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#121
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
09 February, 2018, 06:05:19 PM
My copies of ABC Warriors and Rogue Trooper turned up today - very nice they are too, the ABC Warriors book includes the Ro-Busters prologue and the colour centre spreads, and it's the third time I've received a Rogue Trooper book as part of a prize I won on the Internet (I won a copy of the Rogue Trooper vol 2 phonebook off of Molch-R during a Twitch broadcast about Dredd vs Death at the end of 2015, then won a copy of Rogue Trooper vol 1 off of the Rogue Trooper Redux twitter feed last year).

However, it does mean that I've missed the Dante and Robohunter books.  Anyone know who I need to get in touch with to sort it out...?
#122
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
09 February, 2018, 12:22:03 PM
The reprints are in colour? They're not in my copy...

Weird!
#123
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
08 February, 2018, 04:17:24 PM
Quote from: Tomwe on 08 February, 2018, 10:27:44 AM
Subs box is here - silver bookends included.

Hmmm, I haven't had the Robohunter and Nicolai Dante books arrive yet...
#124
That would be Tharg's Future Shocks: Ten, written and drawn by David Pugh, 2000 AD prog 480.
#125
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
15 January, 2018, 04:16:04 PM
Weetabix is indeed big blocks of dry wheat.  If you put cold milk and sugar on them, it tastes like sugary milk.  For some reason, whenever I went to visit my grandparents I'd be presented with a plate of three Weetabix with butter spread on them (admittedly, it was usually margarine, and on at least one occasion, lard) even though I never actually ate them...

At the risk of scrambling Fox's brains even more, it's worth noting that the whole of the Apocalypse War, including Block Mania, probably lasts under a week of Dredd-verse time (it might be as short as four days...)
#126
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
05 January, 2018, 04:01:35 PM
I used to work in Reading and I know it well enough to say that all those directions in Mean Arena are accurate (especially the one about the shortcut through Woolworth's to get from Broad Street to Friar Street) and the Maiwand Lion being referred to by its Local Name of 'The Forbury Lion' indicates that whoever 'A. Ridgway' is he's a Reading native - although admittedly almost all the landmarks mentioned are long gone (Butts Shopping Centre, Forbury Park Bandstand, King's Road Office Tower, Woolworth's...)
#127
General / Re: Name that BAM!
29 December, 2017, 07:46:21 AM
They are - Massimo Belardinelli, Massimo's daughter Valentina (she turns up quite a lot, keep your eyes open!), Alan Grant, I assume that's Lettering Droid Steve Potter, Massimo's wife (who quite often also appears alongside his other cameos) and John Wagner.
#128
Help! / Re: Name that Shock!
15 December, 2017, 07:33:22 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 15 December, 2017, 04:10:02 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 06 December, 2017, 03:41:04 PM
The other FS that springs to mind is one of Alan Moore's (I think) involving students at a lecture talking about life being wiped out.  In the denouement it turns out that the students are dinosaurs.  Not sure which prog though.

I remember that one.  It was actually two lectures - one about a theoretical nuclear war and one about the death of the dinosaurs.  Both lecturers use the same lines about the effects (nuclear winter, end of the world) and at the end its revealed that the nuclear war lecture is by dinosaurs who laugh at been replaced by "stupid mammals" and the other is set in the now and the students laugh at been replaced by insects.

Sadly no idea of the name or Prog, and nothing on either Barney or Touched by the Hand of Tharg ring any bells.

That's Tharg's Future Shocks - Class of '65 from prog 382, written by Alan Hebden and drawn by Jesus Redondo.
#129
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
21 November, 2017, 12:39:04 PM
Quote from: SpaceSpinner2000 on 20 November, 2017, 01:30:35 PM
Matt Tallon gets revenge

I think that we're definitely supposed to be rooting for Tallon as a hero, rather than him turning out to be an out-and-out baddy - however, it's worth noting that Tom Tully gets replaced by an 'A. Ridgeway' in a couple of progs time. Nobody knows who that is, but I strongly suspect that it's 'Tom Tully under extremely close supervision so that this sports strip doesn't get the comic pulled' following the astonishingly gruesome death of the doctor character.  It was, after all, a Tom Tully sports strip (football tale 'Look out for Lefty!') that was directly responsible for the demise of Action, not to mention Inferno nearly killing the prog in 1978.
#130
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
20 November, 2017, 02:58:18 PM
"Stay tuned at the end of Episode 75 for important news for all listeners!"

Noooooooooo!!!!
#131
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
03 November, 2017, 06:50:00 PM
Quote from: Vanilllahubby on 02 November, 2017, 04:31:20 PM
This sc fi special was my first introduction to the galaxy's greatest! Btw is that Tom Frame in the
photo strip (second box?). Can't wait to here your opinions on ace trucking. Keep up the good work!

I don't know, but I think one of the guys waiting in panel three is art bodger Robin Smith, and I've always had the impression that the Alien Registrar was played by Richard 'Burt' Burton, as he looks a bit like Ezquerra's version of him.
#132
General / Re: Space Spinner 2000AD
02 November, 2017, 01:51:53 PM
Ah, R. E. Wright is a stock IPC pseudonym when something's been extensively rewritten and the original author wants his name taken off it (rewrite, see!)

In this case, this one is rather historical because the original author of Southern Comfort was a young fellow by the name of Alan Moore writing his very first full length script submission.  No one seems sure exactly how much Alan Moore material is left in it, though...
#133
General / Re: Judge Morph
15 October, 2017, 03:39:19 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 October, 2017, 03:34:10 PM
Wasn't his name Morphy? I thought Morph was a nickname; like Guthrie being called 'Guth'.

Other way round - it's Morph on his badge, other characters address his as Morphy.
#134
General / Re: Have I read all the JD Mega epics?
12 October, 2017, 04:24:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 October, 2017, 03:07:17 PM
I'd argue that Alan Grant shorts like 'Politics', (maybe) 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' and 'John Cassavetes is Dead' are also parts of that story.

Hey, speaking of maybe, maybe we should include the Maybe stories...
#135
General / Re: Have I read all the JD Mega epics?
12 October, 2017, 02:33:34 PM
Quote from: DrRocka on 12 October, 2017, 02:17:14 PM
You're missing inferno/purgatory and Helter Skelter too, though many folk round here aren't keen on either. I like 'em, though, some fine Carlos art on both.

Inferno has Psi-Judge Janus in it and she rewrote her time-line at the end of her Faustus storyline (or everything she did was just a daydream she was having in a break room or something), thus making it entirely possible that she erased Inferno from history in the process (or it was all a dream or something).