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This sounds interesting.

Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article320110.ece" target="_blank">Torchwood

Call me Mr Thicky, but I only realised, more than 20 years after the event, that Meltdown Man is a complete rip-off of Planet of the Apes.

Hero is propelled into weird world where a global catastrophe has left genetically-modified animals in charge.  Hero eventually discovers that - gasp! - he's actually on the earth of the future.

Okay, so there's maybe a bit of The Island of Dr Moreau in there too, but just how dim am I for not noticing this before?

Stupid.  Childish.  Inane.  Great fun.

Link: http://www.punchaceleb.com/index.php" target="_blank">go on, you know you want to

I haven't voted in the last few elections, and wasn't going to vote in this one either.  All that's now changed.

Just heard the alarming news on Radio 2 - if the Conservatives get in, Phil Collins is threatening to move back to Britain.

Vote anything but Tory - hell, even vote Labour - and keep the UK a Collins-free zone.  You know it makes sense.

Yes, Scotland have moved up two places in the FIFA rankings, leap-frogging past those giant of world soccer, Syria and Burkina Faso.

Screw you, Thailand (83, and dropping) - you're next!

Link: http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,All-Apr-2005,00.html" target="_blank">Today no. 86, tomorrow - the world!

A friend of mine enters lots of competitions and is always winning stuff.  He came home from work on Monday to find a note saying there was a parcel waiting for him at the postal depot.  He left work early the next day, went down to collect it.....and it was a free Pot Noodle.

What's the worst competition prize you've ever won?


But yesterday he won a widescreen TV and a DVD player in a Sun online competition.  Bastard.


On-topic:  him and his entire family are always winning stuff.  I based the 'Meet the Flooks' Dredd story on them.  He still thinks I owe him money for it.

Yes!!  Of the tens of thousands of votes so far to name that bridge at the new Wembley, about 90% of them are nominating Jim Baxter.

Nominations don't close until March 21, when the short list will be announced for further public voting, so still plenty of time to get those (multiple) votes in.

Vote Baxter, and really annoy Tony Banks.  You know it makes sense.

Link: http://www.lda.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConForm.9" target="_blank">get it right up them!

Her 'rousing' speech to the Norwich City fans last night.  

Well, it made me laugh...

Link: http://raq8.servercity.co.uk/files/delia.mpeg" target="_blank">Too much cooking sherry, Delia?

...Robert Kilroy Silk is expected to announce his resignation from the UK Independence Party, after falling out with the leadership.  In the same speech this afternoon, he's expected to announce he's starting up his own party.

Oh joy!  Little Englanders, assemble!

Hurrah!  The Doom movie is scheduled to hit the cinemas at the end of the year.  And it stars The Rock!

What I really want to know is, will it be true to the game, and the Doom Marine spends most of the film labouring under the weight of his double-barreled shotgun, chainsaw, chaingun, missile launcher and plasma gun?

Hopefully, someone here might have a rather worrying knowledge of plastic explosives.

Would I be right in thinking that you can't detonate something like C4 by shooting it or setting it on fire?  It's generally set off by an electric charge?

Any info much appreciated.

18th now.

Clearly the support of the message board has been the kiss of death in this case.

In Rogue, there was a Nort master sniper called Morgan, or Morgin, or something like that.  He was the guy with the black domer chem-helmet.

I'm too lazy to look through a large pile of tatty back-prgs, so can someone confirm the spelling of his name, please?

Ta.

Aieeeee!  There's a Past Imperfect story in prog 1409, and it's the inevitiable Jack the Ripper one.

There ought to be a law against this kind of thing.  

It's not bad, though, but it strongly reminds me of something else.  An award-winning play by a certain UK comics writer...

Big slavvering review of this in this month's Playstation 2 mag, namechecking Rogue Trooper and Glimmer Rats as some of the possible sources of inspiration for it.

Goodness me, how strange...

Greece: a diddy team from a small, rather poor and parochial country on the periphery of Europe.  Managed by a veteran German coach.

Does any of this remind you of someone else?

Obviously we hired the wrong German...

Blimey, that was a shock and a half.  I thought they'd go all the way.  I was supporting France, but well done to Greece.

It's anybody's tournament now, I reckon.

Well, I just got a copy of Futurequake #2 through the post.  I could comment on the stories, I could say what a thrill it was to see Paul Glasswell's tasteful story (and Pitchfest audience favourite) 'Sperm Count' finally in print, I could join in the chorus of why oh why aren't some of these people working for 2000AD.

I could do all that, but instead I'm going to complain bitterly that there was 7P OWING ON THE POSTAGE AND I HAD TO PAY IT.

You cheap bastard, Wyatt.  That's one way to make an enemy for life of a Scotsman.

Very good showing for 2000AD at the National Comics Awards in Bristol last night.

2000AD -Best International Comic
Don Reardon - Best New Talent
Dredd - Best Character
Henry Flint - Best Artist
Necronauts - Best Graphic Novel
2000adonline - Best Magazine or Website

Hurrah for printing the voting form in the comic.  Block voting does work!

...at Game Workshop's Black Library website.

PJ, how come you've been holding back out us about this?

Link: http://www.blacklibrary.com/interviews/pjholdenwhm48a.html" target="_blank">I, Bogtrotter