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Cheers, guys. I couldn't get Barney to work yesterday.  I'm not really fan enough of the rogue stories to justify the shelf space or cost of the phonebooks, and just want the early stuff in the beat format possible, plus the Ortiz run.  So these will do me fine for starters!

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Heh. That reminds me of the 2000ad club we had when I was twelve. To get in, you had to recite the Ace Trucking "poem" from beginning to end, to prove you were a squaxx. "I was boiling down the mainlane shrugging jeckyl by the mil, with hordes of creepy jeepies on my back", etc.

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PM sent, good buddy! 

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Hey all, I'm looking at picking up the old Titan Rogue books (the thin ones, not the omnibus versions as I prefer the design), due to the superior print quality. We're there only six? And was it a straight run with no omissions? Where did they stop? And finally, at what point would I need to get the recent phonebooks to complete it?
Ta.

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Nice to see Micky Flanagan join us! I really enjoy your work. "I can't get aht the tuuuurnin'!" 

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As will I. Though I may not be buying many comics, being Mr O'Cash McNocash at the moment.

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But don't scrimp on that salad though...

If I'm giving you some, it won't be "scrimping" that I do on it first...

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As will I. Though I may not be buying many comics, being Mr O'Cash McNocash at the moment.

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...because today I excitedly skipped to the cornershop to pick up my prog and my meg, after a year and a bit of not having an order... and was greeted by a sopping, sodden prog, which they could not understand why I did not want. A minor argument then played out, and they agreed to check their other shops for an extra copy, or order me a new one. But they wouldn't let me take away the one that I had already paid for. So I am progless.

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"'Ee, if you're just off to 'Otten, 'appen. 'Appen oil come withee Mr Wilkes."

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However, a word of warning - order the next size up from your usual t-shirt size.  For example, I usually order large slim-fit t-shirts.  I ordered the large top, and it is SNUG! It only just fits. I'm tempted to replace it with the X-Large, as I like a bit of room in my hoodies.

Fewer pies, earthlet.

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Down here in Sussex- or my part of it at least- we've escaped the worst of the Apocalypse. However, last night was quite distressing, when the wind blew the streetlamp outside our house and was causing it to wobble back and forth quite alarmingly while it appeared to be sparking. I had to go out and show the kids that it was actually the fading orange light reflecting off the lashing rain before they'd go to bed. Also the accompanying thunder storm and sudden hailstorm did nothing to allay their fears.

Having been flooded out just after we moved in nine years ago, when a water main along the road burst and gave us six feet of water in the basement and coming into the house, my empathy is with those who are going through this now. And two more "killer storms" approaching, they say. God must REALLY hate gay marriage.

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I've been amused, over the last day or so, by the pictures of the new DJs (we agreed not to call them "the darkies" didn't we?) and was all ready to pop in here and say that, yes, I buy the IDW Dredd titles (and have preordered Rogue, despite not caring for the character), but I do so because of a compulsion to "support the line". Mars Attacks and Year One proved IDW can do it right, but equally the last fourteen issues of the main book have proven they also can't. I've not yet received my MC2#1, so my #2 sits unread at present. I was also going to say that while I find the art "alright", as it goes, it's the writing that has really let it down- along with the format not making the most of the "book length thriller every issue" and instead giving us a succession of mediocre back-up strips. I was going to say all that.

But I've just read #15 and for the very first time really enjoyed it. It read like a "proper" Dredd story (barring one or two character things that stuck out), and the art (except the hilarious two-footed kick through glass) was nice and told the story perfectly well. The set up for the DJs was well done, and it certainly got me interested enough to look forward to the next one.

Cards on the table- I'm not the biggest Dredd fan in the world. I don't read 2000AD for Dredd, and it's usually not in my top two thrills in a prog. I much prefer Pat Mills's output, and it's his work that sings "proper 2000AD" to me. I enjoy the strip when it's good, but I'm not as invested in the mythology as others. However, I did very much enjoy IDW's #15- more so than any previous issue, and probably up there with Mars Attacks and Year One. If it all kicks off in a similar style next issue, I might start to look forward to it more than I do now. Also, the back-up strip was rather lovely, and I loved the old-style McMahonesque helmets.

As for the DJs themselves- there are certainly at least two female judges in them tanks. Judge Nag and Judge You're On The Sofa Tonight Pal, perhaps?

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Human Centipede is one of my favourite horror films of the last few years. It's a brilliant, clever film with an incredible lead performance by Dieter Laser. Never as graphic as you fear, and like the classic seventies horrors it strives to emulate, reliant entirely on the potential grotesquerie of the concept. Genuinely disturbing, in much the same way as the ooriginal Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it's a near-perfect  example of the genre's ability to get under society's skin. Love it.

Still not seen the sequel, largely because a) it's censored and I won't watch censored films, and b) the subject matter may be even too much for me. Dieter Laser returns for the third installment- Final Sequence. So I guess I'll have to bite the bullet soon.

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Dark Jimbo:  Did you mean THE DYALTOV PASS INCIDENT? Cos we watched that tonight, and it was magnificent!

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