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Was Green Knowe the one with where Victorian children chanted something like "weeping willow demon tree", the main antagonist, and where they also showed a creepy-looking Saint Christopher statue crossing the water at night? To admit to children these days that this was enough for us to seek refuge behind the settee would probably be met with cold-hearted mockery.

To think that I found Eureka! by Ian Livingstone the pinnacle of dramatic possibility, when the pterodactyl (I think it was) gets you.

Harrier Attack - the game I wasted my childhood on as a precursor to then wasting my adolescence on Monkey Island (Amiga 500+) and the like. My mum, in her mid 60s, stills goes on about Ant Attack and Pyjamarama.

That's exactly the kind of help I needed, thanks a million. And for the two Amazon lists, which were useful. The only problem now is how to excuse the costs.

These posts have been amazingly helpful - Mr. Postman brought me CF 14, Dead Man and The Horned God yesterday and I want MORE. It's hard to choose but I think I'll go for CF5 from what I've read here. On reading Necropolis, though, I feel I'd like to know more about Dredd's doubts and the Judda but from reading this link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Case-Files/lm/ROIRFQQEUDPI/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1 it seems like that would involve reading CF8-13, which I can't afford at the moment. Any ideas about selectivity?

What sense is there in Amazon's random cycle of customer reviews for any old Case File when you click on specific issues? Imagine if they did that on some long running series of novels like Discworld. A newcomer wouldn't have a clue.

Now that I'm warming to the subject, and going back to what I was saying earlier, does anyone remember a documentary where Colin McNeil (one of my favourite 2000ad artists) was talking about comics and saying that people past a certain age shouldn't really be reading them? I remember I was less taken aback by his comment, to say that comics were his chosen field, than I was by his formal, white-shirted appearance and bald head. I suppose I was expecting someone who resembled his self portrait in the 1993 annual.

I'm pretty sure this wasn't Comics Brittania, although I'm mildly concerned I might have dreamt this now, or just made it up. I can't find anything on Youtube. Anyone know?

Thanks for taking my cloak, guys. I suppose the main problem is snobbery. I don't live in the UK anymore and so British culture isn't really present. Talking about comics, some of my friends here who are knowledgable about "serious" literature are really respectful of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese. Wanting to champion "my end" as I saw it I showed them Watchmen, but one look at the costumes was all it took to for them to dismiss it as superhero nonsense without worth.

I was already sliding freely down the slope of geekdom before this. I suppose I was worried that it knew no bounds.

Hi to all. I've been a fairly intensive lurker of these pages for a few weeks and felt I should pop in and say hi. Also, to say thanks to the posters whose opinions led me to make some purchases. The fact is I feel a little bit silly being interested in all this again as a "grown up", a sensation fuelled by my wife's wordless reactions when she sees words like "Portrait of a Mutant" in the Google bar.

To not pay P&P for something on Amazon I added Slaine Warrior's Dawn based on memories of Mike McMahon's artwork from when it was filler in some Rogue Trooper collection (I think), placed in my hands during a service station break one childhood car journey. When the new book arrived I at first felt embarassed to be reading it and I didn't much like Massimo Belardinelli's art (sorry, but for some reason the faces reminded me of Roy of the Rovers). But the seed of interest has been planted. Or is just nostalgia?

Years ago I had been morbidly fascinated/terrified by my older cousin's 2000AD covers and Iron Maiden posters all over his walls (and team of judges for Warhammer's Blood Bowl). How could something so weird that made no sense be so fully developed and well executed? I joined in on the prog/meg fun in earnest just before the Judgement Day series and stopped when Melody Maker seemed more interesting. By sheer bad luck, from lurking here it seems that people regard this as the worst period ever for the comic. E.g. I liked Khroncles of Khaos best back then, but everyone on here seems to think it is weak.

I've just bought JD CF14 purely based on memories of those Dark Judges covers, along with Dead Man and Slaine The Horned God. If I still like it, I'll probably get the second Strontium Dog collection, since I remember most of the 3rd volume from another one of those summer collection comics. What does anyone think, is the second better than the third or are they pretty much the same quality?

Thanks for reading my rambling.