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Something like Origins again but from the average citizen's point of view - I was kind of hoping it would happen in Origins but that mainly dealt with the political side of it.  i'm sure a good story could come out of normal people watching their whole world burn

A friend of mine once knocked a cow unconscious with a punch. Bang out of order from him, of course, but it just goes to show something or other

I rediscovered the KLF a couple of years ago. Freakin' genius, apart from the Tammy Wynette one. And Utah Saints, for that matter

I rediscovered the KLF a couple of years ago. Freakin' genius, apart from the Tammy Wynette one. And Utah Saints, for that matter

'And Jesus Jones too. But I never saw them or bought their recordings. Didn't have much credibility, did they?'

Nah, far from it. I remember Deadline in particular running a very piss-taking interview with Mike Edwards, felt a bit sorry for him in fact

Think so. And Pop Will Eat Itself (a great title, but sadly an unprophetic one when one considers the whimsical wasteland of Britpop that was to follow)

Yeah, it has to be said the term 'greb' and 'grebo' never stuck and was never really defined properly (unlike, say, 'punk', 'goth', 'rocker', 'crusty', 'hippy' or 'mod'). i for one didn't use it at the time and never really had a name for this genre. Though Tank Girl (The character in Deadline) could probably be said to have been its poster child

You fucking fighter, you, Mr Bamforth, that's the one. I've been wondering about that for about a year and a half, fair play to you. I used to really like Carter as well, one of Britain's forgotten grebo bands (re. Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Cud etc)

Given that so many 2000ad readers are in and around my age (32) i was wondering if anyone can help me remember something that has been wrecking my head for years. Could be a theme tune to a TV show, but I only remember one line - 'Rubbish on the ra-di-o'. ANyone recognise where this comes from?

Has anyone noticed that it's not quite as good as it was? I'm talking about some of the Photoshop computer colouring; it just seems a little bit more pedestrian and bland than the atmospheric FX-filled stuff Chris Blythe turned out when he started, and Ezquerra's when he'd mastered it. Both artists just seem a tiny bit more lazy about the whole thing now; some of Ezquerra's more recent Strontium Dog stuff looked like a total rush-job.
Obviously it's still good, and a million miles better than the godawful first forays into computer colouring as in America 2, (and I won't even mention all the artists who tried and failed to match Bisley's fully-painted stuff) but there was a time when Chris Blythe's computer colouring was the best i'd ever seen in comics and now it's just the same as all the rest.

Jock's one there is one of my favourite ever Dredd pictures. (just noticed the skirt, though, he'd do well to go back to the trousers)

'Nah, that was the disembodied William Gull moving through the architecture of history (mainly in Halifax, apparently), levitating ashtrays and such.'

Thought that was Ian Brady, wasn't it?
Anyway, was talking to a Catalan girl yesterday who said Catalan nativity plays are called 'The Shepherds', and are like a pantomime, with loads of demons throwing said shepherds into a giant cauldron, with loads of local political satire and the like in the mix. Sounds a million times better than the milksop, uninspiring donkey-and-doll fests I grew up with.

'He has an invisible friend called God who told him to do it would you believe.'
Didn't Peter Sutcliff have the same helpful muse?

I just can't help noticing that it's never the big-name Muslim terrorists that sacrifice themselves in suicide attacks. The rich boys, Osama and the like, seem happy enough to carry on living, despite all the otherworldly delights pomised to suicide bombers. Maybe as long as they tell other people to die they'll be rewarded too.

Though I've seen a couple of inexpicable things in my time too, I still want to defend science. Some see scientists as a big group of backslapping companions who have worked together to formulate big ideas between them and won't hear anything said against them.  It is often displayed as being similar to religion in that it is just another form of unquestioned faith; adhered to by its own form of worshipping followers.
  But as I see it, ideas like this do not describe science. Science, unlike blind faith, is by its very nature always sceptical of itself. As a practice, it constantly tries to prove iteslf wrong. If a scientist comes up with a new theory, he will (if he's doing his job properly) try everything he possibly can to disprove the theory before expounding it to the world. And then another scientist will do his best to disprove the previous one.  If Einstein followed classical physics to the letter he couldn't have turned it on its head the way he did.
So I am happy to say that I trust science a lot more than I trust religion. Religion asks its practitioners to be faithful in the face of doubt. Science encourages its own to trust, and follow up, those doubtful feelings.