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Yeah, like Dan *isn't* going to be getting his greasy little mits on it...one way or another... ;-)

'Scrot' comes from 'scrotnig', meaning 'Thrill-powered' (a 'nonscrot' is someone who doesn't read 2000AD).

I think what you're thinking of was 'groats', a term meaning large-sized coinage.

But whose 'manly hand' is he shaking...?

Oh, and nice Kid Knee pic, by the way - is that going up in Dan's Boo-shrine?

"WoD gets to part with his hard earned groats the same as everyone else."

Yeah, but he still has to put up with you two though - surely that deserves *something*? Like an award...  ;-P

"Put me down for a copy mate."

You mean you don't get a comp?

Is that like a sort of pull-out poster thingy then?

"The American model is to do 8-page stories on the usual monthly frequency, which just isn't enough for trades"

Umm...what about the Michael Fleischer/Jim Aparo Spectre revival in the anthology Adventure Comics in the 70's, which was not only subsequently collected as a mini-series, but also as a tpb?

But 2000AD stories tend to be shorter than American mini-series, which are aimed at collecting every six issues as a tpb, whereas the longest run you generally see in a 2000AD strip these days is about 10 parts (bar a few notable exceptions). Also, 2000AD strips, because of their short, serialised nature, tend to have a much more self-contained, faster-paced narrative style than their American cousins.

"Conventional wisdom was that horror books weren't a good risk, either - but Horror comics were outselling superhero books until the Seduction Of The Innocent scandal provided DC and Marvel the opportunity to drive those books off the shelves, only for horror to make a comeback recently."

Not strictly true - horror was one of the forms, like Romance, that was tried during the late 40's/early 50's once the Golden Age superhero buzz died down following the climax of WW2. But Horror is perhaps the most *infamous*, and therefore best-remembered, but it probably wasn't the most popular - that would more likely run in the order of Crime, Westerns and then Horror.

Also, I don't think that Marvel were keen to drive horror books 'off the shelves', given that Timely/Atlas (as they were then) were almost certainly the largest publisher of Horror titles at the time. In fact, there's some annecdotal evidence from the time to suggest that part of the  reason for the industry's self-imposed Comics Code was in fact to 'knobble' the Atlas books; banning the use of the word "Terror" for example, which is a bit of a bugger if you happen to publish a book entitled 'Adventures into Terror'.

Like some grisly gypsy's hoodie-hump...

The sad thing is, it's only a matter of time before the locals gut it, eat it and use the empty skin as some sort of shelter for their young...

I still don't think it's as bad as anywhere in Kent...

For some reason, I immediately leapt to the conclusion that you must be talking about the trouser press manufacturer...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxaXwwGUrXQ" target="_blank">Snuff Box

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wgS7Jj6xpY" target="_blank">Superchick...guest-starring John Carradine?

Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo" target="_blank">Nicjolas Cage's The Wicker Man: Redux