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There's quite a few on that list that i can't remember anything about but also some real finds - the Fables books and Black Cherry for example.

If I spent that amount of a year reading stuff unconnected with my work I'd lose my home!!

My job may involve 7hrs of mind-numbing brainslavery a day, but at least there's no extra-curricular reading involved. At 5pm on the dot my brain erases everything work-related for 16 hours.  

And the telly's shite these days.

WAGNER

Pat Mills can delight and infuriate in equal measure, but Mr W is the droid that just keeps on giving!

Good man!

USE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM, CREEPS!

Why is it so hard to get a drivers license over there?

American towns tend to have big wide streets in a simple grid pattern and long straight highways between towns, and almost everybody drives automatics. We drive stick-shift cars in ridiculously heavy traffic in tiny streets that were often laid out in medieval times, and we have  a million and one traffic laws, so the test is necessarilly pretty strict. The only insanity is that learners can't learn to drive on motorways, but once they've passed the test, they're let loose on the fastest and most dangerous of roads with no training at all! I was shitting myself the first time I crept onto the M6!

I was in the USA when I was 20 and found the old-style british licence good for blagging my way into 21+ bars. Once you took it out of the little plastic sleeve, unfolded it, explained why there was no photo and that your DOB could be worked out by rearranging the digits in the serial number...doormen would be so amazed, they'd usually just wave you in! I was amazed how easy it was for any drongo 16 year old in the states to get a licence though - the test seemed pathetically easy!

to do the test, I had to get a babysitter, & hitch the two hour journey North one winters Dawn in the frost, with an 8.5 month bump which barely fitted behind the wheel.

My god, is it Scotland or the Cursed earth you live in?

[Khronicles of khaos Judge Dredd: the complete case files Silver Surfer - in thy name Judge Dredd - the Henry Flint collection Sword of the Tsar Evensong Portrait of a mutant Amazing Spider-Girl - mind games 52 Aftermath:The four horsemen Zombie - Simon Garth Big things Hunting party Lenore - noogies Batman: Year Two The life eaters Coward Showcase presents Batman and the Outsiders Seven sons Buffy the vampire slayer : The long way home There's treasure everywhere Black Cherry Staring at the wall Rake at the gates of hell She-Hulk 4 - laws of attraction 100 bullets - decayed Captain America: Red, white & blue It's a good life, if you don't weaken Paper dolls Pride of Baghdad Swamp Thing - infernal triangles Motherland Kimono dragons Black vengeance When in Rome Jet lag Mighty love Marvel Masters: the British invasion War of the undead Fantastic Four visionaries Loki Sky's the limit D.C., the new frontier. Vol. 2 Neil Gaiman's midnight days Heading into the light Harley and Ivy Teenage wasteland Batman and the mad monk Wolves Hero reborn Kings in disguise Hard boiled Necromancer 21 Down : the conduit Dave Stewart's walk in Sons of empire Doomsday for Mega-city One Magician apprentice Big Book of Death Crux Blacklist Storybook love Animal farm Legends in exile Wolverine soultaker Fair play Ramayan 3392 AD: the Mahavinaash age Fantastic Four visionaries For tomorrow First family Sons of empire Turning points Illegal alien Crawling from the wreckage (one year later) Iron Man - inevitable Trial by fire God save the queen Arabian nights (and days) Fallen Angel 2 Face the face Absolute power The Uncanny X-Men - second Krhonicles [i.e. Khronicles] of khaos Artesia Cataclysm Buffy the Vampire Slayer omnibus Caricature Occult Crimes Taskforce Family lost Marvel Europa Secret war Ultimate Spider-Man Deadly genesis Venom Fallen Angel DC/Top Cow crossovers Essential Daredevil. Vol. 3 Black flowers Thunderbolt Jaxon Breakout Strange attractors Predator omnibus Trail of time Ultimate Fantastic Four. Vol. 2: doom Infinite City Batman: the greatest stories ever told Dr. Strange vs. Dracula: the Montesi formula El Borbah Essential presents Peter Parker, the spectacular Replacements Shadows fall Silver Sable Other realities]

I'm talking about our public libraries. Maybe I'm just blessed in Manchester that they buy so many graphic novels. I've just discovered I can print out my 12-month loan history - I've removed all the novels and CDs from the list below leaving just the comics. I reckon if we say a conservative average of £12 a pop, that's £1,344 worth of comics I've had in just one year for FREE!

If you haven't visited yours recently, take a look, and if your librarians don't buy comics, tell them to!

Khronicles of khaos
Judge Dredd: the complete case files
Silver Surfer - in thy name  
Judge Dredd - the Henry Flint collection  
Sword of the Tsar
Evensong
Portrait of a mutant  
Amazing Spider-Girl - mind games
52 Aftermath:The four horsemen
Zombie - Simon Garth  
Big things
Hunting party
Lenore - noogies  
Batman: Year Two  
The life eaters
Coward
Showcase presents Batman and the Outsiders
Seven sons
Buffy the vampire slayer : The long way home
There's treasure everywhere
Black Cherry
Staring at the wall
Rake at the gates of hell  
She-Hulk 4 - laws of attraction
100 bullets - decayed  
Captain America: Red, white & blue  
It's a good life, if you don't weaken
Paper dolls
Pride of Baghdad
Swamp Thing - infernal triangles  
Motherland
Kimono dragons  
Black vengeance
When in Rome
Jet lag
Mighty love
Marvel Masters: the British invasion
War of the undead
Fantastic Four visionaries  
Loki  
Sky's the limit
D.C., the new frontier. Vol. 2
Neil Gaiman's midnight days  
Heading into the light
Harley and Ivy
Teenage wasteland
Batman and the mad monk
Wolves
Hero reborn
Kings in disguise
Hard boiled
Necromancer  
21 Down : the conduit  
Dave Stewart's walk in  
Sons of empire
Doomsday for Mega-city One  
Magician apprentice
Big Book of Death
Crux
Blacklist
Storybook love  
Animal farm  
Legends in exile  
Wolverine soultaker  
Fair play  
Ramayan 3392 AD: the Mahavinaash age
Fantastic Four visionaries  
For tomorrow
First family
Sons of empire
Turning points
Illegal alien
Crawling from the wreckage (one year later)
Iron Man - inevitable  
Trial by fire
God save the queen
Arabian nights (and days)  
Fallen Angel 2  
Face the face
Absolute power
The Uncanny X-Men - second
Krhonicles [i.e. Khronicles] of khaos
Artesia  
Cataclysm  
Buffy the Vampire Slayer omnibus  
Caricature  
Occult Crimes Taskforce  
Family lost
Marvel Europa
Secret war  
Ultimate Spider-Man
Deadly genesis
Venom
Fallen Angel  
DC/Top Cow crossovers
Essential Daredevil. Vol. 3  
Black flowers
Thunderbolt Jaxon
Breakout
Strange attractors
Predator omnibus  
Trail of time
Ultimate Fantastic Four. Vol. 2: doom
Infinite City
Batman: the greatest stories ever told
Dr. Strange vs. Dracula: the Montesi formula
El Borbah  
Essential presents Peter Parker, the spectacular
Replacements
Shadows fall
Silver Sable
Other realities  [/b]

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In all, another good prog but I seemed to finish it in about ten minutes!

You were just racing to bag the thread perhaps?

I thought the cover was great, very striking, and I've always had a soft spot for red and black (must be the anarchist in me).

Tharg gets all ranty for a change - I wouldn't go as far as to call Dr Who a [spoiler]"gurning celebrity guest star of the week pantomime"[/spoiler] - but then it turns out he's just plugging a new feature in the Meg, and normality is restored.

Dredd - no sorry, not liking this. Includes one of my most hated sci-fi/action movie cliches - the huge pointless chasm with a tiny bridge that has no reason to exist - this is the engineering deck of a  spaceship for grud's sake!

ABC Warriors: There's been a bit of a Langley backlash in recent threads, but I'm still loving this . I was hoping for the semi-plausible explanation we never got last time as to how you melt down a robot and get sentient liquid metal, but no, it seems even the mighty Mills hasn't attempted to write his way out of that one.

Red Seas - enjoyable, and includes a truly execellent curse from, I think,  [spoiler]Thor[/spoiler]. Yeowell's art befuddles me - i can't say i like it too much, but he does manage to convey huge amounts in simple srokes. maybe it's growing on me.

Stalag 666. Thoroughly enjoyable tosh. 'Nowt wrong with that once in a while!

Lobster Random - Excellent. Si Spurrier is one of my fave writers, I love his choice (and invention) of words ("prolapsed your brainarse" - heh! I still chuckle over that gem from last prog!). The art is top notch too. only trouble is I haven't a smegging clue what's going on. I put it down to my addled memory, so I'm going to have to re-read the previous lobster stuff and the Vort to get the best of this.

The back page ad looks interesting, but if that's D'Israeli's take on Dredd, keep him away from the strip. His awesome talents are better deployed elsewhere if that example's anything to go by.

Heh - dont expect theres many teenagers who remember the Dredd film version comic: Lawman Of The Future!..

Aha, now I get it ... yes, I can see what you mean. Didn't read LOTF, but it's Dredd....and yet not Dredd.

 I've never been keen on dredd in space - the Judge Child stood out as a once in a lifetime quest, but I've never really bought into the Meg as a galactic power - that whole space-judges story (the title of which I've thankfully blotted out) was just plain daft.

And I agree about the bloody stupid name.

nah, isn't that ROTF (roll on the floor)?

Quick! somebody find a teenager!

["Nut Screws Washers & Bolts"]

One, possibly apocryphal, story I recall from a previous life at journalism college, was from some local paper: An escaped mental patient had raped a women at a launderette and fled. the headline read: "Nut Screws Washers & Bolts". Probably never really happened though - seems a little insensitive, whatever the decade!

Another was from the notoriously parochial Dundee Advertiser & Times in 1912. Writers had standard orders to always stress trhe local angle of any story, so the sinking of the Titanic was relayed as "Local man lost at sea"

And then of course there's the legendary WWII example that depends entirely on how you place the stress: "Eighth army push bottles up Germans"

Darn, forgot this was on and din't set the vid - I was at Waterstones listening to Bill (KLF) Drummond explain his latest crackpot theory on music.

The final tally:

RO-JAWS - 6
JOE PINEAPPLES - 9

I'm happy to say that this would have been my first choice all along, though along the way I nearly changed my mind as all the suggestions rolled in - I rediscovered my love of several old Ro-busters and obscure ABC Warriors.

Thanks for all the votes, It's been real, and GOODNIGHT!

PS - Am I the only one who only heard about composers Rogers & Hammerstein years after Robusters and had one of those aaaah! moments?

absolutely adore the shaping on the chest-mounted control-panel

"honestly, darling I was just admiring the shaping of her control panel...."