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Of course. A complete set of Case Files and/or Titan and Eagle reprints is all well and good in the sense of being convenient and attractive on a living room shelf- but the actual progs, properly bagged and boarded to prevent thrill-leakage, are the only real way to experience these stories, for the connoisseur.

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Parents of violent offspring, like what mine are, be alerted: the current issue of the panini spider-man comic (look for the big sellophane bag) comes with a free disc-firing gun that looks quite a bit like a lawgiver. If painted and a barrel added, it could be a pretty good match. Wouldnt take much.

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Davidblack and orinAGN, your progs and monthlies are on their way. After the earlier response, i typically got home on time today.
OrinAGN- ive had to send yours surface due to cost so you'll have them by xmas with luck!

SBT

Nobody's received anything yet, as ive been working right up the arseend of town with no chance of getting to a post office. However, i have tomorrow off and am taking everything to the main office first thing, so all will go off then. I think im still waiting for walter the wobot's address though!

Glad you enjoyed them!

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Rock on!

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Happy birthday youngling!

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Surely the plot is that dredd gets made lunar marshall and cleans up the moon? That's pretty much overarching the whole thing. I dunno, just chucking it out there- dont know how many eps it is, as i only had 'the early cases' issue 5 to hand. Great though, and not read for years. When are planet replicas gonna do the badge and cape, that's what i wanto know.

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I meant to check this last night, as my various versions are still out following the great judge fire conundrum the other week- but i got sidetracked reading dredd's adventures as judge marshall of lunar one. In turn, this made me wonder if, in retrospect, the moon stories should be considered one of the first 'epics'. I understand it not having been so, as it's multiple storylines and epics were always single plots- but post 'the pit', and certainly 'tour of duty' and 'day of chaos', maybe we should retrofit the space adventures into talk of epic dredds?

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Jesus Redondo's spider-hunt pages in Nemesis. Flying spiders with webnets, people crawling with spiders and trapdoor spiders in the ground opening up and dragging the escapees down to their fate. Along with the 'secret life of the blitzspear', these were the pages of 2000AD that most inspired me to stick with the comic my entire life, i think.

Im on the bus to work at the moment, to a job i really enjoy, and all i really want to do is get off, cross over the seafront, get on anotheone heading back into town, go home and read Nemesis all day long.

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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is probably breathing a sigh of relief that the attitudes of other institutions and individuals have been shown to mirror his own. I suppose the Holy See can now argue that everyone was at it back then, and no-one was particularly bothered.

Sadly, I think there's more than a grain of truth in that. I'm waiting for Buck House to make a statement about his knighthood and the "special relationship" he claimed to have with them.

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(cont) his life that you can find simply by googling (for instance) 'jimmy savile necrophilia', as many are obvious internet madness.

However, knowing what we now know (and have known for years) dont they become just that little bit more interesting? And why are the tabloids and tv news once again refusing to address what the internet has been discussing since this all started?

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The thing is, regarding Savile, we are all in a way complicit. I certainly 'knew'- in the sense that i was told by multiple people closely connected to the entertainment industry including someone who knew and worked with him personally that Jimmy Savile 'liked little kids', as far back as 1986. The stories of him raping children in stoke mandeville and at various other homes have literally been going around for years. The news hasnt yet touched on the bits that go along with it- the bits that even now im dubious about mentioning because i dont know the legality of the issue, and which would make a spot of paedophilia seem tame in comparison. But if the potentially hundreds of victims couldnt speak out, and the hundreds of witnesses couldnt speak out, and the police of multiple counties 'couldnt find evidence', then you have to ask if his claims to be "untouchable" were true, not just in the sense that he got away with it- but because he was protected.

I dont want to analyse the conspiracies around (cont)

Stronghold is one of the very best of Abaddon's 'tomes of the dead' series, and i cannot drokking wait for this particular adaptation!

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(cont) tint box, but you cant have everything. Very much enjoyed this story and hope it returns soon, along with a trade. Good, solid, 'meat and potatoes' 2000AD.

ABCs- Im glad to say i've at last acclimatised to langley's new art, and this was just lovely. All the usual Millsisms in the ideas and dialogue (is this the first time we've seen Mr 10% in his robot body? Reading weekly and being 42, i forget) and my only complaint would be the hammersteins being hard to tell apart.

As for The Simping Detective- this was a strip i loathed in the meg, and regularly skipped. Here, divorced from frazer irving's art, it's a much better read. There's been some talk hereabouts of simon coleby's evolution as an artist over the decades, and i'd very much like to add my voice to those saying that, while his early work may not have done it for me particularly, his pages now are as if sent by the gods. Astonishing. If people work hard and try their best, they get better at what they do. Whoever would have thunk, eh?

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The post-1800 run continues apace, with the best and most intriguing episode of Brass Sun yet. Cannot wait to see where this goes eventually, and at the moment am nursing a forlorn hope that when Tharg said culbard would alternate with d'israeli, he meant there would be an unbroken run of these stretching into next year- like in the old days. That d'israeli is back next week buggers that i reckon (three mega-city one strips in a five strip comic? Hrrnn...) and so im now already dreading the end of book one. Beautiful, delicate stuff from culbard and the most assured scripting we've ever had from the edge.

Dredd was good- always nice to see harrison behind the pictures, and this reminds me his superior durham red is overdue a reread. A shame he's using this particular style, as i much prefer the other, but as it's so gorgeous i'll forgive him. But haven't we had this episode before?

Grey Area ended well- i was hoping, i admit for the bad alien to get blasted in full-page panel-o-rama, and not just a (cont)