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Messages - The Enigmatic Dr X

#5416
General / Re: what did you do before...........
09 April, 2004, 03:53:14 PM
Before I got into 2000ad?

I spent a couple of years learning the basics (eating, sleeping, walking, talking, not using my pants as a toilet).

After that, I spent about two years getting to grips with the Roman alphabet (it was a trying time) and some ancillary life skills (mainly doing my shoelaces)

Then I got into 2000ad. My mum and dad, both teachers, were of the view that it encouraged reading.

That was 8th August 1981. I was 6 years old.http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/mediumres/224.jpg">
#5417
Help! / Re: publications
07 April, 2004, 10:44:56 PM
Nemesis was on the C64 and spectrum.

Dredd was on the 8 bits and PS1, not sure about the Mega Drive though
#5418
General / Dredd '84
06 April, 2004, 03:53:46 PM
What other stories were there in production for the aborted Dredd fortnightly in 1984? The only two I know of are Helltrekkers and the Anderson - Death story, both of which appeared in the comic that year and in 1985.

Were there others which were being prepared but which have never seen the light of day? Have they appeared in different forms in later years?
#5419
Help! / Re: NAIL POLISH DILEMMA
06 April, 2004, 03:36:01 PM
Wear socks.
#5420
General / Re: DWC--- THE FINAL!
06 April, 2004, 03:51:46 PM
Carlos.
#5421
General / Re: Cool names.
06 April, 2004, 03:50:50 PM
I wanted Dr X, but it was gone at hotmail.
#5422
Megazine / Re: Meg 218
06 April, 2004, 03:38:53 PM
The Meg is up to its usual standards.

You can take that comment any way you choose.
#5423
Suggestions / Re: Some suggestions about this bo...
05 April, 2004, 10:12:33 PM
I am scared and suspicious of change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
#5424
General / Re: Villains
05 April, 2004, 10:14:23 PM
My point exactly! I want something baddies who do stuff. Threatening things. I want supervillains!

When did you last see a BWAH HA HA! in 2K?
#5425
General / Re: Villains
05 April, 2004, 06:23:28 PM
Pat Mills is exempt. At the risk of double standards, his tales are all the same - monsters kills bloke, other blok kills monster.

I want something in the middle. Monsters doing epic scale badness. Preferably zombies, but better than judgement day.
#5426
General / Villains
05 April, 2004, 05:54:12 PM
Just a quick thought, following on the trumps thread, but what was the last really good villain in 2000ad?

Dredd hasn't really had a bad guy to fight for years, has he? Where's the Murds or the Sabbats or the Deaths?

Mr Alpha, in his flashbacks, hasn't really squared off against anything alien (or even mutated!) for a while. Where are the odd silicon gangs calling people "squishies", the crab headed mutants or the alien empires?

Even Dante seems to have lost the red lobster aliens, and SinDex's potential invasion tale seems to have petered into silence.

It's all conspiracies and family dynasties these days. Is this a good thing? What about a simple bit of monster bashing?

Obviously, Slaine is an exception to this. Then again, every Slaine story is more or less the same - Moloch is the same as the three-armed Cythron. But where are the warp spasms? Too odd for kids today?

I miss the epic feeling of a world being threatened by the strange and ugly, with only our heros standing between us and an alien/ mutant/ demon barbecue.

So, what's the cause? Is it a drive to make the comic more sophisticated, pandering to us older readers? Are monsters simply too childish? Or can we expect to see the return of a lumbering, alien behemoth to the pages soon?
#5427
Off Topic / Frailty
05 April, 2004, 05:42:08 PM
Anyone catch this on Sky movies last night? Bill Paxton stars and directs along with Matthew McConahughy. A bit predictable to anyone who has read a Future Shock, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Starts with a bloke telling the FBI that his brother is a serial killer, but is a bit more hokey than that.
#5428
General / Re: Synnamon VS Dead Men Walking.....
06 April, 2004, 03:48:18 PM
Gotta agree with Trouty. They were no worse than any other serial fodder we've had, from Blackhawk thru' Firekind thru' Mambo. I feel both have been unjustly maligned for no reason, or at least no reasons which couldn't be applied to a dozen other strips.

And, as I've said before, I enjoyed Synammon very much. As an introduction to a universe for an on-going tale, I thought it worked very well. Even if the universe is a bit hackneyed and a Culture rip-off. So what? Lots of strips started that way and became popular (the easy examples being Dredd and the Eastwood universe, and SinDex and Pulp Fiction).

I think we can be a bit snotty about new strips. Bearing in mind the comic is weekly and the stories shorter, I think the recent tales - all of them - have done a good job of introducing characters and concepts yet have been maligned.

Their job was to entertain, and they entertained me.
#5429
Prog / Re: Mills on Savage/Invasion!........
05 April, 2004, 07:21:23 PM
Maybe this is the start of the Rebellion's all encompassing Dredd arc masterplan.

We have Savage fighting Volgs...
who use ABC warriors...
which invade the US...
who vote in Booth as president on a war ticket...
etc
#5430
General / Re: The April Competition............
02 April, 2004, 06:00:18 PM
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