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Hey, it's me, Tharg!  I've used my alien powers to take over the mind of this scrotnig earthlet and will now answer HOUs questions:

1) Very pale.

2) Judge Dredd and Bill Savage do.  As for Nemesis, the answer is both yes and no.  Yes, because Satanus turns up in a Nemesis story.  No, because the ABC Warriors turn up in Nemesis but their early history in Ro-Busters tends to clash horribly with the JD timeline.  If pressed I'll use three excuses to get out of this:

i. Quaggem blag! It doesn't matter you thrill-sucker infested zrag-lover!
ii. Dimensional rifts.
iii. The writers were just making stuff up as they went along.

3) Choose any one of i, ii & iii in 2), above.

(1) How about bringing back the Balls Brothers, Canon Fodder and Carver Hale, but only in the form of single-page one-offs in which we see how the characters die (forever, with no chance of resurrection).

(2) What are the sales figures for 2K and the Meg?

(3) Why don't we get Star Pin-Ups (or their equivalent) anymore?

BIG JOBS!

> I quite like "I/He didn't think it too many" if you could call that a catch phrase.

And there's always "Kiss my axe!", which sort of fell by the wayside for a while when he was armed with a leyser pistol and a sword.  I always thought the introduction of firearms to a fantasy slugfest was a tad silly - but I read somewhere (TPO in the Meg?) that it was due to censorial management complaining about the blood 'n' axe gore.

I was jealous of some wag who wrote into Input with the first use (I'd seen) of "I think it too many": in reference to The Secret Commonwealth (with art by David Bircham).

> "i've not even heard that one, who says it"

> Rouge Trooper.

To be precise, it was Friday (ie Rogue Trooper mark II).

[This post sponsored by The Joy of Pedantry]

> we should send probes,robots

Two problems:

- it's less fun if you send robots.
- robots are inherently stupid (until we create a positronic brain).

> And watch the readership fall slowly through the floor ...

Why would that classic logo (still my favourite) cause people to fall slowly through floors?

I enjoyed this immensely when I first read it at Moniaive - and it looks groovy in colour as well.

I may have said this before, but I think the idea of Dreddheads has legs, and could easily make it as a series.  

Perhaps single page episodes in the Meg or 2K?  

It's irreverancy, nostalgia and inventiveness needn't end with a single showing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3039102.stm" target="_blank">Giant Blob!

"Now open you mind to me, Quaid.  Please.  Open your mind ... openyourmind ... openyourmind ... openyourmind."

Yes, I can.

Is that a broiled horse cock?

Trout - you should know better than to mention tactical thermonuclear warfare when Tweak is around!

Everyone - take your doors off their hinges and form a nuclear-proof shelter in your hallway.  Yeah, that'll work.

[passes Lobster Doug the chill pills]

Let's all, like, love each other and, y'know, stuff.

Okay, this was years ago, but it was the last time I actually genuinly wanted to punch someone in the face:

I got on a bus in Glasgow and the boy who was in charge of loading luggage was having a fly smoke around the back of the bus.  I put my own case in the luggage compartment.

When I got to my destination, I went to collect my case and it wasn't there.  I quizzed the driver, who said "did you load it yourself?"  Of course I had, and he explained that passengers weren't allowed to load their own luggage.  I explained why I had.

This went on for some time, until the inspector happened along to find out what the hold up was.

At that point, the driver went to a secret compartment at the front of the bus and hey presto, produced my luggage, which he'd hidden on me to teach me a lesson.

Oooh, but I really wanted to punch him in his jobsworthy, useless, miserable, mini-Hitler, buttfuck of a face.