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Dead Eyes... somehow I managed to predict this without any serous expectation it would happen, on that deus ex machina thread (take a look at my old posts). So... as headfks go, I think it might have worked...

This is my new blog, all about trying to write Future Shocks for 2000ad. That's the idea at least. My first posting is up today and it's basically a load of blather. If I know people are visiting it I should be shamed into keeping it up, and hopefully that will pressure me into actually working on some Future Shocks so that I have something to write about.

Essentially and eventually

a) you'll see an inspiring rags to riches story of a guy (me) realizing a cherished ambition or
b) you can watch me crash and burn on my arse.

How can you lose?

Link: http://futureblock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My blog

I've often thought there might be a good joke in insisting to referring to Billie Holiday as 'B-HO'. Never really had the opportunity until now. Thanks!

Yep. Rodice Andelia Olsun, exactly where you said. I'm impressed.

I can feel a shelf re-read / credit card armistice coming on soon...  

That is Strontium Dog, isn't it? A Fistful of Dollars in the Mos Eisley cantina?

I always liked the red on this one (and the stupid tag-line)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/RoboCop.jpg">

That looks amazing. I knew nothing of this 'Star Wreck'

If it is that story, and it looks like it is, as the Watcher says the aliens aren't called anything. Therefore you can legitimately make up your own use for the word "Maniaa" if you like (unnecessary grin).

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Mine just go in regular binders in A4 plastic sleeves. Is that wrong?

Thanks, I've already seen it. Done a lot of catching up thanks to Case Files, Extreme Editions and graphic novels - even got some Crisis issues from eBay and some Time Twisters, and TPBs of New Statesmen and True Faith.

One of my mates used to run a comics shop - long before I knew him - and told me what he thought was good. Actually he told me that most of 2000ad was shit and I shouldn't bother with it, but I just ignored him.

Fair enough. For I what it's worth I only got into 2000ad about two years ago (Prog 1487) - I liked the artwork on Lobster Random. (I'd been toying with the idea of buying into it for a few weeks).

King Kong was out in the cinema so I was into dinosaurs again, and I was reading a book called 'Freaks' about 'beastmen' and conjoined twins and stuff, and lo and behold that Lobster Random installment had a guy with a Tyrannosaurus Rex for a conjoined twin, so it felt kind of like fate.

Before that I used to read Fortean Times a lot (then stopping for long periods because they never seem to 'find' anything) and was into (but not very well versed in) anime. I saw Akira aged 11, and ever since wanted everything to more or less be like that. For some reason that year I just started thinking about how I liked "2000ad stuff" in terms of clothes and films and whatever. Shaun of the Dead and Hardware probably had something to do with it as well.

I only got a B for A-level English Lit (didn't really bother), and dropped out of a Media Studies/Drama combined degree at Northampton and later a 'Performance Writing' degree at Dartington. So I'm not in a position to make out that anyone is 'thick'. (Smiling thing)

when things get too far 'out there' I tend to lose interest and get into something more grounded in reality instead

Um, why do you read 2000ad then? (Insert smiley wink thing if this seems brusque)

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina" target="_blank">Ok, look

I just meant deus ex machina in the sense of a story event that doesn't particularly need or attempt any explanation but nevertheless miraculously solves everything that's going on

But that is deus ex machina. The thing is, Dead Eyes had all along been setting up this kind of secret magic earth-power stuff so it is natural and story-organic to now expect some kind of Raiders/Akira-type conflagration out of the henge that ushers in (probably) some kind of transcendent new world order. Unless I'm wrong, of course, and the soldier guy has actually been dead all along, or is in a VR prison.