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If I were smart, I'd get him to draw a complete 6 page Dredd strip- then flog it for squiddles of cash when he inevitably becomes famous.

But no, it's not that.

Steev

[2000AD covers - coffee table collection]

I'm surprised this wasn't on your list Steev:

2000AD covers - coffee table collection

I toned it down to  plea for a CD of the covers instead!

Oh, Kev, I will be pm-ing you or facebooking you later (or tomorrow) with a request for  quote for some art...

Steev

Must... have... this.

Of course, it's a nonsense to say there's no merchandising. What about that film version? Okay, it was just a short- as part of an anthology, but Tales That Witness Madness, story #1 is as close as we are likely to get. Insert winky smiley if you need to.

Steev

Here's what I want:

Calender? yup.

Colouring Book? Isn't that what the Case Files are for?     But yes, it would be nice to be fleeced for an extra £3.99 every now and again for essentially some blown-up reprints between cardboard. I jest. Yes, would love these.

Annuals: Large format, hardbacked reprint annuals (70s/ 80s/ 90s/ 00s) or brand new material, or a combination, don't care. Want them back!

Sci-Fi Specials? Oh yes.

Multiple-hundred question readership surveys, stapled into the prog on thicker paper, for us to fill in and send off? Oh good grud yes. So help me, I love these.

Online recaps? Great idea. Just no more page-sized recaps in the comics please.

Free gifts! Badges, small plastic water-squirty lawgivers, SD Agent weaponary rendered kid, er, parent-friendly, a CD ROM of all covers, a Rebellion sampler disc, assorted whatnot.

That'll do for starters.

Steev

I've come back to work to discover that my company no longer deems it acceptable for me to have my ID swipe card attached to my belt on one of those retractable elastic thingies that they issued me with, but that it ABSOLUTELY MUST be worn around my neck on a bright blue lanyard (I even hate the word 'lanyard') so that it gets tangled with my headset lead, clatters on my desk and keyboard and makes me look like a tit.

I feel your pain, brother. My company have issued "identity cards", ostensibly so if we are in the community with service users who are displaying challenging behaviour, we can flash them and reassure the general public that any techniques we may use to "calm them down" are in the best interests of the person involved and they should not be alarmed.

I made my disssatisfaction with the design very clear at template stage. But ohhhh no, I was overruled by a fucking idiot.

Hence, I now have a little laminated card with my picture on it, which states in big bold letters "This person has an Autistic Spectrum Disorder and/ or Learning Disability". No I bloody don't, but the person I am with might.

Useful in getting into cinemas cheap, I guess- but not overly professional!

Steev

Currently I am reading 'Patient Zero' by Jonathan Maberry.

It is very, very bad.

End of review.

Steev

I've eaten something that has slightly upset my stomach, giving me tremendously bad wind. And tonight is "date night". Married squaxx will understand my mild annoyance.

Steev

Speaking as the only person in the world who absolutely loved 'Chronicles of Riddick'-

WooHOO!

Steev

Ah, this was 'The Incredible Hulk!' weekly, with the cool "underlined" logo, yes?- reprinting the Herbe Trimpe strips? I have a number of these upstairs, all bought off eBay over the last year. Being a nostalgic collector of MWOM has led onto a love of all these UK Hulk publications along the line. MWOM, Hulk comic, Marvel Superheroes, Hulk Weekly, Rampage magazine and The Incredible Hulk!

The trouble I have found with this particular title, is that it's almost impossible to find them on eBay, because even a uk-specific search for "the incredible hulk" will return MWOMs, Hulks, loads of other comics and even US titles.

I know it went to at least 25 issues and there were at least two associated Summer Specials. Any more than that, well, I'm finding it out as I go along. The only other thing I can tell you is that I associate it with Rice Crispies! Which I guess means I had it delivered to the house, and I used to read it over breakfast.

But yes, on packaging only, it's by far my favourite of the weekly Hulk titles.

Steev

That's a shame. Ferris Bueller is one of those films that I can practically recite the script to but still find funny. Like Die Hard, I'd watch it every night if it was on telly.

Ditto, re Ferris Bueller. Still one of my "desert island films", after all this time. John Hughes was a bloody marvel, and my teenage years would have been considerably more dull without him.

Steev

You mention paedophilia allegations and suddlenly an otherwise "active thread" drops to page four! That's terrible, Peter- I'm not sure what to do in these situations, so trust you'll find a way out of it without resorting to assault or GBH. Mind you if the same were intimated about me, and I knew I wasn't, I'm not sure I would be in any way calm enough to handle it sensibly.

Steev

Heh- no, no onanistic excess involved. My wife was typing an email, and trying to phrase something properly. She was sitting next to me on the sofa (or "Chesterfield" as my mother-in-law would have it, driving me to bloody distraction) and I had a cat on my lap. She asked me a question, I reached over, held the keyboard with my left hand and the screen with my right. I turned the laptop to face me, and my thumb cracked the screen. Little "TAK!" noise, little crack across the middle, big black thumb print at the side and just white space below the crack. Argh! I didn't grab it, didn't push very hard, it just... happened. Very annoying.

I'm being quoted £125- £130 for a new screen and installation. Though I have a friend who's willing to do it for cost plus beer. Cheapest he can find online is £68 inc delivery.

Every story should have a moral: Don't help your wife to do anything, it's not worth it.

Steev

At the moment, I'm within seconds of trying the fix the bloody thing with cheese.

ARGH!

Steev

Stupidly, I've just put my thumb through the screen of my laptop. Any idea how much this is going to cost me to get fixed?

Steev

...I've just put my thumb through the screen of my laptop- resulting in a crack across it, and a big white space where computery loveliness used to be.

Any ideas how much this is going to cost to get fixed?

Steev