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SO tonight I went out to see my mate's band (again) and inadvertently had six pints of Premium Strength Continental Lager...

Which one of you wants it first?! EH?! EH?!

Goodnight

I try to be precise with my typing at all times and when I'm pissed I get a bit like old alkys who talk very slowly and carefully so as not to slur their words and sound like an alky.

I'd had a 6 or 8 pints of Staropramen, which was sufficient to ensure I didn't get to my Advanced Oracle Development class at 11 this morning!

I'm not much of a one for messageboards and what have you.

Some of them have a lively nightlife and others shut down at five o'clock, but the special few have tolerance for the guy who comes in from the pub and types a lot of pish.

How does this one rate on the bevvy-merchant scale?

Bonjo from Beyond the Stars
Sooner or Later
SWANT (oops, wrong comic)
Droid Life (if you need to pad it out)

Genius.

I also liked Bad City Blue, although it's not one like, say, Harry 20 which I've dug out over the past twenty years.

I vaguely remember Silo being okay, probably more for the artwork than the story. How was I to know what it would lead to.

I have absolutely no recollection of Tribal Memories. Given that Pete Milligan was one of my favourite writers at the time, this leads me to conclude it probably wasn't very good.

Is that a small halo because you're not a very good person, or a small T-shirt because you were a lad when you bought it?

My mate had his "DR & Quinch say Nuke Your Parents" T-shirt confiscated by the deputy rector of our school once! My "Eat Plutonium Death You Repulsive Alien Weirdos" top was deemed perfectly acceptable.

He wasn't one to learn from his mistakes, however, and a few years later the same guy had his Inspiral Carpets "Cool as Fuck" T-shirt confiscated.

How did Ray Bradbury come to hold copyright on Harry Harrison's characters?

HA! Number 50 with a bullet (hi-ex, presumably.)

Link: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/3490/themad.html" target="_blank">More Nonsense

I remember the adverts for it, but I never heard the record before.

Couldn't find anything about its chart success, might have to check up the Guinness book of Hit Singles next time I'm in town.

Anyway, here's a stupid interview with them:

Link: http://www.2000mad.20m.com/page3.html" target="_blank">Fink Brothers speak

Funnily enough, I've just been reading those history of the Meg articles, wherein it sayeth:

"Even stuff like Major Eazy in Battle doesn't work, you can't run big chunks of it in one go."

I vote for Union Jack Jackson.

That's the best one yet.

What about Grant Morrison? How many pages a month does Seven Soldiers work out as?

Warren Ellis also seems to have quite a few irons in the fire at any given time.

Further to all the Alan Moore love further up, the first two volumes of Promothea are absolutely excellent. Then it suddenly changes tack to become a sort of schoolboy's primer on the Tarot, Kabbala and assorted mystical crap. Albeit a beautifully drawn one.

The film is good, but it is very obvious when watching it that you are missing things and it also suffers greatly from having such a large cast of main characters. In a TV programme, you can introduce everyone at the start, but you then have a whole series to gradually fill in their backstory and showcase them at different times. In the film, they have to give every member of the cast something to do in a relatively short time.

Still, it was enjoyable and did encourage me to get a hold of Firefly on DVD. Howeve, I still haven't watched it, as I've become addicted to Deadwood instead.