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Can you post some samples of the interior art. I'd love to see it.

One of the reasons the 1995 movie failed was the stupid comedy sidekick undermining every bit of tension and gravitas. I can't see how a robot with a speech impediment would be a big improvement on that.

Because Walter is a huge step up from Rob Schneider.

Ok.....
This coming Tuesday - want to do another quick one off covering prog 1714 to keep up to date-ish. Should do it before then but its the next free night I got (mmmmm.... Tron IMAX tickets)
Flint unavailable, the girlies are recording the first Megazine podcast Monday so they arent up for it

So anyone out there got Skype who fancies stepping in?
Just need you for an hour or so from about 7pm on Tuesday

First come first served. If nobody wants to (and who could blame ya) then I'll sort something else out

Ye's can all F**K off! I got Tuesday off. I'll do it!!!

The interview didn't really seem to go anywhere,

I think that's just Pat - he doesn't really "do" trains of thought, just keeps randomly firing that mental ideas cannon, which means that everything he says is interesting, but it does tend to loop around and go off track a lot.

A really good chat, he certainly whetted my appetite for the new Flesh.

The only annoying thing was that Flint kept disappearing so Pat seemed to be having a conversation with himself at times!

I didn't want to do the usual interviewy thing...not my style. I felt that he had been covered more indepth in other interviews about his 2000ad work and 'Action'...I wanted it to be more relaxed and not a retread of those other interviews.

No, I was impressed at the chattiness of it- as has been said, "just two blokes talking" was absolutely the way to go. Pertinent stuff from Flint- though I disagreed with a lot of what he (or "you" if you're reading) said- including The Foggy Dew being a "gay bar"... since WHEN? It was always an alternative/ pre-Dominion bar when I lived there, and when I had a New Years Eve fight with the owner in 2002 and got subsequently barred.
SBT

Yeah. I think that was in the late 80's...could be completely wrong and getting it mixed up with 'The George' which was around the corner from 'The Foggy Dew'...still though...got a good laugh from Mr.Mills.

[HA!]

No indeed, but it's an important time-management issue to eliminate such places from my Optimum Pulling Circuit.  Not that I've pulled anyone (new) in two decades, mind.

HA!

Listened to half of this on the way home - great stuff, well done Flint, you adorably starstruck fanboy!

I don't think Pat is correct about there being no negative reactions to Locke's 'insipid' (!) artwork on Birthday Boy.  Check out the Prog Review threads for 1613-1616.  A lot of unimpressed opinons there, even some of the type of talk that gets forumites a bad rep.

But wait, The Foggy Dew is a gay bar?!?    I'll admit it's a lot fancier than it was when I used to drink there when it was just the Central Bank side, but a gay bar?  My brother had his stag do there, is there something he isn't telling me?

I think it was in the late 80's that certain nights were 'gay' nights. Probably not now. I could be completely wrong. A mate down the pub told me. Could be getting mixed up with The George around the corner from the Foggy Dew...now, that IS a gay bar. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

:-)

I suspect it is to do with his cold - it often happens after he sneezes or coughs and it might be the mike is being pushed away from him, Pat can clearly here him OK though so perhaps it is something else.

Yep. The cold was killing me but it was the only time that the interview could really have been done. I took a day off work to do it too. I apoligise for the sound quality on my end...bloody cold was a bitch.

It is a bizarre choice. Is Pat Mills big in the USA?

He is well known for 'Marshall law' not for his 2000ad work.

Is it too late to ask another question?

Yeah. Done and dusted earlier today. I did ask most of the questions. Mr Mills seems up for a follow up interview next year...so, we could bring it up then. have to say, totally starstruck by him and he is a total gent. The man is a Giant amongst men.

Just gotta say this.

Pat Mills rocks!

For some reason my Media Player has decided that the podcasts genre is Gospel. 

Of course it is!

Spread The WORD!

A couple of questions

Why did British comics like 2000AD tend to go for the multi story approach rather than the US Marvel and DC comics format of one character per comic ?

Does Pat think there will be a movie based on one of his wartime comic book characters such as "Charley's War"?

I can answer that one. British comics have always went for an anthology approach. US comics where the same until Superman stuck out as the star of the comic. 2000ad were going to do the same thing with it's most popular character in the early years, MACH 1...but the powers that be decided against it.

Any questions for The Godfather of British comics?

When I talked to Tharg in new York he said that there mightn't be enough of Cradlegrave to make a trade. So, he said he might release it with some other stories added in. So, it might be a cradlegrave trade with other John Smith stories tacked on the back end.