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So no more ''R rated movies?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/media/01disney.html

Inspired by the Scarlett Johannson thread (and in no particular order):

Ghostworld
Dick Tracy
X-Men 1 & 2
Hardware (apparently)

This is about the 100 page long year-books that eventually replaced the annuals. Can anyone tell me who published the first ones(2000-2004)? Egmont, Fleetway, or Rebellion?

After the demise of the hardbacks in '91 we had the yearbooks up to '95. What happened after that? Nothing official until Prog 2000?

Cheers.

Anybody else watching it?

Wiggins in 6th (though that won't last past the first mountain stage) and Cav in the green jersey. Way to go the Brits.

Yesterdays team time trial was mayhem though. Half the teams had fallers on a course not suited for time trialing. Menchov went flying on the first corner and a Dutch cyclist was hospitalised and is out of the race. That's not what I want to see.

Hi folks,

any idea who the Invasion artist below is? The story appeared in the 1979 2000 AD annual. Any idea who wrote it?

The second image contains the name Beeton. It looks like a sig to me, but the name doesn't ring any bells. Does anyone have any more info on the mysterious Beeton?

Cheers, Gordon.

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Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a PC friendly version of Defender (the original arcade version - not the dreadful follow-up)?

I had a bunch of Atari arcade games on an Atari anniversary cd that came out many years ago (millipede, asteroids, missile command, et al), but sadly no Defender.

Cheers,
Gordon.

Here's a couple of Youtube links to songs which either mention, or are about, comic strip characters. Got any more? Post them here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdWvau_1p8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujiNiBGEZ2Q (Homer and Crusty)

Gordon here, shamelessly come to raid the Hive Mind of its amassed knowledge of British comics from the last fifty years. Having said that, the forum seems to be struggling to cope both with user-name and pw. Anybody else having log in problems?

If I can get on top of that, expect to see more of me.

If someone can talk me through uploading scans that don't destroy the forum's bandwidth, 'twould be appreciated as well.

BCNU.

Hi all. Back again.

First, any ideas on who wrote and drew the Invasion story? The name Beeton appears surreptitiously in a panel on page 94, in a place where it has no obvious reason to be. Was there an artist called Beeton working at the time? Anyone know anymore about him/her?

Who edited the annual? Would there have been a separate reprint editor on the Guinea Pig and Phantom Patrol stories? As we're on the subject of editors, who would have edited the 1978 annual?

Finally, who was responsible for the "unpublished" Harlem's Heroes story at the back of the book?

Hope to have this index finished this week. No worries if it takes the Hive Mind a while to come up with the answers though, as the GCD errors list allows us to update the indexes any time.

Cheers,

Gordon.

btw. next time I'll have more ???s on Warlord and Lion, among others.