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Started by Steve Green, 19 April, 2017, 09:18:18 AM

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The Monarch

I find it kinda ironic with how timey wimey killing time gets that we ended up with a fox and conrad commenting on its first episode after witnessing the rest of it

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In our thrilling two hundred and forty-first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 736-739 of 2000AD, covering June & July 1991. This episode Dredd fights mutants, Friday fights to breath, Indigo Prime follows the time train, Below Zero flounders in bodyguard work, and Bix Barton finds love...or does he?!

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Colin YNWA

Just listening to the latest episode and just want to confirm to Fox that yes did three wheel cars exist - oh boy did they. I could tell you so many stories as a Robin Regal (as noted in the letters the 'modern' Reliant Robin was the first car we had when I was a kid. My Dad loved it 'cos you only had to pay as a motorbike and sidecar through the Mersey Tunnels (two tunnels between the Wirral penisula and Liverpool) not a full car price.

Oh the tales I could tell of family holiday towing a trailer in one of this things, or the disappointment we all felt for various reasons when my Dad got the fiberglass back panels replaced with windows so me and my brother could see out on journeys... oh happy days... kinda...

We were the one family ever to be happy to get a Lada (an almost equally crappy Russian car you could get for bobbins in relative terms) cos we thought it was the poshest, coolest thing as it had four, count um four whole wheels.

The Monarch

Aw man you had "and indigo prime goes off the rails" for part of your intro and never used it  :lol:

A few notes

You can actually see what happened to culver post harping in part 9 its not pretty

that was not one of the help who got his face melted off that was lady jocelyns husband. I can totally understand not getting that since [spoiler]until part 10 where we find out he was the one who caused the crash when the iscariot sent his burnt form back in time to be in front of the train hes not very memorable[/spoiler]

Chris weston is a genius for sneaking things in the background my personal favourite is the reference to his masters voice in the vernon death scene

Leigh S


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Sorry, a little late with this one!

In our thrilling two hundred and forty-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 740-743 of 2000AD, covering July & August 1991. This episode Dredd goes to school, Tanner visits his past, Bix Barton finds love, Friday brings the jungle, and we're all Dead Meat, as a new thrill starts!

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sheridan

Great episode - getting up to the period in my life where I'd have stopped reading 2000AD if I'd been a nonscrot!  Going to gigs, etc.  Speaking of which, also coming up to the prog where a friend of mine had a letter published complimenting Killing Time - same friend was also a gig promoter...

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In our thrilling two hundred and forty-three episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 744-747 of 2000AD, covering August & September 1991. This episode Dredd faces the muzak, we're on a grand adventure with Revere, Dead Meat is on the trail, we'll learn some history in Harlem Heroes, and reach the mind bending conclusions of Below Zero and Indigo Prime: Killing Time! Note: This was recorded in late December and both of the boys are a little stuffed up!

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Just been listening to the latest Big Meg - which is really starting to come to life I have to say - for folks not yet listening you can find the latest here

http://spacespinner2000.com/2021/02/18/ep-8-meg-1-10-11/

ANYWAY - just a very quick and inaccurate I guess potted history of American comics in the UK - I'm sure if i put more effort into this there'll be a website that will cover this properly. ANYWAY you could buy regular US comics for years in regular UK newsagents - so I think Brian Bolland used to buy them in the early 60s for example. You had to know which one's carried them and I think distribution was patchy. So a newsagent wouldn't order particular title but I think order a certain number of comics and a random selection would land of that number. This certainly seemed to be the case in the early eighties when I found a newagent in Birkenhead that carried US comics.

Marvel was local side a specialised in reprinting the best of Marvel stuff but in a weekly anthology format more akin to the rest of the UK industry and therefore distributed much better.

Specialist comic shop have been around in the UK for a long time too. I'm not sure when the first opened but by the late 70s I think most major cities had one at least. Forbidden Planet started around this time, as did Sheffield Space Centre - my local comic shop to this day and I'm pretty sure Chapter One in Liverpool was open by then - but I hadn't discovered it by that point.

So yeah by the 90s there was a well established network of both comic shop and newsagents will still have carried title - though that is very rare these days.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 22 February, 2021, 08:13:37 AM

Marvel UK was local to uk, and specialised in reprinting the best of Marvel stuff, but in a weekly anthology format more akin to the rest of the UK industry and therefore distributed much better.

There were, as ever, a lot of typos there - but these one's in particular annoyed me.

The Monarch

I know i got some issues of doom patrol jli and animal man out of newsagents at the time

God strontium Dogz would totally be a thing they would have considered calling it at the time but in another universe i can see this conversation happening in early 1990....

Tharg: Grant i need a forth series of zenith prepped for prog 750 I know you and Steve need prep time so we are letting you know now

Grant: fuck aff ah goat Doom patrol and animal man tae dae fir dc and ah am tae good tae sully mahsel wie yuir rag noo. So piss aff unless ye want tae gie me a shottie at thon judge dredd.

Tharg: he'll get it done hell we'll do cryptic hints at it and I am suuuure it won't bite us in the back nearer the time now mister Millar about that reboot of robo hunter....are we sure we want to do that to the sidekicks?

Millar: whimsy whits that? ah want tae shock youse!

Andy B

I got a big wave of '70s nostalgia from Colin's post... walking across the Meadows in Edinburgh, every week, to the Science Fiction Bookshop. My first exposure to Marvel was in some of those anthologies: Forces in Combat and Future Tense. Weird mixture of stuff in those comics...

Also enjoying Big Meg One a lot. Thanks for reminding me how great Al's Baby was: relentlessly entertaining, and Ezquerra goes just the right amount of cartoonish on it. Looks like he was having fun. Complete edition (three stories) on sale for $5 in 2000AD app right now: no excuse not to!

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In our thrilling two hundred and forty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 748-751 of 2000AD, covering September & October 1991. This episode we're ending a bunch of thrills and starting new ones, including Robo-Hunter, Universal Soldier, Strontium Dogs, and ABC Warriors!

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In our mega ninth episode Eli and Conrad continue their patrol through the world of Judge Dredd with issues twelve and thirteen of the Judge Dredd Megazine, cover dates September & October 1991. This episode Raptaur is eating heads, Razors goes to Sov-Block 1, Al's baby is changing diapers, Armitage is dodging drones, and Young Death concludes!

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