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Bought a game for a fiver (it was 50% discount) on Steam yesterday called "3030 DEATHWAR: A SPACE ODYSSEY".  Imagine, if you will, a space-trading game along the lines of "Elite" (but as a topdown space shooter) mixed with Lucasart adventure games such as "The Secret Of Monkey Island".  Are you imagining it? Are you? Are you?  If you answered YES, then you're probably imagining "3030 DEATHWAR: A SPACE ODYSSEY".   For those of a certain age, it's the greatest Amiga 500 game you never got to play in the 90s.  Only been playing a couple of hours, but already hooked.

BUY IT! :-)

Watched and absolutely loved British supernatural comedy-drama CRAZYHEAD on Netflix over the weekend.  Very funny but hits all the right beats when it wants to make you teary-eyed or brown-trousered.  It's only 6 x 45min episodes so won't take up too much of your time.

PUNISHER season 2 was also good, violent fun.  John Bernthal would make a good Rico vs Karl Urban's Dredd, I reckon.

Wot youz watching?

My current musical favourites are:

TABLE SCRAPS - Brummy dirty rock n roll trio who make you want to ride your Lawmaster so fast it explodes but keeps going long enough to rife you straight to hell.

MADONNATRON - if The Bangles were from Brit-cit (and possibly witches) making top notch dirge-rock.

AKDK - two drummers and a drokk load of synths. 

I still have the first 10 or so issues of TOXIC!  There are some great stories in there (Accident Man, Bogie Man, Marshall Law) and some not so great ones (I really couldn't get behind "The Driver").

It's a real shame the experiment didn't work out.  I'd happily buy another few weekly or monthly British comic anthologies alongside my Prog and Meg.

(Apologies if this is being discussed elsewhere.  I did look for a thread but couldn't find one)

After enjoying the Judge Dredd Year One & Year Two novellas, I excitedly purchased the recent JUDGES book by Michael Carroll (as well as Judge Anderson Year One, that I am yet to get stuck into yet).

I must say, I really enjoyed the first two stories in JUDGES, both as thrilling page turners and as an investigation into why would anyone want to become a Judge, or support the fascist Judge system.  Using propaganda techniques we are all too well aware of thse days, and yet seem to repeatedly fall for, creating scapegoats and arguing the "common sense approach" to cutting red tape, Fargo's footsoldiers take to the streets alongside the police they will one day replace.

As I say, the first two stories really grabbed me and kept me engrossed.  It could be argued that the third story is actually "better written" than the other two, as it uses flashbacks and different narrators to give us all sides of a story, and reads, at times, like a Toni Morrison book (admitedly, I've only read "Beloved"some 20+ years ago, so sorry if that's a lazy comparison.).  Unfortunately, it's higher brow writing style can be a hinderance and flashbacks and diary entries slow down the pace of "the case", which is when the story is at it's most page-turny (especially once the incredibly fun Judge Poet gets involved).

My only other criticism, is the first story shoe-horning in an origin for the word "Drokk".  Gotta say, that one tiny bit (it's literally only two or three lines) made me wince a bit.

on the whole though, I really enjoyed JUDGES, would love to see this period of the Dreddverse history appear in Meg or Prog more often, and will certainly buy any future 2000ad themed novellas.