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>> Which - I read someone pointing out recently - means that if you don't commit any, then that sacrifice was in vain.

Which is where the concept of Original Sin comes into play. We are supposedly all born tainted by the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve ate one too many fig rolls and where subsequently banished from the Eden Project.

Does it have a bumbling, sexually-frustrated Asian side-kick?

"Geht dowhn, girly!"

>> John Giant Clay wasn't 76 years old when he died. In the Meg 216 Clay as an old man reminicises about the time he spent with the Harlem Heroes 75 years previously. He must be at least one hundred when he dies.

>> HH takes place in 2050ish and presumably Giant was in his late 20's you can place his birth around 2025 or just before. So he's 74ish when Giant graduates, and pushing a 100 when he throws his last airstrike.

Most people assume that HARLEM HEROES is set in 2050 but it's just as likely it takes place in 2077. If their induction/graduation dates are anything to go by, Judge Giant senior was born c. 2079, his son Judge Giant junior was born c.2105.

The dates given in the first series of HARLEM HEROES are inconsistent. Prog 1 merely states that aeroball "has swept the world" by 2050, not that the story takes place at that particular year. When it was first published, 2000 AD's stories were often set one hundred years from the cover date. Furthermore, Giant's supposed tomb [INFERNO (Prog 72)] has the following inscription:

IN FOND MEMORY OF
JOHN 'GIANT' CLAY
2150 - 2178
DESTROYED IN HIS PRIME BY THE
HARLEM HELLCATS
R.I.P.

Assuming the above dates are typos and INFERNO (its early episodes stating the action is taking place during the 21st century) is set in 2078, this would make Giant senior twenty-nine years old when he fathers Giant junior [JUDGE DREDD 'The Academy of Law (Progs 27 - 28)]. Giant is therefore seventy-six when he dies in 2126 [WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . 'John "Giant" Clay?' (Meg 216)].

A grave stone stated Anderson was born in 2080.

And I'd argue that John 'Giant' Clay was 76 years old when he died.

>> On the subject of Eli Roth, I'll add "Cabin Fever" . . .

Cabin Fever could have been brilliant. Despite the crap comedy-horror, there are moments of genuine horror (The clean-cut hero finally copping off with his childhood sweetheart only for her to succumb to the disease resulting in his love turning to utter hatred/The slut, in a desperate attempt to maintain her self-perceived beauty, shaves her legs, ragging 'em to fuck).

>> Thank grud someone else doesn't like Heat. What a load of ponderous self-important tosh.

That pretty much puts it better than I could hope to, even if I were sober. Michael Mann remakes L.A. Takedown BUT WITH DENIRO AND PACINO. Sure, the shouting has more gravitas but it's still so much pretentious emptiness signifying fuck all.

>> . . . one of the only cases in which I can honestly say Roger Moore was the better man for the role . . .

The thing is, Roger, like Shatner, is a far better actor than people give him credit for. If only laziness and ego hadn't got the better of either of 'em.

Off the top of me noggin . . .

Heat.

The Truman Show.

Scream 3.

Soul Survivors.

The first ten minutes I was able to endure of Scary Movie.

Unleashed.

Die Hard 4.0.

Anything by M. Night Shyamalan.

Almost everything by Tim Burton.

Megrim and Robyn, my arse. That's a Look-In pin-up of Yazoo.

Rorschach looks like he belongs at the rodeo. And Ozymandias has a Blake Carrington thing going on with his hair.

Shouldn't that credit go to Hira Manish?

>> You mean even more rubbish than John Hurt's rants and overacting of an underwritten character.

It may not have been intentional but casting John Hurt did seem a tad contrived. "Yeah, let's get that bloke from Nintendo Eighty-Four."

And asked questions in the underworld. Allegedly.

That first photo of the Rorschach figure looks a bit Frank Sinatra.

If I remember correctly, the time-stretcher was first used in Robo-Hunter 'The Slaying of Slade'. Wagner and Grant then used it for one of the Daily Star Dredds (the one mentioned by Johnny) which I presume has since been appropriated by the Dredd strip in the weekly.

>> And a bit Spanish too.

¡Blimey but it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world!

I'm off to sip some cherry cola.