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My son is borrowing books fromt he library and bringing them home to read. I'm over the moon about this, as most parents would be (like a lot of parental thrills, it's completely predictable and nothing special but great for me).
 Anyway, he bought home a cartoon network book of Superman comics by Mark Millar.  I've been reading them with him and they're quite good, but I keep remembering that Millar is loathed here for his Judge Dredd work. So I thought I'd ask you: is reading Millar's comics bad for Roy's young mind? Are Millar's other Superman comics any good?

well?

As for the review, perhaps he could post the same review fifty five times more and see if people liked it!

As for thingamy's point about Dredd, how about this scenario?  You respect and venerate someone. You then discover that they've fallen short of a standard of behaviour they helped establish.  
  It seems to me that at this point you have the option of continuing to respect them and changing your opinion about the importance of violations of the standard of behaviour.  You don't have to think that those violations are completely okay or that the standard of behaviour is meaningless, but you could alter your opinion that violating the standard makes someone not worthy of respect.  

This happens all the time. There's nothing unrealistic about it.

all of which is probably wasted on someone who keeps promising to stop posting but doesn't, and who seems to think that his ideas about character in Dredd have the same logical force as 1+2=3, but there you go.

Whatever happened to "perhaps it's best to end it"?  
   

well it's happened, so no point complaining is there?
 You seem to know a bit about Bond. Wasn't Daniel Craig terrific?

Welcome to the board Patmills and Boon! Have you been reading for long?
  If you're right about this inconsistency, why do you think it should matter to people who like the character, given the various other inconsistencies that have made reading about Dredd so much fun over the years?
  Do you think the same requirements apply to Bond movies?

Glad you got that out JudgePrager, thanks for sharing, we're here for you.

Someone who works in sex counselling once told me that sex is "the least rational area of human activity", so I don't see it as unrealistic that Fargo created the department, had an iron will, great principles etc, yet couldn't resist a chick with the hots for him. Remember Gary Hart? He was on his way to being President of the USA, but threw it away for a hot babe (this was before Bush I and II and Bill Clinton proved you could have hot babes, cocaine and substance abuse and the Presidency).  

in any event, the character doesn't need to be consistent.  Of course there's a level of inconsistency that would make it annoying for me; say if Dredd went from being like Dennis the menace one week, to true romance the next, or some similarly absurd scenario.
    However, the level of inconsitency in his life in 2000AD so far doesn't bother me. Sometimes he's an amusing fascist pig, other times he's a wise, Clint Eastwood-like cop, recently he's been thinking about things (which is not at all inconsistent with his angst over the Democracy movement).
  I don't get more right wing as I get older and my family grows, but I do get more practical.  When I was a grizzled 30-something I met a student political type who wanted me to vote for her group because they were going to "let everyone have a say". I asked what they would do to make this happen. She repreated that everybody would have a say if they got in.  I asked again, what exactly the were going to change so that everybody would have a say. She just didn't know.  It was like talking to my younger self (albeit my younger self wasn't so cute).

1540 for mine; a very arresting image. But there are a lot of other goodies there

Someone who knows all will be along soon to tell you, but here are my general impressions of Brit-Cit.

ummmm, full of poms. Very class-ridden and corrupt.
Lesbians can get married.  Awful old music-hall songs are popular with gangsters.

bah - yet again I've missed a Bishop auction by only that much!  Yet again, it fills me with the irrational urge to head over to the Silveracre site and buy the item (extra irrational here, since I've actually got Zenith in another form)

So Stonehenge was built by the Picts?

As for the Druids, I heard something about them once:

Noone knows oo they were
Or what they did
But their legend lives on
Hewsn into the living rock of Stone'enge

Daylesford, Radbacker and Tordelback, is in Victoria, about two hours drive from Melbourne. It's in the vicinity of Castlemaine and Bendigo.  The whole area is old gold mining country, so full of very nice looking old buildings.  Because of the hotsprings, the joint has filled up with bed and breakfasts of varying degrees of expensiveness. Daylesford is a popular weekend getaway from Melbourne.   Why it's so popular with the gay community I don't know, but there you go.

Read another Return to Armageddon last night....I'm beginning to see why people would remember it well, although Redondo's art doesn't really excite me.  There are some good ideas there.

Radbacker, the bookshop is 'The Avant Garden' in Vincent St, Daylesford.  It's not a comic shop as such, rather a second hand bookshop, but the comics room is vast. They have a good collection of old annuals too. However, due to Daylesford's extreme trendiness, it's not cheap. There are about 20 old 2000ADs left there at six bucks a pop.  If I win a lottery, I'll go back there and buy them along with the wall full of old Phantom comics.
  The Return to Armageddon episode I read involved an immortal bloke living in terrible pain, a belt that could take people back in time and unkill them (very handy, very strontium dog) and a robotish bloke who looked like something out of Star Wars.

I've just read the superb prog 204, which I found in a bookshop in a little country town here. Bizarely, this little country retreat,famous for Goldrush era buildings, hot springs, witches and lesbians, also has a bookshop with a HUGE comics section. I bought four old 2000AD's there.

Anyway, was Return to Aermageddon any good? I'm a bit underwhelmed by the one episode here.

yours curiously,

FLoyd

Hippy bafday to you, O Rac.

Since I'm at work, I can't post any naughty pictures for you. I'll think about them instead.