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What's stupid is that North Korea would invade in the first place.

Maybe they heard the US had weapons of mass destruction and accounts for 10% of the world's oil production.

It's set in an alternate reality.

Where Kim Jong Un was an initiate of The Order of the Golden Dawn and developed cloning technology to allow hyper-dimensional entities to manifest on the physical plane?

Dark Matter could be right beside us in the Solar System: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/study-suggests-dark-matter-near-sun-155834449.html

Dark matter's made up of phlogiston and luminiferous aether.

I don't think there's anything especially cynical or sinister about it

The idea of this film is too stupid to be cynical.

What's stupid about the idea of a foreign military whose airforce and naval fleet are incapable of operating beyond their immediate territorial boundaries staging an invasion of the US mainland?

The percentage of the US population fit for military service exceeds that of North Korea by a factor of ten, and much of North Korea's population is so malnourished they have to eat grass, but I'm sure the film's producers have developed an uncynical work-around that addresses those aporia.

Here is the Judge MANSON. ... Any transgressor will be sentenced to death with immediate execution. A 10 creds fee will be charged for the Resyk processing.

Hello, Marilyn. In China, the families of prisoners executed by the state are invoiced for the cost of the firing squad and their bullets.

Just saw this over on CBR. Looks like it's by Henry Flint, and is apparently something to do with a new Dredd series starting soon, building up to prog 1812 in December, where Tharg implies we'll get a whole-prog episode of Dredd.

Shouldn't that prog be starting the series rather than ending it? Like an overture? 

maybe 1812 is just an overture?

Time will(iam) tell.

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Imagined Dredd was more of a Twister person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn6BDeKn-qc

I don't get out much, so I had to wiki the term 'cold deck', and discovered it has more than one application: cold deck and cold deck. I hope The Cold Deck turns out to be as cynical and overtly political as Revolution, but the kind of metaphysical story suggested by that image would do fine as well. Other than It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol rip-offs, I don't think Dredd's actually physically died since The Apocalypse War, so he's overdue for his one-to-one with Charon.

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are Pussy Riot any good as a band?  I'm fondly imagining them to be a more political and more Russian version of Shonen Knife, but haven't listened to them in case they turn out to be awful.

Are Pussy Riot those Russian guys who're at risk of being imprisoned? I've not listened to them.

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The politically neutral and deliberately musically naive Shonen Knife are probably a decent aesthetic reference point. Nineties Riot Grrrl acts like Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill made a similar racket, while screaming shrilly but vaguely about the oppression of something by someone or other, in the same vein as Pussy Riot. I fear for those grrrls' futures, though- once Madonna latches onto you, you're well and truly fucked. And lead singer Nadya Tolokno's too pretty to go to prison.

Darts should be in the Olympics.

Let everyone competing in the javelin have a pint in-between throws and you're halfway there.

Cycling isn't a real sport, though.

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I'm not sure whether the use of 3D will affect my experience of watching Dredd at the pictures, but I am fucking certain that the stench of nacho cheese will.

I advise washing the nether regions thoroughly brfore leaving the house.

I see what's happened here; Nachos are like little slices of potato, made from something called corn. They come from another village far away, called Mexico; where the people have no potatos.

Funnily enough BK I have a similar dream, where I go into a secondhand book shop and I buy a load of 2000ads that I never new existed(and dont). They're a great read!

Snap! It's the newsagents where used to do a paper round for me. The guy at the counter tells me a big pile have been accumulating for years because someone with a regular order never cancelled their account, and I can have them all for free. Some of those non-existent Ron Smith colour centrespreads are just fantastic.

I'm sure this is a fairly dream among the fraternity here, or anyone whose found themselves in the grip of the collector instinct. I'm glad that the trauma of never being able to find issue two of Stray Toasters only mainifests in my dreams, and not my waking life.

having found boxes of 2000AD comics up in our loft left by my older brother:-)

I have a recurring dream where I find a room in my house I'd forgotten was there, and which contains a load of back issues of 2000ad I never realised I had. If you're also married to Christina Hendricks, your entire existence might only be a product of my circadian rhythms. Welcome aboard.

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Nonsense!  Dredd has to have sex and gore and swearing because that is what makes a film mature!  Besides, the last Dredd film wasn't violent enough and that is why it failed - it is literally the only problem with that movie.

I suspect a great many of (Resident Evil's) audience only decide to watch it on the spur of the moment when they get to the cinema and decide what film they want to be in the background while they have a natter for 90 minutes and eat their evening meal.

I'm not sure whether the use of 3D will affect my experience of watching Dredd at the pictures, but I am fucking certain that the stench of nacho cheese will.

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One from the dim and distant past but I'd love to see more stories set around 'Tribal Memories', really like this short but wonderful four parter by Milligan and 'Riot'. I know other people disagree but I think there's more to be told.

I enjoyed that story too, but it seemed fairly self-contained to me. Milligan seems too lucratively engaged elsewhere to be tempted back into Tharg's arms anyway, but I'd love to see more of Tony Wright (Riot) in 2000ad. His work with Brendan McCarthy was extraordinary.

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