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"Have you actually read the aforementioned issue?"

Nope - I don't read american comics on the whole.

"Another example of a *real* issue being caricatured by cringingly over-sentimental, over-emotional, over-dramatic and over-hyped treatment. Damn yanks."

Which is one of the reasons *why* I don't read american comics on the whole...

Roy

From NOW magazine #44 (Sept 2002):

The comic book company that created Superman and Batman has a cutting-edge new story line: a gay teenager is the victim of a hate crime.

DC Comics? Green Lantern No.154 hits newsstands on September 11 - with main character Terry Berg beaten almost to death on a street. Terry actually emerged as a gay character in 2001 in issue No.137, which was cited by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation as the year?s best comic book. Terry is a sidekick to Kyle Rayner - aka Green Lantern - whose emerald ring gives him supernatural powers that keep New Yorkers safe. ?Terry came out because he had a crush on Kyle. Who wouldn?t? He?s tall, with all those muscles,? says cartoonist Judd Winick, who created the gay character at the suggestion of DC Comics editor Bob Schreck also responsible for the Batman series.

Link: http://www.nowuk.net/mag/" target="_blank">NOW magazine

Troutman said "You also don't have mysterious fish powers."


You have mysterious fish powers? To do what?

Roy

I started writing this as a PS to another message, but - like Topsy - it just growed. So I've split it off to here instead:


For those who are keeping count (and I'm sure there are thousands who are...Well, there *might* be...), my reading of 2000AD/etc is now almost up to date - just 2000AD progs 1289 upwards to go now.

That means I've now read all of 2000AD from prog 4 to prog 1288; all of the Megazines, from 1.01 to 4.14; all of the Starlords, 1-22 (but not the Starlord Special); all of the Sci-Fi, Summer, Winter, Mega-, Rogue Trooper and Action specials; all the Batman, Predator & Lobo cross-overs; all (bar #11) JD:LotF & the Special; all the DC Dredds; the 2000AD, Dan Dare, Starlord, Tornado & Rogue Trooper annuals; the Dredd movie adaptation; all the 2000AD & Dredd yearbooks; (the first two) Dicemans; (some of the) Poster Progs; (the first four) Daily Star Dredd collections; and 2000AD Diary and the Mega-History book.

Phew. Actually, looking at the list I just typed, it does look like a lot of comics, come to think of it, sad addict that I now am... What's astonished me is that I've loved every minute of it.

Well, aside from Fleischer & Mark Millar (Silo excepted). Oh, and Big Dave was crap (but I'll be shouted at again for saying that), as was Space Girls...But, overall, while the quality dipped a bit in the mid-90s, there was always *something* worth reading in the progs. And the quality of the progs I'm reading right now (the 1200s) is as good as the golden age of the 1980s, if you ask me.

Anyways - there's still a pile of Crisis, Revolver, Toxic and Marshall Law to wander through afterwards, though it won't be the same...

I draw the line at Tornado, though - I read the annuals and they gave me no reason to bother looking seriously for the comics (I did read Blast, but wasn't impressed).

Congrats, oddboy - and even signed that way as well.

I don't envy DXB, having to put together that list of addresses for signees.

Roy

Sure - why not. Count me in.

(and this'll be the first letter I've ever sent to 2000AD as well...)

Roy

There was a "Red Razors" story where dredd made an appearance. It appears he was crogenically frozen for several decades, to be unfrozen in emergencies.

Roy

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=razors" target="_blank">It was one of these two stories

Watch the World's population grow before your very eyes. It's kinda hypnotic, and kinda scary too.

(credit where's it's due - I saw this link at www.b3ta.com)

Roy

Link: http://www.secretsituation.com/geo/graphic1.htm" target="_blank">Watch the World's population grow before your very

Dredd could always be killed by "a big flying thing" and then revived years later, by the cunning use of flashbacks-to-before-he-died.

Nah - too far-fetched. In any case, there's no precedent for it...

Og, on a completely unrelated note, I just noticed this note on the BBC site (link below)

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/02060501.shtml" target="_blank">BBCi - Strontium Dog on CD

A quick google for "Alec Trench" showed up a rock climb named "Nobody Wept for Alec Trench" (E5 6a).

It's at Egerton Quarry in Lancs (UK), apparently...

Link: http://mysite.freeserve.com/rockoninlancs/page4.html" target="_blank">Egerton Quarry

To be honest, I do have a personal loathing for Flash, when used as anything other than animated cartoons.

As a navigation system for a site, it's horrible, making my "Back" and "Forward" browser buttons unusable, stopping me from doing text searches within a page and not showing me (by changing the colour of the hyperlink) which pages I've been to already.

Having said that, if it's just for the menu system and doesn't extend beyond that, then fine. Seems a bit like overkill, though (If you're in the USA (or can fake it), see http://www.sho.com for an example of a Flash menu system which makes the site all-but-unusable - I wanted the content, but ended up re-doing the navigation through backdoors rather than suffering through their "cute" flash navigator).

If something more than JScript is needed, what about using Java?

Roy

Link: http://www.sho.com" target="_blank">Sho.com (works only for people in the USA)

Oh, and don't forget to clearTimeout() in bar(), come to think of it.

Roy

Wake - to force the hover-before-click, change the onMouseover() call to another function, say "foo(event,menuID)"

foo() would then set four global variables - mouse x-coords, mouse y-coords, event and menuID - and start a timer with a setTimeout() call. The timer would trigger another function, bar(), which checked the current mouse coords against those stored earlier and calls dropit(event,menuID) only if they haven't changed by more than, say, 10 pixels in the interval.

Not a perfect solution, since it'll require a bit of trial and error in determining the right length of timeout and cursor movement range, but it should do. My guess is a timeout of 100 and cursor movement of 5 or 10 would be about right.

HTH

Roy

(is it like little teeny-tiny Keanu Reeves-in-Matrix tamagochis? (sp?) )

neopets? What is this thing called "neopets"?