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Randy Cain of The Delfonics, RIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2OGsI0 ... re=related

The text story in volume 2 is great fun, it's set between volume 2 and Black Dossier, and it's got stuff like them meeting Orlando, the awful truth about Santa, and the tale of how they get rejuvenated.

Taito should sue everyone.

27th of this month supposedly!

How exciting it is to have two massive stories running like the current Dredd and Dante, I got the proper thrill-shivers in the newsies today!

Aww cheers Bolt!
I've started a thread for it in books n comics,

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=24680

Had some good feedback so far!

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Nova is a good homage to old-school Marvel cosmic adventures, but obviously not a patch on ROM the Spaceknight.  Guardians of the Galaxy is a fantastic name for a comic, and the book itself is great fun, if a little over the place (but does feature Rocket Raccoon alongside a space-lost cosmic-powered Soviet cosmonaut that just happens to be a talking dog, and a walking tree that spends all it's time shouting it's name and smacking aliens around the head), and War of Kings is shaping up to be a lot better-formed than previous Marvel cosmic crossovers like Annihilation and Conquest, tieing together the Inhumans and X-Men backing casts for a large-scale super-ruck that you can easily believe is going to be rather destructive and fun to witness.
Personally, I loved that DnA (Abnett scripts alonside old LSH co-scribe Andy Lanning) dragged 1990s hardass Darkhawk from the pit he'd fallen into thanks to the abysmal 'Loners' non-comic and turned the character around in the space of about two pages.  After two years of sitting around a room whining about his feelings (really), he showed up in Nova trying to kill everyone with his bare hands just because and I remember thinking: "I like this guy again.  I would totally buy his series."
Authority is not so great because it's hamstrung by a company-wide crossover that affects all Wildstorm's books by making them permanently post-apocalyptic.  I have no idea why this has been done, but constantly referencing it and their post-apocalyptic depowered status quo kind of makes the Authority and their stories less interesting.  It reads very like an early 90s Marvel UK comic aimed at the US market - not really my thing then or now.  Not terrible - just not terribly interesting.

You had me at cosmonaut space dog. I've been meaning to try GotG for a while now.

I loved The Forge of God, and Eon too.

I've finished Anno Dracula, it was superb from start to finish, and it had a cheeky Dark Shadows reference in it which made me smile too.

Next up is To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer, I've been meaning to read the Riverworld series for years. It's a shame it took him passing away to get my arse in gear though, but I'm excited about starting it.

Note to Meg-Tharg:
Poor old Booga keeps getting his name spelled wrongly on the recap page...

Bloody good Meg this month though, Greenbonce.

I get 259 by 168 mm off last months Batman, Jim.

I'm on the fpi blog!

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=12385

Thanks very much for all the kind words folks, episode 2 will be up on friday!

I'm totally back into it, watched every episode so far. Second time around it's just as brilliant.

I got it yesterday, it's brilliant, I've read it twice now.
[spoiler:27vi35l6]half animal on a stick shit me right up.[/spoiler:27vi35l6]

Welcome foggy!

Thanks fellas!
Buttonman- the finale to The Stink will be up tonight! Honest!