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Alan Grant was still accounting for at least half of either the blackness or the humour of TB Grover's output at the time Atlantis saw print. Because Wagner's written so many fantastic stories since the TB Grover partnership dissolved, it's easy to apportion full credit for everything great about that period of Dredd to him alone, but I think Grant deserves credit for the ruthlessness and amorality of the character and the strip's tone during those years.

You're absolutely right of course. How could I exclude Alan Grant. In retrospect the brutality of the strip makes sense when you consider Rage was running at the same time. Again, its the total ruthlessness of Johnny Alpha in his final pursuit of Max Bubba that I remember.

I am right in recalling that I read somewhere that Wagner and Grant were sharing a house at that time and banging this stuff out on an old typewriter in the living room? Maybe its just a little daydream I had!

Such a great post title by Tiplodocus needs to be resurrected. It perfectly sums up my feelings after a recent re-read of Atlantis from Case Files 10. Not only is the art by Brendan McCarthy as brilliantly refreshing as I originally remember it but the story is black comedy gold from John Wagner at his most brutal.

The script has some great one-liners but the tragic ending involving [spoiler]the drowning of innocent six-year old Leslie the mutie[/spoiler] really threw me. Reading this ending now as a dad packed a powerful punch this time round. Have to say, Wagner's writing is like a good wine; it gets better and better with age and is, um, hard to get out of white carpets.

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But I did get to hit the town with Biz, Fabry and McCrea on Saturday. Really, really mad funny night. They were all dead sound.

You can't just throw that handgrenade into the room and walk away. Sounds like a fantastic night out. Where did you end up with that trio? Hope it wasn't Copper Face Jacks.

I thought graphs were meant to make statistics clearer? I can't made head nor tail of that spiderweb thingy.

I thought it was pretty clear. If you look at the eight models, first you may notice some similarities. All are modeling Y, an outcome. They have a "fixed" portion with some parameters to estimate – this portion estimates the mean values of Y at the different values of X. All quotas have a residual, which is the random part of the model–the variation in Y that is not affected by the Xs. Since the Xs are categorical, they have only a few values, to indicate which category a case is in. Those subscripts? They're really just indicating the values of X.

Hope that makes sense.

Getting back to Skizz, I remember first reading that and realising we weren't in Kansas anymore. Moore's writing was just lightyears ahead of his contemporaries and it really set a new benchmark for the rest of the droids. Even as a 15 year old I think I knew it was pretty special.
Baikie's art was just right too, giving it that grounded realism. Hard to imagine any other artist at the time doing it.

I read somewhere that he was delighted with the new Watchmen series.


Or maybe I didn't.

The bodhran-sound sound you hear is a vein in The Cosh's forehead throbbing fit to burst.  Audible all the way from Basel.

I specifically picked the bodhran shaped graph for that reason.

I taught my 9 year old to play Talisman this week. It's great.

That's one game I have to try out, just to say I have. Has a reputation with some gamers I know as boring.

You have to start the young 'uns somewhere. Kids love rolling dice so luck based games are okay by me up to a point. Something like King of Tokyo is a great follow on game as they get to roll 6 dice at once, but also start making basic tactical decisions. Plus its about monsters.

Many thanks to everyone who took time to complete the "How I Organise My Trade Paperbacks" survey. We had ten respondents which, to be honest, was ten times more than I expected. I have carried out a detailed analysis of the data and present below my findings.

As this graph obviously demonstrates the preferred method of organisation is firstly by "character" followed closely by the "writer/artist" combo and (my own preference) "height". I won't go into the rest of the detail as I am sure its all very clear in the graphic below.

I trust this matter is now settled and there is no need for further discussion.

You MUST have put your boxes in some sort of order dammit!

We seriously need to get to the bottom of this "how you organise your TPBs" issue, so I've set up a survey which I'd appreciate if you'd all complete. I'll present the findings at the next AGM.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LY2RFVV

I think you're missing the big picture there, 20th C boy.

Far from their memories of you only being tarnished by carting your old Mayfairs to the skip, your every online indiscretion, rant and imprecation will be theirs to cherish and access eternally.  Including this one.

Ha Ha!

Until the massive solar flare wipes every electronic device clean and we're living in After The Vengance.

More fundamentally we may the last generation to leave a physical record trace. Never mind my comic collection; I have boxes in the attic with old holiday photos, letters from ex-girlfriends, homemade zines, stupid handmade postcards from friends, old diaries I've kept for years, drawings, sketch books, letters and newspaper clippings from my dad.
What are the chances my kids will ever have a stash of memories like this? At least after I've been Sent to Resyk these file boxes will give them four hours of nostalgia about their old man before they throw them on a skip.

F#€k. This thread got morbid quickly.

The main points I was going to make have been made above. I've just a few extra suggestions:

As Recrewt pointed out you need to download the CBZ file for Comicrack. I find it easier to download the files on the PC and then transfer them to the Nexus via USB as its messy moving files around on the Nexus itself.



Transfer the file to a dedicated folder on your tablet called "comics" (or "awesome_sh!t" if you prefer). Then open the Comicrack preferences and make sure the Main Comic Folder is pointing to your "comics" folder.



Finally you need to hit the refresh button for your new issues to appear. Comicrack in my experience does not auto refresh the folders.



Hope that works for you.

That was well handled. I always get nervous for cosplayers in the media because they're such an easy target outside their community. But the fun came across on that piece.
Just wish I had a grand for a uniform...

Me (thinks): "F*@k you Holden".

Just realised that the comedy of the situation may not have come across in the last post. When I say "f*@k you Holden" what actually spluttered out of my big red embarrassed face was "ha ha no PJ... you are great... ha ha... seriously".