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Well if it's free. I'll lend you BSG series three in return...

There's a section on the website of Susana Clarke, author of that piece and Jonathon Strange and Mister Norrell, where she raves about Watchmen. I like to think that one or two people who would never have read it otherwise will pick it up thanks to people like her.

Just remembered I own a thimble with a crap drawing of Ian Lavender on it.

A truncheon from the Dredd movie.

A signed photo of a depressed Robin Asquith.

Both these items were flagged up on the board as e-bay mentalism. I still own one of them.

I was talking bollocks.

Wagner and Ezquerras commentary on the Judge Dredd special edition had me in tears of laughter throughout.

John Burns may be even more old school than Cooper. He was working in comics twenty years plus before Tharg first entered the Thrill Power game. Crucially he wasn't working for 2k, so perhaps he doesn't really count.

Plus, you know, as you mentioned writers and all there's Wagner, Mills, and Grant.

I remember mentioning Cabals over on Barbelith.com and recieved the sneering reply "we've decided it's a rip off of LoEG". Hooray for sneering snobs deciding reactions to comics as a group instead of reacting individually!

There are similarities in that they are both comic strips featuring mis-matched protagonists gathered together. That's about it, really. The question could be Is Cabs Inc like The Broons?

Read Cabals again this morning and for what is essentially an episode of people waiting there's a lot of tension. Lovely stuff.

Nice cover. Had narrowed the artist down to Dayglo or Flint. Nice image, not sure about the green.

Dredd rumbles on, change of artist mind. Are we set for the run now?

Three strips read like they've reached their penultimate parts, and I'm glad. As good as they are I could do with more variety in the prog. Perhaps longer stories balanced with mini-series and one shots?

Assuming you mean a story that accelerates modern day science and explores the possible ramifications of scientific development within a plausible, realistic, internally consistant frame work? No, thankfully.

Wake up, read a chapter of Tale of Two Cities, trip into Manchester to see the Who exhibition with my little nephew, my brother and his wife, saunter around the shops, home, afternoon spent watching Galactica with Nicky, Chinese restraunt with family. No work the next day to cast shadow.

I'd have agreed about Armitage this time last month. Since then I've heard Dave Stones latest Bernice Summerfield play which starred Daves other signature character Jason Kane. And fck me but it's the best thing he's ever written, and the best Benny audio ever, and left me gobsmacked. If Armitage is half as good as that then we're in for a treat.

Instead of coming out as four issues of JLA Classified the new Hitman tale is two specials. The join where one issue end and another starts is pretty obvious but other than that it's fun stuff. The possibility that this might restart the TPBs for Hitman remains an intriguing prospect.

The tale is a fairly standard, surprisingly respectful Team-Up tale that builds on and explores the ramifications of the Bloodlines tale and the Superman guest star spot. Other than that there's not much to say, really. It's set during the Morrison run, or therabouts and whilst the big 5 are present it's characters like Plastic Man, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Zauriel that I'd be most interested in seeing Garth write. Wally West is out of character in his dealings with Kyle Raynor but all of the guys at Noonans are spot on, and though they don't have much to do it's all good fun.

There's a couple of moments that are particularly Ennisy and, surprise surprise, they're the standout moments for me.