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Can't get Extreme Editions round here easily, they are like hens teeth. Shame as it's me prefered way of reading stories.

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Portal: I reckon it wouldn't be too difficult to use CGI to map the image onto the photograph when it's held up on the beach, you would just need to take a 'scan' of it when he holds it up to the camera on stage. Once the CGI plotting has been done the rest would be easy and you could use a different photo every night, just like motion capture really. The same goes for the letters on the arm. The long lost son is all baloney of course, though they could easily film several versions so it seemed different each night. You have to ask why would the performer not just come out and say the initials etc, then you see the restrictions of the trick. It's a lot better than the Statue Of Liberty vanish, which looks like you could get the same results just switching the lights off.

Cut-up man:
The cut-up man is of the side-show community, just a 'human torso' and at the end he sits on top of the person performing the legs (who's torso was hidden in the trolley). Makes for a fantastic trick though.

"I know this series was advertised mainly on the Gene character (and what a great character is he is!) but I do hope they're not going for the hero worship tosh that modern Who indulges in."

Having not watched Life On Mars, it was a bit like that for me, it was confusing exactly why it was presenting the Gene character as something special and there was a definite lack of meaningful dialogue in the episode, with Keely talking mainly to herself about her visions and others ignoring her.

"That would be a bad decision, it's far easier to make a young actor look older than to make an older actor look younger."

Yeah I'm just surprised they are really going to have much flashback considering how much of the story will have to be cut, they could give us the information in other ways. If it were only 10% flashbacks/backstory then I would have expected them to cast the other way around so they don't have to be made-up to look older in the other 90% of the film, and so in the really important scenes we're not distracted by the age make-up. It would be a good role for your Mel Gibson/George Clooney types (though it's good that they haven't cast well-known actors).

Although as I recall in the comic Silk Spectre never looks much good by todays' standards, she's more of a fuller-figured 1950s ideal, and not half as young-looking either. I'm surprised they didn't cast an older actress as in the comic it's her older self which is the greater role and the rape scene doesn't have to be shown to know that it happens.

The same goes for the other ageing heroes - I would have thought if they have to trim it it would be more the flashbacks that go, or at least shown only briefly, and that actors in at least their forties would be more suitable.

I watched it for the first time a few years ago and though it looked good and the saucer-guarding robot is a classic image, I had assumed that the Earth stood still in fear and terror, rather than, as I recall it, having the electricity cut off. Although this would cause genuine disruption in real life, it was a bit of an anti-climax in the film, and today might make people think "yeah, good idea, we're using too much anyway, let's get the board games out".

I watched This Islan Earth the other day, it was a good romp and I thought that could make a good remake.

I don't get it, looks just like some nice sunset shots to me.

A great sketch from 'Paul Merton The Series':

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2RMyHF0lc" target="_blank">Bank Robber Sketch

Link: http://www.vhemt.org" target="_blank">V.H.E.

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Oh dear, how awful...John's Nemesis art was one of the things that drew me into 2000AD, even though I didn't always know what was going on. His Judge Dredd stuff looks just as good and I do know what's going on. He's one of the best Dredd artists there is, I hope his drawing provides therapy for him for a long time to come.

Smoked kippers on toast. Shame I'm vegetarian.

Doubly-cursed: Not only does the sprog have two heads but one just like helmeted law-merchant Judge Dredd...

This is good news for me as I love the idea of the X-Files, though just don't have the patience for series after meandering series of US dramas, even the good ones: I'm a 'closure' kind of guy so the movie was good for me and I'll look forward to the next one.

Sounds like I'm the only one who thinks it sounds like a good idea: It doesn't exactly draw in new readers if there's a 40 year long backstory to a character - doesn't make any sense if he's the same age, and all the well-known villains would surely have been defeated countless times until it's nothing like the original premise. I'm sure they must have done reboots before (which seems to me to be the only other option) though the problem with having a 'jumping on' point for new readers is that it's just as easily a 'jumping off' point for old readers. It would be a shame if some kids where drawn in by the films but then totally confused by the comic and its long and convoluted backstory, leaving middle-aged comic buffs as the sole redership.

It makes you appreciate the timeless quality of Judge Dredd as a strip as at least you don't have to contend with emotional development in the main character.