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you know, normally there is a much better standard of teacher baiting going on.  Surely we can do better than this!



(and no, no intention of spending the whole 6 weeks planning and prepping, at least half of it will be spent sorting out stuff around the house that didn't get done last half term! )

The first Dredd post TOD was always going to be a challenge but Wagner manages to pull off his usual social satire with sufficient style to detract from this.  Big problem with Sin/Dex has been the length of time between outings.  With such a convoluted story now being developed it is hard to keep track of events.  Perhaps if this issue was addressed this strip would be appreciated more.  Red Seas, still not getting it.  Ok but nothing spectacular.  Savage, ticking over nicely.  SD, not sure which side of the 'is he, isn't he dead' debate I'm coming down on.  Do hope that this doesn't go the same way as X Files, insanely convoluted with too many twists and turns to make sense.  As has been mentioned elsewhere, the Meg's Dredd made for a better read this week.  Mayhap a run of the mill prog has been put out to make the Meg shine?

Steady prog for me.

Lets get it out the way 'Tour of Duty' after all the twists and turns they're are no more and everything wraps up, possibly too neatly. I wasn't bowled over by the conclusion to 'Tour of Duty'. It was a great episode not a great conclusion. The story just seemed to run out of momentum and all the threads closed up. The nature of the end was entirely appropriate, I was happy that there was not a flash bang wallop ending which won't have been fitting for the story. I was hoping however they'd be one more twist in the tale at the end. There wasn't. I wonder whether [spoiler]PJ getting a reprieve[/spoiler] was meant to be it. Alas for me it was too telegraphed. Overall 'Tour of Duty' has been a trimph and I suspect read as one this ending will read better but as a 'DRAMATIC FINALE' as the cover reported it didn't work for me.

A couple of other episodes this prog were treading water a little. Red Seas was steady and Sinister Dexter while I'm chuffed its back was a scene setter. Savage was fun as ever and Strontium Dog carries on a fine story.

All in all a good prog.

pretty much how it made me feel too.  Enjoyed it, felt it worked but felt that as a 'finale' to everything that has gone before it, it lacked something.  Still at least the overall arc has opened up a lot of territory for future stories.  The more prominent role of supporting characters at times has been one of its strengths, perhaps now the meg will take advantage of this.

Quote of the prog: "on a quantum level everything that is going to go wrong already has so why worry?"

trying to sort out duplicates and space so the following are up for sale:

Graphic novels

Titan:
Ro - Busters book 1  Robo Hunter book 1 hardback  Complete Judge Dredd in Oz  Rogue Trooper Future War
ABC Warriors the Meknificent Seven  Necropolis book 1 & 2

Paragon:
The Pit, Blind Justice, Scorpion Dance, Doomsday for Dredd, Doomsday for Mega City, Wilderlands, Judgement Day

Back progs:  Assorted issues between 600 and 1450 generally in good condition

progs 20p each, graphic novels make me an offer.  postage dependent on order.
Tim

One of the kids passed this joke on:

Child is in court looking to leave home.  Judge asks child if she wants to stay with her father.  She shakes her head.  When pressed she whispers: "because he beats me."  The judge then suggests that perhaps she would like to stay with her mother instead.  Again she shakes her head.  Again the judge presses her and she whispers: "because she beats me."  Knowing that the child has no other living relatives that could take her in, he asks who she would like to stay with.  She replies: "the England team, they never beat anyone!"

Personally I'm still laughing after the Sun's headline on Saturday: "German team are afraid of three lion!"  But they weren't afraid of putting four goals past the England team!

Im more after the Dan Dare one anyway,  I have all the rest of the series, when I say cheap, cheaper than people are looking for on Amazon anyway!

ah, yes - those wonderful prices for used copies there make me laugh.  The Terra Nova Trilogy book was one of the last ones I managed to track down myself and it took ages.  It comes up insanely infrequently on ebay and quickly goes up in price in the final few hours of bidding.  If you can get it for about £60 - £80  then you have got an absolute bargain!  I very rarely saw it go for less than £100.  What I don't get is why, unless it's because of this being the start of Bellamy's work on the strip.

have emailed the first storyline from when Eagle and Tiger merged.  Have a complete run to 1989  so let me know if there are any others that you are particularly after and I will scan and send them.

dim problem.  They're gathering dust as they are duplicates anyway.  Got a stack I ended up with courtesy of the guy who used to run the stall in the market in Cardiff who did me a deal on a run and couldn't be bothered to sort out some of the other oddments that were in the box.

Can anything 5mm really be a gash?
[down Roger]

Slight tear maybe? Rip, cut, imperfection?

sorry, perhaps not the most appropriate phrase.  Had a really maerdy ebay buyer who took offence at my use of the phrase 'slight foxing' with regard to the dust cover of a marvel masterworks and insisted on returning it.  Since then I tend to err on the side of worst case!

Have the following if any use:
1351, 1352, 1353, 1356, 1359, 1362, 1365, 1366, 1367, 1368, 1394

all in fairly good condition.  1351 has newsagents name on frontcover and 1353 has a small gash ( approx 5mm ) and slight serration to top of front cover.

This is rapidly turning into Forces reunited!  Long distance in a Herc was considered cruel and unusual punishment, always managed to avoid that.  Took advantage of being a Mover going down the Falklands so spent the flight at the back with three seats to myself to stretch out, that was a year or so after Granby mind.  Most folks we sent out to the Gulf went by Tristar ( the paint job for the refuelling kites was a really dodgy pink and some lunatic decided to paint a pig on the side of  one of the ones flying in and out of Riyadh.  Went down like a lead balloon).   Still remember feeling really uncomfortable when a colleague from the History department showed me a GCSE text book on the Middle East course they were running.  I told them point blank there was no way the first Gulf War should have been in it!

when i lived in the Lake District i was fairly near an Air force base and every so often when i was in the garden a Hercules transporter plane would fly directly overhead at low altitude which was incredible to watch.

Vulcan bombers are beautiful as well plus B52 bombers.

Every so often i see a black unmarked Chinook helicopter flying along the coastline here and its an incredible sight and it makes a beautiful sound.

Herc's always bring back an extreme sense of nostalgia for me, spending five years crawling around their innards tying down all manner of crap (although the snow and sand during Op Granby was slightly more than a little surreal at times! ).  Biggest laugh was a Trabant that someone wanted to send back from Germany just after the wall came down, so light it got the same type of cargo net as baggage rather than the usual 20k chains all over the place.  Even had the 'pleasure' of a tactical training flight where the phantoms used to use the Hercs for target practice.  No way you could stand up inside with the pilot throwing it all over the sky so sick bags were the order of the day.  I still disturb my wife being able to identify Chinook's by sound alone.  One of the pilots down the Falklands gave us a rather disturbing view of the Naval Protectorate vessel over the rear loading ramp of one!  Very tight grip on the seat!

Speaking of Vulcan's, this beaut surprised me over the Dales last summer:


Ah, nostalgia just isn't what it used to be!

Did the semi annual ( missed last year because I didn't get the tickets sorted in time ) trip with the school 'manga club'.  Nothing beats traipsing about worrying about seventeen teenagers.  Highlight of the day had to be one of the kids getting their copy of V for Vendetta sketched by the illustrious Mr Lloyd.  Another one decides to pass him a scrap of paper to sign and the poor soul is overwhelmed by being in such august presence and blurts out 'I've read Watchmen'.  Mr Lloyd merely glances in my direction with a bemused look on his face and I shrug apologetically.  Talk about total geek out.  Needless to say we ribbed him mercilessly!

Bascvailly, Avatar was a pile of beautiful, cliched, largely stupid exposition-heavy rubbish. Firekind was beautiful, weird, often confusing, genuinely intelligent, cliched goodness.

true, think the printing order didn't help at the time, or it did .... never completely sure.  But the artwork ...

And of course, Friekind doesn't feature Avatars in it. But, another strip from the same era DOES - James Cameron plagiarised Mark Millar's Maniac 5!!

and Mark Millar's work is seething with originality, depth and wit .... 

"these are not the 'stoids you are looking for" ?