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Yep, West Coast Grant.

Pete says we use Memphis for restocks, which explains why they take a while.

Hope that helps!

South Australia. So i daresay West Coast, but will confirm with the boys. Stay tuned.

I haven't actually emailed Tharg in a really long time, since the US is so stupidly far behind, I don't think to.  I'll see whether 1642-46 are on this week's ship list when it goes public in a few hours, and then I'll know whether to write him with a complaint about delays as well as asking for Samantha to come back.

Diamond shipped these* to my local last week as well as 1647 - 1650, so I'd also be getting yor retailer to have words if I were you.

Did you receive Casefiles 13 & SD: Traitor to his kind too mate?

*They did appear as one of Diamond's packing monkeys had sat on them whilst eating it lunch though... 

Anyone remember ARKane ?

Sure do, Pete.

Stevie's still throwing down cuts from 69 to this day.

Anyone heard Sufi's solo work?

Didn't Garland write '28 days later?'

So that'll make it The Crysalids transplanted to The Cursed Earth then, huh?*


*but less exciting than it reads on paper.

Dunnes Stores for me.  I like a local company wih a rich heritage of supporting apartheid and the cocaine industry.

Good man -- Stevie admires an informed choice, oh yes he does 

He's also not adverse to taking the mick out of fanboys on the odd occasion either

Sylvia Saint: Pilot of the Future from Roger Godpleton & Ian Gibson

If anything I'd have preferred to see the McCarthy look adopted in the same  the McMahon boot was.

I heartily concur. As with McMahon's boots, McCarthy's flared helmet gives Dredd more physical prescence.

Although Stevie admits that it's not something that every artist could pull off.

Perhaps if they asked Dredd nicely, & offered him a biscuit...

*Don't get Stevie wrong, he considers Monoculture to be Anathema, but he did get a smile from a fanboy decrying the Evils of Globilisation re: Disnel/Marvey the other week;

Stevie: "Please don't take this the wrong way, but wouldn't some people say that's a bit of an odd opinion for someone wearing a Nike t-shirt?"

Fanboy (unconsciously placing one hand over chest whilst other gestures at Stevie's feet): "Well Reebok own Converse, you know!"

Stevie (bending knee upwards to display logo on heel): "True, but I'm wearing Etiko."

Consider my place in infernal damnation well & deservedly assured.

Cue another bleating chorus of ill-informed Cassandras for Stevie's visit to the comic shop after work tonight *sigh*

Just finished Denise Mina's run on Hellblazer.

You're obviously constructed of sterner stuff than Stevie there TordelBack; I dropped Mina's from my standing order after her second issue (cue trademark grumbling from comics retailer who is unable to comprehend anyone following creators not characters).

I generally give new teams 3 issues grace, but not being a big fan of Leonardo Manco's art didn't help things either.

That's good news! I thought it was a one-shot like The Megalomaniacal Spiderman - do you know how many issues it is? I'll more than likely wait for the inevitable collected version, but thanks for putting it on my thrill-radar!

Was originally conceived as a one-shot in it's own right, but will now be serialised across all three issues.

Went for Strontium Dog. After all, it's got to be the hardest one to mess up.

Didn't John Shirley had a good crack at doing just that very thing?

Imagine pulling 59C's with a point'n'click interface, tipping out drawers and pulling apart u-bends - Sugar possession, three counts; overdue vid-slugs, 2 counts -  that's 9 months and another 3 for the attitude, move!

You are Steve White & Stevie claims his five pounds. 

(& some peeps unfairly accuse John Smith of resorting to techno-babble... sheesh!)

I have been doing a prog slog from Prog 1 (up to 500 now).  After Belardinelli finished drawing weird aliens, I decided that Dan Dare was not for me.  

Likewise with Dan Dare.When i was reading at the time the switchover of artist from Belardinelli to Dave Gibbons was a major bummer and it killed my enjoyment of the strip completely.

Stevie's with you there.

Gorgeous art & all ('twas Gibbons on Harlem Heroes who inspired Stevie's to put pencil to paper & create a comic strip the weekend of his first prog) , but after the Face-Melting Cavalcade of Wonders of the first two stories:

Living space ships!

A sentient axe!

The Battle of Jupiter! Fought with SASA craft like deep sea creatures spun out of hyperdiamond!!

A child's introduction to both tachyons & Einsteinian time dilation!

Britain sheared from the continent shelf & cast adrift about the globe!

A hollow world orbiting within the photosphere of a star!

The return of the Mekon!!

Ziggy Rodan's luscious pouting oh so kissable lips, bob haircut & kinky boots!!!

Gerry Finlay-Day's rousing traipse through stock space opera tropes just didn't have what this growing lad was looking for.