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[Tula Lotay print]

I've reached 'peak stuff' in the attic. So, for sale, selection of subscriber  gifts and prizes from various letters that Tharg saw fit to print.

All items are unopened, in their original packaging  (except the Tula Lotay print, which came unwrapped).

Leave a reply or send me  a PM if  you're interested in any of the items or if you want a pic of anything. Paypal is preferred method of payment but let me know if you want to pay by some other method.

Prices are based on what I could see on ebay, but there wasn't much to go on for some of the stuff.  If there's something you really fancy but you don't fancy the price, feel free to make an offer. 

Postage rates are based on second class post within UK. If you live on Mars, Dimension X or somewhere else outside the UK, let me know and I'll get you a price.


Tula Lotay print (supplied flat in original envelope, hence postage cost) £30 + £5.20 pp.

Mega-City 1  note book & pen £10 + £2 pp.

Box set of Cam Kennedy story board cards £20 +£2 pp.

Box set of John Higgins story board cards £20 + £2 pp.

Set of four 2000ad logo badges + Squaxx dek Thargo subscriber badge £10 incl postage.


Job lot of eleven 2000AD Heroclix £20  + £3 pp.

Comprising : x2 Johhny Alpha (blue and yellow), x2 Wulf (yellow and red), x2 Brit-Cit judge (blue and yellow), Judge Fire (red), Judge Mortis (red), Judge Fear (blue), Hershey (blue), Torquemada (blue).

If there's one or more of these little dudes you want, but not the whole gang, let me know (Though it would be a shame to split them up. And they will miss each other. You don't want to be the despicable ogre that makes a bunch of Heroclix cry, do you?).

The lord of hard boiled, street fighting science fiction pulls a fanasty novel out of the bag with "The Steel Remains". I can't really picture a fantasy novel  in the style of his excellent earlier work. Anybody had a read yet?

 Having said that, I would like a fantasy novel in the style of his earlier work since the genre needs graphic sex and violence in my opinion.

Chilli tea.

Yup, tea with chillis in. It shouldn't work but it does. And a fine cuppa it is too, if you're hard core about your tea.

Go to http://www.teapigs.co.uk and the nice people there will get you sorted with some.

Anybody else got any culinary weirdness to recommend to the board?

Can anybody explain to me why the Turner Prize Winner is a significant piece of art, cos I'm afraid I just don't get.

I'm not saying I'm in the Daily Mail camp of "This is a load of old cobblers". A film of a person in a bear suit wandering round an empty museum evokes no emotional respose in me at all except a bemused "Eh?", so what am I missing that the critics are seeing?

Just finished Vol 1 of New X-Men and a spiffing good read it was too.

Not being too up on the subject, what happened after old Grant retired the scripting chores? Did X-Men revert back to yellow spandex? Did Marvel stick with Mr Morrison's story line or did they mangle the continuity to suit? Is the rest of new X-Men as good as the first volume?

Surely its old Happy Shrapnel? Maybe now we'll find out what C -Day was and how he survived it.

And what a blinder of an opening episode that was in Prog 2007. Clint Langleys art was to die for. Hopefully this will see a return to form for the ABCs after the decidedly dodgy Shadow Warriors thing.

Prog 1486 - Dredd- three naked women in a shop window and all these mega-cits walking by  not paying a blind bit of notice.

It really tickled me that did. Kind of says a lot without saying very much.

Just one more thing that makes you want to give your prog a big hug.

Fun with trying to guess what is going on in Gordon Rennies heid.

Ravne is going to have a square go with Kostabi over paternal issues and to take over his place as occult top dog.

Demon Jenny is now in Ravne's gang as hired muscle. Ness is Ravne's creature and has faked Brands killing as Brand has a part to play in Kostabi's comeuppance.

Hannah, as the third main player in the piece will need to choose between Ravne's gang and Kostabi,  siding with Ravne to prevent impending apocalypse at the hands of Kostabi.

Kostabi is defeated, Ravne is triumphant, everybody else feels grubby and used.

What part Magister has to play I do not know.

Anybody else got any idea?        
   

   

Haven't read Prog 2006 yet or had a look through the last 52 weeks worth issues but 2005 stands out in my mind at least as one of the best years for thrills in, well, years.

Dredd has rarely been better. Sin/dex, against all expectations got better. Savage, Slaine, Breathing Space, new stuff, old stuff, there was a solid run of  great stories all year.

Tales of the Leviathan could have a gone on a bit longer and Robo-Hunter could have gone on a bit shorter, but you can't have everything.

Anyway, big thanks to the 2000AD droids and the mighty green one for a thrilling year.  

Help me out here people. I know some of you are keen gamers,my knowledge of video games ended in about the late 1980s with Xevious.

I'm after a PC based driving game. Must haves are loads of different circuits, loads of different cars to pick from, loads of Dukes of Hazzard stylee jumps and crashes. Its for a young un who has just about beaten Midtown Madness 2 to bits so anything with a 12 rating is out.

Any suggestions?

I'm re-reading the whole of Zenith and have a few missing progs.

While I get the order for back progs sorted, can anyone clue me in as to how Zenith and Peter St John did in Masterman in Prog 547?

Is Droid Life done by two people? Cat Sullivan (scrpit) and R.H (art) ? Or am I being thick again?

I'm sure I've seen the mysterios Mr RH's work in VIZ.

Can anybody wiser than me clue me in?

I had high hopes for American Gothic, cowboys and vampires seemed a damn fine idea to me, but its been a serious let down so far.

The art seems scratchy and rushed, it just does'nt seem very wild west or gothic. OK , not the most rigourous criticism ever but it just don't sit right with the story. It looked more like war story art for some reason.

The main characters, and there only seem to be two so far, don't really grip you do they? There's an interesting plot idea but nobody to really care about in it.  Compare to Tiger Sun Dragon Moon for instance.

Four progs in, I can't see it changing any for the better I fear.

And a quick note on the VCs - why are a veteran combat crew taking on an intelligence role? OK, OK, my reality chip needs reseting. Just a bit puzzled about the change in direction in this strip.    

Never really thought about this before but I was reading the Daredevil: Guardian Devil GN and there's like upteen people credited with the art, pencils, inks, colour etc but only one writer.

I've seen this in 2000ad too. Are writers like dour wee Calvinists going "Am sharin ma ideas wi naebody" and artists are like foppish dandys in powdered wigs going "One finds colours frightfully boring. I have a chap who does for me don't you know".

And how come the artist doesn't do the lettering himself? Is it like a union demarcation thing or they can't be trusted with the spelling.

I must admit I've never really looked at how comics are produced but I would be interested to know why more than one person works on the art (sometimes).

   

Can anyone offer a simple proof or evidence, in laymans terms, that the earth spins on its axis and orbits the sun?

The reason I ask is that last week our local rag, the John O' Groat Journal, ran a science piece on where matter came from - big bang, stars, novas etc.

They do this from time to time as there is only so much you can say about ploughing matches, price of sheep at market and such.

Anyway, this week, they saw fit to run another article in reponse to the first, presumably in the interests of journalistic balance.

This article, by a local theologist of the fundamentalist persuasion, was basically an idealogical rant at the dark forces of science.

Amongst other views  put forward (Darwin is wrong,  physics say it is impossible for men to go to moon - you get the gist) was that there is no evidence to suggest the earth follows an orbital path or to put it another way, the earth is stationary and the sun orbits us.

So that got me to thinking, how could you prove, without using complicated maths, that the earth does spin round and  round?

I have a couple of ideas myself but they involve stuff like observing from space, measuring heat from sun and planets.

I'm sure one of you clever people can come up with something far simpler.  

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Its eerie and wonderful, melancholy and strange and mesmerising.

And for some reason I can't pin down, it feels like reading a comic.

By the way, can anybody give a quick lowdown on what The Sandman comics are all about as I've borrowed a few off a mate, starting about number 50, but could do with a leg , so to speak ,on what the story is.

I shit you not, a giant talking trout on the telly (Nick Jr channels during the adverts). Now how many of those can there be in the world.

Seems like the board's not big enough for the King any more!

Either that or 16 hours of darkness a day and too much whisky has sent me a bit off it.  

Red hair - check.
Hair band - check.
Kicking bad guy ass - check.

Does Tharg know one of this characters is moonlighting on the Cartoon Network?

Anybody watching Deadwood on Sky at the moment? Has any other TV series come even close to this for sweary words?

Still a fine piece of Western story telling, a rare thing these days.

Is it just me or is this run of ABC Warriors very slow?

I don't mind giving charactors a bit of space to stand around and yak a whiles but this is getting a bit like the French films they used to show on Beeb 2 late at night.

I hope it does't go on like this until the last couple of progs then go from nought to thrill power in one prog.

Saying that, I am enjoying it though I don't know why.