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No, don't remebr mcuh or anything about Judge Dredd inspoired toys.

I didn't start reading 2000AD until the mid eighties and I was still oblivious to what other 2000AD produtcs were around.

Thanks, that's great news. Not too late, yet not too early.  

Typical, though my finances have tightened considerably over last few weeks and for the next fortnight as I have been expecting to fork out for the first four Dredd case files and Slain Invasions volume two.

It would relieve my bank balance and so I wouldn't mind waiting alittle longer I guess.

As for Slaine....

I wanted to read the official review and perhaps see the finalised book cover.  Front and back as I inticipate a wraparound cover.

It was schedualed for the 16th of next month and shown to be available for pre-order rather than coming soon.

Could somebody link me to that website. I can never find it myself.

I was just wondering if anybody has ordered this book in and if they have recieved theyre's yet.

Otherwise has a official review been donme of this book yet.

I would be interested to know.

I was pretty sure I read somewhere that was some connection between 'Immortal' and 'Fifth Element'. Perhaps it was the same speical effects consultant or something like that.

Anyway, no wonder it's faithfull to the original material if the person who wrote it in the first place also made the movie.

Anyway, Did yoiu say that that whole movie was the whole trilogy in condenced parts or what?

I was pretty sure I read somewhere that was some connection between 'Immortal' and 'Fifth Element'. Perhaps it was the same speical effects consultant or something like that.

Anyway, no wonder it's faithfull to the original material if the person who wrote it in the first place also made the movie.

Anyway, Did yoiu say that that whole movie was the whole trilodgy in condenced parts or what?

I have been fortunite enought to have the opportunity to see this film again and watch it, I did.

The story is slightly different to what I had guessed it to be about.

The male lead is has been sentenced to thirty years frozen in cryogensis in a huge floating storage facility hanging in low orbit for the crime of army desertion. A year before he is about to be set free. A accident occurs, where three of the pods contaning two other prisoners as well as himself have broken free of the storage facility and start plunging Earthwards. Miraculously, all free land on the bridge over the east river ( This is future New York.)  though two of them are recovered by the people running the cryogenics laboratory after a brief skirmish with the police. The third pod containing our hero is empty upon their inspection. However they do find the bottom half of a human leg frozen solid. Alittle while  later we find him covered in blood under the bridge hanging from the gantry updside down with the bottom half of his right leg severed at the knee.

Half awake and oblivous to his pliught as his lower extremties are still froxzen solid holding him in place caught in the ballcony of the gantry

Horus the creator god whom also had been in stasis arrived in a floating Pyramid and had been given a finite amount of time to go down and walk the earth, find a clean human body to inhabit and do his buisness.

This is where Horus whom having exited the floating Pyramid dispatching two approaching sercurity aircraft with a simple hand gesture,  flys on down assuming the body of a avian finding the broken and thawing cadaver of the man under the bridge. After inspecting it, and showing approval, Horus goes insubstandial and merges with the mans body, taking control and flying it to a safer place.

The next scene is right from the comic strip the sample of which I had seen and I suspect that most of the movie had perhaps been just as faithful to the original material.

The area where Horus deposits the man.   Recovering yet now in shock from the missing appendage, putting him inside a disused underground railway tunnel in between the railway tracks. The man is speaking gibberish as he is half delirious with pain and looks like he is at deaths door. While Horus lets the man know of his intention to inhabit his body to walk around in and to also replace his limb with a bit of railway track which he cuts and moulds using his eye lasers. The thing I like the most about this part is that this is exaclty what is shown in the comic strip that I had had rememberd seeing so long ago.

This film was made by the same guy who had done 'The Fifth Element'. Typical, when you notice that the female lead ( Linda Hardy.) has blue blood like the alien opera singer from the  other film. I just wish that this less westernised version of the 'Carnival of Immortals' had as much colour as the 'Fifth Element' did rather than the depressing blue, grey tones that this film had been done in.

This movie is from a story that is part of a trilogy, so I there may be too more films to follow in this series.

There was time when I would periodically buy copies of the 'Heavy Metal' publication. In it's plastic packaging I had no idea what comics strips, aritcles were inside until I opened it after purchasing it.

I would mainly buy them for their cover art. Though I had been pleasantly surprised by samples of 'Bodyssey' and 'Texararcana' and the more foreign to myself strips of 'Mobeius'.

I do recall one of those magazines containing just small part of the 'Carnival of Immortals' story.  From what I do remember from reading that sample 'there is a guy whom had just been involved in a accident at a subway station and he was dying as one of his legs had been severed. Suddenly the Egyption God Horus ( Some large naked guy with the head of bird.)is there and makes a deal with this guy to use his godly powers to save his life if he would agree to let it use his body as his own.
As it would seem that Horus needs a physical body to exist in this place. So picking up a piece of broken railway track, he fashions this into the shape of a leg and attachs this to the man's stump using laser beams from his eyes, saving the man's life. There is also Anubis and Bast ( Jackal headed man and Feline headed woman.)

I think it was all in french.

That's all I remember and that's all I needed to know when I caught the last two thirds of some french made sci/fi movie called 'Immortal'. I was supicious when I saw some French guy with a metal cap in his skull coversing with a large naked man with a bird's head ( he could also assume the form of a Eagle, Hawk or Falcon and jump into the body of the man that he had shared some connection with.) The avian man,
 I had later found out to be the god Horus who was on the run from his fellow gods Anubis and Bast and needed to procreate with a alein woman of humanoid appearance.

It was also obivious from his nakedness that he didn't have the tools to complete this task with out jumping into the body of the man whom I later found out had a leg made out of metal.

So, now I pretty sure that that comic I once owned ( I have either misplaced it or it got thrown in the rubbish.) was the inspiration for this movie.

The movie itself had that typical french sci/fi flavour that I had seen in other movies such as 'City of Lost Children' which at times looks just a tad bit phoney. Sort of like watching 'Sky Caption and the World of Tomorrow' Most of everyhting was CGI blended with real live actors.( Linda Hardy & Charlotte Rampling.)  I could see that they needed  CGI for Horus and there were other weird creatures. ( Something that looked like a red shark that could fly.) But The CGI was also used to depict some of the supporting characters as well. Which I thought was alittle strange. Does it cost less to have digital characters rather than real live ones. I'm not sure why didn't they just make it entirely CGI or CGI with a entire cast real actos portraying the human characters.




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There was time when I would periodically buy copies of the 'Heavy Metal' publication. In it's plastic packaging I had no idea what comics strips, aritcles were inside until I opened it after purchasing it.

I would mainly buy them for their cover art. Though I had been pleasantly surprised by samples of 'Bodyssey' and 'Texararcana' and the more foreign to myself strips of 'Mobeius'.

I do recall one of those magazines containing just small part of the 'Carnival of Immortals' story.  From what I do remember from reading that sample 'there is a guy whom had just been involved in a accident at a subway station and he was dying as one of his legs had been severed. Suddenly the Egyption God Horus ( Some large naked guy with the head of bird.)is there and makes a deal with this guy to use his godly powers to save his life if he would agree to let it use his body as his own.
As it would seem that Horus needs a physical body to exist in this place. So picking up a piece of broken railway track, he fashions this into the shape of a leg and attachs this to the man's stump using laser beams from his eyes, saving the man's life. There is also Anubis and Bast ( Jackal headed man and Feline headed woman.)

I think it was all in french.

That's all I remember and that's all I needed to know when I caught the last two thirds of some french made sci/fi movie called 'Immortal'. I was supicious when I saw some French guy with a metal cap in his skull coversing with a large naked man with a bird's head ( he could also assume the form of a Eagle, Hawk or Falcon and jump into the body of the man that he had shared some connection with.) The avian man,
 I had later found out to be the god Horus who was on the run from his fellow gods Anubis and Bast and needed to procreate with a alein woman of humanoid appearance.

It was also obivious from his nakedness that he didn't have the tools to complete this task with out jumping into the body of the man whom I later found out had a leg made out of metal.

So, now I pretty sure that that comic I once owned ( I have either misplaced it or it got thrown in the rubbish.) was the inspiration for this movie.

The movie itself had that typical french sci/fi flavour that I had seen in other movies such as 'City of Lost Children' which at times looks just a tad bit phoney. Sort of like watching 'Sky Caption and the World of Tomorrow' Most of everyhting was CGI blended with real live actors.( Linda Hardy & Charlotte Rampling.)  I could see that they needed  CGI for Horus and there were other weird creatures. ( Something that looked like a red shark that could fly.) But The CGI was also used to depict some of the supporting characters as well. Which I thought was alittle strange. Does it cost less to have digital characters rather than real live ones. I'm not sure why didn't they just make it entirely CGI or CGI with a entire cast real acotrs portrtying the human characters.




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Snick...

Clunk...

There it's done.

Well, when I Googled this site like I noramlly do, and clicked the link, it took me stright to the front page like it hasn't done in a long while.

 

So, is this new server going ever happen?

I was wanting ask if the website is getting overhauled & upgraded as well.

Are we there yet?

Does anybody have a spare towel?

Are we there yet?