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I really enjoyed that. It was an enjoyable story and the production standards were excellent. It was great fun spotting the cameos in the Doghouse. Well done guys!

On the subject of hardbacks, does anyone know if we're likely to see Nemesis in hardback at some point? Given that a lot of Mill's other stuff has seen hardback release, it would be good see to Nemesis, too. And the early Slaine, for that matter.

Regards,

Robin

There is the Deviant Edition, which is hardback.

I saw the trailer for The Mummy and it didn't appeal, to be honest. I think I'll miss the B-movie charm and humour of Brendan Fraser.

Maybe it's the monthly schedule, but I'm having real trouble recognising characters in Havn and following the storyline.

Nice pics. I kind of wish Luke was sporting the dark cloak. The black suit and green saber look in ROTJ is far preferable to the brown bath-robe look in my opinion.

Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man.

Minority governments and coalitions are great things for fending off extreme and ill-thought policies. I really don't understand Labour's position here.

I get that you like the Greens, but you'd have to have an astronomical faith in the number of protest votes they'll be creaming off the main parties to think that Labour would benefit more from a formal alliance than it would cost them in PR.  If they did do such a thing, the Tory press would crucify them through the "Coalition Of Chaos" narrative alone, never mind the mileage they'd get from "loony Greens are the only party that will give desperate Labour the time of day" and/or "so much for the great coalition."
As for Lib/Lab, that will simply never happen - Tim Farron has seen to that several times over.

The Tory press will crucify Labour no matter what. They are currently lauding policies that they screamed about when they came from "Red Ed".

If Labour really wanted to work with others then they could make a reasonable case that a centre-left coalition is actually the "strong and stable" choice. They don't, because they're too used to the winner-takes-all of Westminster.

Labour's attitude towards the SNP has played a large part in their catastrophic showing in recent Scottish elections. In the first minority SNP Scottish government there was the bizarre sight of Labour blocking minimum pricing for alchohol, which was supported by the leadership of the UK Labour party, simply because it was an SNP motion. It was no surprise that the electorate thought they were a bunch of dullards who put party over country and gave them a severe kicking at the ballot box.

And now the UK Labour party is refusing to make pragmatic deals with smaller parties. They haven't learned any lessons over the past few years.

"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." One of the greatest opening lines in literature. You know what you're getting just from that, and you know it will be brilliant.

McConville and Ezquerra, I think.

Early Dredd transplanted directly to screen would feel like a cartoon to me.

Absolutely. There's also a heavy nostalgia factor among readers for the early Dredds. When you read them fresh you soon realise that a lot of them haven't stood the test of time. There is a reason that new readers of Dredd are not advised to start with Case Files 1.

The tone of the comic is all over the place, which is fine because its read over a long period and its what readers expect and enjoy. I don't think TV viewers would know what was happening if there was a comedy robot saga one week and a brutal drug bust the next.

Obviously there needs to be room for Sensitive Klegg, though.

I'm trying to convince my other half that this would be a good weekend away. She's not entirely convinced by my pitch of the wonders of Leeds in September.

Hope you enjoy it. It's one of the best books Rebellion has put out, in my opinion.

It's nothing compared to my Waterworld tattoo.