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This is a very small detail but something that i've never been able to work out. Dr Culver has quite clearly done his own private parts a mischief; 'thrown away his manhood' as he says.  
My question is (and readers of a queasy disposition look away now) does he store his Ripping knife inside the scarred skin where said manhood used to be? I remember reading the bit where he kills the prostitute, and it really seems like he's drawing the knife from out of a flap of skin in his groin area. But i thought, no, no, they couldn't show something like that, no way. It really looks like that, though

This is a very small detail but something that i've never been able to work out. Dr Culver has quite clearly done his own private parts a mischief; 'thrown away his manhood' as he says.  
My question is (and readers of a queasy disposition look away now) does he store his Ripping knife inside the scarred skin where said manhood used to be? I remember reading the bit where he kills the prostitute, and it really seems like he's drawing the knife from out of a flap of skin in his groin area. But i thought, no, no, they couldn't show something like that, no way. It really looks like that, though

I always like when they mess about with the logo, making it a mad colour (like neon pink here), or part of the cover picure's landscape, or tiny, huge, in a graffiti (grafitti?) style or whatever.

Would anyone like to hear that ace Starsky and Hutch story again?

Watched Starsky and Hutch recently. One of them actually invites the other over to his house for a candlelit dinner, and gazes at him lovingly for being such a great partner.

Watched Starsky and Hutch recently. One of them actually invites the other over to his house for a candlelit dinner, and gazes at him lovingly for being such a great partner.

Fair play to Bolt and Rac too - just didn't know your real names

I haven't read every thread on the board, but does nobody know  your identity? A story in the Megazine, fair fux to you! Quality stuff, too.

Whatever gave you that idea?
I got mine, by the way. Naa, naa, nanaa naa.
And bejaypers tis a cracker so it is, an' all, an' all.

I'll be a-checkin' sub city today so

'You really can't with any impunity cite Torquemada as an example of how Tharg cops out on character's deaths.'

I know. I just threw it in for a laugh, if he hadn't come back to life after those Comic Rock thingies there wouldn't even have been a first Nemesis series.

Oops, sorry. Meant Medb, not Maeve. At the risk of being a total, absolute, boring repetetive c**t, they're pronounced the same way - I mixed them up. Sorry, Gordon Rennie, an accidental reference to Irish pronunciation, not preaching or ranting

'Come off down off the pedastel there, before you fall off and hurt yourself. We never saw Chopper die. We saw him shot to bits and left bleeding, but there was no explicit indication that he was dead. We were left not knowing for sure. I never accepted that he was dead from the information provided. '

Fair enough. It just would have been much better if he'd died.

'The dark judges are supernatural undead beings from another dimension. You cannot kill what does no live. It's a bit daft to pick them as an example, frankly.'

Maybe 'dead' isn't the right word. But 'snuffed out forever' suggests not coming back to me. That said, I don't mind that they did.

'Ramone Dexter - same as Chopper, except it's even less explicit. He gets taken away in an ambulance.'

Well, that's what I said myself. But like Chopper, I think it would have been better if he'd died.

Anyway, here's another few for you: Torquemada, Maeve and Slough Feg.

To be fair, I'm not sure it was ever the plan to kill off Ramone Dexter permanently in the shoot out with the cops thing. But it would have been wayyy better. And even after that, it would have been fine to leave him permanently paralysed. For once, we got inside Finnigan's mind and were presented with a huge crisis of conscience; but any potential for character development was immediately erased with a stereotypical, pat get-out-of-jail-free plan; and also a quick help out of quadroplegia for Ramone. If only real life could be so simple.

Just looked at this, as directed by another thread. So, the defence wins - Tharg, you must kill characters and never bring them back. It's this difference between 2000ad and Marvel / DC comics that makes 2000ad great. Characters die for real without being resurrected.
Er, apart from Chopper, all of the Angel gang, all of the Dark Judges (whose spirits were supposedly 'snuffed out forever' in Deadworld), Johnny Alpha, Ramone Dexter, Moses Tanenbaum, John Croak, and last but not least Judge Dredd.