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Mr Bishop's started a blog about progress on the eagerly awaited Thrill Power Overload book, which is due out next year as part of the anniversary celebrations.

He reckons it'll include at least 50% more material than the original features in the Megazine and he's making attempts to talk to Danny Cannon about the Dredd film.

Link: http://thrillpoweroverload.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">David speaks ...

Oops, forgot a title ....

[Paul Cornell]

I may have to break my self-imposd boycott of Marvel's X-Men output - Paul Cornell's writing a MAx series about British character Pete Wisdom, which is being illustrated by the lovely Trevor Harsine. The news was unveiled at the Marvel panel at the San Diego Comic-Con.

Sounds fantastic - have always been a fan of Paul's output since his Doctor Who New Adventures tales and Xtnct did nothing to dim my enthusiasm. So, looking forward to this ...

From Paul's blog:
"Wisdom is the story of X-Men supporting cast member Pete Wisdom, a British intelligence officer who works for MI-13, the department of the weird. He used to go out with Kitty Pryde (the girl in the X-Men movies who can move through solid objects? I?m writing this blog as always for many different audiences, some of whom won?t know any of this stuff). His team are all new characters, including John the Skrull, a shapeshifting alien invader from the 1960s who still looks and acts like John Lennon. And I get to use some of my favourite supporting cast members from various Marvel comics set in Britain.

You won?t need to know a thing about anything Marvel to enjoy the book, it?s entirely self-explanatory and looking for new readers.

The comic is in Marvel?s Max line, so it?s got an 18 certificate, the odd swearword, a dark sense of humour, nudity (infrequent, horny), a bit of sophistication, I like to think, and a lot of beery fighting. I hope the Britain it portrays feels real (especially the bits set in Wiltshire), even when we?re dealing with military missions against Fairyland.

The artist is the great Trev Hairsine, whose photo-realistic style and sense of storytelling and character make me look like I know what I?m doing. The editor is Nick Lowe, who's been laid-back and lovely throughout, and keeps making the best points about story, one of the best execs I've ever worked with in any medium."

Link: http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/2006/07/pete-wisdom.html" target="_blank">Bless

McMahon artwork? Sweet! Though would it be possible for Rufus and Wake to have some kind of bidding 'handicap' during the auction to give the rest of us a chance? Maybe ... I dunno ... break their fingers, or something? ;)

Journo and feature writer, though currently doing his best to screw up the day job in a council press office.

You'd probably be far better off with either an mpeg or quicktime file.

That's the problem, work keeps using wmv for its files because they're pretty much slaves to Windows :S

Thanks for the link - I'll give it a rack when my eyes aren't bleeding ;)

Question: can MACs ever play wmv. format files?

The BBC report on the winter special being filmed in a boiling Cardiff, including this titbit about Cathrine Tate ...

A Doctor Who insider revealed that audiences will see her morph into a giant bride before exploding across the screen.

Right.

Methinks someone's taking the piss out of the nice reporter ...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5211050.stm" target="_blank">"It's blinking boiling!"

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2006/07/SD2006d109.jpg">

"These aren't the pies you're looking for ..."

'Shrek's next movie wasn't quite the hit studio bosses were hoping for...'


;P

Oi! No self-portraits!

;P

... well, the back of a stamp featuring his image ... ;P

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5197538.stm" target="_blank">Stampy, stampy

Was that you, then, LMS? I was the long-haired chap cutting a dash in the pinstriped suit.

Sadly, it wasn't me. I do own a Rogue Trooper t-shirt, but got mine after taking out an annual subscription and, while I admit I may be slightly more ... er ... portly than I was a few years ago, there's not enough takeaway pizza in all of Christendom to help me fit into it ...

The big ASDA at the Owlcotes in Stanningley?

Heh, was looking at this earlier - my favourite was the three-trousered limbo!