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Ouch! I hope there aren't any Royal Mail employees reading :-)

Nope - mine arrive on Monday, undamaged. Very impressed with the subs staff over the past 12 months.

Wondered whether anyone had run across this character:

http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/

[Emp edit: Site has gone, try this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Everywhere ]

She's only the second "open-source" comic character I've seen - Octobriana being the other - and it looks like an interesting experiment. Given the history of Octobriana, I'm not sure how successful it may turn out to be, but it's interesting to be there at the beginning.

Who knows, maybe Jenny will appear in a future Dante story? :-)

Wondered whether anyone had run across this character:

http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/

She's only the second "open-source" comic character I've seen - Octobriana being the other - and it looks like an interesting experiment. Given the history of Octobriana, I'm not sure how successful it may turn out to be, but it's interesting to be there at the beginning.

Who knows, maybe Jenny will appear in a future Dante story? :-)

"No, see, he was caught in the time-warp effect when Thoth scooped up Satanus..."

Hey - I thought Gordon was writing this story, not Pat Mills...

Oh yeah - very Major Eazy. He doesn't drive a classic car around the Cursed Earth, does he? ;-)

Don't recognise the armour designs, but the eagle markings on the shoulder pads look a lot like the ones you see in Dredd.

Anyway, looks good & I'm looking forward to finding out more in next months Meg.

"The SS Great Britain reputedly had a cat welded up in the hull, though I think that was for luck."

Well, not for the cat ;-)

"Or is Steampunk a genre entirely on its own"

Yep. This is a fairly good definition of steampunk:

"...a genre of literature covering alternate histories of the Victorian era in which modern inventions are reinvented using Victorian technology and examining its effect on society.

Dystopian varieties of cyberpunk tend to focus on the darker side of technology change, the impersonalization of the interactions, displacement of the work force and pollution.

Lighter versions may see technology put to good use for the betterment of mankind, focusing on the creativity and imagination of Victorian inventors.

Hard steampunk is that which uses potential technology that could have actually existed, the best example of which is The Difference Engine.

Soft steampunk is that which is less concerned with technological rigor, such as Lord Kelvin's Machine, in which the machine in question is a time machine and which also involves an electromagnetic device to be used to deflect a passing comet, or The Steampunk Trilogy that features a crossbred newt-human clone.

An interesting twist on the steampunk idea is Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero, a comic book series about a piece of steampunk Victorian technology (an intelligent steam-powered robot) trying to cope with modern society."
The quote above is from the September 1999 issue of the Victorian Gamer ezine, and it serves as a basic definition of the genre and its various forms.
 

Don't know about that Jamie - when I was in Tassie, I would get my prog about 6-7 days after UK subscribers. Pretty impressive, I thought.

Art & PVS:

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll look forward to getting my hands on the first issue of Solar Wind (is it still OK to pay via PayPal?) and seeing SW#2 and FutureQuake come November.

BTW - will there be copies available outside the WinterFest, for those of us who aren't going to be there?

Art: What's happening with FutureQuake? I've seen a couple of the previews and it's looking good (the PJ Holden cover esp.)

PVS: Are copies of #1 still available? How's work on future issues coming along?

Violent: AFAIK, this is up to #5. Any word on when the next issue is due out?

Zarjaz: Is Zarjaz still running? Any plans for more issues?

Are there any websites up & running for any of these titles?

Aaargh! A three year-old thread returns from the depths of the board only to cast that shite at me. Wish it had stayed Marooned...

:-)

If you're talking about the image, it's the cover art Frank Miller produced for the tenth anniversary edition of the Megazine. In short, it was rejected by then-editor David Bishop, Miller got in a snit and Siku ended up painting the cover that ended up on the anniversary issue.

"Was it really that bad?"

Yes.

(Hope you don't mind me posting this, Logan)http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/gallery/Miller_Dredd.jpg">

Classic-period-Miller would be fantastic on Dredd; Disappearing-up-own-arse-period-Miller would *not* :-)

Anyway - how would Dredd chase perps with one giant foot?