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Wow. You people will fight about anything.

No we won't!!

I am officially an arse.  I was so busy I forgot to put in the link that I started a thread about!

Here it is:

http://makeyourownthen.tumblr.com/

I've added the link to the first post.

What, me declaring myself as an arse or my comment on the writer/artist ratio?

Or he might be referring to:

"If you are spending hours writing or reading fanfic, you COULD be making comics. If you are spending hours doing fanart, you COULD be making comics." -- Gail Simone

Which translates as: "Make comics!!!"

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Years ago, I saw an painting in a magazine (I think it may have been Starlog) that totally blew me away. It had a figure, in full Invisible Man garb - trench coat, fedora shades and bandages - walking past a neon - lit peep show joint. Some of the bandages had come away to reveal a feminine hand. I've no idea as to the artist or a title. I've tried looking online but to no avail. Perhaps the mighty, all - seeing Hivemind can assist me?   

Doom Patrol?

A tribute from Henry Flint:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/for-brett-ewins-from-henry-flint/

That's beautiful.

He wrote a bit more on his blog:

he was the first professional to contact me when I was 17, 5 years before getting my first break. Thanks for the encouragement, Brett.

http://henryflint.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/tribute-to-brett-ewins/

Dark Jimbo. 'Nuf said.

I got a reply back from Steve Pound, he is visiting Brett on Friday, he will let me know what happens and I'll circulate the update.

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Also that tourism revenue wouldn't be diminished if they were mere figureheads with no constitutional role.

I'm not sure this is entirely true.  There are plenty of royal dynasties cluttering up Europe, but none with the international prominence or cachet of the UK's - due in part I suspect to their ongoing relevance in the state's business, and the perceived quaintness thereof.

I can't see it making a blind bit of a difference to a tourist - they see the Queen one day, pop over to Stonehenge on another, etc. and I can't see people avoiding Stonehenge because it no longer has the power it used to, it is important because of the history and the impressiveness.

It's purely idealogical really, and admittedly there are no real practical benefits of being a citizen for the average person.

As citizens we'd get a proper written constitution, which would have knock on effects in all sorts of areas, like this example from George Monbiot concerining the City of London:

If you've ever dithered over the question of whether the UK needs a written constitution, dither no longer. Imagine the clauses required to preserve the status of the Corporation. "The City of London will remain outside the authority of parliament. Domestic and foreign banks will be permitted to vote as if they were human beings, and their votes will outnumber those cast by real people. Its elected officials will be chosen from people deemed acceptable by a group of medieval guilds ...".

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval

For a more general overview:

www.republic.org.uk/britishconstitution/
www.republic.org.uk/case/

All that said, I think the UK monarchy is presently an asset for that state.  While I wouldn't cross the street to gawp at them myself, the royals represent in physical form a long history and elaborate, colourful traditions, that help define national identity and international perception (from a cultural impact an tourism point of view).

However purely symbolic or ceremonial they actually are I still can't accept the argument that tourism revenue is any basis for a system of government. After all, plenty of people still visit the Palace of Versailles.

Also that tourism revenue wouldn't be diminished if they were mere figureheads with no constitutional role. Taking back all the land they've stolen (including vast swathes of the sea bed, from which they stand to earn millions from wind farms) and essentially becoming a republic would not stop a single tourist coming along and standing outside our Buckingham Palace to gawp at historical (and genetic) oddities we allow to live there.

"Eat Quality Comics knuckleduster creeps"

In terms of Question 8, I've always been under the impression that Viz way outsells The Beano, The Dandy and 2000ad multiple times, hence those crappy Viz copiers years ago; Smut and Zit are all I remember.

In its heyday Viz was apparently shifting well over a million copies an issue (hence all those rip-off), last figures put it at 64k, which is a massive drop but is still shifting more than most of the American comic books (especially before the New 52 relaunch), which is not too shabby when you consider the differences in population.

DTT has a summary of the last 6 years of British comics sales, where they are available:

http://www.downthetubes.net/resources/comics_links/comics_by_country/ukcomicssales.html

"OK who stuck their thumb up my ass?"

I noticed today that this has been picked up by the psychology-lite glossy magazine, 'Psychologies' (it sits on the shelf nestled between 'Predictions' magazine and 'Soul & Spirit'). The line they are going with on the cover is 'at last, the introverts are winning,' but it isn't clear from the article inside in what way exactly.

It does raise an interesting question: How do you win at life? I'd suggest: by not dying. I seem to be doing OK at the moment.

This might not be the most exciting thing on the thread (duh!) - how to compare with wanking gauntlets and jaw dropping star fields? - but it's one of those things that keeps me interested in Stuff, and beats working.

Ah but it is mysteries such as those that make life worth living. Granted not everyone would be that interested in some old mud and gravel, but it is all part of the big puzzle.