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PICTURES OF MARS WITH YOUR CORNFLAKES

Not sure how much life there is left in the initial premise, but if the Winding-Refyn film ever happens Tharg would have to be an idiot not to capitalise on the publicity by commissioning another series of Button Man from Wagner. Shame Arthur Ranson wouldn't be able to draw it.

Kristen Stewart is this generation's Keanu Reeves

David Geffen's fucking her up the arse?

Reading Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Conrad -
Apparently hugely influential, tells the story of how the hero and the story of the hero has permeated culture, myth, religion, psychology etc I heard writers/directors like Christopher Nolan for instance have been influenced by the revelations in this book. Finding it hard to find time to get some reading of this book in though due to the fact I'm looking at Dredd Case Files as well as my bath being on the blink (alot of reading time lost lol).

Skim read it, you'll still get the gist. It's like all those books that promise to explain that there are only six/seven/twelve/twenty basic stories (they can't agree), upon which all others are based. On one level they're quite interesting; on another, their observations border on the blindingly obvious.

If you ever watched Star Wars as a kid and thought the Empire were a bit like the Nazis and the Rebellion were a bit like the Allies, there's not much Campbell can teach you. If you're already familiar with or are currently reading some of the stories he discusses, his comments will be more interesting.

[blackmocco]

This is probably going to be unpopular but I'm not a big fan of Thirlby's casting as Anderson. I would have cast Amber Heard or Michelle Ryan or (probably gonna be even more unpopular lol) Kristen Stewart.

Amber Heard would have been the same kind of casting as Eighties suggestions like Heather Locklear and Michelle Pfeiffer, meaning the part would become much more overtly about the sexuality of the actress. Kristen Stewart would only make sense in terms of box office, but at least we'd be guaranteed sequels.

Gotta believe Wagner, blackmocco and every single review I've read, that Thirlby aces the part.

[bor]

I drove into Southampton city centre today and was greeted by a massive Dredd teaser poster near the translation/BBC building

Hey, they spelt Judgement with an 'e'!  Is it differing between territories?!?

Can't remember seeing any UK hoardings advertising Pearl Harbor (2001), so I'd imagine that's the case. When Heaven 17 were releasing Penthouse and Pavement in the US, they kept the anglicised version of the name- but they were capitalising on the mystique, glamour and sophisticated allure their native Sheffield held for US audiences.

During the early Nineties, an administrative error meant I sometimes found Roxilla's Mix music column inside my prog.

Prog 842 came with free empty space where the top centimetre of the cover should have been, and prog 548 had the bonus of a printers' test colour bar running down one side, meaning both of those issues are doublers in my house.

To found out my year work contract ended last Tuesday, didn't get paid month wage too! Been work for free there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlw_v6v4O4

anyone else like to see some more of Finn?

Finn pretty much ran its course, but I'd be interested in seeing Pat Mills revisit the world and characters of Third World War without the hectoring tone of the original series or the Wiccan superheroics and hot lesbians of Finn.

Lots of what that strip had to say about the future of work and the relationship between business and government is still relevant, and it could provide an opportunity to imagine what forms resistance to a different, more subtle and pervasive kind of tyranny than either Savage or V for Vendetta portrayed might take.

I suspect the character ran its course when he caught the one-armed man - er, I mean the Traitor General

Arf! The series drifted too far away from its roots for far too long in the late Eighties/Nineties, when War Machine had already shown it was perfectly possible to do something interesting with the character. I don't really blame Geller, Fleischer, White, Millar or Tomlinson for the Friday/Rogue/Cyan/bio-chips melange; editorial should have picked a direction and followed it.

The stories that did follow Gibbons & Simpson's run ditched the 'Nam/Iraq feel and the genetic predestination angle, while sustaining the only bum note of Dave Gibbons's riff on the story- ditching the supporting cast. If editorial had let a writer like Garth Ennis- who loves war fiction as much he loves the original series- build on the tone established by Gibbons, while reintroducing the 'chips (preferably with Simpson on art), a number of things might have turned out very differently.

As Lenny Zero doing well and nice to see it back, with new story of The Simping Detective on the way! As there was returns of Flesh and Strontium Dog  ... I was read a old graphic book today, The Ballad of Halo Jones, it's brilliant! Wish for book 4 to that! Any old 2000ADs you want comeback?

Whatever you think of Alan Moore and his stance on creators' rights, it's to 2000ad's credit that we were never treated to Mark Millar's Book 4, where Halo is resurrected as a hard-as-nails cyborg.  Or Zenith: before Maximan, for that matter.

There's no reason why anyone couldn't write decent new Rogue Trooper stories, and I'm sure there's a number of great artists who'd kill to illustrate them, but that's been tried so many times- and failed- that it seems better to let it lie. I'm sure that if the proposed film ever materialises, market forces mean someone else will be given a go.

Generally speaking though, I'd rather read a new idea that doesn't quite work than something that relies on thirty year old memories to make it work. Having said all that, I can't think of a single reason why Pat Mills is hawking Marshal Law round other publishers when Kev O'Neil's art and 2000ad were made for each other.

The best thing about those images are the pen circles indicating the design elements they think look good. "Yeah, the diamante kneepads and triangular eagle are working for me".

To be fair, though, Versace's minions weren't pulling this stuff out of their arses. Carlos's elaborate initial designs exhibited the effortless blend of machismo and camp historically favoured by European fascist groups, and which still finds favour with police forces all over the world:





I normally keep those pictures at the bottom of a carboard box in the loft, marked 'receipts'

Given how many of us are planning to hit the red carpet wearing Planet Replica, that'd be the least of our worries. My pal turned up for The Matrix in a black trenchcoat and wraparound shades

[Roger]

I wish Roger was here. He'd know what to say.

Bernard Schwartz. Cary Grant.