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Question three - any artists or writers drop in on the forum?

There are a few regulars and other occasional visitors:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?action=mlist;sort=id_group;start=0

Question five - rude - unpolite question - why would I buy full price when this site sells back issues so cheap? I could wait and buy runs at half the price or less by waiting a month. Seems counter productive on the sales fount.

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think back progs are always so cheap - there is currently a sale on. You'd need to wait a year to get those prices again and, once you are hooked on thrillpower, waiting the 4 days between subscribers getting their copy and it appearing in the shops can be difficult - waiting months would be agony!!

Well I didn't do a good job of that last time. However, I think this April might be different. I've started getting all my projects up to speed and being able to blast out a solid slab of pages would be a big help to move everything forward.

Can't remember it ever being confirmed, but I imagine that the prison wardens, Cursed Earth rangers, west wall gunners and the like are made up of ex-judges or those that didn't cut it as regular judges.

I think we've kicked this around before.

I tend to like the idea that you get your full eagle when you graduate as a Street Judge, but this takes a very special combination of skills, personality and training. Those who don't make it would be redirected into other areas depending on their aptitudes - so methodical detail-oriented people might become a Forensics Judge, those good with machines become Tek Judges, sneaky gits end up in PSU, really sneaky gits get swept up by the SJS, etc. Otherwise there would be large numbers of disgruntled people with Judge training being put out onto the streets and this could be a disaster. Only those who really don't fit are then ejected completely from the system - we saw this in Marauder and it is clear the mayhem even one such individual can cause, I'd imagine quite a few others are swept up into private security firms which would tend to keep them out of trouble, but in the longer term it could cause larger problems (I read the other day that Group Four have 600,000 employees - which is quite a private army). There is potential for a story in there...

Now where did I put my underwear?

On your head.

Well I don't think the timing could be better!!

[Flesh]

Flesh:  I weep, weep I say, for anyone who doesn't think this is raw throbbing genius. 

You probably shouldn't read the review for this Prog on my blog then. 

To keep everything joined up and future-proofed:

http://britcitreviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/prog-1775-the-zaucer-of-zilk/

ag. When did you send this off? Because if it's within the last two months I know someone who'll be PRETTY FUCKING HACKED OFF about the speediness of this script reply

Somewhere between a 3-4 weeks:

lol my future shock is finished (its only 5 pages ie an evening - if a story is flowin it shouldn't take long!) .... Need to wait til the weekend though to get to a library to print it off cos I'm poor like that but aye that's done and dusted

and a week:

But yesh I forgot to say I sent my futureshock away w00t w00t

Ssshhh! We're all hiding...

I'm not.

I am.

I would ... start a thread called "Get Owen in the prog" and hope by persistent posting and pictures of my boobs it would somehow happen.

You should do this anyway.

Volume 2 out now:

www.selfmadehero.com/title.php?isbn=9781906838430

There is a Directors Commentary with Simon Spurrier and Matt Timson talking us through their adaptation of "The Festival":

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/directors-commentary-matt-timson-talks-us-through-some-lovecraftian-fun/

Director's Commentary on Zaucer of Zilk - I can't imagine I'd ever recover from getting that email from Brendan McCarthy!!

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/directors-commentary-zaucer-of-zilk/

The 2000AD novice reviews at FP continue:

It's a great, typically high concept Pat Mills story. Time travelling Dino-farming. Cowboy cattle drive meets Jurassic Park. Logic may be flawed though – surely better and safer to time travel back a little less and just farm safer animals?

I've long maintained that Pat Mills is perhaps the greatest exponent of writing 2000AD format stories; the perfect 6-page episodic writer. In fact, he does it so well, that reading his work from 2000AD in longer form actually feels slightly wrong. But here, it's perfectly done. A great, great start.

Great decision with this one to stick with black and white as well, as Mckay's rather loose line and scratchy artwork looks suitably rough and raw – tooth and claw indeed, just as nature should be.

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Age Of The Wolf continues to impress as well. Good solid artwork and writing in it, nice storyline developing as the wolves of Britain circle the heroes, smarter than before, learning, more dangerous....

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/2012-2000ad-pledge-prog-1774/

The Laundry files, 3 books by Charles Stross...The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue & The Fuller Memorandum.  James Bond meets Cthulhu.

I've enjoyed them, the first stories are a bit rough around the edges but enjoyable. Also read his A Colder War:
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

If you like those then give Tim Power's Declare a spin.

Well now we have clarified that, this gets my vote.

I think the lack of Scojo (and some temporary bans) have made people forgot what it used to be like on the forum, time for some excessive and arbitrary terror!!