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Future Shock is currently on sale at the Arrow website, for the bargain price of £7.99!

Snap one up creeps!

https://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=964

FB have still got copies of the Fabry variant if anyone else is still looking for a copy.

https://forbiddenplanet.com/234252-screammisty-special-1-dcuk-fabry-exclusive-cover/

Here's a skit on the belief that Judge Dredd should be a Video Game rather than a TV series.

http://www.scified.com/news/sgb---we-are-law

Why not both?   

With regard to DC Thomson, it feels like they're stubbornly operating on a business model that's fifty years out of date, just because that's what they've always done. They've no interest in exploiting their legacy of classic material at all, they just keep on trying to appeal exclusively to a dwindling child audience with desperate attempts to remain relevant. It's really sad.

I am very grateful to DC Thomson for being one of the only publishers still making comics for young children. You can criticise them for a lot of things, but they would leave a massive hole in the market if they shut down.

One of the reasons the Scream and Misty stuff doesn't really work for me is that it is aimed exclusively at an older audience. I understand why, I just find it disappointing.

I got no sense reading the Scream/Misty comic  that it was aimed at an exclusively adult audience-if anything I found the slightly simpler storytelling implied quite the opposite.
Producing a juvenile comic doesn't mean it has to be so, well, juvenile.
I know, for I fact, that as a seven year old I much preferred reading Star Wars Weekly, 2000AD, Star Lord, Battle and (new) Eagle when it finally appeared.
I had next to no interest in The Dandy and The Beano, so one can't generalise what kids enjoy. 

FB have got copies of the variant if you can't get it anywhere else.

https://forbiddenplanet.com/234252-screammisty-special-1-dcuk-fabry-exclusive-cover/

[Revere]

To be honest, unless it had been spelt out on this thread, I don't think I would of made the connection with it being Revere from that strip a long time ago.
From what I remember, wasn't he a skinny dude with darker skin than the one we see in the latest Prog?

[Thor: Ragnarok]

Thor: Ragnarok is as formulaic, insubstantial and exposition heavy as we've come to expect from the Marvel movies.
It's further handicapped by a poorly developed antagonist and a rather flacid climax.
What it does have in spades is some rather effective humour and some obvious chemistry between an excellent cast who bring their A game to bare and elevate the whole enterprise into something exceptionally enjoyable, resulting in one of the better films in the franchise.
Nice use of Led Zep too!   

*Although I do have good memories of three of us renting it on VHS and it only coming with 2 pairs of 3D glasses, meaning my brother got a headache during the 3D section. And you've got to love a film with 3D where the cue for the audience putting on their glasses is a character in the film picking up and putting on 3D glasses. Gloriously cheddar.

I've still got my 3-D glasses from when I saw it at the cinema. I keep any old tat.

Watching the first one in the cinema is one of my greatest memories of attending the pictures.

Still got my glasses too!
Glad I'm not the only one!!! 

Im not sure if I even watched that one.So if I get to it...

I still hold that first 3 are good,but  everyone has a right to their own  opinion.

It's really great!
Arguably of equal quality to 3 and far, far superior to 2! 

[Nightmare on Elms street 3]

Nightmare on Elms street 3 This franchise is a lot like the Harry Potter movies.In that the first 3 are good,and the rest are just meh.Its good,really ridiculous at times,but that's why we like it.
Jeepers Creepers 2 Rarely for a sequel,it manages to outdo the first movie.
Also,I kinda remember cellphones being a thing in 2003. 

Have to disagree with this, Wes Craven's A New Nightmare, film number 7 Is one of the best, with its forth wall busting, post modernist, meta narrative being one of the most ingenious in the entire series.
Oh, and all the Harry Potter films are shit!!! 

One minor thing - did the 13th Floor really need (admittedly xxxx'd out) bad language?

Of course it xxxxxxg did! 

Have you heard how some kids talk to each other?

Really quite shocked at the vitriol levelled at the Dredd art! ... In my 40 years plus of reading the comic I've seen better and I've certainly seen worse.

The reaction on social media is an interesting way to gauge the age of readers. When you see someone claim this is the worst art the strip's ever seen, you can tell they stopped reading before 1990.

The names of Russell Fox, Ilya, and Manuel Benet must be foreign to them. Like Simon Roy, none of them are awful artists, but they didn't demonstrate a great understanding of what makes the strip or the character work.

I'm guessing this Frank.

"I don't like the art" I can understand, "It's the worst art evah!!!!" Not so much.

Really quite shocked at the vitriol levelled at the Dredd art! 

In my 40 years plus of reading the comic I've seen better and I've certainly seen worse.

Can't see what the big deal is.

More of the bog standard Marvel formula by the looks of it.

If I never have to see another car flipping in slow motion it won't be too soon.