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Interesting read - He's right about that restricted files, but seems to give those Early Wagner/McMahon/Ezquerra tales a bit of a begrudging cursory shrug of acceptibility when for me  they are truly the works of greatness -  The Big Itch may be silly, but thats its strength!

I dont get the sense that Wagner is stretching himself here  if anything, he seems to have upped a gear for the annual tales - I always felt like these had been set aside especially to benefit from the annuals plusher production.

The only Dr Sin story by all accounts.

My theory is its Pat Mills "Judge Dread" strip from the prototype 2000AD.

witness the change in artist on page 4, who also art bodges a head onto the corpse on page 1...

In Pat Mills original Dread story, its the main characters brothers head that is missing, not his hand. 

Also see the dramatic page four cliffhanger effect around "Dr Sin" - yet he doesnt say anyhting particularly dramatic... in the Judge Dread script, Dread recognises the guy they visit as a man he saw executed.

Pat himself isnt convinced, as he recalled gettine setting being stone henge  -but I think its too much of a coincidence that the right artist drew another unfinished 4 page strip that featured satanists and a headless brother!

Its almost identical to the Stallone one isnt it?  which makes me doubt its real.

http://thequaequamblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/search-destro-case-file-4.html

Planet of the Dead

I would reckon thats a reprint of the Starlord story "MAcintyre" (or some such title - it didnt have a real one!)

It can be found in the first Agency files

Thats a very good summary of my own fears really - in trying to distance themselves from the camp of the Stallone film, they might end up with a dour film thats just as generic as the 95 one, albiet for different reasons.  The absurdity of Dredd is, for me, one of its great strengths, because it knows how to extract maximum entertainment, satire and drama within that framework.

Still, we have a psychic judge in there, so thats one weird thing going on....

try unread posts instead (just underneath) - seems the same as the old active posts to me

Tennant was Timmy Mallet in space - the mannerisms, the accent (shame he didnt go with his natural).  He was all bluster and ott with his angry acting bordering on McCoy level for me.  Matt SMith does everything Tennant did, but seems to do it well, so I can't get my head around peeps who love Tennant but hate Smith - hate them both, sure...

For my money, Smith is young Michael Palin in space, which is surely better than Mallet?

They possessed some kind of hypnotic power if i recall correctly?

That was the other thing that weound me up - the machismo - esp from Roray(!) with the whole dressing as a Centurion to do what exactly?  I'm pretty confused as to the whole Auton Rory thing being something carried through to the rebooted universe, but thats another issue.

I hear the bravado thing and teh Doctor as famous super hero is something Moffat intends to move from, but im not getting that very strongly from this - i know its mentioned that teh Doctor is getting too far from his roots here..but RTD did similar and never went anywhere with it, just making teh Doctor mor famous and more unstoppable with each "epic"

I was a bit disappointed in it - for every good thing, there was a bad thing.

The bad things were mainly, as pointed out above, that fannish treatment of old standards, putting a "twist" on an established  in a Kroton the Cyberman kind of style

The Lesbian Silurian consulting detective felt like they'd stepped out of the BBC books range  - now I havent read amny of said range, mainly because I'd read reviews that mentioned something along the lines of "lesbian silurian consulting detective" and wrote them off as indulging in fannish wish fulfillment - amazing to think thats now possible in prime time TV - I'd always assumed it was that kind of self absorbtion that killed off the show in the 80s. That said, self absorbtion is a lot bigger these days - what else explains Robbie Williams?

Now, if she'd been a Draconian that would have been another matter...!

On plastic Amy being melted by the Doctor: The fake didn't have sentience as it was a conduit for the real Amy who didn't realise where she was.  Not melting her duplicate would have left the real Amy oblivious to what was being done to her.

Which would probably have been kinder!  And they at least would have known she was alive.  Now she's stuck in whatever hellhole she really is in with no contact between them!  Cheers, Doctor!

Deathtrap Dungeon was the first one I bought - one wet holiday in Brean -  must have been 1984?  From there, all geekness followed.  I mean, I liked 2000AD, but that was about the extent of my geekdom before that darned book!

Sorcery are just brilliant - John Blanche can do no wrong in them there books.

I think my trajectory of interest followed HOUs... I suspect the farming out of the books to other writers made them all a bit inconsistent in tone, and the art dived somewhat with notable exceptions in the 10-20+ range i recall, leadiWng me to move on - Lone Wolf lasted a but longer I think in my affections, given one writer and a couple of good artists

Well, thinking about it, I suppose if this ganger Amy is a puppet Ganger, then its not too "bad" as offing the fully sentient independent versions but still made me laugh at the way it was done - they really should have made a bit more of it - Rory stepping away meekly for example, rather struck me as wrong. So as teh Doctor here is talking to real AMy through the puppet flesh, you'd think he would have explained it a bit more to her before melting her

It was very convenient how one version of each got the chop, so no messy moral conundrums left!

Oh dear.

We spend 2 episodes establishing that the Gangers are human too, and then[spoiler]they melt Amy![/spoiler]

And why didnt the gangers shelter in the TARDIS while the originals used the sonic on the monster Jenny?

Not RTD bad, but I think the problem is it still isnt thinking these things through!