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I reckon you should go for a picture of Orson Welles.

Welcome aboard, 3rdman. Some of the info you require can be found on this site. If you look at the menu on the left hand side, some of the drop-down headings (e.g. characters, top thrills) are links that will take you to other pages that list some characters' stories, where they appeared and where they have been reprinted.

Well, they're all part of life's rich tapestry, aren't they?

Jimmy Smoker, you make an interesting point, which I presume you are making ironically.

I think there are definite parallels to be drawn between the jocular straight appropriation of the word 'gay' to mean lame and the presumption that the Megazine's placement of Devlin's Waugh in the card deck was an allusion to his sexuality.

It would be strange indeed if gays were to abandon the word queen because straights were using it derogatorily, just as it would be crazy if they were to abandon use of the word gay for the same reason.

Missing the point?

Well, gay slang is gay slang. It's a sad day when after years of trying to reappropriate words like 'queer' and defuse them of their potential to be used as a weapon, that 'queen' suddenly acquires power to offend by virtue of being taken up and absorbed into the straight vernacular.

If you deny ownership of the term, it can be used against you.

(So don't do it then?)

Why would Max want to go undercover in a reservation?

Possibly in order to get a turn at all of the uniforms worn by The Village People. DxB left out the leather biker with the big moustache. That'd be another undercover assignment after the reservation bust.

I go away for two days, and this is what you get up to while I'm gone. You rotten sods!

Tips - ouch! - commiserations on your becoming a eunuch.

Free set of playing cards. One suit given free with each issue of the Megazine from 228 to 231.

I hadn't thought of it like that, rac. It was the emoticon in the thread title that made me think Curt was being serious.

Don't think you've been shouted down, Curt, because you haven't.

Ah, but - a devil's advocate might argue that every slot has to be filled by some character, and that Devlin Waugh is no more a 'Queen' than Chopper is a 'King'. All that matters is the face value of the card (Queen = better than a Jack; King = better than a Queen). Any implied relationship between the card's title and the sexuality of the character occupying it would thereby be entirely a product of the plaintif's imagination.

That's what a devil's advocate might argue.

Oh, come on - 1602 is a Marvel comic set in 1602, with the usual Marvel characters re-imagined in a 17th century setting by Neil Gaiman.

I've not read it.

I enjoyed the Dredd strip, mostly for the artwork because frankly I didn't think the story was up to much. I know some subscribers thought the cartoon artwork didn't convey the gravity of the murders, but I have to disagree. I thought they were very nasty.

Caballistics Inc was good as usual, but I'm expecting next week's to be even better.

Slaine was dire. Awful, awful, awful. Too much playground banter, and nothing actually happened. And how naff was that explanatory dialogue between those beastmen? "net one of those sacred hares so we can do some sympathetic magic". At least the El Riders stand to liven things up next week.

Nikolai Dante went through the motions a bit. So, that spy turned out to be no-one really at all, and Dante got out of a fix just by er... lying to the crime boss. Genius.

Second City Blues was probably the story I enjoyed most this week, which must make me some sort of twat. (And I agree with most sentiments so far expressed about Mr Ed - even when I was a kid it occurred to me to chop of an Airfix soldier's head and glue on a farmyard horse's head in its place).