Hallo all. After poking about in the shadows on here for a few months I thought I really ought to sign up for an account.
Anyhow, if you want to know a bit about me and my relationship with 2000AD I'll lay it on you. Although I would pick up the occasional prog throughout the 90s, to my regret i was never a devout reader. As of Prog 1800, however, I have been a dedicated fan and now a subscriber. And boy howdy does it feel good! I have also been spending that time picking up a multitude of TPBs and trying my best to fill in the gaps in my Thrillpower memory banks, thanks in no small part to the posts on here.
I'm very much looking forward to getting my oar in here and joining in with some great discussions. Oh, I should also add that I have a fairly mighty comic collection outside of the 2000AD world and used to spend a ferocious amount of money on comics every week (I even put in some hard graft working in a comic shop a brave few years ago), but have now decided just to abandon all other weekly/monthly comics in favour of the prog. Turns out it is pretty much everything I want in a comic with a breathtaking level of talent showcased on a weekly basis, it just took me too damn long to realise.
Needless to say, I'll be making up for lost time!
Oh, I'm from Belfast. In case anybody wanted to know.
Welcome Mr Macheath! :)
Welcome, I'm also a new reader as well couldn't believe i had missed out on this gem as well, Anyway welcome again :)
Glad to have you hanging around, Macheath (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qrjtr_uFac).
How do! And welcome to the forum mistermacheath, :wave:
Thanks dudes, that's a lovely oul' welcome!
Good spot sauchie :)
Hi Macheath looks like the core of a newbies sub-group :D
Welcome aboard Mac.
Howdo!
Well wow that's a turn around in such a short space of time! Hope you have fun exploring your brave new world.
Out of interest what are the highlights of the rest of your comic collection?
Welcome aboard and have fun.
Thanks folks! In terms of other comic highlights I'm a huge fan of the caped crusader so I have a fierce amount of Batbooks that I love to bits. For my money the latest Snyder/Capullo stuff is as good as pretty much anything Bat-related released over the past couple of decades.
Other recent(ish) stuff I have enjoyed includes, errrmmmm.... Oh I love Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth. In fact it feels rather like something that could have come from the pages of the prog.
While I haven't been a regular reader until quite recently (coming on 7 months!) I've always had a healthy respect for AD with a few classic tales on my shelves and plenty of my favourite creators being old hands from the pages of Tharg's mighty organ. It just took me too long to realise just how much I love it and how consistent the prog is - when the stories are on the top of their game they're arguably better than everything else being cranked out by the big two. Combined!
Oh, needless to say, I thought the movie was totally rad. And the Stallone one was.... eh...... not. That's enough for me to fit in around here, right??
Quote from: mistermacheath on 01 April, 2013, 04:58:43 PM
Hallo all. After poking about in the shadows on here for a few months I thought I really ought to sign up for an account.
Anyhow, if you want to know a bit about me and my relationship with 2000AD I'll lay it on you. Although I would pick up the occasional prog throughout the 90s, to my regret i was never a devout reader. As of Prog 1800, however, I have been a dedicated fan and now a subscriber. And boy howdy does it feel good! I have also been spending that time picking up a multitude of TPBs and trying my best to fill in the gaps in my Thrillpower memory banks, thanks in no small part to the posts on here.
I'm very much looking forward to getting my oar in here and joining in with some great discussions. Oh, I should also add that I have a fairly mighty comic collection outside of the 2000AD world and used to spend a ferocious amount of money on comics every week (I even put in some hard graft working in a comic shop a brave few years ago), but have now decided just to abandon all other weekly/monthly comics in favour of the prog. Turns out it is pretty much everything I want in a comic with a breathtaking level of talent showcased on a weekly basis, it just took me too damn long to realise.
Needless to say, I'll be making up for lost time!
Oh, I'm from Belfast. In case anybody wanted to know.
Welcome to the board fella. Btw I am you with about one years additional reading of the prog. Reading your post was like reading my own comics biography. I live just outside Belfast.
Are you sure you're not me mate?
Quote from: The Prodigal on 02 April, 2013, 08:32:37 AM
Welcome to the board fella. Btw I am you with about one years additional reading of the prog. Reading your post was like reading my own comics biography. I live just outside Belfast.
Are you sure you're not me mate?
Yes, you've got me. I'm afraid I am indeed you, you've gone quite mad. I think you need some time off, or we do, or err... yeah.
For reals though, its nice and homely to already speak to a 'local' on here, I'm sure there are quite a few. Not least of all the prog's own PJ Holden, who I've spied a few posts by. Who knows, maybe you've spotted me lurking around Forbidden Planet, or Laverys, or some bins.
I'm not the kinda jerk who likes to talk about himself too much - and writing this feels pretty wanky - but I figure the point of these introduction type posts is to not only prove that I'm not a robot/total tit, but to give an idea of the kinda fella I am and find a bit of common ground. So in case you're wondering (and if you're not, do just scroll on past this, it's probably painfully dull), a few other things I'm passionate about arrrrre... um:
The moovays! Particularly gialli and euro horror flicks in general, as well as trashy 70s/80s US gore flicks by the likes of HG Lewis et al. Also on a big western kick right now, my favourite is prrrrobably Sam Fuller's spit-n-grit classic,
Forty Guns. But aye, I like fillums a lot.
Reading! Both with and without pictures. In terms of novels, a few faves would be Vonnegut, Gibson and Bradbury. I'm currently enjoying Richard Kadrey's
Sandman Slim series, dark fantasy novels (although I am loathe to use that cringeworthy term) about a hard bitten LA magick man cum monster killer escaped from Hell.
Muzak! Like most people, this changes all the time for me. This week it is the
Cramps and LA punk, but CD player stalwarts in my house are the
Pixies,
Electric Wizard,
Prine,
Cash,
Bruce and
Bowie.
Gaming! I'm an avid video game fan. I mostly play on the Xbox (recently racked up a ton of hours on
XCOM: Enemy Unknown and am about to pick up
Bioshock Infinite - any thoughts anyone?), although I also have a decent enough collection of 'retro' hardware and software and will still get passionate about the schoolyard debate about the merits of the spiky blue haired one over the moustachio'd plumber.
As well as this I do a good bit of pen-and-paper gaming and am currently in the middle of a fairly lengthy
Call of Cthulhu campaign with some pals, with a bit of
D&D coming up next.
Vices! When I'm feeling fancy I love good dark porters, peaty single malts and occasional cigars. I was gifted a Fuente Opus X (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_Fuente_OpusX") at the weekend, which I can't wait to enjoy. I also puff a pipe when the notion takes me. I probably eat too much red meat too.
Healthier stuff! Despite happily locking myself away for mammoth gaming sessions and shovelling tons of food and booze all up in my grille, I quite like being in the great outdoors. Looking forward to plenty of fishing and camping and the like when it gets a bit warmer.
I feel a tit (oo err) typing all that out, but I figure I may as well use this thread for its proper purpose.
Quote from: Mister Macheath on 02 April, 2013, 10:00:39 AM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 02 April, 2013, 08:32:37 AM
Welcome to the board fella. Btw I am you with about one years additional reading of the prog. Reading your post was like reading my own comics biography. I live just outside Belfast.
Are you sure you're not me mate?
Yes, you've got me. I'm afraid I am indeed you, you've gone quite mad. I think you need some time off, or we do, or err... yeah.
Cool! This thread has turned into its own Future Shock!
Welcome Macheath and erm... The Prodigal.
Quote from: Pete Wells on 02 April, 2013, 11:52:41 AM
Cool! This thread has turned into its own Future Shock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xUHd_eOju9s#t=135s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xUHd_eOju9s#t=135s)
Quote from: sauchie on 02 April, 2013, 05:40:21 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xUHd_eOju9s#t=135s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xUHd_eOju9s#t=135s)
Aw what a brilliant slice of British Twilight-Zonery. Very much of its time but a fantastic performance from himself with just the right amount of face-quivering hamminess.
And yeah, that's pretty much how it's gonna go down with myself and The Prodigal.
Roger, rockin' the 'tash!
Welcome guys, fairly new here myself, but really enjoying it....
Some Weird stuff, some truly laugh out loud funny stuff, and some really informative stuff..and a great place to get artwork / collectibles and advice...
Just a great place to hang around.
Cheers and enjoy,
Bob
Cheers Bob! Aye I've had some great chuckles already. The Mongrel in yer pic looks ace.