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I can accept the fan argument that continuity errors bring a reader out of a story or something like that, but if that's the worst thing that happens to me that day, I daresay I'll live with it.

I just assumed if John Wagner contradicted something, it was because he hadn't read it.  It's easy to forget that there have been thousands of Dredd stories by now, even before you get to the spin-offs.  If not that, maybe he forgot because, again: thousands of stories in the last 35 years, plus spin-offs.  With that kind of output there's bound to be the odd boo-boo, but it's not like it's the end of the world or anything.

I recall trying to get into the DH comics when they brought out a UK title to go alongside their Aliens and Predator books, but it seemed impenetrable stuff from the off.  Never really been able to get into Star Wars comics since, though I did like the blackly comic tone of the Boba Fett Omnibus (apart from one story that went on forever and seemed utterly charmless), and the old Marvel books are a stark contrast - accessible, florid, and emphasizing fun and adventure over DH's rather dour dramatics.

I thought Keanu's John Constantine was fine - it was the film that wasn't up to much.

I think we've all come across the running joke about how if something wasn't written by John Wagner, it "doesn't count" as Dredd canon, but is there any actual basis for this being a real thing or is it just something fans thought up because no-one liked Book of the Dead and the thought that JW ignores it like the rest of us is kind of comforting?

It's "make like a tree and fuck off"  - GET WITH IT, GRANDAD.

I do not think I would like such a movie, but I think such a movie would be very popular, and is the next logical step in superteam movies, which have become the current "thing" for a Hollywood scared shitless of taking chances: a bunch of bankable characters or stars in a single film.  Avengers, Oceans 11-13, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy - a magic-themed outing seems a logical step, though I would have thought they'd try something more easily achieved like a team-up between slasher movie monsters and aim for the horror audience, who have a notably low bar and low expectations so the actual film wouldn't have to be much good.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/30/disney-acquires-lucasfilm-for-4b-star-wars-comics-to-remain/

That would be a shame as Marvel's licenced stuff is a hit and miss affair these days, with most of their successful adaptations coming from outside the regular freelancer pool.

There we were all happily using him as a whipping boy and he goes and gives four billion to educating America so now we have to accept he might be a solid dude?  Lucas can't even be a failure right.

Also the crazy speculation has begun: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59411

I would, but the goalposts on your argument would probably just move again.

I do not live in Japan and have heard of these things, even before the internet, and they all make a lot of money worldwide.  Also: Disney owned Power Rangers between 2003-2010.  Presumably because they thought it was only big in Japan.

None of these approach the regularity and consistent popularity of the Bond franchise

That is true only in that Super Sentai (the basis of the westernised Power Rangers) and Kamen Rider have a theatrical film out every year (and that's just the direct cash-ins on the current tv properties, as they make reboots of older characters, continuations of older tv shows, crossovers with other tv shows - the last few years have seen something like an average of three movies a year for SS alone), and Godzilla has been retired until 2014 but before that had a movie out every two years.  They're more regular than Bond, more popular, and arguably even more profitable given their super-low budgets.

Not seen Star Trek XI, have you?

Enterprise had already shat the Trek bed long before XI came out, and is tellingly the only part of Nu Trek that is accepted canon.

I believe the thinking is that if you've bought a spin-off novel, GN, or videogame, then they've already had your money and they want cash off everyone else.  On the other hand, it's not like even a fraction of the people who will watch a sequel will have bought any of the EU stuff, so why go to the effort of coming up with deliberately contrary stories?
I haven't read any of the post-RotJ EU stuff and have no investment in it, but the SW universe is so sprawling (and the chances of reuniting the original cast a little remote) that I'm not sure why a company which has just purchased a rich and developed universe of characters and properties would then want to immediately invalidate characters from the canon in which their most ardent supporters would already be invested, instead of just making stories that fit into what they're already selling.  I took it as read, for instance, that between SW movies the characters were having lots of adventures that the movie audiences would never see, and it's been over 25 years since Jedi, so I would imagine there's elbow room for some or even all of the EU stuff to have happened before the new movie starts.

Yup they are trying to turn Star Wars into their very own movie franchise that can go on for ever and ever. Something that has only been pulled off by James Bond so far (although Batman also looks to be heading down that road)...

Godzilla, Ultraman, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, Mothra, Gamera, Wong Fei-Hung, Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, and so on.

Honestly, it's like you've never seen a superhero show.

HE LEARNED IT FROM NINJAS.

Dunno about 99 SW sequels - more likely three main films and a bunch of spin-offs.  Ewoks, probably.

Knock-offs start at the 30 quid mark, and that gets you the same compatibility and a 7 inch screen like what the Kindle has, with the added bonus that Amazon won't remotely delete all your files if you put something on it that they don't approve of*.  I bought a Natpc m009s and would charitably call it a fucking dreadful piece of tat, but for 28 pounds it's a perfectly functional reader with a decent browser.  I don't bother with CBZ/CBR files as a rule because - stability problems aside - like PDFs or any kind of "reading" software outside motion comics, they're redundant if you know how to look at pics on your pc or device, so I just extract the contents as picture files and use those, resulting in zero compatibility problems regardless of what you're reading it on.


*By which I mean books you may have bought from an Amazon store other than the one for your country, ie: you buy a digital book from Amazon US when you live in the UK.  They've remotely wiped entire libraries from some customers' devices for this, so god help you if you fancy putting scanned comics on it, you naughty boy.