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I think the standard and best response is check with your GP. I know it's a pain getting appointments and I know they're busy, but it's what we pay the buggers for after all.

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Robin

The character gen,contrary to any clips, is limited. Yes,you can personalise every bit of clothing but you first have to unlock the item and any emblems etc.

The character creation trailer had me drooling, but I must admit that I watched another trailer for the gameplay not so long again and I wasn't wildly impressed. I'm probably not the right market, through, since I'm more interested in fantasy or SF settings.

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Robin

Off-topic, but still relating to The Final Solution, there was little excerpt between Parts 1 and 2 called 'The Final Solution Replay'. It was mainly a little recap of what happened in Part 1, but in the form of a letter from Middenface to Red. Red was on shown reading the letter while on a mission described as being a 'personal matter' which seemed to do with hunting down drug dealers. (I'm inferring this from the line, "THE PSYSKE-O. WHO SUPPLIES YOU?")

[spoiler]I thought she might appear in the second volume as a result, but she didn't.[/spoiler]

I was just wondering, did this story appear in full? Was that one of the one-offs mentioned?

This is followed up in Durham Red: Island of the Damned, soon to be collected I think, and was by Alan Grant and Ezquerra. However, it is one of a number of things that Hogan drew on and developed quite considerably in his later stories. It was Hogan's ability to draw on the original SD stories and Ennis' contributions for inspiration and then do much more interesting things with them that makes me so angry about their potential loss to the continuity.

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Robin

How on Earth can you afford to shop in garages?

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't run a car, I have no children, my hobbies are relatively cheap, and I'm content to let my mother buy me jeans and t-shirts for Christmas.

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Robin

That's not winning you any fans, Robin!

I also live with my girlfriend and her twin sister, so the bills are shared.

They were both away this weekend, so, when not at the garage, I've been free to wander around the house bollock naked.


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Robin

Is Brit Cit Babes not any god then? I buy my Megs based on how essential the floppies are, so I got the Monsters and Mean Machine ones but I don't really have any idea about this one.

It's Dreddworld and it's Wagner so you'd expect it to be good but ...

To be fair to it, I've not reread it. I just remember it being boring, and flicking through looking at the art didn't inspire me to give it another chance.

I'd definitely buy for the rest of Strontium Dogs though and as noted, the timing will never be better.

Obviously we had Monsters, but I suppose the rest does become rather complicated to collect, as not only do we have Hogan's Strontium Dogs, but also his Durham Reds, which all tie in. There are a lot of short series and one-offs in specials, too, so someone would have to know what they were doing to collect them properly.

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Robin

How on Earth can you afford to shop in garages?

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't run a car, I have no children, my hobbies are relatively cheap, and I'm content to let my mother buy me jeans and t-shirts for Christmas.

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Robin

I read The Final Solution for the first time today. (It arrived through my letterbox from Amazon today. Part of me feels a bit guilty for reading it all in one go rather than pacing but... anyway. Greedy me.)

Generally a decent enough read I thought, although I found some of the earlier artwork a bit difficult and depressing. (Not necessarily a bad, a lot of it was rather good in fact, but why does nearly everyone have freaky critter looking eyes in part one? And the lack of detail in the background looks odd.)

After all these years, it good to hear from someone coming new to it. With regard to the art, I do understand why some people don't like it (it is radically different to what we were used to), but for some reason I loved it when it was first published and I still like it now. It's strange and messy, but it's alive (just look at fight between Feral and Alpha). Even today it's still a unique and original style, unlike the bland, samey stuff we often see in American comics.

Anyhoo. I quite liked Feral's character in this and I really hope Wagner doesn't turn him into a villain.  I understand there will be some contradiction to what we've seen in Final Solution

I don't think this story will upset people who liked or disliked The Final Solution. As someone who liked it, and thinking purely in terms of The Final Solution, I'm happy with the way it's going at the moment. I think the only potential losers in this are fans of what happened next: Ennis and Hogan's Strontium Dogs. As a fan of those stories, particularly Hogan's, I don't yet know if I will be pleased or pissed off.

Someone has written on the SD Wikipedia entry:

Mutants remain on Earth, the S/D Agency still exists and has a new Doghouse satellite, and the UK government is said to be "apologists and mutie-lovers", ignoring Strontium Dogs.

However, this story is set seven years after Alpha's death, and I think that this is significantly later than when the Strontium Dogs stories are set. Monsters is set only two years after TFS (the rest of my comics are in the loft, so I can't check how far the timeline advanced - why we get Brit-Cit Babes bagged with the Meg when we could have the rest of Strontium Dogs, fuck knows), and that gives us five years for change.

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Robin

Wonder if he'll give up the cigs now?

Probably wouldn't be much point, and given the amount of money he's costing us in terms of diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care, he might as well keep paying the tax. Not that much of it will actually reach us, of course.

He won't be costing you anything Robin, he's an American citizen now and lives there permanently.

Hmmm, I suspect that I must be muddling him up with someone completely different... ah, yes, I am, bugger, how embarrassing. Wiki also tells me that he stopped smoking in 2008.

Somewhat off topic, I've just come back from the garage (a four-pinter, a can of coke, a chunky kit-kat and a 75g bar of Galaaxy) and noted on the cover of the Sunday Express that Sam Fox is feared to have rabies.


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Robin

are any of us still watching Caprica?

We've watched the first nine episodes aired on Sky and enjoyed it immensely. Lots of things going on, no idea where it's going, but very interested in seeing where it ends up.

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Robin

Wonder if he'll give up the cigs now?

Probably wouldn't be much point, and given the amount of money he's costing us in terms of diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care, he might as well keep paying the tax. Not that much of it will actually reach us, of course.

And in the interests of balance, those of us who are greedy, sedentary and overweight (and I include myself in this) are putting ourselves at risk of the same (and a shit load of other health problems, of course).

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Robin

What I don't like about the RTD new Daleks is their near-magical technology.

I absolutely agree. What was the fucking point of the force-field, other than RTD's obsession with making everything most everything-est ever? Not enough that the Daleks are deadly, oh, no... they have to be the deadliest thing ever. One Dalek can eat the entire internet, drain the entire power supply of the mid-West and cannot be stopped by anything known to man ever. Be afraid, because one Dalek can kill everything. Ever. All of everything. Twice. With knobs on. Ever.

But that's exactly what the Daleks have always meant to be, but never actually were because you couldn't take them seriously. I had a problem in later episodes when they were flying around at speed, rather than just levitating with a slow steady menace, but generally all the improvements turned them into a credible threat.

That said, I can't remember being overly impressed by them in any subsequent story. A bit like the Borg, really - intitially rather exciting, but very soon it's the proper characters' reactions to them that are more interesting than the beasties themselves.

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Robin

What annoys me is that a succession of English teams has been consistently failing for many, many years now. This is in spite of highly intense training regimes, incredible levels of financial and public support, and the sorts of salaries that really should be justified through performance.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that our turnaround times and productivity are excellent, I and many others are told to work faster, save more money (again!), and accept a pay freeze for at least two years.

Bitter? Sick and tired? Too fucking right I am.


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Robin

Nothing new or exciting, but good to see him:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8762703.stm

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Robin

I'm sure you're aware, but in case you're not:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/

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Robin

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/08/indiana-jones-5-bermuda-triangle/


hope to god if this does come to fuition that george lucas isnt allowed to write the script himself ...

no aliens

no cgi unless absolutely necasserey

and according to that article may[spoiler]be harrisons last crusade[/spoiler]
please do not hand the torch(whip) to shia

Can't help feeling that Indiana Jones is at his best when focusing on something biblical in nature, so the Bermuda Triangle doesn't inspire confidence.

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Robin