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I've only just worked out that we're not talking about the Thunderbirds guy...

because of the slanted nature of a large amount of its climate change bias

Tsk yes, they do have a pesky bias in favour of SCIENCE over paranoid conspiracy theories. Bastards!

Was it because Bill Gates hates you?

They resurrected him, gave him a a slap and a smear of make-up and made him dance until they got bored again. They might as well have pissed on his grave while he watched.

A superb summary of the history of Dare!

I'd agree. For the sheer volume and diversity of what is produced, the licence fee is a bargain. I really fear for the BBC over the next five years, because if Cameron gets in, as seems sadly likely, Murdoch will certainly expect some quid-pro-quo for his support, and the hatchets will be out for the beeb.

As an aside, I had a friend once who bought a TV licence (nobody else had one in them days) specifically so he could, with a clear conscience, ring up the BBC switchboard late at night to make drunken complaints that always began "As a license fee payer...."

Those are spectacular. He may not always be the greatest at sequential storytelling, but nobody does a big lush splash like Langley.

Wow, those are very clever indeed. Big shock when the flamethrower appears!

I miss the old-style Benylin. It may have been no more effective at curing your cough than the modern stuff, but after a bottle of that you didn't give a fuck and would sleep through Armageddon. It's slogan should've been "Buttercup Syrup? That's for pussies!"

I remember a chemist up the Hilltown in Dundee (not the poshest part of not the poshest city) that had a (broken) Benylin vending machine outside it (this would have been early 80s). Obviously for those nasty night-time .. er .. coughs.

The Barney page doesn't have much info on 13 as I checked last time it was mentioned, I had no recollection of it even though I'd read it. I think "Finn-meets-The-Matrix" seemed to be the consensus, but I can't find the thread I was thinking of.

I loved Wolfie Smith - I so desperately wanted to have psychic powers as a kid. I think it was a Tomorrow People thing. Memories of it's quality may be coloured by the nostalgia of those short-lived Tornado days - the excitement of TWO thrill-powered comics available!

that internationalhero.co.uk link will fill you in - it really is a great resource, I check it often to look up obscure comic characters from the past.

Not all guardian reviews are shit. The TV reviews are usually very good, even though Charlie Brooker has moved on to higher things lately nd rarley does everyday reviews. Lucy Mangan has a hilarious review of last night's Survivors in today's paper, and nobody writes about Coronation Street like Nancy Banks Smith. The movie reviews are usually poor though and Mark lawson is the worst of the lot.

Last night I read Harvey Pekar's The Quitter in bed over two sleepless hours.

I couldn't get on with this. Got it out of the library last year, but found it rather unengaging. Don't think I ever finished it.

the bearded chap in the middle looks like he'd be more at home on a 1970s University Challenge.

Hope you triumphed, but I guess you're on some kind of pain-of-death embargo until it airs.

oops, I think I'm confusing two different arguments from the last couple of pages of posts! I thought the gripe was that the lost cases rely too heavilly on references to old stories!

  Just pretend I'm not here....

the 'fanboy references' criticism may be valid in an everyday Dredd story, but surely that's the whole point of these "lost cases" - they are specifically designed to reference old stories. It's like complaining there are too many robots in the ABC warriors, or that you don't like twist endings in the Future Shocks.

Just done a search myself, and it WAS Bosworth I was thinking of:

Five centuries of searching for one of Britain's most significant battlefields has finally ended with the discovery of "extraordinary and unexpected" pieces of artillery in a Leicestershire field.

The finds near Market Bosworth at last pin down the notoriously "wandering site" of the battle that overthrew Richard III – the last English king to die at the head of an army – and established the Tudor dynasty and the modern state.

Full article  here

Looks like many battlefields are uncertain, or disputed over several sites.