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I am suddenly less bothered that digital readers are missing out on the Bisley variant.

Please spare a thought for we poor souls in the colonies who have to make do with the Bisley cover in the place of the esteemed Mister Kennedy's Thing of True Beauty..

Call in the airstrikes now.

[Joe the Barbarian]

Klaus didn't quite live up to its billing either, this Santa origin was pretty straight forward and un Morrison, still we'll see where it goes.

Did anybody else feel that this read like an inversion of that first issue of Joe the Barbarian, this time around with ye olde time consensus fantasy dialogue?

[I am happy to say there will be another announcement shortly about another non-2000 AD collection, so keep a look out for that. Naturally when we look at material and consider if we can publish successfully, existing links with 2000 AD makes that task easier.]


Should be interesting to see what else they are trying to release

Please oh please with a styrofoam cup on top, Your Green Munificence, please be a bumper book of Ken Reid.



Failing that either Mind Wars, The Angry Planet or 80s Eagle Dan Dare would be tops.

...in addition to couching relativistic time dilation in terms that was accessible to an eight year old

Dan Dare taught little Stevie all about tachyons...

...

... When you see a lone person on the street loudly extolling the virtues of labradoodles over cavachons into thin air as they stride purposefully along  your first reaction is to assume that they are a few stamps short of a free latte.

Stevie similarly wonders why everyone in the 21st Century suffers from such ferocious toothache.

...when your mate who writes for them music rags has supplied the linear notes for an anniversary re-issue of a bunch of records that you bought just after you left uni.

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[It's true]

Had the terrific experience of seeing an actual nova over the weekend, even if I didn't know it at the time.

A most belated welcome to the club, TB.

SN1987A on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud marked Stevie's induction during February of the eponymous year.

Which by strange coincidence was also the first anniversary of the publication of the third & final volume of The Ballad of Halo Jones. Make of that what you will.

For those of you who are unfortunate enough to have never experienced the splendor that is the Southern Sky, the LMC is generally visible to the naked eye as a faint cloud forming a veiled backdrop to the constellations of Dorado & Mensa.








Oh, & you know how they say that a supernova briefly outshines the rest of its galaxy?

It's true.

...when you have to explain to a sci fi fan who either Chris Foss or Harrison were.

Heh. I feel old when I see young people with Kurt Cobain t-shirts and realise it's the same as when people my age used to wear Jim Morrison ones.

Snap.

You didn't miss much, Jayzus.

Stevie caught them at the Thebarton Theatre* in January 1992 &, quite frankly,  the band clearly really did not want to be there.

*when he bought his ticket they were scheduled for the rather much smaller backroom at the Old Lion Hotel in North Adelaide. Then Nevermind dropped in September...

Triffids schmiffids. That Trofim Lysenko johnny had his sights set firmly upon the stars.

Those shots are  like something ripped right out of a Terran Trade Authority handbook.

You lot all ought to get your eyes checked.

"2000 AD" Prog 1961 ("Prog" is issue number in "2000 AD" parlance) is set to feature the following stories:


Judge Dredd: Melt by Rob Williams & Henry Flint
Strontium Dog: Repo Men by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
The Order: In the Court of the WyrmQueene by Kek-W & John Burns
Absalom: Family Snapshots by Gordon Rennie & Tiernen Trevallion
ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters by Pat Mills & Clint Langley
Kingdom: Beast of Eden by Dan Abnett & Richard Elson
Future Shock: The Mighty Mykflex by Martin Feekins & [b]Jesus Redondo[/b]
Sinister Dexter: Blank Ammo by Dan Abnett & Simon Davis

[The Man in the High Castle]

Bed time book - i'm halfway through The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick and loving it. So much so I'm trying not to rush it.

Now there's an unfortunate placement of a punctuation mark if Stevie has ever seen one.

[ending]

Tharg clearly thought that lightning could strike twice by re-uniting the Meltdown Man team only to be proven spectacular wrong.

Clearly Hebden didn't seem to think much of it either. Or maybe he just couldn't beleive how having Balook  / Baloo speaking in rhyming couplets seemed such a  Really Good Idea At The Time.

That ending is truly the comics equivalent of upturning the Monopoly board & stuffing handfuls of play money into one's mouth.

However this squaxx didn't mind Survivor at all & actually expected more to be forthcoming.