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You can get the podcast off the 5Live site or iTunes but the review for 'V' won't be up until a week on Monday. It's usually on the Mayo show on Fridays and was on Friday past. They said at the end that the next show will be delayed until the Monday, so that'll be the 20th, by which time we'll all have seen it anyway.

Good show although it can be a bit sniffy towards more mass appeal type films. Always bigging up 'A History of Violence' and 'The Wicker Man', so that's alright then.

Can't find that Max outing in any of the JD annual episodes. If it was a sub plot in a Dredd adventure good luck in finding it!

No idea about your Dredd rave-up story either. If you have an idea of a title or rough prog period try xenoclast's excellent index...

http://www.amenable.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/twoKindex/

If you are stuck for the Cool Johnny Cool strip let me and I'll e-mail you a scan of the pages, as long as the copyright holders don't object...

Still on the case...

I think the body you are talking about is that of Marlon Brando. Max gets cheated out of a shuggy game by the Sharkey brothers and so poses as a criminal job placer and sends the cheats to steal the body, whilst simultaniously grassing them to Dredd for a fat reward. Not the cleverest of twists! From an early Dredd annual although I forgot to write down which one, and I've put the ladders away now...

Cool Johnny Cool was introduced in Prog 506's 'They shoot DJ's don't they' as the top jock on Radio Radio Radio. A citizen's brain implant picked up Cool's show, causing him to threaten the star.

He bought the farm in Prog 740's 'Talkback'when a blow to the head caused him to tune into the city's collective hatred for him. After a few abortive suicide attempts he stuck his head in a grinder. A weeping psi Judge weeped for him until he heard a recording of his show, when he conceded his fate was just.

Not sure of your Nax Normal story although it sounds like a Cassanovas one from a JD annual - any more plot detail to tie it down?

It works fine on my NTL broadband - do you have windows media player? It's a link to a trailer for a Star wars video game in case it's not worth your hassle.

Great if you could arrange bespoke editions of your favourite thrills rather than have someone else's choice being thrust upon you - no Slaine thanks very much. What I'd want would be longer, but not too long, adventures of our favourite, and classic characters.

Some examples would include:

Strontium Dog : The Moses Incident - Real emotion there and best baddie ever in Malak Brood

Rogue Trooper : To the ends of Nu Earth - Real exitement, top Cam Kennedy Artwork and the natural end for the GI.

Ro-Busters: Bax The Burner (1982 Annual) A less seen outing but one of the funner ones. 'Just an old flame' - classic!

Dredd : Wounded Knee, Zombies, Un-American Graffitti and Alien Zoo (1982 Annual good one that!) Various sides of the lawman and a cracking Bolland outing on the Alien Zoo.

D.R. & Quinch Do Hollywood : Best of a cracking bunch. Never watch the Godfather again with out the oranges coming to mind.

Anderson : Shamballa - Her first real solo outing with cracking art and a sad ending.

Future Shock : The Hunted - First 2000ad memory was of that alien realising it was in a spaceship jungle hunting game. Hooked for good.

Your favourtite future shock is identified as 'Revenge of the Guinea Pig', prog 301 and it was indeed a goodie. If I was a pedant I'd point out it was a 'Time Twister' rather than a future shock, but I'm not so I wont.

Well done Steev. I remember filling both my Meg & 2000ad piles. My last 2000ad was the Roger Moore covered prog 119. I remember the chap who used to have the comic shop in Forbidden Planet found it for me. Amazed that he only charged me ?1 for it when he could've had ?20 just as easy. How large collections were ever completed in the old days before the internet is a point of amazement for me.

Last Megazine was Vol 3 no 75 and this literally took months to track down - ironic as it was one of the worst. The trouble is people are reluctant to list them individually on eBay meaning you have to do off site haggles. I eventually paid a guy ?10 to take this one comic out of his massive listing and then relist the rest.

Trouble is with the pile approaching 2000 comics it's doubtful that many will be reread any time soon. Still it's comforting knowing they're there!

Just noticed the 'live in the US' bit. I don't but eBay experience says it'll be there in a week, albeit at a heftier post cost. Happy to be your fall back if need be.

Pretty sure Forbidden Planet in Glasgow has some - I'll have a look tomorrow and let you know. Unless of course someone has a pile already? I'll post a message before I buy in case you've secured one elsewhere.

cheers

SW

Or Kelly Monteith at a Dinner party

Man : Do you mind if I smoke?
Other Man : No, Do you mind if I fart?

Nasty, smelly and selfish habit, and well done the Scottish Parliament for taking the lead for once rather than following Westminster.

Don't fancy being the enforcer at the Sarry Heid though!

I had the illegal mutant one and wore it to oblivion. They were so much more imaginative in the good old days - far less obvious than just the character waving his daystick or whatever.

I also prefered them white rather than the black heavy metal style that always showed off the dandruff of all wearers in Forbidden Planet and the like.

Saw this today and it was ghastly.

With all the fantasy elements I was surprised it was aimed so squarely at the kiddies. All the trailers were for cartoons like Cars and Ice Age 2, but if I were a 12 year old watching this I'd be baffled. As a 33 year old I was baffled but bored also.

Basically Rob Bryden and the lovely Gina 'Our Friends in the North' McKee run a circus aided by their mouthy daughter. Mum gets sick after a row and the daughter has to search through a fantasy world in her dreams for the titualr face plate which will save the day.

Could've been half decent but turned in to a sub par art school project, with lots of toss pots in paper mache masks talking a lot of bollocks.

The main bloke has a head that looks like an order of McDonalds fries and it's genrally all over the place.

Found it hard to stay awake and it was ranked below 'Date Movie' in my all time rankings.

Weatherman and Matador pretty good in comparison!

Yeah yeah, I'm an unfunny insurance man. Until the 22nd of February anyway when the mighty CIS lose my great talents for turning down claims in clever and imaginative ways.

From then on I'll be a full time boarder. What's the pension plan like?...

I may read comics but I don't play with toys.

mmm toys...