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'Something that does bother me about a universe without a God: there's no final arbiter. Right and wrong just become matters of majority opinion (not always bad, granted, but often a long way from good... in my opinion, of course).'

The way I see it, that's what the religious concept of right and wrong is anyway. Religious morality is simply decided on by its founders. If the people like the idea they'll accept it, otherwise they'll carry on as normal (unless, as has happened many times, their unsuitable opinions are weeded out by means of mass extermination),

Furthermore, this morality evolves and adapts along with the popular opinion of the world around it. If Christians were still truly following the example of the Biblical God, they'd still be running round sacrificing their children, stoning immoral women, not eating shellfish and killing anyone who worships false gods.  

A blakc and white commission or two would be great. This is the man who invented Sinister Dexter's look, though you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Simon Davis

'THe guy who played Titus Pullo in Rome. Good chin, right build. '

Maybe a bit short and stocky for Dredd, if you ask me.  My flatmate, who I recently discovered was a bigger comics fan than I ever was, tells me that the same bloke is going to play the Punisher in yet another adaptation. Third time lucky, eh

Someone suggested Ron Perlman before. Good choice, but he'd need to keep the helmet onhttp://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/perlman.jpg">

'I think Judd thought himself as the father so the 2 d's at the end just linked him with his "son's", Maybe?'

Cracking theory there. Wonder if John wagner ever thought of it?

Actually that one-off in 2000ad called Candy and the Catchman shit me up a bit at the time. Was it Alan Moore?

Another one for Halloween.
Anyway, in my opinion scary is something that comics isn't the right medium for.  It's very rare i've ever felt even remotely scared by anything that was meant to be scary in comics.
Except for that story in 2000ad about the nurse looking after the insane kid who wrote stuff about the Dark Gods on the wall, and which finished with the world ending and Nyarlathotep screaming forever. Put the shites crossways in me, that did.

Can I just offset things by throwing in a brutal Wagner wordplay?
Robot: 'Blasphemy! Blasphemy!'
Giant (shooting him): 'Granted. And it'll be a blast for the rest of you something something something.'

'It was an Alan Grant Dredd with Mean, Pa and Junior. It also has Dredd in the shower with his helmet on.'

Could have sworn that was John Wagner. In any case I was mighty impressed at the actual proper rhyming scheme which so many 2000ad writers try but just can't do (with the exception of Alans Moore and Grant, John Wagner and El Spurioso himself).

I quite like the no quotation marks things; plenty of writers do it, from Joyce to Irvine Welsh. Admittedly most of them put a little dash in to indicate where the speech starts but i think you get used to the dialogue in The Road. For me it makes it a bit more real and immediate. That said, I dont like the lack of apostrophes in 'dont', 'cant' etc  (see what i did there?). Still though, the scenes in the book have been stuck in my head for days. Is it science fiction? Not sure what you'd call it really

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(It fell off the word 'avaged')

Anyone read this by Cormac McCarthy? Not exactly sci-fi or anything but the best piece of post-apocalyptic literature I've read. avaged landcapes, cannibal tribes, corpse-strewn cities, but somehow made beautiful and poetic (two words i'm far too old and cynical to use lightly), to the point of making you want to cry (see previous brackets). It's like someone's asked T.S. Eliot to rewrite Mad Max 2. Or something.

Don't hold back, Bou, say what you REALLY think...

It's a bit like one of Tyranny Rex's sculptures. Don't mind it too much; but then I'm a Fine Art graduate ponce anyway (albeit a largely disillusioned ponce)

'Didn't he kill Johnny Alpha too? One of his finest moments I thought...

'Shine on you crazy Goblin' '

I'm not knocking his Strontium Dog stuff, it was classic, especially the death of Johnny.