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I agree that it isn't really cyberpunk, but a lot of the imagery people would associate with cyberpunk came from Blade Runner.
I would say Repo Man had the attitude, Blade Runner had the backstreet eyeball shops :)

That's the beauty of an anthology comic, you can have all kinds of styles and tones in the same issue.
And if it's depth you want, 2000AD has had it's moments over the years. Oh, yes :)

Dredd: I've come to terms with my sentry issues- The last few pages of action are probably less than a minute of real time, and on the last page it looks like one of them is either looking through binoculars or raising a gun (second panel). They still let the van drive right up to the building like. Incompetent, yes. But this story has shown Justice Department in a harsh light, as Mandroid 1 showed the worst side of the Big Meg. We've had a man with no arms and legs escape from the cubes, a mole in the department, even Dredd feeling guilty over the botched attempt to take Nate down. And now these idiots. The last panel is sublime.

Twisted Tales: I've read it again since it was explained to me, and I did enjoy it a lot more. Not an ideal situation but I'll give Bob the benefit of the doubt because I really liked the 4 other stories of his I've read.

Sin Dex: Great ending to this series, and some the best art I've seen from Anthony Williams. This strip has improved so much in the last few years.

Red Seas: Giant Nazi Robot. "leave my dog alone!" Best thing in the prog.

Button Man: It's really grown on me after a shaky start, I've got a feeling the car probably isn't going to blow up though!

Dead Eyes looks rather nice.

Apologies to Simon Davis for giving too much thought to a comic ;)

Yeah that kind of makes sense. The last couple of pages should have made it a lot clearer.

It's the logic free prog this week, what the hell were those sentry judges doing?! It spoiled the episode a bit for me.

I read the Bob Byrne story first to see if I could understand it!

So he discovers the creatures like blood, he gets them to eat through the wall by putting his own blood onto it for ages, then escapes and... erm... bashes his own face in and jumps in the sea. The creatures then help him get to the mainland, either by swimming or floating. He doesn't drown and then sees a poster of how he used to look.

I liked all the previous ones but this one was pretty sloppy. The storytelling is all over the place, and it felt like it was shoehorned into being a silent story, when maybe it could have been better if it had words.

Sergio Aragones is a master of silent comics, but he doesn't limit himself by just doing them.

I am glad it's in the prog but it weren't great.

The nicest creators I think I've met were Dave Sim, and Pat Mills. Evan Dorkin was really rude to me at an old ukcac but I didn't mind cos I idolised him. ( I asked for a sketch of the same thing the bloke before me did. Oh the faux pas!)

I haven't read Big Numbers in a long, long time.

To the unusually shaped comics pile!

Reading Watchmen again recently it made me realise how impossible it is to overstate how influential it was. I get more out of it every time. Entire careers were built around ideas in that book.

Of the less obvious choices I would also recommend Top Ten if you haven't read it, it really is brilliant.
Of his 2000AD work it would be DR and Quinch.
If I had to choose just one at gunpoint it would be From Hell.

It's weird sometimes seeing things in charity shops and at car boot sales that just a few years ago were must-have items. Shows how quickly consumer culture moves I suppose.

My own two penneth: (whilst understanding the irony of commenting when I have an entire room just for comics! )

I don't think comics are disposable at all. They're a medium, which encompasses everything from hand made mini-comics to ridiculously expensive hardback books.
Somewhere in the middle should be a huge section of affordable, accessible titles for a mass audience that can be disposable. That part of the market is the bit that's been struggling.

I think From Hell deserves to be preserved as a big hardback book because it's one of the great works of literature of the 20th century.

I had so much fun doing the gang war levels! I also spent an embarrassing amount of time looking for Bigfoot too.

San Andreas- the game that's so big it has it's own Urban Legends!

The triathlon is time based I think, you have to be there at the right time, early morning rings a bell. I'm sure there's one that starts on the beach in Los Santos, near the pier.
I did them on my quest to get 100%, you get a Harrier Jump Jet that spawns on top of Sweet's house, and a tank in the underpass of the grove!

I liked the end of Terminator 3. The war had to happen eventually or John Connor would never have been born, cos the time machine would never have been built, so Reese would never have been sent back in time to protect Sarah because there were

my brain hurts now.

Maybe McG will get Beyonce and Pink to play sassy female Terminators.

Yeah he does look like that bloke! He's also in the (really lame) alternate ending with the aged Sarah Connor.

Did you see that satellite we put up the other week? Called Skynet. What the fuck were they thinking?! They might as well have called it Doomsday or something.