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I loved last night's episode - things seem rather smaller scale than some of the big events in the last series, like the Nazi time travel one, and that's giving you more of a chance to get to know the new characters, and see how they interact with the older faces.

Plus the trailer for next week's episode has me counting the hours already. It looks fantastic.

"I know. And you deserved better."
Maybe my favourite Dredd moment ever.

Agreed all the way.

Another favourite is the Megazine story "My Beautiful Career." The beaten up perp asking "who's going to employ me now?" always sends a shiver down my spine, as does Dredd's closing comment in the story. A classic of the kind that John Wagner does so well.

I can't be arsed dragging up the post..but it's somewhere on this forum where I said the Sweeney was nailed on to top Dredd..there's a lot more brain dead cinema goers than you give credit for

Be all the same dumb people that seem to believe professsional Ali G impersonator Plan B is actually a black guy from da hood instead of a middle class white berk. (I'm not a fan).

Bottom series 4 has officially been scrapped.

Probably for the best, imo.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a430895/rik-mayall-ade-edmondson-scrap-new-bottom-series-hooligans-island.html

Aww. That's really depressing news. Was looking forward to that.

Is it Paramount Pictures that control South Park? If so I could only imagine the fun of an attraction built around that . . ."The Scott Tenorman Experience" :-)

Is Ratfink the offspring of Fink and Ratty?  Art certainly seems to be pointing that way. Was Ratty a girl?

Haw! I love that idea!

Ratty was definately a boy, though - he had at least one devoted son, whose mother thought Ratty was a bad influence.* Ratty Junior ran away to Mega-City One to be with Dad, only to watch, traumatised, as he and his pet human Fink were brutally murdered by Dredd before his beady little eyes.**

*Yeah, I know how that sounds, but... it's mutant rats in bowler hats, it's already pretty silly.

**1989 Judge Dredd Mega-Special.

Got to love a synopsis like that. Only in 2000ad . . .

'Stories': a collection of, yup, stories by the likes of Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Joe R Lansdale and about 20 others. Very entertaining!

There's some great stuff in there - particularly the Chuck Palahniuk one 

Just read the novelaisation of the first "Dirty Harry" movie - impossible to read without hearing Eastwood's voice, and also the villain is a lot more fleshed out than in the film, and even scarier because of it. I hope no one is thinking right now of re-making this movie, though it's probably inevitable at some point.

Jockdown would have been a much better title, it must be said.

Just watched "Rec: Genesis," which aparently some purists are complaining about because it has more of a sense of humour than the first two. But it's great fun, just as violent as the first two but slightly less grim - plus the wedding setting, I would argue, lets you get to know the two main characters a little more than in the first two films.

That and the actress in it looks pretty good in a wedding dress.

Congrats to a worthy winner :-) !

The BBC Red Dwarf series are being shown back to back in reverse order on Dave channel.

This is just going to get better and better...

Can see poor old series seven getting a few less viewers than any of the other ones . . .

This month's issue of The Boys features possibly the funniest panel in the whole series so far - made me giggle even more than Hughie and Annie's "timing issue," which is saying something.

People with a similarly warped sense of humour will hopefully know the one I mean!

1: The Silence of the Ram - Eamonn1961 - love the way the identity is wevealed - sorry, revealed
2: The Ride - Blue Meanine
3: Him Again - Whitbloke

All fine entries!

My favourite of these was a one where Dredd sent a guy who was over a hundred years old to prison - for a crime he commited when he was a young man! Always thought that had the perfect balance of black humour and Dredd being his usual hard-lined self. Wonder if he'd still make the same judgement, though . . .

[From Paris With Love]

From Paris With Love

Fucking stupid. A bit like a Steven Segal film but without Steven Segal. John Travolta looked like one of those things where Ant and Dec dress up in prostetics to fool people.

Tango and Cash

Great fun with some very entertaining swearing and Jack Palance eating up the scenery.
My favourite bits are the mouse versions of Tango and Cash which the villain uses as a visual aid to explain his plans for revenge and the 'English' villain with a hilarious accent who says things like' Piss off you fucking sods!'

You've actually made me want to watch that now!

Just watched Punisher: War Zone - mostly to see if it was as bad as everyone makes out.

It was. Though I did think a few times that the guy playing Punisher might have made a passable Dredd if Karl Urban hadn't already donned the helmet.

Here's my effort - taken a bit of artistic license with the type of prison used, but it's a prison nonetheless!


Humans on Display

'Look at that one, mommy? Isn't it strange? It's only got one head!'
   
The mother peered in for a closer look.
   
'What a fascinating exhibit!' she said. 'But why is it wearing that helmet?'
   
General Maddox, a four-armed alien creature, answered this question.
   
'He turned aggressive when we tried to take it off, ma'am. We think it's a local custom, where he's from, to wear it.'
   
'Where's he from?'
   
'Earth, ma'am.'
   
'Urgh!' the alien mother cried, disgusted. 'That place!'
   
Then she stomped off, dragging her child to the next display.
   
Behind the bar of the cage she had just left, the 'fascinating exhibit' watched.
   
And waited.


His patience was rewarded a few nights later.
   
After hours, the human zoo was closed. It had to be; the bosses had to keep up the pretence that the exhibits came willingly.
   
But Johnny Alpha knew better.
   
'They took our son,' the norm couple had told him. 'They kidnap normal people and take them to a zoo.'
   
'A zoo?' Johnny had replied.
   
The mother nodded. 'Where the strangest races in the universe come to look at them.'
   
'So what makes you think they'll take me?'
   
'You're just human enough,' the father had replied, earning himself a sharp dig in the ribs from his wife, who had then apologised for her husband's words.
   
Johnny hadn't minded, though.
   
And he had taken the case.
   
By then a plan was forming – the galaxy in which the zoo was located was so far away from earth that maybe he could go undercover, bring this thing down from the inside . . .
   
So he'd found out where the kidnappers were stationed and set himself up as bait, making it look like his craft had crash-landed. And then it was just a case of waiting for the back-up to be in place.
   
That had happened tonight.
   
And just in time.

General Maddox was bringing in a fresh batch of humans.
   
Johnny walked up to the bars of his cage and said, 'hey.'
   
The General ignored him.
   
'Maddox.'
   
That got the leader's attention.
   
'What?' he said, walking over to the cage. 'Is that you again, trouble?'
   
Johnny watched him.   
   
Maddox withdrew a gun. 'Trouble I can handle.'
   
'Not this much trouble,' Johnny told him.
   
'See, I couldn't let them remove my helmet when they brought me in. That's because there's a monitoring device built into it. And just above this planet, a friend of mine, a Scottish gentleman, is watching this, and has weapons locked on you and all of your troops.'
   
'Preposterous!' Maddox said.
   
Johnny almost smiled at this.
   
Then he pressed a button on his helmet and said, 'Middenface?'
   
The voice – the very Scottish voice – replied, 'aye, Johnny. On each and every woan of the scunners.'
   
Maddox looked upwards.
   
Then cursed and dropped his weapon.


'Look at that one, Alpha,' the guard said. 'Isn't it strange?'
   
'You should show him some respect,' Johnny said, peering into the Doghouse holding cells. 'He used to be a general.'