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Hi folks

Anyone who has a recent contact phone number or email for Charles Gillespie, sometime SINDEX, ARMITAGE etc. artist - could you mail me via the site? I need to put him in touch with someone...

Cheers

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Anyone familiar with this wee French gem?

Recommended for people who found RESIDENT EVIL a bit too cerebral :)

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So it appears that the FIREFLY movie, now called SERENITY, has been greenlit - all cast from the show thus far confirmed except Wash and the priest blokey.

Sooo.... did anyone watch and/or like FIREFLY?

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Saw it last night. WICKED COOL. Won't spoil but general sense of humour is (unsurprisingly) very SPACED, gore aplenty and many, many refs to other zombie flicks.

Recommended - and see it at the cinema, there are a couple of great "big screen" moments ;)

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June 2, June 3: the Pixies are playing Brixton Academy.

I'm with Black Francis Block* (*on June 2)! Who's with me!

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Art - if you've got 7 million bucks handy, I don't think you'll want to miss this...

Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26432&item=2454839870" target="_blank">Mum, can I have sailing lessons?

Hi, all

We're looking for a few good men (or women!) to come down to the Nerve Centre and help us move and organise the 2000 AD and Megazine archives...

You'll need to stay in Oxford, and you'll need at least two working weeks free, possibly more.

The exact date for this is currently TBC, but Rebellion will pay travel and accomodation costs for the duration of the time you're down here.

If you're interested, please email me via the website - but please only email if you're certain you can do this, because 11th hour drop-outs will receive a Rigellian Hotshot. At the very least!

Cheers

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Greetings all...

JUDGE DREDD: DREDD vs DEATH has made the running for this year's Sunday Times / BAFTA Readers' award for Best Game.

You can vote for your favourite game of the year - and perhaps win a bundle of games - by following the link below. You'll need to enter your name and email address to vote.

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Link: http://www.bafta.org/themonth/" target="_blank">Sunday Times / BAFTA Reader Award

Can anyone confirm for me whether Massimo Belardinelli is still with us, and if not, can you point me to any obituaries or other info?

Cheers

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Owing to delays at the printer and assorted production problems, I regret to say that YOUNG DEATH: BOYHOOD OF A SUPERFIEND will not be appearing this year, and the Diamond solicitation (and consequently all orders) have been cancelled.

It will make it out at some point in the next couple of years, however.

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Suggestion #1 (of probably thousands)

ONE-ARMED BOXER vs THE FLYING GUILLOTINE.

Anyone do better than that?

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HEWLIGAN'S HAIRCUT and DURHAM RED: THE VERMIN STARS should be available from next week, folks.

More on THE MAKING OF..., YOUNG DEATH and JUDGE DREDD/ALIENS as and when I have it.

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...As a number of people have seemed confused about this:-

DURHAM RED was once a member of the Search/Destroy agency, a.k.a. the "Strontium Dogs". Following the events of 'Hunters', Red voluntarily went into a cryogenic stasis, and ended up sleeping for a period of around 1,000 years.

During that time, the war between humans and mutants has intensified to a galactic scale. The humans have the upper hand in terms of weight of numbers, and work on a religious basis; they're known as "Iconoclasts". The reason for this is, partly, that Durham Red has become a legendary figure during her millennium of sleep, known to the mutants as "Saint Scarlet". It is believed that she will return to lead the mutants to victory.

At the start of "The Scarlet Cantos", Durham Red is reanimated by the mutant Judas Harrow (pointing out that she'd only meant to sleep for a couple of years!), and discovers most of the above backstory. Also during THE SCARLET CANTOS, Red attacks and bites Matthias Godolkin, an iconoclast super-soldier, and he believes himself to be under her power.

Red, Godolkin, and Harrow then make their way to the VERMIN STARS, where Red ? who is understandably unhappy about having been used as an icon of human-hating mutant power for umpteen years ? announces her plan: somewhere in the Vermin Stars is a force that can kill all the mutant and human combatants (whom she has lured there), which should ? hopefully ? end the still-raging human/mutant war. It is around this time that Red and Godolkin make love, to Harrow's disgust.

Unfortunately for Red, the mysterious force is "The Offspring" - the most powerful mutant ever to have existed, and one which has remained imprisoned for 1,000 years. When she releases it, the Offspring launches a viral attack on the assembled humans which will render them all sterile ? thereby ending the human race for all time. Powerless to stop it, Red is gravely wounded in a final showdown with human leader Pierceheart (whom she kills) and eventually sinks into madness. Godolkin appears to have been killed by Pierceheart's bodyguards.

At the start of THE EMPTY SUNS, it is apparent that the Offspring still lives and is killing wantonly. Godolkin and an assorted crew of humans ? of whom very few remain ? have come to the decision that as Red began this conflict, she is logically the only one who can end it. Therefore they return to the Offspring's lair and try to reclaim Red, who by this point is in a feral state of madness and grief. Also, it seems she's had a son by Godolkin ? one who appears to share her vampiric mutation. At the Offspring's lair, there are other mutants, who are apparently trying to guard Red ? one tries to pass him/herself off as Red, but then falls victim to the Strontium Bitch herself.

So ? everyone clear now? ;)

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Most useful link for those trying to find hotels, B&Bs, etc.:-
http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/

Go to the 'accomodation' section.

Anyone else - if you find a cheap B&B, or an underbooked hotel, or whatever ? stick a link here and let your fellow DreddCon attendees know!

Please keep this on-topic, folks...

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Link: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Daily Info Site

Anyone who has not seen Hayao Miyazaki's modern classic anime SPIRITED AWAY, winner of the "Best Animated Feature" Oscar in 2002, is to go to the cinema and do so immediately. Those who have seen it, please speak of its greatness below so that others will be convinced.

Believe me when I say that you NEED to see this film, and that to do so at the cinema is a rare and valuable opportunity!

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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-09/10.shtml

THE PIXIES ARE BACK!!!

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Anyone remember GW's boardgame, Blood Bowl, as fondly as I do?

Well, it's now playable **ONLINE**!

Head to www.fumbbl.com (online BB league) and follow the assorted download instructions on the "Getting Started" page...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3165857.stm

Pauline Hanson jailed for electoral fraud

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From Andy Diggle's forum and forthcoming STAR WARS TALES Boba Fett story with Henry Flint:-

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The new Manics B-sides compilation, LIPSTICK TRACES, has a song on it called "Judge Yourself" - written by noted 2000 AD fan Richey for the Dredd movie, but never used.



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