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[Dredd]

Ooh Jimbo, slapped down for a KTT in favour of someone's dead granny! That's gottta smart  

Dredd is looking mighty promising. Hershey's always been one of my favourite supporting characters, and looks like she'll be centre stage for this one. [spoiler:1rx9zq48]"Oh man, I got stick whipped by the chief judge". Mmm - Babs can whip my stick any day![/spoiler:1rx9zq48]

Necrophim opened very well, liked the setup and lovely artwork (this sort of style, and similarly Insurrection in the Meg, look like uninked pencil sketches to me - is this so, or are they just light inks?) When Stalag 666 started I thought Tony Lee had begun with a cliched premise but would then subvert it or give it a new twist, but that never really happened. I really hope this doesn't just turn out to be a sub-Gaiman infernal slugfest.

86ers engages me so little I have trouble remembering the story from week to week.

Low Life's great. Poor Inflatable Alan -  He Will Be Remembered. I love the fact that Mortal has a street judge assigned to carry him around - just how badly would you have to drokk up to get that assignment? And D'israeli's art continues to get better and better - the big panel of [spoiler:1rx9zq48]the flooded sector parting like the red sea[/spoiler:1rx9zq48] was brilliant. I just hope the "wackiness" doesn't get too out of control, or this story could lose its way.

Strontium Dog concludes nicely. Thanks to Mr Wagner for clearing up the argument about the expense and operation of pre-calibrated time-bombs! Johnny gives up the cash AGAIN  (he's actually quite a shit bounty hunter really - the 'hunter' bit's fine, but he never seems to end up with the 'bounty'!) and kicks back for some polyboobed R&R.

Hmmm, much as I like her, I don't fancy seeing old Tripletits travelling with our Jonny.

Don't worry, he'll meet Wulf soon and  discover who his true life-partner should be, and little Miss Multimelons will be just a fading memory!

And the next Dante looks class!

what were things like Angel and Timequake about?

Timequake has managed to escape from my memory banks, can't recall anything about it. Angel was absolute tosh. A test pilot crashed a new computerised plane and the computer was kind of melted into his shoulder (I know   !), acting like MACH 1's on-board computer (but without the hyperpower) or Dante's weapons crest (without the bio-blades) In effect, a nagging voice with no great extra abilities. I think he plugged himself into some other plane to take it over at one point, but that was about it. Rubbish story, and the art wasn't great either.

From that list, Inferno is the stand-out gem. A sequel to Harlem Heroes, it starred the Harlem Hellcats in a new deadly sport and featured my fave villain of all time, Artie Gruber, wonderfully depicted by Belardinelli (I was annoyed that his face appears on the cover of Best of 2k, but he doesn't feature in any of the stories inside - fraud!)

Trains over here are a complicated mess. It's largely down to Margaret bloody Thatcher who privatised the railways and split a single national network up so that one company owned the tracks, and the trains and services were split amongst several franchises. The result is a labyrinthine and illogical ticketing system that takes some expertise to negotiate. It is possible to get cheap tickets, but only if you book in advance and try lots of different permutations such as two singles instead of a return, several tickets to comprise one journey (or even getting tickets that go further than you want, in order to disembark and change trains part way) Crazy! If you just turn up to pay and travel it costs an arm and a leg.

Halo Jones

A girl who went out.

The future looked brown and orange in the 70's.

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This is so much more fun than Scum Terrorists .... or Carbon Emissions

So what would the Real IRA be able to achieve with Time Bombs, and what effect would this have on Global warming?
Discuss.
And then post your opinion on the side of a bus.

So now you owe me AND Godpleton money.

...also he can make it as big or small as he wants.

shit, he could have 50 blue bell ends of varying sizes erupting from every bit of his body if he felt like it! :oops: [/size]

check this thread//http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=24036&start=0&hilit=sentient+tea+bot
getting an upgrade gives a warm glow, but one must resist the temptation to post hundreds of variations of "I agree" or "That's rubbish" just to level up. If that's your game, I know where you can get some runsecape money (whatever that is)

So what crime has the naked fence painter committed to be humiliated in the national press?

some moron getting caught drunk on the street

I'm sure we've all been drunk in the street at some time in our lives, but we don't want it recording and posting on the internet. I admitted I was stretching the point somewhat to include other examples of the loss of our rights, but it saddens me that privacy is pretty much extinct these days.

There are many things that you may be morally and legally entitled to do that you nevertheless would not want to have photographed and published. That's what privacy is all about. What's the alternative? if you don't want to be embarrassed, never do anything that you wouldn't mind splashed across the papers?

Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave!

so what you are actually saying is the Fapper is quite right and its naff

No way dude! The Visible Man was a great story - it blew my mind (but then again, I was 11!)

there's a big difference between doing something that a handful of people around you may see, and being photographed and splashed across the Daily Mail! And what about the guy innocently painting his fence? He may be wearing shorts, but this shot makes him seem naked - big laugh at his expense. I've just checked my street and thankfully I'm not in it, but i don't like this development at all.

If you don't want to be photographed pishing on the street, then you really shouldn't be doing it.

this is the same line they've been using for the last few years ("if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear") as they take away our civil liberties one by one and I don't agree with it. Did you know it will soon be illegal to photograph a policeman? So if you're at a demo and the cops are busting heads, you're banned from recording it - handy eh? (I know this isn't really the same argument, but this pushes all my '1984' buttons. It's just another nail in the coffin of privacy).

Roll on P.S.U. and spy-in-the-sky etc

It's the best thing ever, innit?

...or a gross invasion of privacy, depending on your viewpoint.

I'm sure many of the people plastered across today's papers, including the ones in that link, are not too chuffed at being photographed!

how do you get the superman improvement to work in shopping cart hero?

EDIT - okay, got it! Addictive little bugger ain't it?