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Hey artist types - I've got a completely mad 3-page script for the Mark Millar competition, but it will take an artist just as mad to draw my ideas...(whither art thou Henry Flint).

So if you fancy drawing a world full of "organ factories" and "anus pipes" and "phallic smokestacks", and populated with bulbous and gloopy little creatures that do a lot of shitting and farting to produce a food source, please PM me.

Thanks in advance.

And I do hesitate to post this with that thread title, but what the hell...at least someone might read it... .

Cemetery Dance Magazine, which gets pretty much exclusive short stories from Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, now has a comics line up and running. The search for artists is on: http://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/grave-tales-comic-guidelines/.

Has anyone read this, and if so, is it worth picking up? Every review I've read on the first 2 issues is great and many claim that, along with the Walking Dead, it's one of Image's best.

I'm interested, but need a little bit of nudging to commit - because here I am trying to drop a few titles and save money.

I've been rereading all the SD and SDs strips, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for...can anyone help out?

I need to know if there has ever been a Strontium Dog mutated to look like any kind of sea creature, fish or shell fish. And, if possible, what Prig he appeared in. I know this is a long shot, but thanks in advance guys!

Ah, music. Sweet, sweet music. What kinds of sounds make the Galaxy's Greatest go round?

Dounreay, our latest winner, wants to know:

I know a lot of toothers like their sounds so the general theme this month is music. Write about any damn thing you want but it must have a musical angle.

Use a lyric from your favourite song in a story, an album cover that has inspired you, gansta rap in the big Meg, the skiffle scene in Download, take your pick, the hills are alive with it.

Extra respect for actually writing a song.

So make like Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein and compose the next great Hollywood Musical!

Every home town, no matter how big or small has its odd happenings. Post your odd news stories here.

At a Phillies baseball game in Philadelphia (my home town):

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/91011609.html?cmpid=15585797

But no worries, he's really a nice guy:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Alleged_barfer_overweight_but_nice_uncle_says.html

Sigh. I love Philthadelphia.

Sorry I was a bit late getting the results thread up. Time just seemed to...get away from me today.

But enough of all the "blah, blah, blahs". What you really want is as follows:

Gather round, gather round. We've all been off time-hopping here and there, so it's a wonder we've arrived at the same time at the same place. Centuries have passed since we've been together it seems.

So now that we've bludgeoned the space-time continuum, and made a mess of history, what have we to report?

Let's find out.

Please, no voting until all the entries have been posted. Dounreay 1 will start our journey and Van Dom will end it. If impatience is having it's way with you, simply fast-forward the next half hour and vote then!

Same rules as always: vote your top three and an honorable mention if you'd like.

Right. We're off!

The following photo was taken at the Old Navy in my old neighborhood in Philly.



Strangely sexy, or not? Feel free to post your strangely sexy images here.

I just spotted an ad in this month's IDW title "Angel" (no worries, it's my wife's comic, honest) starting that a "darker, grittier new take on Tank Girl" is starting up next month. It's to be an American comic-sized monthly.

So...does this get it out of the Meg? Will we finally get (most of) our wishes to see it gone?

Hey guys, seems like I'm always on here pleading for artists, but is anyone up to draw a four-page strip for the next Temple APA issue? It's a little desert tale about strange creatures farming strange creatures and the mess that occurs when cattle rustlers (also strange creatures) show up. The deadline is in roughly three months and I've just got to redraft the script one last time! Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I just bought a stack of old Victor comics - I'd say roughly 100 issues - for 20 pounds. They're all in good condition, no rips or tears, paper's not overly yellowed, pages still fairly crisp.

Good deal or was I had?

Has anyone read it?

I've just bought the HB and read it in a single sitting. Beautifully illustrated, it's the story of the British colonization of our galaxy in a pseudo-historical, steam-punk, alternate world setting. Led by Lord Cockswain, British (er...English more likely) expeditionary forces are nigh unstoppable as they journey from planet to planet, wiping out alien wankers and pausing in their conquest only for a spot of tea and perhaps some biscuits. The humor - humour, pardon - is brilliant. Everything is uber-English, and the satire is pulled off perfectly. I think many of you may enjoy it the way I enjoy the satire of Americans and American culture in the Prog.

Anyway, highly recommended if you haven't read it.

Hello all. I've just sat down to hash out a short 4-page monster script for Back From the Depths' Hallowscream issue, so I'll need an artist to collaborate with very soon. If anyone is interested, please PM me.

The script involves 'Nightmare Bugs' and features lots of little beasties that secrete various fluids from various orifices into various orifices. Yeah, it's gross.

Thanks in advance!

Before I return to the States (not for at least 2 or 3 years yet), I've decided I must get my hands on all the 2000AD-related comics series that will pretty much be unavailable to me. So far I've gotten hold of the first 42 issues of Crisis and...well, they're okay. Maybe not as 'grown up' as they were advertised though they do tackle 'grown up' issues. I certainly cannot seem to rip through them like I did the better eras of 2000AD during my prog slog.

As for Star Lord and Toxic!, they've been elusive so far but I do intend to get them.

I imagine Star Lord will be great - my favorite Twoth character is Johnny Alpha, so there. Which of these 2000AD off-shoots is your favorite and why?

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Break out your quills and ink, dust off that rickety typewriter and prepare to travel backward in time to record for future generations the thrills and adventures of would-be pasts and alternate days of yore were they inhabited by your favourite Twothy characters!

Sorry 'bout that - excuse my pretentious wankery - I forgot we're doing Time Twisters, not Tongue Twisters. I'll let our illustrious Lady Festina tell it in plain English:

"OK, after much deliberation (and despite the popularity of 2000 Gay-D on the forum - perhaps next time!), I think it's Time Travel Time.

So a story featuring a 2000AD character going, well, back (or forward, depending where they start!) in time, to some point in (Earth-bound) history... the Colosseum in Rome, the march of the Plague across 14th century Europe, the trenches of World War One....

No doubt we will be inundated with LGBT innuendo and appropriate amounts of smut, but at least let's pretend we're being all lofty and BBC2 about it :-)"

So there we have it: anything goes as long as the story takes place in a real past and includes a character from the pages of the Prog*. Keep the word count round 500 words. The comp starts NOW and ends the 1st of March at 6pm on your sundial.

*Stories in which Russian Rogue Nikolai Dante time travels to the 70's to spearhead a Porn Revolution are excluded. Sorry Roger.

Wake - you must be the same Wakefield Carter mentioned in a few Progs during Tharg's website competition. I just passed those in my Prog slog and thought that was great! Wow, you've been at this for a while.

Hey guys, as some of you might know my wife was deployed in Afghanistan for a loooong time. I had been sending old comics to her so she could pass them out to the troops. I plan to keep doing this even though she's home, so if any of you have any old or beat up comic books or even magazines that you'd want to pass on, please contact me and I can either collect them or pay you for shipping them to me. They can be in any condition, as the sand and dirt out there is sure to destroy them anyway.

It's free to for my wife to ship them over there from her military address, so once we have a box-full, we'll send them along. I plan to have the first boxes ready to go by the end of February and send a box a month for as long as I can sustain it.

Many thanks in advance.

Hello my artistic compadres - Emperor brought to our collective attention the UK indie film magazine Little White Lies, which is holding a neat competition: adapt a movie to comic in six frames. I've got my script down and I just need the right artist to adapt (I'll just say it and hope no one pinches it off me) John Carpenter's The Thing.

Quoted from Emperor:
"An interesting competition which at least gives you a chance to get your work in front of a very different audience - I'm going to have a solid ponder on this one:

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UK indie film magazine Little White Lies is challenging comic creator to re-imagine your favourite film as a six frame comic book story. The best mini-strips will then be featured in the next issue.

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/make-your-own-film-inspired-comic-strip.html"


So if you're up for drawing oozing tentacles and vomiting spider-heads, please get in contact with me. Much thanks in advance!

Is anyone aware of a deluxe HB version of The Once and Future King? I've been looking to get an edition for my fancy-book bookcase, but haven't been able to find one. If the book's not available in some sort of gorgeous edition, that's a shame...especially when I've recently seen a leatherbound "Twilight" edition whilst searching in the local bookshop  .

Thanks in advance.