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I still haven't ordered mine yet...
Book Plate (http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/slaine_the_brutania_chronicles_1_bookplate_edition)
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Regular (http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/slaine_the_brutania_chronicles_1)
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I think there is a conflict between my bank card and Sage-Pay (http://www.sage.com/sage-products/sage-pay).
They keep sending me a error message that my card has been blocked, and yet when I contact my bank. They tell me this is not the case and I don't have problem using it anywhere else.
Loved the art on this, will stick to the regular edition though I think.
Pawed the regular edition in FP yesterday. As soon as I can get through a mountain of bills for swimming lessons and soccer boots (seriously, is January the best time to be asking for these things?), it's next on the list. In collected form the full-bleed art looks even more stunning, easily the equal of any previous Slaine volume, and there's oodles of extra material in the back. My one reservation would be the reuse of concept (?) art for the cover - given SBD's genius for stylish portrait covers, I wish Tharg had sprung for something new. Other than that, this is perfection.
I saw an advance copy Simon had at his table at Thought Bubble and indeed it was a magnificent volume.
I hope the rare edition does not sell out before next week, because I want a copy and I'm having debt problems as well I seem to be bleeding money.
If I don't spend money on something, it disappears from my account anyway.
Not to mention Sage-Pay keep sending me error messages that my card or bank account is blocked when ever I try to send them money through it.
Yet, I can still use that card and my bank account aside from that.
It's a very odd problem I might contact Sage Pay soon, otherwise, I was wondering when the online shop would let me use Pay Pal or my card directly......
Look, I commented about this earlier...
I cannot even contact Sage Page.....
And was wondering if somebody would offer to order the......
Rare Book Plate Edition and send it to me.
Of course, when I ask this, I don't mean right now (Unless you find me trust-worthy enough!)
I will send you the money. Including postage and handling for having this sent to me, would be best if you have sent directly to my address if possible.
I will send you the money next week when I get paid and by that I mean you don't need to place the order until I have safely sent you the money.
I do trust most of you :D
Even if you might advise me against that ;)
lease Consider...my Slaine collection is at stake!
(http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/slaine_the_brutania_chronicles_1_bookplate_edition)
or otherwise show me where I could get the very same book....
Ebay as far as I know are not selling the special edition.
No one wants to help me here.....
Sorry TS, I'd like to be able to help you (others here have done similar for me in the past) but I just don't have the plastic to do it at the moment. I'd advise contacting the Future Shop and asking them what they can do about reserving one for you, but I suspect you could be safe enough for a week or two.
More generally, I still worry about your bank situation. Have you looked into the possible connection between your losing your cards recently and the drain on your account, or indeed the fact that some services have you blocked? Even if there is nothing dodgy going on, you need to find out where/why the money is going. I think tackling these problems might be even more pressing than the specific issue of ordering Slaine.
Fair enough.....
As for my other problem, I think it's my fault really...it's just hat I'm in a bit of debt since I brought this new computer and I'm still paying it off since I have been more careless with money over the last year than I have useally. I have been saving it for the last few years and suddenly blew it all nearly two year earlier when I went on mad spending spree on Drive-Thru-RPG.Com and a lot of second gaming books from other places as well as this online shop.
Then I needed this computer and go the special bit of plastic to pay for it up front and now I still paying that off due my own terrible money managing skills.
Yet, I do smell a rat!
I will look into it, but it's just that I noticed there have been few transactions that I can't identify on a number of my past bank statements.
Who ever has been doing this probably knows they will get away with this more because I have been careless wit he money any way.
Anyway, I understand if nobody can help.....
Like I said this is more a personal problem between Sage-Way and my bank card.
Any chance of the online shop letting me pay through Pay-Pal.
Bookplate edition arrived this morning (#15 myself). Another terrific book in the Slaine hardcover line. Alas, with the change of artist, the spine design has changed a wee bit but not to any unusual extremity like those bloody paperbacks.
One cool thing to note is that the book boasts what I think is probably one of the best extras sections of any 2000AD book, keeping in line with the other Slaine hardcovers and their small wee extras. It's pages from Simon Davis' sketchbook with plenty of commentary from him and examples of how he goes from rough watercolours to the finished page. Really great stuff!
Bad news for me.....
Can't get the book plate edition or the regular graphic from through any of my local comic book retailers.
They mostly order through Diamond-Distributors, who don't any 2000 AD if any at all.
If they do, then it's either second hand or something I don't even want.
Ebay are only selling the regular, edition.
I may have to contact Sage-Pay again to fix my problem a the source.
Here is a detailed review of the book and its content: http://www.thearchdeviant.org/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html (http://www.thearchdeviant.org/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html).
And some pictures here http://myabsolutecollection.blogspot.fr/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html (http://myabsolutecollection.blogspot.fr/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html)(hope it doesn't put salt on the wound ThryllSeekyr ;))
Quote from: vark on 29 January, 2015, 02:22:08 PM
Here is a detailed review of the book and its content: http://www.thearchdeviant.org/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html (http://www.thearchdeviant.org/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html).
And some pictures here http://myabsolutecollection.blogspot.fr/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html (http://myabsolutecollection.blogspot.fr/2015/01/slaine-brutania-chronicles-book-one.html)(hope it doesn't put salt on the wound ThryllSeekyr ;))
No, I just want the book plate edition even more now.... :P
I have a cunning...that I will keep to myself for now....until it goes through ;)
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 30 January, 2015, 02:32:10 AM
I have a cunning...that I will keep to myself for now....until it goes through ;)
Make that....
A Cunning Plan!
It's been resolved, and I have now successfully ordered the book I wanted as well as the regular digital version and now slowly downloading.
As for my cunning plan....re-registering my online shop account. It didn't do what I thought it would od and let me send money before realising it was my account that it kept locking and do the same.
Which it did!
So, I had ring my bank and ask them. they helped my reset account with Sage-Pay this took some time, Especially, as I had lost my telephone banking information and had to reset that that as well.
I could have done this anytime within the amount of time since the books had been made available, but because of the amount of sweat it cost me.....I procrastinated!
The book (Digital-Version) looks great!
With the pages of extra artwork, and those map pages, and the double page with the row of Og-ham script on it.
Just one thing, as I read the forward from the page submitted by Vark. I realise Pat Mills did not acknowledge Australia at all when he said something about the Britain-Isles the rest of Europe and America along with Canada too (I think?) .
So what's wrong with the antipodes.......one terrible experience down south?
Could have been something I said about the earlier episodes in the story. I thought the first two Progs were very interesting and then a few or several Progs straight after those the story jumps abruptly from different locations and it appear to make little sense to me at the time, but it does improves as this part of the chronicle gets closer to the ending. There's is some very intriguing stuff there about those beast headed giants that I believe are the famed Titan's that were enough low by their own success's and laziness there after. Pat also mentions how London was settled and made by the Trojan's, not the Romans we are lead to believe. I think London started out as Lindon-Hill (According to Slaine - Demon-Killer!) and now that may not be right according to the latest instalment of Slaine here. Anyway, who knows what is right since the history I was taught in school is most probably partially fiction, now. I only recall stuff about the pyramids of Egypt. Anyway, I wouldn't argue that with any local who grew up there and not a issue with me. I still enjoyed this one!
Even if the author forgot the land down-under exists or is this hinting at something more ominous?
BTW, couldn't even open the digital version of the novel on my own computer and ended up having descent squiz at it on y fathers older computer. I going to download it again while I wait for my hard-copy (Book-Plate!) to arrive.
I almost forgot Pat mentioned the thing about Eugenics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics) which I later found out is just another name for Natural-Selection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection)....Organised-Breeding of wild animals and......us!
Natural Selection is what I believe to happen when the cutest teenage girls are mostly attracted to the best looking and most successful teenage jocks for their physical superiority and a hint towards their bread winning skills. Yet now, it's who ever makes the most money, which is the latter and that doesn't mean it's restricted to just the best sportsmen, but any professional person regardless of their looks.
I've seen things turn out this way, as more and more ugly, but successful people are most commonly raising their more and more of their own.
So, I could wrong with my interpretation of the word. Eugenics[/b[] when I first read about it thinking of what happened in the Island of Doctor Moreau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau) which is about performing vivisection on the lower animals (Primates and various other Omnivores that walk on four limbs!) to give them a taste of humanity. By forcing them to walk upright, alter their front limbs into tool using hands and even surgically alter their vocal cords to allow them to talk as humans as well. As if it would be that simple,....I'm sure there is more to it than that!
Pat hinted that what he was talking about was responsible for creation of the mythical creatures that inhabit the world of Slaine. It was he that compare this to Island of Doctor Moreau and that's what got me interested. Perhaps he meant vivisection (Operating on the brain as well!) I wonder if this explains how Formorian's came to be. My favourite assumption here is that they were the deformed or just overweight relatives of the tribes of the Earth-Goddess who were ostracised for being deformed or otherwise different. They literally started out from within the tribes and were ousted as soon as they could walk or showed signs of being too different. (Of course, what is to be said about being a Warped-One!) Left to the elements to fend for themselves, they were taken in by Dagon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon)[/url] (According the origins that state it's a fish-man deity and not the less interesting Philistine fertility and crops deity (Fancy that! A race of monsters well known for raiding the more southern tribes for their food and maiden tears worshipping a farming god!) and were further mutated by their exposure to it's power.
Not sure, but I would love to find out what else Apt Mills has install for us from the Slaine-verse
Even if he is eventually killed off, this is still the unexplored territory of the plethora of origin tales that could be mined from various parts of the entire sage so far.
Ukko? (Did he really come from pace called Scragg-Faggot-Green? (Slaine-Diceman 2!)
Slough Feg (Remember Judge Death - Boyhood of a Super-Fiend!)
Fomorians (They're Origins and who was Balor and how did he get his Evil-Eye? All I know is that Slough Feg himself was there when this happened!)
Cythrons (Where they came from and they're battle with the Archons how they lost!)
Archon's (Who were they? Good-guys or maybe no one is!)
Dark-Gods (I'm a little confused here, maybe this was another name for the Cythron's or the Cyth (They're own gods!) or the god's worshipped before the rise of the Danu (Another tale in itself!)
Danu the Earth or Mother Goddess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danu_(Irish_goddess)) (Her own story before Slaine was born and some back ground to the triple identities in the guise of goddess.......
CONTINUED LATER......and apologies for any perceived slights against anybody in this commentary
Nurse, up the dosage!
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 05 February, 2015, 12:09:46 PM
I wonder if this explains how Formorians came to be. My favourite assumption here is that they were the deformed or just overweight relatives of the tribes of the Earth-Goddess who were ostracised for being deformed or otherwise different. They literally started out from within the tribes and were ousted as soon as they could walk or showed signs of being too different... Left to the elements to fend for themselves, they were taken in by Dagon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon) (According the origins that state it's a fish-man deity and not the less interesting Philistine fertility and crops deity...) and were further mutated by their exposure to it's power.
Wow. I think it's fair to say you arguably think too much about all this, but you come up with some really fascinating ideas sometimes, Thryll.
Wasn't it you who also had a theory about Ukko being some deposed Finnish weather god doing penance as a lowly dwarf? I really liked that one, too.
I WILL CONTINUE MY LAST POST SOME OTHER TIME TODAY OR OTHERWISE LATER.....
I not have the book in my hands and wonder how differs from the regular edition. Apart from having the inside cover page signed (I assume it's Pat Mills because, I got the impression the second letter looked a bit like a M (It's so obvious...(Slaps own head!) and a sample of Simon Davis's art-work on this on a piece of card (Same shape as the book!) with a profile of Slaine's head. Larger than life and in the back ground facing right. (Which should look excellent on commemorative or real coinage!) and that woman named Sinead. Who was at first so unsettling in her appearance (Is that the desired effect?) in that swim suit. Yet, the more I stare at pictures of her, the more I get used to he and even find oddly alluring. (A hint of Sigourney Weaver!) I guess she's most sought after if in this part of the world in those times. Yet, she's no love interest for Slaine.....yet (By initial appearances!) She looks like she's would give me hell if I ever met her in real life. (Again...Sigourney Weaver ;)) She does look kind of malcontent and in leage with the punk set of 1970/80's.
A punk revival!
Which was what I though about [b}Slaine[/b] when I first got seriously into this stuff.
Imagine being woken up at night and finding her standing right in front of you like she does here.....
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Since, I got my digital copy, I have read it in dribs and drabs from the middle to the end and may do so again from the start some time very soon.
While the look of Simon Davis's art work (In this chronicle so far....) is more serious than I suspected from getting a sneak peak of how he might have illustrated for Slaine when he did that poster in a earlier issue of the Megazine (Which I can't find a copy of to show online!) ......and his work still ticks most of the box's at this stage. I only wonder how he might have done the early stories pre-Horn-God
Pat Mill's story telling is much better than it has been for a while. Since the Horned God and Book of Invasions.
Any difference between either book.
I've only bothered with getting the Book Plate Edition.
The book plate edition is the regular edition with a sticker in the front. And a nice print
Ordered this last week and finally arrived this morning.
What a beautiful work of art, Simon Davis's painted artwork is a feast for the eyes and the story Pat Mills is weaving left me needing more in a good way.
I opted for the bookplate edition (#93 if anyone was interested) not for any reason other than the art print that came with it looked wonderful.
Here's hoping book 2 is not too far off in the horizon :)
Must be getting real close to book two now.....
I believe I read somewhere it's due around November. Please feel free to correct my bollocks though.
Amazon have book 2 of 'The Bruttania Chronicles' listed for the 14th of January 2016. Amazon are often slightly 'out' with their dates, but sometime in January next year seems a safe bet as it's definitely not shipping this year.
Do they have a picture of the new book. They usaully advertise 2000AD GNs before they're even printed.
It's hard to find (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Sl%C3%A1ine%3A+The+Brutania+Chronicles+-+Book+Two&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ASl%C3%A1ine%3A+The+Brutania+Chronicles+-+Book+Two)!
ThryllSeekyr - search under 'Slaine hardcover' in amazon.co.uk and all will be revealed (including a picture of the cover of the new book).
Now available to order from www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk
Is released on Feb. 3rd 2016.