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I wouldn't mind seeing the Sontarans again...

Maybe they shouldn't just be looking at the bad guys though, I'd love to see more of a UNIT presence in a couple of stories, with a Brigadier-type recurring character.

- Steve

The guy who painted the chosen portrait said he was influenced by Mike McMahon.

They had him wandering about Forbidden Planet flicking through the hardback of The Cursed Earth with some closeups of McMahon episodes.

- Steve

Yeah, I know - I just find it a lot tougher to do that with something that is a live-action comic book, than something that is fully animated.

I think it's just down to the live action being out of place when comic book conventions are used.

Maybe it's just me.

- Steve

I haven't seen it since I saw it at the cinema, and although I thought it looked great, it didn't particularly grab me throughout.

Leaving aside the sexism thing, I'm just not sure how well a faithful conversion of such stylised source material works when converted to live action.

The same applies to what I've seen of Speed Racer, and 300 - it's that weird gap where I could be more involved if it was just animated rather than some halfway house between animation and live action.

- Steve

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/graphics_whychange.shtml

"Today's media industry is like a shark, either you keep moving forward or you are dead in the water."

Jesus...

Not quite a judge but...

http://www.livejournal.com/community/delosmuertos/4737.html

It likes offerings of fags and booze apparently.

Why do I have the feeling it's just a front for someone to get a free alcohol and nicotine supply?

- Steve

Unless you're on a desert island, I think avoiding what's coming up is pretty difficult.

If they run true to form, I'm sure the Beeb will be trailing the finale well in advance...

- Steve

Definitely my fave so far - it would have been cool to have a more crunchy sound effect on the head-sucking bit though. The self-destruction animation was a bit off though...

Aren't they returning for the final two episodes?

- Steve

Hi,

I've been listening to some old Ricky Gervais Xfm shows, and the topic was nursery rhymes... anyway there was a thing about the origin of Humpty Dumpty being a cannon defending the castle in Colchester, not an egg-shaped guy...

Was there ever a story in 2000AD which had some kind of weaponry or robots called Humpty Dumptys? It sounds like something that might have been in a strip like Tor Cyan... it just rings a bell and it's bugging me.

Thanks,

Steve

I thought the whole thing about kryptonite is that it is fragments irradiated by Kryption's exploding sun.

Since that green crystal is placed in before Krypton goes boom, it's not irradiated.

i.e. peas

- Steve

It's the liposuction that always gets me - just the way they keep poking around under the skin with a bit of metal... brrrr...

- Steve

Hi,

I get the reason for doing it in the first place - it would have got round the Mary Whitehouse brigade when the comic started, I just wondered if there was  much of a backstory as to how the religion started in the strip itself.

I quite like the idea that a majority of Church of Grud priests would be Wally Squad - I'm sure there have been stories with confessionals being used for intelligence - it would make sense for Justice Dept to do it themselves.

Cheers

Steve

Hi,

I was just wondering - was there ever any backstory about the origins of the Grud/Jovis religion in Dredd?

I was wondering if it had been implied that it was established covertly by Justice Dept so that could supplant existing religions with one that they could influence?

Cheers,

Steve

Hi,

I was just wondering - was there ever any backstory about the origins of the Grud/Jovis religion in Dredd?

I was wondering if it had been implied that it was established covertly by Justice Dept so that could supplant existing religions with one that they could influence?

Cheers,

Steve

http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/

They seem to be updating it as the episodes air

- Steve