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Have just started a mammoth reread of Nikolai Dante, from the first episode and am currently up to The Masque of Dante. What can I say? I'd forgotten how seamlessly this strip flows and how grud-damned enjoyable it was right off the bat. Tharg's comment that 'rarely does a thrill arrive fully voiced', or similar, really did hit the mark.

Will comment more as I continue through- but just to say a couple of things.

One: Thanks to the masters of this site for the 'thrillseeker' feature and more specifically the *printer friendly version*- without which, my hunt for the necessary progs may well have put me off.

Two: One of the oddest, and best, things about 2000ad is that, when one decides to reread a certain strip over a number of progs, it proves damn near impossible to do so *without* reading all manner of supplementary material. Usually Dredd, most of the time SiniDex, and always the letters page (which, as an oldie, I still think of as the 'nerve center', even though it hasn't been for years). Proof, if any were needed, that 2000ad is a rare entertainment investment in these disposable days.

Anyway... work now, then home for prog 1372 and meg 215, then Dante.

It's a hard life.

Steev

Anyone else get a subs copy of the latest prog minus staples? Mine's ended up scattered all over the living room floor. Argh.

Steev

(apologies if this appears twice. Server died)

Are we to expect the Dredd Vs Death issue to be sent out with this week's subs progs? or will we get it later? And- hs it been delayed, along with the game itself? And- any word on what issues 2 to 5 will contain?

Spoo

... I think that's what it's called. According to Meridian news broadcasts all evening, it's "the first comic book to be launched in Britain for twenty-five years".
Er...

Steev
Who won't be buying a single copy of it's 175 thousand print run. Football piss.

By our reporter on the sunny south coast,

The world of 2000ad was rocked today when a subscriptions gift actually arrived. Mr Steev Hopper from Sussex (33) was absent mindedly making breakfast this morning when he was rudely woken from his stupor by the postman ringing the doorbell. On answering the door Mr Hopper was confronted by a small polystyrene box which, when opened, revealed a white china drinking utensil adorned with the features of Mean Machine Angel.

Mr Hopper, who subscribed about a hundred years ago and has ever since been waiting for his mug is quoted as saying "At last. I can't believe it. I'm over the moon. Things like this don't happen to people like me usually. I think I'll use the mug to go on holiday and maybe buy the missus a new car. But I'll be going back to work tomorrow, I don't want it to change me in any way."

Mr Hopper has already received thirty begging letters following his mug-arrival and this afternoon was unavailable for comment. A neighbour said he had "gone away".

Steev

According to the current Comics International listings, 'to be released in September' is 'The Making of Judge Dredd Vs Judge Death' (Jamie Boardman, tpbk).

"Go behind the scenes of the new videogame, Judge Dredd Vs Judge Death, with features ranging from the new Asura graphic novel to the most notable villains. Mature. $32.95"

Has this been noted here? If so, please ignore.

Steev

Right then- I'm trying to get a complete collection of, well, stuff that I like- and I need a bit of help. This isn't a plea for you to supply me with items, just for information. So- here are a few questions. Apologies for the inherent nerdiness of this post!

1. Was there a 2000ad presents Dan Dare annual, cover dated 1978? This site says no, but I've seen it mentioned elsewhere.

2. Regarding the 'Scream' summer specials- and David, if you're readig, you may be able to help me out here- I know there were 5, and one of those is called 'Supernatural' or similar, but can someone supply me with dates and, even better, cover scans so I know what to look for?

3. Ditto the 'Action' summer specials.

4. 'Battle'. 673 issues- none of them numbered. Sigh. Is there ANYWHERE on the web can get either a printable listing of the cover dates of them all, OR some kind of downloadable printable calender type thingy that goes back to the early seventies?

5. Can somebody just shoot me now and put me out of my misery?

Many thansk for any help any of you can supply!

Steev

Having just ordered the first volume of the Digital Archives, I'm wondering why Tharg hasn't made a big deal out of this in the weekly progs. After all, for those who started late, later, or recently, surely this is of massive interest? And for those of us who'd buy a tube of Anusol if it had a 2000ad logo on it, they're vital as well.

Isn't it time they were mentioned in the Nerve Centre at least? (preferrably making it crystal clear that they aren't comics on CD, like *I* thought)- or perhaps a full page ad for the FutureShop is needed- highlighting them and the brilliant mobile covers (of which I've just ordered the Durham Red one). Up until the other day, I had no idea either of these things existed- and I'm a subscriber and a regular visitor to the site.

Perhaps a paper-based catalogue sent out to subscribers would be a good idea too.

And, on an unrelated topic- isn't it about time we had another questionnaire free with the prog?

Steev
Busy, tired and off to bed.

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I just wanted to be the first person here to say- ARGH! Page-order fuck-up on Strontium Dog! Are there any in circulation without this?

Rest of prog looks okay though.

Steev

The lady and I have just finished watching BBC3's 'Would Like To Meet' programme- about Allie, a 33 year old goth girl, with a son, who presumably "would like to meet" men.

As a 33 year old goth bloke, with a 38 year old goth lady and a small son, I could not believe the small-minded petty irritating ignorance and hypocritical bollocks this programme spouted.

Apparently it was okay for the makers to call her "scary" and "off-putting" and accuse her of "living in the past"- but NOT okay for her to similarly stereotype notGoths as hideous twats. The entire programme revolved around battering her down, destroying her personality and rebuilding it so she "fit into society". And to make matters worse, they put the whole of it to a Guns n Roses soundtrack!

Now, as someone who would never even consider a relationship with a notGoth, and never has done, I find the idea of such programmes squirm-inducing in the extreme. After all, if the programme was really about helping Allie find a man- why not do a show about introducing her to lots of elligible goth men? After all, she lives in London fer Chrissakes, they're not hard to find! Instead, it was a hideous, sadistic attempt to rip the piss out of her, eradicate her identity and make her look like the rest of the world.

Poor cow. You could see her desperation written all over her face. Surely there's some kind of law against TV exploiting people in this way? She tried her best to maintain her dignity, but in the end they won her over, and it was very sad to see.

I realise this has sweet bugger all to do with the topic in hand, but I just wanted to rant. And Guns n Roses! I ask you! Is it any wonder BBC3 is dying on it's arse? Dreadful channel, full of the kind of toss you'd usually find on ITV1 or worse, ITV2 in the middle of the night. That bloody license fee needs to go, sharpish.

Steev
Disgusted, of Hastings.

I've just spent a totally unproductive hour playing the limited-play-version of 'Judge Dredd pinball', available on the cover disc of the current '101 PC Games' magazine. I don't like computer games as a rule, and have never understood pinball,but it diverted mine eyes from the piles of nappies quite nicely.

At this rate I may even buy Dredd Vs Death!

Of course then I tried to install the Hulk demo and it crashed my pc, so maybe not.

Anyway, I hadn't seen it mentioned here, so I thought I would. 101 game demos for 5.99. I've played one. Hulk's a nono, so I have 99 left to go. That's the rest of my life sorted then.

Steev

...yet again Thargy taunts me by sending three pages of subs bumf through my letterbox- even having the big green balls to tell me I can "order only up to four" Mean Machine mugs as a subscriber! Well, that's all well and good you Green Git, but WHERE'S MY SUBS MUG IN THE FIRST PLACE? (and my postcards from my letter two megs ago!)

ARGH! It's hard to hold tea in your cupped palms.

Steev

Imagine my surprise when, wandering around Safeway the other day, I found a copy of Toxic loitering with intent by the birthday cards. I pounced and was horrified to find it's an Egmont-owned pre-teen "naughty boys" mag with no redeeming features whatsoever. However, it did come with a free Hulk hero-clix figure and a packet of Haribo sweets, so I bought it anyway.

Does this mean that, in some far-off day when 2000ad finally bites the dust, a decade later we'll be wandering around a european-style hypermarket staffed entirely by (ahem) "economic migrants" only to find "2000ad issue one" with a big pic of S Club 11 on the front, or somesuch, costing five euros? Zut Alors! This must not happen! And how has a comic called Toxic been on the shelf for the best part of a year without me noticing?

All this serves just to make me nostalgic for the proper one. I want to see The Driver back. And Coffin. And Accident Man. And Sex Warrior. And that one about the dinosaurs fighting robot men on motorbikes or something. What about the Colin Macneill story that was running when it got cancelled? Could the Megazine print the rest of that? But mostly I just want to see The Driver again.

"Hide in yer hole! I'm on Cruise Control!"

Steev
Living in the past.

For the second week running, my subs prog didn't arrive this morning- but this week it was replaced by the megazine. Can anyone please tell me what's going on?

For those interested, the new DR WHO DVD- 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' (Tom Baker, victorian London, giant rats in the sewers, killer ventriloquist dummy with the brain of a pig etc) features a 'TARDIS cam' extra, which appears to be an imagining of Pat Mills's 1970s Dr Who story that never got made, featuring space whales. The whales in question have Nemesis-stylee 'Blitzspear' noses as well! Very cool.

Steev