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Mr Wells is from Sunderland, whoops! 

I WILL BRING THE FURY, MUNCHKIN!

Ha that reminds me of "Where is the A Man?", me "gone to bed" Matt, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I am filled with impotent fury!"  That made me laugh so much.

Liz - I knew someone had taken a photo, couldn't remember who it was though, doh! :-D heheh

Thats the gorgeous Locusts at the end there!

I met the fucking Emperor yo!

And had a hawt date with Bolt 01, many hugs with Richmond and Vicky, and Rich and Iz. Finally met the Molcher, looked at Matt Timsons, Andi Ewington and John Higgins and Dave Gibbons crotches AGAINST MY WILL. Didn't get enough time with Liz and Conor, I may have got a Dunk sketch but no one knows for sure, anyway Dunk's daddy kept a close eye on him all day making sure he behaved properly so it may turn up yet! I cooed over the youth and prettiness of Crazyfoxmachine. I got Johnny sketches from D'Isreali, Nick Dyer, Kevin Levell (who buggered off far too quickly) and the lovely Bolt man also Ian Culbard who is a gent and no mistake.

I did a panel, I drank a lot of gin, I learned that Rob Williams has the cold dead eyes of a serial killer (alledgedly) and got to see the fabulous Mike and Leonie Carroll and super fab Sally Hurst. What else did I do? Too much to bore you with and sorry I didn't get to see more boarders. Good con, loved every second.

[Grand Epic Journey]

All righty, folks... It's 04:04 in the morning (the time at which I normally go to bed) and Leonia and I are now up, awake, packed and ready, and very soon will depart on a Grand Epic Journey that promises to treat us to Thrills, Excitement, Unknown Wonders and Exotic Strangers!

And after we get to the airport, we're going to Bristol!

-- Mike

See you both later, so so pleased you're both coming - seems forever since last Hi Ex.

See youse all later lovely lot

Sounds interesting, but it may be a dash to get there after the 2000ad panel at noon in the Ramada.

Me too DDD, going to have to leg it over and miss the last 15mins of 2000ad panel. I hope someones taping it!

I shall be there! 

Admittedly it's been a while since I read it, but I remember thinking America was a great read because of how different Dredd and his world seemed compared to everything else I read before.  Yeah, we all know Dredd's a hard bastard, but in this one, seeing him from the point of view of Beeny, made him a completely unlikable monster.  Sure, he came off like a fascist, but that was the point.  We were seeing Dredd from the point of view of someone who's afraid of him.  And I think Beeny being a wimp was the point, too. He was the average guy who just wanted to stay out of trouble who saw the woman he loved completely ideologically opposed to what he feared the most.  He needed to be a wimp so that his point of view wouldn't overpower the two characters we were seeing through his eyes.

I wasn't as big a fan of the second America story, though. To me it felt like a sequel for the sake of being a sequel, and that Bennett Beeny came off very creepy.  I do like that we got Judge Beeny out of it, though, as she's a character I've grown to like quite a bit.  I'm glad they didn't completely forget about her after this story came out.

I could've written this post as it's exactly how I feel about the story. And Colin describes how I feel about Beeny in the first installment very well too. But the second, I was so disturbed by him, so, so creepy and wrong.  I think America is important, it's seeing Dredd through other eyes in a non comedic role. Had that happened before, without the sort of "first person" view of him we usually get he's scary and cold, and knowing that and seeing it are different animals.

I am also a fan of Judge Beeny, I like the continuity - that the powers that be haven't forgotten her parentage and don't entirely trust her but Dredd does. I like that whole storyline alot.

luckily the living room is laminate so have put some powder and a couple of the little traps down and lifted the carpet and sprinkled stuff underneath as I think that's where the little blighters are coming from.  I feel all crawly, its horrid.  Hope yours are all gone now Mr Wells.

I am now having an ant problem too. I can't find where there coming in to sort it out as they are mostly in my living room and I'm in an upstairs flat. The living room is the middle room of the house - so where the fuck they coming from. Bastard, bastards!

Pete, can you use the powder indoors? How's your ant problem doing?

Please help!
love
Stace
:-)

And for anyone who has forgot... the subtle almost invisible ear protectors that get mentioned

that is some thicko girl you got on there with a clearly fake geordie accent pretending to be me...ahem. I'll get me coat

JUDGE CRIVVENS

That is awesome! Cheers for posting that! I love the crivvenses. I'm going to start saying crivvens now, might stop me effing so much! :-)

I listened to this in the wee hours this morning and I have to say, the girls opening gambit had me in stitches!
Keep it up you two 

:-) Thanks so much to Colin for chatting with us for so long, and not minding the ribbing and the mistakes! He is a star, as is Iz the editing whizz!

That is so lovely!! And a gorgeous Dredd!

awwww sorry to hear you aren't coming Colin!