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Is the squirrel the nicest man in comics or wot?

(good wishes t'wards your mate's f-i-l!)

I've said before that whilst I've really enjoyed the dinosaur action, I don't like how all the women are portrayed in Flesh at the moment. They seem to be clones. However, I don't particularly mind how Carter Jr was shown as acting in this episode as it's already been explained what sort of background she's got and as the story has been told you've seen how manipulative and secretive she is. I just wish the other women had been given their own stories and looks so it was as easy to tell them apart as it is the men. I have been quite confused at times.

Love love LOVE the cover. I'm such a Bagwell fangirl now.

ooooh nice one, SBT!

Public Enemy, the occasional Daisy Age track and Saul Williams. I don't really have time to listen out for anything more in that genre given it's not my favourite...

I've just said no to an art gig and feel bad. He was even offering to pay too (and has already paid for me for another job) but I haven't touched my own comic since November. I wish I had more energy and could draw faster. He's a good bloke and I feel bad about letting him down. Gah.

It does my heart good when I hear about how kind people can be when someone is in distress. You often see 'thankyou' letters in local newspapers and it makes me feel that my fellow humans aren't all bad.

I'm glad you're okay.

Snogs and shocks.* Ace.

*I never saw the spoilers.

I like the moody greytones too. I also especially like that bottom panel of the perp holding the knife because of his expression and the way the hair shows the direction of his movement.

I hope Emp's ear is getting better. That sounds horrid.

I have been trying to build a new bicycle. It's a bottom of the line folding bike and the instructions are for an entirely different type of bike completely. I've used a lot of lateral thinking and I've almost got to the end. I just have to fix the lights, check the breaks and figure out the foldy mechanisim. I have NO idea how the bike is supposed to fold and the instructions are for a non-folding mountain bike.

I had to stop because my back felt like it was going to snap in two and my head was thumping. The air had turned blue too. I'll have another go at finishing tomorrow.

(It's quite cute - a silver colour. I've called it Frankie after Frankie Valli. He did a song called Silver Star in the 70s which occasionally occupies my brain and refuses to leave.)

The others aren't wrong. I like the sensitivity of the shading and linework too.

If I can afford the Prog I can afford the Meg. However, if pushed I'd read the Prog rather than the Meg just because it's weekly. I love 'Comics Day' now just as much as when I was a little kid.

No-one really knows what that poor lad got mixed up in but it just seems that his killers are forensically aware - which in my mind points to the secret services. Someone has done their best to smear his memory with rumours of his sex life too.

Sylvanian Families just came out after I'd given up toys and I was secretly heartbroken. I was a big My Little Pony Collector for a couple of years. Sylvanian Families are lovely.

I don't think there's a problem with borrowing another artist's layout if it's fully acknowledged as a learning opportunity (rather than a commercial one) and you've chosen to borrow from a nice bloke who isn't likely to go thermonuclear too. He might well be flattered.

And in a lot of professional art, 'quotations' are going on all the time, especially the Last Supper by Da Vinci. It's often to make a point or for fun.

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As a straight thriller at the moment Snapshot seems a bit out of place in the Meg but it was good all the same. It is very uncompressed though. Is it going to take forever to show any movement in the plot?

I LOVE Strange and Darke. It is so up my street it lives in my house.

I liked Tales from the Black Museum too. The art was predictably cool and the story was nice and dark.

I didn't get interested in the Dredd story although I felt a twinge of regret when the Transexual criminal got his/her just deserts as I quite liked him/her...

I didn't realise Steve Parkhouse had been working since the 60s. He seems to have had a bit of a difficult career at times. I seem to have missed most of the stories he drew - I only remember Big Dave and I remember thinking that if that story had been in its own comic it would probably had had massive cult status but 2000AD was full of edgy prankish post-modern media aware stuff at the time and it just seemed like it was shouting to be heard. Great art though.