I was going to join up to ask a question but that was a week ago and I forgot what it was.
I've been reading 2000AD for quite a few years now, and I have had the Megazine on-and-off since it started Off mostly in the times when I (or my parents in the earlier years) was strapped for cash.
I haven't spent a lot of time in 2000AD discussion groups, mostly because I make the mistake of saying I quite enjoyed R.A.M. Raiders.
...and here comes the mob.
Hello, greetings and welcome.
So long as you don't start saying you enjoyed the exploits of Inspector Raam too, you should be fine.
Ah Dead Meat wasn't soo bad. It had, um...nice Simon Jacob art? Not even convincing myself there. As to RAM Raiders, it was from my wilderness years so I have no opinion, but I suppose it's good that someone liked it. Actually, if I remember correctly eternal optimists Colin YNWA and The Monarch also enjoyed it, and possibly even Grant Goggans KTT.
Anyhow, welcome Knorg, we all have our little pecadilloes (mine's huge), so we won't hold it against you (oo-err).
As I recall, RAM Raiders had a foxy lady in it. We've had worse in the comic.
Anyway, hello. :)
I'm worried that Tord... Big Ole Bazza (what is with all the name changin' lately? Are we all hiding from Big Brother?) can even remember that. But yeah Ram Raiders wasn't terrible at all. Looked great at time to.
Here's the evidence.
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html)
You are not alone.
Welcome aboard, have fun.
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2012, 09:07:56 PM
I'm worried that Tord... can even remember that.
I keep a detailed diary of dangerous weirdoes and popcultural iconclasts that I can trade to the authorities for my freedom when we're all finally rounded up. I call it my 'Small Blue Thingie'.
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2012, 09:07:56 PM
I'm worried that Tord... Big Ole Bazza (what is with all the name changin' lately? Are we all hiding from Big Brother?) can even remember that. But yeah Ram Raiders wasn't terrible at all. Looked great at time to.
Here's the evidence.
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html)
You are not alone.
Welcome aboard, have fun.
That thread only has one reply in it...was anybody reading 2000AD at time? :o
Welcome aboard Knorg!
Quote from: Knorg on 17 December, 2012, 08:02:19 PM
I was going to join up to ask a question but that was a week ago and I forgot what it was.
I've been reading 2000AD for quite a few years now, and I have had the Megazine on-and-off since it started Off mostly in the times when I (or my parents in the earlier years) was strapped for cash.
I haven't spent a lot of time in 2000AD discussion groups, mostly because I make the mistake of saying I quite enjoyed R.A.M. Raiders.
...and here comes the mob.
Well, I don't even know what RAM Raiders were, so you don't have to worry about that response from me :lol: Welcome anyways.
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 18 December, 2012, 12:18:05 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 December, 2012, 09:07:56 PM
I'm worried that Tord... Big Ole Bazza (what is with all the name changin' lately? Are we all hiding from Big Brother?) can even remember that. But yeah Ram Raiders wasn't terrible at all. Looked great at time to.
Here's the evidence.
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,25160.0.html)
You are not alone.
Welcome aboard, have fun.
That thread only has one reply in it...was anybody reading 2000AD at time? :o
No they just have more sense than to listen to my continual wittering on!
Well unless you need to stoke up ya small blue thang...
Hello! You DO NOT NEED to be worried about liking stuff that others do not. There is a mafia hereabouts that enjoys verbally assaulting anyone who holds unpopular opinions, but they are- to a man- grexnix nonscrots. I do not share your love of RAM Raiders, but i support your right to like it. I have no particular beef with Dead Meat- i remember enjoying it very much back in the day. The 'featuring Inspector Raam' cover is still one of my favourites, for it's sheer audacity. But there are many here for whom the comic is entirely about the dreddworld strips and anything else is filler. Worse, some think there are better writers than The Great Pat. My opinion is the polar opposite.
All are welcome. Embrace your RAM Raiders! Welcome.
SBT
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 18 December, 2012, 07:38:10 AMThere is a mafia hereabouts that enjoys verbally assaulting anyone who holds unpopular opinions...
Is there? Certainly there are folk who like to cast nasturtiums, and assert that certain opinions can surely only be adopted for shock value, but as far as I can see there are always just as many to support the contrary view. That's hardly an enforced case of
omerta... more of a spirited debate.
But then you would say that, you are an out-and-proud contrarian! ;)
That's the thing, im really not. I just happen to see through some of the dreadful old shit you lot have been suckered into following like the demented sheep you all are. The Hobbit! Dr Who! Christopher Nolan! Etc! Baaaa baaaa. ;-)
No, i just dont share positive opinions about currently popular entertainment. I certainly have no agenda to push- other than 'each to their own, but all criticism is valid', and certainly have never presented any opinion as fact. I'm not a contrarian at all, i've just been thinking about this stuff, and swimming in it, since most of you were in nappies and have therefore formulated a lot of opinions- which i'm prepared to change should the evidence present itself (like a good Lord of the Rings movie, or an episode of nuWho that doesnt make me want to kick my cat).
The only thing i constantly shout that could be construed as my claiming something as fact, is when i say that comics are a far more important artform to me than films or tv and i am constantly baffled why so (cont)
(cont) so many seem to think that being turned into a film is what comics or books should aspire to. They've made a dredd movie- great! We've got a whole year of dredd ahead of us, some of which written by wagner and a back-up team of writers who are the best the strip's ever had- EVEN GREATER! That's my opinion, you see.
Aaaaaanyway...
SBT
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 18 December, 2012, 08:19:27 AMI'm not a contrarian at all...
I know, I know, I was just needling you in your sensitive area. Your opinions on stuff are endlessly fascinating,
especially when I don't share them, and you are spot on re: movies vs. comics/books. But it's best to face these things SBT, you're just plain daft.
On THAT i have no evidence to the contrary, so must reluctantly agree!
It's weird to be accused of contrary opinions, or- as one smartarse around here notably said, that i'm thin-skinned against criticism- every single day people try to kill me. They come at me with scissors and other sharps (if they get them), they shout, swear, spit, bite, punch, slap, kick, smear their own excrement and do other things to and at me that arent very pleasant. And that's just my wife! Haha, no- today i've had a conversation about santa being killed by bullets and am currently posting this from a secure room where someone has just finished doing something very horrible to himself and im taking five minutes recovery break. Some of the things the people i work with on a regular basis think are "true facts" are terrifying- but i, more than most, know how flexible and malleable truths are, so try to live by the ethos of "whatever gets you through is fine by me". There are ocassional subjects that elicit a "WHAAAT?" (CONT)
(cont) response, when a thing close to my heart is slagged, but my response is never so shrill or barmy as when Batman films or Lord of the Rings or godhelpus Dr Who is criticised. Those things seem to bring out the crazy in the best people. And incidentally, i have a particular fascination in that because, professionally, the cultural obsessions that i come across most in dealing with abnormal psychology are those three things. Ive lost count of the number of times ive been introduced to a new client who's wearing a dr who, lotr or batman tshirt and doing themed jigsaws, and who can reel off facts by the million about them.
I read an interview with a police officer years ago who said that every paedophile he's ever arrested had a collection of star trek or star wars memorabilia. I thought that sounded bollocks at the time (eyeing my own collections!) but now im not surprised it seemed like that to him.
It's never comics though- not so far. So we're ok!
:thumbsup:
SBT
Thanks for the greeting. I guess I got me some forum reading to do and see how it all runs 'fore throwing myself into things.
How do, Knorg and welcome to the forum! :wave:
Quote from: Knorg on 18 December, 2012, 05:49:16 PM
I guess I got me some forum reading to do and see how it all runs 'fore throwing myself into things.
Nah, don't be worrying, it's all pretty easy-going here. Just be polite-ish, don't start 50 threads at once and always check to see if there's already one that would suit your post, keep politics in the Political Thread, and for Grud's sake don't post any pictures ruder than ladies wearing at least
some of their undergarments and you'll be fine. There was a time when you would have been asked to provide meat-based foodstuffs for one of our number, but he is gone from us now. :(
Basically follow the Wheaton doctrine and Don't Be a Dick.
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Well, I don't even know what RAM Raiders were, so you don't have to worry about that response from me :lol: Welcome anyways.
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Looking it up on the wiki myself. I seem to learn something every day.