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You have to draw the line somewhere - and mine is on the doorstep of the charity shops where these books perpetually reside.  I've never even got as far as page one.

Wils' theory *would* explain why MacKay is forced to flee the country, though.

This is pure class.  Just the sort of thing that small press books should be about.

"I just had an idea.  I'll do that."

And just enough self-awareness to keep the joke working by the time it should have fallen flat.  Brilliant.

I'd normally jump in and enjoy bashing a film I haven't seen yet, yet have bizarrely already developed an opinion on (Superman Returns ought to be the next one), but sticking the boot into this seems redundant.  Surely there hasn't been anything good said about it except by drooling simpletons writing reviews/previews for The Sun?  It's got such poor word-of-mouth that I'll probably end up enjoying it - just like I did The Saint and Batman And Robin.
Not typos, btw.

Yarrr!

Too juvenile.  Not that this would be a barrier to any movie producer, mind (or game producer).  I'd personally prefer someone like Stan Lee, Orlok, Captain Skank or the East Meg boys as the main baddie(s) in any new Dredd film.  The first movie already did the whole 'Dredd through the looking glass' thing with his clone brother, and look how that turned out.  Asking someone to do the same thing over again, but with a supernatural slant, is just a recipe for crapicity of the worst kind.
Forget any delusions that there'll be something of depth or worth in the whole endevour and just hope for a half-decent action movie, which means kung-fu, evil russkies, or (and why the hell not) cyborg pirates with giant squids.

Palestine, Maus, and for the life of me, I can't recall reading any of Judge Dredd in Oz.  Any of it at all.

Specifically how to kiss goodbye to a month's worth of PS2 and Gamecube over the head of it.

If this trend continues, in a few years' time, it will theoretically be impossible to not get a rejected Future Shock printed somewhere.

Says it all, really -

"Dear Brian, why did you ever think you could write a book? Also, does sperm from the Republic taste different from sperm from the north?"

"T The Last Man"

I agree - Y The Last Man would be infinitely better with Mr T in the lead role.

Bears are always good.  There's one going spare if you type /icon bear1 (I think - Max can tell you the exact thingy to type into the chatroom to get it up).

I'll try and drag this back on-topic, but it'll be difficult, what with not having read the issue just yet.  I'll just play it safe...

Cover - Well-drawn, but not as imaginative as it could have been.  I miss the old covers of yesteryear, etcetera.

Intro Page - Droid life was amusing as ever, if it appeared.  Tharg makes amusing references to his mighty Organ in homoerotic fashion, the scamp.  Probably.

Dredd - (sucks air through teeth) Tricky...  Er... Gordon does a good job and it's almost like reading a Wagner script in places.  He's really getting the hang of the character, etcetera.  Did someone mention an artist change?  I'll just say it's too early to tell either way which one I prefer.  That should be safe enough.

Nikolai Dante - It's just like a Marvel comics team-up thingy, but then so was ABC Warriors' last outing, except drawn out more, so I can't really complain.  If it has crying children in it, that'd be good for a few sarky comments.

VCs - Terribly padded out, isn't it?  This is the kind of thing Dabnett usually did much better with Andy Lanning in tow for American funnybooks, and the art is a shadow of Williams' glory days of hand-painted colour.  Unconvincing - which is a bloody shame, as a good space-war strip is just what any sci-fi comic should have.

Low Life - I enjoyed the thinly-veiled jabs at someone the writer once met in a pub somewhere.  They really enhance the story.  Nice art.

Lobster Random - Isn't Carl Critchlow great?  Homer Simpson said "you take forever to say nothing" to Ricky Gervaise.  That seems apt for whatever happens in this episode.  Probably.

Letters page - Floyd gets another letter printed.

Average prog, coasting along until the next big jumping-on issue, if they still do those.

Word, yo.

They have a programme about ho's?  Where and when, yo?

Or any ho's yo-yo'd?  Yo?