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I thought it was high time there was a dedicated thread to colouring and colourists and COLOURING ADVICE generally.

You mean like a general colouring thread?

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/board,26.0.html

I'll just stick with that one though as I can't really justify buying the same stories over and over again.

Surely a "Cradlegrave" hooded top is a no-brainer?  (I'd post Edmund's cover if I knew how, but don't, sorry...)  I know I'd wear one!

Especially if you had a zip-up mask hood that made it look like the hood is in shadow:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/secret_life_of_tyler/4234403779/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zip-Up-Skeleton-White-Print-Adult-Hooded-Sweatshirt-Hoodie-Costume-Face-Mask-/250908833974
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=zip+up+mask+hoodie&tbm=isch

You can fix that as it is really just a fancy zip file, all you'd need do is renumber the pages.

It might be the stupidest bit of merchandising I've heard off in a while but now it is out there it'd be a crime not to have a Dredd one (I'm sure I can think of at least one person who'd buy one...):

Dynamic Forces is to produce toasters featuring Warner Bros imagery, including the likes of Watchmen, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story, Where the Wild Things Are, The Goonies, Gremlins, Little Shop of Horrors, Watchmen, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mad Magazine, Friends and the like.

The toasters will burn related imagery onto the bread as it cooks.

www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/15/who-watches-the-watchmen-toaster/

I think there is a thread for this in the creatice common bit...

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,26022.0.html

Where do you store all the suits of armour?? I bet it is a closet people aren't going to be able to make jokes about!!

Wonder what this is?

http://www.amazon.com/Thargs-Creepy-Chronicles-Mark-Millar/dp/1781080658

It's the horror-themed collection Simon & Schuster release around Halloween:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Tharg%27s-Creepy-Chronicles/Weston-Chris/9781781080658

Presumably it'll include Silo by Millar/D'Antiquis as well as Chris Weston's "Counts as One Choice," possibly with Wyatt/Bagwell's "Pea Patch Podlings."

[Judge Dredd has been around the States for decades with varying levels of success. How is the IDW approach going to be different?]

Not much new but this from a recent interview:

Judge Dredd has been around the States for decades with varying levels of success.  How is the IDW approach going to be different?

If you had looked at Turtles before we picked up the brand and re-launched it and had tremendous success with it, you could have said the same thing.  The Turtles had been published as comic books and had been around for 20 years and frankly, if you look at the sales of Turtles pre-IDW and post-IDW, it's an extraordinary difference.  Turtles has proven to be a brand that there's a giant market for.  People wanted really well done comic books and I think that's going to be our same approach to Judge Dredd: come up with an editorial plan that's respectful to the character and brings top notch talent and gets people excited to read those comics.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/22868.html

The view from IDW:

Last year you said the digital share of your revenues were insignificant. Is that still the case?
No, it is not the case anymore.  Oddly enough, digital for us is almost exactly 10% of our direct market revenue, and I don't know why that is.  It's like dollar to dollar, from a percentage standpoint, which is just a weird coincidence but it's been holding true, and digital revenue continues to increase at an unbelievable rate for us.

...

There's just no question at this point that selling comics digitally is definitively not impacting [print] comic book sales.  If anything you could make the argument that the success of digital is driving more print comic book sales.  The correlation at this point is that increased digital has resulted in increased print.  Whether or not that is a direct correlation, I don't know how you would figure that out. I can say with no uncertainty that our increased digital revenue has come at a time when we've had increased comic book sales.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/22866.html

So it needn't be doom and gloom.

Fer fucks sakes buy some shoes to float in!

And never swim alone.

Or for the record pissed and/or in shark-infested water (as I know from a failed attempt to swim to Libya).

....now on to Electricity and Gas *headache*

http://www.theenergyshop.com/getHomePage.do

There is the Co-op who are the least evil (they even offer a price comparison feature on their site and make it easy to switch to someone else if you want):

www.cooperativeenergy.coop
www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/may/10/cooperative-gas-electricity-market

They won the bid for the Big Switch a group power buying experiment by Which? and 38 Degrees:

www.which.co.uk/news/2012/05/the-big-switch-secures-savings-of-123-285826/
http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/?s=big+switch
www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/feb/07/big-switch-campaign-cheaper-energy-bills

That is now shut but I'll be keeping an eye out for the next one.

A Financial Times review, an impressive achievement - I can't imagine they mentioned 2000AD much since the Stallone film:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k0ADmJibXwIJ:www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c2d6f5e-997b-11e1-948a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1urPnCbFy

I'd probably buy all 3 of those new Dark Judges Tshirts but Gruddammit I'm a small! A small!

Drink more beer.

That puts paid to the bizarre theory that T.C. Eglington doesn't exist and is a pseudonym for Matt Smith/John Wagner(!)

I didn't think this was a mystery, he is author Tom Eglington (I assume the TC is to differentiate his 2000AD work from his children's books, like Spellbound Hotel):

www.curtisbrown.co.uk/tom-eglington/

Boo Cook is working with him on a creator-owned project, in one post on it he calls him Tom and says he is also the author of Spellbound Hotel:

http://boocook.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/sandy-sci-fi.html