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Well, latest Prog answers this question, just about. Yikes.

Ned

Hmmm. From the trailer, I can't help but wish for one small change: same tone, same mood, same grit, same colour pallette... but with Slo-Mo replaced by Umpty.

Ned

In reference to the Prince Charles legislative veto story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/....charles-cartoon

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Ned

Ummm... Pricochet?

She's got a bright, perky intelligence and can sling out a deadpan line. I reckon she'll be great. Maybe not booby enough for those of you that grew up using Anderson and a wet sock, mind.

I think Urban would do a very good job. He's a smart actor.

The fact that Bones McCoy felt like Bones McCoy without being a straight-up impression of DeForest Kelley is a pretty impressive feat - getting the essence of a character that an audience knows frighteningly well while still making it your own... that's a pretty good model for playing Dredd.

For Dredd's humour to come through without it being sneeringly smug or action-hero eggy requires decent brains.

He's got them brains, I reckon.

But does anyone know what a 'Greenie' is? Is it just alliteration or is it a reference to bogies?

I asked this very question of a clever man I know a couple of weeks ago. He said he'd always assumed 'Grud on a Greenie' was Megspeak for 'Christ on a Bike', with greenie a term for the environmentally friendly mode of transport, and alliteration excusing the replacement of The Son with The Father.

Ned

I've played two games of Mongoose Dredd now and I like it - with a couple of tweaks the Traveller system works really well and character generation turns out tough judges with some nice variation..

Ned

Heck. I've not been on this forum for ages, but the current Dredd storyline is the best thing in all of comicdom for a good couple of years. I had to join the chorus of praise.

P R A I S E !

I'm chuffed by this, as it should cement Mongoose's plans to do Dredd and Strontium Dog rpgs using their new Traveller rules. I've bought Traveller in preparation and think they'll work really well... especially character creation.

Although the Mongoose Dredd and Gangs of Mega-City One games are out of print, the latter is recently available as a pdf at Wargaming online.. and they still offer occasional support for them in the free monthly Signs & Portents mag [in fact, my rules for Wally Squad judges in GoMC-1 have just been published this month...]

Ned

peterwolf:

While you're right about easy listening having been accommodated into 'hip', might I suggest you get hold of James Last's Voodoo Party for a mild reassessment. It's ace.

Ned

Hello.

Can anyone tell me the rules for bite fighting, please?

Inspired by that kids' kickboxing doco the other week, I've decided to open an academy.

Ned

The movie can't spoil the book, although I'm always nervous of adaptations. No matter how immaculate the production design or inspired the casting, the story is inevitably compromised.

When I saw V for Vendetta, which I thought was handsome, if distorting, I went home and read the comic again  through the night. Then I posted Alan Moore the price of the cinema ticket cos I thought he deserved it.

Hope he spent it on something nice.

Ned

Bolland draws a circular shuggy table in Forever Crimes (Complete Case Files 03).

Must be Southern rules, or somethin'...

Ned

Some kind of super-fecundity virus would do it.

Either that, or a previously unnoted census error.

That'll learn 'em.