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i'll have a go at that:

The Wicker Man (1973)
The Shining
Children of Men
Don't Look Now
Rosemary's Baby
Picnic at Hanging Rock
A Clockwork Orange
Mad Max
Sunset Boulevard
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

[2000AD]

I'd love to see what some female blood could bring 2000AD (apart from Zippy Couriers). Even if 2000AD has quite a good range of strong female characters (cass anderson, halo jones, jena makarov, aimee nixon, hershey off the top of my head), SF as a whole is still such a testosterone-fuelled genre.

Each week when I see an exciting, vibrant cover on 2000AD (or not, as the case may be) my girlfriend sees men dressed as pirates hitting each other really hard with the butts of their guns.  The times she has taken notice of the covers are recent Megs with Tank Girl by Rufus Dayglo, Cass Anderson by Brendan McCarthy and Treasure Steel by Lee Garbett.

There's always Pia Guerra on Y: The Last Man and Doctor Who: The Forgotten, and Leah Moore.  Neither of which I know much about.  

I'd nominate something from about prog 1025, one of the first progs I picked up as a wee one.  It was a 'Vector 13' about a man being stalked by his own voice on the telephone, with lovely bluey-yellowy art by Sean Phillips (I think).  A lot of those early V13s gave me the willies when I was about 10.

On the lighter side, the Fox spokesman's name is Gregg Brilliant.

Well the 'point' of subscribing to me is that, living in Oz, it gives me the prog a good seven weeks in advance of the newsagent for a good deal less cash.  As far as gifts go, I got a beanie, a Glimmer Rats GN and nothing since about 2002.  I don't know when my anniversary is, either.  I'm a scummy monthly payer by financial necessity.

You're all lovely.

Even  if I just lurk a lot of the time, its such a relief to at least read voices of sanity after sometimes not finding much evidence of that in real life, or the rest of the internet.

Plus I don't know anybody who reads 2000AD in the real world.  Or any other comics for that matter.

When I was about 15, 'Tu-plang' appeared as graffiti in a Dredd strip in the prog because of this board, which made my day at the time.

Well, growing up I was apparently to be ashamed of the following:

-a love of Dr Who, including buying books and DVDs.

-collecting comics, reading 2000ad where people could see me.  I have close to 1000 progs here and there.

-being quite well-spoken.

-not being interested in sports. at all.

-not being interested in drugs beyond a moderate use of caffeine/alcohol.

-reading.

-having good recall/knowledge of (often pointless) facts, usually concerning TV shows, films and pop music.

-constantly having music playing, everywhere and anywhere, from easy listening to hip hop.

All of the above has made me a 'retard' and a 'faggot' for as long as I can remember.  Thanks, private schooling!

It seems whatever 'subculture' you're a part of, there are codes and rules of behavior and taste, more often than not by insecure and dominant people.  There just seem to be dicks wherever you go.

If they spent the whole episode explaining cloning technology and how it has advanced in the last few thousand years since the 21st century, I doubt you'd be any more satisfied.

utterly pointless, unimaginative nitpicking.

I enjoyed this episode, btw

I think a lot of people are wrapped up in the idea that Doctor Who is inherently shit, and scrutinise it a lot more than they might, say, something in a popular sci-fi comic. Doctor Who has its dodgy bits, but its not meant to be hard-sf, that would take the fun away.

If its so shithouse why does this forum have a lengthy post-mortem week after week?

I don't think the plots are quite as hole-y as some on here might think..  All of these holes people have picked out have been pretty tenuous.

"...which doesn't work because the human leader is OLD"

Wha?  Why can't the human leader be old?  The other clones vary in age and gender, why not an old man?

"fish breath through gills, they had gills, shouldn't the gills be covered in piss water too?"

If the thing where their mouths should be helps them breathe, maybe it bypasses the gills altogether?

"'Sheâ??s too much like me.' Iâ??m probably being thick, but I donâ??t get why that would prevent her regenerating."

I think he meant that she recklessly sacrificed herself, like he might do.

ThryllSeekyr - EE = 2000 AD Extreme Edition

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Flicking through my brother's progs as a little'n, it was this cover

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as well as the final episode of Outlaw, the opening of Mazeworld the following week, and Dredd in The Rise and Fall of Chair Man Dilbert.

I think that cover is excellent, exciting and not especially spoilery.

I like the use of the Case File design.. actually one of the only problems I have with the current GN line is the cover format of title-up-top, subtitle-down-bottom - I've liked the covers most when that rule is broken, i.e. Case Files, Alan Moore Future Shocks.  Much more striking designs.

Can anyone tell me if these games are region encoded or anything?  Eg, can I order something from Amazon UK or US and play it in Aus?  Games are notoriously expensive here..

I'd like the reintroduction of some things from the novels, like:

the Butterfly Room - the 'hillside' room in the TARDIS
Iris Wildthyme - the Doctor's female equivalent, whose TARDIS is the No. 22 bus to Putney Common and slightly smaller on the inside.
the Faction Paradox - time travelling rogues causing temporal impossibilities for their own ends.