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Yes but if I remember the lyrics of her song correctly (and I should because the Radio in New Zealand where I first heard it had a playlist of a bout SIX songs rotated every twenty minutes) what Alannis calls IRONIC is just actually bad luck.  

Can somebody restore my faith in Kevin Smith please? I caught CLERKS in OZ on it's initial relase and thought it was great.  

When I got home, I checked out MALL RATS which I thought was painfully embarrassing to watch.  

I caught CLERKS again a couple of years ago and, to be frank, couldn't remember why I'd thought it was so great first time round - it did seem a bit like "boys giggling at sex" at times.

And about two weeks ago, I caught the second half of DOGMA on telly and, again, found myself rather embarrassed to be watching it.  It seemed to be an entirely laugh free zone.

Please help me and recommend something to restore my faith in the boy.

The free gift comes from the mind of a genius. Brilliant.

Got mine this morning at the same time as 2000AD and guess which I read first?

Sorry, Tharg, Comsic Ray is TOP BITCH now!.

Anyway, I laughed my toes off several times.  

This may sound stupid but I'm getting the hang of how to read it now as well - I like the little behind the scenes story that builds up in the Cosmic Scenes.

Thank you Cosmic Ray, thank you.

I think that was Connery.


Damn! Outted as a BOND fan by a trick question...

I like both snails and oysters.

(at least I would if I didn't have a rule about not eating things that look like they may have appeared in a science-fiction comic).

But put a gun to my head and tell me I can only take the collected works of one writer on to a desert island and I'd pick Wagner. 'Cos there's more of it.

Yes, it has been quiet lately.  I put the bike away shorty and start commuting by train so I get a bit more time to hammer out stories on the train.


Who'd think it? A thread about submissions and I still haven't done my usual moan about... must... resist....  must... resist....

I haven't thanked you enough for doing this so I'll do it again.

Thanks.

If we make DREDDCON, I'll buy you a pint or two.

Apart from the obvious diktat that you should only present your best work anyway, Tharg only wants you to send in one script at a time.  I think it says so on the submissions guidelines.


The editorial team get back to you either way with healthy feedback if your idea was "close but no cookie".  I think generally, the less feedback you get, the worse your idea was.

You may have to wait some time for a reply though because Tharg is a busy alien and getting the comic out takes priority.

If you can make Pitchfest at DREDDCON in December, that's a way to get almost instant feedback.

Why not join scriptdroids (there's a link in the submission ssection of the site) where there's always plenty of friendly advice.

Or why not stick your idea up in the under utilised Script Test section of this site.


I've had great feedback from both.

Well, I was umming and ahhing  out having to shell out ?95 for a train ticket and then spend two nights away from the family but I've just managed to get a plane ticket for the same price as the train ticket.  

So, brilliant, only one night away from home and I get to attend DREDDCON4.

Brilliant! Ezquerra, Gibson and Ranson had better start practicing drawing monkeys in hats.

Brilliant (for me anyway, if not for the audience)!  I'm gonna do the PITCHFEST again.

Brilliant!  Comics and beer for a whole day.!

Brilliant!  I get to buy beers for all the people that have been kind and helpful to me over the last year!

Not Brilliant!  I'm gonna miss the Friday night SHEDCON! Boohoo!

Now all I've got to do is fiugure out where to stay....

Can I say again? Brilliant!

1.16  - BRITCIT BABES.  I know I'm far too old to still fall for "sex sells" type covers but they are total babes...  

I also like the fact that you are enticed into this Meg by the promise of sex with Bolland's fabulous looking women only to be disappointed by Steve Sampsons tracing paper over photo references inside.  A fine metaphor for people whose lives revolve around gloss and image.  

is one of the special features on the CD-ROM an ability to take it into the bog and read it there? That's mostly the only comic time I get these days.

I've got one of those big fat X-Men books in the loo (Dark Pheonix saga) and it is actually good toilet (and bathing the kids) type reading (not all three at the same time, I hasten to add).

One thing that struck me is just how ridiculously WORDY these old seventies and eighties comics are - they certainly don't go in for SHOW NOT TELL.  The other thing that struck me was that even though I found the Chris Claremount stuff pleasant enough read, it was pretty crap in comparison to Marvelman and Warrior that were coming out not much later (and some Marvelman seems overly wordy now).

Did any of that make sense?

There's a time machine availble on ebay next Christmas.

Did anybody else see much of the Young Indiana Jones chronicles?

I'v eonly ever seen about half a dozen episodes but there were all absolutely corking stuff (if a little National Geographic at times).

I always remember it as being about 100 minutes - same as ROBOCOP.  Both fine examples of how you can have brilliant action, simple character development and rivetting plot without being twenty minutes too long.

I also vaguely remmber Spielberg saying in an interview shortly aftewards that there is "no excuse" for gpoing over two hours in film length.

Oh, the irony.

It's threads like this that do remind me how much I love General Contrary.

I think he's right.  I think the management at the Mail look at plumbers and say "It's not right that he gets paid as much as me an important investment banker - let's do an editorial and get middle Englan on their backs. Working class people belong on reality TV shows where we can laugh at them not in our exclusive rich club".  

And if I recall, Slips, aren't you in IT support or something? The IT industry is also riddled with extortionate callout charges, cowboys doing the bare minimum and the feeling taht it's all smoke and mirrors and you are probably better off doing it yourself?

I'd actually be interested in seeing an in-depth profile of some of the key 2000AD and Megazine writers and their previous works and what they've got up to since leaving 2000ad.  

A lot of the careers of Wagner, Mills and Grant has been covered by TPO and BBA (though I'd like to see some more critical analysis of their work) but what about, for example,  the Moore boys who didn't quite follow the same path.

I say this in preference to the suggestions about other comics because I never really read the other comics so a rotating list of "in issue 69, BILLY'S BACKYARD BOMBER was replaced by a new strip PETE'S PLYWOOD PANZER drawn by the argentinian Blanka" where I know nothing about the strips wouldn't be of that much interest to me.

Actually, both those strip names seem ideal for the upcoming SOLAR WIND war themed issue. I feel a pitch to PVS coming on....