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#9121
Off Topic / Re: Ho! Ho! Ho!
05 December, 2005, 11:22:52 PM
Why not just get her a xmas present and tell her that it's for both her birthday AND xmas.

Ah, it'll be a 30th to remember...
#9122
Prog / Re: Prog 1468 - Tunnel Vision! Dan...
05 December, 2005, 09:27:18 PM
++SPOILERS++

++YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, PUNK!++

Summary:  it's a cliffhanger prog that(sort of) clears the decks (or smashes them, in the case of The Red Seas) for Prog 2006.

Judge Dredd: Global Psycho
This is great - a fantastic introduction to a great new villain - AND we got to see her boobelage!  Woof!

Lovely art from Gibson - I had no problem with the CPU text - it was inkeeping with the art style.

I've been reading a lot on the boards lately about how Rennie doesn't quite 'get' Dredd - but I'll be honest, with this story, I had no idea who'd written it (until I read this thread) - it was just coming across as great Dredd.


The Red Seas: Underworld
Quote of the week: "Bill McKenzie's no hellspawn's haddock!"

What I said last prog - lovely, treat-filled art from Master Yeowell in this epic fantasy.  Hollow Earth!  Dinosaurs with boxing gloves!

This reminds me of that Devlin Waugh epic (Reign of Frogs et al) with it's sense of scope.  A shame I have to wait a while to find out what happens next - but that's the way this cookie has crumbled (and I had to wait years for The Empire Strikes Back).  Great cliffhanger.

Sinister Dexter: ...And Death Shall Have No Dumb Minions
Holy funt!

I may have said I wanted the boys to be less bullet-proof, but ... but ... *sniff*

But if there's an alternate reality Moses, then how about the alternate reality Sin, Dex 'n' Demi?  How about "a real happy endin'"?  I can't do much with this except gnash and wail.

AMAZING art from Simon Davis.  The copters, the police lights, the bloody splash shot...tis funtin' beautiful, so it is.


Adendum
I finally did it - I finally persuaded one of my students to become a Squaxx!  Prog 1468, along with my explanation as to why it's called 2000AD (he was saying "but that's, like, 5 years ago") has inspired him to buy Prog 2006 in a week or so and to pick up his drawing implements again for the first time in yonks.

All I had to do to persuade him was show him that full-page shot of Tracy and Dexter, the dinosaur with boxing gloves and Gibson's nipples (so to speak).
#9123
General / Re: Sinister Dexter - Death shall ...
20 December, 2005, 08:03:00 PM
"For me Sin and Dex aren't dead but hovering at deaths door."

That's what seemed to be happening in prog 2006 - they could have gone on to die, but events are compelling them to live, at least for a while.

Expect hospital scenes...
#9124
General / Re: Sinister Dexter - Death shall ...
06 December, 2005, 04:53:34 PM
What he said.
#9125
General / Re: Sinister Dexter - Death shall ...
05 December, 2005, 02:58:20 PM
Cheers Mr X.

Fecking good job, by the by.  Proof, if proof be needed, that just about any years-long 2K saga can be summarised on the back of a beer-mat.  If you write small.  And if beer-mats still exist.

Now that I've been reminded, I sort of remember Croak, the aliens and the alternate universe - but I thought that was all a joke.

And I thought the cyber-croc belonged to Billi - memory playing tricks on me.

Here's one for Dredd:

"Judge Dredd is judge, jury and executioner in MC-1.  A disaster befalls the city and despite the odds JD saves the day.  Repeat."
#9126
General / Re: Sinister Dexter - Death shall ...
04 December, 2005, 09:08:34 PM
For this thread:  I'm enjoying the main characters being in peril.  

For me:  what alternate reality Moses?

Anyone want to attempt a brief summary of Sin Dex (start to now)?
#9127
General / Re: Am I a pompous cretin with too...
03 December, 2005, 07:44:14 PM
I'm more of a sad pompous cretin than you are because I'm disappointed in their lack of basic punctuation.
#9128
Website and Forum / Re: New Poll: You may buy the prog...
03 December, 2005, 04:01:33 AM
There isn't an option for zero.
#9129
General / Re: Red Seas Underworld: Too Slow?...
02 December, 2005, 11:13:51 PM
I got off on the wrong foot with Leatherjack due to my desire never to see Mary Whitehouse.  Even a clone of her.  Even in a comic.  Even as the baddie.  I just don't want to see her.

Same goes for Thatcher (robo-PM in Robo-Hunter:  Football Crazy - I think) and Reagan (Strontium Dog: Bitch).

Funnily enough, I don't mind Hitler being portrayed (Strontium Dog: The Schicklegruber Grab).

[This post sponsored by Threaderjack]
#9130
General / Re: Red Seas Underworld: Too Slow?...
02 December, 2005, 08:55:14 PM
It has had a slow, dialogue-driven build-up, that's for sure.

In doing so, the writer's fleshed out a lot of the characters (not just Jack).

I liken it to the effect of Lord of the Rings (the books).  You have to plough through a lot of words to get to the action, but then by the time you've done that you've invested considerable time and energy in getting to know the characters, and thus their peril is all the more personal.

I like that the writer is trying to add depth to the characters, unlike, say, Dante, who's become a sort of charicature of himself.

Mind you, the whole tension between him and Jena was so strong that, once it was removed, everything else just seems like filler (to me).
#9131
Help! / Re: calling everyone with more com...
02 December, 2005, 09:41:07 PM
This is your big chance to change your moniker to Doggy Carrots.

#9132
General / Re: bullet time
03 December, 2005, 01:27:36 AM
The laxatron?
#9133
General / Re: bullet time
02 December, 2005, 07:24:04 PM
The original JD RPG had a hypno-shot, which was a modified heatseeker that (somehow) gently injected it's target with magic sleepy-powder instead of blowing their brains out of the back of their disintegrating skull.

Come to think of it, you could have standard rounds deliver all sorts of drugs to the victim:

"Pacifier" - gets them instantly hugely stoned.  They can't be bothered to fight, and begin to look forward to a little downtime in a cube.

"Twister" - injects 100 times the 'normal' dose of LSD.  What is a gun?  Is that my blood?  How long have I been here?  What is time?

"Para" - refined speed psychosis, acts in seconds.  Victim becomes convinced that you're shooting at them for personal reasons.

"Ecstasofier" - suddenly that alien monstrosity loves you, like, in a totally plutonic way, despite you having just blown a hole in his kneecap, man.
#9134
Off Topic / Re: Nuclear Power, No Thanks.........
02 December, 2005, 09:36:11 PM
Maybe by that time Max will be nuclear powered, and small nations will tremble in fear on curry night.
#9135
Off Topic / Re: Nuclear Power, No Thanks.........
02 December, 2005, 08:48:24 PM
Self-lacing jogging shoes, care of Abelard Snazz, The Two-Storey Brain!