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#1
Quote from: Vector14 on 27 May, 2024, 05:58:21 PMAnd when Cadet Dredd gets to whatever age Dredd was in prog 2,they can just start reprinting the oldies!

He was 33 in prog 2, so they've got a way to go yet.
#2
Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
27 May, 2024, 03:15:28 PM
I always wondered what the collective noun for drivel was.
#3
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills - 2024
25 May, 2024, 05:14:02 PM
Something about the pose puts me in mind of Bolland's £ast Dredd.
#4
General / Re: Exposition Death Screams
25 May, 2024, 05:11:51 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 25 May, 2024, 09:33:57 AMAlternatively, it could read:
NOW HE'S FIRING 7.7cm SHRAPNEL SHELLS AT US! AAAGH!

If Pat Mills is going to do the research, it's only fair that he share it with us.
Have you read his MI7 Assassin stories? A lot of the prose is not unlike that.
#5
I noticed that the newspapers the day after the Prime Miniature's speech had all touched up the photo to make him look less pathetic...apart from the Daily Mirror, whose front page showed him walking away looking like a drowned rat, with the headline "GOODBYE".
#6
Am I the only person who wishes they would lower the page count and ditch the filler? I guess there must be some economic reason for preferring a 132-page magazine padded out with creaky old Robot Archie strips to a 64-page magazine (or whatever it would be with all the reprints and text features taken out) with all-new material.
#7
Music / Re: Mash-ups!
23 May, 2024, 12:16:12 PM
I don't know how they got it to sound like Wild Cherry were actually singing the words of the Rammstein song.
#8
I think 500+ MPs of any one party is...not great for democracy. The thing about a Tory rout, though, is that it might show voters that they have other options besides endlessly see-sawing between the same two parties. My worry is that opposition is easy, particularly when you have a government as unpopular as this one. But the public has never really warmed to Starmer, and many of the electorate have memories like goldfish. Look at America, where the forthcoming election is neck-and-neck, despite one of the candidates being the guy they threw out last time. If the Tories just become a regular opposition party, instead of a fringe group with like a dozen MPs, then that could set the stage for them to come back again in five years as if nothing had happened.
#9
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 22 May, 2024, 05:36:22 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 22 May, 2024, 05:29:31 PMI do like the idea of the Tories being pushed into 4th or 5th place
I don't see it happening.
There are polls that show it happening, though. I've seen a couple that predict more Lib Dem and SNP MPs than Tories in the next parliament. This was before the SNP's recent troubles, though. It would be bitterly ironic if the Tories turned out to be the main beneficiaries of that, becoming the official opposition due to a collapse in the SNP vote.
#10
If you don't like Regened, it will be a lot easier to skip as part of the Meg than it was when it took up an entire prog 4 times a year.
#11
I want the Tories gone as well, but I'm a little perturbed by polls that show Labour getting such a huge majority that they are effectively without opposition. That doesn't seem likely to end well. Though I do like the idea of the Tories being pushed into 4th or 5th place, with the opposition, such as it is, coming from some combination of Lib Dem, Green, SNP and Plaid MPs.
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2383: Blood Work
22 May, 2024, 03:28:54 PM
Nice to see from the Thrills of the Future ad that Honor Vincent is getting a regular strip in the prog. And about time too.
#13
Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
19 May, 2024, 09:24:27 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 19 May, 2024, 07:09:37 PM
Quote from: Doomlord66 on 19 May, 2024, 01:09:41 PMAlso is it me or did the containment device look very similar to shall we say, a marital aid, just without the helmet end?


So...tell me about your childhood...
I totally heard that in the voice of the psychiatrist from Hyperactive.
#14
Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
19 May, 2024, 09:35:45 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 18 May, 2024, 09:34:09 PMGood grief. That was like a totally different show tonight. Fortunately, it was a much better one. But the tonal whiplash is quite something. Back to RTD next week, though, and so I'll set my expectations accordingly. Nicely done by Moffat this week though.
Looks like they're going for a Hinchcliffian folk horror vibe next week. Hooray for tonal whiplash, I was worried that the whole series was going to be like the first two, and the two episodes before that.
#15
Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
13 May, 2024, 10:02:29 PM
Quote from: judgeurko on 13 May, 2024, 07:40:22 PMThen again do little kids like babies?
They like bogey and fart jokes.