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'Silence' then 'reset'. If that doesn't work, turn the key to the other position, and try again. Or push it in really hard, becasue there's always a little spring that pushes it back out again. Or is that not funny in this context? 

Steev

Since I don't know if he got my pm, I hope you'll excuse me popping into this thread to thank Mr Dandontdare for sendig me his copy of the freebie. Much appreciated!

Steev

You say that- but what would have happened if it'd been a full, overhead mask with badges for eyes? Eh, did you think of THAT? I would have immediately put it on and stabbed myself in the eyeballs! Hooked my eyeballs on the safety pins and pulled them, punctured, pussing and leaking yellow ichor, out of my gaping sockets while screaming in agony. That's what would have happened! Then, the eyeballs would have still been attached to both the mask and my head, via their stretched and raw optic nerves, and I'd've somehow had to work my hand up inside the mask, unhook them, get the mask off and slip them back into my skull before going to the hospital.

And that would not have been zarjaz.

Steev

...although I was incredibly excited to receive my Dan Francisco/ Mutie Scum badges in the post today, I was less than pleased to immediately sustain multiple injuries getting them out of the envelope! Both safety pins were left open and I stabbed myself twice (okay, perhaps not "multiple", but who cares) on them.

I now haz hurty fingers. 

Steev

And does anyone remember those Sunday Sport American comic-format black and white porno comics that littered the top shelves of many a low-rent newsagent, back in the nineties?

Steev

Note: There was far more to my messge than that. My session timed out halfway through, just after it'd randomly posted for no good reason. I give up! After I waffled about what From Hell actually is about, at length, I commented on Watchmen too.

My end point: Watchmen is nowhere near as "good" as From Hell, it just has more mainstream pictures.

Steev

The latter. He admits as much in the annotations in the back of the volume, I think - to the effect that he doesn't really believe the Gull theory, it was just a convienient peg to hang his story on.

I'm not sure if it's "just a convenient peg", or more the point of the exercise: to show that the story of the Whitechapel murders has transcended "mere" historical happening and become a series of mythic layers, piled upon each other. Indeed, the "first myth of the twentieth century". Moore grabbed one possible (or not, depending how you look at it) through-line, that of Gull committing the atrocities, and wove his particular story around that. He added to the myth, never once saying that he believed the myth to be "true".

'Tide of Souls'- Abaddon books new 'Tome of the Dead'. Or new to me, anyway. Like the format-change, like the contents even more. I've been a bit lukewarm to these so far, as each one has tried to twist the zombie idea into something else, when what I've REALLY wanted to read is a stonking great zombie apocalypse story. This one, on the other hand, is doing the job. I'm about halfway through and it's all gone a bit Bravo Two Zero on me, but it's still massively entertaining.

Steev

I don't think you have to be "big" to carry off the judge uniform, it just has to be in proportion, and fit properly. These two look like they're wearing their helmets like oversized hats. As if they are walking v e r y  c a r e f u l l y so as not to wobble them.

Despite all the problems with the movie, the uniforms at least looked like something you could wear- even if it's unlikely that a police force that would do so. Red, gold and green look great in the comic, but "in the flesh" it's way too camp. All black's the way to go for me- with red highlights on the helmet.

Steev

Oh, I love these sorts of things!

Cover: Character montage predominantly featuring Tharg, by Kevin Walker or Henry Flint.

Dredd, by Wagner & Ezquerra.
Slaine, by Mills & Fabry.
Sinister Dexter, by Abnett & Williams.
Big Dave, by Millar, Morrison & Parkhouse.
Something by John Smith & that blokey that drew Cradlegrave, Edmund Bagwell was it?
Star Scan by Henry Flint (#1 of a series), featuring some monster or other eating tiny people, on the surface of an alien world.

Letters page. Free gift. Pull-out readership survey with at least 200 questions.

Steev

It was quite fun.

"Quite fun"! "QUITE FUN"?? You've described exactly what I expect to happen when I come out of the long tunnel of light, immediately post-mortem.

Steev

The other day, I was ignored by a solitary member of the board. Today it is by three! I like this. It feeds our insecurities and deepens our paranoia. I might start randomly ignoring people, just for a laugh.

Steev
Happy to be ignored.

prosthetic-handed RE teacher at school

That is the most magnificent thing ever. "FEAR my plastic hand OF GOD!!". Oh how I wish I went to your school. MY RE teacher just had a neck brace.

Sefton: I have no idea re Lothar, sorry. But I shall find out, oh yes.

Steev

Ooh, favourite zombie movies- a lovely way to kill five minutes while waiting for relief.

1. Day of the Dead (Original- do I need to mention that?). Darkest, nastiest, most unrelentingly grim of all Romero's films. The screech Rickles emits when his vocal chords are stretched to snapping point chills me even now.

2. Dead Set. As close to the reality of a zombie nightmare as is possible to get, in my eyes.

3. Land of the Dead. This presses all my "zombie epic" buttons- and I don't care that others find it dissappointing- for me, it's tremendous fun.

4. Dawn of the Dead (remake). Yes, I like this more than Romero's. So what? It's tighter, nastier and doesn't last three hours. While the original is magnificent, I'd be lying if, of late, the remake wasn't my preferred version.

5. Diary of the Dead.

Honourable mentions to: Manchester Morgue, Undead, Return of the Living Dead, Flesheaters, The Beyond and especially The Templars films.

I may be alone in this, but Shaun of the Dead can kiss my arse.

Steev

Lothar? I thought it was Torque!

But yes, that's the one.

Steev