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It's ?2.50 to get in and a pound a pint all day. If you want to buy books, merch etc., then you'll need money for them - but a quick glance at the web shop prices should sort you out for how much.

If you want to buy art, however, come prepared. Depending on the artist, a page will set you back anywhere from ?20 to ?250. There are plenty of cash machines within easy walking distance of the Oxford Union, but you may need to sort some in advance if you've got your eye on something specific (and a ?200 a day limit, like me!)

There's cheap (i.e. fast) food available all around the venue, and there's a particularly nice (but not cheap) curry house 2 mins walk away. There should also be some food on sale in the venue, but I don't  yet know what form it'll take.

What I'd recommend on the day itself - from what I know is definitely on - is talking to as many wandering artists and writers as possible, as they're all very nice, even Gordon (and don't be afraid of 'mistaken identity' - nobody knows who *all* the 2000AD people look like, and nobody's ego is too large that they'd be offended!).

The Pitch Fest is always a good laugh, as last years' attendees will confirm - who knows, with a bit of the ol' Dutch courage inside you, maybe wou'd fancy a go!

Over and above that... dunno!

J-Bo-1

ISTR that only the first part of V was printed in b/w; the stuff after 'The Vicious Cabaret' was coloured, and DC made the decision to colour the first part rather than run half b/w half colour (which is just as expensive to print as a full-colour book).

Isn't there something about this in the introduction?

J-Bo-1

Sorry Gem! I figured anyone following the series would have put two and two together after THE PULSE was announced (Marvel really need to rethink their apparent policy of uniformly spoilering series in solicit / PR details)...

J-Bo-1

Gem - in case you didn't already know, Jessica Jones and several other ALIAS characters, along with some of Marvel's "journalist" characters, will be continuing their adventures in a new journalism-based Marvel comic called "The Pulse".

I forget who's writing & arting it, though.

J-Bo-1

DC trades tend to be on 6-issue cycles (no Y pun intended), so the next one should be due in a coupla months or so.

J-Bo-1

Pete's new HUMAN TARGET series follows directly on from the FINAL CUT one-shot (art by Javier Pulido, as per the ongoing). FINAL CUT should be available in paperback by now.

The original HUMAN TARGET miniseries, by Pete Milligan and the much-missed, extremely talented Edvin Biukovic, is an absolute must-buy. Seriously. Go! Now!

J-Bo-1

What's that I hear? Trouble getting all the in-jokes in LOEG and TOP TEN?

Get thee to Jess Nevin's peerless Alan Moore annotations site, then!

J-Bo-1

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DEATHLOK - large black cyborg dude

DEATH'S HEAD - wacky bounty hunter from the future, appeared in shedloads of Marvel UK stuff (incl. Transformers!). Primarily known for talking like a wanker, yes?

J-Bo-1

Yep, Deathlok was a cyborg, and there's supposedly a Deathlok movie in dev somewhere. I sincerely doubt that he was the first, but damned if I know who precedes him.

J-Bo-1

IIRC Natsan and Andy Diggle are in it...

J-Bo-1

I don't think we really know enough about Ness to judge... but if Kostabi's directly recruiting him, who's to say he's even going to be on the same "side" as the Caballistics team proper?

J-Bo-1

No, just a misused ellipsis :(

J-Bo-1

....in which case you mean 2000 AD artist Alan Davis, presumably. He's just done a 6-issue written & drawn run on Marvel's KILLRAVEN. Dunno what else he has coming up...

J-Bo-1

Yeah, I don't generally get more than 6 hours per night. I find a variety of herbal remedies work, most of which are readily available from yer average high street health food shop. Or a good old-fashioned cup of hot choccy (preferably made with milk, not that vile Cadbury instant stuff) about 10 mins before bedtime.

Also, it's not a good plan to eat within an hour of when you're hoping to sleep.

J-Bo-zzz-1

I'm pretty sure that this dude is the basis for Jimmy the Operator, in Planetary #1 (from Doc Brass' 40s superteam) ? likewise the Shadow is [partially] the basis for the 'dark millionaire', from the same team and issue.

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