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I think you are too.

Mine too, about the same time.

In case this explanation helps, 2000ad didn't go full colour all at once. When it began the centre spread was full colour and the last strip in the comic sometimes went over onto the back page, in which case it got coloured also, so you'd get a maximum of three coloured pages of strip.

Bad Company was always in black and white, even in Prog 601, because 2000ad wasn't full colour back then. I'm guessing Judge Dredd and several other strips were though. It would have coincided with the running order in the comic. The first and last strips in the comic would be in colour and so would the story occupying the centre spread, because those were the colour pages. The stories in between, occupying the 2nd and fourth position in the running order, would have been in black and white, including Judge Anderson in Prog 763.

In the collected editions the Prog covers are in black and white to match the stories they go with. I'm guessing in a colour edition, reprinting later strips, you get full colour covers.

Fix the economies of the world by taking back the right of governments to print their own money and the cost of immigration and the reasons behind it tend to evaporate.

Ah, but now you're laying down the steps necessary as a precondition for totally open borders. Fix the economies of the world (that's only about 195 nation states) and then we can talk about the abolition of border controls. And nation states, for that matter.

Above photo taken when i wasnt expecting it, hence the complete lack of emotion on me mush!

You know, Woolly - I think the haircut was a move for the better. Holding onto shoulder length hair at the girlfriend's insistence was a bit of a millstone for me for some years before I finally got it sheared. On the other hand, I dread to think how much in debt I'd be now if I hadn't saved on 16 years' worth of haircuts.

I don't think opening your borders up totally is a sensible thing to do unilaterally. At the moment EU countries have an obligation to accept their share of refugees. If we had no border controls all those refugees, and the torturers and murderers they're running from, as well as any chancer with no education and no marketable skills who's doing badly in their own country, would come straight to Britain instead of making a few stop-offs on the continent along the way. The message would be "don't just come to Europe, come to Britain." Needless to say it wouldn't make us popular with our neighbours. You know how unpopular the French are with Britain for maintaining detention centres on its northern sea border, seen as a way to channel France's own illegal immigrants over to neighbouring countries? That would be us.

This may as well have been a party election broadcast for UKIP, I know.

I had a university work colleague who would go on about it being a big deal that she was the first woman in her family to have gone to university. Four generations of her family had gone to university, and she couldn't see why it was anything of a big deal if someone was the first person in their family to have gone to university full stop. "But I'm a woman," she would say, "that's an even bigger achievement. You're a man - men have always gone to university."

Hmm. Not in my family they haven't.

I think the chief similarity between BNP and UKIP is that both of them are seeking and rely upon the reactionary vote, which they have stood to take from the Conservatives since the Tories decided to shift leftward to contest the centre ground the Labour Party moved onto when it abandoned any pretence of being interested in socialism.

The 'time phone' was cringeworthy but funny at the same time. I don't think Churchill should have a hotline to the Doctor. The Doctor shouldn't become an institution like that until he hooks up with UNIT. In the good old days the Doctor would mysteriously and accidentally just turn up at moments in time and space where his presence was required to preserve some sort of cosmic balance, or whatever.

Another problem I have with all new series (including the marvellous thus far fifth one) is the familiar storyline that involves 'uncovering a complacent or mind-controlled society's dark secret.' It's too similar every time, and was quite a hallmark of the dying days of the Davison/Baker II/McCoy era. The only example from Tom Baker's time I can remember is The Face of Evil, which was much more a conventional sci-fi story than the pantomime villainy of Paradise Towers, which The Beast Below resembled in many ways but improved upon. I rather miss the old plot where the Doctor turns up, a bad guy is up to something, and it's up to the Doctor to expose them or foil them or aid a rebellion. That plot is so flexible it formed the basis of a great variety of classic episodes. Most of the best episodes of the classic Doctor Who era, in fact.

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im sure we can all relate to apart from godpleton who'd just go out and shag someones mum....i'm waffling hang in there fella.

That's not entirely fair: Godpleton has feelings too. Anyway, that's not what he'd do, that's what I would do under those circumstances.


Sorry to hear about the sinus infection. I'd hate that.

I'll have Dr. Pepper, please. I'm tired of cola, and dandelion & burdock, Lucozade and Irn Bru are all yuk.

I watched it this morning. A very, very good episode. It does have the feel of 'vintage' Dr. Who if the vintage in question is Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy. It even resembles some of the sillier Tom Baker episodes like The Sun Makers and The Invisible Enemy. I'm very impressed with the new Doctor, and with Moffat's scripts and his helmsmanship in general. Matt Smith's voice reminds me of Oliver Postgate, which lends a nice kids' TV coziness to the proceedings.

I'll admit I'm biased in Moffat's favour and I can't claim 100% objectivity when comparing Moffat's handling of the show with RTD's, but this new series does seem to me to be a cut above what went before.

Or Iggy Pop on the cover of The Idiot. He looks like an effeminate motor mechanic.

No offence intended to whoever modelled for S.B. Davies, but the principal character in Damnation Station is a funny-looking cove and a very unlikely movie heart-throb.

Unless I missed the point of all this, the virus was supposed to make everything terrestrial read 'zero' so that Prisoner Zero was the only 'non-zero' data point on the planet.

Nope. It was more mundane than that. The virus was intended to broadcast 'zero,' by means of resetting every clock to zero, to the aliens, who could then trace the origin of the virus back to the Doctor's mobile phone, whereupon Prisoner Zero would be nearby. The aliens were not capable of pinpointing Prisoner Zero as an entity at all.

This sounds like the plot of Greysuit. I'm now guessing it practically wrote itself.