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I'm not going to worry about it until the prog reaches 1950, which, of course, it may not.

(Plus I'd already come to the same conclusions as Oddboy re indexing.)

The real bummer is remembering where they (the xmas progs) come in the numbering order, which is one of the reasons I created my http://amenable.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/twoKindex/" target="_blank">2K index.

Prog 2000, aka prog 1173.5
Prog 2001, aka prog 1222.5
Prog 2002, aka prog 1272.5
Prog 2003, aka prog 1321.5
Prog 2004, aka prog 1370.5
Prog 2005, aka prog 1419.5
Prog 2006, aka prog 1468.5

Whoever thought of it really does want a slap, though, eh?  I mean, christ on a push-bike - what were they thinking?

Judge Dredd, Caballistics, Inc., Nikolai Dante, Slaine, Low Life, The Ten-Seconders & Strontium Dog.

Only Nemesis could increase the thrill-power.

Anyone else excited?

(And do we get a Meg on the same day?)

Oh my poor heartses!

I was a bit anxious that we didn't get to hear about some of the people - like the scuba diver - what happened to him?  And the German family - did they survive?

Sidling back into the whole religion thing for a moment - some of the safest buildings in any of the places hit were the churches and mosques - because they're well built.  So, a positive side-effect of organised religion.

It couldn't be that they're simply trying to find something positive, however small, admist their otherwise ruined lives, then?

Foolish troll (and foolish me for responding).

Cheers LMS - I'm pretty ignorant about world religions - they fed us full of christianity when I was at school and pretended that the others didn't exist.

I quite like the "Earth atop a giant tree" religion of those islanders.

It was interesting that the documentary had a "6 months later" bit at the end.  People were using religion to rationalise what had happened to them - whether it was christianity, the muslim faith [muslimanity?!] or Buddhism.

None of those faiths saved them from the disaster - they just let the survivors cope with their loss.

According to one young man who lost his entire family, Allah just lones us all out to an Earth-bound existence, and he can take us back anytime he likes.  (And it's not a punishment because he takes them away to paradise.)

With a man who lost his wife and daughter, Buddhism tells him that it's all karma - that he committed some serious karmic crime in a previous life and now he's paying for it.

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The Thailand sequences were pretty scary - the tide went out way too far, way too quickly, but nobody seemed to realise what was happening - and you could see this wall of water approaching, but people didn't seem to realise that it was coming towards them - they thought it was something happening in the sea - so they stood filming it for what seemed like ages - as it swallowed boats and got closer.

You could hear a woman saying to her husband, "maybe it's a tsunami" and him going "nahhh!"  A few minutes later they were running for their lives.

Just saw an amazing documentary on the beeb called Tsunami: Seven Hours On Boxing Day.

There was an island that has a protected primitive people living on it, and of all the places hit, they were the only ones to get no casualties at all.

Their religion says that the Earth rests on top of a giant tree, and good spirits leave in the branches and like humans, but evil spirits live at the trunk and want to hurt humans.

When evil spirits shake the tree, it tilts the Earth, which always tilts back because everything must remain in balance.

When they saw the water go out, they knew that the evil spirits had shaken the tree, and that a tsunami would come as it tilted back, so they all ran into the forest immediately as far as they could go.

Why not just get her a xmas present and tell her that it's for both her birthday AND xmas.

Ah, it'll be a 30th to remember...

[Judge Dredd: Global Psycho]

++SPOILERS++

++YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, PUNK!++

Summary:  it's a cliffhanger prog that(sort of) clears the decks (or smashes them, in the case of The Red Seas) for Prog 2006.

Judge Dredd: Global Psycho
This is great - a fantastic introduction to a great new villain - AND we got to see her boobelage!  Woof!

Lovely art from Gibson - I had no problem with the CPU text - it was inkeeping with the art style.

I've been reading a lot on the boards lately about how Rennie doesn't quite 'get' Dredd - but I'll be honest, with this story, I had no idea who'd written it (until I read this thread) - it was just coming across as great Dredd.


The Red Seas: Underworld
Quote of the week: "Bill McKenzie's no hellspawn's haddock!"

What I said last prog - lovely, treat-filled art from Master Yeowell in this epic fantasy.  Hollow Earth!  Dinosaurs with boxing gloves!

This reminds me of that Devlin Waugh epic (Reign of Frogs et al) with it's sense of scope.  A shame I have to wait a while to find out what happens next - but that's the way this cookie has crumbled (and I had to wait years for The Empire Strikes Back).  Great cliffhanger.

Sinister Dexter: ...And Death Shall Have No Dumb Minions
Holy funt!

I may have said I wanted the boys to be less bullet-proof, but ... but ... *sniff*

But if there's an alternate reality Moses, then how about the alternate reality Sin, Dex 'n' Demi?  How about "a real happy endin'"?  I can't do much with this except gnash and wail.

AMAZING art from Simon Davis.  The copters, the police lights, the bloody splash shot...tis funtin' beautiful, so it is.


Adendum
I finally did it - I finally persuaded one of my students to become a Squaxx!  Prog 1468, along with my explanation as to why it's called 2000AD (he was saying "but that's, like, 5 years ago") has inspired him to buy Prog 2006 in a week or so and to pick up his drawing implements again for the first time in yonks.

All I had to do to persuade him was show him that full-page shot of Tracy and Dexter, the dinosaur with boxing gloves and Gibson's nipples (so to speak).

"For me Sin and Dex aren't dead but hovering at deaths door."

That's what seemed to be happening in prog 2006 - they could have gone on to die, but events are compelling them to live, at least for a while.

Expect hospital scenes...

What he said.

Cheers Mr X.

Fecking good job, by the by.  Proof, if proof be needed, that just about any years-long 2K saga can be summarised on the back of a beer-mat.  If you write small.  And if beer-mats still exist.

Now that I've been reminded, I sort of remember Croak, the aliens and the alternate universe - but I thought that was all a joke.

And I thought the cyber-croc belonged to Billi - memory playing tricks on me.

Here's one for Dredd:

"Judge Dredd is judge, jury and executioner in MC-1.  A disaster befalls the city and despite the odds JD saves the day.  Repeat."

For this thread:  I'm enjoying the main characters being in peril.  

For me:  what alternate reality Moses?

Anyone want to attempt a brief summary of Sin Dex (start to now)?

I'm more of a sad pompous cretin than you are because I'm disappointed in their lack of basic punctuation.

There isn't an option for zero.