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Awesome panel Logan!  Source?  Anyway, McWild, there's your next project right there!

Silo: Possibly the best thing he ever did for Tooth 9/10

Oh yeah, I was really enjoying this dark suspenseful thriller, right up until (there's always an 'until' with Millar, it's where he pulls his booted-foot right back and takes aims at your nadgers) it copied an entire scene verbatim from the then-very-current-and-popular Die Hard.  In an instant, suspension of disbelief was utterly broken and I realised it was a shameless rehash of the Shining and Die Hard, with some atmospheric art thrown in.  Fucker.  

Had no idea he had done any Friday Rogue - I always blame Fleisher for that entire post-Gibbons abomination.  On e more reason to curse his name.

Big Dave I loved and love still.

But besides Swamp Thing #153 and The Ultimates, what has Mark Millar ever given us?

An extra 70p a week to spend on beer and girls in the mid-90s?  Oh alright, just beer.

I suppose Millar would be surprised to learn that 2000AD still exists, having done his level best to destroy it.  Casting him as a incredulous pulp villain makes sense of it all: "You?!?  But you're dead!  I put Judge Tyrannosaur, Maniac 5 and at least two series of Robo Hunter into you myself!  No-one could survive that!".

More than anyone, Millar shat on 2000AD from a height.  Fleisher might have turned in a succession of ghastly turkeys, but I don't think he was doing it deliberately.  The worst you could accuse Ennis, Hilary Robinson and McKenzie of is that some (a lot?) of their stuff just didn't work.  

Millar's stuff was just plain... disrespectful.

And this guy:

I bought 2000AD for years back in the mother country - Strontium Dog, Slaine, Nemesis, Zenith, Rogue Trooper, D.R. & Quinch. Just great, great stuff. And, of course, Dredd. But what are the good series that have launched in recent years?

Well how the fuck would you know?  Were you waiting for Tharg to send you a personal notification when a 'good series' launched?  

And what an arrogant fuckwit Millar is.  I feel the urge to approach my Prog collection with a razor blade and straight edge.  Sure, certain issues would only be 6 pages long after I'd finished, but it's bound top be an improvement.

The Bear is singing my tune!  I was as much a Home Computer Game freak as I was a Tooth freak when I was a nipper, and I just can't see the two as exclusive - if anything, the 16K games were more compelling than today's product.  My other young-teen obsessions, pen'n'paper Role Playing Games, SF TV and SF Novels seem to be struggling on regardless.  Why should only comics take a hit?  Because they aren't written for kids anymore.  That simple.

Ahhhh.... finally got my hands on this little beaut.

Lovely lovely badge, cover better than expected but largely obscured by the booklet, which is not really my thing, but sure I'll give it a go.

Stand-out story:  Dredd.  Rennie's best Dredd script, Gibson's best art in years, and while not intentional, how cool to have a 'business as usual' strip-in-progress in the 30th Anniversary Issue.

Marmite story:  Flesh.  Loved the story and the idea, actually liked the nostalg-art a lot, but I do miss the dense inks of the original.  Part of the problem is the flying dinosaurs, creating a false impression of perspective/positioning from the outset.  A worthy prequel, even if a bit Deadwood-meets-the-Cretaceous in execution.  Saursuckin' fraggers!  Hope it pressages some sort of a return to Flesh, a la ...

Savage:  Mills on all cylinders!  Adlard soaring ever higher.

Dante:  Ah, just pure bliss.

Droid Life:  Hits the spot.

Poster-wotsits:  All nice new takes on old favourites.  Well done all.

Text:  Still to digest.

Tharg:  Brilliantly done.  For the first time the repro makes me wish the Casefiles were on better paper.  

Coke Float:  A lot sweeter and flatter than I remembered.

All in all, a very statisfying experience.  Next!

That Dillon Hammerstein is great, and I love the way Helm is actually doing something in the Cam Kennedy Rogue.  Blue is the really incongruous one on there, but I suppose he was current thrill (which I really enjoyed, BTW), and drawn by one-and-only Robin Smith.

Y'see, the thing about 'who was on the back' of Prog 500 seems luke a moot point to me - it was really a wrap-around poster.  It's the only issue of 2000AD I ever (deliberately) bought two copies of - and that cover dorned the wall by my lightswitch for many, many years.  I've no interest at all in who was on the left sie, and who the right - it was and is one of the great covers.  

Not to mention turning in some stonking good Dredd art in betweentimes.  Rufus, we salute you!

You wouldn't let it lie...

I had the misfortune to hear the (other) King of the World on the radio this morning, saying how people were annoyed because he was "undermining Christianity".  For fuck's sake, he's undermining rationality and the scientific process in his pursuit of sensationalist twaddle, that's what's pissing me off.  It's enough to give a sane man religion.

Johnnystress, you've made my evening.  By which I mean I'm now going to have to spend it drying supermarket lager off my keyboard...

I often bore my friends, family and interweb correpondents with the claim that reading too much Science Fiction can lead to a crushing sense of boredom every time some mainstream loon comes up with quasi-factoidal drivel like this.  I (and I imagine most here) have already read at least four versions of this story, not counting The DeVinyls Cod.  Some of them were even fun.  

I would love to know what sort of DNA evidence can identify specific named individuals from 100 generations ago.  My guess is, it amounts to "this individual was a male from the Gallilee region in the 1st century AD and fits with a haplotype attributed to the House of David".  Wow, what are the odds of finding someone like that in a high-status tomb in 1st century Jerusalem!  As a great archaeologist once said "Leapin' lizards, Mr. Science!"

I don't personally believe in the divinity of Jesus (or divinity full stop), and so I automatically assume the poor sod was buried somewhere, but finding and identiftying his body amongst all the dead of Jerusalem would be, well, a miracle.

But it's like fags - you need to tell people you're giving it up, otherwise you don't succeed

I'm confused - are you finally coming out, or swearing off men for good?

Eitehr way, catch you on the flipside, Dudley.