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(Just to clarify, I mean the International Ultramarine Corps from Grant Morrison's current run on JLA Classified)

Anyone else see any similarity between the Kamen Rider, Knight, and the motorcycle-riding International Ultramarine Corps member, also called Knight?

Okay, scrub that. I guess genki means 'lively'.

I got Ryuki as well. What does genki mean, Floyd? It's not that Japanese word for cute, is it? Like Hello Kitty?

Nah, he's just summarising the plot of Monkey on My Back from the Megazine.

I think the coda of the Damned Ranger story was that the Cursed Earth mutants would react against this latest ruthless act of repression by becoming more resentful of the Mega-City than ever before; and that, however depleted their forces and weaponry, they would be likely in the future to take advantage of any opportunities for ambushes and potshots at judges taking missions into their territory; not that they would be plotting a massed direct attack upon the city any time soon.

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I do hope the editor of the Megazine is taking note. That'll be at least two strips featuring Judge Dredd each issue in future, please!

How's this instead?

still a bit pricey, maybe...

Link: http://www.silveracre.com/" target="_blank">Silver Acre

Hence, when student unions gave a toss about party politics, you used to get campaigns in marginal seats for students whose home constituency was a Tory stronghold to use their votes more effectively by voting against the Tories in their marginal term-time constituency.

Students can do either. You can be registered at both addresses, but you'd be breaking the law (cue Judas Priest backing track) if you voted twice.

I am fortunate indeed, then, that my main political beliefs are catered for in the choice of candidates available to me: I can choose between parties with a broadly redistributive policy where wealth is concerned, and parties with a broadly regressive policy. That's enough for me to make it worth my while voting.

And as a bonus, at least one of those parties is not led by an untrustworthy scumbag. That's me sorted, then.

Alexei Sayle quip:

"once every four years I walk to the community centre, put a little cross on a piece over paper, fold it up small, and then STICK IT UP ME ARSE!"

And yet there are some lazy sods who can't even be bothered to get off their arses and spoil a ballot paper.

That means I don't feel responsible no matter what happens

Pontius Dribbles?

...But Big Brother has actually got me interested again. I didn't watch any of the last series because from the beginning it was apparent they'd filled the house with the most anodyne and dull people they could find.

This year they've actually found some people with personalities, quirks and rough edges. Arguably they made a wrong choice in Kitten, but you've got to give them full marks for trying, and I don't think they've come off too badly as a result.

The fact that I'm watching any of it at all when last year I couldn't give a toss says, to me at least, they must be doing something right.