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According to Amazon's website, Cycles is due for publication in September (although these dates are never 100% reliable).

Just to confirm, (from the Vertigo X Preview)...
...Unmanned (1-5) is already available, and Cycles (6-10) will be available later in the year.

Hex: yeah, I'm enjoying this at the moment. (And I have ALL of them, lucky me)
I believe that a tpb is due soon, collecting the first story arc- so don't fret.

Anyone read these?
Any good?
Which tpb would you recommend reading?
Cheers

How long before your icon becomes a "banned cat" icon for spamming the board?

Slips: do you read them to him at bedtime, or does he read them to you, or is it less reading, and more pointing at the pictures and you explaining?

damn, forgot the &s!

For the confussed amonst, I meant...

As I recall I started on Andy Pandy (or playground or something), ---> Disney,
----> Topper, ----> Eagle, ----> 2000ad,
----> US comics. To me, this seems like a more natural progression.

I'm 33, no kids, but I do have a 7 year old brother

Wow, it took them 26 years to get over you? ;-)


Oliver has only just turned one, so he's still a little on the young side, as at the moment he's going through his "magazines are for ripping not reading" period. Once he's been force fed that England are a better footballing nation than Denmark, (and that LFC are the best national club), I'll start getting him into 2000ad.

I disagree about changing the format of 2000ad stories for youngsters though. Instead, I'd rather 2000ad stayed as it was, and another comic was introduced for the younger readers. Speaking from my own experience, I didn't read 2000ad from prog 1(as much as I wish I had), but started on other titles. As I recall I started on Andy Pandy (or playground or something), ---> Disney,
----gt Topper, ----gt Eagle, ----gt 2000ad,
----gt US comics. To me, this seems like a more natural progression.

I would be interested to hear what comics other parents are letting their kids read.

Here are the results from the Danish Judges.

Cover: Compared to last weeks, I think it's rather boring. I normally think Cliff's Dredd cover poses are pretty good, but this one does little to entice the casual buyer.

Nerve Centre: Anyone know what's replacing Cab Inc in the next two weeks? I'm thinking that Prog 1335 might be a double episode Dredd (or possibly Atavar) anyone care to confirm?
I agree with Odd- good to have the CJ's man teaser- but I was hoping for MacNeil artwork. ABC Warriors teaser: Why is it that so many of Mill's stories are divided up into parts. Can't he tell the story in one straight run, without it having to be broken down into bitesize (digestible) pieces?

Dredd: Still enjoying this. I'll be buying the Dark Horse version, and the trade collection. I thought Dredd might have kept the badge, and use it in order to save himself. I hope the pheromone doesn't become a pregnancy cure for Dredd and Sanchez. I'd rather see Dredd having it surgically removed.

Advert: At least it's relevant!

Caballistics Inc: Enjoyed. Looking forward to the return. (Did I miss any jokes this week Gordon?) Is it me, or do I remember DXB guessing what was going to happen in this series?

VCs: I had high hopes this week, and truth be told, I enjoyed this weeks tale a lot more than last weeks. UNTIL I got to the last page. Ant's artwork was going great until I saw this page, where I think 2 things let it down. 1) The silhouettes of the ships in the first frame, on a background og CGI, and 2) All the geeks on the mining platform. To me, they both looked like a rush job.

Telguuth: Another multiparter story- yeay! Haward's art on this series has, as I said in last weeks review grown on me more and more. This week I enjoyed it once more. The script has got me intrigued as well. This run of Telguuth is definately an improvement over the last one.

Atavar II: I really am enjoying this story, and even though I have no idea what's going to happen in the third series, I'm already hoping that there will be a collection (of all three in one).

Input: Yeay, it has returned, and those nasty phone thingys have gone. (No indication of any of my letters though :-()
The hints to the Summer offensives contents please me too. Alpha in July (I checked to see if Tharg meant an audio drama, but that's scheduled for May), and Slaine too. I'm a sucker for these titbits.

Overall: Another good (and early) one. This weeks biggest let down for me was the cover. With the Spring Offensive nearly over, Tharg's going to have to come up with some pretty incredible tales to keep the next few seasons offensives as good as this one- and I don't doubt that he will. Could this be one of 2000ad's best years ever?

DXB: Heh, I didn't even think of that, damn!

I need your email address though to mail it to you.

Odd: I have his Address. But would he appreciate me giving it to you?

[PER]

Don't the rules state: one point only for any appearance in the weekly or monthly.
As opposed to one point PER appearance in the weekly or monthly.
?

On a similar note; I used to shrink yoghurt pots (the round, non-multipack ones) in the oven and make ninja stars out of them using a pair of wire cutters.


Heh, that's more productive than TMO, he would have just eaten them!

Mrs Dane has some sheets of the plastic stuff, which are blank, so I was thinking of tracing over some images and making some 2000ad related ones.

Now, what images to choose???