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Saw Dog Deever's comment on another thread that "there are only 2 2000AD games", and thought that some of the newer members of the board may not have looked at http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=download&page=games.

More importantly - click on the link below and see some online games for 2000AD'ers, including the genius that is UKDane's...

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=news&page=games" target="_blank">2000AD Top Trumps

The English language(? UK plc) is a rich and wonderful thing, containing lots and lots of swear words.  But our American cousins seem to lack some or all of the following -

fanny
twat
bloody
bollocks
tosser
wank

So my question is, are there American equivalents - swear words that they use that we just don't say?  Or are the British more inventive, funny, clever, good looking AND better at swearing?

Now hear dis

"What did you learn at school today?"
That's what the teachers used to say
But they don't know
Don't understand, do they
Why do they always give advice
Saying "Just be nice, always think twice"
When it's been a long time since they had a teenage life

"What did you learn at school today?"
That's what the teachers used to say
But they don't know
Don't understand, do they
Why do they always give advice
Saying "Just be nice, always think twice"
When it's been a long time since they had a teenage life

Dwelling on the past, from back when I was young
Thinking of my school days and trying to write this song
Classroom schemes and dreams
Man they couldn't save me
Cos my days were numbered when I signed down on Avy
Teenage kicks running out what could we do
I still show respect to my boys who made it through
And getting told off Mr T how my life would be
Then giving him a signal
HELLO TOM!
So everyone could see
Sunshine and shade
Those girls I'd serenade
Thinking of those sixth form chicks that misbehave
Hoping that those days would go on and on forever
Every day something new
Just friends running together
But suddenly school ends
Your teenage life gone
All your mates are growing up now
They're moving on
And now I'm looking back
I'll tell you what I know
Do you listen to your teacher?
No I don't think so

"What did you learn at school today?"
That's what the teachers used to say
But they don't know
Don't understand
Do they
Why do they always give advice
Saying "Just be nice, always think twice"
When it's been a long time since they had a teenage life

And if you give the kids time, together they will shine, yeah yeah
Ooh ooh ohh shine
We all will shine, hear me now
And if you treat the kids fine, they won't do the crime, no no
Won't do the crime

Now my bad old ways
Were during my school days
Messing on those grade A's
My life is just a haze
I'm going through the struggle
Five ten and kicking back
So I could lock my flow
Lace it up now on the track
Oh yeh I felt the pain
Whilst chasing all the fame
I'm being told I'm nothing
Just a player in the game
But now I walk tall
Stand proud for you to see
I'm driving these fast cars
It's five stars for me

"What did you learn at school today?"
That's what the teachers used to say
But they don't know
Don't understand, do they?
Why do they always give advice
Saying "Just be nice, always think twice"
When it's been a long time since they had a teenage life

On Wogan's preview last night, Daz Sampson performed the song.  He freestyled in what can only be described as an Ali G tribute.  "Hear me now" and "represent" both appeared.  

What with our paedo lunatic, Finland's death metal lunatics and the comedy white reggae act from one of the Baltics, this is shaping up very nicely.

Anyone else watching it?

So, I've jacked in my job, and as of next month will be staying at home to write my thesis full time.  And, as of August, I'm jacking in my country to move to Cyprus, where I intend to write my thesis sitting under our vine in the garden next to the Jacuzzi in the Mediterranean sun.

Anyone else got good/bad/lifechanging/fun news to share?

Hiya

Nice spanking new interview with classic Dredd artist Pete Doherty now up on 2000adreview.co.uk.

And, if you sign up to the forum (by following the link at the bottom of the interview), Pete's answering additional questions from fans as well.

Nobody seems to have asked him about the drugs, or why his music's so shit, though.

Link: http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/features/interviews/2006/doherty/peterdoherty.shtml" target="_blank">Doherty Live!

This is a thread for those, like myself, who didn't win the Futurequake short story competition.  It seems a shame, fellow failures, not to put our stories up somewhere for others to read and even, potentially, enjoy.  

Comments from others are welcome, of course.

The judge in the Da Vinci Code case has class.  But can you defeat him?

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4949488.stm" target="_blank">(Judgement is linked from here)

Graaaagh!

Mrh? Grrrh.

Brnhr...

Graaaagh!

...bew eht no setis sselesu ynam era erehT

Link: http://www.typebackwards.com/" target="_blank">.eno siht ekil I tub...

Link: http://www.chezchrissie.co.uk/dance.htm" target="_blank">Dance... DANCE!!!

Brief public apology.

In my review of Ed Berridge's tale "By The Pricking of my Thumbs", which still available on the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine in all good high street stores and not a few grubby, shabby corner shops where it jostles for shelf space with celebrity mags, 1980s soft core pornography and balls of dirty twine, I may have advertently given the impression that when I had seen the script for said comic, though decidely uncomical, script, in late 2004, I had offered some helpful suggestions, gentle but nonetheless firm, which the said Berridge had failed to take on board and had indeed spurned.  

I have subsequently found through a review of the correspondence from the time that I am getting two scripts, fairly unalike ones at that, mixed up and confused, and that in fact, contrary to the above picture of affairs, I had in fact enthusiastically endorsed said manuscript and accepted it as a future project for the comic FutureQuake on which I had at that time an editorial position.  

Furthermore, reviewing the original script I am honour bound to defend my earlier self's good taste and decency in commissioning said script without correction or reproof for it is a fine albeit wordy tale and one that thoroughly deserves its position as the inaugurator of the regular small press Megazine slot, by virtue of its chilling atmosphere and peculiarly late Victorian combination of nursery tale, post-Romantic decay and lurking, veiled, inexplicable evils, as in the old expression "The skull beneath the skin".

I would be most interested to hear others' brickbats and bouquets for this particular strip.  Ignoring the issue of the spelling errors, of which we should not speak again.

Letterers - are they what you expect?  Find out as we take a trip in the world of 2000AD's most prominent women....

Link: http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/features/interviews/2006/parkhousedeville/parkhousedeville.shtml" target="_blank">Letterers ahoy

Colin Wyatt, 2000AD's first Art editor, now has his own website.

I don't know why, but looking round it gives me the feeling that he wasn't totally in sympathy with the new comic's aesthetic...

Link: http://www.colin-wyatt.co.uk/About.html" target="_blank">Colin Wyatt

1) Rian Hughes complete collection

2) Simon Jacobs complete collection (Inspector Raam ahoy!)

3) Vector 13 and associated strips

Last night.  Phil and Grunt on their way to be shot.

"Whatchoo fink you are, some superhero like Batman or Judge Dredd or Sumfink?"

I have to admit I'm not familiar with the adventures of Sumfink, but it's always good to have J.D. acknowledged... particularly by Grant Mitchell, the man born to fill Dredd's boots.

Link: http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/media/article/550815/bbc-magazines-launches-childrens-doctor-title/" target="_blank">For kids!

Previewed in the Guardian's media section today is an interesting-looking experiment in producing a Muslim comic.

The comic will contain the ongoing adventures of a group of 99 "superheroes", each of whom possesses one of the 99 attributes of Allah.  They will be fighting to beat the bad guys to collect 99 mysterious jewels.

Anyway, i checked their site - and they are drawn by 2000AD alumnus John McCrea!

Link: http://www.teshkeelcomics.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=22" target="_blank">The '99

Followers!  Followers of the Trout!  Hail the True King and his fecund loins!

Unto Trout a child is born, and to the fish a daughter is given?

Let us honour our dread overlord (and his spawn of pure evil) ? by naming his offspring!  This strange ?Rose? name might be a necessary disguise in the so-called real world, but it won?t do for our one-day old Princess of Fear.

So, your challenge, in four words or less, is to come up with a board name that can be used by the little ?un in years to come?

Best name wins!

Which is to say not a lot, but in the heartfeltest deep manner I want to conclude at the start by commiserating with those who don?t get twicely the great genius of the Carlsborg Export style-a-thon.  

Not wishing to reproduce with exact precision is a boon, but still in genuine deep-seated homage I celebrate a man who will not be defeated by deep drink, a terrified Simon Bisley or the English language.  

And while to declare a winner in the listings of life would be fratricidal.

Nevertheless I think it a lock-proof safe to pronounce Carlsborg Export a great, and invite other peeps of this board of sighs to join with me in this celebrationising of his stylistic groove.  

Hopefully that the spirit of reconciliation and friendship is as always understood.

Let?s have a heated debate!

Well, it seems a bit silly for this discussion to be happening everywhere except the official site.  What do people think of the six pages of small-press comic strip that will be appearing in the Megazine as of next issue?  What about the issue of paying or not paying the creators?

Materials for you to chew on:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13> Comic Book Resources has the original announcement from Matt Smith (about half way down under the headline ?Dredd Machine?).

The http://www.pencilmonkey.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=150>Pencilmonkey forum run by PJ has a good thread discussing this idea.

The http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bugpowder/message/2682>Bugpowder Yahoo group has more discussion, with a few strongly opinionated voices on either side.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comics.2000ad/browse_thread/thread/53fefd61c25b3197/edc3ee95c51dc982>This old thread from the 2000ad group shows Messrs Diggle & Rennie coming out against.

But what do you think, readers?