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I tried looking up the Tiger family tree, but with 74 titles involved on a ridiculously wide landscape orientation I gave up before I could find Tiger anywhere.

I haven't seen flying ants yet this year. I'd have thought it was a bit early for them yet, but apparently not. If you have a garden with ants nests in it, you'll have flying ants, but only for a few days at the height of summer.

Wow. That's an obsrevation and a half. When I was a kid my grandparents' garden had red ant and black ant nests every summer. I haven't seen red ants in large numbers for ages. Maybe WoD and I are just going by unrepresentative samples. Any entomologists or formicologists out there got the answer?

Who is Finlay Quaye nowadays? I'd forgotten all about him. Is he still famous?

I read Prog 1394 last night, and I am still of the opinion that 2000ad is looking very good at the moment.

Judge Dredd (Terror) is excelent. I don't know why the bomber had to jeopardise himself and his terror organisation by trying to meet up with his fellow suspect, but there's always one, isn't there?

Savage is still good, though perhaps not as good as the week before. It hadn't even occurred to me that Savage's sadistic gloating over the Volgan helicopter crew made him less of a sympathetic character until I saw it discussed here. Admittedly I hadn't seen him as a sympathetic character from the beginning, but I still didn't see his behaviour as outstandingly unreasonable.

Dirty Frank put his finger on the thing that marred an otherwise excellent episode of Savage for me: "the worst offender this week has to be Noddy going on about his "vital fluids". "

(admittedly, there's also the danger of potential new readers being put off by the funking swearwords and mistaking 2000ad for a kids' comic or otherwise something badly written, but I've already got used to it.)

Low Life, Chopper and AHAB were all fine.

One thing I will say about AHAB though, is that a lot of the characters seem to have an almost philosophical (interested, not disinterested) attitude of 'let's just stick around and see what happens'. Like when Indiana Jones gave himself up so he could see what happened when the Nazis opened the Ark.

I can abide them. No, it's people who break the 30mph limit and people who park illegally (and then complain about getting a ticket) that piss me off.

So they do that to you as well, Slips?

Nah, if you think you can take 'em in a fight, chase them down the street with it, saying "I think you dropped something!"

(not necessarily a good idea)

When will people get it into their thick heads that when they paint hand-made signs for fetes and the like, and they alternate the colours of the lettering as they go, WE CAN'T READ THE YELLOW LETTERS!!! Against a white background they just drop out, making the sign unreadable.

Good lord, no!

He's the guy standing behind Ace Garp in this picture here:

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=ace" target="_blank">Ace, GBH and Feek

Damn those Frenchies... they piss in the streets, the dirty devils.

Yeah, right. Because we all *know* the British don't.

The French just have the proper facilities for it.

;)

I am not at all interested in football.

2000ad provided me with regular reading material in addition to what I could get from school and the public library. It taught me how to spell lots of slang words properly, and had a profound effect on my aesthetic sense and tastes as a teenager and as an adult. It also steered me toward science fiction novels by Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock and H.P. Lovecraft in a way that just watching Doctor Who probably wouldn't have done.

I wondered exactly the same thing upon seeing the title of this thread, Byron.

Let me see. I'm thinking the Chuckle Brothers, Bobby Davro, Bryan Conley, the clownish antics of puppy dogs on You've Been Framed, Jim Davidson, and other people's misfortune.

(this IS the 'Say Something Nasty About' thread, isn't it?)  ;)

Damn! That copy is in worse condition than mine !

I can't believe he's put a reserve price on it. That's just taking the piss. It costs him about a quid to do that!

I agree with Dribbles and DXB, though - any genuine complete copy of Prog 1 is worth having. But putting a reserve price on that tatty thing is out of order.