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Many thanks radiator. This forum is incredible.

So there are three volumes of the Megazine? How many issues did each of the first two volumes run? I'll have to check which volumes I actually have.

All the while this idiot in the writing class was cheating he was only cheating himself and wasting everyone elses time as well as well as giving apples to the teacher.

You wont learn anything by cheating.

Being honest with myself, what bothered me most is that I was jealous - and I rarely get jealous. But as an 18 year old with aspirations of being a writer, looking across the room at a fellow not much older and churning out great professional stuff beyond his years was difficult to take. I got jealous, got mad at myself for being jealous, and went home and tried to glue my fragile psyche back together. Stupid as the whole thing was, I was incredibly sensitive about it - so much so that it stuck with me through these past eight years. And for some reason, even though I found out he was a fraud, I don't feel any better.

And that's why Life Spugs.

I though the BWS part might be of interest.

And though this might be the wrong place to say so...Conan destroys Slaine in every single way  .

Hello all...you guys have been great on getting me up to 2000AD speed so far, but I've got a few more questions and then I will probably stop asking questions for awhile. Here goes:

I bought several collections recently and have got a stack of 2000AD Sci-fi Specials and some 2000AD Mega-Special. Is this all reprinted material?

I've also got the first 50 or so Megazines and it appears to be material not in the Progs...at what point did it start reprinting stuff?

Should I try to read the Megazines that correspond to the Progs published at the same time, or do they rarely crossover?

Thanks in advance guys!

Ooh, just found out about this guys. Top of my must have list as of...right...now.



THE BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH CONAN ARCHIVES VOLUME 1

Written by Roy Thomas, art by Barry Windsor-Smith.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0908/11/conanarchives1.htm



In 1970, Barry Windsor-Smith burst onto the comic-book scene with his

dynamic portrayal of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, altering

the course of the blue-eyed Cimmerian forever, and cementing himself

as one of the greatest artists to touch pencil to paper. Nearly forty

years later, Dark Horse Comics, in the tradition of the Dark Horse

Archives collections, reprints Barry Windsor-Smith's entire run on

Marvel's Conan the Barbarian in two fine hardcover volumes!

The first volume of The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives includes

such classic tales as Rogues in the House and The Tower of the

Elephant, written by Roy Thomas and fully illustrated by Barry

Windsor-Smith -- now presented as they were intended, remastered using

the original color palette!

This volume reprints the first half of Barry Windsor-Smith's run on

Conan the Barbarian.

200 pages, $49.95, in stores on Jan. 20.

The sniveling bastard.   And what a maroon of a teacher that he didn't cop it at the time.  In my mercifully brief stint as a lecturer plagarism (and there was plenty) stood out like a bloody beacon, and yet students always seemed shocked when they were caught out (my favourite:  cut-and-paste sections from Encarta that still had their American spellings intact).  Obviously there's a far wider field to police in creative writing, but still....

The sniveling bastard.

The thing that bothers me most, I think, is that most people that sign up for creative writing classes - or any other class artistic in nature - want to be creative and express themselves. This may be good or bad depending on the student's talent, but at least work is being put in. This fellow took the space of someone that wanted to be there to learn and practice, and stole his passing grade.

American spelling intact? Wow, that is bad. No wonder they were easy to catch!

If you post from time to time you will only add to what makes this particular forum so much better than any other!

The countdown to our mega-epic continues...

Cover: Okay.

Nerve Center: Tharg sounds awfully confident in what he's got in store for us. I take this as a very good sign.

Dredd: Have to admit, the ending of this was brilliant. Judge Joseph is a neat character, and one that I hope makes an encore appearance later on. Good fun.

Sin/Dex: 10 pages of continuing meh.

Red Seas: Finally, I've figured out what I dislike about the art: lack of background. So much white space. That said, the characters and action is done nicely. The dialogue is enjoyable and the story is fun.

Defoe: These are some incredible zombies. Fantastic atmospheric art. Amazing, simply amazing. Each panel has so much going on (like the story) it's almost too difficult to take it all in at once. I love this strip!

Letter's page: Positive letter except one, and Tharg tackles the gripes nicely. However, for once I hope Tharg is mistaken - he says, "Many are the humanoids that foolishly underestimate the awesomeness of the Mighty One!" Well let's hope not, otherwise many are the humanoids missing out on some quality entertainment lately!

Fantastic Prog!

My dad insured a bunch of old baseball cards and someone from the insurance company came out to look at them and document them. Then again, they are worth quite a bit.

When I insured my complete collection of Conan the Barbarians, I took pics myself and sent them to my homeowner's insurance.

But I too would be interested in what a complete run of 2000ADs go for...and that's what makes these classifieds so difficult to guage; I've made offers to a couple of sellers and been dismissed - not to slag the sellers, I hate making the initial offer to buy. I like to see a price and then go from there.

Rant on:

A few days ago I received the book "Dark Forces" a collection of short horror stories written by some of the top authors in the genre, including Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Karl Edward Wagner, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King and so forth. This morning, I read the tale "Dark Angel" by Edward Bryant and found myself incredibly angry. Here's why:

As a freshman and sophmore in college I took a creative writing course. The first year went on and a fellow whose name eludes me now established himself as the teacher's pet - he was constantly praised, his work continually rea aloud to the class. I have to admit I was a bit envious, because he always presented well-polished lyrical prose for reading sessions while, the rest of the class generally showed up with what amounted to rough or first drafts. Stories were due at the end of every week, and had to be anywhere from 5 to 10 pages. Fine, except most of us were full-time students with a heavy workload - so a 10 page story was a difficult task. Anyway, this bloke was flawless every week while I had many of my endeavors ripped into by the professor. Quite disheartening.

There was a story he wrote - and I only remember it because that night we both were to read our works aloud to the class - that dealt with a voodoo curse a woman puts on a man. He had abandoned her after getting her pregnant and she returned the favor by using magic to have him conceive a child, the hitch being that when she fashioned the clay voodoo doll, she left out a birth canal. His story was praised by the teacher and the class, again was extremely well-written and well thought out. Again I will admit I was jealous, though mostly because my effort was dismissed with little comment.

At the end of every year, like most schools, the creative arts department published an annual showcasing art, photos, poems and short stories. I had a story or two in the annual every year, but this guy didn't. I put it off to him being stuck up about it - because I figured he had to be publishing elsewhere. Well, there was a much different reason for that...

Well, this morning as I read "Dark Angel" I was struck by how familiar it was to me even though I had never before heard of the author. As the tale unfolded I began to realize I had read it before - in that damn creative writing class. That bastard had ripped it off word-for-word, and had probably ripped all of his stories off.

Maybe I should feel good about it, that I "caught" him after all this time, that he couldn't really have been that good - but I feel sick instead, and disgusted. I think about how I struggled to complete those stories in between classes and on late nights while my buddies were partying, and I remember how amazing the teacher thought he was and how marked up my pages were when returned to me.

How I wish I would have read this then and could have shot him down. But then, that's petty isn't it? I shouldn't have been envious anyway. So he got away with it. Looking back now I realize that he was an idiot; had be been caught, he would have been booted from the university and that would have been that. Hell, maybe he did get caught at some point. I guess the my revenge is that when I got my first story published I felt immense satisfaction and pride - he may have snowed the professor, but had to feel extremely empty afterwards. Especially if he truly wanted to be a writer.

Anyway, not sure anyone will read this rambling post but it is nice to get this out.

And try to attract a hedgehog to your garden. Cute for the kids to watch, and hungry for slugs in the meantime.

*head explodes*

Did no one catch this sly reference by Mr. Holden? Funny stuff.

Funny story - we had to abandon the fruit and veggie garden this year because my 6 year old daughter started "snail collecting", hunting for snails with pretty shells and keeping them in a small aquarium I bought her (I know, I know, but it's terribly difficult for a daddy to resist his little girl as some of you may well know). Anyway, she was so mortified by the dead snails and slugs that for the sake of her potential pets, I called it quits for this season  .

So says Mr. Cameron:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnS7CGWNmU&feature=related

Thanks guys, that means a lot to me. Cheers!