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Not going to go through the 12 pages on this thread...but...if you do want to do something a little different try making a snow lantern.  Basically an igloo made of snow balls with some tea-lights in...looks really nice and great to get the kids involved too. 

Made one today!

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Absolutely. My littlest still gets dr who comic, which works oyt at a tenner or so a month, for 120+ pages of hastily-thrown together wank. It really is utterly pathetic, and to even call it a comic is to pay great insult to every single British comic published over the last hundred or so years. And that includes 'The Thing Is Big Ben'. *
In comparison, the Meg is basically given away and stuffed with manna from heaven.
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*Ask me why i buy it for him then. Go on i dare you. And prepare to see a photo of my gorgeous little boy crying his eyes out, completely heartbroken, because it hasnt come in this week due to the snow.

Im not sure you can blame keene for hanging around the horror section, fishing for compliments, to be honest.
If i ever published a novel, i'd be a permanent fixture in my local waterstones, forcing people to pick it up... like Commando Forces on a Wednesday in Smiths.
I have a similar story about Brian Lumley, though i knew who he was and it's more a case of my transparently crap attempt to be 'enthusiastic' about his work. He saw through it, and said i was a 'wanker' for preferring Richard Matheson to Lovecraft. But it was all in (mostly) jest, and we were both a bit pissed.
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I trudged an hour through snow, ice, drifts, blizzard conditions and frozen dog shit, to get to town and secure the prog- since my local shop seems to have closed for the duration of the weather.
Perfect prog for me, five magnificent strips, great cover, no complaints (other than no letters page). I think (without checking) it's my favourite one in what i've thought has been a somewhat wobbly year.
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Or: Frankie Boyle is at least a hundred times funnier than Sadowitz, who has recently attempted a pathetic cry for attention by claiming Boyle 'ripped him off'. He didn't, though Boyle's beard is at least as ill-advised as Sadoitz's hair and hat.
Nothing about Boyle is 'put on' or 'forced'. He really IS like that. He used to share flats, at various times, with several of my friends- some of whom are mentioned (in excellently derogatory terms) in his autobiography. I've been on the 'outskirts of his circle', as it were, for about fifteen years- through his alcoholism and beyond, and he really IS exactly as he seems. I like him a lot and found his autobiog strangely touching and very funny.
He can't write comics to save his life though.
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Supposed plotholes dealt with- other than the obvious (how did the zoms find them? Did Merle lead them? What about the cans?- all to be dealt with later, i guess) i thought episode four was the single best piece of tv drama ive seen in years- each episode has been better than the last. And as for the 'fish' dialogue. Nothing 'wrong' with that whatsoever- AND goes some way to explaining both sisters relationship with Dale, in terms that a tv audience can better understand. If, that is, the tv version is even going to go in that direction...
Unbelievable spite levelled against Darabont across the net. But what so you expect from a bunch of nerds who think they can do better. I'll wait til Kirkman and Darabont comment upon developments themselves, thanks.
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After going out at 3am to take photos if 'the most snow ive ever seen', today i struggle through two/three feet drifts of the stuff to get to work... And now it's blizzarding again!
Im not quite over how pretty it is, or how quiet it makes everything, but it'd better fuck off soon or i may warp spasm on its ass.
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Considering one of the things he's best known for, quite rightly, is originating comics- and in the light of 'CLiNT' and 'STRIP'- can we expect any further UK titles to spring from his fantastic brain?

And- Is Claudia getting UK reprint volumes?

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Galactic Greeting Earthlet!

And as an aside, can I just say how nice it is to see so many new avatars around this here place. Is it the new movie? Is it the zeitgeist? is it the snow? Whatever, great to see more squaxx make themselves known.

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No progs in Hastings today. Past comics led me to believe Tharg delivers progs from some kind of spaceship that hovers over newsagents to beam them down. So why should a bit of snow cause any delays?

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Er, CF, i actually meant I'll want both too...

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^^Ditto what the big man said^^



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My brood and I climbing back up the hill for another go...

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Ah, that's kind of sad. I have to say, I've only read one Keene novel- 'City of the Dead', and I also found it almost completely unreadable. I don't think I finished it, but it just annoyed me from the word go. He reads, to me, like an American Shaun Hutson (another writer who I don't get on with). There's no elegance to any of it and he just layered cliche on cliche until I couldn't carry on.

As for recommending anything, I'd point you towards Muriel Gray's novels- especially The Trickster and The Ancient.

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That was why I initiated the demand for SiniDex socks in the first place- but as I was drawing it, I kind'a thought "Why not make it a range?"- hence the "Piston Broke" versions seen.

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