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Some Heavy Metal Mags I bought from eBay. It's been years since I read any, and I must say I'm really enjoying some of the strips in them. I talked about Pat Mills' 'Sha' which was a stonkingly good read. I finished the first instalment of a French steampunk strip called 'The Regulators', which was also a lot of fun with some great artwork in it. I'm also loving the shorter strips, most of which are humourous with great artwork. A lot of them wouldn't look out of place in the prog, esp. somewhere like Tharg's 3rillers or Terror Tales. I love HM as it's more 'hardcore' (sometimes literally!) in its approach. There's been works from great writers over the years from Jodorowsky to Pat Mills, and artists from Moebius, Rich Corben to 2000ad's very own Simon Bisley. I've come across some of his artwork in my reading, and frankly they're mindbogglingly good. Also, there was an advert for 2000ad and the Meg in one of the issues, with a pic of the sassy Durhamred which I thought was pretty cool! 

This used to be my favourite show growing up in the 80's, alongside Ulysses and Thundercats! I bought the entire run on DVD a year back and rewatched it all from the first episode to the last. Ah, nostalgia....

As for this news, well not too keen on the idea to be honest. Still early days, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

I like Wes Anderson, his 'quirky' style really appeals to me. But the Coen Brothers....my god. They are one special duo. Ever since my young eyes graced Miller's Crossing I've been a massive fan of theirs. Fargo is another film I love by them, as well as Raising Arizona. But for me, they absolutely surpassed themselves with No Country For Old Men, and True Grit. The latter of which is my favourite western since The Assassination of Jesse James.

[Blade Runner The Final Cut]

Dark Jimbo and Hawkmonger; Blade Runner The Final Cut is on BBC4 at 10.00pm tonight. Make sure you guys check it out!

Wow. I was just reading an excellent article on Frank Frazetta in Heavy Metal Magazine a moment ago, and then I come on here and find this! What are the chances eh?! 

Youll be glad to know Detective Strange does indeed get hiw own series and mighty fine it is to! I wasnt aware he originated in a Devlin Waugh story mind!

Wow, Devlin Waugh? I didn't know that. Any clues when? I have a bunch of Megs with Waugh's exploits in within them, I hope I encounter Detective Strange, I love the character!

"I'll be back" cries a T-shirt wearing Robert Cop! 

So agree with you, Mabs, if people think it fine - give them example of Total Recall!

I still haven't watched the Total Recall remake yet! But judging by everyones reaction to the film it'll be a while before I do watch it. Maybe when its on Channel 5, more out of curiosity really! 

Lol. I think this is really funny! 

A big thanks to the creator of this awesome strip for letting me post it here!

I can barely recall Detonator X, but I don't think I was very impressed at the time, by the story or the art.

As for the Zero series - the second one was definitely the weakest of the three - toe-curlingly terrible dialogue from the "feminist" robot and two different characters misquote the same saying within a few pages of each other - "that's the oldest trick in the classics" - In the BOOK maybe, but I've never heard 'in the classics' - once would be okay, but when someone else repeats it later, it just seems a bit lazy.

I did love The Beast though!

Aw come on Dan, it was a lotta fun! I really enjoyed it. :-)

[life,]

It wouldn't matter - we're still driven by the same irrational desires.

Not even that irrational, really: "I want more life, fucker."*

Cheers!

Jim

*I much prefer this line to the sanitised version.

Same here, you could almost see the shocked look on Tyrell's face when Roy Batty utters that. Whereas 'father' does not have that same shock value. We already know the father/ prodigal son allegory and don't need it reinforced. That was the only weak note for me in the Final Cut.

It's worth remembering that Blade Runner was yanked out of Scott's hands by the studio before he was finished and neither he nor Ford ever liked the happy ending. Not forgetting the final cut is perfect example of how you use CGI years after a movie is released for a reason, unlike Lucas' tinkering with Star Wars, changes like removing visable wires, correcting out of out of sync speech and digitally replacing the stunt womans face with real actress's face, digitally stabilising the horn stuck on the horse, fixing the matte lines on some shots, fixing the day skyline when it's supposed to be night etc. etc.

I'm not a fan of creators tinkering with their movies years after the fact but I think Blade Runner is a good exception.

It definitely is a good move sheldipez. Also they didn't want to over do it too, there's some stuff they still left in apparently as it had become fan favourites! But the Final Cut improves the film visually, the first time I watched it my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets! The colours were really lush, and the dark dystopian feel of the film was exemplified. The CGI work is barely unnoticeable, and I for one love this version. Not forgetting Ridley also had proper input into its restoration and improvement.

Talking of restorations, did anyone watch the remastered version of the Godfather trilogy? It looks simply magnificent, hell even Part III feels like a different film! 

I've never seen Blade Runner. I'm starting to think maybe I should make the effort. It certainly inspires a lot of passion.

You haven't watc...what?!!! 

You should watch it a.s.a.p! (I recommend the Directors Cut/ Final Cut so you can better understand what everyone's on about!).

Blade Runner is a brilliant film, but one thing, Roy Batty does not say 'kinship', Rutger Hauer confirmed this :p

Will

I think it was added by Ridley afterwards for reasons he knows! It is there though, you can hear it clearly with the sound up a bit. I think it was either Ridley or Paul Sammon who talks about it in one of the docs in the 5 disc collection.

I don't know which versions of Blade Runner I've seen but this is the first I've been exposed to an "is Deckard a replicant" idea.  It is a concept that is briefly explored in the book the film is loosely based upon but I never personally saw it in the film.  I always saw Deckard as being human.  I'll certainly be more attentive next time I watch the film.

In the directors cut you can spot a few clues;

1. The Unicorn dream Deckard has (or does he?  ) which suggests that he has a memory implant like Rachael, also Gaff leaves a unicorn origami in Deckard's apartment near the end which confirms that.

2. In one scene in Deckard's apartment, when Rachael comes to visit there's a brief moment you can see Deckard's eyes , or rather pupils, shining in a reddish/golden hue just like Rachael's does, a giveaway sign of a replicant

3. "kinship", the word uttered by Roy Batty as he grabs Deckard from the face of death near the end.

As for the theatrical version with the voice-over, these are missing (don't know about the "kinship" part though), which means Deckard is human (and it works better in that version).