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stephen baxter
jeff noon
greg egan
pat cadigan
douglas coupland
douglas rushkoff (spelling?)
keith cameron

all writers of the highest order.

steven lenfant terrible

borrowed the latest previews from my local today; prog 1280 looks an absolute hoot. shades of thargshead revisited, perhaps?

now it over to the watcher for more details...

steven l'enfant terrible

i'm with you there, fraston.

after my one year of working in a comic shop, if i ever ever see another Enterprise (tm) belt buckle I SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY ACTIONS.

you have been warned,

steven l'enfant terrible

hey, i worked in one for a year!

one off my most horrifying memories was the grinning idiot who lent across the counter to earnestlyexclaim, "guess what i did on the weekend? broke into a nuclear reactor!" took a second or two before my mind register RPG alert!

then there was the hour long diatribeabout how lit fans (people who actually read science fiction) sucked from the guy who built a scale model replica of the jupiter 2 from 'lost in space' (years before the film remake, too!)

there was one girl who used to come in & buy crisis, every fortnight, which was good to see.

steven l'enfant terrible

this is perhaps the singlemost amazing posting i have ever read on this board.

congratulations, matt!

steven l'enfant terrible

bloomin' loved that polar bear shako as a kid, i did. was my favourite after bellardinelli's dan dare. i was also simultaneously scandalised & titillated by the cussing in harlem heroes ("Hell!"). my response to dredd was lukewarm until the robot war, but i remember that it was his line about "the worst case of sunburn ever" at the end of the solar sniper (prog 21) when the character really took off for me.

steven l'enfant terrible

ah, so that explains that regurgitator album title!

thanks:)

steven lenfant terrible

scojo's mum!

("are you still on that 2000ad board in there, scojo? you're toad in the hole's been on the table for the last half an hour!")

steven l'enfant terrible;)

a perfect ending, in fact. halo is finally OUT, the master (or should that be mistress?) of her own destiny.

i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible

>The prolem is getting Alan Moore back to our nifty little comic on a pisspoor pay-cheque.

actually, from what andy diggle was saying in an issue of tripwire (sorry, can't remember which; that will learn me for reading it in the shop so i can spend the money on comicsm won't it, kids?) that what alan is concerned isn't the size of the paycheck but the question of copyright: alan would return to 2000ad if he was given the ownership of every single one of the characters & milieus he created for 2000ad. andy felt that as much as he'd love to welcome alan back into the fold, it would be rather unfair to offer such a deal to alan alone but not john wagner, alan grant & pat mills, each of whom have made as significant contributions to 2000ad...after which, the comic itself would no longer own the copyright to the majority of its contents, which would weaken rebellion's position as a publisher.

at least we've three books of sush impeccable beauty, & for that i feel blessed.

steven lenfant terrible

short versus & long? depends on what you do with, as the actress said to the bishop.

depends on what the story demands, really.

steven lenfant terrible

let's not forget Outla...bwooorp!!!

excuse me,

steven l'enfant terrible

u2 & atmosphere? suely an oxymoron there, scoj!

steven lenfant terrible

picked up grip on saturday but haven't had the opportunity to peruse it yet as ialso came across a copy of thomas m. disch's wonderful 1965 novel 'the genocides' on the same day, which has certainly washed away the bad taste left in my mouth by robert a. heinlein's 'orphans of the sky'. i'm fully aware of heinlein's paramount importance in the development of the sf field, but he's consistently the sole author whose work i've consistently found a burden to finish (with the exception of 'have spacesuit, will travel' & 'job: a comedy of justice', which i both enjoyed during my high school years. however, at the same age i wasn't impressed by 'friday' or 'starship troopers'--which i reread earlier this year & reaffirmed that yes, it is perhaps the singlemost morally repugnant work of fiction i've ever read--as well as being uninterested in completing 'door into summer' & 'glory road').

anyway, getting back to grip, it can't possibly be anyworse than the plot & dialogue of the current angel & the ape miniseries. no wonder i haven't read a word of howard chaykin's work since i my first encounter with his work ten years ago (a copy of 'black kiss' that a friend i perused when i was working in a local comic shop). chaykin is the larry flint of comics... if only dc/vertigo would print fleep bond's gorgeous art uncluttered by lettering...

steven l'enfant terrible

have to say that during the recent 'house of sighs' storyline i found myself skipping past durham red & tor cyan (yawn)to pussyfoot 5 each prog,  & was only second to nikolai dante in level of quality in this run of progs.

must say that i for one can't wait for the next series, particularly after the ominous shadows of dangers ahead that were cast upon the final page.

cheers,

steven l'enfant terrible