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"Eastbourne, on the other hand, boasts citizens whose average age is 103"

Cobblers.

Eastbourne hosts the biggest street skate event on the south coast and, apart from the millions of teenage foreign students who live here half the year, has plenty of young people. That's how we came up with Chris Weston, Liam Sharpe and er Toploader.

Not that Toploader is anything to be proud of, but you see what I mean.

SiG

Heh. Monty Python's 'Hell's Grannies'.

SiG- (always glad to see Bournemouth get the coffin-dodgers abuse instead of Eastbourne.)

Sandman suffered from an awful lot of crummy art, but succeeded in spite of that because of Gaiman's consistently good writing.

I'd agree, though, his comics writing hasn't really come to much apart from the Sandman series. And Violent Cases.
And Signal to Noise, Mr Punch, Black Orchid, Hellblazer: Hold Me, Miracleman, Death: The High Cost of Living and Books of Magic.

Oh yes and "Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of The Emperor Heliogabolus".

SiG

Oddboy,

I hadn't looked at the 2000AD Films Plc ad but now you mention it, what a shocking bodge! Unless maybe they _deliberately_ made it so we couldn't read  the price of a 50p share... eh? eh? me, paranoid?

Now, I was going to take you to task over calling this weeks glorious Dredd art 'sub-Beano' but then I read your glowing praise of the wonky-eyed Manga-style crap in the Ash ad and I realised you must have been winding us up ;-)

SiG

Absolutely brilliant to see McMahon back on Dredd, all the better for being a total surprise. No one draws poor old Joe getting pulped better than McMahon and some of the panels here were painfully reminiscent of the punishment he received in HOWLER.  just a shame to see the words 'The End', I was hoping for a "Next Prog". Oh well, always leave 'em wanting more, I suppose.
For me, the other highlight of the prog was The Scrap, which did a cracking job of introducing us to a very bizarre world in just 5 pages. No need for a double length intro here, just a concentrated dose of in media res. Can't wait to see how it's all fleshed out over the next few weeks.
Vucking marvellous!

SiG

"Consider Her Ways" is a lovely little collection of Wyndham short stories. The title story is mad!

SiG

It was, until they switched to glossy paper.

S.

Although it features the work of several 2000AD writers and artists, the content isn't related to 2000AD at all. In the interests of keeping a large website on-topic, I don't think it should be added.

Other Violent types may disagree of course ;-)

SiG

"Better still, are any of the message board posters famous themselves and using a pseudonym to protect themselves?"

I'm Spartacus.

Not sure I follow your reasoning, jason.
Different creative teams work on each strip, so how would reducing the number of stories each week make them better drawn? If anything, fewer stories would mean longer episodes, so they'd have even more pages to do each week!

SiG

"Trouble is the comic cannot go for much longer with that aproach or it runs the risk of alienating Newbies and oldies, sooner or later it's going to have to bite the bullet and decide which group it wants."

It doesn't have to be clear-cut as that. The combination of older and new characters is part of the appeal of a long running comic. The challenge is getting the balance right. We've recently had a run of golden oldie strips, but I see that more as a themed season rather than a new policy to have half the strips in every future prog more than 20 years old.

If a story is good it will be liked by new and older readers irrespective of the age of the series. Similarly a stinker will be universally reviled.

I don't see how a long-established series would alienate new readers unless either it's a dull story or a lot of backstory is left unexplained to the newbies. Neither of those cases are an automatic part of reviving classic series.

SiG

"And on the subjext of McMahon, he will also be drawing the original graphic novel of ComX's Heavy Plant. (IIRC the original art for issue 0 was by Siku!)"

From the ridiculous to the sublime ;-)

Maybe it's just one of those words that sounds good in a Norse accent. You know, like a Geordie accent with 'photocopier', 'Kawasaki', etc.

SiG

"Plus I hated the faux norwegian accent. Almost racist, wold we have an Indian character speaking in such an atrocious style of written accent."

AIIEEE! BLAKEE PENTAX!

"Any you don't like - they were almost certainly my fault. Any you do like - thank the creators!"

That's a bit modest, David. I'm sure for every crap strip that got through, you must have prevented several worse ones.

SiG