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Oh, and Dredd mentions Santa Kylie...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0piYwdPD29g" target="_blank">Been an awful good girl...

Wonder if this thread'll be superceded by another? Wait and see.

Lovely cover. Beautiful piece of art, sympathetic colouring, potentially more atractive to a new reader than a stock shot of Dredd.

Dredd is great. I wasn't as impressed with the first run as I am here. Colbys art has improved with leaps and bounds recently, or maybe I've got used to it. There always seemed little differentiating the background detail and foreground characters, here it's crisp, clear, atmospheric, great story telling.

Stone Island - Small World? Co-incidence or plot point? Like Atavar before it this series has surprised me by being so much better second time around.

ABC - I'm really enjoying this. The art could do with being clearer, but hey ho. Having seen all three Langley Slaine books yesterday I'm seriously considering buying them. If these reprint as well they're on the list too.

Cabals - fucking great stuff. What was previously only hinted is directly adressed and we're none the worse for it. Typcially great ending.

Button Man - I'm enjoying this in it's own right, it's really well produced, it just doesn't seem the same world as the first three. Still, when it's this well written and drawn it would be churlish to complain. Here's to more Wagner/Irving joints in future. This and My Name Is Death hint at a potentially great partnership.

Fables - loving characterisation, sweeping story telling.

Walking Dead - started the zombie comic boom.

Jonah Hex - self contained issues, imaginative western.

Shadowpact - superhero team book, nice line in humour.

Blue Beetle - old fashioned super hero comic with a modern sensibility.

Helter Skelter and Kursed Earth Koburn, by the look of it.

People, I have baked Eccles Cakes.

I heart The Ark.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SUDn6OAyUU" target="_blank">La la la la la.

That's telling them.

That's telling them.

Yet another Cabals cover not by Dom Reardon, a shame as he's a great painter with a real sense of what works as a cover.

Dredd is another example of Gordon Rennies ongoing plot thread one parters, dangling another potentially long running story/character whilst simultaneously telling a more or less complete story. The fact that Colin MacNeil is on art chores helps sell this one.

Stone Island chugs along nicely. I doubt I'd have been bothered if this series hadn't returned but I'm glad it has. Interestingly different.

A.B.C.s is all well and nice but I'm not sure how I feel about Lara being retroactively changed in the way she has. Still, I'm enjoying this and look forward to next week. Deadlock next for the flashback treatment?

Cabals - simply the best ongoing series since I started reading 2k again. Glorious stuff with georgeous art work from one of the new greats.

Button Man, another new great artist and whilst I'm liking this it doesn't feel like more of the same Button Man that we know. It's almost like a central character in a T.V. show has been recast, like Hurdnall replacing Hartnell? It's good, you can enjoy it, but you know it's not quite right.

Sorry if there's already a thread, couldn't see one.

For me it's a Cabals cliffhanger panal of Jenny walking down into the basement of Exham Priory and seeing the Aleister Crowley figure revealed, with a circle of ghost surrounding him. About the only time I;ve been so wowed that I've had to stop and stare before moving on. It's part of my collection of original art.

Thryllseeker, I suggest you read Great Expectations and take notes of the sections where Pip visits Wemmick at home. Wemmicks suburban castle sounds right up your street.

Some, Paul. A little. What I could read whilst avoiding spoilage.

Nicks been off sick for the first three days of the week. We finished one on Saturday and are two eps into series three now.

And it's great. It's also nice to have something we can watch together that the other one isn't tolerating. I'm never going to be as keen as Sex and the City and Ugly Betty as she is and for some reason she doesn't like Antiques Roadshow or Last of the Summer Wine.

Sadly my internettery has spoiled part of the three resolution by revealing two of the hidden Cylons. Fucker-pokery.

Pilot mini and first eleven proper episodes down, money well spent.

Blimey. Somebody has charitised a D.V.D within forty eight hours of it's release. Stonking. Could be a reviewers, perhaps?

I've been vaguely interested in the new version of BG, put of fby memories of how little the original lived up to my expectations. Despite being stoney I couldn't resist buying the first three seasons from British Heart Foundation this morning, though I'm shocked to discover that series three seems to be only two days old. Was it really only released on Monday?

Anyway, good buy? Without treading into spoiler-city (Wiki spoiled the end on the mini series) have I spent £30 wisely? And should I wait for the mini-series to arrive from Play?