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#5446
General / Re: Do some artists get worse, or ...
26 March, 2004, 02:45:28 PM
McMahon's new stuff looks like it was drawn by a disinterested child.

With crayons.

Not really trying.

And blind.

Using a ruler.
#5447
Off Topic / Re: Best name EVAH!
26 March, 2004, 02:51:55 PM
My wife went to school with:

Roch Star.

(Roch, is pronounced the same way as loch. Not that that will help some of you, unless there is a need to clean your monitor and you spit all over it trying to pronounce the word)
#5448
Off Topic / Re: Name that tune -
26 March, 2004, 02:48:53 PM
Sorry not to answer but I remeber the line

"I dreamed I dreamed I dreamt a dream, and I dreamt that the dream was real"

and can't find its source anywhere.

Any helpers?
#5449
Prog / Re: Prog 1382 Bad Cover
22 March, 2004, 07:24:43 PM
Maybe that's why subscription copies come in plain envelopes?
#5450
General / Re: short story competition..........
25 March, 2004, 04:29:51 PM
I'm sure a read a short story that starts with the last man alive is sitting in a room and something turning off the lights. It turns out it is the last woman, and they are in an alien zoo.
#5451
General / Re: short story competition..........
22 March, 2004, 05:14:35 PM
Just busy at work.
#5452
General / Re: short story competition......
22 March, 2004, 05:09:43 PM
A title's not compulsary, is it?

If it is then how about:

"Musings of a Dying Perp"
#5453
General / Re: short story competition...
22 March, 2004, 05:08:00 PM
Wars. Zombies. Necropolis. And I've never been shot. Bullets everywhere, just not near me.

Then Jena hits Umpty, Mona's rad-poisoned. Organ leggers. Lungs, liver: 30K.

"Bank job," Flak said. "EMP the 'bots, then arcade jackpot."

Dredd hit an artery. Still, better dead than cubed.

Bullet didn't get me.

City did.
#5454
Help! / Re: Why aren't the animated icons ...
09 April, 2004, 03:38:36 PM
Is that title meant to be a tounge twister?

How about this for a reply:-

The animated icons are animated when the icon animation is activated.
#5455
General / Re: Dawn of the Dead Remake..........
29 March, 2004, 03:49:00 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed it when I saw it on Saturday. Especially the opening ten to twenty minutes, when civilization goes down the pan.

If only the inevitable, cheesy, deeply wrong and risibly needless zombie baby scene had been omitted and this would have been as good a (western) horror as anything from the 90s.
#5456
The Blind Woman

She is the ultimate Dredd villain. She doesn't break the law; she is as familiar with the rules of MC-1 as he is. Nonetheless, she represents the greatest threat his city will ever face.

A powerful psychic, she despairs of the seething hatred she senses in the citizens. Years of exposure to their feelings have made her take a stand against the city. She knows what they feel: resentment; despair; fear; and helplessness. In her heart, she knows these are the forces that drive citizens to crime while Dredd can't, or won't, see this.

Her epiphany comes when she helps Dredd save the city, but is blinded accidentally by him and coldly left for dead while he bids to save the city. She survives and makes her way to the undercity, where she gathers a following of troggies, muties and outcasts to whom she preaches a peaceful way of life. They are organises into better communities, and the undercity dwellers come to rely on her.

Rumours of a the "Blind Woman" in the undercity reach the Judges. Concerned at the possibility of an organised uprising, Dredd leads a patrol to wipe them out. They find a struggling community, but no overt signs of aggression. Even so, Dredd cannot believe there is no nefarious purpose behind the organisation and feels that, in time, they would come to resent the city dwellers and strike out at them. The Blind Woman is absent at this time, preaching in the still uncivilized parts of the undercity, but returns to find her people dead.

Realising that she must act against the city if she is to avoid being hunted down, the Blind Woman moves into the slums of MC-1. She preaches a kind and gentle way of life, and an almost communist ideology where everyone should help each other to better themselves rather than fighting and bickering.

Slowly, her movement gathers momentum. Images of the Blind Woman, leaning on a stick, begin to be scrawled on walls. Crime, bizarrely, starts to fall in some of the poorer sectors. Perps found guilty of petty crimes (smoking, owning sugar) claim not to be afraid of the judges as they know the Blind Woman will come to their aid eventually.

An investigation into the Blind Woman's activities shows she has done nothing wrong, although Dredd is suspicious that she won't show herself. Crime is also being committed in her name, although her followers are quick to report the perps in question.

Eventually, her movement begins to sweep through the city. It is perceived as a greater threat to the absolute rule of the judges than democracy. Dredd leads an assault team to assassinate the Blind Woman.

Eventually, he tracks her down – killing innocent citizens on the way. In a final confrontation, Dredd recognises the Blind Woman. She attempts to show him the error of his ways, and refers to their past connections. Dredd concedes he can see her point of view, but that he is compelled to save the city as he knows it. With regret, he executes her – despite her having committed no crime.

The Blind Woman is Judge Anderson.
#5457
Off Topic / Re: You have a snooze for five min...
05 March, 2004, 03:52:24 PM
Welcome back. It's always good to get away to foreign climes and submit the locals to odd experiments and torture. But, somewhat akin to the feeling of getting into your own bed after a fortnight away, you always feel better back in your own place.
#5458
General / Re: Complete 2000AD Collections......
05 March, 2004, 02:53:37 PM
I have all the original comic strip of any kind (progs, megs, specials, poster progs, annuals, Starlords, Crisis) but very little else.
#5459
Help! / Re: Ned Buys 2000AD Shock!!!......
04 March, 2004, 10:50:18 PM
Aye, it wuz.

The Enigmatic Glaswegian
#5460
General / Re: For UK boarders only.............
04 March, 2004, 09:36:49 PM
Me.