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I don't think there was any implication of cannibalism from any of the family 'til the very 'Hills-Have-Eyes'-ish Ratfink, (apparent son of Fink), turned up.

It certainly shows that Rebellion are in the habit of printing fewer Megazines than progs and that they haven't fully anticipated how many extra folk are going to show up to read a story to the end.

(though it wouldn't surprise me if sales of 2000AD are up a bit as well)

They probably should've picked less revealing [spoiler]names for the teaser jpegs on the 2000ad.com homepage.[/spoiler]

Regimen?

[any]

Torso was killed years before the events of Judgement Day, as was more obviously Wulf, so why are they here other than fan service?  You can say "different time line" but the starting conceit of the strip appears to be a single different path taken at the end of Judgement Day.

Dredd's present is technically Alpha's past, so the path would likely divert from a point decades before any of the events previously shown in Strontium Dog and alter the entire sequence.

What I want to know is why does Dredd seem to have glowy zombie eyes, when his eyes are meant to be bionic and therefore should look how they normally* look?


*Not that we ever see them much.

[black dog thread]

Some of those "dream interpretation" sites can be quite amusing. For example, some time ago I dreamed that I saw a black dog killing a rabbit - which turned out not to be a rabbit but an eagle. As far as I could make out (and as far as I remember), the rabbit represented my happiness, the eagle represented my dignity and the black dog represented a false friend.

I've stopped looking them up - unless one feels really significant, which they rarely do.

A false friend? The black dog thread is right flippin' there! (points)

Also, rabbits = ancient symbol of fertility and eagle = symbol of power and/or freedom.

So an alternative interpretation would be that depression was destroying your libido and strength and preventing you from getting what you wanted, but aye... universal symbols are not always universal.

I dont doubt that folk's subconsciouses can sometimes warp things into symbols personal to the individual, but any meaning or advice derived from an accurate interpretation would also only be something the individual is trying to tell themself and said advice might end up being terrible anyway, (unless you subscribe to Jung's ideas about the collective unconscious - but that's a whole other kettle of symbolic fish).

Watched the new Stallone flick on Amazon last night.  Called the Samaritan, two brothers born with powers one good The Samaritan and one bad Nemesis fought to the death at a power station years ago and both were never seen again but a teenager who's a big fan of the Samaritan thinks he's the old guy who lives across the street.  Pretty decent movie, it's budget shows in a couple of places but the action when it comes is decent, there is a third act twist that I took me by surprise but really probably should have seen coming.

I think I've just guessed it from the premise.

[Aphantasia]

I don't think I have an internal monologue. I am also unable to visualise things; for me it's all just concepts without imagery or hearing words.

Aphantasia is the name for that.

Oliver "Oli" Frey, best known as the cover artist for Crash & Zzap 64 magazine, has died aged 74. One of those artists you'd swear must've been a regular in 2000AD at some point, but his only contribution was a single Rogue Trooper splash page (or Rogue Tropper as this website has it). He did do a couple of episodes of Dan Dare for the eighties Eagle, however.

He also did those back covers of Scream! that connected up into posters.

My copy of this still hasn't arrived yet. Anyone else's issue not shown up?

Nothing at Huff Mansions...

I contacted Rebellion a week ago and got a reply saying they'd send a replacement out. Got an email today saying it's just been sent.

I still haven't received this week's prog yet, neither, so I may have to chase that up as well. Could be something to do with my subscription renewing a few days ago.

My copy of this still hasn't arrived yet. Anyone else's issue not shown up?

It seems absurd to me that a human being can own a piece of the planet when it's patently obvious that, if anything, the planet owns us. All our greed and wars are based on this nonsensical belief that land and resources can be owned

Human beings aren't even special in believing that. It's nothing more than the same territorial behaviour that exists throughout nature being taken to an absurd extreme.

There's also this text adventure...



...which was supposedly also released for the ZX Spectrum, but no trace of that version exists online.

[ZX Spectrum]

It can do colours, they're just very... idiosyncratic...







My vote's for the ZX Spectrum, obviously.

I will now share some of my views via the medium of pop-culture references...

In The Dark Crystal, the evil Skeksis and good urRu were originally a single species. Being evil, the Skeksis want to hold onto their power over the other species and environments of the world, using them for their own selfish needs. The empathic urRu know that this cannot be left to continue, but are entirely pacifistic hermit-hippies who can't achieve what they need to by themselves. Things can only ultimately be really "good" if the two species are combined into a neutral whole.

But there's a problem when defining anything as completely "good" or "evil" because in a lot of cases it's entirely subjective. Violence may be considered by most people to be a bad thing, but most species would never have survived without using it, whether for food or defense. Shark mentions plagues as one of the "natural evils", but from the point of view of the virus or locust, (aye, that's a separate philosophical discussion), we're the ones trying to wipe them out while they're only trying to survive.

There's an episode of Rick and Morty in which the title characters purge themselves of "toxins", the toxins being the aspects of their personalities which they personally consider negative. Said toxins then become separate individual entities - "evil" doubles. Thing is, some of the things Rick and Morty consider "bad" are actually important parts of being a fully functioning human being. Eg; Rick thinks being too emotionally attached to people is a bad thing, meaning the "bad" version of him is the one who's left caring what happens to his grandson.

Things get even more messed up when you have certain religious types saying homosexuality is evil and others like Mother Teresa claiming human suffering is a force for good, saying, (and I directly quote), "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering." An attitude I would consider unequivocally evil.