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Sometimes future cover images are uploaded early on the site while not having any issue content data. Just go to the latest issue content page, click on the cover image to get the big version. Then change the issue number that's part of the URL and press enter.

Wa La, Previews of things to come!

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Red Tide does have printing errors, so it could well be because they wanted to get rid of over stock.

Lost is a series I should be following, as I did watch about half way through season 1 and liked it well enough. But then the schedule got wonky and I ended up no longer watching. And I can't start watching it on TV now because it's into season 3.

So I'll probably try to catch up with that at some point.

[Battlestar GalacticaThe Venture BrothersStargate SG-1Doctor Who]

You mean following regularly?

Though I watch them as they air on TV I always snag box sets of

Battlestar Galactica
The Venture Brothers
Stargate SG-1
Doctor Who

I also pick of box sets of the following as they tickle my fancy

Darkwing Duck
Talespin
Family Guy
American Dad
Farscape
Babylon 5


I'm not sure if they count for the purpose of this thread, but I also regularly follow several anime series as they are released on DVD. Currently I am following

Zipang
Noein

and I just got the last volume of Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Which is easily as good as the new Battlestar Galactica. Way ahead of it's time.

And have followed the following series previously

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd Gig
Plantes
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Read or Die The TV Series

As you can see I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi and good action/adventure.

I picked up a Wacom Graphire4 4X5 for a hundred bucks back a month ago. It's tiny, but shit, it's probably the best drawing tool I've invested in ever. It's just so much more convenient to draw at my PC. So I get to practice more.


I envy those with the big models. Perhaps someday I'll get one. If I become a better artist.

[GUTSVILLE #1]

Solicited in May's Previews cataloge...

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GUTSVILLE #1 (of 6)
story SIMON SPURRIER
art & cover FRAZER IRVING
32 PAGES FC MAY 30 $2.99

GUTSVILLE is a town living in the belly of the beast, literally. 150 years after the ocean liner HMS Daphne was swallowed at sea, its passengersâ?? descendents cling to life in Gutsville. All is not well among the slippery streetsâ?¦ As revolutionaries, sadistic priests and frothing psychos clash in the psychedelic innards of an impossible creature, itâ??s left to one scared RatCatcher to consider escapeâ?¦
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Well I'll certainly be ordering this. Looks wonderfully twisted.

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[GUTSVILLE #1]

Solicited in May's Previews cataloge...

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GUTSVILLE #1 (of 6)
story SIMON SPURRIER
art & cover FRAZER IRVING
32 PAGES FC MAY 30 $2.99

GUTSVILLE is a town living in the belly of the beast, literally. 150 years after the ocean liner HMS Daphne was swallowed at sea, its passengersâ?? descendents cling to life in Gutsville. All is not well among the slippery streetsâ?¦ As revolutionaries, sadistic priests and frothing psychos clash in the psychedelic innards of an impossible creature, itâ??s left to one scared RatCatcher to consider escapeâ?¦
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Well I'll certainly be ordering this. Looks wonderfully twisted.

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Personally, I believe that this era of "creator control" has done a lot of unnecessary damage to the work for hire model.  Most creators have a tendency to hold back all their best ideas for their own vanity projects and don't put as much creative effort into the corporate projects that pay their bills. This leads to stagnation in the corporate lines, and all the creativity and energy that was there in the early days is lost. It's probably one of the biggest reasons why rehashing old storylines and characters has become so prominent (*cough*Ultimateline*cough*). Because it's seen as safer, creatively, to hold on to your million dollar ideas then creating new characters and stories for the corporations.

Personally I think it's going to come to a head in the next few decades, were the overhead costs of self publishing (or even going through imprints like Image) will raise significantly and corporate books will be run into the ground due to rehashing.

There needs to be a better way to compromise to get the creativity and consistency back into comics. And I personally don't think giving writers the rights to the work they do is necessarily the best option. Businesses are in the business of making money. And giving away control of a "hot" property to it's writer is a fairly boneheaded move no matter how you slice it. If they're going to financially back it, it's fair that they should get their long term slice of the pie.

So this store, where I assume you usually buy the Meg is choosing not to at least order it for you? A paying customer?

That's not exactly good business sense if you ask me.

I'm not sure how interested I'll be in the US version. It's possible that part of Life on Mars's appeal to me is it's "exotic" location. I mean, I know New York City, or whatever US city they pick for the US version, but I don't know Manchester(it is set in Manchester right? I don't think the show has explicitly stated where it's set but I thought I picked up Manchester along the way somewhere) or the culture of the UK in the 1970s. So its really more of a contemporary fantasy show for me.

i wonder also if anyone outwith the age group who experienced the different world of the 70's get into it ? my kids arent that enthused, guess all the anacronisms (sp?) are lost on them.

As a 90s kid from the US, you'd think I'd be so far outside this shows demographic it wouldn't be funny. But I really really dig it, and this is coming from some one who also doesn't care for cop dramas as a rule.

There's just something about this show's spirit and it's angle in how it's attacking it's subject matter. I sure wish they weren't ending it, I personally think it could have taken a 3rd season, it feels like they're rushing into it's conclusion with only one episode to tie things off.

Any theories about what exactly is going on with Sam?

I personally think he's in a coma in 2006 and back in time running around 1976 AT THE SAME TIME.

Question, for those in the know. How many episodes is this season running?

The first ran 8. And it concerns me that we've now seen 6 episodes of Season 2, and if it runs only 8 episodes, they're really going to have to cram answers in to the last one to go out on a good note.

Well remember, the whole point of Resex is to "use all the parts of a dead person for city resources"

So where are all those body components going towards eh?

What?

*runs it through wikipedia*

Ah.

So... Munce is protein rich fungus made into meat shape?