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'Stop dissing teenage witches!'

I'd hardly describe the cast of Charmed as teenagers. Unless...

...unless you watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch as well! :o

You'll be telling us you watch Babylon 5 next.

People who like this show aren't right in the head, I reckon.  This show - and moron's favourite The OC - make me despair for telly in general, and more specifically for the minds of kids in the coming generation - who are constantly exposed to post-modern interpretation of original storytelling ideas, rather than original ideas.  It's all been done, so let's rip it off and pretend it's a homage and we're taking the piss.  Oh joy.

BUT - I did enjoy the episode where Lana, Lois and Chloe get possessed by the spirits of medieval witches, purely because it was quite possibly the worst hour of television ever made.  All that technical know-how, young writers chomping at the bit to get into television screenwriting, attractive leads who'll act if they're given half a chance - and this rancid piece of diseased excrement spat forth from the sad, deluded anus of some thirtysomething hack getting down with his inner teenager is the best they can come up with.
I loved it.  The girls even cackle madly - just like real witches do!

"I was trying to explain to my wife why it's so good, when she was complaining that Clarks parents are really annoyingly nice.
That's the point, I try to tell her. It was having those parents that made Superman the big boy scout. I'm sure in your street there is a really annoying brat of a child, who has parents that just don't seem to care and say things like 'What are you supposed to do with him?'
What if they had found Clark?"




Interesting philosophical point, with one small flaw: people with good parents can turn out to be bad people, and vice versa.

There are some right scummy bastards around where I live, but not all their kids are firestarting gluesniffers...

No.

I'd just like to say this to all the people on the message board praising Smallville...

Okay, you UNDERSTAND irony.  Move on.  The joke's not funny anymore.

I think Charley's War is great in its original context - a war comic aimed at kids - but outside that, it has to stand on its own two feet.  I'll grant you that it probably does seem terribly dull next to the decompressed stuff knocking about in the rest of the mag, but you sure do get a decent read from it.

As for From Hell's footnotes, I'd just assumed that Moore was attempting to justify his assertion (doubted by most Ripper boffins) that William Gull was the Ripper.  Makes him look dead clever, too.

Actually, I thought it was a bit cheesy.
What it reminded me of, more than anything else, was that bit in Futurama where Fry asks the big planet-sized brain "what killed the dinosaurs?", and it says in this deep voice "ME!"

Might be a good film, but I wonder will WB give dues to that guy who made the fan movie (Dead End) that it's based on, because there is NO WAY IN HELL that Hollywood producers would approve a minimalist* Batman project without seeing some ad or music video that they could steal ideas from first.

*if you discount the bat-tank, camp villians and a-list casting that is.

Just when I start to worry that I have too much time on my hands lately, someone comes along with considerably more than I have.
I WOULD have a go at drawing this, except I'd end up having to do it with my left hand.

Who are you callin' "Boy"?

Johnnystress:That's some GOOD shit you got going on there.  Nice use of grey wash to emphasise shadow.  
Any chance of seeing some more?

On a not unrelated topic, I too yearn for the days before full-time employment got in the way of my personal enjoyment.
Picture this... ALL DAY I make cheap and tacky overpriced stained glass effect windows for middle-class housewives, all the while stuck out of sight on the roof of the works office, all on my effing tod.  NO coworkers to talk to, NO safety equipment for the more dangerous tools I have to work with, and to top it all, I work for the single most ignorant person I have ever met in my life- and I've been to France.
Still, one thing keeps me there; I've recently discovered that working in near isolation means that I can skive like you wouldn't believe.
I've actually started PAINTING at work-I shit you not- and I hope to teach myself how to draw comics in my newfound "spare time".  I've actually improved a lot, but considering how little work I actually DO in a day now, I'd frigging need to have improved a bit.

Do us all a favour; POST MORE FANART!! Punch that douche boss of yours, or shit on his car, or something, but SHOW US SOME MORE ART, because this time next year, all the good artists in 2000ad will have buggered off to America to pencil some eight page Green Lantern backup story (probably written by Rob Williams), and Tharg will be needing some fresh meat for the grinder.

I recently discovered the joys of 'night terrors', or, as my doctor calls them, panic attacks.  A completely irrational state of mind brought on by a mix of rapid heartbeat, light-headedness and stabbing chestpains.
The odd thing was, they each had a seperate cause, but each manifested itself at the same time - when I tried to get to sleep.  Bizarre.  It's quite disturbing when your heart's doing fifty to the dozen and you can't calm down, let alone sleep.
The light-headedness was an ear problem, the chestpains were a gift from my dad's long line of familial stomach problems, and the heartbeat was a mix of caffeine sensitivity and stress.  I've since realised, though, that I've had unexplainable episodes of anxiety going back several years, that may or may not be something I've inherited from my mother's side of the family - my gp informs me these things run in the family, and my mum's suffered anxiety attacks for years.  Well, now he's given me drugs, and on the little slip of paper in the box, it says - on the section marked 'possible side effects' - "may cause shortness of breath or breathing difficulties, possibly with a fatal outcome"  Call me odd, but that doesn't strike me as the wisest of things to put on medication for people with anxiety issues.
The worst of it is, all this happened when I'm supposed to be ON MY F*CKING HOLIDAYS!!  I'm still not entirely right, and my two weeks are near up (back on monday), why couldn't this have happened during regular working weeks?

Mind you, I have discovered one thing while up all night - there's sod all on Sky tv after one o'clock in the morning, and there are several utterly strange channels where women wearing very little exchange text messages with teenage boys.  It's quite possibly the most sexless thing I've ever seen on tv.

Okay, I'll bite - what's the other one?
I'm guessing Jaws or Flash Gordon, but I imagine it could just as easily be some 'joke' answer like the rubbish Hawk the Slayer.










If PVS shows up wielding a shotgun, you ain't seen me.

Cough

Guardian.

The Dead was written by Peter Milligan, and his profile is just about to be raised with a stint as writer on Uncanny X-men, and it would be near-impossible for Milligan to screw the pooch on that title, given that he's replacing one of the most hated comic-book hacks in all of fandom.  After that, it's not unreasonable to assume DC would want to reprint some of his early work if he's doing well, even if the original material in question might not be the best he's ever done.
I liked the Dead, however, and it is worth reading, for those who haven't.


Of course, by that rationale, it's not unreasonable to assume that Sleaze and Ryder might see a GN reprint off Garth Ennis' name alone.

Someone mentioned that Big Dave was owned by Morrison and Millar, though that seems unlikely.  Might be wrong, though.
Revere would be nice to see again, it's true.  I think the EE's are for the stuff that DC doesn't want to reprint as a GN, though, so Revere might be out of the question.  Ditto the likes of Shadows, The Dead, Firekind, Killing Time, etc.
It might not be out of the realms of possibility to see a Mean Arena or Babe Race EE, though, so that's something to look forward to.