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I suppose this should be on the political thread, but if his story is true, why did the police visit on the 1st April, shortly after he got there and was then immediately ill for 10 days - how was he seen to be reported to teh Police if he was indeed self isolating?

Why did he take his 4 year old out for his eye sight test drive?  Such nonsense!!

How can he have been sure of being able to complete a 5 hour trip without stopping with a 4 year old Autistic child?  Such Bull shit!

This is excruciating - the only question needs asking here is "you are really telling us theat you have no support systems through your job that would have been able to get you any support you needed or transport you back and forth if required?"

You gave them too much credit MP...

It was sort of incredible, the switcheroo: starting with "I take this very seriously and there can be no impression that there is one rule for you and a different one for us"..... then immediately volte face and off the hook - Classic Dom....


You'd hope the press had another card to play, some evidence of the things that have been denied, that they are going to play in tomorrow's papers... you'd hope.

quick predictions before they wheel out Boris at 5...

Noble Dom has resigned, despite acting reasonably and legally.  He's been pushed out by an elitist media, who hate that the government is doing so well.  It's time to get back to the job of Getting Covid Done, so lets all put is behind us, and ignore the lies we told, and that we accused the police of lying.  Stay Alert, but only to the things we deem important.

Oh and to be positive for once, the Future Shock was aces (though an extra few panels showing the guy realise he was being set up just before the police break in would have made it spot on)

[Dredd]

Yeah, both of these Tordelback observations hit the mark for me.  Neimand falls into the "my chaarcter has to make Dredd look like a chump" trope, when having Dredd go against his expectations whip off the helmet and then eing him would have been both in keeping with the character (who has always took off the helmet when required) and avoided the danger of creeping "Poochie" syndrome.

Hershey is nonsense, beautiful looking nonsense, but super hero nonsense that I feel is utterly out of place in Dredd and 2000AD for the most part. 

As to Dredd, oh it does seem a pity that (in my opinion) Niemand made his first Dredd mischaracterisation in any kind in a good end to such a great story. As others have said, Dredd would take his helmet off in a heartbeat, any neurosis rests entirely with the readers: as a solution the sticky goop could have meant he was unable to get his hands free having done so, and we'd have the same result but with some traditional face-hiding sleight of hand from PJ and a mis-calculation from Chimpsky, evening out his 'victory' over Dredd. But look, this was an uplifting an enjoyable story with characters I look forward to seeing again, and absolutely terrific art throughout.


I'd look away now, true believers: the end of this 'Book' (groan) of Hershey was the worst kind of nonsense ("For you see, oh villain we don't really know anything about, I too secretly have Magic Enceladus Powers, and my Magic Enceladus Powers are bigger and bluer than yours, zzzzaaapppp"), all drawn in the most beautiful way. Even The Twist was only good in as far as it rescued a beloved character from a pointless off-screen death, not that it did anything interesting with him.  If D. Bishop is up for it I would genuinely prefer another series of Space Girls to more of this, as long as Fraser got to draw it. Utterly gorgeous, but irredeemably awful.

So I'm a bit confused by "Obamagate", but the jist of it appears to be Intelligence services tried to stop Russia's illegal attempts to help Trump get elected, so Obama himself was therefore interfering in the election? A bit like the Joker saying that Batman is the true villain becaue he was stopping me rob banks and we all hate banks, right?

Also strong agree with Conrad on that Grant/Kitson Dredd - i strongly remember it as the first "in prog" tale that just felt all kinds of wrong - OK, so I was neck deep in Judge Dredd RPGing round about this time, but you don't need to be a Games Master to just feel that both the vindictive punch in the teeth and the execution were both way out of line - I talked a bit about that on the 88 Winter Special episode and this is the most egregious example of Grant "not getting" Dredd, despite co-authoring the very best Dredds... go figure! And it was only last time we had the outstanding "John Cassavettes is Dead" just to add to my bewilderment

So many letters asking for Mix, Bradley, Feral and other things that have just barged into the comic to "Get this party started" that I can only conclude Tharg is gaslighting long standing readers....

My thoughts on Hershey have been summed up here pretty well, especially Williams tendency to drag his characters through physical pain, torture, mutilation and/or humiliation four our "entertainment". 

My earliest memory of 2000AD is the War Wheels episode of the Judge Child and to see that character, who sumed up a lot of what is great about the comic (and it's casual treatment of women as easily the equal of the male lead) treated this way just does not sit right.

Exactly this for me too - I'm not overly enamoured of Armitage's Brit-Cit, but at least you can argue it follows Dredd template of blowing up the cliches and tropes of their particular country.  Diggle would have been my choice if it wasnt for the very dodgy Lenny Zero tale IP refers to there. 

Interesting point with TordelBack. If it's about influence, Diggle would win hands down; but it's not — this is about writing. On that basis, it's Incubus (so-so) and Lenny Zero vs a ton of Brit-City worldbuilding (that Wagner sadly duly ignored pretty much entirely).

Lenny Zero and Armitage were both really uneven, blasting out of the gate and then going off the boil. I would be conflicted, but I'm afraid the 'rape smoke' bit in Lenny Zero totally soured that series for me, and so I'm going with Dave Stone.

Isn't that THE definition of Starmer?  Miliband mkII?

Whatever else we might say about Labour, it's not like Corbyn was suddenly going to make people change their minds. Perhaps Starmer won't either, but sticking with something that's repeatedly failed and trying again is getting close to that definition of madness people like to talk about.

[McIntyre]

Not only have they taken out the logo, but they have bowdlerised the art somehow in taking out the original colour from the colour spread - at the time I assumed someone had traced the art, but thinking about it now, possibly they just used the black separation sheet thingammee - where's Jim Campbell when you need him!

Thanks, Sheridan.  That's the fella!

They must have taken out the logo from episodes two and three when they reprinted it in the Sci-Fi special. Barney lists it for the special as McIntyre and for the Starlord issues as Planet of the Dead.

From memory that is Steve Kyte, who also did the full Stront strip in the 1982 annual and one of those Durham REd apocryphal tales many years later in the Megazine

There's a Strontium Dog tale in the 1980 Sci-Fi Special (#3), which is mostly text story but has some comic panels interspersed. It's six pages long and has no sub-title. I named it (or someone else did but I forgot my source) "Kurtiz on Krillion-6", and it's clearly inspired by Apocalypse Now.

Can anyone identify the writer or artist? I think it's early Ezquerra, because the final panel has that bumpy edge thing he did, around Alpha's helmet cam.

(Barney has nothing on it, and neither does Touched By The Hand of Tharg.)