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I'll admit that it's looking good now for "Bad Company", but I'm reserving judgement until the whole story's told. And don't mention "Skeleton Key" again; I made my views on that score quite clear ...

I must admit I've not seen any of those (frankly disturbing) scenes that's been mentioned. However, the goriest death scene I have seen has to be from Robocop, when an unfortunate criminal gets covered in toxic sludge then gets splatted on a speeding car's windscreen. Ugh! You can't buy that for a Dollar!

If I may...
Judge Dredd: General hurrahs for another new Mega City One area introduced to us, but how a Park survived the Apocalypse War is beyond me.
Shakara: Great alien art again and a bit of plot development.
Storming Heaven: Very reminisant of the Zenith superheroes vs the Liogor Wars, a bit too out there for me but a lott of you like it, so I'll not knock it.
Skeleton Key: Excuse me? An unknown race of aliens who just happen to look exactly like human skeletons. Sorry, but my willing sense of disbelief just shorted out here.
And finally, Bad Company: as someone who read the original series, I was wondering where this was going, especially after last week, I thought a quick Kano kills Danny episode would have been anticlimatic. I'm pleased that it doesn't seem to be going that way now.
One man's opinion...

In the beginning of 2000ad, there was a concerted attempt to link all the stories together. Satanus appeared in Judge Dredd, where we learned he was the cloned son of Old One Eye (Flesh I,II + III). Satanus' son, Golgotha, shows up on Mars in the ABC Warriors story. Satanus again shows up in Nemesis the Warlock with Nemesis' son, Thoth. Judge Giant's father appeared in the Harlem Heroes strip. Johnny Alpha and Rogue Trooper both made visits to Dredd's time. The Volgon Wars also link Dredd's time to Invasion 1999 and the ABC Warriors (again). Hammerstein (Robusters and ABC Warriors) fought in the Battle of Armageddon, the site of which Dredd visited. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

According to the Michael Crichton Web page, he first wrote about cloning a Pterodon back in 1983, but he wasn't happy with the story so he worked on it. Jurassic Park was first published in 1990, with The Lost Work comming along in 1995. I had always believed that Crichton had written the book way back in the Sixties, and he it adapted into a film by Spielberg much later. I guess I was wrong.

The Robot gunslinger was actually a Robot Marshall who policed Carver City in Flesh. I remember making the connection to this and Westworld when I first saw it as well. If you want to see this, TThe Megazine startted reprinting Flesh from Issue four in its latest run.

Maybe he had a Universal Translator.

McNulty going where no man has gone before

Couldn't agree more about this week's Dredd. I made the point recently that we never seem to have any consistancy with Dredd's motivation. Last week we had Dredd ordering raids on mutant settlements, this week we have him contimplating his advancing years while putting his life on the line for someone others might have seen as not worth the bother. Pretty diverse, but I love these "Dredd as more than a bully boy with a daystick" stories.

Language!

Rember the SPOILER logo. I don't get my progs till Wednesday!:)

There was also a lot of Brit Cit based stories in the Megazine. "Armitage" (the most well known), Brit Cit Babes, and a story, I think it was called Brit Cit Brute. The city the Megazine depicts differs greatly top what was hinted at through 2000AD's Judge Dredd strip. There Btit Cit is seen as an efficent and honourable place. the other stories have it as a corrupt, dark place, run by masons and pervets. And don't get me started to what they did to Scotland...

"Britain was the root of America?"
Tell that to the Vikings, or the Spanish, or the French etc, etc.

Again, I'm just going by the timeline given but it can be explained. According to this timeline, the Volgon War starts in 1999 with the invasion of Western Europe and ends in 2023. This works in well with the ABC history as well. President Booth doesn't start the Atomic War until 2071, when the Mega Cities were already built, so there isn't a problem there either. As for Hammerstein, we know from ABC warriors and Robusters that he was built to fight the Volgons, then led the Meknificent Seven on Mars for a while, before being sold off as Army surplus to Howard Quarz. Robustters ended with Hammerstein and Rojaws leading a break for freedom. What happened after that is unknown. Maybe Hammerstein's programming got the better of him and when the USA went to war he turned up for the fight. I always thought that the four part Hammerstein story was used more as a movie tie in than a serious attempt to connect the two stories.

Well, according to the 2000AD Website timelines, Solomon was the second Chief Judge. It seems to be tthe most up to date of the chronologies, so I'd go witth that.  

It'd Dredd's attitude that I can't pin down. In some stories, He's sympathetic to the plight of the mutant, even comming to their defence while other judges treat them as vermin. Then in other stories, he sees them as nothing but a threat to be destroyed - "Double our strike rate against the West Wall mutie Settlements. Put a little fear in 'em". It's this inconsistency I find confusing.