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Awesome stuff, both here and in your blog too, ghostpockets!

That is so freaking cool man! Ron we can all say with utmost certainty - is a legend! Nice one eamonn! 

Not gonna make it 
Have fun guys, say hi to Ron & have a beer or 2 for me

Cheers

Chi

You're not the only one mate, i've also had to cancel my trip as i'm in pretty bad shape. Both my legs playing up now, can't take a step without shouting in agony. For those that don't know i've got chronic back problem/ Sciatica, and the pain goes all the way down my legs. Just really pissed, out of all the days....was so looking forward to seeing Ron and co. 

That is really superb work, Mike. Love the green and yellow colour contrast; very eye catching - like the Brazil teams football kit! 

The look of Johnny Alpha is very stream line, close to what he'd probably look like in a film adaption. Great stuff!

There's something very British about the past few weeks Dandridge. Infiltrating an enemy base underneath a motorway services, before having a fight with robotic policemen on top of a coach trip on the motorway. 

Indeed! It's also the 80's setting albeit in another parallel world, which does it for me!

My newsagent lady was completely confused by the price on the cover; her reaction was priceless.

My newsagent couldn't find it at first so I pointed it out. He laughed, then gave me my change and told me what it was in pence. Top bloke.

My newsagent still hasn't stocked this weeks Prog....i'm thinking if the retro cover is in some the reason why? I thought they probably stacked it in a different shelf but my search proved fruitless. This is really taking the McVities now. Means i might have to take a trip down W.H Smiths tomorrow...

My aunt gave me a nickname as a kid which stuck - and it translates as crescent moon in Arabic or.........Morningstar in Hebrew! Nice to know i'm connected to Lucifer! 

Nice one Charlie boy. I definitely need to add this to my reading list. Lucifer does indeed mean Lightbringer, or 'Morningstar'.

[Sucker Punch]

Sucker Punch. I solemnly vow never to venture outside my comfort zone (or give Zac Snyder another break) ever again.

I thought Sucker Punch was really mild. What made it hard to watch for you Sauchie?

What everyone else wrote (above), young Hooermonger. I didn't hate it and it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but it tried my patience mightily. There are lots of individual bits of production design on show which are wonderful (the Hunnish troops in the trench warfare scenes and their spooky eyes were a highlight) and I'm all in favour of the bricolage approach to forcing different aesthetics, narratives and genres together and letting the interplay of those elements cohere and find their own meaning in the mind of the viewer - I'd just prefer it to be done with greater panache than was in evidence here.

The aesthetic and tone seemed to be lifted wholesale from Jeunet and Caro, but the practical effects and production design of their films was replaced by some of the most technically inept and insipid CGI work I can remember witnessing in a mainstream film. Whereas J & C bring a playful, light-comedic touch to matters of sexuality, Sucker Punch marries unremarkable voyeurism, and the attempt to lend gravitas to the candyfloss fabula by bringing child rape (!) to the party is disastrously misjudged. I think child rape's an excellent subject for a film; but not a film which is a cross between Resident Evil 4 and Showgirls.

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Lol. Now this i gotta see! 

I have used my god-like powers to add spoiler tags - but then again, the movie is utter rubbish and doesn't deserve it...

Heh, cheers nonetheless, Richmond! 

Went to my local newsagent to pick my copy up....Prog still hadn't arrived. Shit. Will have to wait till Friday now. 

[[spoiler]then JR woke up and it had all been a dream!![/spoiler]]

Yeah, sucker punch was pretty bad. The story was all over the place and it kept flipping from one unrelated weird scenario to the next....[spoiler]then JR woke up and it had all been a dream!![/spoiler]

Hey man, some of us haven't seen the film yet (well this person at least!) Cover that shit up! 

[chap just couldn't get into The Red Sea's and dropped the fold after that).]

I've got a number of people at college and over on other forums to read Toothy, to almost universal approval (One chap just couldn't get into The Red Sea's and dropped the fold after that).

His loss i guess...

Jovis, Mary mother of Grud - wow. That is superb Archie! 

[GOATY]

Where is GOATY?

You can check out the thread i started, for clues;

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38464.msg759497.html#new