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Men? Looking at men! Me, never I'm too busy looking at the big guns... no, hang on that's not right. I mean the big thrusting space ships... err that's right either...

I'm going to the ladies thread

Scroll down to "In Space No One Can Hear You Drokk" for a preview of three pages of Flint's art work.

I'm a totaly gob-smacked by it... this looks like it is gonna be so good.

Oh and some Slaine stuff as well.

Thanks to Wils for pointing this one out

Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13" target="_blank">Xenomorph

Lots of good choices but, as with many things, I'm gonna go for Bryan Talbothttp://www.bryan-talbot.com/Images/gallery.1/Mary.gif">

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"is Cosmonaut Keep Alt. Universe"

Err no... (unless the sequels - which I've not read yet - are very different to what I expect)

He has written an alt history novella called The Human Front which is excellent.

>Infamy did remind me of the Aces books from the early 90's.

You mean the Wild Card series? A share-world anthology series edited by George R R Marting. Read the first five of those (the only ones to be reprinted in the UK). Alien virus released over NY in '40s creates some lucky superheros (The Aces) and a of load not so lucky 'mutant' Jokers.

These were really good. There were some great characters, my fave being the Great and Powerful Turtle.

Temps was the Britsh piss-take version... which managed a sequal (and a 'horror' and 'fantasy bad guys' version). Pretty funny with goverment sponsered 'heros' with crap powers.

Mr Tips: You ARE the Anti-Spurrier and I claim my Five Pounds!

Some of the Hammer House of Horror episode were rubbish but some were totally evil. The one I particularly remember (apart from the werewolf one) about a village full of Dopplegangers started with this family picking up a hitch-hiker in a long yellow hooded coat who could not speak properly. He leans towards the driver pointing the direction he wants to go... when suddenly his long nails dig into the driver's face. Cue sleeping with the light on...

There was another series called West Country Tales. I only remember one but it was a complete nightmare about a bloke renting(?) a cottage near a wood and some man/creature(?) was hiding in an outhouse. One night he hears noises and goes out to investigate... they dragged out this simple scene for ages. Thinking back it was probably just a tramp but it was so so scary and I do remember they never realy explained what was going on which made it infinitly worse...

"Wasn't that the one where the chap ended up getting put on the back of a truck and taken to a massive warehouse full of phone boxes containing people in various stages of death/decay?"

Yup, called La Cabina

Link: http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lacabina.htm" target="_blank">Relive the nightmare...

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"Children of the Grave" - That's genius!

Seem to remember there have been several E Nesbitt adaptations over the years... lord only knows why, as they always seemed creepy and old-fashioned

Actually some of the early 2000AD and Starlords freaked me somewhat as a nipper.

Apart from that there were the usual suspects like Dr Who and the old horror double bills they used to show on BBC2 on Saturday nights esp. the Amicus anthology ones like Dr Terror's House of Horrors, there was the stick thing on Rupert the Bear that ate it's own furniture and a Jackonory story called (I think) the Nargan and the Stars about a rock that ate people.

But far the worse was a film/documentary about Big Foot, the details of which my traumatised brain has erased... que several sleepless nights and phobia of woods ever since.

Ah... bit of a mix up Trout.

Threads was made in the 80s about the possible long-term effects of a nuclear attack on Britain from the POV of an extended family in Sheffield... scary stuff.

The b/w one was The War Game, made back in the 60s but banned as too depressing and defeatest and not shown until, I think, just after Threads was shown. Equally scary.

Women in New York dresses up to 'save' her sisters from the seductions of evil men. She's even got an arch-nemisis!

Link: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/terrifica021105.html" target="_blank">'Terrifica' or 'sad loney bint', you decide...

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"My heart's beating like a fu@ked clock"

And of course

"Monty, you absolute...!"

Still waiting for mine...