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Yikes! I'm sure a helpful mod will be along to delete it soon, but anyone wanting to use paypal will get their hands on that info anyway.

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Just ordered mine and actually got a little thrill from the second hand, once removed contact with the man who drew The Midnight Surfer.

I didn't have a paypal account before, but it only took about five minutes to set up and ordering the book was as easy as entering Cam's email address ([deleted]) into a box and clicking send.

£10 per book or £15 for a signed copy (plus £2 post and packaging)

Realism is very important in Superman.

I always thought it was a bit unrealistic in the old canon that his mum would make him a costume that was skintight and had pants on the outside, I think someone's mum would more likely make a costume that had a sensible jumper and she'd knit it for him in her living room rather than make it out of kevlar in her laboratory in the barn.

And then she'd give it to him and he'd have to wear it but he'd huff about it.  That's pretty much how I see that poster's backstory playing out, and I approve.

If Martha Kent was anything like my Mum, she would have bought Clark's outfit from the market. All his pals would have ripped the pish out of him, because their costumes cost more and had better logos.

Hiya, Charles. I've never bought a flash drive that didn't come with some kind of security or zip software pre-loaded. Have you had a look to see if there isn't something like that on there already?

If not, something like this should do the trick: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,155761/description.html

[PUSSY RIOT!]

PUSSY RIOT!

They're sexy, they're political, they're going to jail.

[LSD]

Raquel Welch sings a pretty little pop song, then half way through, the LSD kicks in.

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS

Wow! That's ridiculously in tune with my personal aesthetic, so I feel angry at the universe for having hidden it from me for so long. While you have to wait until 2min 45sec for the insanity in the clip you posted, the following is completely fucking nuts from the get go:

WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?

Those two harmless bits of peace and love-spouting fluff were products of the same culture that was busily torching women and children in Vietnam at that time. I'm not sure if such inanity in popular culture is an ironic counterpoint to genocide, or a necessary pre-condition.

Does anything happen between Batman and Anderson after the end, in the Batcave?

Once Anderson was well enough, Bruce Wayne took her up the secret entrance.

[THE MASTER]

THE MASTER full trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEeQs1ZePJ8

That's a bad link to a very bad film, Soap. Since it was your previous link that made me aware of and excited about The Master, I'll assume that was a genuine error and post a link to Paul Anderson's latest opus:

I'M PALS WITH DAY-LEWIS AND I WAS DOING FIONA APPLE FOR AGES

Thanks for the diligence, Ian; thanks for the laugh, David. My desultory and entirely opportunistic efforts at filling in back issues that I don't have end around 200 and don't pick up again until around 380, so I've never seen that issue in the flesh. Thanks again for your hard work.

Heading out the door this morning and seeing it was looking a bit overcast, I impulsively dug out an army jacket I haven't worn for ages to go with my blue/black jeans and knackered converse. Something bugged me about that decision all day, until I finally remembered this from a few weeks ago:




Apparently, I'm a suggestible little prick. Tomorrow, I'm thinking of wearing my leather trousers, kneepads and kevlar vest.

bikini -have you swallowed something you shouldn't?

A dictionary.

[THE NEW]

Thanks for the link, Steve. Following it also led to me seeing your post with that fantastic Brendan McCarthy Dredd artwork you hand-tinted, which has always been a favourite of mine- despite the fact I've only ever seen it in the version you re-worked for the cover of Best Of 2000ad Monthly.

Does anyone know in which prog that artwork was originally published? And was it originally reproduced in colour or black and white? I seem to remember it being used inside another reprint title as b/w line art:

THE NEW(ish) MCCARTHYISM

[Kid A in Alphabet Land]

Stonkingly good prog, cover to cover just excellent art and tales. My Fave is Red Seas with the panel chock full of goodies from my fave movies, Kali from Sinbad, the cavorite machine from First Men in the moon, lovely stuff.

Since so much of the discussion of Red Seas is subjecting it to a semiotic Where's Wally? reading of the imagery, what about extending that to the characters' names? Windsor & Newton are two characters whose existence and identity are contingent upon- and created by- the Windsor & Newton ink, brushes and art board used in their creation. Drawing attention to the artifice of character and the means by which it is constructed is terribly self-reflexive, achingly post modern and reminscent of the post-structuralist word games of Jacques Lacan's Kid A in Alphabet Land.

Great to see the unbelievably talented Stevie Owl working with a format and source material that are sympathetic to his abilities too. His fluid art style works much better when allowed room to breath and expand, without the limiting factor of colour artificially delineating where one object ends and another begins. There are good compositional reasons why Yeowell leaves out certain lines and allows contrasting areas of black and white to define objects, rather than going crazy with the stippling pen. Those reasons are all the more apparent when he's dealing with material that depends on tantalising suggestions of larger and unseen worlds beyond our own. See also Zenith: phase 3.

[The Avalanches]

Lenny Zero-  ... What's the history behind this bear though? I assume we've seen him before. Is he genetically engineered?

The Shako poster gives you an idea of the character's literary progenitors. Virtually every line of dialogue contains an allusion to a former Wagner strip, and many of the images in the strip are visual quotations from previously published Wagner stories. The brilliantly named Shuggy Bear is a demonstration that Zero's 7 is every bit as much a tissue of quotations as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or the music of The Avalanches, and it's not a bad way of establishing a link with Wagner's milieu.

When every metaphor involves perp runners, rad pits or cremola and (Dervla Kirwin voice) this dart doesn't just contain any old poison, it's a Gila-Munja neurotoxin flechette, targeted between your fifth and sixth spinal vertebrae, it can seem like Diggle's trying a little too hard to remind everyone that this is happening in a city where Joe Dredd's probably just round the next corner; but the nods to Pulman, Brubaker and Leonard-via-Soderberg mean the story reads less like Wagner-ventriloquism and more as if it's making a virtue of demonstrating that all any writer does is rearrange elements from familiar stories.

I like Willsher's Megacity One, especially his take on the heavy armour Justice Dept use to transport their French Connection/American Gangster loot across the Meg, and this version of his style has a similar feel to the concept art for Metal Gear Solid 2. This story was quite good fun, and if Shuggy's a former victim of laboratory experimentation, that's presumably where he picked up his forty-a-day habit.

These are the types of events that I really don't want to read about, as the empathy I feel for those involved is unbearable and yet we are bombarded with every detail over and over again. I just hope that the news media don't make matters worse but alas I feel they won't be able to hold back!

Sadly when I eventually watch this film it will forever be associated with this atrocity but that is nothing compared to what the families and friends will forever go through when Batman is mentioned. My thoughts are with all those involved and that includes the family of the murderer!

I imagined COMMANDO FORCES's review of those events would have a much different focus.