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the art was too murky

the story device Hercule Slaine was a good idea and had its moments, but overall the series seems really really tired to me. It should be sent to another density

Happy birthday young Barney SHergold/Nikolai Dante!

yours, eternally five years older than you,

Floyd

why thank you. I try to stay in shape

she rocks, but I liked the Narnia one better

I wouldn't describe The Hunting Party as an epic at all. However all of the stories within it were fun.

is there such a thing as a Dredd canon? doesn't that unfairly privilege all the non-white and female Dredd writers besides denying us access to more interesting Dredd-related media?

sorry, I've been reading my textbooks too much

yours trying to get his essay done and not think about Kenny Everett's Quentin Pose

thanks dudely. Life's too short to read Leavis again ( found it nearly unreadable years ago).  Any information about how and when it spread to genre fiction? Or is it just like Gordon says.
 Have you read 'the western canon' by harold bloom? If so, what did you think?

that's very helpful. Thanks Gordon,

A troubled student writes

I'm doing something about English lit and the idea of canons; ie a list of approved  'great works'. I know this comes from theology and I know it extends to lit crit.
  I also know people talk about comics canon (for example: Millar's Dredd is not canon). How widespread is this use of the word?  Is it used in a lot of other fan/comic contexts (eg is there a Batman canon? A start trek canon?)

cheers,

Floyd

none of what you've said shocks me, O Queen, except for the bit about the nanotransmitters (which sounds kind of cool)

don't let the bastards get you down

by the way, was New Statesmen any good?

I haven't read those comics the pedantic trout mentions, but know the kind of thing he means. Ten Seconders is good and different, but not genius for mine. Top marks to Tharg for putting it in though, it's quite different.

bah, the interview isn't available outside the UK. That's racist, isn't it?
  However, they post a picture of Moore looking more like Catweazle/the bloke off the front of Aqualung than usual

Viz already did a Human-League-as-crimebusters comic

omoshiroi........Thankfully Tharg didn't go this way, although it would have been better than 'life less ordinary'. And Synnamon