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I am looking forward to this in much the way I've been eagerly anticipating Dan Brown's Young Raskolnikov series.

Please don't. It's bad enough when Moore compares himself to Melville.

On the other hand, Mr Moore's always fond of pointing out that the films of his work don't affect the original material as it's all still there and I feel this applies equally here. Unlike Radiator, I really don't think The Matrix is retrospectively made shit by its unfortunate sequels.

A better example might be 'Psycho'. No one's ever gone off that because 'Psycho IV' is a bit rubbish.

It's doing good business in America because a) the fundamentalist churches are making block bookings, b) it's drawing an audience who don't usually go to the cinema (except to stand outside with placards damning John Cleese/Martin Scorsese/Walt Disney to hell) and c) there's a lot of controversy about it and that makes people go to see it to find out what the fuss is about.

In Ireland it was beaten by Starsky & Hutch!

The best Jesus films are always made by atheists anyway - Pasolini, Dennis Potter et al. Sitting through a dramatisation of the Gospels made by a religious fundamentalist isn't my idea of fun so I'll be sticking to 'Life of Brian'!

Judge Dredd - Wagner & Grant/Ezquerra
Halo Jones - Moore/Gibson
Nikolai Dante - R. Morrison/Burns (or Fraser)
Indigo Prime (or Tyranny Rex) - Smith/Weston
Nemesis - Mills/O'Neill

That's not including any strips that I regard as being finished (Zenith, Bad Company) or overdone (Rogue, Sinister Dexter, Slaine) but Nemesis gets in on condition that it wraps up the Pat Mills Universe once and for all. The Dredd and Halo Jones credits ruled out Strontium Dog and Robo-Hunter, but they've both have good runs.

Wouldn't it be quicker to list everyone who doesn't hate him?

207. I was ill and my dad got it for me. We lived in Croydon then so it probably caught his eye.

I spent the whole time reading Judge Dredd wondering when the old man in the wig and the gown was going to show up.

Doesn't Alan Davis do the first part? I remember thinking McFarlane's stuff looked so amateur by comparison and that was the first time I'd seen anything of his.

Batman Year Two though it probably seemed worse because I read it just after Year One and it didn't come close...

To be fair most of the published Gaiman stories are from his first series 'The Golden Age', which is really about what happens in the utopia that Alan Moore set up and not supposed to be full of action. The next two books 'The Silver Age' and 'The Dark Age' were going to be about how things change from there - but then Eclipse collapsed.

I'm expecting loads of Iraq parallels with the Volgans claiming to have liberated the UK and describing Savage as a terrorist. So, er, just like the first episode from 1977.

It's not that he's a hypocrite over the morality
(though if Ozymandias had contrived to kill three million Moscovites rather than New Yorkers I suspect he would have been right there with him) but over the idea of compromise. He doesn't recognise that Ozymandias has been just as "uncompromising" as he imagines himself (or Truman or his father) to be.

But Rorschach is a hypocrite. Compare his condemnation of Ozymandias with his sentiments earlier in the book, when he praises President Truman - "a man who never compromised" - for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War.

I always thought the point of the last scene was that the hatred and fear represented by the extreme right-wing newspaper hadn't gone away - not that Rorschach might still blow the scam. If they had published his diary, it would have read like the rantings of a paranoid sociopath and no one would have reached the end, let alone taken it seriously!

Halo Jones
Slaine the King
Bad Company (book one)
Strontium Dog - Portrait of a Mutant
Zenith (maybe as a 4 part TV mini-seires)

I wouldn't be keen on a straight action movie based on Dredd or Rogue, because it would be so easily messed up and lose everything that was distinct about the strips. Better to go for complete stories and adapt them instead.

Judge Hansar - one face-lift too many?

Judge Mandela IS Ena Sharples.

"Hutton is a respected Law Lord and hardly has a history of being a goverment patsie."

Check out Hutton's career in Northern Ireland.

I quite like Medivac 318. Not too keen on Zippy Couriers but I reckon it gets a rougher press than it warrants because it doesn't fit the classic 2000AD big men/big guns image.