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Jumping Jack Flash.

Uuurrgghhh...! When will people learn that Whoopi Goldberg based films can never escape the trap of being utterly shite.

(On a lighter note, I enjoyed Jaws 3D, if only because I saw it with my brother at the NFT in actual 3D. Which was a lot better than watching it on tv, and not in 3D)

-Preaching to the Perverted
-The Jackal
-Alien Resurrection
-Dumb and Dumber
-Arena
-Haloween II, IV, V, VI, VII
-Hell Comes to Frogtown
-Audition
-Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
-Batman Forever
-Super Mario Brothers
-Species
-I Know What You Did Last Summer
-Scream
-Valentine
-A Nightmare on Elm Street II
-Friday the Thirteenth VII: Jason Goes to Hell
-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
-Lawnmower Man
-Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
-Mannequin
-Mission Impossible II
-Street Fighter
-Stop, or My Mom'll Shoot
-Kindergaten Cop
-Speed
-Cannonball Run

As long as it wasn't Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Or the Cosby Mysteries. Or the Cosby show, come to think of it.

Is it Logan's run? Sort of 'Judge' bloke runs around with fairly pathetic, yet sexy, little clothed sidekick, and he talks like Michael Yorke?

What about Mad Max? Sort of 'Judge' bloke runs around with loudmouthed, yet highly flammable, sidekick, and is the only one in the film who talks with an un-dubbed Australian accent?

Or perhaps Robocop? Sort of 'Judge' bloke runs around with crappy, Nancey Allen-style sidekick, and talks like Metal Mickey's gay uncle?

Yes, as it only costs six quid anyway.

Excellent art from Steve Yeowell (as usual) and an intriguing, 'steam punk' story from Morrison. I think you can pick it up, collected, for about ?6.50, although it doesn't add much to the original series, other than a timeline from humorous Morrison. It's worth having the original covers as well, if just for the gold lame boarders and trimming on the first issue.

However, it's definitely worth reading since...
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The Matrix rips it off disgracefully, and it has a much better ending than the empty headed, meaningless neo-christian posturing of the Wachowski brothers.

They're having to scrap their Fantasy Football as well, because other iternet sites complained that people weren't going to their sites and paying for these services when they could get them for free from the BBC.

Damn Jowell and her free market revisionism!

It's Keynesism gone mad, I tell you!

Why does this keep happening?

This is very strange.

I think that's pretty harsh. I mean, imagine that you had spent years creating all these great characters, and then after they apeared in print your publishers said they owned them. You'd be screwing, and rightly so. No other artistic industry in the world operates under these work for hire practices, other than the comics industry. Look at the number ofpeople who were made penniless from having to work under these conditions, whilst the characters they created prospered and made their publishers millions: Kirby, Ditko, et al. In most industries, the author(s) always see some percentage of the total net or gross returns from their work, and have the right of intellectual property, unless they chose to opt out for a flat fee. If you'd written a book and the publisher claimed it was his intellectual property, you'd not only be mad, but you'd be in the legal right to take it back.

Of course, I'm not having a pop at Rebellion: I'm well aware of the state of the publishing industry, particularly in Briatain, that it wouldn't really be possible to pay and deveop ownership in the same way. Likewiser, I accept that Morrison must have known what the deal was when he accepted the comission from IPC. Those were the standard rules, and there's no way he didn't know it. Nevertheless, I can understand his annoyance with not owning the character and lack of consultation with the Titan reprint, whilst perhaps admitting that his methods leave a little to be desired (plus, although he didn't actually invent the characters, I think Steve Yeowell should recieve some recognition too, as well as Brendan McCarthy for doing the original design for Zenith).

There may be a veiled hint to the contractual problems in Morrison and Yeowell's contributuion to the 'Thargs Head Revisited'-type strip that appeared in prog 1280 for the 25th anniversary.

I can't believe that you actually put that up on ebay...

or that 4 whole people bid on it!

This is a picture of cheery, fun loving chap Rorschach. I cocked up his hat a bit when I redrew it, but all in all I was quite pleased. This was a smaller sketch for a larger picture I'm working on.

However, it looked much better when it was inked:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/BVirgo01/rorschach.bmp">

Here's a fairly standard Dredd head I knocked off whilst bored at work:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/BVirgo01/fd307909.bmp">

I think that's pretty harsh. I mean, imagine that you had spent years creating all these great characters, and then after they apeared in print your publishers said they owned them. You'd be screwing, and rightly so. No other artistic industry in the world operates under these work for hire practices, other than the comics industry. Look at the number ofpeople who were made penniless from having to work under these conditions, whilst the characters they created prospered and made their publishers millions: Kirby, Ditko, et al. In most industries, the author(s) always see some percentage of the total net or gross returns from their work, and have the right of intellectual property, unless they chose to opt out for a flat fee. If you'd written a book and the publisher claimed it was his intellectual property, you'd not only be mad, but you'd be in the legal right to take it back.

Of course, I'm not having a pop at Rebellion: I'm well aware of the state of the publishing industry, particularly in Briatain, that it wouldn't really be possible to pay and deveop ownership in the same way. Likewiser, I accept that Morrison must have known what the deal was when he accepted the comission from IPC. Those were the standard rules, and there's no way he didn't know it. Nevertheless, I can understand his annoyance with not owning the character and lack of consultation with the Titan reprint, whilst perhaps admitting that his methods leave a little to be desired (plus, although he didn't actually invent the characters, I think Steve Yeowell should recieve some recognition too, as well as Brendan McCarthy for doing the original design for Zenith).

There may be a veiled hint to the contractual problems in Morrison and Yeowell's contributuion to the 'Thargs Head Revisited'-type strip that appeared in prog 1280 for the 25th anniversary.

Basically, the question in the title.

What the fuck?

Fraser of Africa is a blinding strip - the first stories the best. Bellamy's use of colour in that is amazing, some of the best I've ever seen in a comic, certainly the equal of John Higgins or Tatjana Wood. In my opinion, it was one of the best strips to appear in The Eagle.