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Hi all.

Are Garth Ennis' Hellblazer comics worth picking up? And are they worth anything? Just curious because our local newsagent has hundreds of comics from the 90's. Bachus,(sp?) original Sandman, a couple of Cerebus, and Hellblazer comics all going for five rand each. (About 40p) They are not all in sequence though. I didn't have any money on me today and am just wondering whether i should go down tomorrow and pick them up.

Paul

I'm from Dundee, but have lived in South Africa for 15 years.

People still can't understand me though.

Hey all.

By vice cersa I meant that somebody from a fantasy world comes to our world.

But I think Labyrinth corss Neverending Story will work for him. Thanks for your help.

A mate of mine needs the names of one or two successful movies where the modern character went to a fantasy world. And then a couple of vice versa type ones. He doesn't watch much television himself and he needs them for a couple of book proposals he is working on. As his agent told him, "editors don't read books anymore." The problem is I can only think of Neverending story. Anyone?

And "Masters of the Universe" doesn't count. :-)

Cheers
crill  

Certaily not "deluded"! Bruce Campbell would make a great Dredd. At least, I've always thought so.

Although, maybe I'm simply deluded as well.

crill

Just remember this _is_ a conspiracy theory website, though.

Paul

Can't comment myself, as I haven't seen the footage. But I came across this page while I was surfing through boredom and thought it had relevance.

http://infowars.com/print/iraq/berg.htm

Best,
Paul

No worries - didn't think you were off at all.

Still waiting on your list, though.

Cheers
Paul

By all means, be pedantic. Which ones are 80's by the way. I just had it in my mind they were 90's because that was when I started listening to that kind of music.

Cheers
Paul

Appropos of nothing I've decided to compile my top fifteen of the 90's song list. Anyone else?

Beastie Boys - Sabotage.
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
The Breeders - Cannonball
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
Nine Ince Nails - Perfect Drug
The Pixies - Gigantic
PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
Pulp - Common People
Radiohead - Just
Nic Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
The Eels - Novacaine For The Soul
Violent femmes - Blister in The Sun
Soungarden - Black Hole Sun
Nine Ince Nails - Hurt
The Pixies - Where is my mind

See 2000AD got a mention over on Aint it Cool about the Shaun of the dead story appearing. Not sure if that's news or not, though.

My girlfriend and I are as bad as each other. although she is slightly more scary. I occasionally wake up and say quite cryptic things. The last one, I woke up, turned to her and said, "the road we must travel is long", then turned over and went back to sleep. Another time I sat up in bed, still asleep. She half-woke, saw me and then screamed and scratched by back. She _said_ she thought I was someone else leaning over the bed getting ready to attack me.

She is also a major arachnophobe and constantly has nightmares from which she awakes screaming.

But what scares me most is the story she told me of when she was a teenager and she woke up one morning in the cupboard with a knife in her hand.

Paul C

Hey Si--

You putting a proposal together for a SD novel?

crill

I'm still unsure about mieville, myself. I read Perdido, and thought it was... OK. I like the grittiness he brings to his descriptions, and the feeling that the world has been there for a long time, but I just feel the books are a bit too long. Some of it seems like padding to me.

I'll probably get shouted down by this, because he does seem to be a very popular writer. Don't get me wrong, I like his style of writing. And I'm pissed off because I have a floating city of barge clans out in the ocean in my WIP and I recently found out that is sort of what he does in his new book and he will do it a hundred times better than I ever could,the bastard,(don't you hate it when that happens?)but I just don't know. I see his book in the shop and think, should I? shouldn't I? and I haven't yet.

I'm still not sure. Is it worth it? I buy about two books a month, so I have to pick carefully.

Paul Crilley

Believe me, every person in S.A. cheered the man when he did that. The chick has been asking for it since she came in. She speaks in cliches (her favourite being, "I _feel_ you, man. I know where you're coming from." She's the kind of person who thinks she knows everything about you, even better than you do yourself.

Go Cameron.

Paul C