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Since i got my icon,iwas wondering how you chose yours and why?

I chose hellboy mainly 'cos i love the books and the character is A BIT like me,in the fact he's a manual worker,loves his job but would rather be at home doing fun stuff and my favourite word of all time is "crap".

is art a spiky haired smoking cool dude? is peter really a wolf? is trout a...perhaps not! anyway over to you lot. Enlighten me!!

Ha! My fishiness is a mystery only solved by buying me alcohol.
But it's a common misconception that my icon is me. It's not even a trout.

It's the great of the judges - Deputy Chief Judge Fish!
Hail him, for he is mighty.

- Trout

I'm a fat, bald, jaundiced Satan worshiper.

Either that or it was the Dredd story running when I joined up.

Or its in reference to an old teenage nickname.

It's also my e-mail.

I can never remember which ones true.

It stems from corrupting my mothers maiden name into a robotic stylee,

Though I have been described as a "one-man small press tornado" over on comicspace.

Bolt-01

I am Simon Pegg who goes under a pseudonym to avoid being asked lots of questions/stalked.

I like Henry Flint and the ABCs. That's it, really.

Mine's El Superbeasto from Rob Zombie's Spookshow International comics. Was just the best thing I had saved on my pc at the time that would fit into a dinky box and not look too shat. And I really really really like Rob Zombie.

Mine's a 3D model of a zombie I made a few years ago.
I'm a lazy arse, and haven't made much since.

  It is my name. As simple as that.   There is no shortage of  2000ad characters that i could have chosen as an icon . Theres an awful lot of Judge Dredd names and icons here.  Thats to be expected.

WoD - abbreviated from my surname from days of yore when you could only put 3 initials in arcade macines...and it just stuck and became my nickname from then on.

The icon is Gorath from Jon and Gorath, a comic strip that I do with Bolt-01, and was drawn up by Bolt-01 for me.  [J&G can be seen in several comics including the 'Lost Property' books and you could have a look for them at the FutureQuake webpage, where you could also purchase FutureQuake, MangaQuake and Something Wicked...if you wanted...and now I'll stop the pimping!]

Link: Future Quake Press Link

I wanna be a Judge!

I chose my icon because I like the smell of fireworks.

I selected my icon because it depicts me at my finest hour - having just completed riding around in a giant tumble drier for half an hour.

Marco Pantani (drug-addled bicycling midget for those not in the know) was my hero and one of two "famous" people whose deaths have ever upset me, even though I never met them.

Hello, good evening, and drokk bollocks.

i am actually shaped like an egg

Cover of my second favourite album, and one of my favourite pieces of artwork ever.

Of course, you need to own the abum on vinyl to really appreciate just how lovely it is. Frankly, you could frame the damn thing ...


However, the implication that I am a sad old goth is entirely fair.

Cheers

Jim

I am not a narcissistic robot, I just wish I was.

I came up with my name cos I'm well emo and I got bored with my old identity.

South Park style self portrait that only vaguely looks like me.

I'm James. Yup, it's that simple.

I wanted a monkey with a machine gun.  What?

The beret is just a fashion accessory.

my user name was made up by someone else when i was seventeen and going through such a buffy phase.  my icon coz i like ff7 and i thought the shot of sephiroth in the fire was the coolest thing i hjad ever seen in gaming up to that point

"I'm James. Yup, it's that simple."

Liar. What are you trying to hide?

Cheers

Jim

  That has just ruined it for me.I have never tried to enlarge this icon to try and see what it is.   To me it looks like  Tharg as Santa Claus [or Tharger Christmas ] with the red yellow and green. That probably sounds ridiculous.

   From one ex goth [is there such a thing ?] to another old goth,what album is it ? i just cant work it out.

Woof.

would he be sir daniel fortesque perchance? loved that game,crap at platformers but loved it anyway.

I was too lazy to get an icon made up, so settled on this recont photo

I really do look like a cross between Nick Fury and the Fonze. Albeit, one that has consumed a substantial quantity of pies.

Eeeeey! Damn you Madame Hydra!

I would be Radbacker as I live in the Radback and the crusty picture of Tharg I found on the site seemed to suit the name.

CU Radbacker

I drew my ICON using Paint.

Weel, it 's better than the self-portait I did before it, if anybody remembers.

This portrait however.

It's what I beleive I look like.

Though, my hair isn't that dark ( As problems with the black lines bleeding.) and I have this recurring chin beard and five oclock shadow in real life.

The name Thryllseekyr is just my way of paying tribute to the Magazine.

BTW, I didn't know Bad Andy was really Simon Pegg. Though I guess the photo of Simon Pegg should of made that obivious.

Mine isn't Tanky but Judge Aimee Nixon. Both Tank Girl and my current icon look a lot like me. Except that I now have more hair. :)

I signed up to this site as House of Usher long before I started actually using it. I chose House of Usher because I really like Edgar Allen Poe.

Naturally I chose Edgar Allen Poe for my icon because he wrote The Fall of the House of Usher.

I follow a Leporid Samurai code.

Cosh: who was the other one?

Hooray for apes in berets!

- Trout

Ive been on here for far too long.

A few years back an artist used messageboard names as a source for graffiti on a Dredd wall.  I acquired it as my icon.  That simple really.

yer Slips

Tweak

Mine's our band's logo.

Rock on!



TRY IT, BUY IT, LOVE IT!


Hi Rock pickers!!!!!

Can't wait to order the physical version of Savalas' new EP Slave?
Rock on over to www.indiestore.com/savalas to down load the whole thing!
Besides it's only 77 of your earth pennies per track and by downloading , you will guarantee the band a healthy supply of M&M'S for it's travels!!!!
For those who can't be bothered in cutting and pasting the download address(or those with repetitive strain injury) just click on the handy picture link below to purchase the EP-and keep rock alive!!!
Rock on!!!!!!
Savalas.

Mogzilla: No, it's just a zombie. It was loosely based on Brett Ewins' War Zombies from Bad Company, but not aiming to exactly copy any one zombie.

He does have a look of that fella from MedEvil from that angle, though. It's been commented on before. I've never actually played it, though...

It's quite good, Noisy.

Sorry to correct you on your own icon, Slips, but it was a wall in the prison in Young Middenface. By coincidence, I was re-reading some Megs the other day, before they go on the eBay pile.

- Trout

Ah well! As you know I throw out my progs and megs.  So I have to rely on my own dodgy memory.  Which is good as I cant really remember Babe Race 2000 or The Book of the Dead or Dead Meat.

I feel old today and you just emphasised it! ;)

Yer "very old" slips

I drawed mine a few years back for an aborted* script about Sabbat's head meeting Judge Death.


*Like my comics career in general. Someone else write and draw it, though, it would be great

  I like the cover art although i cant quite make out what it is.   Have  Savalas been on telly yet ?   [how predictable ]   .


  bollox   I just knocked my drink over.

It's a Wolf's head that an art school friend of ours rendered.
We haven't made TV yet(but there's always big brother, I suppose ;) ) but we gig fairly regularly around the Kent area.
Try our Myspace page click on the pick below:


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Contrary to popular belief, mine isn't a cock with teeth or a scary sock, but a bastardised version of baseball team the Cleveland Indians' logo used by the band Tomahawk.

Tomahawk, great band Wils.

Stickleback, form that great Di'Israeli cover.

It's my boys.

i've no idea where my icon came from - all i know is that some combination of words (probably including "judas" and "think") entered into google images came up with some art i liked enough to crop

thinky

My one is easy.
It's the Commando Dagger insignia you stitch on your arm after you finish the 30 miler and get the coveted green beret. I didn't think a green beret would look right on a small icon.

The character I used to play as in Virtua Fighter back in the early 90s.

Mine is part of a picture I drew a couple of years ago. Its pretty cliched, but I had to get the whole japanese robot thing out of my system.

The name radiator comes from the Super Furry Animals album, which was my favourite album when I was at secondary school.

I'm "Hipster Dad" because that's the name the girl at my favorite record store teased me with when I brought the kiddos in to buy a PJ Harvey record.  The icon is Beaker because I like Beaker, I guess.

(The kiddos have spent the last two weeks with their mother, but I get them back this evening... I'm going to Chattanooga to meet them, and we're going to see a minor league baseball game while we're there.  I can't wait!)

  Whats the 30 miler ? Its obviously what you did to qualify but could you tell me more ? I  hate sport but i like cross country and endurance type things. Is there a time limit ?

My icon is off a Megazine cover (I think) - it's Jack Point's t-shirt - used because The Simping Detective is one of the top three dredd-world spin-off characters ever.  (Name started life as 'fate amenable to change', from Excession by Iain M Banks, then became 'funt amenable to change' after Sin Dex got good again, and one of the people here suggested that it should be funt solo - and lo!)

Doesn't "funt solo" translate to "having sex by myself"?

Whitey 2

Yes.

This is weird...I always thought it was Dredd's helmet...but now I can't see it at all, just the boys.  Kind of like the 'old womans - pretty girl' optical illusion.

The 30 miler is the final Commando Test.
Before this you do a 9 mile speed march, an endurance course (water tunnels, long smelly tunnels, pete's pool=stinky bog, 4 mile race back to Lympstone and then on the range for a shoot), Tarzan Assault Course (arial stuff starts with a death slide and ends by climbing a 30ft wall).
All this is done in the final week after all the other training.
The 30 miler is a run over the moors in as fast a time as your section can manage and it has to be done within 8 hours or quicker.
By the way all these are done whilst wearing fighting order with added kit on the 30 miler including a (military) radio + spare batteries, food, safety kit, spare kit, dossbags, etc...
All in all it is a great week of fun.........not to be missed.
At the end of this Yomp you get your Green Beret and you all stand around for your course photo. The people who fail are not wearing them. By the way I am in the front row!!!!!!!!!!!!!

M.I.K.'s my initials and the icon is this...

Link: Crisp packets for brains.

Well I'm critter, hence the icon. My real last name is Crites...the movie critter was Krites. So it seemed only natural.

critter

Cosh: who was the other one?

Boringly enough it was John Peel. When that headline flashed up on BBC News I had to make a beeline for the bathroom so my minions wouldn't see me display emotion!

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a photo of Peel gurning like a triumphant loon for my icon.

I chose mine because it's a reasonable picture of me.  Since I have no corporeal existence, I might as well look good.

At one hundred and fifty one years of age, I'm definitely too old for cartoon icons.

Here's one of my looking a little like Nikolai Dante (but not acting like him)

"This is weird...I always thought it was Dredd's helmet...but now I can't see it at all, just the boys. Kind of like the 'old womans - pretty girl' optical illusion."

I thought the exact same thing!

Neat hair George! but you must really give the beard a trim...

Nice one, Cosh. I quite like Vladimir Karpets, but only for his name.

- Trout

   I have had this with lots of icons.  

   I  can see the two kids now but if it hadnt been pointed out then i would never have noticed. Theres quite a few others that are open to interpretation as well.I almost dont want to know what they really are.

  Thanks for the reply   C.forces  . You sound like you enjoyed it !  I would enjoy trying it out as well . But not today as i feel like death. I have done 18 miles in 3 hours across the downs but you have are weighed down by all that kit as well so i cant compare to your achievements and i am not trying to either. The very thought of it !!

Thank you Mogzilla.  I never really got the beard right, but life is too short to worry about such things. Is this better?

Very smart , i fancy some fish fingers now for some reason!

My name was the result of the despairing search for a hotmail address, which I no longer use.

It is a homage to the Enigmatic Johnny Q, who made me laugh out loud.

The icon, well I like Dr Who.

Just commenting on the Cosh's Icon now enlarged.

The person in the photo shrunken down to icon size always had always given me the impression of a dangerous desperate person.

I once though this picture may have been a enraged sporting fan than the sportmans this turns out to be. As that person is revealed to be raising his arms in triumph. The facial expression has me thinking otherwise.

I also know that a Cosh is sand bag weapon used to knock people unconsious.

My picture was the only Zenith one I could find (if I have got it to work), because I couldn't be bothered to get another.  My haircut is curretnly quite similar to his haircut in books 2 and 3, so they would have been ideal choiuces, but alas.

My comes from the fact I had forgotten what the password, or even name of my account, from a few years back, so I made a new one.  The Steve Coogan sitcom 'Saxondale' had just happened to have begun the night before.

"what album is it ? i just cant work it out."

Sorry for the delay replying ... the icon is the cover artwork for "Elizium" by the Fields of the Nephilim ... technically, I suppose it was the back cover, but since it has all the lettering on it, I've always thought of it as "the cover" ...

Cheers

Jim

   I found a copy of "The Nephilim " at the car boot  last sunday. This is the previous album to your icon i believe.Someone sold all my records and since then i have been slowly replacing them as and when i find them.This album also has a beautiful sleeve to it.

King Trout I quite like Vladimir Karpets, but only for his name.

Ah yes. The sub-editor's favourite cyclist.

Karpets floored by drug revelations!

Karpets laid six times in steamy night of passion!

Did you know there's another old pro called Pascal Lino? What a night it would be if they went out on the tiles together.

ThryllSeeker: I once thought this picture may have been a enraged sporting fan than the sportmans this turns out to be. As that person is revealed to be raising his arms in triumph. The facial expression has me thinking otherwise.

To be fair, that photo is of Pantani's victory on Alpe d'Huez in 1997. He's just ridden that bike up 13.8 kilometres of mountain with an average gradient of 8.1%. After already riding about 100km to get to the bottom. And he's done it in 37 and a half minutes, so he probably was a bit desperate by then!

In real life, buttonman looks disturbingly like Cosh's icon. In fact, I did a double take when I saw the picture.

Then again, it was dark in the pub when I met them.

Lino? Cosh, that's brilliant!

But I haven't done a Karpets heading, sadly. I will own up to "Thor Thunders To Stage Win," based on the limited success of Thor Hushovd.

- Thor-out

  As soon as i saw the icon of Buttonman i knew buttonman was the humourous type although thats obvious from the choice.I love the icons.I just find them interesting to study but a lot of them dont enlarge well . The Green Man icon [johnnystress] is one i like.

"I found a copy of "The Nephilim " at the car boot last sunday."

And that is my very favourite-est album of all time, as I think we have established in many interminable music threads over the years on this board.

Unfairly confined to the ghetto of "Gothic" categorization, 'The Nephilim' is, I will say again, one of the most underrated albums in the entire rock genre.

Put this album on without the prejudice of a genre stereotype, and I guarantee that from the pounding, hypnotic opening drums, to the epic, mesmerizing album closer of 'Last Exit', you won't regret hearing this.

With one important exception! Rip the bugger to iTunes (or media management software of choice) and then discard the track 'Shiva' ...

This track is a hang-over from the early days of CDs, when record companies used to stick "bonus" tracks onto CD albums to make them more appealing than the vinyl/tape equivalents. Shiva is a B-side that, on its own, is neither particularly good or bad.

However, its position on the album borders on an act of vandalism ... the album hammers through three fast pacers, and then shouldpause for breath with the splendidly mournful (and inappropriately titled) 'Celebrate', before powering into 'Love Under Will'. The inclusion of Shiva before 'Celebrate' puts two slow-tempo tracks one after the other and all but breaks the back of the album.

Rant over. Back to the crypt for me ...

Cheers

Jim

  I havent taken in all of that post yet i have cleaned the record so i will have a listen after a gap of  a number of years.I have no prejudices of genre stereotypes in music and never have done as it misses the point of being a music lover.The sleeve especially the calligraphy inside the gatefold is beautiful and the sleeve has a 4ad records look to it.

 My favourite album of all time :Blue Sunshine  -  The Glove   [Robert  smith  - steve Severin ]   CD with extra tracks.


  Thanks  !

  Peter

COSH, it would also be easy to assume he trying to get away from the car that looks like it's chasing him.

In retropsect, I thought he really was a extra from 'Romper-Stomper'

He's got that look of menace which was very atypical among the main characters in that film.

Link: You've seen anything like it.