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I do.

I'm doing the same - got Vertigo, Rear Window, Some Like It Hot, Taxi Driver and various other DVDs in the New Year sales and every one of them turned out to be as good as they said it'd be.

"Actually I'm sure an epic could be written to slice and dice Psi-Div"

Which might be what's about to happen in the rest of the Anderson epic?

But does the new paper stock make the Meg smell any better?

In order:

Rennie's column
Dredd in the Meg
All of the weekly
The interview in the Meg
All the strips except the last one in the Meg.
Dredd Files
Any other text features
Final strip in the Meg
Metro strips

With all due respect, the text in Slaine does stay in keeping with the tone of the strip and shouldn't be taken as personally as that.

Well, whether you choose to call it the text or the tone of the strip, the fact is that over far too many series authoritative characters have spouted a load of more or less misogynist crap, only for their viewpoint to be borne out by events.  Mongo offers a classic example in this prog - he says "You have to humour her.  Remember how your father used to humour your mother?"  Slaine follows his advice - and it works!  That's an authorial stance, not the voice of a character.  And quite a few people really dislike paying for this particular writer's version of sexual politics, which he seems intent on ramming home at every possible opportunity.  

It's got a unique voice which may touch a nerve or two but surely that's the point of art? It's not so much trying to instruct, more to invoke/provoke/evoke.

"Invoke" and "evoke" both imply that the misogyny identified above is somehow inherent in the reader.  To which I can only reply "it bloody isn't"!

If, on the other hand, Mills is trying to provoke, can anyone explain what the provocation is supposed to achieve in Slaine?  Because the most common reaction right now seems to be boredom.

Well, given your score on the Fantasy Football league, "BEWARE DREDD RIG" seems kinda appropriate.

I like "Simon Spurrier Ruins Primrose".  Seems to sum up the man.

[bad boys]

"Gordon!  Frazer!  You bad boys, you get back in that case!  Get back in that case or I'll skelp your airses sore!"


BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy boidy, dude.

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I saw JStO a coupe of years ago, with a much more stripped-down staging, and thought it rocked.  There really is no substitute for being in the audience, though, and I thought BBC2's film of the show blurred the vocals so badly that it took away much of the humour in the rhymes.

The plot is definitely blasphemous.  It depicts: Jesus saying "I am a little gay", being played by a man with a nappy fetish; the Devil as the most interesting and sympathetic character; the difference between good and evil in the Christian religion as nonsensical.  Whatever your personal opinions, this is a form of blasphemy.   What I find chilling is that a radical group of Christian fundamentalists has used the fact that the show has a huge number of swearwords in to provoke an outcry that harks right back to the nonsenses of the Lord Chamberlain and Mary Whitehouse.  

The current climate, fostered by both politicians and the media, is one where people seem to find it difficult to distinguish between dislike of a race (biology), dislike of someone's origin (geography), and dislike of a religion (belief).  Thus we are bringing religion under the general umbrella of civil rights to be protected, something 15,000 evangelicals took advantage of to try to force the show off the air.  They failed here (and of course ended up driving ratings much higher than they would have been), but succeeded in destroying Popetown before the Beeb even got to show it.  This is control of freedom of speech, and is all in line with a government that's passing laws to limit freedom of expression on religious matters and creating faith schools that teach creationism.

Very worrying that the clock is being turned back 40 years in these matters: what's next?

He was either in space or shooting something in space, can't remember which off the top of my head.

That pic has far less "AAAIIIE" factor for me...

But not for the rest of us...

I'll call this at the end of today, I reckon.

Still to be found:
1 x Dreddworld supporting character
1 x Dreddworld villain(s)
1 x top 10 creator droid

All of Oddboy's list and 1 of Smiley's is correct.

All the missing words are at least 6 letters long.

{Sigh}  

"Men!"