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THE PINK PANTHER is a rather dreary Blake Edwards comedy, one starring David Niven and Robert Wagner that just happens to have Peter Sellers in support. So any true remake is hardly sacrilegious.

I suspect what people actually object to is the idea of anyone other than Sellers in the role of Clouseau. And even that I can't agree with having seen the Alan Arkin interpretation.

It's certainly the most faithful adaptation I've seen of any comic. And even more heartbreaking than the original due in no small part to Water's score.

Heh. Maybe they made the same mistake I did with the title and couldn't find it. Might explain why it doesn't feature anywhere in that Top Fifty.

A charismatic hero exploring the unknown with a wild bunch of tough spacers sounds much more fun . . .

Tharg should pitch it to The Asylum. They could have something knocked out in time for the next STAR TREK movie.

Any such list that doesn't include WHERE THE WIND BLOWS in its Top Ten is automatically rendered VOID.

Any idea what his Mancunian's like?

Buncha cynics. They kept Digby as a Cockney for that CGI thing they did.

They cocked that up then . . .

Actually, it was a deliberate change. It was thought an American audience might be confused by an English accent it didn't recognize as being such.

Heh. Peter Kay's accent is actually closer to what Digby's should sound like. By about a hundred and seventy miles.

Buncha cynics. They kept Digby as a Cockney for that CGI thing they did.

Size matters not.

                              Ancient proverb.

That's a Yoda quote. And let's face it, he would say that.

One thing I'd not notice before is the cover stating "Official 2050 Aeroball Almanac". Nice touch.

Hmph! The year should've been 2077!

In fact, Carlos didn't actually draw a published episode of Dredd until after Bolland and McMahon had stopped, so he is arguably the more modern.

I'm being needlessly pedantic aren't I?

Head. Hurt. But Krong KRUSH pedants.

The "climax" involved a guy beating a black alien vagina to death with a brick.

Which is exacly why people should leave three minutes before in order for a downbeat and far superior ending!

I seem to be in a minority of me but I enjoyed this immensely. It's no more derivative than DISTRICT 9 and with a better ending. But only if you walk out three minutes before the credits roll.

Or, to put it another way, if the Prog comes out on Saturday (with corresponding date) why does the cover state it's 'In Orbit Every Monday'?

Despite thinking as a nipper that Forbidden Planet sold the Prog a week in advance of anywhere else (a rare trip to the Old Smoke on a Friday and seeing Prog 382 tormenting me from a shelf THE DAY BEFORE I COULD BUY MINE AT TOMMY'S being the cause of this bedevilment), I can't remember the reason why 2000 AD had the Monday tagline when it seemed only available on Saturday.

Someone here once explained this great publishing mystery (as Sim-1 put it by way of a non-explanation in his list of facts and factoids about 2000 AD in one of the Annuals). Either from anyone would be much appreciated, chums.