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Glorious. I got my copy yesterday and it got a lot of respect in the coffee shop I read it in.

I think Bill Savage is hilarious! That geezah is 'avin' one hell of a bad hair day.

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It's definitely altruistic looting...

[Judge Dredd -4 sightingsJudge Anderson -2Strontium Dog -2Rogue -1Ace -1Harry 20 -1Wolfie -1Shako -1]

I like. Good anecdote and I can add another Strontium Dog 'spot' up there.

Cheers

I know its probably a bit obvious to the vets of the board, but I'd really like to see who(which character), beyond that above list, is recognised by people today who don't necessarily buy into the franchise at present.

So far we got;

Judge Dredd -4 sightings
Judge Anderson -2
Strontium Dog -2
Rogue -1
Ace -1
Harry 20 -1
Wolfie -1
Shako -1

Ahem. I think that deserves a contribution to the thread, don't you Richmond?

Yeah, Wampyre Effect also.

Yeah, I've been approached by estranged reader asking about Harry 20 and Wolfie Smith before too.

Has Pete Wells grabbed the cover yet?

Can anyone see that? This is the man responsible;

http://www.lalimey.com/index.html

That's great Dan It's exactly what I mean. I'm taken aback by people I've obviously wouldn't have thought were into 2000ad consecutively, suddenly enthusiastic about characters that have affected them and they've kept happy memories of them throughout.

[DreddSlaineRogue TrooperAce GarpAnderson]

Characters from the 2000ad archives.

You know when you're out and about and you talk about 2000ad with friends who may have heard or randomly picked up the prog or meg? Who is the character the remember the most.

Most often I get;

Ooh tha Barbarian who says "Kiss my Ass." He's cool. I inform them it's Slaine and it's Kiss my Axe. And they say; Yeah he's cool. And that gruesome dude? Slough Fegg. To which the happily grimace in enjoyable mermory.

But my top 5 most remembered is;

Dredd
Slaine
Rogue Trooper
Ace Garp
Anderson


Any surprises out there?

Herumph. I've been the victim of such social ostricisation due to pursuing my own noble ideals amongst people with the same mentality as those who are thinking they can do anything without consequence of their actions, in a town full of people who could care less. It's been lonely I can tell you. What I see is the country being woken up to what we on the edges of society had to deal with most our lives.

EG; I advocated ethnics and homosexuality in my youth. Those same people along with the majority surrounding me who hated them, gave me no thanks and today would spit rather than look at me. All benefiting from quiet advocates and a selfish agenda. Then came these types of people and I think Machiavelli said that; "Sit by the river long enough and you'll see the bodies of your enemies float by. "

Because after years of abusing small communities and families and single people below the radar of the policing/ political agenda, they've finally got too big for their boots and no cause or having some cause, they've become a tool for change to attitudes to social awareness. I'm poor and most of society have shunned me, I'm self-aware though and never harmed anyone who didn't give me ( sometimes misguided) cause to. I've always given way to wise people and relatively, been sickened by the sort of people who ruin a community whatever side of their bread is buttered.

This is a horrible but inevitable shift in public consciousness which will, in the same way, drift back into its old ways soon enough. People are dead from anti-social behaviour before, during and after this event.

Its a fucking shame. But the cops have finally seen a real danger to their grip on society. Not so much people. More the ignorance.(He fucken wishes.)

Herumph.

So I'm looking at the photos again this morning. And I'm thinking the cross pollination of post-apocalyptic wasteland and futuristc science era has to be more in league with an engineering reliance. Engineers can build robots to build town size populated buildings and then the force of law to police them.


All that leather must have cost a bulk of the budget though eh? It's not the leather itself, actually its the treatment its got. The cuts and sews. Lot of money.

They should loot Dogger Bank. The CBD and the banks. But noooo, they didn't go to the lessons and find out about geography and humanities and history. pffft.


And saying it's for the buzz of summer holidays may be right but tactically stupid to announce it on tv.

They may also be very fucking angry at the treatment of their parents and grand-parents and their own futures. Talking down to them hasn't made a fuck of a difference.