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Fantastic writing Aaron - a really great considered review.

Brilliant.

[Samson]

See - IMDB is good for something. Glad it brought you here, Samson (i); and well done for getting a Rod Taylor reference in early doors. Start as you mean to go on, I suppose. Samson's one of the funniest guys I've ever met, and his knowledge of genre is formidable; if he hadn't found his own way here, we'd have had to headhunt him. Chalk another one up to the Jock contingent!

(i) treated yourself to a capital letter here, I see

Aye - I thought samson sounded a bit submissive and I've gained confidence since those days...

In saying that you've got a whole different angle going on here - bikini kill - if I'd known that you were allowed to change your username to band names on different boards then I'd have been the St Winifred School Choir, Wind and Fire - one of the most disastrous team-ups in music history.

And I do mean to be a productive member of the forum - once I've read loads of threads and know where all the suicidal accountant film buff OCD depressives are hanging out.

Samson,

Nice introduction on your part. If you thought Dr Who forums were full of precious wankers who can't accept a bit of constructive criticism or an alternative view point then never ever, ever join a forum/message board for any band. EVER!!

I stayed off all message boards for years after being amazed at the rabid fantaticism of these people. This site is the one the few forums that actually has some level head people on it.

I have never dipped my toes into online music fandom - bearing in mind that much as I like various kinds of music I did for quite a long time believe that Brian May from Queen wrote the soundtrack to the first two Mad Max films - so I'd be out of my depth.

I once met a guy who was living in a caravan park in the middle of nowhere as he was hiding from three Whovians - Whovers - never sure - from Castlemilk after he had called Jon Pertwee a big camp ham.

Fandom can be scary.

Welcome to your new home, Samson_k. We are a pretty sane bunch round here.

Like you, I am a prog oner apart from the (quite common) long walk of the 90s. My space spinner's fate was sealed when my younger brother tore it to pieces. Yours had a more poetic finale.

From the reading I've done it seems like a good forum.

The only reason I didn't give up at all was largely because my dad still wanted to read it and every few weeks I'd get an envelope from home with two or three issues of 2000AD - he would have loved the Dredd film if he'd still been about to be honest.

He disliked the 95 one - 'I'm no watching that big lump playing Dredd - have you seen what he's got going on under his belt.' was a quote that I remember vividly.

I suspect that my space spinner might still be there or the green lady got it in between bouts of stealing kids faces.

My missus gave me a row when I got home and told me to grow up.

I hope you told her that Ma-Ma is not the law in your house, YOU are the law.

I kind of sort of did - but I waited until she was upstairs and I didn't do it into a PA system - but I think she got the message...

A fiat full of clowns - like an aborted David Lynch ad campaign...

I went in my Citroen and had the Dredd soundtrack playing and on the way home there was quite a lot of scowling at other motorists and when I bought some milk out of the local shop there was a wee bit of raspy shopping going on.

My missus gave me a row when I got home and told me to grow up.

I'm hoping that she'll have time to come with me when I go again on Thursday.

Hey Aaron - yeah, I loved Dredd.  One or two tiny wee story niggles but nothing to get worked up about.

It's good that you did too - I would imagine the pink limousine was packed with 7 there and presumably 6 back 

Thanks guys

I must have completely missed that letter in this weeks issue - that is a shame regarding Caballistics Inc as it still seemed to have so much more story to tell.  I'm secretly hoping that Absalom is leading somewhere that will tie both the continuities together in a spellbinding and entirely justifiable way.

That is excellent news about Stickleback though.

So, what about that Blackhawk guy - he coming back? (um - sorry)

Hey,

Sixth post on the board and a question that's probably been dissected, answered, asked and answered and asked again - and then answered on numerous occasions and as such I apologise for possibly being a complete goober in asking again (I did use the search function and was slightly intimidated by the huge amounts of results)

Have Stickleback and Caballistics Inc both pretty much finished?

I know we have Harry Absalom which I love but I very much enjoyed the episode of Caballistics Inc. that had the zombie British soldier being raised (I also get that Absalom might take up the slack in unfinished continuity at some point)

And I loved Stickleback as it tickled all my good spots - of which I have two and if I gave up smoking and drinking a third one might start getting some sensation back - and the ending of Stickleback was ambiguous enough to leave me hungry for more.

I also want them expanded to a point where further collected editions could exist.

Thanks

I would suggest the epic that is Nikolai Dante for new readers as the saga encapsulates everything that makes 2000AD great - an exceptionally well formed cast of characters in a story that has a beginning, a middle and an end and one that has action, comedy, pathos, darkness, light, romance and brilliant writing and art throughout.

I would also recommend Dafoe because it is probably one of the few zombies story in recent years that has done anything particularly new and anything that has Marty Feldman cast is a winner in my book.

If you like exciting takes on zombie stories then Zombo is one of the other stories that does something exciting and interesting.

If you can track it down then Zenith is as good a superhero story as you will ever read.

Welcome to 2000AD forum!

He is really good chap at IMDB board. I sponsor him on here. His replies really funny and wise.

And you will be fine on here.

Good luck, and my holiday is doing great!

Goaty

Thanks Goaty - a pleasure as always buddy

Glad your holiday is going brilliantly.  Have you managed to see Dredd in Amsterdam yet? 

I've not looked at those boards so I've no idea who's who, but I'm willing to bet the worst of it is led by a mentally-ill person named Scott who was banned from this site more than a decade ago.

Now he has to content himself with replying to his own mouth-foaming claptrap elsewhere. He kills message boards, so we have to have entry requirements for this one. Sorry, Fudge!

The CLF guy is just a common or garden troll but Scott has been actively posting the same six posts on IMDB for as long as I was there and that was only since June and over that period he has been banned from IMDB about nine times.

I don't have much experience of on-line fandom but he does seem completely dedicated to alienating himself from everything that he purports to love.

Cheers Dandontdare and ming

Aye, the perpetual troll has been on and off but to be honest the main fear about his posts is the problems with potential seizures as he posts and deletes at such a speed that it's like being Rod Taylor in The Time Machine.  I count myself lucky that being a 2000AD fan it took me 35 years to encounter him.

It's not so much the few persistent trolls that's been the problem - it's the general vast swathes of negativity surrounding the actual box office rather than celebrating the fact that the film largely works.

Anyway, thanks again and it's good to be here.

How are you doing?

I'm one of these old punters that was 10 when I got Prog 1 - it was at a newsagents just across from my school and I spent my sweet money on it and had lost my space spinner by about 4pm that afternoon - a sudden gust of wind having taken it to the 'haunted woods' that were behind the primary school I was at.  My Biotronic stickers were knackered by the Sunday, though the rash they left lasted a lot longer and my Invasion Survival Guide was with me until I realised that girls were not going to find it endearing seeing a blue and red handy survival wallet for a war that had not even happened yet.  I cried when John Probe got killed and I once wrote a script for a Judge Dredd film in four school jotters and sent it to 'John Carpenter, Hollywood, America' - that was in 1980 and he never, ever got back to me.

I have always loved 2000AD - no, I have always loved that it existed and even when it has been a bit ropey it has followed me through life.

I have largely shunned online fandom due to a weird and slightly grubby encounter with some Doctor Who fans that took exception to my suggestion that the Rani was and always would be rubbish.

I started talking to some people on IMDB about the Dredd film and found some like minded people and yet another reason to avoid my freelance work and thoroughly enjoyed the discussions.  However now IMDB Dredd board has become a mire of misery and wailing and people LOL'ing a lot and other people wondering why AMERICAN AUDIENCES HATE US SO MUCH that I thought that I'd come here as I believe that a lot of the people I spoke to regularly were on here and there would likely be more fairly level headed people than the wailing banshees that are tearing the flesh from their bones elsewhere.

I thought Dredd was a near perfect adaptation and I'm disappointed that the box office is so far not reflecting the quality and  I'll put my cards on the table and say I never much liked Rogue Trooper.

Anyway - nice to be here and I look forward to speaking to many of you in the future

Cheers