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I agree it still looks good. The only thing that looks a bit dated is the stop-motion animation of the big robot, the first all mechanical robocop. And yet, it's still one of the most iconic machines to appear on the screen. (Besides Robocop himself of course.)  Reminds me of a scene in Southpark when they all dress up.
SHOOM! SHOOM! SHOOM! SHOOM!
"Good costume Kenny."

And a remake? Bad move. I'm not against all remakes. The Thing far superseded the original. I also preferred Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (70s version) to the black and white original. But Robocop was actually pretty good. Why remake it?

The main Marvel comics I pick up have been the Dark Tower comics, that is Gunslinger Born (last year) and The Long Road Home (This year.)  They're not bad, [spoiler]although I thought they took a bit of a liberty with the burnt Susan, pink eyeball bit at the start of The Long Road Home. This arc covers material not in the books, but the part at the start overlaps the end of Wizard and Glass and is a bit of a deviation from Stephen King's Dark Tower books.  There are ways to explain it, but it still felt wrong to me.[/spoiler] The rest was pretty good though.

Apparently the next arc Treacherywill be out soon (October I think.)

They're also doing a comic adaption of The Stand. I'm in too minds on that, since I've got the novel and I'd prefer new material rather than seeing another adaption of a story I've read. The art looks phenomenal though. The sketchbook is free if you can get hold of it. (I had mine sent free without my asking when I purchased the last edition of Long Road Home.

As for more mainstream Marvel books, I don't buy them, but I tend to enjoy what I read. Mostly.  I tend to pick various GNs (Marvel, DC, 2000 AD, Anything I fancy) from the library. I read some Ultimate X-Men stuff, and, whilst it wasn't bad, I wasn't all that taken. Mainly because I don't like the idea of deviating from the main universe though.  

I rather enjoyed the first volume of Ultimate Spiderman though. [spoiler](Although that version of Green Goblin who appeared at the end was wrong though. Where was the maniacal glee? It was basically just another evil Hulk.)[/spoiler] Ultimates... meh. What was with the man eating hulk? I liked the humor in that, but it was too much of a departure of the main Hulk for me though. And that version of Banner was a real wimp. [spoiler]And that stuff between iron man's alter ego and the sexy  Russian lady seemed to be played for sauce just for the sake of it.[/spoiler]

Astonishing X-Men, (the couple of volumes I've read) were great. I like Whedon's dialogue too.

Oh, and a lot of the Daredevil stuff I've read, I've largely enjoyed. Not keen on some of the art though.

Yeah, with Mr Quick, it could easily go as servant or Tekel himself.  I originally thought it was some kind of superstitious bogeyman (the name has that kind of sound to it doesn't it? Kind of like the creature Donald Callahan from 'Salem's Lot imagined in his closet as a child.) It's interesting that he turned out to be a real person.

One thing I've noticed they haven't returned to in this arc is the intelligent zombie. You know the kind of zombie general, with all the flesh-eating tendencies of his brethren, but marbles still intact. I wonder if they're still operating off-page so to speak, or if the primary masters (La Voisin and Mene Tekel) have decided to use more direct control. Or are the reek generals the liaison between their masters and the horde?

FWIW I'm enjoying DeFoe far, far more than I ever would have expected to. Something about it just clicks.

I agree. It might sound shallow, but for me I think the period setting goes a long way. It's not just that though. It was certainly a novelty during the first arc, but I went off it a bit at that time mainly due to the repetition. I never completely disliked it even then. It certainly superseded Greysuit on my, er, likeometre. (I in vented a new word there!)

This arc feels a lot less repetitive though, it's getting into it's stride. And the whole 'dirty dozenne' thing is very interesting.

Course, the art was black and white and it was difficult to tell for sure.

From the little I've seen of Dredd  and Rico without their helmets they tend to look dark and curly. I figured Fardo was of Italian extraction. There is a scene in the early comics (I caught it in case files 1 myself, but I forget exactly where, having returned the book to the library a while back) of both the Dredd boys as cadets blazing away on the firing range.

I should also point out that Nathaniel (the guy who flys off in Defoe) is not a Vizard but one of the brethren, a Road Knight.

Ah, right! Of course. The idea was put in my head by Chris Mardle, above (sorry, Chris). I thought this must have been established somewhere when I wasn't paying attention, but it appears not. The Vizards are a bit more like superheroes, flying under their own power without the aid of wings, is that not so?

Heh, s'okay. I wasn't totally sure he was a vizard. When I first saw him I thought back to what I saw of the vizards and I didn't recollect wings either. But then we saw them at a distance and I just figured I was incorrect, or maybe there were different types.  So I thought, vizards fly, this guy has wings, must be a vizard.

Does seem a bit superfluous having two sets of flying guys though doesn't it?  I like this strip, but it's another example of lots of stuff being jammed in with little explanation.

I've read a few of Straub's own books, and I reckon he's pretty good. I enjoyed some books more than others, and I could do without the reoccurring themes of child abuse, but his stories tend to be very thought provoking. And some of his characters are great.

I could have done without the blue man-bum.

But they do look good. I forgot all about Ozymandius's big cat! He genetically engineered it didn't he?

Is this a remake rather than another sequel?

Looks good!

That audience were really going nuts though weren't they?

I wasn't over keen on Starscape, but maybe because I missed a lot of episodes and wasn't sure what was happening. There was a lot of really weird stuff involving Scorpio appearing in Crichton's head in pop-cultural references for example. Sometimes quite funny, extremely surreal but irritating when you don't know why it's happening. It turned out to be a kind of mental implant which was actually quite an interesting idea, which again comes down to the continuity thing.

I watched it later when they showed episodes one after the other all week late at night, and it stood up better.  Not a bad show overall in hindsight, although it felt like it was trying to hard sometimes. And I found Crighton an irritating character.

Babylon 5- dodgy CGI (but of it's time) but rather good!  When I first saw it I didn't like it much (it felt like a soap opera to me at the time), but then watched again in later series, and they had the  whole shadow war going on which was very interesting.  I went back and watched the earlier episodes, and they actually turned out ok too. I used to be more into the Star Trek spin-off shows, but I prefer this now. Probably one of my favourite American Sci fi shows.

BSG- Great show overall. I found it dragged a bit, and lots of episode felt like filler to me, but it's gotten better. I think also watching a few episodes quickly one after the other helped. I don't have Sky so I watched last series online. Or should I say, the first half, since the rest is yet to come?

Firefly-  Great series!  I liked the mixture of Western and sci-fi although I did find the western world stuff a bit repetitive to start with. Then they'd suddenly do an episode on a hi-tech world (Ariel?) and one with floating cities like Bespin... In the end I think they had enough variety, and it was good. They really should have continued the series. Nice film too, although I'm not sure I like it as good as much as the series. The tie in comic were good too, and I'm really looking forward to the new ones.

Red Dwarf- Sci-fi, and comedy. Brilliant. Also with that combination, and being set 3 million years in the future they can take sci-fi ideas to the extreme, and get away with it. Something other shows couldn't get away with. This is probably one of my favorite British programmes.

Doctor Who- I was never into old who. I like the new series a lot, but I do think it is overrated with dodgy plot resolution and hero worship. A great fun show though.

Torchwood-  Most people hate this. Not me, although I accept it could be much better. Everyone having bi-sexual tendencies got a bit silly though. Portray homosexual relationships, fine, but don't take it to an unrealistic extreme. That just smacks of titillation just for the sake of it. And the characters all seem a bit rubbish for such an elite agency too... but I think the show has a lot of promise and with good writing could work out well.

yeah, that dragged a bit didn't it?  I thought the effects later were impressive for such a small film though. Originally Jack's imagination running away with him, if I remember correctly, although here they've given it a paranormal look. I assume the guy with the yellow eyes is the goat man... Face had more of a gollum type look to me here, but it was rather good.

I didn't mean dark in tone, I meant a lot of the shots are in darkness (from what I've read on the net) and difficult to see.

Or did you mean, it was so bad you wish it was darker so you couldn't see it...? (In which case, there's me being dumb.)

I love the book, and I have mixed feeling concerning the idea of a film, but I'd likely watch it.

Concerning this promo, definitely well put together.  As others have mentioned, Jack is too old though. As for the scene, it rings a bell, although it seems a rather major exaggeration from the book.