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Who's with me?

Nice synchronised messaging there, partner. Anyway, no, it's from about a year ago with one of Henry FLint's 1-page alien invasion strips, which I like.

Can I just put some brackets in and say indeed again? (indeed, indeed, indeed)

I never knew that. Is it as its name suggests (and indeed as it was advertised in Viz?)

Which came first? The Meat Bingo in 2000AD or the Meat Bingo in Viz? Whoever gets both references, and answers my query, may (or, indeed, may well not) win a 'free prize' (as they used to call say on the Dreddlines page).

A complete shower of c***s.

Only joking, you guys!

Yes, I did enjoy 'Tag-along Piltdown'. 'But mum, he's not even my real ancestor!'

I quite liked Moon Runners myself. Yeah, it had more than a touch of the soap-opera about it, but it had some great dialogue, some well thought-out characters (including women that seemed to act like women, other recent thread fans!), some very-slightly racey stuff for the time, and an interesting storyline.

'You've avoided the WickerMan. We burned a few English people in the Pirans day parade just a few weeks back, so our gods are duly honoured for another season.'
Oh well. Still, the old Padstow thing looks like a bit of a larf. I've missed Paddy's day (and, indeed, the Kraftwerk gig last Monday) because of the bastard flu, so I'm looking to squeeze in as much celebrations as possible in the near future.
I could on;y find one real Wickerman Mayday thingy on the internet, it's at an Iron-Age style farm in Hampshire.

'well i'm not Irish, i'm Cornish'
Strange: I've been searching the internet for the last hour for May Day celebrations in Cornwall. I was talking to someone from there last week who told me it was well worth going to, what with the weird horse parade thing and all. Is he right? More to the point: if I go, is there a good chance I might be sacrificed in a Wickerman? I believe it's my right as a tourist.

Well, i am Irish and live in Ireland, but I'm dying of a freaking flu and on antibiotics. Arse cakes. I like getting drunk on Paddy's Day too, but it is not to be.

So what's the story with Judge Death then? How can I ask this question without saying 'is he dead'? By the looks of it he's not coming back, but his spirit was supposedly 'vanquished' before, I suppose. I think it's time the other Dark Judges took centre stage. Mortis was always scarier than Death anyway. Judge Fear isn't though, all he has to offer is a load of eyes.

But that said, I really don't want to turn this into another anti-Ennis thread, folks!

I have to say, I agree with YOUR first paragraph (about agreeing with mine) but not your second.

I hated The Darkest Star, the what with the overly-macho and half-arsed script, the completely unsuitable artwork and the bad characterisation. Yeah, I know the Gronk had changed and all, but was he really a good catalyst for the complete de-mystification and total destruction of the Lyran race? And I also disliked the way Ennis trundled out the old cliche of the bad guy turining out to be the good guy's father. It worked with Johnny years before, but not with Feral.
I like a lot of Garth Ennis' stuff these days (including his two last Dredd epics whicj I know were deeply unpopular), but most of what he did back then, in my opinion, was pretty poor.

I don't know why everyone thought Johnny Alpha's death was so crap. i thought it was pretty well-handled, me, drawing from all the best elements of SD backstory (Kreelman's legacy, mutant persecution, Lyran wizards) and doing first-person captions for the first time ever with Johnny. Anyway, he still had a Kevin Keegan haircut; he had to go.
His SECOND death, now, at the hands of Garth Ennis, Nigel Dobbyn and the Gronk - now that really shouldn't have happened, and was, to get back to the point of the thread, not very moving at all.