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Galen DeMarco
Otto Sump
Judge Roffman
America Beeny
Jacob Sardini
Hilda Margaret McGruder
Cassandra Anderson
PJ Maybe

Oh right, I got this mixed up with the "Toughest characters in a fight" thread. Ignore me.

Am I missing something?
You have 36 names, and you want to add three more, for 39? Surely you need an even number?

No that never happened. Mean Machine did team up with Judge Death a couple of times though, so you can get "two maniacs for the price of one" if you read "The Three Amigos" or "Judgement on Gotham," which are both graphic novels.

While an explanation for second sight might be necessary in a multi-episode story, there would be no point in doing it for a five-page one-off, as it would just take up too much room. Anyway, is there really any explanation that could possibly sound any more convincing than a bump on the head? Somebody could blither on for ages about quantum mechanics or something but we would still be totally unconvinced, and bored. All of these Terror Tales and Future Shocks are about some weird premise or other, which the reader is asked to just accept for the purposes of the story. The important bit is where the writer takes it.

I haven't read watchmen yet: is it possible to summarise Ozy's speech without spoiling the whole story?

What makes your cat so tough specifically? Do you have the scratches to prove it?

My votes:
Dredd, obviously
That monster who killed Alpha, because ... it killed Alpha, duh.
Nemesis - maybe magic is cheating, but it still counts because nobody said anything about this being a fair fight.
The Lloigor (from Zenith, because they destroyed the world.
Dante, because he's basically almost invincible.

That Terror Tale was the best thing in this prog, and the best one-off for ages. At the end of the first page, I thought "what a brilliant idea for a story." I had no idea where it was going, but was keen to find out, and the ending didn't disappoint. I thought it was fantastic, and want to see more from this writer.

I don't think there are any more remakes per se, but "Blood Cadets" (progs 1186-88) fleshed out more detail of the story of Rico getting arrested. (That's a Wagner story, so must technically be the "official" version, but Stephen Marley did a better version, in my view, in his Virgin novel "Dread Dominion." ISBN 0-352-32929-7 )

It didn't really need one villain to chase them over numerous episodes. It was better in the first series when Captain Crase (or whatever his name was) only popped up now and then, because it meant they kept coming up with new ideas each week. For me, the show started going downhill shortly after Scorpius appeared. He was OK at first, but when he kept persistently coming back every bloody week it started to get monotonous, and the whole thing turned into an interminable soap opera, with increasingly complicated continuity. This is what went wrong with Buffy around season four. I own the first series of Farscape, but I didn't bother buying the rest.

A lot of old black-and-white Dredd stories from the '70s and '80s were reprinted in colour in America by "Quality Comics."
You can get them on ebay:

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Actually I would  assume that two stars meant it was shit.

It's ok, just didn't really live upto the hype for me.

How could any film possible live up to that much hype? It was hyped to death.
If you had gone to see the film without having heard anything about it, you would have loved it.
They used harvey Dent properly, by showing us what he was like when he was a good guy before turning him into Two-Face, unlike the Tommy lee Jones film which tol us his origin in a ten-second flashback. I actually thought he was a more interesting villain than the Joker, since we get to see him develop.

Just confused about one thing:
[spoiler]Did Ramirez die or not? Dent flipped a coin and said "you live to fight another day officer" and I didn't notice her get killed, but later Gordon said he killed TWO cops.[/spoiler]

I thought the intro was a bit too long, and the film could have started with the Joker's pencil gag, but overall it was great.

By Isaac Asimov: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, which are sometimes collected together in one volume as the "Foundation Trilogy." Also the fourth book, Foundation's Edge.

(The last book (in reading order) is Foundation and Earth, is not as good as the others, but is alright. At least it isn't as bad as the prequels, and it ends on a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant cliffhanger, which unfortunately was never resolved as the author went back and did two rather pointless prequels instead, and then died. I wouldn't bother with the prequels.)

Also by Asimov, a stand alone book, The End of Eternity, is really good.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. This is actually three separate stories, but they all link together to make one novel.

Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp.

The five Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, Douglas Adams.

Mindbridge, by Joe Haldeman - written in a rather different style to most novels.

A Far Sunset, by Edmund Cooper - not famous. Out of print. Absolutely worth tracking down on ebay and reading.

If we're voting, I would add my vote to The Forever War and to Use Of Weapons.

That spurious mention of Walter has just made me realise that Ezquerra has designed a lot of "good "guys":

Walter
Maria
Guthrie
DeMarco
Giant junior
Dolman (his face was changed)
Buell
Chief Judge Volt
Roffman
Cursed Earth Koburn
Johnny Alpha & Co
Everybody on Hestia
Shaved Solomon

Also the Grand Hall of Justice.

Orlok was Dillon. Titan judges were McMahon.

Ezquerra:
Starborn Thing
Vitus Dance
Walter the Wobot, who became a villain 17 years kater in "Giant." (Bit tenuous though, that one...)
...that's about it.

Or he just has a massive cock.