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Wasn't the staring contest just straight out of The Fast Show?

It's all happening in the database chat room.

It's all very well and good for you unemployed chapees, but I've got a tutorial at 3 pm, so must think about bed.

She ULTRA rocks.

But I've thought that since she stopped being in films for three years to go to University.

The Sisters of Mercy have many mighty covers in their arsenal:

Jolene (as previously discused)
Gimme Shelter
Emma
1969

Every one made better by Eldritch's deadpan delivery.

All the Shatner ones are a laugh:

"Lucy.
In the sky.
With...................DIAMONDS!"

His Common People is the best!

File alongside Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and Lawnmower Deth's "I Think We're Alone Now."

Link: http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3" target="_blank">Yo Dre, I got somethin' to say!

I can't really remember the ins and out of New Statesmen as my copies of Crisis went the Crow Road many years ago. I do recall finding it an enjoyable piece of Smith mentalism with some nice art.
However, I also bought into the whole Thirld World War thing, so you can judge my sixteen-year-old state of mind.

It reminds me of New Statesmen. But that's partly why I like it.

I read on some other board it's 12 episodes in total, so there's still quite a bit to tie up. Does anyone know if it's strictly a one-off or if there'll be more to come?

I realise he doesn't care, but he's not doing himself any favours walking around like some long-faced old wino with his beard protruding jauntily from his coat.

But Judgement Day was total pish, so it might be good idea to try again with a decent story.

So, The Cursed Earth last night and The Day the Law Died this evening! It's been years sinc I read either and my thrill-circuits are well and truly frazzled. A few comments.

- Far from being a nightmare vision of the ultimate fascist, Dredd back in the day was a bleeding heart liberal with a rolled up copy of The Guardian in his holster. First it was robots, now it's aliens, muties and the deranged products of scientific minds gone wrong that he feels sorry for.

- So many sidekicks, but Spikes is the best. Judge Shaft, I mean Giant, is pretty ropey.

- Never mind Burger King, Roger Zelazny should be suing.

- Surprisingly, The Cursed Earth seems to work better as a story. Or, rather, as a loose framework for a whole bunch of stories. Day the Law Died is bloody hilarious in places though. Then they suddenly have that fairly shocking "at least in Nazi Germany the trains ran on time" bit which fits in well enough but is a sudden blast of a very different kind of humour.

- I still cringe at "only the strength of madness could break those chains."

- The second last panel of "The Mutie Mountains" has either been messed up at the printers or I've got a dodgy copy. Can anyone tell me what it's meant to say?

- Backtracking on a previous post I made, it might only be his Slaine that I particularly object to about Mick McMahon as all the stuff here is great. Bolland's episodes are better, mind.

Keep up the good work Jon. The one thing I could do with, which was mentioned on the thread about the first volume, is an idea of which aliases belong to who.

Snapped one of these up on the way home this afternoon: glad to see it just made it's scheduled February release date.

Not had a chance to read it yet as I only bought it 25 minutes ago and I was consumed by the nerdish internet-geek desire to be the one to start the thread!

Initial impressions are that the same care and attention has gone into producing this as the first volume and a shelf full is going to look great. Unfortunately there's no quirky extras like Walter's Wobot Tales, but looking at the side of the book they've had to include a lot more dead pages because of the increased number of splash pages this time out.

Watch out if you're heading for FP Glasgow to get this as the whole batch seems to have been unpacked and shelved by a particularly clumsy child and every copy I could find had some marking on the back from what I assume was packing material.

Oh well, I can't see any work getting done tonight as I get stuck into some serious Dredd action.

The Invisibles is absolutely brilliant stuff. Morrison in excelsis.

Well, Book 1 (the first two TPBs, I think) is probably my favourite comic of all time. The subsequent volumes, where the tone was deliberately altered to aim for the more mainstream comic market, is still good but I do occasionally drift off into a bit of a reverie over what might have been.

You may find the second story in the book a bit heavy going, but it's well worth sticking with and you get the light relief of stuff like "Dead Man's Fall" afterwards. I think the second volume collects the various "origins" stories and has some fantastic moments. BUY BUY BUY.

I should also point out that I was bitterly (and quite unreasonably) disappointed when I read The Illuminatus books a couple of years later and found that Morrison had knicked whole chunks of it. It made me confused about who the Wachowskis ripped off for The Matrix.

OK, people who actually like DK2, what the hell is wrong with them?

I don't know but there was a spirited attempt to defend it on this site recently. They also seem to have an ongoing debate about how fascist Frank Miller actually is...

Link: http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/2006/02/holy-shit-are-you-people-nuts-or.html" target="_blank">Stop the madness

In Borders yesterday I read the first Sinister/Dexter collection (for the first time) and the artwork is uniformly awful throughout. Davis' stuff is an order of magnitude better than the Millgate guy and it does improve noticably even in that short space of time.

Now I still find his work very patchy. In the space of a single episode there will be quite beautiful panels alongside scrapings from the studio floor.

He excels at rendering reflective clothing, but I don't know how much of a recommendation that is.