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From the looks of it, I think all continuity is going out the window (no change there then for the franchise). Cause and effect and all that time travel jive is ideal for writers in this sense. "It's not the future my mother thought it would be..." or something like that.

Essentially, all references to previously unseen terminators are null and void so I can see the T-600 rubber skin stuff perhaps taking a back seat.

Well, they've played with that a bit on the TV show-- [spoiler]two characters from the future who meet, knowing each other only to find  they were from different timelines- a nice touch.[/spoiler] I think that all bets have to be off that this is the original timeline as they've spelt out in the narration... but it looks fantastic. I actually love the motorbike Terminators...brilliant!

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I was swept up the whole thing-- amazed and touched to see old warhorses like Jesse Jackson crying! Obama might actually make a difference, he's already done wonders for America's perception abroad.

Only thing is.... now I'm older than the American President and that can't be right, surely?!

For Mr Cosh - my excuse has always been that if the script says I have to draw pretty girls ( occationally wearing very little ) then I simply must obey . I was only following orders officer ! So actually you could say it was all the fault of Alan Grant and Pat Mills . Though I must admit I did ask Al if I could stick a few girls in his Dredd strip becuase other than Hershey it was an all male cast , so in fact I was just doing my bit for equality ... sort of ./quote]

And as a point of irrelevant detail, the poor beleaguered cit who gets his clothes requisitioned is actually moi, hat model's own....

...well, maybe...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independe ... aminglips/

Genius or nutzo, can't decide....

I thought Alien3 was great for the first hour or so of setting up the environment and the characters, but got really shit as soon as the Alien actually appears.

Alien3 is a Doctor Who story where the Doctor (McGann notwithstanding) doesn't up to save the day... loads of Brit character actors meet horrid deaths... I think the death of Hicks and Newt off-screen soured it for me, ruining the whole point of Ripley gaining her humanity in the previous movie.

Worst movie? Kill Bill2. I adored part one and was so hyped going into 2 only to have to sit through what felt like 5 hours of Tarantino talking to himself through his actors. One voice, one tone, no characters!.... And why did Uma's character suddenly become so stupid? Bah.

List valid for maybe 10 minutes, after which I'll remember 10 others more worthy...

BLADERUNNER
BLUES BROTHERS
JUPITER'S DARLING
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
BACK TO THE FUTURE
THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
ANCHORMAN
KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
TOUCH OF EVIL
GOODFELLAS

.... not the best films, but favourites. Oh but then there's The Philadelphia Story, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.... lots more....

From one of The Comic Strip films .The one were they were living in a mock iron age village as part of some university degree:

Rik Mayall: "I hope we get different clothes this year because last year my Bollocks kept hanging out and i looked like a bloody Neanderthal Petrol Pump !"

I'm in that one as an extra! Summer School it was called, written by Dawn French. Got to go drinking with Robbie Coltrane and Rik Mayall... gawd that was over 25 years ago....

Favourite lines... anything uttered by Groucho Marx, and another vote for Kentucky Fried Movie, sheer genius... Catholic High School Girls In Trouble... 'Oh no! Not the TOY ROBOT!!....' etc, etc...

Spoilers off?

Hmm- let's see... Doctor meets a woman that not only knows him, but keeps a book of their out of sequence encounters... anyone read The Time Travellers Wife?

I loved the episode and Alex Kingston is just gorgeous... and I think PJ is onto something when he suggests the girl is the computer's AI which has become sentient and forgotten it's not real- or maybe the patented invention that Lux is protecting is a kids brain wired into the computer with a Matrix like fake environment to stop it going crazy?

Roll on part two-- and oh dear, that 'YOU are DONNA?' wasn't a 'Oh he told me how much fun the two of you had before you went off, won the lottery and married George Cloney' expression on River's face was it?

It's a little bit of genius that show. Lovely. And seeing David Tennant doing The Boy With The Thorn In His Side is one of my all time TV best moments.

Quite liked the Adrian Paul show, but saw Highlander: The Source last weekend and wanted to tear out my eyes. How that mess of a movie got green-lighted is beyond me. It makes Highlander 2 seem like genius in its subtleties and adherence to the canon...

Bollocks doesn't get more bollocky.

I remember a Horizon about 10 years or so ago about how fertile the Sahara used to be, and how you can tell by the weathering at the base of the Sphinx. Fascinating stuff-- and as the show went on I was nodding along, really into the scientist's conclusions when he announced (I paraphrase) '-and this was all after we left Mars, after screwing up the eco-system there'.

At which point, my brain exploded... and yet, is that any less credible than the other ideas? I dunno.... the Cuckoo Theory says we shouldn't even be here, maybe we wiped out the CroMags and set up shop...

...I feel a really poor Future Shock developing...

I wasn't putting down my cover- I was really pleased with that when I drew it-- and Mark's inks don't show as clear and detailed as they'll be on the printed version as it's low res.

I accept that everyone's got their own tastes, and not everyone's going to like 'my' Slaine.

Nah, no hurt feelings-- I like Glenn's Slaine more than mine, too!

I was bought in at the time because Glenn's work was taking him too long to finish-- it's gorgeous but not weekly deadline stuff!-- the 'Spoils' story was a neat way to bridge to the whole 'Slaine the King' development and give Glenn a breather at the same time.

Blagger's Fact: The main figure was inked by Mark Farmer, the Zodiac by me, they wee actually two bits of artwork that in those long distant pre-Photoshop days had to be stuck together!

Well, that makes sense-- the Zodiac cover was meant to be iconic. Nice to see it back out there!

Wonder if the Zodiac behind Slaine is the one I drew back then as well? Can't tell on that repro.