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Hmm.

Hopefully they won't do it the way I imagined it(chunkily animated with the Jackson Five's "ABC" as the themetune)...

RE: that Golden Condom thing.

I read an article about the band. Looking at the photos, all I could think was, 'don't fancy yours much.'

Hell, if they were chucking the condom anywhere near me, I'd be ducking.

Is that politically incorrect?

Nervous got killed by Telemachus Gore's Ass-Kickers, in Prog 1160. Gore, paid by Mangapore money was also responsible for the death of Demi Octavo at the end of Eurocrash (which, IMHO, should be collected sometime, because I really enjoyed it).

I don't know how many issues Deadline ran for, but the last one I have is dated August/September '95 and is #70.

In my opinion, they're all good, since they kept changing the contents (#70 has the first issue of Peter Bagge's HATE! reprinted inside it), but if you're looking for the best stories of Deadline classics like Wired World, Planet Swerve, Johnny Nemo and, of course, Tank Girl, you want to get the early issues, before #35 or so. The best Tank Girl stories are in about #1-15. Around the middle (between about 25ish and 50ish), they didn't put numbers on them.

My personal fave story, Philip Bond and Jon Beeston's Cheeky Wee Budgie Boy, ran from #30-37 (June '91 to Feb '92).

You probably won't have to pay more than a couple of quid for back issues, except maybe for the very early ones, and then no more than 3 or 4 pounds each.  

It's the Guide to Life again.

IIRC, The Excruciating Agony Page only got reprinted once, in a special about seven or eight years ago.

It's the Attack of the Anally Retentive Geek Patrol!

Um, anyway, I was just browsing the thrill listings...

and in the listing for the '93 JD yearbook (the only one I have), there's a few mistakes...
 
1. Red Razors was definitely not drawn by Mark Millar. He wrote it, though. It's 7 pages long.

2. The edited reprint (down to 22 pages) of Atlantis is in the '93 yearbook, and not the '92 one, as stated.

3. The cover's by Brendan McCarthy.

4. There are missing stories: An Armitage text story called 'The Case of the Detonating Dowager' by Dave Stone, with some nice illos by Sean Phillips. Also, there's a 7-page Soul Sisters story written by Dave Stone and david Bishop and drawn by Shaky, and a 5-page Straightjacket Fits story called 'the final fit' by David Bishop, drawn by Roger Langridge.

5. Page counts (for those of us anal enough to care about that sort of thing): Anderson, 5 pages; Dredd, 24 pages; Judge Joyce, 7 pages.

No, don't all thank me at once.

I'm going to go and get a life now.

Funny that. As a kid, I didn't like McMahon's Slaine and preferred Belardinelli. Now, I prefer McMahon. It's more interesting to look at... but it takes more _reading_ as well.

If you know what I mean.

Nobody drew freaky demonic creatures like Belardinelli, though.

Fair enough.

I haven't read this week's yet, actually.

(PS. Logan - LOL)

OK. Fair enough. I'm a geek. I admit it.

2000Ad's excellent at the moment. In the last couple years it's been better than any point in the 90s.

So why did this week's thrills get such low votes?

Is it the geek mentality?

Is it because "it's not the same as it was 15 years ago"?

Or what?

Funnily enough, 335 is the earliest I have (although it was given to me) and you're right.

It's absolutely bloody excellent.

Titan nuked? Naaah.

Titan wasn't nuked at all, even by Mark Millar. The corrupt warden and most of his staff were killed, and most of the inmates ended up being blown up as they were sent 'back to Titan', but the prison was not destroyed.

Bent judges were being threatened with the 'Titan Trip' within about a year.

And Wagner didn't pretend it never happened, either. For example, the story where Walter is reintroduced and Giant Jr. gets his badge ('Judge Giant', it got reprinted in the last Best of Jd collection a couple years back), there's a reference to the 'bad judges from Titan'.  

Wagner's pretty magnanimous on this point, actually.

You beat me to it, Blackblood.

Canon Fodder, series 2.

The German Aeroplanes appeared sometime in the late 300s/early 400s. They even got a wrap around cover.

However, they pale into insignificance besides the story which I _think_ was called "The Warlord", about Shojan, Psychic Warlord of Ji who, accompanied for no apparently explicable reason by a woman with a Brooklyn accent, proceeds to take over the Psi rackets in MC1.

It was rubbish. Rubbish because of its casual racism ("Nice try, Tojo!"), rubbish because of the ancient spirits of destruction invoked by Shojan happened to be seven big samurai (seven samurai - geddit?) and because it was such a lame way of getting Omar and McGruder out of the picture.

Absolutely appalling, and from Wagner and cam Kennedy, who should really have known better.