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In that case I'll see you there! (I'm intrigued now...)  

Ah now you can't say something like that and leave me guessing....

Oh no... Insider knowledge... Does Bisley eat people? Or worse? I've seen pictures. He's scary...

Just bagged a Sunday ticket  

Ant, I was just asking the question really. People have have posted WIPs before. I'm just worried that someone else is working on the same thing as me and being paranoid. And it was late when I posted that!

I'm now worried half the board will have chosen the same - as it's a rather blindingly obvious moment!!

"G_ _ _ I_ _ _ T_ _ F_ _ _ O_ D_ _ _ _!"?

Took me a while to decipher that Pete, (rubbish at crosswords, hangman etc etc), but no it's not that! I did consider it though, so you can see what level I'm operating on!



...Buttonman raises the bar once more... I'm hoping that's a nobbly knee you've given him there...

I second Pete Wells' request!

Jim, are we allowed to put up works-in-progress in general?

I ask as I chose something I've always thought was great but I'm now worried half the board will have chosen the same - as it's a rather blindingly obvious moment!!

Oh God, he's still alive?! I thought he'd travelled so far up his own arse that he'd disappeared...

Blimey Jim that's a bit good!!

I've been hunting through my old collection and I'm having to accept this one may have gone west in a move many moons ago.

Anyway,

It was a future shock from long enough ago that the ones I still have from that period are all yellow and jagged edge-y. You get the idea.

So there's this Galactic Record Domino toppling attempt and its beamed all over space. The host is called Mik Mikflex (sp?), who proceeds to commentate in a funny, but weird alien, Stuart Hall way. The dominoes travel across worlds and eventually the Domino Toppler is thwarted at the last hurdle with the last few remaining standing forever more on an uninhabited final planet. [spoiler:w1r35srd]They later become known as Stonehenge, but you saw that coming, didn't you?[/spoiler:w1r35srd]

Can anyone trace this prog no. or is there a collection of Future Shocks now selling that this one pops up in? I'm trying to get hold of it for a mate's birthday, as we always used to talk about this one when we were kids. (And a song of the time by Duran Duran was re-titled "The Mikflex" to endless hilarity)

Much obliged

Fester.

I'm way too easily distracted...

Ham'n'eggerstein.

Damn!!!

Is there a prize for most protracted pun?

I winced as I typed it... Sorry...

Mongrol Smash!

Ha ha ha ha! Even the proportions are right!

I'm way too easily distracted...

Ham'n'eggerstein.

Damn!!!

I've been thinking about this kind of thing a lot recently because I wanted to write a Dreddworld novel addressing some of these issues. (Hell, I'm getting nowhere fast with Future Shocks so I thought, what the hey?) It became apparent to me early on that Dredd couldn't be the main protagonist because, if he found out the Justice Department was being (at least partially) controlled by the banks, he'd just carry on busting heads until the whole darned system collapsed around him. So I created an original main character and got about two chapters in before I realised that a Dreddworld novel without Dredd is probably a non-starter, so in came Dredd. Now, if my new character discovers what's going on and Dredd doesn't, that just won't ring true and Dredd'll look thick, so that won't do. And if Dredd does find out, I'm left with my original problem. Of course, I could have Hershey order Dredd to silence, but would that work? Gaah. Still, I may yet work something out.

I'd like to join the queue for Pencil Monkey on this if you're serious about writing it.  

You'll be donning dark robes and renaming it your empire next, Jim...  

Hey Jim, I think mine was one of the ones that was resized but I'm not annoyed at all. Didn't even occur to me that a whole A4 page of entry wouldn't upload... I know better for next time!

Anyway. I hate choosing three from the list!! Damn...

So don't hate me but;

1. Crave Noir. Just wow. That's all I can muster.
2. Pete Wells. Funny and original idea (and highlighting the one bit of 2000ad I never, ever understood)
3. Krombasher 02. Not content with just doing some inventive artwork, a back story thrown in for good measure.

HMs to Mike Carroll 01 and Bouwel.

And I hate choosing three.