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From the Grauniad:

Hardy is reportedly signed up for three more instalments and a separate live action show is also apparently in the works. But Miller, now 70, suggested a pause might be necessary before work on follow-ups began.

"I feel like a woman who's just given birth to a really big baby. And then someone says: 'When are you gonna have your next one?"

Brendan McCarthy just pointed out that Tony Riot also worked on Fury Road back in the day...  Awesome!

http://tonyvwright.tumblr.com/

Seeing the essential American obsession with the automobile as a symbol of personal freedom reduced to a fundamental car-cult religion is genius...

I think George Miller originally made Mad Max in part as a reflection of the Aussie obsession with cars and vehicular mayhem (see also The Cars that ate Paris) which he saw as his nation's counterpart to American gun culture.  See also The Cars that ate Paris which, coincidentally, also starred everyone's favourite gyrocopter pilot, Bruce Spence.

Oh hey, did you spot the Gyrocopter Captain's skull in there...? Haha!

And wasn't it booby trapped?  It appeared to explode, anyway (as far as I could see) which seemed quite fitting, somehow.

Fantastic film; amazed by the relentlessness from start to finish (and the missus loved it too) and a repeat viewing is definitely on the cards.

90 reviews in on Rotten Tomatoes now: 99% fresh; 89 positive reviews and then there's the Daily Mirror... Pffft.

I'm so happy to see this being met with such overwhelming positivity from across the board; really very heartening.  I'll be heading out to see this tomorrow with a bit of luck! 

100% on Rotten Tomatoes after 16 reviews,

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/

Till Daily Mail...

...or the Daily Mirror.  Meh.

Anyway, the opening paragraph of the Time Out review gives a nice indication of the overall impact:

The fourth instalment of George Miller's punky post-apocalyptic 'Mad Max' saga feels like a tornado tearing through a tea party. In an age of weightless movie spectacles, here's a movie that feels like it was made by kidnapping $150 million of studio money, fleeing with it to the Namibian desert, and sending footage back to Hollywood like the amputated body parts of a ransomed hostage

http://www.timeout.com/london/film/mad-max-fury-road

The seller is Cam's daughter I believe - Isobelle. Lovely page!

Isobel is Cam's wife...  Presumably inspiration for Izzy in Kenny Who?

Delivered everything expected of it (i.e. decent fun, not to be taken very seriously).

The best bit for me was spotting Norwich's own Super Lair (i.e. the Sainsbury Centre); I used to walk past that pretty much every day for four years.  Who'd have thunk it?

Wow - great service Ming - a scan would be rather good if thats allowed - you have my email?

All done - hope you enjoy the trip down No-memory-of-this-whatsoever Lane.

Cheers Zen - noty going to get a chance before then myself, so if you can confirm the existence of "The Iraldi Job" then it would be much appreciated - it's not ringing any bells at all!

Yup - a six page text story (pp. 121-126) with illustrations by Robin Smith.  Curiously, the script is credited to J.H. Teed and the art to Chiaroscuro.  If you need a scan for perusal just give me a shout.

The Goon is great!  You'll love it.

Might well have been posted before but, in my opnion, no right-minded person can never get enough hot ekranoplan action.

http://www.unp.me/f44/russians-used-to-build-iron-pterosaurs-73705/

Daggnabbit - this used to be rerally straight forward, get an image linkie, copy it in and use the image button BUT for some reason that's coming as a broken thingie. I've made the image public, tried Picaso and Dropbox (both of which I've used before) but this is just befuddling me!

http://imgur.com/

...is pretty idiot-proof, Colin.  There are various ready-made links after you drag-and-drop and hit upload; give it a whirl, maybe?

Weird, I don't remember Dominic West being in Star Wars.

Looks simply amazing - not been excited about a film since, well, ever.