Was recently re-reading the Texas City Coup storyline (or whatever we're calling it this week) and came across this continuity stinker where Giant meets Joyce for the first time:
(http://i66.tinypic.com/13z7no1.jpg)
Shame on you, Michael Carroll and/or Colin MacNeil!
Obviously this calls for a lynching.
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Let this be a lesson to all on the perils of pedantry, smart aleckry, and whataboutery in all its forms. Not only did the more handsome and talented Link Prime highlight this anomaly five months ago (link) (https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43439.msg923095#msg923095), he even knew it happened in prog 1987, not prog 1980.
Quote from: Frank on 30 December, 2016, 09:33:12 AM
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Let this be a lesson to all on the perils of pedantry, smart aleckry, and whataboutery in all its forms. Not only did the more handsome and talented Link Prime highlight this anomaly five months ago (link) (https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43439.msg923095#msg923095), he even knew it happened in prog 1987, not prog 1980.
<fist mode="shake" direction="skywards">Noooooooooo!!!</fist>I feel inadequate, unhandsome/untalented and justifiably emasculated. I'll get me coat...
Could they be different Judges? Surely there's more than one person in the world with Joyce as a surname.
Quote from: A.Cow on 30 December, 2016, 11:39:13 AM
I'll get me coat ...
That's not how this game is played!
Your return of serve should be that the Judge GIA
(rest obscured) who's pictured working with and speaking to Joyce in prog 1975 is actually Judge Giacomo*.
* Judge Sam Giacomo (http://images.moviepostershop.com/sex-lies-and-videotape-movie-poster-1989-1010208802.jpg). Maybe Judge Sam Giancana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Giancana).
Ahem!... Not my fault, Guv! :)
From episode One, page one of the Grindstone Cowboys script.
4. Ext. Morning. Mega-City One, streets. On Giant and Joyce, exhausted but still standing, blood dripping from their daysticks, among many unconscious rioters: a lot more rioters are fleeing. Giant has his hand raised to his helmet, receiving a call from Control.
Caption: "... But it'll take more than your constant doom-mongering to solve the crisis."
Giant: Acknowledged, Control. On our way.
Giant (link): Ram-raid in progress, Spiker Piazza. You feeling up to it, Joyce?
Joyce: Not especially. Let's go.
* Gets popcorn *
A continuity error thread? On a comic book forum? I'm sure this will end well...
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Is everyone else suffering a nose bleed? I think it's a side effect of one of the elder gods (http://i.imgur.com/2Us4uZq.jpg) folding down from the four dimensional geometry of overspace to post on a forum. He killed Johnny Alpha, you know.
And Chopper.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 30 December, 2016, 05:09:20 PM
A continuity error thread? On a comic book forum? I'm sure this will end well...
Hopefully, Tharg will force the criminal, Michael Carroll, to write an elaborate, multi-part story explaining why Joyce and Giant Jr II were putting on a performance to convince Dredd they hadn't met previously.
Quote from: Frank on 30 December, 2016, 05:44:22 PM
Hopefully, Tharg will force the criminal, Michael Carroll, to write an elaborate, multi-part story explaining why Joyce and Giant Jr II were putting on a performance to convince Dredd they hadn't met previously.
Dredd: the Alzheimer years? He is the right age for early onset. Perhaps they didn't want to embarrass the old feller?
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Joyce II and Giant III are having an affair behind Dredd's back*.
Or maybe it's like the bit in Godfather II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwFC9QKCzgw), where Michael realises Fredo set him up because he and Johnny Ola had pretended not to know each other when they'd been introduced, earlier.
* That wasn't blood they were wiping from their daysticks
Quote from: Frank on 30 December, 2016, 05:44:22 PM
Hopefully, Tharg will force the criminal, Michael Carroll, to write an elaborate, multi-part story explaining why Joyce and Giant Jr II were putting on a performance to convince Dredd they hadn't met previously.
Quote from: Frank on 30 December, 2016, 06:14:29 PM
Joyce II and Giant III are having an affair behind Dredd's back.
I'm definitely up for Carroll's epic exploration of the backstory of Joyiant II½*, preferably involving creative-yet-brilliantly-logical use of Lawgiver bullets and the "surprise" appearance of Dolman.
* portmanteau-ed in accordance with international celebrity supercouple shipping regulations.
Tony Blair came back to life with no explanation after dying in Maniac 5, and I don't see everyone moaning about that.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 December, 2016, 01:43:03 PM
Tony Blair came back to life with no explanation after dying in Maniac 5, and I don't see everyone moaning about that.
More's the pity....
Hmm... Just spotted this thread!
The error (or "continuity stinker" -- thanks, A. Cow!) was the result of a minor screw-up by me and minor mix-up in the Nerve Centre: I wrote "The Grindstone Cowboys" many months before I started working on "Reclamation" and, to be frank, I'd forgotten that I'd already shown Joyce and Giant working together (Giant wasn't in my original plan for that scene in "The Grindstone Cowboys": I added him later because I wanted to foreshadow his appearance in "Reclamation").
I spotted the mistake shortly after I delivered "Reclamation" and informed The Mighty One, then sent him the corrected version. Unfortunately, the revised version of the script was mislaid or something and the incorrect one was used instead.
The good news is that we've managed to patch over the mistake by tweaking the dialogue in the collected edition (Every Empire Falls, due to be published in early February), and it should be absolutely seamless and unnoticeable to new readers (or established readers who are a tad less pedantic observant) as long as those who DO know it's there don't go "helpfully" pointing it out to everyone...
Cheers,
Mike
Yeah, Yeah.
Next you'll be telling us you left it in a pub and had to rewrite the whole thing in an evening! ;)
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 December, 2016, 01:43:03 PM
Tony Blair came back to life with no explanation after dying in Maniac 5, and I don't see everyone moaning about that.
Why moan about a fictional Blair while the real one's still on the loose?
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 31 December, 2016, 11:40:37 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 December, 2016, 01:43:03 PM
Tony Blair came back to life with no explanation after dying in Maniac 5, and I don't see everyone moaning about that.
Why moan about a fictional Blair while the real one's still on the loose?
Pretty much every military and political leader in Maniac 5 commits suicide after making a morally difficult decision. As if any of them give half a fuck about killing in reality.
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 31 December, 2016, 04:47:09 PM
(or established readers who are a tad less pedantic observant) as long as those who DO know it's there don't go "helpfully" pointing it out to everyone...
Cheers,
Mike
I like that, observant. As in - "I believe in continuity, but I'm not observant. I don't read the (story) bible or anything, just observe on special occassions".
Just a minor thing,thats a bit funny,in prog #1976,Aquila encounters the three-headed dog CEREBUS. :)
Quote from: Smith on 02 January, 2017, 12:22:33 PM
Just a minor thing,thats a bit funny,in prog #1976,Aquila encounters the three-headed dog CEREBUS. :)
(http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/c/e/Cerebus_the_Aardvark.jpg)
Quote from: sheridan on 02 January, 2017, 12:47:12 PM
Quote from: Smith on 02 January, 2017, 12:22:33 PM
Just a minor thing,thats a bit funny,in prog #1976,Aquila encounters the three-headed dog CEREBUS. :)
(http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/c/e/Cerebus_the_Aardvark.jpg)
That was my first thought too.It also happens in the next prog.
Yup. I mentioned it at the time. It seems to be one of the most common mistakes when folk are referencing mythological beasties.
Its how the old aardvark got his name in the first place as I recall.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 02 January, 2017, 04:52:56 PM
Its how the old aardvark got his name in the first place as I recall.
Who would have guessed? :)
Tony Blair didn't die in Maniac 5. He nuked London, but no-one said he was in London at the time.
You almost got away with it Mike- if not for those meddling kids!
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 31 December, 2016, 04:47:09 PM
Hmm... Just spotted this thread!
The error (or "continuity stinker" -- thanks, A. Cow!) was the result of a minor screw-up by me and minor mix-up in the Nerve Centre: I wrote "The Grindstone Cowboys" many months before I started working on "Reclamation" and, to be frank, I'd forgotten that I'd already shown Joyce and Giant working together (Giant wasn't in my original plan for that scene in "The Grindstone Cowboys": I added him later because I wanted to foreshadow his appearance in "Reclamation").
I spotted the mistake shortly after I delivered "Reclamation" and informed The Mighty One, then sent him the corrected version. Unfortunately, the revised version of the script was mislaid or something and the incorrect one was used instead.
The good news is that we've managed to patch over the mistake by tweaking the dialogue in the collected edition (Every Empire Falls, due to be published in early February), and it should be absolutely seamless and unnoticeable to new readers (or established readers who are a tad less pedantic observant) as long as those who DO know it's there don't go "helpfully" pointing it out to everyone...
Cheers,
Mike
Ah know you were going to say that!
'Pedant alarm bleats'
....Where did the horse come from?
And another thing...
In
ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters, Clint Langley's
Howard Quartz keeps switching back-and-forth between a traditional anticlockwise 0-9 telephone dial and a clockwise 0-7 dial.
(http://i67.tinypic.com/xble3a.jpg)
This raises two vital questions:
- How does Howard dial 0898 numbers every other week?
- Is he called "Mister 10%" because he loses 20% of his digits in 50% of appearances?
Like Hammerstein he has alternate heads/faces.