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#31
I suppose I'd best review the prog at some point.

Dredd was a nice little upbeat one-off to follow up the grimness of the Maitland story. Wasn't mad about the art though.

The two Kek-W stories are losing me a bit, I'm not entirely sure who is who and what's happening in either - both still lovely-looking and worth the read though.

Thistlebone is great, despite the very slow pace - hats off to creators and Tharg for trying something different and making it work.

FTB is just not my thing, sorry.
#32
Quote from: Funt Solo on 11 March, 2024, 05:50:54 PM
Quote from: scrotnig on 11 March, 2024, 05:17:59 PMIt begs the question....how DO you attract new younger readers? Us old farts don't be around forever.

One angle would be that you don't necessarily need to attract very young readers - they'll already be into comic-formats from other media (graphic novels) and then they just need to angle in to 2000 AD.

I think the quality of 2000 AD is the main selling point, but it's a teenage to adult age rating at the moment. Regened worked best when it was established talent with 2000 AD's best aspects of chaos and non-conformity. Fundamentally, I think there's a problem with presenting "all ages" as being squeaky clean. Cadet Dredd was a bit Judge Pal - which is supposed to be a disturbing critique of a "dob-in-your-neighbor" totalitarian state, but in Regened we were supposed to whoop. Chopper's parents got twisted around from out-of-touch wasters into loveable eccentrics. Instead of him being a sullen teenager looking for some meaning in his life, he became a happy-go-lucky cut-out from Whizzer 'n' Chips.

Ultimately, it felt like Regened (in some cases) meant Neutered.


While I have no idea what modern-day kids like, I used to really enjoy the merciless cynicism of Dredd when I was a kid, even if I didn't know what 'cynicism' meant.  Of course I still liked the monsters and the explosions too, but The Exploding Man proved you could have both in a story that still had poignancy and depth.

BAD Company was absolutely rivetting to me, despite the relentless brutality and the harrowing evolution of innocent recruits to ruthless killers.

But who knows - maybe modern-day children have a very different mindset.  We clearly had very different tastes from 50s Eagle kids, after all.
#33
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
12 March, 2024, 10:40:44 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 12 March, 2024, 05:59:19 PMAnd in case you haven't heard it, here's Stew interviewing He Who Knows The Score: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lblq9

Thanks for this - I thought it was a different Lee / Moore one, and have edited this post accordingly.  Stew is without a doubt my favourite stand-up comedian ever, but the Great Beard steals the show in the interview I saw, which was mainly about the sock puppet he ostensibly worships.  He was duly handed the role of belligerent interviewer for an episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, easily filling the shoes of the regular hostile interrogator Chris Morris, my favourite non-stand-up comedian ever.
#34
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
12 March, 2024, 08:48:59 AM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 March, 2024, 09:36:03 AMI really like Doomsday. It's objectively crap, but its very enthusiastic.

There's a quote for the film poster right there.
#35
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
12 March, 2024, 08:42:51 AM
Quote from: Fortnight on 12 March, 2024, 07:44:40 AMYou see that Tony Blair? That's you that is. That's your mum. That's your mum on a good day.

You wouldn't let it lie.
#36
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
12 March, 2024, 06:50:52 AM
Fair enough.  I haven't really watched 'normal' telly, with a watershed at 9pm, for a very long time.  I expect I'd be surprised at what gets through the net these days.
I'll tell you who I like to get through a net, though - that old Tony Blairs.
#37
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
11 March, 2024, 07:18:59 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 11 March, 2024, 05:27:45 PM
Quote from: Funt Amenable to Change on 11 March, 2024, 03:59:34 PMGrowing up, I always thought twat was just a synonym for idiot. Now living in the US, it's very clearly a synonym for c*nt, and is therefore one of the Words You Cannot Say. (Well, you could, but you'd shock your relatives and get disciplined by your colleagues.)

I think it's a lot more frowned on in the US than it is in the UK. I had BBC America when I lived over there, and they dipped the sound for it in the same way they did for real swear words.

I thought it was considered a swear word over this side of the pond too. I could be wrong though.  Lee and Herring were the first people I heard use 'arse' and 'piss' before the watershed too both in the same sketch where Anthony Hopkins is excitedly expressing his sexual fantasies to a female penfriend.  'P.S. I am (BEEP)king as I write this.'
#38
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
11 March, 2024, 04:26:33 PM
This takes me back to when I was 14 and my English teacher organised a class debate, and a young lad publicly announced his opposition to 'dildoes like Kylie Minogue'. Unlike him,  I had recently learned that 'dildo' wasn't just a synonym for 'dumbo', and had a knowing chuckle to myself (the teacher let it go).

I still can't work out how TMWRNJ wasn't immediately pounced on and shut down when 'twat' was shouted, or when Rich introduced the 'King' by singing 'Fa fa fa fa fa fa - King' then getting the audience to chant 'fa-king' over and over again. Or how a character said 'fuck all', barely muffled at all by his mouthful of donut. 

A lot of potential viewers back then in this country at least would have just come back from Mass and been getting the Sunday dinner ready. In fact I remember having to quickly switch over from one of the Jesus bits as my mate's Opus Dei parents came in the driveway.
#39
Film & TV / Nostalgia TV
11 March, 2024, 02:20:56 PM
Been rewatching This Morning With Richard not Judy on YouTube - an old Stewart Lee and Richard Herring Sunday lunchtime show.

Some of the recorded sketches don't hold up, but a lot of it remains absolutely hilarious.  The Jesus and Apostles sketches are some of my favourite comedy sketches of all time.

I'm still not entirely sure how they got away with the blasphemy, the explicit references to wanking and bestiality, the use of the word 'tw*t' (not twit or twot) and a few very thinly disguised f-bombs on BBC2 on a Sunday afternoon, in 1998. Also a very early joke about Jimmy Saville's alleged necrophilia.

Great to see the two of them are still going strong, if looking a bit shook these days - i prefer Stew as a shabby old curmudgeon than as a vain young fop.  I've met him once, and he's a far nicer and friendlier chap than he pretends to be on stage.
#40
Nice one, Eamonn. Looking forward to it. I enjoyed Big Dave anyway, though I suspect Grant was being more ironic than Mark in retrospect.
#41
Off Topic / Re: What have I missed?
09 March, 2024, 01:17:10 PM
So the white robes weren't just a gift everyone gets after 10000 posts?  :o
#42
Off Topic / Re: What have I missed?
09 March, 2024, 01:11:47 PM
The annual meat bingo went smoothly enough, but we haven't chosen whose blood will anoint the crops yet.
#43
Prog / Re: Prog 2372 - Escape Pod!
08 March, 2024, 09:30:46 AM
Quote from: norton canes on 08 March, 2024, 09:14:12 AMDid think it was a little bit of a cop-out (if you'll excuse the pun) to end the penultimate instalment with Dredd at the hands of a baying mob, then start the next episode with the hand-waving explanation the riots "dwindled to nothing hours later".

(Or did I miss something..?)

I'd forgotten about that, with the assassination of Maitland overtaking all other events.  But yeah, you're right. It didn't make a whole lot of sense.
#44
Prog / Re: Prog 2372 - Escape Pod!
07 March, 2024, 01:55:05 PM
Quote from: Robin Low on 07 March, 2024, 10:56:56 AMMy subscription's due to be renewed in a week or two.

I think it's finally time for me to draw the line.

Regards,
Robin

Sorry to see you leave, Robin.  I've been wavering a bit myself in recent years but generally at least one story has kept me on board.
#45
General / Re: Audible Dredds
07 March, 2024, 01:51:25 PM
I'm with you all the way with the narration - The Horned God worked very well as an audiobook as it didn't need much more narration than the original story, which I suppose was fairly caption-dense already.

 One thing I thought SHOULD have been narrated in the audio was exactly how Feg met his end - the, er, shaft of the gae bolga jutting out from that particular part of his body was clearly the goddess' idea of a joke at the expense of his bedroom issues.

On the other hand, I listened to a sample of The Boys yesterday and immediately opted out - it just sounds like someone methodically describing the pictures in the comic in eye-watering detail, interspersed with an over-the-top Mixhael Caine impression.