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Not Judge Dredd, no.

There! That's flummoxed ya! Ha!

A clue (because you can give clues in this game, ive decided). Aside from the strip from which the panel originates, this particular prog contains Dredd, Stronty, Anderson and Rogue.

SBT

No one even going to give an educated guess?

SBT

Looks to have been tremendous fun, and as usual I'm sorry I missed it. But! I want one of them there logo keyrings. In fact, I want several. Are there to be several? In the meantime, I will have one of the 80s logo ones please- I even have a bottle of tippex waiting to write "featuring judge Dredd" on it.

SBT

[strip name, and prog number]

Inspired by a long-running thread over on Roobarb's, wherein players guess the identity of a classic Dr Who story from a single frame, I thought I'd introduce a similar idea over here.

Obviously, a complete panel would give the game away somewhat- so, changing the rules a bit, all you have to do is identify the strip from which the attached image comes. I want strip name, and prog number. First one to get it right gets to do the next one- and so on.

Here's your starter for ten:

SBT

Steve- that is a magnificent blog, and I've just spent a happy half-hour trawling through it. Obviously, much of it is directed at me personally, because I seem to have bought and read every single publication mentioned and shown. So, aside from asking you to kindly stop following me to the newsagents, I'd like to ask for your written promise to continue scanning and blogging everything in your collection, until we get down to the payslips.

Truly great stuff, and thank you so much!

SBT

A late contender for 'cover of the year' heads off a packed prog of five hits and no misses. Even Ampney Crucis is a) interesting and b) finishes, this week so all cannot be bad. Actually, despite not liking a single panel of AC since it started, i find myself oddly looking forward to he next series now. A new artist would be welcomed though.

Dredd finally, finally, gets going and we begin to see what may be coming. At bloody last, as i was starting to despair. Angel Zero isnt as good as last week's little masterpiece, but continues to do its thing entertainingly. Indigo Prime is in joint first place with Low Life- both delivering beautiful episodes packed with stuff demanding a second read, and in IP's case inspiring a wonderful and disturbing cover that could only have been improved by a 'supercover saga!' flash, and a box of tiny text.

It struck me though, how far we've come. 30 years ago, the kid would have been in the foreground being menaced by the creepyzoid, while his parents met their deaths behind him. Now, we are more likely to be the dad, so it's us as the focus. Im not sure if that's warming or desperately sad.

No letters- booo. But extra points for using the word 'goatse'.

SBT

The voices in my head tell me it's Danny Dyer as Bill Savage in an adaptation of Invasion/Savage.

Or Karl Howman as same, but in a tv sitcom version.

SBT

Me too! me too! (jumps up and down, waving frantically)
SBT

I dont know about all of that, cf- im more concerned as to why Buttonman is responsible for you only having four hours' sleep- you dirty boys!

SBT

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Much to my surprise this was much more fun than Hellraiser- despite my Very Serious Teenage Horror Fan Memory telling me it was awful. It's still hamstrung by Claire Bloody Higgins, although this time she's joined by some of the most hilariously bad actors in the history of film, so at least she fits in.

Any "review" I could do would quite rightly be seen as just shouting my unbridled joy at the ludicrousness of many of the scenes, the dialogue seemingly written to put your teeth on edge and leave you slack-jawed at its awfulness, the magnificent cheapness of the sets- using techniques straight out of early sixties television to suggest corridors, and heavy stone walls which ripple when actors collide with them... which the director then films them doing many times, the grating obviousness of the imagery (Frank's personal Hell is a personal highlight of tawdry sub-student filmmaking, trying to be transgressive and failing in every respect), and the hilarity caused by Bob ("He may not be good, but at least he's Keen") Keen's effects (Dr Channard flying about on the tentacle and Julia slipping out of her skin and flying down the tunnel are very hard to beat).

It is, all told, spectacularly awful- but still manages to be far more entertaining than Hellraiser and I loved every second.

SBT

The cover with Mark's rationale is on my blog SBT. Dunno if it'll change your mind any but it's a great read. Mark always great value in his cover break downs!

As ever, Pete, I'm in awe of your blog- and yes, that was a fantastic piece on Mark Harrison's thought-processes behind the image. I enjoyed it far more, I'm sorry to say, than I did the actual Meg cover! Fascinating though- but it didn't change my mind   

But never mind, Mr Harrison is responsible for the Durham Red trilogy, and so will forever be alike to a god to me. A god, I say!

SBT

Anyone in any doubt over Frank Miller's mental state and personality is advised to pick up a copy of 'Holy Terror' in their local Waterstones, leaf through it, and then rapidly put it back on the shelf along with any other hastily-scribbled, badly drawn, unintentionally and hilariously homoerotic, reactionary crap he's come out with in the last twenty years. He really is a weasel-faced abomination.

SBT

While i tend to believe UFOs arent evidence of extraterrestrial life, sadly, i must just say that it would be absolutely bloody fantastic if they were demons. I'd bloody love that.

However, since 'demons' dont exist, and are merely a medieval personification of various mental illnesses, physical diseases and general bogeymen, they're probably not to be honest.
SBT

Greetings and welcome! Have fun- pull up a biscuit.

SBT

Top proggage this week, kicked off by a stonking cover from the rogue langley droid. All thrills performing to the best of their capability, especially Angel Zero (which delivered its best and most well-structured episore yet) and Low Life, which was hilarious, again.

Dredd continued as it has done recently. I neither love nor hate this particular arc, but i am waiting for it to really get going. Indigo Prime continues to deliver the best artwork to be found anywhere in comics, and to perplex and befuddle. But in a good way. And Ampney continues to occupy five pages of the prog.

All in all, most groovesome, babies.

SBT