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No.  Terminator 2 sucked the big one through a thirty metre length of hose like the god of all hoovers.  The end.

Please Dog no......

I've been trying so HARD to block out that stupid film.

Have you tried Morgan Freeman?  He's VERY good.

I'm too LARHNDARHN sounding for your needs (although not as much as that spelling would suggest) but good luck.

My current personal problems aside, I will do my best to show up and whoop and cheer and otehrwise make a big fuss.

Another earth-shattering revelation from me then:

The first Terminator movie is a reasonably fun flick - I can't cope with the rest of it though.  I hate the sequels.  All of them.

1. America
2. Necropolis
3. The Pit

HM to Total War and Origins, both of which mean that the Apocalypse War and Oz aren't even CLOSE to being placed, and I'd never have thought I'd say THAT.

Steev, you're so right.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhh!

HATE IT. 

HATE

That movie really OUGHT to be dreadful, but somehow avoids it.  SOMEHOW it's actually very enjoyable.  I've no idea how or why.  And it can't be Angie in leather because she's hardly in it.

I remember catching elements of that from time to time as I accumulated back progs (I joined in the 600s and am something of a late developer) - loved it.  It was barking mad, of course, but lots of Twoth is crackers (Nemesis, Shakara, Stickleback etc).  Great art, I totally agree with you, Dog.  Criminally underused and unchampioned artists the three of them.

Welcome to the board, you'll find we're pretty friendly.  Jump in and post on a variety of active topics and before long you won't remember life without these boards.  We always like to see new faces.

I always felt Alan Moore was personally championing anarchy * (and making a perfect case against it) in the writing of V, but I didn't get that from it (and I don't know many people who did) - I got the message of resistance to opression. 

Resistance is not only the noble thing to do or the right thing to do, it's the only thing to do.  I reckon Moore'd be happy with either interpretation really, regardless of what was going on in his (very messy and hairy) head at the time. 

* I base that assumption on nothing more than 1. gut feeling and 2. Moore's reputation.

The SmallBlueThing Steev's new boardname alludes to must be his frozen heart!  No Disney, no Pratchett, it's a hard place in there, softened only by copious hot wife.

I'm with Steev all the way on both Pratchett and Disney.  Yawnx10²⁶⁷

And I also agree about the excellent V for Vendetta movie beating the book, for precisely the same reason - political naivete.  The movie made me want to tear down the Houses of Parliament myself, brick by brick - the book (which I read much earlier in life) was hugely entertaining and made me think, but not to the same degree and without the same emotional punch.  Proof that Alan Moore's moviephobia is sometimes misplaced.

If it does for another generation what the first three did to me (i.e. decide my purpose in life in a roundabout way) then I'm all for another one.  Liked them all and I don't care who knows it.

Ah, quite.

I wasn't being grumpy either.  Thanks Your Lordship.

Great news.

I missed this in it's entirety because it was published during my period of unfaithfulness.  It'd be nice to have all four on my shelf together, Button Man is one of the 2000ad greats, no question.  And while Arthur Ranson's absence is sad, Fraser Irving is excellent and I reckon the change in art style on this book suits it's change of focus.  Excited.  This book can't come quickly enough for me.

The health of the title is a little tough to work out. 

THIS PLACE is vibrant and active, but we're ALWAYS going to be the hardcore.  Those at the periphery to whom it doesn't mean as much are never going to post in the first place, so we're unlikely to spot them leaving.

However Rebellion would hardly be pumping cash into the collections if 1. they weren't making money from them and 2. if the collections weren't doing their secondary job of dragging attention to the prog and meg.  That, plus the new audios, suggest that they're at least comfortable (if not as comfortable as they'd like). 

My local comic shop informs me they've upped their order twice in the last year.  So our evangelism seems to be working, albeit in a small way.