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All true, of course.  Just wish it had been a different middle aged woman, not the one whose death was, in my opinion at least, one of the all-time great Dredd moments.  I don't know - deMarco, maybe?  Perrier, or is she dead?  Janus?  Well, maybe not that last one, but all must be in their 50s by now.

Or just stop drawing Anderson as Psi-Judge Barbie.

Aye.  I miss sexy young Judge Anderson - I remember growing to appreciate her far more as I hit my teens - but she's in her 60s and doesn't take anti-ageing drugs, and it's just getting silly now.  So just to redress the balance, while I'm really not on board with resurrecting Hershey, at least she looks her age.

At first glance I thought this was about a new series of Vector 13 coming to the prog.  Which, in an age where those who believe in made-up conspiracies make political decisions with global consequences, would probably be a really, really bad idea.

Sector 13 looks very cool though.

Hershey: I do understand people's upset with this strip's existence. But I must say it's also refreshing to have a middle-aged woman in comics who looks like a middle-aged woman and who is kicking arse. And, hey, at least it's better than the Angel Gang being resurrected.

All true, of course.  Just wish it had been a different middle aged woman, not the one whose death was, in my opinion at least, one of the all-time great Dredd moments.  I don't know - deMarco, maybe?  Perrier, or is she dead?  Janus?  Well, maybe not that last one, but all must be in their 50s by now.

[Dredd]

The Dredd is a decent bit of Niemand - MC1 has felt just a tiny bit boring in recent years, and things like the corpse in the car and a place called Salmonella goes some way towards reintroducing the huge-scale, technicolour craziness that used to permeate the city.  Even the old black and white Dredds somehow felt more colourful than some of the small-scale crime dramas that happen so often these days, but Ken Niemand has his finger on the pulse of the type of Mega City I like.

Azimuth - well, it looks lovely, and I quite enjoyed it.  As I've said elsewhere, SinDex started as a kind of full-on barrage of fun and violence in the DR and Quinch tradition, and I kind of preferred that to the long, meandering dramas.  I never really saw them as characters needing much in the way of character development, in the same way that Middenface McNulty and Ro-Jaws don't need to grow too mature, thoughtful and brooding. But this seems a bit more interesting than most of their tales of recent years and I do want to see how it plays out.

The only other one I've read so far is Hershey.  The art is, of course, excellent, and the story is OK. However, I just can't get past the fact that her death was one of the most powerful scenes I've ever read in Dredd, and like other Colin McNeil death scenes before it was squandered for a story that isn't particularly consequential for Dredd and his world.  Sorry.  Maybe it's just me getting old and grouchy.

Jaysus wept, remind me not to tell another cow story here. I'll make a note in my dairy.

Sorry, but I'm just not in the mooooo-ed for these dreadful cow puns.

The sad thing was, I was genuinely only going to write that first sentence.  Then the second sentence came to me and I knew I was damned. 

And I totally understand if anyone has a beef with me.

Yep - I remember listening to the radio the next morning and the presenter said something like: 'Grow up, Sinéad'. And I agreed with him, because even though I was starting to see the cracks in the cabal of bone-rattlers that were running our country, I was still fucking clueless.
 
At the very least, Sinéad lived to see the rest of us eat our words.

'Through their own words
They will be exposed
They've got a severe case of
The emperor's new clothes.'

[Sinead O'Conner aged 56]

Sinead O'Conner aged 56 just 18 months after losing her son

https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/26/sinead-o-connor-dead-aged-56-teenage-son-shane-died-at-17-19198418/

I've seen her round Dublin over the years - she had an amazing voice and wasn't afraid to speak out.  And when she ripped up that photo of the pope she could see what took years for the rest of us to understand- I remember a mural in the heart of the city with words along the lines of 'Sorry, Sinéad - you were right.

Personal favourites fromm 300
The Danger Acid from Invasion.
The growing hatred for Walter the Wobot,
and, inexplicably, the Green Gross Code Man?

And strangely for Fox getting stuck in the loo. Don't know why, but loved that story.

Just listened to the one yesterday.  My word, what a clusterfunt.  I also love that Conrad has discovered Gregg's - as I say, he's the Ted Lasso of comics.

Also I'd like to mention how Conrad describes Slough Feg's would-be victory speech as a cross between Sympathy for the Devil and Roy Batty. 'Nailed it' doesn't even come close to how much he nailed it.

Jaysus wept, remind me not to tell another cow story here. I'll make a note in my dairy.

Actual tears being shed over Skizz

Hey, I missed that one. I was a few years late to the party with SS2000, so still have a lot of them left to listen to.

Sorry.  On the other hand, I really, really don't think there should be another series.  That way Life on the Road, the US Office, and all the Friday Rogue stories after The War Machine lie.

Aye, your Fiends stuff was cracking.  Can an ex-Tharg not twist a current Tharg's arm about such matters and get some more Bish-OP Fiends into the prog?

When I was a sharklet, maybe eight or nine years old, I discovered a goat trapped in the ditch at the bottom of our back garden. I couldn't get it out, and it was a scary old, grumpy old thing with pointy horns and so, as I couldn't rescue it I decided to befriend it by feeding it leaves from the back of a neighbour's garden. It snaffled them up greedily for about an hour until I got bored and left it to find something more interesting to do, probably involving some much abused Action Men (Action Mans?) and an air rifle.

The next day, I overheard my Dad talking to the farmer, scruffy old Black Jack as he was known locally (due to his aversion to washing). "Just gettin' me goat," Black Jack said sadly. "Damn thing poisoned itself to t' death eatin' Joyce's evergreens."

Needless to say, I kept schtum and feel guilty about it to this day. Kindness, it seems, really can kill.

Reminds me of a kid in my school who was practising his golf swing in his back garden (golf is incredibly popular in my home town with all walks of life, simply because there's a nationally famous golf course there that doesn't have too snobbish an admittance policy).  He accidentally sent the ball into a field and killed a cow stone dead, but unlike yourself was not able to keep it under wraps and people still talk about it nearly thirty years on.  Like I'm doing now, small-town yokel that I am.

Right back at you, sir.

Friends forever, united together....

 

My first impression is that it's not a great idea.  Watchmen was meticulously designed as a series of still drawings to be pored over and analysed individually as well as followed in sequence - the only reason the TV series worked (and it really did work) is because it was telling a completely new story. 

From what I've seen of any other adaptations or other comic spin-offs, meddling with the original isn't a great idea.  But we'll see what happens.