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If you don't have them then the two Top Ten collections are arguably the best collected GN's published this year.

Off topic but does this board's illustrious Gordon write The Authority at the mo?

If you want something humorous I recommend The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius by Judd Winick (sp?)

The art can be a little crude and the premise isn't original - Jimmy Neutron and Dexter's Lab covering the same ground - but I found it very funny. It's a refreshing change from dark brooding superheroes and gothic Buffy cash-ins.

The collected Soulwind by Scott Morse is also a fantastic. A great tale involving gods of the earth and Excalibur and space ships and eastern philosophy - but it's not very wordy so you might skip through it and feel you haven't got your monies worth.

With the huge exodus of british writers to the states did or does John write any american comics?

I didn't read Tooth for a long while in the nineties so i feel i may have missed the stories which made John Smith worthy of this praise. Could you give me a list? 'cos i can't remember any of worth in all the time that i read tooth.

Did he go on to work for an american company and develop good stories there? Again i didn't read american comics for ages and may have missed out.

Have THQ got the rights to produce games based on the marvel comics or the movie versions?

Unattractive woman at that...

1. Bogart 'cos he came first

2. Yes I think they look great.

3. If you really love TV then it?s a step forward

4. Yeah but not as a decent Chan movie

5. Erm read both

6. I give about ?25 a month spread across 4 different charities. Paying by Direct debit makes it so easy. For this I expect my own universe when I die.

7. If you find out tell me

8. Chesus! Try and be original in all things

9. No, but then the autumn offensive has really under-whelmed me.

Well as misery loves company.

I had one of the worse days of entire time I?ve spent in my current job last Tues.

The highlights being:

Not being allowed to change projects ? the first time I?ve ever asked ? ?cos I?m too important. This after being given the impression it was a definite for the last 2 months. It was really, really important to me that I moved.

So moving from my last project that involved in-human amounts of overtime to the one other project my company has that is going to take in-human amounts of overtime to complete ? and sucks arse.

Then being told the company?s biggest knobber ? not me surprisingly ? was getting my place on the other project.

Then, suffering from a really bad back, being told we?re moving offices and to do it quickly we?re not hiring removal men, but shoving all the office equipment into the boss?s people carrier. Oh, the joy of 19 trips when the last removal men did it all in one load.

Discovering what a bunch of lazy funni-faces I work with ? ?Is that MY monitor you?re staggering with?? ?No? ?oh? and then no help. Argghhhh!

Then get it all up the 4 flights of stairs to spill a glass of water over my whole computer set up thus having to wait while it dries out and have IT tut at me

And to top it all having a gift from my nephew knocked off my desk by some wonderful soul passing with his monitor and smash on the floor.

Disclaimer: Probably folks out there with worse days under their belts, but hey I?m wrapped in cotton wool here and it doesn?t take much for my toys to be ejected from the pram!

Reminds me of one of my old managers who was the most petite woman i have ever know (from behind people always assume she was a child), but totally fearless of any threatening customers.

The moment the use of violence was insinuated she'd go off like a missile and frog marched everyone from mouthy kids to bitter old ladies out of the store.

The most surreal moments came on a comic relief day when she went for two local thugs whilst dressed as a bumble bee and also 8 months pregnant! You could tell from the looks of bemusement on their faces they were going to have a difficult time, down the pub, putting a positive, manly spin on what happened .

Due to the store i used to work in being out of town we were subjected to visits from many local groups who wanted their members to experience a shopping environment with less chance of being hassled because of who they were. My favourites were the Transvestite support group who visited once a month on one of our late nights. Really nice bunch of guys, actually gals to give them some credit, just trying out dressing the way they wanted. To the delight of the naughty school boy inside me one turned out to be my old primary school teacher. Bless.

My friend who works in Music and video shop in Birmingham was recently asked for the film - 'Bus Darrow'
She spent quite a few minutes looking whilst the customer got more and more impatient, but to no avail. Finally admitting defeat she asked the customer who it starred? 'John Travolta, you know the one with the boxing ring and the new-clear bomb'
'Bus Darrow' = Broken arrow.
Oh how she laughed and then went and made voodoo dolls in her lunch break.

Yeah Byron, Habitat Canterbury - right on the cusp of Wincheap, near the Castle St carpark and over the road from the dreaded Man of Kent pub. Lurvely.

Good old Canterbury - Now i live in the midlands.

I worked retail all the way through my college and Uni years and I have to agree with Slips - the people I worked with were some of the smartest I?ve ever met. Not always the most intelligent but really street smart and on the ball, you have to be to deal with the rude morons who come thick and fast and not lose your soul to them.

Where I used to work in Canterbury was right next to a car park frequented by the local druggies. Sure enough after 3pm everyday incredibly wasted individuals would wander into the store and steal things with all the stealth and cunning of a freight train. My manager Steve discovered you could use their stonedness against them and used to sword fight zombie junkies who'd tried to flee, back into the store, like some demented Zorro, with a long cardboard tube. He would have them locked in the lighting cupboard before they had time to realise what had happened.

I do miss the comradery of that time, but having stood in many queues as a member of Joe Public and seen the grief some sad individuals need to give out to justify their existence I think I'll stay where I am and just be a nice customer.

You don't? Oh...

(Sound of illusions shattered)

Very nice. Gibson-esque?

Not a lawgiver though...