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#856
Am I right in thinking that the Bunrning Man/ Armageddon story lines, back around the time the Meg was launched, was intended to be an epic sweeping into the creation of the Judges?

What happened?

Why didn't it go ahead? Have we ever learned what the plot would have been?
#857
Prog / Re: Prog 2085
12 June, 2018, 10:06:09 AM
Quote from: Frank on 11 June, 2018, 01:30:38 PM
Quote from: wedgeski on 11 June, 2018, 11:05:12 AM
Deadworld ... the art looks great from 10 feet away

How are you reading your comics?

With the prog on the floor and me on stilts. Doesn't everyone?
#858
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
01 June, 2018, 09:17:28 PM
Shaolin Soccer

Possibly the greatest film I have ever seen.

Overdubbed, fast cut, cliched Oriental amazement.

I need to digest more. But the bad guys were called Team Evil.

If I was five, this is the movie I would have written.
#859
Quote from: SIP on 29 May, 2018, 05:18:00 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 29 May, 2018, 04:10:26 PM
I'll watch it on telly on a rainy Sunday in 2019.

Take that Disney! You give me The Last Jedi, I give you Star Wars ennui.

Yeah, but the problem is that you might like it when you watch it on the TV in a couple of years and think "I would have liked to have seen the sequel to that".....but we won't get one because it's performing so badly.

A bit like "Dredd", where there are no end of comments from people saying "finally caught this on TV, wish I'd seen it in the cinema, why isn't there a sequel?".

I'd rather live with the disappointment of never seeing another good Star Wars film - I did for 30 odd years - than have the disappointment of another insulting sequel.
#860
I'll watch it on telly on a rainy Sunday in 2019.

Take that Disney! You give me The Last Jedi, I give you Star Wars ennui.
#861
Games / Re: Nintendo Switch
29 May, 2018, 01:40:44 PM
Quote from: GrudgeJohnDeed on 29 May, 2018, 10:58:47 AM
I can vouch for Mega Man 9, that and Mega Man 2 are my jam! If you're fans of other NES or NES-inspired platform games there's a cool one that's just come out on pretty much every system (you'll have to wait a couple of days for 3ds and a week for Xbox One though) called Bloodstained: Curse of The Moon, it's a tie-in game to the crowdfunded game Bloodstained and a spiritual successor to the NES Castlevanias - my favourite era for the series personally.

Also sticking with 8-bit, Wonderboy The Dragon's Trap is a fantastic remake of a charming Master System platformer-rpg, where you can play with any combination of old and new graphics and sound. Having no real lives (you reappear in the hub section when you die and keep all your money, lose your consumables though) and RPG elements where you can save up money to buy better gear and items before attacking the next section, it's not as hard as these other games on normal difficulty but hard mode is a nice little challenge with tougher enemies and constantly draining health to make you get your skates on!

Loved this remake. Really liked the idea of loading an old save code... I have happy memories of them lying about, scribbled on homework jotters.
#862
What a cover! Best in years for me. Such effort and love. Who'd you spot?

Ash, from evil dead
Kameleon, from doctor who
Austin powers
Monkeys. Lots of monkeys. But no hats, so doesn't count
Cyclops
Mike, from monsters inc
Fry and leela
Time cop?
Marvin, from hitchers tv series
Marvin, from hitchers movie
Doc brown
The rabbit from Donnie darko
Silent bob
Doctor and k9 cosplay
#863
Suggestions / Re: Ballard of Halo Jones Error
22 May, 2018, 07:35:23 PM
Ach, I wasn't being mean. Sorry if it upset you.

It was ironic and it did me laugh, though!
#864
Suggestions / Re: Ballard of Halo Jones Error
22 May, 2018, 07:55:24 AM
Poetry. Sheer bloody poetry.

I know you shouldn't laugh. But I did. Irony defined.
#865
Games / Re: Last game played...
21 May, 2018, 08:11:00 PM
Ooh. Just got Halo Wars 1 & 2 to play. Looking forward to it
#866
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
20 May, 2018, 10:13:08 PM
If there were a referendum, would Englanders keep the Scots?
#867
Prog / Re: Prog 2081 - Homies under der hammer
17 May, 2018, 08:24:57 PM
No proggage this week at X Towers. I've had three of the last five arrive more than 5 days later! One Saturday I got two progs.
#868
Megazine / Re: 396 - The Razor's Edge
16 May, 2018, 10:51:54 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 16 May, 2018, 10:23:46 PM
I'm not crazy — that's an invunche in The Returners, isn't it?

I dunno. But that was a Google search right there.
#869
Megazine / Re: 396 - The Razor's Edge
14 May, 2018, 07:28:22 PM
Damn Block Judge was good.

The Meg was great, in fact.

I have every Prog and Meg. I still love the floppies. Why? Because I am lazy and like to be reminded of things I've forgotten over 40 years of tooth.

I got the impression that was the end of Movie Dredd. Is that confirmed?
#870
Sigh. Another FCBD issue that I will never see.