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Anyone else think his arm doesn't look right? From a certain angle it looks like it's diddy.

Odd one this. Saw the film and really enjoyed it so bought the GN, which I didn't feel was as good.

I thought the film actually gave the cast characters which I thought were particularly flat in the book, especially the wife and the son.

Perhaps its just what you are used to first. How many songs do you hear for the first time and then find out that they are cover versions, but actually prefer them to the originals?

Am I a heathen?

Mark Kermode has just given it a real positive review. Practically called it the best film this year.

Interestingly during the same period on the show, he also mentioned Judge Dredd twice, yet not in conjunction with AHOV. More because of Danny Cannon and Rob Schnieder films that are out this week.

Actually its an interesting week for films linked with Old Stoney Face.

And make his need to write Dredd subside? I don't think so.

All tooth fans should BOYCOTT this movie and ensure that Mr Wagner cannot afford to stop writing Joe's tales and Johnny Alpha's come to that.

Selfish? Yes.

looks interesting though - that's from someone who has not read the original.

Application for Brian McClair block

Dredd continuity

Many will disagree with you there. More like Anderson continuity as the two stories rarely crossover these days.

Didn't it go (heavy paraphrasing) something along the lines of "but then Alan Grant got bored", or something?

Didn't someone say that as it was a 'creator-owned' piece and it would have transpired that Dredd's backstory was owned by the creators and the publishers got wise just in time.

You are special

Bet you loved writing that. Just finished reading the 15 years creep feature - very interesting.

Do you find it odd writing about yourself in third person?

Incidentally I got Meg and tooth in the same envelope again.

Does anyone else get this or am I a special case?

You want to give us the last page anyway?

Congratulations - Jack Point had more reading in it in six pages that the Dredd special and the end of Devlin had.

Very entertaining.

Just ripped this from Comic Book Resources - some info here.



British comics conventions have always had the flavour of sticky tape, glue, a used washing up bottle, sticky back plastic and hard liquor. While the American conventions look grand, with huge displays, wonderful performances, queues stretching across lines of latitude and beer-flavoured water.

Dez Skinn's new British comics convention in Brighton in November looks like a change in format. There's more money involved, from councils and colleges, tourist events and a location on the seafront. However, there were plans to precede it with a ?200 a head ProCon. That looks unlikely now, as Dez Skinn posted to the now-generic British-comics-festival message board Comics2000.

Dez Skinn wrote, "About ProCon...

"I've probably bitten off more than I can chew, this being the first time I've organised a show since Comicon 81 (with Frank 'Weird Fantasy') Dobson, but for ProCon I took on board a professional business development and fundraising consultant.

"So far he hasn't raised any funds, despite his card having SEEDA (South East England Development Agency) and The Arts Council on it. The representation to the DTI or Vodaphone doesn't appear to have gone anywhere either.

"Now he has done this job before, the annual Brighton Cine City being just one example, and we armed him with folders, paperwork, a website, business card, the works. He'd told us it should be packaged with 'delegate day rates' and what he believed was a reasonable amount, almost half what his colleagues at Creatives Clusters (Brighton again) charge each year.

"But we ain't got no funding and I haven't heard from him for a month. All together, say 'Oh-oh!'

"So, while the Expo's looking rosey, ProCon ain't. Guess I should have stuck with my set-in-stone principal of going my own way with it rather than somebody else's approach. I still think the theory's sound, offering overseas publishers and creatives a 4-5 day reason to fly for two days, but it's got lost somewhere in the mix.

"Having just finished a deadline, I'll next week be firming up the guests, in the knowledge that Comic Expo will be footing all the bill, not just 50%. I've already got promises from some pretty 'wow' folks, but I needed to get straight this whole ProCon situation before sending them their air ticket money."

But for Brighton's Comic Expo, I hear Diamond are adding a Trade Open Day on the Friday before the con, something that used to be a regular con event but faded away of late.

The current convention schedule is Trade Open Day 1-6pm Friday 18th November, Brighton Comic Expo 19th-20th November. And my birthday on the Monday. Probably take the wife and send her in the direction of the original art tables....

And yes, there will also be a Live Lying In the Gutters event at Brighton.

HA! There is a bottle of EMVA Cream in my sprits collection. Don't know where it came from but I'm certainly not drinking it.

Just think now you can upgrade from 20:20 and White Lightning cider to bottles of Buckfast and tins of Tennants Super.

That's how I did it anyway. On second thoughts...

Have yourself a good birthday, but stay off the Lambrini.

That's no real explanation. I've written three email to the back issue mail address this year and not had a single response.

I only want the PJ Maybe Extreme Edition for God's sake. Is that too much to ask?

Of course I could always pick up the phone and destroy my sad anonimity...

shark-acrobatics moment can be narrowed down to the series 6 finale alternate ending

No way - the first indication was Emohawk - Polymorph 2, bringing back not only the Polymorph, but the GELFs, Ace Rimmer and Dwayne Dibbley.

And this was in a series that brought us Gunmen of the Apocalypse!