Messages

I was pretty adled on codeine last night when I put that together. How remarkably nerdy of me.

Ah yes, in vicodin veritas.

It's a useful excerise, Hipster, and lord knows I never want to see some of your list again, but on the 'quality' basis I'd have cut half of Volume 1 right away, which would have been a shame.  Print and be damned!

Are those Annual stories? Because I've never thought those really count toward the "Complete" moniker

In practice they clearly haven't, but they really really should.  There's some great stuff in the later annuals and Summer Specials, and no reason other than a lack of good scanning copies) that they shouldn't be shoe-horned in, even a "Volume 0" would do.  Particularly if we were to get the Megazine stuff.  

I have to say, it's all or nothing for me.  I don't want a greatest hits collection (again), I want the Complete Judge Dredd, (cock)warts and all.  'Course, I haven't bought any past No. 7 yet, so I should probably shut up.

All the Kracken Stuff, The Deadman, and Necropolis itself. I really want to read that.

It really could be a licence to print money, properly handled - I'd love to have it all in one place.  The Deadman would have to be included, Keef Ripley be damned!  How does all that good gumbo work out page-count wise?

If it had been Torchwood someone would've just pulled a magic anti-prehistoric worm ray out of their arse while Capt Jack tried to fuck one to death.

So tragically true.

.....does she know you watch telly over her shoulder when your at it? ;p

Mmm, Hannah...

This organisation deal in anomalies and they have seen all the beasts that have come through yet they don't believe Cutter about Claudia, why?

While not pretending for one moment that the whole thing isn't silly in the first place, there's a good reason for this one.  They've all repeatedly travelled through the anomalies, they've all come back, and everything's been the same - why should it be different this time, and for only one of them?  It's the actual normalising routine of the whole anomaly process, they feel insulated from repercussions - as far as they're concerned they're just gateways into the past and future, with no more implications than moving into another room.  It's just Dr. Dibworthy's Disappointing Day all over again.

As for the lack of weapons training, in the previous series (and thus the previous reality), they were accompanied by professional soldiers whenever there was a perceived threat.  There's obviously a different more civilian-based civil-service approach in 'this' reality, and we'll probably see what that is in due course.  However, weapons training would be good.  

Why a zoologist would ever carry a dart-gun without also carrying the antidote is alsp pretty inexplicable - my veterinary-nurse-trained animal-welfare better-half was screaming in my ear at that point. What larks!

Based on last years show, I"m hopeful that these things will be addressed sometime later down the line.

Yup, seems likely.  I like being optimistic and positive for a change... it feels strange, but good.

You're quite right, McWild, Utahraptor would fit the bill far better.  I don't know why I always forget that one - I suppose when I was really into dinosaurs, it hadn't been discovered yet (not 'til the early-mid-90's?), and when I read and later watched Jurassic Park I'd spent much time muttering sagely about Deinonychus versus Velociraptor, so it's kind of ingrained to insist that 'raptors are small.  You'd think Walking with Dinosaurs would have cured me, but no.    

Shite and onions, I just realised that I didn't spoiler-tag that before I posted.  Apologies to any injured parties.

Any chance of someone (Wake) moving this thread to 'Spoilers'?

Good stuff indeed, though I was very disheartened to  hear about the pants-ban situation in an interview on Jonathan Ross, where Hannah appeared to be bumping not-so-uglies with Nerd Guy.  

The dinosaurs (at last!) were so well animated as to almost pass without note, quite an achievement.  The mall setting was beautifully filmed (almost looked like the Naboo Reactor Hall from the end of  Phantom Menace) and well used as a location.  

Coolest bit:  Daddy dino eats the baby dino.  Nice subversion of expectations.

For one fabulous moment I also thought that Annoying-Metrosexual-Guy was actually about to eaten when escaping from the Cretaceous - it almost made my night, but alas 'twas not to be.  It says something about last season's bloody conclusion that I was prepared to see even a leading character as being in real danger.

Nobody seemed surprised that the adult 'Raptors' were bloody huge as far as dromaeosaurids go, suggesting that they were really large Deinonychus, rather than the turkey-sized Velociraptors. In fairness, I don't think anyone actually used the term Velociraptor, so I suppose 'Raptor' is a handy shorthand for big, fast dromaeosaurids. I blame Senor Speilbergo.

Did we ever find out what happened to the vanishing cleaner, and his blood?  Was this another reality change 'caused' by the subsequent death of one Raptor and the abandoning of a trolley in the Cretaceous?  What were the odds that the baby was hiding in his exact locker?  Is something more sinister and possibly Helen-related going on?

My favourite current TV show is back!  Sadly, the missus doesn't like it much.  Apparently it lacks a 'bad boy'.

Thanks for that link, Floyd - never heard of her, I love the C&W electro-twanging in the background!  I regularly mix two albums together on my playlists, possibly a legacy of the  two-sided C-90s of the '80's that have forever linked Sinead O'Connor with Lou Reed in my mind, a current favourite being Tom Waits' amazing Bone Machine cut with equal parts Undertones Chocolate and Girls.   Bouncy and jangly at the same time!

Awwwgh, how did I end up here?  That's never happened to me before, honest love.

Out of that uninspiring lot:

Star Wars Legacy #0 1/2 One Shot $2.54
2000 AD #1567 $3.83
2000 AD Prog 2008 $9.34

Well, I'm clearly singlehandedly keeping the comics industry afloat.

Mind you, one of those three is One of The Best Comics Ever.  Hint:  it's not Star Wars Legacy.

Suck it in, Smith!

You just can't beat original GFD/Kennedy/Leach VCs.  I enjoyed the sequel (calling it a 'reboot' is a bit unfair) a lot, but I missed Ringer and the boys.  

Different Grant, no?