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Well, if anyone has a contact for him, I'd love them to forward it when it's finished.

Someone's bound to.  Bishop?  Logan?  Rufus?  

Here listen Steve, all joking aside, you have got to send that Ro-Jaws to Kevin O'Neill when you're done.  He'd have to be dead chuffed.  

Not sure which version to go for though.

Talbot's.  Just because I want to see you animate those dreadlocks.

Oh. My. God.  

I am gobsmacked by the briliance of that animation.  Get him together with Nemesis stat!  Surely some other freakish genius has a Grobbendonk they could bring to the party?

How good was that!  One of the best Rogue strips of recent years.

The deal fell apart and we were left right back where we started. Andy and I meet Jason in a Soho pub afterwards and persuaded him not to give up on the idea.

Thank God.

[What a great job!]

Gotta say, I don't like Millar any more than I did before i read that piece.  Still, I agree with him on one point:

The blue bubble is from my kickboxing personal trainer. I stand on this for twenty minutes every day to get my balance right before he shows up and kicks the shit out of me. What a great job!  Oh yeah.

Mind you, I wonder where he was when came up with all those cool coveyor belt fight scenes?

Fascinating insights into the mind of the legend, particularly where he notes that the godawful Heinlein Starship Troopers is better than Haldeman's The Forever War.  Funnily enough I've always thought that Heinlein's forte was in the ideas department, while his writing style and character behaviours turn me off completely.  Haldeman, on the other hand, is stronger on the 'craft' and likeable characters, but with fewer original ideas.  

Ah alright g'wan, I'll do Sub City, The Third Place and FPI in Dublin.  I'd be on nodding terms with the sound lads in the first two, but the faces behind the counter in Forbidden Prices seem to change with such speed that I sometimes feel like I'm in The Time Machine movie, but I'm sure I can find a familiar beard to inveigle.

Way I see it, the better this venture goes for you, the less likely it is that I'll have to endure your efforts in my weekly Prog...  ; )

Well, I watched the Extended Edition in 4 installments on four evenings over Christmas (Start-Departure, Departure-Kong!, Kong to Escape, and New York), and I thought it worked really, really well.  

I agree, some sequences are unnecessarily and painfully long, but both Ann and Kong retained my sympathies and interest throughout.  Kong in particular is a work of genius,  finally freed from those awful life-size face shots, and all credit to Andy Serkis for the utterly plausible movement and reactions.  I love Willis O'Brien's majestic stop motion work, but there's no taking away from the brilliance of this piece of unshowy CGI character work.  I so badly wanted Kong to rip those 'planes out of the sky and find some non-lethal way off that building - which is a good indicator that the movie worked for me.  

My only real beef is the amount of time invested in developing the Billy Elliot cabinboy character ('Jimmy', I think), which has absolutely no pay-off - he survives, and that's it.  I'd have liked at least a 20 second indication of how events affected him, having read-and-understood Heart of Darkness and lost his father-figure (and most of his 'family') to a giant gorilla during the course of the film.  Everyone else either died or had some sort of on-screen resolution, even Preston.  With that kind of running time, cutting one more pass by the lake monster in favour of a tying up a major loose end would have been nice.

The original vies with Valley of the Gwangi as my all-time favourite Monster Movie, and while this isn't a patch on either of those two, I thought it was a very enjoyable piece of work, and I will be watching it again - when I have a spare week.

I love GFD, and here's why (relating to his disappointment with Ant Wars):

It was around the time, the late 70s, of the Argentina World Cup. Scotland was the only British team that had qualified to go to Argentina. England hadnâ??t gone. I had the idea which should have been instead of a couple of pretty uninteresting guys, there should have been a mad Scots football supporter and an English embassy official trying to get him home.

I know we've heard this before, but I would Pay Good Money to see this.  What a genius.  Never mind the re-writes, the man was a goldmine of wacky.

As much a part of Tooth as Pat, John or the Alans.  

Interesting question, Cosh.  It also applies to Garth's post-Necropolis and post-Referendum stories.  I'm of the opinion that these were his best work on the strip ('Return of the King' being the high water mark for me).  Were these follow-ons suggested/co-plotted with John, approved by John, suggested by Tharg (forget which one avatar was in residence), or what?  Not to imply that Garth couldn't have come up with a good story by himself (honest), but what sort of interaction was there?

Ah well, that's me off down the comic shop at lunch.  Looks like the family'll be eating from the bins behind Supermacs again this week...

That's a great cover right there, DXB.  Is Walking Dead worth picking up?  What's the situation with collections?