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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 08:23:39 PM

Also, if it's a viable option (assuming the collection is continuing to 200), I'll bet Matt Smith could find another 50 or so pages of content to pad it out a bit. (I'm sure there's a better pairing, not least because there are no creators in common, but I don't believe XTNCT has been in the collection yet. So tuck that at the back of Proteux Vex II and I'd be well happy!)

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by Max Headroom - Today at 07:54:03 PM

Hoping that 'Aquila' and 'Proteus Vex' have enough material for them to be finished in the Ultimate Collection before it ends. That would be perfect!

With the news that Proteus Vex concludes in the current arc, there won't be enough on it's own.

Maybe in a Mike Carroll volume with some Dreadnoughts.

I calculate that in 'Proteus Vex' the previous uncollected arc ('Crawlspace') covered 70 pages and the current story of 15 parts should be at least 80 pages; this grand total of 150 pages is more than some of the thinner volumes in the Ultimate Collection have been (eg 'Slaine: Book of Scars'). So there is at least hope it makes it in. Fingers crossed, as nothing could be more deserving!

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Off Topic / Re: RIPs

Last post by rogue69 - Today at 07:24:14 PM

Super Gran Gudrun Ure aged 98

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/15/super-gran-actor-gudrun-ure-dies-aged-98?

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by judgeurko - Today at 07:11:24 PM

The best part was Paul and John playing a chord!

Convince me I'm wrong?

I didn't recognise them. Strange they couldn't get anyone that looks or sounds like the legendary duo.

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by judgeurko - Today at 07:09:56 PM

Then again do little kids like babies?

They like bogey and fart jokes.

I asked do they like babies.

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Help! / Re: Rebellion and Rights to Ea...

Last post by Steve Green - Today at 05:57:07 PM

Thanks!

I can't for the life of me remember where I heard it, might have been other strips - have a vague memory of someone who later became famous being a bit embarrassed about their photostrip work

Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet?  Appeared in a My Guy photostrip - presumably before being lead singer of the band.

Gold

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by don wiskerando - Today at 04:46:37 PM

Hoping that 'Aquila' and 'Proteus Vex' have enough material for them to be finished in the Ultimate Collection before it ends. That would be perfect!

With the news that Proteus Vex concludes in the current arc, there won't be enough on it's own.

Maybe in a Mike Carroll volume with some Dreadnoughts.

[The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)]

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Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...

Last post by karlos - Today at 03:54:08 PM

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

A close relative of SISU, in many ways - especially in the Tarantino-aping and general cartoony killings (of which there an astounding amount).

An odd one - I thoroughly enjoyed it but afterwards found out the many things that were left out or changed for no real reason, I can tell.

I should read the book.

But, anyway, still recommended but with a lot of caveats (Maybe it's best to see it as some sort of alternate reality version of what actually happened?)

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Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by BadlyDrawnKano - Today at 02:59:30 PM

...And I've very conflicting feelings about Black Hammer, though partially that's because I loved how it began, but then it ended in a manner I didn't gel with, except that wasn't the ending, and what I've read of it since then has left me unsure of the direction it's going in. I've yet to finish it currently, and I don't even know if the most recent ending is the final ending, and given that I'm not sure I've the inclination to find out...

Oh man I have mixed feeling about Black Hammer - The End. I'd pretty much loved all of Black Hammer to that point, the odd exception aside and think I've got pretty much it all. Then 'The End' kinda read like the very thing it was paying tribute to as an inspiration. Just a great big event comic tyoe feel. Now that doesn't feel like it should have been a bad thing, but it strangely was on first reading.

Black Hammer has its place on my countdown and that set now BUT I had such mixed feeling about the end I've got that final (I believe) series out to re-read before I write it up as it may well change my entry (if not postion) as it might become about how sticking the landing can be so important!

We'll see I have a suspision I'll enjoy it more on re-read so I'm trying to reserve judgement!

Ah, that's disappointing to hear, and I think I'll probably relegate this to picking up the trades in charity shops or cheap ebay sales, at least for the time being as my comics backlog is so huge in general.

I was ten or eleven years old when I first stumbled across Warrior and V For Vendetta, every year my parents insisted on going to the same holiday camp in Hayling Island and it was a pretty dull place, but the camp shop did used to have a pretty great selection of comics that weren't stocked by my local newsagents. It's where I first discovered DC and Marvel along with less mainstream comics like Warrior, and I have to confess that the majority of the issue I bought there went right over my head, and some of it I found quite disturbing, but I do remember V For Vendetta having a huge effect on me. I'd dabbled with dystopian futures in the past (eg I watched and liked Blake's 7!) but this was something very different, and it came at just the right time as I was beginning to learn that maybe the UK wasn't the always wonderful place my parents painted it as.

It wasn't until the DC reprints that I read the rest of the series, but it's been a firm favourite ever since, and I'd say it's in my Moore Top 3. And I'd echo your comments about the lack of a black and white release, I did own a complete set of Warrior about ten years ago and it was a real delight to read all of the stories in that format, but alas a period out of work led me to selling them.

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Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 01:57:22 PM

Arh yeah good point I wonder if its just not available in black white form to reproduce from with the quality to justify it.

I'm slightly baffled by this... the colour was added after the linework was completed as a separate process. I would have thought scans/films of the original B&W must exist.

It's actually considered extremely bad practice for a professional colourist, particularly one working over someone else's line work, to use any black in the black in the colour mix — all colours are supposed to be percentages of cyan, magenta and yellow so, in theory, one could simply print only the black plate to get the original, uncoloured artwork...