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The 'Chinky takeaways' are "casual racial insensitivity" - a bit of gentle comic mocking.
The anti-Christian stance of much of the more recent Sl?ine was a frontal assult!
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Ah, but Christianity is a set of beliefs, an outlook on the world that (should) govern your actions.  In many cases it also implies membership of an organisation.

In this respect religious denigration/descrimination etc is more 'acceptable' than the equivalent based on race.  A persons race does not change, nor does it necessarily shape his core beliefs, how he treats others or what he thinks politically.

We would have no problem with a story that takes a very anti-Nazi line.  This is not to say that Christianity is in any way like the Nazi Party, but rather that outright assualts on belief systems are justified in some cases.  And if we consider the behaviour of many early churches we may find justification.

Andy B.

Matt,

I have a feeling that Devon wasn't speaking of 'piracy' in the sense of copied games, but rather, as supported by his references to 'adapting' and 'chipping' the consoles, to games imported from beyond their region of release.  This practice is perfectly defensible, as, if companies want the right to scour the world for cheap labour, the consumer should be able to obtain their products from the same market.

Andy B.

Don't worry people.  If JKD's opinions are genuine, and not just an attempt to wind everyone up, remember that 2000AD is a pretty radical comic (in mainstream comic standards), which, in it's early days at least consisted of satires of Thatcherite Britain.  So I repeat my call - the return of Big Dave as 'Blunkett's Bulldog' - fighting for everything the JKD believes in.

Well, I'd have two pages for covers.....

100 pages a week, the result is incomprehensible.  For Matt Smith the very idea must trigger a panic attack.  He'll wake up screaming tonight, imagining trying to fill that.

Alternatively, he could fill it with 'build muscles fast' and 'learn how to pick up girls' adverts and make the whole rag free, like those Aussie papers in London.

What about the slots around daytime student fodder?  I'm not sure what's en vogue these days; back when ar wor a lad it wer Quincy.  My guess is Diagnosis: Murder.  

Oddly, advertising aimed at a younger audience would be much more expensive, but the comic has, for a long time now, felt like something targetted at the later teens and up.

But getting supermarkets to stock it would be a fantastic move.  As would getting it off the top shelf in Leeds Station.  People see me standing on my tip-toes - to get a comic!  'Do you want me to put that in a bag for you sir?'

***we're used to working on US comics where we have 22 pages to play with...so we could get the initial set up and exchange in the first issue.***

Yes, it would be very interesting to read this in collected form, to see just how it reads.  Of course, the set-up sat with people for a whole week before we read anything further.

***It does annoy me though that a lot of people are yaking about how much they still hate this stip even though every thing they seemed to have hated about it has been turned on it's head.***

Perhaps - but the fact that the story is developing somewhat positively is not enhanced by the fact that the opening was dire.  Rather than the contrast acting to boost the apparent quality of the 'good' bits, we actually have the case where the 'bad' parts drag the whole thing down.

And it doesn't seem to a particularly clever story device to write a heap of tripe in the opening five pages to make the following 20(?) appear more than mediocre.

 

I want an interactive, sound-responsive Gronk figure.  Kinda like a Furby, but the whole thing is it needs to be conditioned to all sorts of environments.  Otherwise, it has a heartses attack, and you're back to square one.  

Mind you, I think most people would spend a lot of time making it keel over dead for their amusement.  Or is it wrong to infer generalities of human nature from my own sadism?

No, no, no.  I repeat (once again); bring back Big Dave as 'Blunkett's Bulldog'.  He'd have a lot of work to do right here at home.  His attitude would, as ever, fit in with that of Tabloid Britain.  And once more, he has a government to back him.

>Big Dave going back to the gulf once again with his feared broken bottle. O f course this time as an agent of Tony Blair, rather than John Major.

I taste of tea - and let this be an example of advertising, for tea is what I shall now drink.

Tea?  I was hoping for something a little more interesting, but when you choose ALL the superpowers I guess you deserve no less.

Andy B.

I just find Ron Smith's stuff just a little to clean and clinical.  

Andy B

Comic book art?  I will presume we are limiting our discussion to that.

From the progs:

Kevin O'Neill
Steve MacMahon

And of the current stuff, Frazer Irving.

Hates?  Much more difficult.  I'd end up picking those who were given poor scripts to illustrate, especially those that had too much dialogue and captions, or too many panels a page.  A lot of panels and dialogue isn't always bad, indeed, it is found in most of the best series.  But if it's not great then it becomes a chore to read.

If pushed though, from the progs I'd have to say: Bellardini (or however it is spelt)
And perhaps (is this heresy?) Ron Smith.
Andy B.

I'd like to be some sort of affiliate member.  It seems that Siku needs some fans, given the responses to his (pretty good - at least) work.  Keep the artwork varied - that's one of the great things about 2000AD in comparison to other comic books.

Andy B

'You look familiar, do you come in here often?  This board ain't no place for a pretty girl like you.'