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[DPD]

Absolutely crazy. Literally had a sleepless night, and although it really is a minor impediment and there are far many more problems in the world, I just can't stop thinking about it. A shame.

That's a right pain, Banners. Sounds dodgy. I understand the upset when one's integrity is questioned.

Ordering stuff online and dealing with deliveries is hassle one way or another. Add into the equation idiot/crooked delivery men and we can never be 100% sure what goes on. Not saying that is the case here, but I've been kind of stung in the past.

When we lived in a shared block I accepted a package for a neighbour. Idiot delivery man put a card through wrong door saying I had the package. So I had one neighbour knocking on my door to collect a package not intended for them. Making me look like a thief.

Couple of years ago, fed up of that sort of hassle I refused to accept a package for the previous owner of our house. Delivery man said ok, I just need to sign for package to go back.

Day later the same company tried to deliver again. I explained I already rejected package and asked if I need to sign? No he said. Seemed odd.

I then had messages from neighbours saying the previous owner of our house would like to contact me to collect her phone which I "signed for "! 

So I reckon some bastard crooked delivery man at DPD got me to sign his electronic gadget, fibbing that I was signing for rejecting the delivery but in reality signing to accept it. While he made off with his loot.

I later had a card from another courier company via the phone company to collect the package from me – which dodgy delivery man had. 

When I realised I called DPD. They couldn't deal with this as I didn't have a booking ref or contact email address as I didn't arrange the delivery. They said it is not correct procedure to sign for a package to be returned.

I passed a message back through neighbours but the previous owner had received a replacement phone.

We hadn't lived here that long and I'm still paranoid that the neighbours might think that we are dodgy. Apparently I signed to accept that package so in their and the intended recipients eyes we made off with the package. Infuriating. Looking back I wish I made more of it. 

[THWIP]

The Beast? Metallica? Ronnie James Dio? I just see:
THWIP

If the UK leaves the EU I wonder if the US is accepting any new states?

Might be a spare place if Hawaii goes its own way.

The Moore/O'Neill strip is decent enough as is the Ennis one. As for the rest? The same old same old US comics as far as I am concerned. But in black and white.

Disappointing to hear that 'Surfer, I'm eagerly awaiting a read of this.
I'd assumed Ennis & Gillen would have produced some decent work too.

I guess for me it just doesn't live up to this kind of hard sell:

"A different kind of dark..."
"...reaches for something both new and startling..."
"Why shouldn't the 21st century enjoy the craft and quality that the E.C. and Warren luminaries managed, but with an originality and freshness..."
"...push the envelope of sequential storytelling..."
"...unleash the new future of comics. The one of which Alan Moore has always dreamed. It's here, now. Hiding in the dark corner..."

What sort of page count is it SS?

The version I have is the 64 page Kickstarter hardcover. 16 pages are a photo story that apparently won't available in any other edition.

I remember RanXerox on the shelves in FP on Denmark street and I recall the change in name from Rank Xerox.

Think I might have an episode in an issue of the now defunct Spanish language anthology comic El Víbora.

Picked up the hard cover book of Cinema Purgatorio at LSCC and only just got round to reading it.

Billed as being "in the vein of classic horror comics published by EC Comics and Warren Publishing" with "some of the best creators in comics".

The Moore/O'Neill strip is decent enough as is the Ennis one. As for the rest? The same old same old US comics as far as I am concerned. But in black and white.

I'm reading Dredd Case Files 6 at the moment and that seems to be much more in the spirit of EC Comics.

Not quite sure what the format will be when this appears in comic shops but I'm very disappointed with it, having spent £25.

I really don't know what came over the artist. Making an evening/night scene not look like a garish daytime scene. Whatever next.

....and he did a similar breakdown on his Instagram this week, art fans! 

So that's where everyone is these days. 

I do like artist breakdowns and miss them on their blogs. Many of which seem to have fizzled out. At least the ones on Blogger, that is.

[And then get arsey when I point out their text was not ready to use as supplied!]

Journalists who can't write to save their lives. Who litter their articles with typos and unfinished sentences, who go into detail without any introduction, leave gaps in their text which they indicate with asterisks as they can't be bothered to find out missing info, who can't be arsed to check the names of people they refer to so supply some without first names.

And then get arsey when I point out their text was not ready to use as supplied!

FFS!

I strayed across this 2000AD thrill merchant finder:
http://seymour.magzene.com/

Go to 'store finder' page.

Choose a title: 2000AD weekly or Judge Dredd Megazine (of course). Or Carpworld if that is your thing.

Input your postcode.

Hey presto! Your local and not so local thrill merchants are displayed on a Google map!

On the subject of John Wagner interviews (I'm enjoying the podcasts btw) it seems as good a place as anywhere else to post this. Interview with John Wagner, Jon Sanders and Alan Grant from the Sunday Telegraph magazine. Found it in my tat and scanned it. Undated, but I guess it's probably from late 1983 as it refers to the launch of the Dredd Eagle comics.

Apologies if I bust the width of this page, but hopefully people can read it.

(Must confess I'm curious about the Koo Stark Dredd t-shirt photo mentioned in the article.)

Heh, the curse of the art comps continues, eh?
I really had to force myself to finish my entry this month. That initial enthusiasm is so quickly overtaken by self-doubt...!

What art comp? That was a self-initiated project... er, yes, art comp blues. I eat, sleep, dream deadlines for work. So even more of them in my rare spare time for fun – that doesn't seem to work out for me.

Nice work Iraina btw.

[Andy Lambert 1]

1 Andy Lambert 1 - The Black Plague
2 james newell - Beast Attack
3 Dark Jimbo - Meltdown Man

HMs
Andy Lambert 2 - Fungus or Filth?
Albion - Ant Wars 2

This is as far as I got then abandoned ship. Based on a Swamp Thing cover.

Never ceases to amaze me how many brilliant enemies Dredd would regulaly kill off. He'd get through a Marvel Universe worth of characters in a matter of months.

Oh well, at least I got some valuable practise in.