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Dan Abnett and Simon Coleby teaming up too.

The Red Seas sounds a good bet - it is well written and full of derring-do. If he liked Pirates of the Caribbean then its a dead cert.

Also have a look at the big twos big collections. DC's "Showcase Presents" are realy nicely priced volumes giving 500-600 pages of classic superhero adventures (the kidn that hooked a lot of us as kids). JLA, Superman or Batman would seem good places to start (although I see they have Challengers of the Unknown and other different ones - depends on taste I suppose). Ditto Marvel's Essentials - as well as superheroes they have Godzilla as well as a number of horror volumes.

All I can find is that it was a proposed series from 1978.

Link: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Order=Date&Piece=93652&GSub=8260&GCat=0&UCat=0" target="_blank">Sam Street

Jeez I can do that!!

It seems even worse than that as the filters seem to be applied fairly indiscriminately so the Scarface one looks pretty much like the picture, the Bruce Lee looks horrible (it looks like it came off a low quality picture form the Internet or was scanned in from a newspaper), Charles Hawtery looks like he has poo on his face (which may or may not have been something he was into but you'd not want it on your wall) and the Judge Death one is very blurry and you'd certainly want to see the detail on that.

Link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Judge-Death-Judge-Dredd-Huge-Pop-art-canvass_W0QQitemZ190060561870QQihZ009QQcategoryZ75295QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Judge Death: The blur of doom

The first one is inspired and possibly was one of the funniest things I've seen on You Tibe. The second one has the whiff of dead horse flogging.

Weirdly I stumbled across this the other day too.

Nice art and a great premise. It'll be interesting to see how it develops (although I fear it might be the realisation that they are in a computer game).

Space Girls - because the other four are all funny!

Then again I had started to believe that Space Girls wasn't supposed to be funny. It was more an experiment designed to see how much abuse people would take before cancelling their subscription.

Most of us fools hung on crying ourselves to sleep muttering "it must get better soon, it must. Hold on a little longer. Remember the heydays."

In years to come it will be up there with the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Due to this major flaw I refuse to vote.

Well worth watching.

It isn't the new Donnie Darko but it gets the physics right ;)

I still need to watch it a few more times I suspect.

Seems the Beeb have snagged http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/11_november/23/heroes.shtml

Ooops sorry - that was a typo ;)

As some wise soul said (actually about the colouring on Sin/Dex I believe): "Photosshop can be used for good or evil"

So it depends. I suspect 99% of the techncial trickery passes us right by (the point of using it after all should be so you don't even realised its been used) and we only see it when it goes wrong. I know people whoa re good with Photoshop who could have made that text appear seamless. So topmarks to the unappreciated pixel pushers.

I can only assume other external factors are the result of the occasional ball being dropped and everyone does a fine job getting thing sout on time week in and week out and sometimes pressures will result in mistakes but they are few and far between - or I rarely notice them. I did go through the mag looking for the actual special effects and while I'm not 100% convinced by "Thwak!" and "Spak!" I have never beaten a man up in a prison cell so I have no idea how realistic it is (I know writers cometimes have ride-alongs with the police, or it was in Powers so it must be real, so I assume 2000 AD writers get day trips to prisons where they can beat inmates with a range of objects. "Next up a bar of soap in a sock. Then I'm going to jab a sharpened toothbrush handle up your jacksie") bu I notice "Thwak" also turns up in Nikolai Dante just without he exclamation mark (that must show the difference between being duffed in in a silken boudoir and a stark prison cell.

So nothing that stans ou as bad there - worthy of note are Simon Bowland's exclamations/SFX on the first page of Chairyscary which work really nicely. I had noticed his lettering work before as there are a range of types deployed, all of which work very well and really helps iron out any potential confusion: the wiggly tailed off screen bubble (with a starburst where it is coming through and object like a door), the phone bubble and the inverted bubble of evil. A worth addition to the team.

So, are the Sov block guilty, or are such claims just 'ridiculous'? Could a country that killed a million people building a canal, switch salt sellers on a suspicious spy?

My favourite Thallium fact of the day:

"In June 2004, 25 Russian soldiers earned Honorable Mention Darwin Awards after becoming ill from thallium exposure when they found a can of mysterious white powder in a rubbish dump on their base at Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. Oblivious to the danger of misusing an unidentified white powder from a military dump site, the conscripts added it to tobacco, and used it as a substitute for talcum powder on their feet"

Does go some way to answering my question: "How did Reagan win the Cold War??"

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium#Famous_uses" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium#Famous_uses

You have a number of things to run through (bck up your files first as it could be a sign somethig is about to go bang):

1. Run virus and spypot scans.

2. Start in safe mode - does this fix it? If not it may be a hradware/OS problem

3. Go into system restore (Accessories >> Systesm Tools) and go back a few months or to a time before this started happening.

4. Reinstal Windows - just run it from the CD (make sure you back up just in case)

5. Format you HD and do a complete reinstal.

I'd rather it didn't get as far as 5 and I might have it fully checked before going down that road but find that System Restore fixes most problems before getting to that point. PC World do a good service - I took my brother's PC in and they didn't even charge. However, a local computer store might be the best ooption.

Previews are out.

Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9192" target="_blank">http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9192

New Warhammer 40k comic book coming in December co-written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton. The interview (link below) links to an earlier one with an Abnett clone (#43 if I had to guess).

Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8940" target="_blank">Ian Edginton Interview