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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?

[Deadworld]

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?

[Shaolin Soccer]

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.

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.

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.

[hard mode]

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.

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

Ach, I wasn't being mean. Sorry if it upset you.

It was ironic and it did me laugh, though!

Poetry. Sheer bloody poetry.

I know you shouldn't laugh. But I did. Irony defined.

Ooh. Just got Halo Wars 1 & 2 to play. Looking forward to it

If there were a referendum, would Englanders keep the Scots?

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.

I'm not crazy — that's an invunche in The Returners, isn't it?

I dunno. But that was a Google search right there.

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?

Sigh. Another FCBD issue that I will never see.