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Title: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 22 August, 2018, 09:37:02 AM
... and here I am asking for help because I'm at work and an artist on a strip has asked about ref.

Can anyone conform for me that TEK judges have two std pads (no eagle) and that the badge says 'TEK'?

Please and Thankyou.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Frank on 22 August, 2018, 10:14:53 AM

There's no standard uniform for any of the departments, other than street judges. Even the SJS are always fannying around with skulls and asymmetrical eagles. Here's Tek Judge Brufen getting his in Oz:

https://i.imgur.com/klZIgNp.png (https://i.imgur.com/klZIgNp.png)


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Greg M. on 22 August, 2018, 10:19:09 AM
On the other hand, when introduced, Brufen has a hexagonal badge that says Tek in a black circle, worn centrally. Both shoulder pads are non-eagle.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 22 August, 2018, 10:36:12 AM
Cheers chaps- I'd thought it was like this.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 11:45:41 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 22 August, 2018, 10:19:09 AM
On the other hand, when introduced, Brufen has a hexagonal badge that says Tek in a black circle, worn centrally. Both shoulder pads are non-eagle.

Arguably there are two Brufens. Since he looked entirely different and died twice. And more pertinently, he's a Dept head rather than a rank-and-file Tek, so not the best guide.  But then Stitch, of Mechanismo fame, rocked something similar.

I'd go with the full Carlos meself - rounded pads and soft helmet with goggles, as seen in The Starborn Thing.  Dillon's Tek Judge Cassidy in Cry of teh Werewolf just had a green smock with his name on it. McCarthy's teks on Atlantis (and in Oz) had mad helmets with any number of lenses, aerials and servo arms

Or to put it another way, as long as its distinct from street uniforms, you just can't go wrong.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 22 August, 2018, 12:53:11 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 11:45:41 AM
Arguably there are two Brufens. Since he looked entirely different and died twice. And more pertinently, he's a Dept head rather than a rank-and-file Tek, so not the best guide.  But then Stitch, of Mechanismo fame, rocked something similar.

Died twice?  Don't remember that!

Quote
I'd go with the full Carlos meself - rounded pads and soft helmet with goggles, as seen in The Starborn Thing.  Dillon's Tek Judge Cassidy in Cry of teh Werewolf just had a green smock with his name on it. McCarthy's teks on Atlantis (and in Oz) had mad helmets with any number of lenses, aerials and servo arms

I'm surprised that Cassidy wasn't a med-judge rather than tek-judge - guess there's some overlap in some areas...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 02:00:57 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 22 August, 2018, 12:53:11 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 11:45:41 AM
Arguably there are two Brufens. Since he looked entirely different and died twice. And more pertinently, he's a Dept head rather than a rank-and-file Tek, so not the best guide.  But then Stitch, of Mechanismo fame, rocked something similar.

Died twice?  Don't remember that!

I exaggerate - he died during Oz,  but was still alive and on the Council when Dredd resigns in Tale of the Dead Man. I'm only assuming he died in the Big Nec cos he doesn't appear again...  It is also quite hard to reconcile the older spindly Robinson Brufen with the bulky McCarthy version,  who looks more like one of his successors,  McTighe.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 August, 2018, 05:09:25 PM
A quick googolplex threw up some interesting results:

The Carlos Tek-minion:
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/529e6f58e4b0f61963b40f53/5ae46d990e2e72dfd9de22df/5ae473506d2a739e98ab2679/1524921170262/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-04-17%2Bat%2B11.19.29.png?format=1500w)

The mini:
(https://resources.nobleknight.com/Catalog/Images/240/240/0/1/0/WLGJD116.jpg)

The Chief-Tek Full Regalia by Robinson:
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/a82f89be6b7498c7cf7bf4f2fa48d13d/tumblr_inline_o3ynec8W3h1s1btgh_540.jpg)

The "I don't know where this is from" Tek-helmet:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFA6vZbXkAEXEdz.jpg)

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 22 August, 2018, 05:37:20 PM
Carlos.  Carlos.  Carlos.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 22 August, 2018, 06:49:08 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 August, 2018, 05:09:25 PM
The "I don't know where this is from" Tek-helmet:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFA6vZbXkAEXEdz.jpg)

Never seen that one before - commission, perhaps, or spot illo for Arkensword?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 22 August, 2018, 07:02:52 PM
I wouldn't use Brufen as a reference because (1) he was a head of division and (2) heads of divisions haven't worn breastplates since Necropolis (1990).

Every artist has his own interpretation. As long as you can tell it's not a street judge it doesn't really matter.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Frank on 27 August, 2018, 04:08:55 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/tAa1Mxn.png?3)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2018, 04:46:58 PM
Tek Judges make their own uniforms  :-X
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 09 October, 2018, 04:56:38 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2018, 04:46:58 PM
Tek Judges make their own uniforms  :-X

They don't get awarded their full eagle when they graduate - they have to make the other half!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 17 April, 2019, 10:56:04 AM
Hey there, Squaxx!

Got a question for the wise hive.

Sugar is illegal in the big Meg, so what 'is' used? I'd hate to have to use 'Aspartame' when there must be a much more MC-1 term out there. But I can't remember it for the life of me.

Help?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 17 April, 2019, 11:00:11 AM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 17 April, 2019, 10:56:04 AM
Hey there, Squaxx!

Got a question for the wise hive.

Sugar is illegal in the big Meg, so what 'is' used? I'd hate to have to use 'Aspartame' when there must be a much more MC-1 term out there. But I can't remember it for the life of me.

Help?

Good question (and one I don't have an answer to).  If you don't get an answer, I'd invent something - probably playing on the words 'synthi', 'sweet' and/or 'sugar'.  Or 'psuedo' - would 'psuegar' be too difficult to decipher without explanation?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 April, 2019, 12:24:44 PM

Synth-a-spartame - the artificial artificial sweetener...

I'll get me kneepads.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: CalHab on 17 April, 2019, 02:01:49 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 17 April, 2019, 12:24:44 PM

Synth-a-spartame - the artificial artificial sweetener...

I'll get me kneepads.

Ersatzpartame?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 April, 2019, 05:47:23 PM
Synthisweet?  Zugar?  Synthicane?  Novasweet? 

Sweetener?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Professor Bear on 17 April, 2019, 06:18:48 PM
I recall a Dredd story where an illegal sugar buy went sideways when the buyers tested the merchandise and found it had been "cut with Sweetex".
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Lobo Baggins on 17 April, 2019, 06:25:17 PM
Er, don't think there are any actual named brands mentioned, but synthisweet and sweetex ring a bell.

I suggest Syntharin (synthetic saccharin).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 17 April, 2019, 06:42:27 PM
Quote from: Lobo Baggins on 17 April, 2019, 06:25:17 PM
sweetex

Actually a thing. (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/259247766)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 April, 2019, 08:36:29 PM
Is sugar still illegal? I remember that tea has been decriminalised (from that delightful Vienna & Rcio story) 
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 18 April, 2019, 11:25:51 AM
Was that real tea? Or synthetic?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 24 April, 2019, 10:13:15 AM
Cheers Squaxx - lots to digest...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 24 April, 2019, 10:36:15 AM
Quote from: Richard on 18 April, 2019, 11:25:51 AM
Was that real tea? Or synthetic?

Dredd wouldn't stand for the real thing. Haven't you heard? All proper tea is theft.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 April, 2019, 12:18:46 PM

Ouch. Kindly leave the stage...

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 24 April, 2019, 12:19:46 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 24 April, 2019, 12:18:46 PM

Ouch. Kindly leave the stage...

Ayyy thangyew! I'm here all week — try the fish.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 July, 2019, 02:57:15 PM
Hopping onto the Hive Mind bandwagon: is that a Dean Ormston Dredd on the back of Megazine 2.16?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Frank on 21 July, 2019, 04:48:55 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 July, 2019, 02:57:15 PM
Hopping onto the Hive Mind bandwagon: is that a Dean Ormston Dredd on the back of Megazine 2.16?

Could it be any other

(https://i.imgur.com/FCLMKEK.png?1)


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 July, 2019, 03:11:39 AM
Thanks, Frank: looks like an unused cover.

Okay: here's another puzzle - my Megazine 2.43 has a page missing between the end of Mechanismo - Body Count and the status report page for Creep.  What's on the missing page?

(I'm doing an indexing project, and get curious about things that are missing.)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 22 July, 2019, 10:53:11 AM
Quote from: Frank on 21 July, 2019, 04:48:55 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/FCLMKEK.png?1)

Looks like Joe's getting ready for a good old rummage down the back of those Emphatically Yesses.

Probably looking for that missing badge.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Lobo Baggins on 22 July, 2019, 04:01:02 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 July, 2019, 03:11:39 AM
Thanks, Frank: looks like an unused cover.

Okay: here's another puzzle - my Megazine 2.43 has a page missing between the end of Mechanismo - Body Count and the status report page for Creep.  What's on the missing page?

(I'm doing an indexing project, and get curious about things that are missing.)

It's the 1993 Megazine Readers' Survey (they were giving away pages of original artwork by the likes of Ian Gibson, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty, so that one's actually quite difficult to find intact.)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Lobo Baggins on 22 July, 2019, 04:14:54 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 July, 2019, 03:11:39 AM
Thanks, Frank: looks like an unused cover.

Part of it is the cover for the Megazine 2.13 - it is indeed credited to Dean Ormston.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 July, 2019, 09:52:07 PM
Quote from: Lobo Baggins on 22 July, 2019, 04:01:02 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 July, 2019, 03:11:39 AM
Thanks, Frank: looks like an unused cover.

Okay: here's another puzzle - my Megazine 2.43 has a page missing between the end of Mechanismo - Body Count and the status report page for Creep.  What's on the missing page?

(I'm doing an indexing project, and get curious about things that are missing.)

It's the 1993 Megazine Readers' Survey (they were giving away pages of original artwork by the likes of Ian Gibson, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty, so that one's actually quite difficult to find intact.)

Thanks, Lobo.  Pushing my luck, but does the survey take up both sides of the page? 
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Frank on 23 July, 2019, 10:09:48 PM

Recreate the excitement of owning a mint copy by looking at these scans:

https://i.imgur.com/8FhgFvO.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/8FhgFvO.jpg)

https://i.imgur.com/b8VgfLP.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/b8VgfLP.jpg)


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 July, 2019, 10:14:18 PM
I've no memory of sending that in, but I suppose I must have.

Thanks, Frank.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 August, 2019, 09:49:09 PM
Dodgy internet in this guesthouse. Is Barney down?  I keep getting sent to a BT setup page. The very idea of Barney being down makes my sky fall in.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 02 August, 2019, 12:41:30 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 August, 2019, 09:49:09 PM
Dodgy internet in this guesthouse. Is Barney down?  I keep getting sent to a BT setup page. The very idea of Barney being down makes my sky fall in.

It's working here - the BT setup page is probably the default page put out by your router when your internet is down (people not on BT will get Sky, Virgin, et al).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2019, 06:19:55 PM
another plea for information from the hive mind!

Several years ago Marvel put out a ridiculously huge book spanning the history of Marvel (possibly for the 75th anniversay?). It was the size of a coffee table, very expensive and contained lots of inserts, pop ups, and loose-leaf additions such as FOOM membership cards etc

I cant remember what it was called or find any information using different Google searches - can anyone help me/

(I'm not planning on buying it, but was discussing oversize special editions with a mate)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2019, 07:22:23 PM

75 Years of Marvel: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen (Hardcover) (https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/01133/facts.75_years_of_marvel_comics_from_the_golden_age_to_the_silver_screen.htm).

This it?

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2019, 07:26:33 PM
Don't think so - the one I'm thinking about was more like a massive book-shaped box as it contained lots of loose bits in it, that's the one I kept finding in my searches, but it's just a book.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2019, 07:40:14 PM

The Marvel Vault? (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0026IBX46/ref=mw_dp_img_2?in=2&is=200)

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2019, 07:55:59 PM
Bingo!

You truly are legendary, Mr Shark!

although it isn't really that big or expensive - I may have been mentally conflating it with something else.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2019, 09:01:08 PM

I live to serve :)

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: maryanddavid on 19 September, 2019, 11:46:30 PM
Tales from Mega City One, Barney says the first is Prog 523, I have a memory of its being earlier, with a taxi! Ring any bells?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 September, 2019, 12:12:06 AM
523 (Wreckers) is the first I have on my list.  There's Taxi Driver: a 2-parter in progs 532-533.

Also, there's a couple of one-offs in a Judge Dredd annual that feature Mega-City One but don't have the "Tales From..." banner:

- I Was A Teenage Perp (JDA '83)
- A Day in the Death of Citizen Egg (JDA '83)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 20 September, 2019, 08:03:35 PM
Wreckers   523
What's Love Got To Do With It? 525
Quarantine   526
Taxi Driver  532-533
Fire!   534
Father Time  539
My Favourite Laundrette 605
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Frank on 20 September, 2019, 08:26:56 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 September, 2019, 12:12:06 AM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 19 September, 2019, 11:46:30 PM
Tales from Mega City One, Barney says the first is Prog 523, I have a memory of its being earlier, with a taxi! Ring any bells?

523 (Wreckers) is the first I have on my list.  There's Taxi Driver: a 2-parter in progs 532-533.

I love that story. The humour's so cruel and the characters so selfish, venal and unloveable. This was my introduction to the much-discussed concept that MC1 stories could work without Dredd.

Paul Hardy (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=thrills&Comic=2000AD&Field=Artist&choice=paulh) only ever drew this and 522's So You Want To Be A Judge? (https://i.imgur.com/4Y1szHf.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/LzOo8Mi.png?2)


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 04 October, 2019, 12:10:14 AM
Zenith playlist
I had it in my head that all of the chapter titles in Zenith were songs and I thought it would be cool to make a playlist of them.

But looking through my collected Phase I hardback, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Or was it the "Next Prog:..." which aren't printed in this version?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 04 October, 2019, 05:46:18 AM
Zenith Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eotKRZcNPnuzQfUsJEzZk?) from The (In)Complete Zenith - A Review (https://sites.google.com/a/deepspacetransmissions.com/site/Resources/theincompletezenith-areview).

And you're right: it's from the Next Prog boxes.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: I, Cosh on 04 October, 2019, 07:45:45 AM
It was the "Next Prog..." boxes. Which aren't included in this version. I remember noticing that some were songs at the time and then bugging my dad to find out of the others were. In the end we phoned up the library at Radio Forth (this was a thing you could do to try and answer music trivia questions in the days before the internet) to ask then about the last couple.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 04 October, 2019, 11:48:10 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 04 October, 2019, 07:45:45 AM
It was the "Next Prog..." boxes. Which aren't included in this version. I remember noticing that some were songs at the time and then bugging my dad to find out of the others were. In the end we phoned up the library at Radio Forth (this was a thing you could do to try and answer music trivia questions in the days before the internet) to ask then about the last couple.

...and then somebody sent a letter in to the Nerve Centre that revealed all that info anyway :D
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: I, Cosh on 04 October, 2019, 08:04:16 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 04 October, 2019, 11:48:10 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 04 October, 2019, 07:45:45 AM
...and then somebody sent a letter in to the Nerve Centre that revealed all that info anyway :D
Really? Going to need Buttonmann to confirm this.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2019, 05:10:12 PM

As some of you know, I live in a shed for reasons too convoluted to go into here. Anyway, during this recent spate of torrential rain, it's sprung a leak and damaged my Judge Dredd Mega Collection, which is a huge testicular twinge but not really a disaster.

What is worrying me now is the future of the Strontium Dog page that Carlos gave me as a thank you for pulling together the Supersquirrel Undefeated Get Well Comic which is, thank Grud, undamaged. My shed is no place for this priceless piece of original artwork. I feel I should donate it to a museum or something, somewhere it can be looked after properly. (I don't want to sell it because it was a gift and to do so feels all kinds of wrong.)

Anybody got any suggestions (apart from "I'll have it," that
is!)?

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: paddykafka on 23 October, 2019, 10:13:22 PM
Help! I'm being assailed by midges ( or something that's got wings and is equally annoying ). They've just started to swarm about the flat in the last day or two. I thought that maybe it was down to something rotting in the flat - I've been struck down with a flu / chest infection for the last four weeks, so my normally, relatively okay standards of hygeine have admittedly slipped a little. So I've given the gaff a good clean-up but so far it's made no no difference. The little bastards are flying around and annoying me even as I'm typing this.

I'm beginning to feel like that kid in the Charlie Brown cartoon with a permanent swarm of flies around him.

Thankfully I'm escaping now for a few hours to a friends flat, so I'll have some respite at least.

Any useful suggestions most appreciated.

Cheers! -
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 October, 2019, 09:59:07 AM

How to get rid of midges indoors. (https://www.hunker.com/13418812/how-to-get-rid-of-midges-indoors)

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: paddykafka on 24 October, 2019, 10:25:41 AM
Thanks, Sharky! I'll try a couple of those methods and see how they work out.

Cheers! - Paddy
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 October, 2019, 10:41:36 AM

Fingers crossed for you!

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 24 October, 2019, 01:00:44 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2019, 05:10:12 PM

As some of you know, I live in a shed for reasons too convoluted to go into here. Anyway, during this recent spate of torrential rain, it's sprung a leak and damaged my Judge Dredd Mega Collection, which is a huge testicular twinge but not really a disaster.

What is worrying me now is the future of the Strontium Dog page that Carlos gave me as a thank you for pulling together the Supersquirrel Undefeated Get Well Comic which is, thank Grud, undamaged. My shed is no place for this priceless piece of original artwork. I feel I should donate it to a museum or something, somewhere it can be looked after properly. (I don't want to sell it because it was a gift and to do so feels all kinds of wrong.)

Anybody got any suggestions (apart from "I'll have it," that is!)?

Having lived in a few typical British rental properties in the past I certainly know the fear that damp, flooding or mould will get to some items I have.  If I was you I'd keep it in as safe a place as I could but also put in place a will so that the page goes to a comic museum (the only one I know of is the Cartoon Museum (https://www.cartoonmuseum.org/)).  Was there talk about a museum to Carlos in his hometown, or was I imagining that?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 October, 2019, 02:35:05 PM

Fortunately, the page has gone to a person of impeccable character for safe keeping - and we've both written some very gloomy "if anything happens to me..." letters. Nothing else I own is really irreplaceable so I'm content for now.

I think I had the same dream about a Carlos museum - I hope it comes to pass.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 October, 2019, 11:18:11 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 July, 2019, 10:53:11 AM
Quote from: Frank on 21 July, 2019, 04:48:55 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/FCLMKEK.png?1)

Looks like Joe's getting ready for a good old rummage down the back of those Emphatically Yesses.

Probably looking for that missing badge.

That's one sleepy-looking Lawmaster right there.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 30 October, 2019, 08:54:17 PM
I've acquired a rather lovely laser cut wooden Lawgiver Mark 1. It's sanded and primed. And just needs painting...so what's the best colour scheme and reference pic for getting the colours right?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 October, 2019, 09:10:53 PM
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/178.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/182.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/193.jpg)

I'm just barney-ing JD covers.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 31 October, 2019, 12:35:25 PM
Doh! Thanks.

I had it in my head that it had more black in it.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 November, 2019, 11:45:25 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 31 October, 2019, 12:35:25 PM
Doh! Thanks.

I had it in my head that it had more black in it.
What colour is Dredd's uniform?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 02 November, 2019, 09:41:25 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 01 November, 2019, 11:45:25 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 31 October, 2019, 12:35:25 PM
Doh! Thanks.

I had it in my head that it had more black in it.
What colour is Dredd's uniform?

How do you pronounce Sláine?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 November, 2019, 11:23:13 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 02 November, 2019, 09:41:25 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 01 November, 2019, 11:45:25 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 31 October, 2019, 12:35:25 PM
Doh! Thanks.

I had it in my head that it had more black in it.
What colour is Dredd's uniform?

How do you pronounce Sláine?

when is meltdown man going to melt?
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Post by: Richard on 02 November, 2019, 11:40:17 PM
Dredd's uniform is black (they just sometimes use blue as artistic licence, like with Superman's hair). The follow-up questions are just because this is one of the perennial questions that always comes up from time to time. There's a whole thread somewhere about Dredd's uniform, but if you can't be arsed to search for it, the evidence is: (1) Ezquerra always did it entirely in black and never used blue, and (2) John Wagner wrote a line of dialogue in The Judge Child where Dredd is about to kill a suicidal psychopath, and the psycho says something like "Death in black! Excellent! Black is my favourite colour!"
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 03 January, 2020, 01:04:01 AM
For reasons too complicated to go into, I need to get an original series Captain Kirk costume. But don't want to go mad spending.  I can see lots of options on eBay. Can anyone recommend a supplier of such things?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 January, 2020, 01:43:19 AM

Just buy a yellow sweatshirt and rip the chest out.

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Post by: Funt Solo on 03 January, 2020, 04:25:03 AM
Amazoon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubies-Official-Star-Captain-Shirt/dp/B00BMDAG1C/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=star+trek+shirt&qid=1578025407&sr=8-7)
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Post by: M.I.K. on 03 January, 2020, 06:25:55 AM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 03 January, 2020, 01:04:01 AM
For reasons too complicated to go into, I need to get an original series Captain Kirk costume.

If this is a time travel thing, tread very carefully and avoid any contact with Joan Collins.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 03 January, 2020, 09:45:14 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 January, 2020, 04:25:03 AM
Amazoon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubies-Official-Star-Captain-Shirt/dp/B00BMDAG1C/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=star+trek+shirt&qid=1578025407&sr=8-7)

Yes, plenty of options like that (though that one looks like from the rebooted films) but I was wondering if any of the cosplayers on board had recommendations. I bought a TNG uniform off Amazon about 5 years ago which looked good but needed massive alterations to it so it didn't look like an unfolded sack of washing.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 03 January, 2020, 11:10:19 AM
Quote from: Richard on 02 November, 2019, 11:40:17 PM
(2) John Wagner wrote a line of dialogue in The Judge Child where Dredd is about to kill a suicidal psychopath, and the psycho says something like "Death in black! Excellent! Black is my favourite colour!"


Filmore Faro (just read that episode the other day).
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 January, 2020, 11:12:45 AM
Do you know of any local tailors or seamstresses who could make one for you?
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Post by: rogue69 on 03 January, 2020, 06:30:43 PM
you can find some Star Trek uniforms on Wish
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 January, 2020, 12:58:27 PM
Can anyone remind me when the 2000 AD pencil with the Rian Hughes (?) graphics was given away with the prog?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 January, 2020, 01:24:40 PM
Found it - prog 830 - April '93.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 March, 2020, 10:19:08 PM
The 1987 Sci-Fi Special has a Strontium Dog story in it - it's a 15-pager with art by Ezquerra. It doesn't have a title but it features a megalomaniacal computer named McIntyre.

It's got to be a reprint because the Ezquerra art is definitely pre-'87, and the credit card says "blueprinters" and doesn't look like 2000 AD.

It's not from the weekly Starlord, because it's 15 pages straight (not episodic), which means it must come from either the Starlord Summer Special or one of the three Starlord annuals. Does anyone know which it was originally published in?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 01 April, 2020, 12:42:10 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 March, 2020, 10:19:08 PM
The 1987 Sci-Fi Special has a Strontium Dog story in it - it's a 15-pager with art by Ezquerra. It doesn't have a title but it features a megalomaniacal computer named McIntyre.

It's got to be a reprint because the Ezquerra art is definitely pre-'87, and the credit card says "blueprinters" and doesn't look like 2000 AD.

It's not from the weekly Starlord, because it's 15 pages straight (not episodic), which means it must come from either the Starlord Summer Special or one of the three Starlord annuals. Does anyone know which it was originally published in?

It is from the weekly Starlord.  I covered it in my prog slog blog (https://sheridanwilde.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/star-lord-no-8-nazi-world-2478-a-d-time-control-85-million-b-c-torn-between-impossible-worlds/) last year.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 01 April, 2020, 01:23:24 AM
Thanks, Sheridan.  That's the fella!

They must have taken out the logo from episodes two and three when they reprinted it in the Sci-Fi special. Barney lists it for the special as McIntyre and for the Starlord issues as Planet of the Dead.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 01 May, 2020, 11:16:26 PM
There's a Strontium Dog tale in the 1980 Sci-Fi Special (#3), which is mostly text story but has some comic panels interspersed. It's six pages long and has no sub-title. I named it (or someone else did but I forgot my source) "Kurtiz on Krillion-6", and it's clearly inspired by Apocalypse Now.

Can anyone identify the writer or artist? I think it's early Ezquerra, because the final panel has that bumpy edge thing he did, around Alpha's helmet cam.

(Barney has nothing on it, and neither does Touched By The Hand of Tharg (http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpower/).)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 01 May, 2020, 11:31:09 PM
1980 Sci-Fi Special (#3) has a story "The Steel Claw", with no subtitle and no credit card. Perhaps a reprint?

It's 8pp, and has a weird alien machine that looks like a giant hairy eyeball on four spindly metal legs landing in Orkney and taking out some hapless crofters. Nuking it does no good - so, in many respects this is heavily inspired by the US movie version of War of the Worlds (1953).

Anyone know who the creators are on this one?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Leigh S on 02 May, 2020, 07:46:29 AM
From memory that is Steve Kyte, who also did the full Stront strip in the 1982 annual and one of those Durham REd apocryphal tales many years later in the Megazine


Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 May, 2020, 11:16:26 PM
There's a Strontium Dog tale in the 1980 Sci-Fi Special (#3), which is mostly text story but has some comic panels interspersed. It's six pages long and has no sub-title. I named it (or someone else did but I forgot my source) "Kurtiz on Krillion-6", and it's clearly inspired by Apocalypse Now.

Can anyone identify the writer or artist? I think it's early Ezquerra, because the final panel has that bumpy edge thing he did, around Alpha's helmet cam.

(Barney has nothing on it, and neither does Touched By The Hand of Tharg (http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpower/).)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Leigh S on 02 May, 2020, 09:16:49 AM
Not only have they taken out the logo, but they have bowdlerised the art somehow in taking out the original colour from the colour spread - at the time I assumed someone had traced the art, but thinking about it now, possibly they just used the black separation sheet thingammee - where's Jim Campbell when you need him!

Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 April, 2020, 01:23:24 AM
Thanks, Sheridan.  That's the fella!

They must have taken out the logo from episodes two and three when they reprinted it in the Sci-Fi special. Barney lists it for the special as McIntyre and for the Starlord issues as Planet of the Dead.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 04 May, 2020, 07:22:12 PM
Here's another puzzler - the FCBD 2016 has a Strontium Dog tale in full colour with art by Ezquerra. It's six pages long, clearly a reprint and (being full colour) must be from an annual. It features a mutant who collects other mutants on a big moth-shaped spaceship.

Is it from the Starlord Annual 1982?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 05 May, 2020, 01:03:59 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 04 May, 2020, 07:22:12 PM
Here's another puzzler - the FCBD 2016 has a Strontium Dog tale in full colour with art by Ezquerra. It's six pages long, clearly a reprint and (being full colour) must be from an annual. It features a mutant who collects other mutants on a big moth-shaped spaceship.

Is it from the Starlord Annual 1982?

Yes it is and was in full colour on first printing.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 05 May, 2020, 03:15:38 PM
There's a thought - are the annual strips going to be in the new S/D book?

I'm ridiculously excited to get this volume.
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Post by: MumboJimbo on 11 May, 2020, 05:16:50 PM
Hi guys, my question is this: does anybody have any info about which issues the page count of 2000 AD changed?

The reason I ask is I came across, in my stash of old 2000 ADs, prog 889, a relaunch issue with a new logo, and it felt surprisingly weighty (for a prog) in my hands. So I counted the pages and lo and behold, it's a whopping 44 pages, and I believe this page count was kept up for a few months. When I started my rum and uncanny 2000 AD journey back in the halcyon days of '83 the count was, and is now, 32 pages. I think around prog 650 ish it went up to 36 pages and stayed at that count for a number of years. I know I could spend some time with Barney to work this all out, but does anyone already have a list of page count changes? If not I'll do it myself and report back on this very self-same posting, should anyone express an interest. Ta
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Post by: Funt Solo on 11 May, 2020, 05:35:27 PM
32pp: 1-588 [36pp: 500]
36pp: 589-949 [44pp: 889; 52pp: 920]
44pp: 950-973 [Double Whammy - Double Dredd!]
36pp: 974-1076 [44pp: 1023]
32pp: 1077-present day

In that last section, there are re-sized special progs (apart from the obvious seasonal 100pp ones):
48pp: 1084, 1111, 1124, 1150
36pp: 1350, 1351, 1362, 1384, 1387, 1400, 1450, 1500, 1526, 1550, 1650, 1700, 1750
52pp: 1771
36pp: 1800, 1850, 1874, 1900

My count only goes up to prog 1923 at the moment.

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Post by: MumboJimbo on 11 May, 2020, 05:53:56 PM
Oh you absolute star, Mr Solo - that's exactly what I was after!

So, if I understand you correctly, it went back to 36 pages for prog 890, and the 44 page count was just a one-off?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 11 May, 2020, 06:04:05 PM
Yeah, that's it exactly.

Prog 889 was a jump-on with HMV vouchers, a reservation insert, a new logo and was the biggest prog published at that time. 888 and 890 were both the (of the time) normal 36pp.

Here's a graphical representation from my Spreadsheet of Geekery +1, +2 vs. Zragians:

(https://i.imgur.com/isfmGIR.png)
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Post by: MumboJimbo on 11 May, 2020, 06:10:20 PM
Oh my word. I covet your spreadsheet of geekery - it is a thing of rare beauty.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 20 May, 2020, 05:23:19 PM
This is the 2000 AD page count graph from prog 1 to 2182:

(https://i.imgur.com/DWuuuEz.png)

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Post by: IndigoPrime on 20 May, 2020, 05:27:47 PM
Looks like someone having a cardiac arrest.
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Post by: MumboJimbo on 20 May, 2020, 05:37:35 PM
God, I love this forum. Thank you, Funt, for going beyond the call of duty.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 20 May, 2020, 05:41:30 PM
Honestly, it's a pleasure. Some people have meditation, some turn to drink. For me, it's spreadsheets.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 20 May, 2020, 08:04:57 PM
Here are the pp for the Meg:

(https://i.imgur.com/TMyeT8Z.png)
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Post by: Dandontdare on 20 May, 2020, 09:50:11 PM
Beautiful work - I loves me a good nerdgraph.

The thing that struck me most was the surprisingly low page count in the early glory days - so much thrillpower in so few pages.

It's interesting that whilst most forms of entertainment have become more compressed and speedy over recent decades (watching old Dr Who can seem painfully slow now), comics have gone the other way and become more bloated and extended. The British comic tradition, exemplified by Mills and Wagner in those early days, was a masterclass of compressed storytelling and delivering stories that could be enjoyed as standalone episodes without needing endless backstory; whilst nowadays (particularly in mainstream American comics) splash panels, extended page count and more indulgent (is that the right word?) storytelling, all fuelled by the trade market, mean that skill has been lost to some extent.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 24 May, 2020, 03:02:16 PM
Hi all, hoping someone out there might have an answer for this.

The attached image is a Bolland piece - but from where? I initially thought it was a Wonder Woman cover - but my web-fu let me down.

(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/imagebucket/davepersonal/tumblr_n2bpd5XwT21rq54z1o3_1280.jpg)

Any help gratefully rec.

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Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 May, 2020, 03:19:33 PM
Well what an interesting puzzle. Looking at both Lenin and the Moscow buildings they are from Batman covers. Lenin from Batman 446 and the buildings seem to be from 445. Can't be 100% but they look pretty much a match. So this seems to be some sort of composit image... but from what. The search continues...
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 May, 2020, 03:59:13 PM
Got it - well that search passed the time as we watched The Revenge of the Sith... more of which later in a different thread.

Anyway tracked the image down to

http://www.editions-deesse.com/publications/Bolland/BBolland05.html (http://www.editions-deesse.com/publications/Bolland/BBolland05.html)

http://www.editions-deesse.com/publications/Bolland/BBolland.html (http://www.editions-deesse.com/publications/Bolland/BBolland.html)

That was fun! Better than the movie....
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Post by: TordelBack on 24 May, 2020, 05:16:46 PM
Well done that man!  I gave it a try, got nowhere.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 24 May, 2020, 08:07:51 PM
Thanks Colin. Much appreciated.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 10 June, 2020, 02:25:56 PM
"You made your bed. I'm not in it anymore"

A movie quote but from where and who? Probably genre movie because that's all I watch.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 11 June, 2020, 07:19:24 PM
I remembered. It's from TOMORROW NEVER DIES. I got it slightly wrong.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 June, 2020, 07:53:11 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 11 June, 2020, 07:19:24 PM
I remembered. It's from TOMORROW NEVER DIES. I got it slightly wrong.

Now you say it, its obvious. But was it Teri Hatcher to Pierce or the other way round, that I can't remember?
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 12 June, 2020, 04:11:05 PM
It's Hatcher to Pierce. "If you're asking me to choose between you and Elliot... I made my bed. You're not in it anymore" ( ish)
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Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2020, 03:23:18 PM
So, The Valiant. After being a bit over/underwhelmed by the first issue,  I really enjoyed the wrap-up in the current Meg, and I'm going to pick up the Legacy issue shortly. I'm leaning toward the Dr Mesmer and Von Hoffman collections too - those two lads are hilarious.

However,  I have the nagging feeling that there's been more of these versions of some of the other characters somewhere, but Barney isn't helping. Was there a Death-Man strip, or a 'modern' Dr Sin? I know about the John Smith Dr Sin from a lifetime ago,  and the Thunderbolt origin in the Smash special,  but what else is out there?
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Post by: Greg M. on 27 June, 2020, 03:29:46 PM
Death-Man was in the Free Comic Book Day issue in 2016.
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Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2020, 04:15:14 PM
Ah, the one I don't have (I think)!  Cheers Greg, I'll go for a dig in the boxes of shame just in case..
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 June, 2020, 04:51:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 June, 2020, 03:23:18 PM
or a 'modern' Dr Sin?

There's a Dr Sin story by Rob Williams & Luca Pizzari in the 2015 FCBD issue.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 27 June, 2020, 05:07:04 PM
Summarizing what's already been said:

Tharg's Terror Tales: The Death of Death-Man, FCBD 2016 - this has the writer as "Barry Island", which I presume is a pseudonym of Al Ewing. Art by Henry Flint.

Doctor Sin, 2000 AD Annual 1979. Barney says maybe it was written by Pat Mills, art by Horacio Lalia.
Doctor Sin: The Strange Case Of The Wyndham Demon, 2000 AD Action Special 1992. John Smith & John Burns.
Doctor Sin: Don't Call It A Comeback, FCBD 2015. Rob Williams & Luca Pizzari.
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Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2020, 05:40:51 PM
Excellent, cheers Joe, and you're a star, Funt.   That 1979 Dr Sin is available in full on Barney,  and also this month's Meg floppy.  It's ace.
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Post by: sheridan on 29 June, 2020, 11:38:10 AM
Was Doctor Sin the character originally called Judge Dredd, before Mills leant that name to some other character?
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Post by: I, Cosh on 29 June, 2020, 09:35:56 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 June, 2020, 05:07:04 PM
Tharg's Terror Tales: The Death of Death-Man, FCBD 2016 - this has the writer as "Barry Island", which I presume is a pseudonym of Al Ewing. Art by Henry Flint.
Both Al and Rob Williams have denied this to my face!

There's also Death Man:The Gathering in the 2017 Scream/Misty special. That's credited to Henry Flint and "The Feek" which I thought at the time was that guy Martin Feekins but from what I hear now it looks like it's a direct prologue to The Vigilant.
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Post by: sheridan on 29 June, 2020, 11:04:58 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 29 June, 2020, 09:35:56 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 June, 2020, 05:07:04 PM
Tharg's Terror Tales: The Death of Death-Man, FCBD 2016 - this has the writer as "Barry Island", which I presume is a pseudonym of Al Ewing. Art by Henry Flint.
Both Al and Rob Williams have denied this to my face!

There's also Death Man:The Gathering in the 2017 Scream/Misty special. That's credited to Henry Flint and "The Feek" which I thought at the time was that guy Martin Feekins but from what I hear now it looks like it's a direct prologue to The Vigilant.

I don't have any insider information or anything - but try turning the name 'Feek' around and comparing against known 'Robo-'s...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 30 June, 2020, 02:14:46 AM
QuoteWas Doctor Sin the character originally called Judge Dredd, before Mills leant that name to some other character?
No. "Judge Dread" was going to be about an undead English hanging judge. Never written, AFAIK.
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Post by: Leigh S on 01 July, 2020, 07:16:45 PM
Definteily written and for my money, Dr Sin is 100% Judge DreAd, (or would be if Pat Mills himself had confirmed it rather than sitting on the fence!)

Witness!

Judge Dread is a story confirmed to be drawn by Lalia.  The first 4 pages of the Dr Sin strip are by Lalia, then another artist comes in to finish off the story abruptly and to art bodge certain features on the earlier pages, talking of which:

The original Judge Dread tale opened with a chap being shown his brother's body in a mortuary, only to question "Where is my brother's head??" Dr Sin opens similarly, but it is the brothers hand that is missing - note though, that the art is bodged and the later artist has drawn the head on the corpse - there is no sign of a missing hand as they are still covered by the shroud and the guy is looking at where teh head is/should be.

The original JD story sees the guy meet up with Judge Dread, and they go off and disrupt a satanic ritual at Stonehenge/a Stone Circle.  This plays out exactly other than it not being Stonehenge - it's this point that Pat got hung up on when he was asked about the strip, as he is adamant that he scripted it to be Stonehenge (though whether that translated to a foreign artist?  Maybe didnnt get the reference or did not ahve the reference so fudged it?  Maybe art bodged to make it somewhere more generic)

The original JD story then has them visit a local lord and cliffhangers the end of part 1 when Judge Dread recognises the lord as a man who he had seen hang years previously.  Here same story plays out, but rather than JD saying he recognises the guy as a dead man, he gets all shook up about seeing him, but then in the final panel says something bland like "I sense he is a bit of a rum one" - this makes no sense of the dramatic way it is drawn as it if it a massive cliffhangery revelation.

The rest of the story is then by a different artist, calls the characters by different names and gerally just wraps it all up very abruptly.

If this ISNT Judge Dread, then I await a better explanation for Lalia drawing just 4 pages of a story that follows the story beats of the original Judge Dread to the letter, and why the other artist had to draw a head on that corpse!

"That's not Stonehenge" doesnt really cut it for me as enough weight against the rest of the evidence






Quote from: Richard on 30 June, 2020, 02:14:46 AM
QuoteWas Doctor Sin the character originally called Judge Dredd, before Mills leant that name to some other character?
No. "Judge Dread" was going to be about an undead English hanging judge. Never written, AFAIK.
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Post by: Leigh S on 01 July, 2020, 07:31:23 PM
I mean the penultimate panel of page 4 has the guy say to JD "You look like you've seen a ghost" to which JD replies "perhaps I have, perhaps I have..."

a complete set up line for him then to say "For I saw that  man hang not 10 years ago!"  instead of "that man looks evil, dont trust him"

He is Mr Morden on page 4...

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1147930

On page 5, he then says the guy IS undead, so go figure! (He is also immediiately changed his name to Arnot La Gross!)


https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1147928
Page 5 itself appears to have some major bodging going on to - the giant pic of Dr Sin vs the shrunken image of the guy meeting the Lord and some weird lines and a missing speech bubble inexpertly removed that suggest there may have been a logo and such excised? 
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Post by: Leigh S on 01 July, 2020, 07:50:56 PM
More evidence  - this from the Judge Dredd Mega History book:

The basic plot concerned an eerie guy - Britains last hanginng Judge - who, along witha young companion, comes across illegal black magic practices being carried out at a place like Stonehenge. The Judge recognises the man at the centre or the ritual as someone he had previously sentenced to death.

"As for the original hanging judge sttory, the only trace is a brief entry in the 2000AD Make-Up book Prog 1-44 which relates to a four page Mills script (for which he was paid £30) calle "Black Magic: Judge Dread Original Installment One", and was drawn by Argentine artist Horacio Lalia. A Pencilled entry reads Unsuitable  - maybe except in Annual.

From Thrill Power Overload

(again Pat quoted)

It featured a vampiric hanging judge called Dread who leads occult investigations. The first story had something nasty going on a t Stonehenge.  Judge Dread recognises the leader of teh Satanists. "The last time I saw him was at teh Old Bailey, when I sentenced him to hang by his neck until dead".
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Post by: Leigh S on 01 July, 2020, 07:58:36 PM
Gah - lost half of that quote

continuing:

That was the cliffhanger of the first episode.  I suspect Lalia screwed up the art

As in screwed up by not drawing Stonehenge?
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Post by: NapalmKev on 11 July, 2020, 08:53:35 AM
A question regarding the' Viewing who's online' - It shows People viewing topics and unknown actions but I've just come across this -

*Printing the topic "intercompany crossovers you'ld like to see".*

Is this an actual forum function or is it a bot? I'm not as computer literate as most of you and have no idea if this is something or indeed nothing?

Cheers
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 September, 2020, 07:54:27 PM
So Twitter has 'temporarily limited some of [my] account features', which is actually all of them, and is requesting I supply them with my phone number.  It's doing this through my browser, not the App itself. Is this on the level, or a phishing scam?

It's of interest to me that this happened the same evening I've been actively arguing with - and reporting -fucking Irish racists.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 September, 2020, 08:16:44 PM

Buy a burner sim (the cheapest Giffgaff is about six quid for a month) and use that number.


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Post by: TordelBack on 23 September, 2020, 09:50:29 PM
You reckon it's legit Twitter practice? If it is, I'm not sure I could be bothered. I hate to let racist shitheads go unchallenged, but it's not like I'm actually helping anyone.
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 September, 2020, 11:25:17 PM
Problem solved.  Ah well, back to the fray.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 24 September, 2020, 09:45:51 AM
I only lurk on twitter -- his lordship does the actual posting for FQP that isn't just cross posting from the blog, so I've no idea if this is legit or not.

Did you log-in to twitter on your desktop and see the message or was it in a mail? If it was you looged in then I'd expect it to be legit.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 24 September, 2020, 10:49:22 AM
It was legit - it just seemed odd that I was accessing Twitter through the App on a tablet, but the message popped up in a Chrome window and asked for a phone number. I would have been more reassured if the message had been in-App and explained itself rather than demanding confirmation from another device entirely.

I'm interested in why I was suspended when I was, but not very. Despite feeling a strong desire to counter fuckwits that claim to speak for me,  I think I'm going to have to trim my Twitter feed right down: ethno-nationalism, science-denialism and what I can only call eugenics (the weak must die to strengthen the volk) is just so unbelievably pervasive - and I mainly follow science, heritage, comics, cooks, TTRPG and comedians.

Abandoning the field to scum seems wrong, but they feed on responses, and I'm not doing any actual good and only making myself angrier and even more depressed.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 September, 2020, 02:43:04 PM
I had a similar online experience recently so also retreated for my own mental health. Tugging on the sleeve of a bully and asking them to stop hitting that other person can make one a target.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 September, 2020, 06:53:45 PM
If a owners of a bar let someone loudly profess the tenets of national socialism, then it's a nazi bar. Same goes for social media sites.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 28 September, 2020, 11:33:06 AM
I'm trying to remember the name of a (Glasgow) Rangers player from the early Noughties. He was a handsome lad, blonde hair (classic short back and sides if I recall) and possibly Scandinavian or Dutch.

(Me and Mrs Tips are trying to remember where we went for all of our wedding anniversaries and we saw this fella at Cameron House at Loch Lomond and I'm trying to work out the year)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: NapalmKev on 28 September, 2020, 03:32:15 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 28 September, 2020, 11:33:06 AM
I'm trying to remember the name of a (Glasgow) Rangers player from the early Noughties. He was a handsome lad, blonde hair (classic short back and sides if I recall) and possibly Scandinavian or Dutch.

(Me and Mrs Tips are trying to remember where we went for all of our wedding anniversaries and we saw this fella at Cameron House at Loch Lomond and I'm trying to work out the year)

Kasper Schmeichel?

Cheers
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 28 September, 2020, 10:39:47 PM
Jorg Albertz ?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tiplodocus on 29 September, 2020, 08:31:16 AM
The Ribenaberry? No, neither of those two.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 October, 2020, 01:27:30 AM
I seem to remember an interview with John Wagner in which he was asked what he thought of the Stallone Dredd movie and responded with something along the lines of "well, we borrowed from Hollywood [perhaps referencing Dirty Harry and/or Death Race 2000] so we can hardly complain".

Does anyone recall this or where I would find the actual interview?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: M.I.K. on 02 October, 2020, 07:02:54 PM
That sounds more like something he'd say about Robocop.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 02 October, 2020, 09:54:22 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 02 October, 2020, 07:02:54 PM
That sounds more like something he'd say about Robocop.

Makes sense.  Whatever they might think of the 1995 film itself, I think John, Pat and Carlos would have been happy with the credit (and royalties) that they received from the producers...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2020, 10:14:49 PM
One Wagner anecdote I recall from '95 was him and Carlos eagerly watching the credits roll on and on at the premiere, eventually finding their names in small type towards the bottom... and just looking at each other in disappointment. (caveat - anecdote possibly embellished for dramatic effect, but essentially accurate)

Dredd 2012 put their names front and centre
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 October, 2020, 10:22:34 PM
Now that you mention Robocop - maybe it was that I was recalling.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
Does anyone have a list of jumping on progs/megs, or know of one?

Ta!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 09 October, 2020, 05:29:37 PM
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
Does anyone have a list of jumping on progs/megs, or know of one?

Ta!

Totally incomplete list (https://2000ad.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Jumping-on_points)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:32:24 PM
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
Does anyone have a list of jumping on progs/megs, or know of one?

Ta!

Aha! I knew that one day I would be called upon! I have a spreadsheet ... hang on ...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:32:58 PM
Jump-On Megs   
   1.01
   2.01
   2.10
   2.27
   2.37
   2.50
   2.63
   2.73
   2.82
   3.01
   3.14
   3.18
   3.36
   3.39
   3.64
   3.70
   3.76
   4.01
   201
   218
   245
   253
   266
   292
   298
   332
   361
   400
   424
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:34:18 PM
Jump-on progs (the square bracket ones are Regened)...

1
86
335
387
435
700
750
780
842
873
889
900
901
904
928
950
964
990
1000
1014
1033
1050
1062
1071
1077
1078
1084
1090
1100
1101
1111
1112
1125
1200
1212
p2001
1234
1250
1263
p2002
1280
1289
1300
1313
p2003
1336
1350
1362
p2004
1387
1400
p2005
1450
p2006
1500
1550
p2008
1589
1600
p2009
1650
1700
1740
1750
p2012
1800
p2013
1824
1850
p2014
1874
1900
p2015
1924
1950
1973
2000
2011
2023
2050
2061
2073
2100
2123
[2130]
2150
[2170]
[2183]
2184
[2196]
2200
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:35:52 PM
Mind you, these are PURE jump-ons (100% all new stories or story threads), rather than advertised jump-ons (where it's mostly new except for one thing, or THREE new thrills inside).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 09 October, 2020, 06:44:55 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:32:24 PM
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
Does anyone have a list of jumping on progs/megs, or know of one?

Ta!

Aha! I knew that one day I would be called upon! I have a spreadsheet ... hang on ...

Quick, someone send his number to Public Health England .... they need a spreadsheet expert!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 07:03:03 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 09 October, 2020, 06:44:55 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 09 October, 2020, 06:32:24 PM
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
Does anyone have a list of jumping on progs/megs, or know of one?

Ta!

Aha! I knew that one day I would be called upon! I have a spreadsheet ... hang on ...

Quick, someone send his number to Public Health England .... they need a spreadsheet expert!

My favorite part of that news story was that someone had told them right up front that a spreadsheet was a shit way to solve the problem and that they should use a database. Not only did Seneschal Cummings and Supreme Leader Boris ignore that advice, but somehow whichever medieval-hatted programmer they set on the task used the older, shitter version of Excel file (which had them lose even more information than they needed to, even with their already cheapo non-solution).

Welcome to Great Britain. Please bring your own supplies, as we won't be providing any.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: MumboJimbo on 09 October, 2020, 10:11:06 PM
Funt to the rescue once more! (I was going to make a "Funt shot first" gag as a play on "Han shot first", but couldn't make it work).

Once again, I am in awe of your spreadsheet and the meaty goodness contained therein. It's like Barney on steroids.

Thanks, Funt! 👌🏻
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 09 January, 2021, 09:50:01 PM
Help me Hine-mind, can anyone out there get me a pic of Miles Rathbone - he is a character in 'apparently' the last episode of MACH-01.

I've not got those strips anymore - my EE was loaned out long ago and never returned.

Ta
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 January, 2021, 10:51:33 PM
If you mean The Final Encounter from prog 64, I didn't see that name come up.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 January, 2021, 10:52:41 PM
Oh, wait - I found him in en earlier episode!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 January, 2021, 11:04:28 PM
He was in the final episode, but wasn't specifically named there. These are all from the first episode in prog 61:

(https://i.imgur.com/XGThaLN.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/TUjUmSE.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ij7w9Jx.png)

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 09 January, 2021, 11:49:04 PM
Fast work!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Bolt-01 on 10 January, 2021, 08:07:27 AM
Superb work that Squaxx!

Much appreciated.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2021, 06:30:19 PM
A question about a different type of comic here - does anyone remember a strip from one of the 80s British kids' comics (not the Beano or the Dandy) about a kid whose mother refused to accept the fact that he wasn't a baby any more?  In an unintentionally sinister portrayal of delusional psychosis, she would dress him up as a baby and wheel him round in a pram, even though he was probably about 10.

It just sprang to mind as I thought of an old schoolmate who was known as 'Lambkins', after what that kid's mother called him.  (The guy in my class had a sheeplike head of hair at the time - bald now but still goes by that name, or occasionally 'the Lamb of God'.)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2021, 08:33:51 PM

Rings a distant bell - I'm remembering, I think, Krazy comic, which always had a cunning disguise on the back cover.

Don't know if that was it, though, I may just have the nostalgiavirus.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: M.I.K. on 16 January, 2021, 10:29:06 PM
"Mummy's Boy" in Buster, although I believe it started in Monster Fun, (in which every other story related to some kind of actual 'monster'), so maybe the sinisterness was intentional.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2021, 10:59:08 PM
Ahhh! Thanks a million!
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Post by: Funt Solo on 16 January, 2021, 11:50:33 PM
(http://www.bustercomic.com/mummys3.jpg)

Seems like it could just as easily be Viz - just add some swearing.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 17 January, 2021, 12:19:35 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 January, 2021, 11:50:33 PM
(http://www.bustercomic.com/mummys3.jpg)

Seems like it could just as easily be Viz - just add some swearing.

Glad I'm not the only one whose mind went to Viz.  I'm now thinking of the Little Britain sketch - "bitty"
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2021, 12:36:19 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 January, 2021, 11:50:33 PM
(http://www.bustercomic.com/mummys3.jpg)

Seems like it could just as easily be Viz - just add some swearing.

And a Geordie accent. I still love Viz with a passion.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Andrew_J on 18 January, 2021, 07:51:41 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 16 January, 2021, 10:29:06 PM
"Mummy's Boy" in Buster, although I believe it started in Monster Fun, (in which every other story related to some kind of actual 'monster'), so maybe the sinisterness was intentional.

Well done MIK. I was wracking my brains on this one over the weekend.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2021, 05:15:13 PM
Futurefocus is a series of six posters on the back of progs 26-31, which are available to view in Barney (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles).

Can anyone identify the artist?

Example:

(http://www.2000ad.org/images/freegifts/26.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2021, 06:53:03 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2021, 05:15:13 PM
Futurefocus is a series of six posters on the back of progs 26-31, which are available to view in Barney (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles).

Can anyone identify the artist?

Example:

(http://www.2000ad.org/images/freegifts/26.jpg)

No idea, but they had clearly watched Space 1999 and Star Wars (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=freeimage&choice=31&Comic=). Probably remained anonymous for legal reasons!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 January, 2021, 04:40:51 PM
The letterer credit "Glib" crops up quite a bit (once as Glib Glibby) in the early 90s (for example, on Trash) - does anyone know if that's a pseudonym? Or who for?

---

Also, there's a "Stella" that has a few lettering credits. Any clues on that one?
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 31 January, 2021, 04:57:27 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 January, 2021, 04:40:51 PM
The letterer credit "Glib" crops up quite a bit (once as Glib Glibby) in the early 90s (for example, on Trash) - does anyone know if that's a pseudonym? Or who for?

A quick google image search doesn't turn up anything useful for ID purposes, but Gordon 'Kid' Robson was fond of a psuedonym or two. Could it be him?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 January, 2021, 05:44:05 PM
This is a panel from Armageddon (credited to Gordon Robson):

(https://i.imgur.com/KuNWQzL.png)


This is a bit from Trash (credited to Glib):

(https://i.imgur.com/FzmLW4n.png)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 31 January, 2021, 06:19:00 PM
Thanks for that! Not the same, to my eyes, so no help there! Sorry!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: I, Cosh on 31 January, 2021, 06:27:13 PM
Had no idea Barney was so lacking in lettering credits.

Anyway, this looks like your guy: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gary_Gilbert
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 January, 2021, 07:33:04 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 31 January, 2021, 06:27:13 PM
Had no idea Barney was so lacking in lettering credits.

Anyway, this looks like your guy: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gary_Gilbert

Thanks, Cosh.

---

I count 609 entries in my spreadsheet for letterers that are currently set to "? - Barney", which means that I looked in Barney but there was no info.

There are more than that missing from Barney because I've been in the process of populating the missing data items by checking the publications themselves.

I haven't published my data anywhere (because it's incomplete), but in theory it could be used to more fully populate Barney if someone wanted to tackle that project.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: norton canes on 10 February, 2021, 10:47:44 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2021, 05:15:13 PM
Futurefocus is a series of six posters on the back of progs 26-31, which are available to view in Barney (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles).

Can anyone identify the artist?

I always assumed it was Kev O'Neill.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 February, 2021, 09:32:33 PM
Anyone know who does the lettering in Button Man, book III (progs P2001 & 1223-1233).

It's unusual in that it has no standard credit card - it just says "by John Wagner & Arthur Ranson" as part of the logo.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 28 February, 2021, 09:11:11 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 February, 2021, 09:32:33 PM
Anyone know who does the lettering in Button Man, book III (progs P2001 & 1223-1233).

The sample pages here (https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB348) are almost certainly by the late Ellie de Ville.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 18 March, 2021, 10:24:51 AM
Question for the 50% of the Board who are Scotches:

It's my Glasgow-based mate's 50th tomorrow, and obviously a drunken get-together is out of the question. I'm thinking (too late in the day) of arranging some alcoholic treats that could be shared online instead, a crate of mixed craft beers perhaps, does anyone know of a reliable way to pull this off In The Current Climate?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 18 March, 2021, 11:11:38 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 March, 2021, 10:24:51 AM
Question for the 50% of the Board who are Scotches:

It's my Glasgow-based mate's 50th tomorrow, and obviously a drunken get-together is out of the question. I'm thinking (too late in the day) of arranging some alcoholic treats that could be shared online instead, a crate of mixed craft beers perhaps, does anyone know of a reliable way to pull this off In The Current Climate?

Leaving aside your casual cultural stereotyping, I'd recommend Beerhawk.

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Post by: TordelBack on 18 March, 2021, 11:21:41 AM
Nothing casual about it,  I assure you, it's the product of long-term study and analysis.

Thanks Dr X, I have Beerhawk (and Honestbrew?) on my radar - seem like a good option,  if they are reasonably reliable wet deliveries. Is there a local outfit that anyone can recommend (that does more than just Heavy and/or Bucky,  I mean)?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 March, 2021, 11:49:42 AM

I believe Tesco delivers booze - and all kinds of party stuff.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: TordelBack on 18 March, 2021, 12:03:59 PM
Cheers Sharky, that would indeed have been the sensible solution, but I'm notoriously shitty friend and I've left it too late to get Tesco set up in time.

Instead I have arranged for express delivery of a spread of pretentious booze, and the same for myself, so that we can hopefully do a shared tasting if the digital stars align. Such times we live in.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 March, 2021, 04:08:37 PM

What's the modern equivalent of a city pub crawl? An internet hub crawl? A sys-up? Hashtag party? A straightforward WINE session? Toast routing? Beer to peer torrenting?

Whatever - hope it's a good 'un!

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Link Prime on 18 March, 2021, 04:27:01 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 March, 2021, 04:08:37 PM

What's the modern equivalent of a city pub crawl?

Scotchtoberfest could fit the bill.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 18 March, 2021, 05:59:13 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 March, 2021, 11:21:41 AM
Nothing casual about it,  I assure you, it's the product of long-term study and analysis.

Thanks Dr X, I have Beerhawk (and Honestbrew?) on my radar - seem like a good option,  if they are reasonably reliable wet deliveries. Is there a local outfit that anyone can recommend (that does more than just Heavy and/or Bucky,  I mean)?

Honestly, no. I use Beerhawk myself and heartily recommned them.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 March, 2021, 05:18:22 PM
I'm trying to index Raptaur appearances, and I've got the obvious ones, I think:

From Judge Dredd:
  Raptaur
  Raptaur Returns

From The Simping Detective:
  Crystal Blue
  Innocence: A Broad
  Playing Futsie
  Petty Crimes
  No Body, No How
  Jokers to the Right

And in Trifecta.

Question: does the raptaur show up as a guest star in any DeMarco stories? [Or anywhere else I've not thought of?]
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 04 April, 2021, 03:56:04 AM
Trying to figure out the artist on this Durham Red poster from the back of the 1989 Sci-Fi Special:

(https://thevintagetoyadvertiser.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/durham-red.-2000-ad-sci-fi-special-1989.-artist-credited-as-sw-post.png)

It reminds me of Mark Harrison and it looks like it's signed as SW or WS. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 April, 2021, 06:56:49 AM
Will Simpson to my eye - that would also match the initials.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 04 April, 2021, 09:35:33 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 04 April, 2021, 06:56:49 AM
Will Simpson to my eye - that would also match the initials.

Yes. That's definitely Will, and how he signs his art.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 04 April, 2021, 02:04:53 PM
It is Will Simpson, and those symbols are a sentence written in Thai scrip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_script) because (as we got told in a Nerve Centre some time later) Will's significant other is/was from Thailand (no idea if this is still the case, and it's none of my business).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 04 April, 2021, 02:43:33 PM
Thanks!

Now that you've all told me who it is, it seems obvious.  :D
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Daveycandlish on 14 April, 2021, 07:28:49 AM
I'm hankering to re-read the Sky Chariots from the early days of Slaine, drawn by Mike McMahon.
Which of the Hachette partwork books is it in?
Or is it available in another form? Book from this website's shop? In print, though, as I really don't like reading digital comics.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 14 April, 2021, 08:40:37 AM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 04 October, 2019, 12:10:14 AM
Zenith playlist
I had it in my head that all of the chapter titles in Zenith were songs and I thought it would be cool to make a playlist of them.

But looking through my collected Phase I hardback, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Or was it the "Next Prog:..." which aren't printed in this version?


It was the next prog tags, and I think somebody already made a playlist.

Yep - here goes - Zenith Phase One (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eotKRZcNPnuzQfUsJEzZk).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: MumboJimbo on 30 July, 2021, 01:48:13 PM
I have tried Googling this honest...

I've become interested recently in trying to chart the development of the Judge Dredd origin story - i.e. all the shenanigans with Judge Fargo, President Booth etc. Of course, the last word on all this is the Origins story starting in prog 1505, but I'm pretty sure the gist of the story was already known at this point? So my question is which progs were Fargo, Booth et al first mentioned and what other stories were there that talked about the origins of MC-1, the Judge System, the nuclear war that caused the Cursed Earth etc. Thanks for any help!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 30 July, 2021, 02:44:55 PM
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 30 July, 2021, 01:48:13 PM
I have tried Googling this honest...

I've become interested recently in trying to chart the development of the Judge Dredd origin story - i.e. all the shenanigans with Judge Fargo, President Booth etc. Of course, the last word on all this is the Origins story starting in prog 1505, but I'm pretty sure the gist of the story was already known at this point? So my question is which progs were Fargo, Booth et al first mentioned and what other stories were there that talked about the origins of MC-1, the Judge System, the nuclear war that caused the Cursed Earth etc. Thanks for any help!

Pretty much half of the established canon was put in place in the first epic-length mega-epic* The Cursed Earth.  A bit more was added during Oz, but the rest was in Origins.  Other than small bits and pieces (like the 'Judgement' trilogy of one-offs) that's the bulk of it.

* technically Robot Wars was the first epic, but that was when epics were less than ten episodes
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: MumboJimbo on 30 July, 2021, 03:22:57 PM
That's great, Sheridan, exactly what I was after - many thanks!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 July, 2021, 05:02:26 PM
There's this oddity from prog 169, which seems to be a shooting war between MC-1 and TC, that we've never* seen depicted elswhere:

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d9a2ebe4b090d1642480e9/1531042945665-E49HEMOUD7SZ161YSJ64/2Kad+190780+002.jpg?format=750w)


*Have we?

---

I *know* my Fargo listing (https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/Judge/Fargo.html#baseMenu) is incomplete.

Booth is probably first featured in The Sleeper Awakes (from The Cursed Earth) - prog 68. And again in Fog on the Eerie (part of The Hunting Party arc) - progs 1037-1040.

Then there's Sons of Booth (2030-2032) & The Booth Conspiracy (2095-2099) - I feel sure there were more than two parts to that, though.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 July, 2021, 05:08:52 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 30 July, 2021, 05:02:26 PM
Then there's Sons of Booth (2030-2032) & The Booth Conspiracy (2095-2099) - I feel sure there were more than two parts to that, though.

The entire Eglington Booth arc is:

Sons of Booth (2030-2032)
Icon (2050-2052)
Flaws (2076-2078)
The Booth Conspiracy (2095-2099)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 30 July, 2021, 06:32:50 PM
Fargo is first mentioned in the Judge Cal story when we see his tomb which describes him as the first chief judge of MC1. There's more about him in Oz, which also introduces Judd.

Between that and The Cursed Earth, there isn't much else to go on, and most of what we saw in Origins was original.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: MumboJimbo on 30 July, 2021, 07:00:07 PM
Thanks Funt and Richard - both answers very helpful 👍🏻
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 October, 2021, 03:35:46 PM
Can anyone think of any good, online, examples of pencils to inks?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 April, 2023, 10:40:43 PM
In Fog on the Eerie (progs 1037-1040, part of The Hunting Party set of linked tales) - what city is it that's getting nuked?

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 April, 2023, 10:53:45 PM

Erie, Pennsylvania.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 03 May, 2023, 01:50:28 PM
Quote from: Richard on 30 July, 2021, 06:32:50 PMFargo is first mentioned in the Judge Cal story when we see his tomb which describes him as the first chief judge of MC1. There's more about him in Oz, which also introduces Judd.

Between that and The Cursed Earth, there isn't much else to go on, and most of what we saw in Origins was original.

Re-reading the last few posts from this thread - as has been said, Fargo 'the father of justice' was first mentioned in Day the Law Died (Judge Cal) but it was only revealed that Dredd was a clone of Fargo in the Question of Judgement story (or possibly Dredd Angel, if that came before).
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 03 May, 2023, 03:43:58 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 03 May, 2023, 01:50:28 PMQuestion of Judgement story (or possibly Dredd Angel, if that came before).

Dredd Angel starts in prog 377. Question of Judgement is in prog 387.

This is from Dredd Angel:

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5764dbbffc4500c3d1229a0cc35b945/tumblr_inline_o3raa8em7p1s1btgh_1280.png)


(But the Dredd relationship, IIRC, is only revealed in Q.)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 May, 2023, 04:14:18 PM
Quote from: Credo! on 03 May, 2023, 03:43:58 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 03 May, 2023, 01:50:28 PMQuestion of Judgement story (or possibly Dredd Angel, if that came before).

Dredd Angel starts in prog 377. Question of Judgement is in prog 387.

This is from Dredd Angel:

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5764dbbffc4500c3d1229a0cc35b945/tumblr_inline_o3raa8em7p1s1btgh_1280.png)


(But the Dredd relationship, IIRC, is only revealed in Q.)


Their name and deeds have been forgotten... except Fargo! 
What about the other cloned Judges, can't remember seeing badges on the street with their names either ( except maybe Goodman)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 05 May, 2023, 04:24:17 PM
Looks like Rubins might have won the inter-departmental staring competition.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Richard on 06 May, 2023, 02:08:20 PM
The clones wouldn't necessarily have the same names as the people they're cloned from. See for instance Judge Rico.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 July, 2023, 05:23:56 PM
Please give this poor old fella some technical help.

I just bought a new ipad but I can't transfer any files from my laptop - got comics and movies that I want to be able to access on the ipad. When I connect them (USB to charging port) I just get "cannot copy files. The device has stopped responding"

Any ideas?

(took me 2 days to find the partciular setting buried away that let me access my emails on it!)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Barrington Boots on 11 July, 2023, 11:28:44 AM
DDD, are you copying one file or lots at once? If the latter, try a single file and see if you get the same error.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 12:38:44 PM
Tried to copy a whole folder full, then tried individual files - but when I first plug in the cable, the little charging symbol on the ipad lights up but then immediately goes out, sugggesting it's not accepting the connection at all.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Barrington Boots on 11 July, 2023, 01:03:17 PM
That sounds like a fault with either the cable or the port. Are you able to switch either / both?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 11 July, 2023, 01:56:03 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 11 July, 2023, 01:03:17 PMThat sounds like a fault with either the cable or the port. Are you able to switch either / both?

Also, some USB cables are rated for charging-only, and won't carry data. Definitely try it with a different cable. Also, is the laptop port regularly used and functional? If it's seldom-used then there might just be dust/fluff in there which is interfering with the connection...
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 03:01:34 PM

Can you send them via a wireless or Bluetooth connection?

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 11 July, 2023, 03:57:07 PM
If the power symbol is disappearing after it appears you definitely have a faulty cable.  This is the singularly most annoying thing about Apple when it comes to their phones and tablets, the cables are chuffing useless.  They are forever crapping out.  I would say that even if you can get a wireless connection get a replacement cable as soon as you can. 

As for Bluetooth, that is another area Apple does really badly (and I'm talking as someone who has used Apple for over 2 decades now).  Unless it is a really small file I wouldn't bother, you will be there until hell freezes over.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 08:06:20 PM
tried several cables, including an official Apple one, no go. The USB port is regularly used. I've been suggested to download iTunes on the laptop but I dunno...

Could it be something as simple as changing one of the million and one settings? (when I tried to access my emails it just kept asking for my password but then did nothing, no explanation or error message - after two days fiddling, I found the appropriate setting was set to OFF)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 08:13:02 PM
tried bluetooth "the operation was not performed because the device has not been authenticated" - WTF does that mean?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 08:18:58 PM

Sounds like it's almost time to put some cheese in it.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 08:21:46 PM
the annoying thing is, I've got icloud drive on the laptop and it gets the photos off my phone no problem - I don't think there's a fault, I just can't work out how to do it.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 08:23:36 PM


It's tough, but ask a schoolchild (they'll do anything for a vape).

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 July, 2023, 08:53:23 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 08:18:58 PMSounds like it's almost time to put some cheese in it.


I was about to propose this myself. Gouda idea.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 10:29:40 PM

I wish I had a Feta one.

I'll get me Ricotta.



Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 July, 2023, 10:44:31 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2023, 10:29:40 PMI wish I had a Feta one.

I'll get me Ricotta.


Nacho finest hour
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 10:46:10 PM
success .. of a sort. Moved the file (an episode of Babylon 5) to idrive, found it on the ipad - took ages to download though with my shitty broadband speed. I'll have to take my laptop somewhere with better wifi and copy the rest.

Thanks for all the tips, moral support and of course, the cheese. Tread caerphilly now, don't cheddar tear, it will all brie fine, things are getting feta all the time.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 17 July, 2023, 06:10:15 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 July, 2023, 08:13:02 PMtried bluetooth "the operation was not performed because the device has not been authenticated" - WTF does that mean?

Pairing has not been completed properly.  It needs the pins to match between the laptop and the iPad. Try re-pairing the laptop and the iPad.

iTunes on the laptop is certainly an option, especially if it an older iPad. 
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 September, 2023, 04:14:18 PM
I have a question that I think might be impossible to answer. I'm only pestering you fine folks with it because without going into too much detail my phone upgrade is being held hostage to it. (And no it has nothing to do with mobile phones) My web searches have proved fruitless.

A friend of mine is looking to attend a convention. It must meet the following parameters.

Should be scheduled for next year to allow for costuming.

Must be multi Media.

Cannot be Redemption because he had an argument with the committee and although all those committee members no longer are involved he won't have anything to do with them. (Don't ask... just... don't!)

Cannot be too far from where he lives (On the coast of Essex)

Hotel must have disabled access.

Any ideas?


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: nxylas on 30 September, 2023, 08:11:56 PM
Downthetubes has a rolling list of British and Irish comic conventions that your friend might want to consult.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: rogue69 on 30 September, 2023, 09:13:30 PM
The obvious one would be MCM in May as it covers everything from comics, cosplay, books, table top games etc. Hotels are very expensive around the excel but if you go out a bit further i.e. Stratford you can get straight on the tube/DLR to the venue. Only downfall is that it normally falls on the same weekend as Lawless
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 October, 2023, 06:40:09 PM
Thanks I'll let him know....
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 November, 2023, 02:04:38 PM
I won't go into details but... well I recently found out that my mother was incorrectly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when actually she was type 1. This has been the main cause of her legs never healing from ulcerations. Now she has been properly treated they have almost returned to normal for the first time in 10 years. I want (If I can get mother to give permission) that I should seek to take legal action against our GP practice who's laziness and incompetence is the main cause. Has anyone ever had to sue the NHS? How dose one go about doing so? Is it worth it? I'm not after money I want my GP surgery investigated. My mother could have lost her sight or her limbs. It's disgusting and I don't think they should get away with this.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: sheridan on 28 November, 2023, 02:27:34 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 30 September, 2023, 09:13:30 PMThe obvious one would be MCM in May as it covers everything from comics, cosplay, books, table top games etc. Hotels are very expensive around the excel but if you go out a bit further i.e. Stratford you can get straight on the tube/DLR to the venue. Only downfall is that it normally falls on the same weekend as Lawless

Excel is on the Lizzy line (though it's the south branch, so from the Essex branch they'd have to go down to Whitechapel, then head back to Custom House from there).  There's no direct DLR from Stratford, but they could change at Canning Town.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2023, 02:34:50 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 November, 2023, 02:04:38 PMI won't go into details but... well I recently found out that my mother was incorrectly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when actually she was type 1. This has been the main cause of her legs never healing from ulcerations. Now she has been properly treated they have almost returned to normal for the first time in 10 years. I want (If I can get mother to give permission) that I should seek to take legal action against our GP practice who's laziness and incompetence is the main cause. Has anyone ever had to sue the NHS? How dose one go about doing so? Is it worth it? I'm not after money I want my GP surgery investigated. My mother could have lost her sight or her limbs. It's disgusting and I don't think they should get away with this.

https://resolution.nhs.uk/services/claims-management/advice-for-claimants/

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: rogue69 on 28 November, 2023, 04:59:29 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 28 November, 2023, 02:27:34 PMThere's no direct DLR from Stratford, but they could change at Canning Town.
The Beckton line used to go from Stratford to Custom House but they must have just changed that
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: A.Cow on 09 December, 2023, 12:48:42 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 November, 2023, 02:04:38 PMIt's disgusting and I don't think they should get away with this.

When you say "they", you mean the GP?  That's reasonable.  Surely the answer is to report the GP to the British Medical Council, who will take appropriate action against the individual concerned.

You say you don't want money ... so why are you suing "the NHS"?  That action will will eat up public money that could be better spent on others who need it, and probably have little or no impact whatsoever on the individual who made the misdiagnosis.

Please don't let your anger cloud your judgement.  Target the cause not the symptom.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 December, 2023, 09:57:08 PM
Sorry... Sueing is probably the wrong word. Lots of people have said I should persue a no win no fee option because they are as much in the dark as I am about how to proceed. I have voiced my concerns to people in our council and their reaction is to tut, agree and offer no help at all. I also have the issue that as my mother is fully in charge of her faculties  it would be HER who will have to start any complaint. And I know my mother She is somewhat... paranoid. Not mental health need action paranoid but certainly of the "Don't complain or they will put you on a list and you'll get worse treatment!" Paranoid. I was just asking to see if anyone has complained about their Doctors surgery and if they thought it was worth it.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 December, 2023, 12:26:52 PM
Well now it would seem that everything is suspended. I got a call from the hospital about a couple of hours ago. Mother is not responding to oxygen treatment because her lungs are failing. This is because she has lung cancer that had spread so treatment would only be palliative.  We were told she would have had more time than this. I will keep you folks informed.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 December, 2023, 12:32:18 PM

Sorry to hear that, Doc. My thoughts are with you during this difficult time.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 December, 2023, 02:38:10 PM
[/size]Thank you so much Shark (If a may be so informal) I estimate from what happened to Henry when his mother died that I probably have a month to clear everything after she dies. Perhaps a little more as it's Christmas. [/size]
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 13 December, 2023, 04:01:02 PM
Aye, thoughts and prayers with you all at this time.  If there is anything we can do then please just shout. (or make Tardis noises ...)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 15 December, 2023, 03:55:58 PM

font=Times New Roman]OK "makes TARDIS noise"

Mother died early hours of yesterday morning. Not that the Hospital has told me. I heard 2nd hand from my cousin. (And isn't that wrong?)

Mother told me that all the required paperwork to deal with her death would be found in her chair pocket. There is nothing. She said that she wanted no service. We really really can't afford it. Said she wanted the Pure Cremations option. Mother was an organized woman. I thought she would have taken out a policy with them. I can find nothing. That means I have got to find the money for the service. That is if they will accept a payment up front.

Mother owes money. We were confidently told that Mother would probably live for another 2 years. The Doctor I spoke to (And should of recorded) Clearly indicated that her death was caused indirectly from her prolonged hospital stay... which means I will now have to pay back the carers allowance I was finally granted.

I estimate the dept is around £2500. I can't find evidence of any life insurance policy.

I paid this moths rent so I have a roof over my head until the second week of January. After that I will probably be homeless So dose anyone  have a large shed me and Dorian can live in? We were made homeless once and the place we were housed in was so awful at least 2 people have committed suicide.

I can cook, clean and do light gardening. All my qualifications

I have no ID. I was going to apply for a Passport next year as I now have the money to do so. And I had the time to do so. Or so I thought. So no money... even if I qualified for any form of benefits.



So I am f**ked.

Oh and Adrian is currently in hospital. He has had blackouts and has been severely trembling. He is not a drinker and the probable cause even though there is no family history is that he has contracted Parkinson's.

Merry bloody Christmas to us.[/font]

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: JohnW on 15 December, 2023, 04:43:14 PM
My heart goes out to you, Doc. I ran out of parents myself not too many years back.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 December, 2023, 05:13:41 PM

My condolences, Doc. 

I hope things level out for you soon.

xx

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 December, 2023, 04:52:21 PM
Thanks for your kind words. But I really am worried about my cat. Dorian is 6 years old. I can't give him up. I just can't.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 December, 2023, 10:27:55 PM

[Adrian has officially been diagnosed with Parkinson's... even though there is no family history (as far as he knows.) He has started treatment and it seems to be working. However now the Doctors have to figure out his blackouts... In a way they are more worrying. He seems to operate on auto pilot which so far hasn't lead him into trouble but how long can that last.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 December, 2023, 06:53:46 PM
Adrian was allowed to go home yesterday. He didn't arrive back until half past Ten. Adrian's tremors have improved. No further blackouts yet. No Idea why he has them unless it's an exceptionally rare symptom of Parkinson's.  He has been given a working key safe and one of those emergency button alarms.

As for me unless I can get some help I will be homeless come the middle of next month. I will be collecting Mothers Death certificate on the 28th. Then there will be closing accounts and finding out just how much dept I have to pay.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 December, 2023, 08:49:08 PM

So a friend upset me yesterday. Told me that I would be better off taking what goods I could and just... walking away from the flat and not even going ahead with the plans to cremate my mother.

His reasoning is that I need every penny I process and shouldn't waste what I will receive from my mothers life insurance policy on disposing of her remains.

That will not be happening even if I have to crowd fund to do the right thing ... That's what I will do.

Need a bank account first though. I have been told by the passport office that my application is going ahead normally so... there is that.

Still worried that I will have nothing for next months rent and I could use the time. I am 100% certain that I will be homeless come the 12th of next month and without funds of any kind.

And poor Adrian has become allergic to nuts... especially peanuts. He loved peanuts. 

I could  walk away and live with Henry but... well I wouldn't see my friends ever again and his dogs might tear Dorian to pieces.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 31 December, 2023, 11:03:20 AM
Please do not make any hasty decisions Doc.  I would completely agree with you regarding the advice you have received.  However well intentioned it might have been, it misses so much about how much your mother meant to you.  Let us know when the crowdfunded is set up.

Have you spoken to Citizen's Advice and Shelter?  It sounds a little like your caring responsibilities have limited your employment options in recent years, would that be fair to say?  Also, has your mother left a will of any kind?  Is there an official executor of her estate?  Have you spoken with the landlord?  These would all be relevant to how best to proceed.

Make sure you are taking care of yourself too.  We're here for you if you need anything, even if it is to sound off about things. 
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 January, 2024, 08:06:14 PM

Well tomorrow I will be contacting the MacMillan tomorrow. I can't be the only person they have had to deal with in my situation. I hope they can help.

I am sorting out things into three piles and am planning to go again to a local charity shop to dispose of things which I know are of use... but I doubt will sell. A slow and awkward process as I have no transport and have to load up a trolley and travel by bus.

Things that are mine and need to keep.

Things that are fit for resale. I need every penny.

Thinks to be disposed of. Either going to charity shops or into the rubbish bin.


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 January, 2024, 12:38:40 PM

There is one thing I would ask someone urgently to do for me.

I donated £2.500 per month to this charity.

https://www.mrlumpyandfriends.com/donate

I can't do that anymore. Can some kind soul subscribe?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Barrington Boots on 03 January, 2024, 02:17:23 PM
I will sort that for you Doc.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 January, 2024, 03:00:38 PM

This forum is sublime.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 January, 2024, 09:31:52 PM
Thank you so much Barrington Boots.

Just found a phone message from the registry office, they now cannot process my mothers death certificate because they now don't have her medical certificate. When they called my first they said they had everything needed and all I had to do is turn up.

I had one appointment and they were apparently ready then to process the certificate the so WTF?
Will have to wait for their call tomorrow to see what happens next.

AND I got a letter from the housing benefit office saying "we don't accept applications for an increase in your benefit until October 2024"

The Landlord should know this because this is what happened last time.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 06 January, 2024, 03:46:58 AM

Well finally got mother's death certificate. Monday is going to be hectic with phone calls as I try to explain to 4 catalogue companies and a credit card company that not only is my mother dead but the "estate" is totally in flux and no, there will be no more money to clear her accounts.

 
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: NapalmKev on 06 January, 2024, 05:52:29 AM
Not sure if you're aware of this but you are not liable for anything unless you signed a joint agreement with your Mother.


Money Helper (https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/family-and-care/death-and-bereavement/dealing-with-the-debts-of-someone-who-has-died) has more information on the subject.

The fact you are making an effort to contact various parties shows diligence on your part but it's not something you actually have to do, as I understand it.

All the best.

Cheers
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 09 January, 2024, 05:40:48 PM

Thank you NapalmKev for this information.

Things may be worse than I thought. I contacted what I assumed was a company that had a life insurance policy and they can't find it. Now I was told it might be lost in the system and that I need to send a copy of the bank statement with the direct debit showing but if they can't find it well... There is nothing to bury my mother with. I am still awaiting my passport without which I cannot open a bank account... Ahgh!


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: NapalmKev on 12 January, 2024, 03:30:30 PM
If you are unable to afford a funeral you can apply for a 'Public Health Funeral' from either your local council or Hospital.

Money Helper (https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/family-and-care/death-and-bereavement/help-paying-for-a-funeral#:~:text=enough%20in%20it.-,What%20happens%20if%20you%20can't%20afford%20a%20funeral%3F,available%20to%20arrange%20the%20funeral.) has more in the subject.

Hope it all goes well.

Cheers
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 January, 2024, 04:13:50 AM

Thanks again NapalmKev.


Now my microwave combi oven has stopped working (Yes I've changed the fuse AND tried using different sockets)
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 13 January, 2024, 03:54:58 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 January, 2024, 04:13:50 AMThanks again NapalmKev.


Now my microwave combi oven has stopped working (Yes I've changed the fuse AND tried using different sockets)

Ah, but have you tried turning it off and then back on again?


<ducks ....>
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 January, 2024, 02:05:53 PM
Done that. also 1/ changed the fuse.
                 
                2/ changed the socket.   It's dead Jim!
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 02:33:09 PM

Silly question, but are the sockets working? If not, it might be a breaker.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 January, 2024, 07:39:25 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 January, 2024, 02:05:53 PMDone that. also 1/ changed the fuse.
                 
                2/ changed the socket.   It's dead Jim!


Okay, have you tried kicking the living daylights out of it, hammering it with a sledgehammer, running it over with a steamroller and then dropping a low yield tactical nuclear device on it?  Then turning it back on again?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 January, 2024, 01:13:56 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 16 January, 2024, 07:39:25 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 January, 2024, 02:05:53 PMDone that. also 1/ changed the fuse.
                 
                2/ changed the socket.   It's dead Jim!


Okay, have you tried kicking the living daylights out of it, hammering it with a sledgehammer, running it over with a steamroller and then dropping a low yield tactical nuclear device on it?  Then turning it back on again?




:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Sorry violence didn't work either.
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Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 January, 2024, 01:15:29 PM
And now I have a letter from HM Revenue & Customs asking me to prove that mother had paid the right amount of tax. How the F**k do I prove that?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 January, 2024, 01:46:32 PM

It might be an idea to gather any relevant documents, such as tax returns, payment receipts, or correspondence with HM Revenue & Customs. Make sure to reach out to the bloodsuckers, explain the situation, and ask for guidance on what specific information they require to resolve this matter. They should be able to provide you with a clear outline of the required documentation and the appropriate channels through which to submit them. Also, what does another person's private financial doings have to do with you? 

Or, you can tell them you've asked Derek Acorah and he says everything's fine and that HMR&C actually owe your mother £17,364.58p - but, as this has nothing to do with you, you'll magnanimously allow them to keep it.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 January, 2024, 02:13:25 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 January, 2024, 01:15:29 PMAnd now I have a letter from HM Revenue & Customs asking me to prove that mother had paid the right amount of tax. How the F**k do I prove that?

Get a solicitor. Seriously. I was the executor of my mother's will, and I tried to sort out her estate myself for about three months before giving up and getting a solicitor to do it. Even if there isn't a will, if there's any money in the estate at all, it will be worth it.

Whatever assets/money are in the estate will be used to settle any outstanding debts. You shouldn't be liable for any debts that the estate can't cover. If there's enough money, the estate also bears the cost of the funeral. A solicitor will also handle any HMRC queries, calculate any inheritance tax liabilities (which the estate also pays if there are any... but almost no normal person's estate gets hit for inheritance tax).

You can also stipulate that any money in the estate can also be put towards the solicitor's costs. It'll all eat away at whatever there is, but the alternative is blundering through a legally complex and specialist process with some potentially very expensive pitfalls... as I fairly quickly realised.

All I did was bundle up as much of my mother's paperwork as I could find, arranged it all into chronological order by year, and handed it over. They did the rest.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 January, 2024, 07:42:00 PM
Mother HAD no assets How do you prove a negative? And they know she is dead. That's why they contacted me.  >:(
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 January, 2024, 08:13:14 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 January, 2024, 07:42:00 PMMother HAD no assets How do you prove a negative? And they know she is dead. That's why they contacted me.  >:(

Then I'd get on to Citizen's Advice to see if you can get some free legal advice. As I said, this stuff can be complex and specialist — trying to navigate it without proper advice is monstrously stressful and borderline incomprehensible, as I discovered.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 January, 2024, 12:59:41 PM

So my passport arrived today.   Any recommendations for a bank? I need a bank account.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Dandontdare on 30 January, 2024, 10:35:13 PM
If you want big reliable High St bank with slightly more ethics than the rest of the bastards, try Cooperative.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: A.Cow on 31 January, 2024, 01:15:25 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 30 January, 2024, 10:35:13 PMIf you want big reliable High St bank with slightly more ethics than the rest of the bastards, try Cooperative.

Someone once pointed out that UK bank logos used to forewarn you just how nasty they could be:
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 February, 2024, 04:46:24 AM


3 out of the 4 catalogues mother had has cancelled her account and have dropped the payment of the balance she owed. Except Very. They sent a solicitors letter wanting payment!

Can't get a bank account because I don't have any documents supporting the fact that I live at this address... Unless I get a polling card anytime soon... can't really wait until April.


Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 February, 2024, 06:08:47 PM

Well now... Finally managed to be accepted for a bank account...

But only because I got a council tax letter in my name saying that I now owe £448.72

And another latter saying that as my mothers executor I owe £598.30 in council tax for her.

And another letter DWP demanding repayment of £407.00

And another letter from mothers private insurance demanding repayment of £1800

THERE IS NO MONEY.

mothers life insurance can't be found and even if it was it wouldn't cover all this.

The landlord wants me to leave ASAP as he claims he is selling up & retiring.

I don't even have the money to see to my mothers remains...

Happy birthday to me eh?
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 February, 2024, 06:29:34 PM

Jeez, Doc, that's rough. Sounds like you've got some challenges ahead but I reckon you'll rise to meet them.

Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 February, 2024, 07:54:46 PM
Hey Doc - I know someone up-thread suggested a visit to the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and I just wanted to reinforce that suggestion. I was once struggling to figure some finances out and the CAB helped me untangle it all. It made a huge difference to my situation.
Title: Re: Help me Hive Mind, you're my only hope...
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 February, 2024, 08:56:07 PM
I'm going to an advice place Monday. But thanks for the help. (You can't see anyone from CAB for at least 6 months around here. Luckily Adrian knows people.

Unluckily Adrian doesn't actually have Parkinson's.. he has Parkinson's+ (yes that IS it's name ) Yes it is real. Yes he will be lucky to live longer that 10 more years. He is my best friend, I don't have many IRL friends. (No offence to you fine folks but I only know you from the forum) and I am going to lose him. Its not right. He doesn't deserve this.
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