one comic each to read with our bottle of school milk) before a teacher looked through them and they "got lost" (probably due to Shako))

Rediscovered it many years later and the inevitable birds and booze then became more important.  However picked up a copy on a whim a few months back (beginning of The Talented Mayor Ambrose story)  and have since been trawling ebay and Forbidden Planets for back issues and Trade Paperbacks.

Gotta say rediscovering Twoth is like finding an old friend (cliched but true).  The think I love about the comic most?  It seems to have grown up with me.  Language is a little fruitier (which is no bad thing) violence is still there and it still has that slightly illicit feeling it did all those years ago...

So anyway - Hello!