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#8701
General / Re: Old Skool/New Skool
25 July, 2002, 08:09:04 PM
Mean Arena always seems to get a slating from everyone but I remember it being excellent. Perhaps nostalga is taking its tole here and it really is crap.

Yup.
#8702
General / Re: STRONTIUM DOG!
24 July, 2002, 07:19:51 PM
I prefer to think of the Black Horse comics being the authorities history of what happened to Newt and Ripley next, and the last two films been apocryphal.


#8703
General / Re: STRONTIUM DOG!
24 July, 2002, 12:06:47 AM
Er... I think maybe you're missing the point a little...
#8704
Website and Forum / Re: Fasten your seatbelts!...
24 July, 2002, 04:22:45 PM
Ooh! Has it happened? I see the clicky DB chatroom is back...
#8705
Links / Re: New DREDD GENERATION piece @ N...
23 July, 2002, 06:37:36 PM
Well, McMachons style is likeable enough (though, IMHO, just plain lazy looking in comparison to the beautiful detail of his earlier art) but I'm not sure its a good match for ABC Warriors any more, and the overall effect of switching artists every 3 episodes was jarring and unpleasant, as it was for the first outing of the Meknificent Seven.
#8706
General / Re: Prog 1301 in shops now...........
23 July, 2002, 10:14:46 PM
Well, if it does have a twist or a sense of humour then I'd have expected them to reveal some of it by the end of the first epsiode.
#8707
General / Re: Prog 1301 in shops now...........
23 July, 2002, 09:31:27 PM
> Bison - This was OK. But I agree it dont quite fit. Its not bad, but it hardly jumps out at you.



Really? I thought it was such an incredibly lazy blend of cliches that i'm suprised its title wasn't "Killer II". This better shape up in the next prog or its going to be the strip i skip each week.
#8708
General / Re: Please enlighten me..............
23 July, 2002, 04:30:57 PM
I think of Steve Moore as the Rod Serling of futureshocks. Serling created the Twilight Zone format, for which he is justly aplauded, as it featured many great writers who wrote some great shows. However for every  great show there were 2 stinkers, and Rod Serling wrote the majority of the stinkers. I beleive this may have eventually led to the low ratings that got the show cancelled.

Steve pretty much created the Future Shock, and there have been some great shocks in the past (notable but not just from Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan) but now hes dragging the genre into disrepute with boring, workmanlike scripts that just don't excite in any way. We should applaud him for what he's created, but can we please drag him away from it before he destroys it completely?
#8709
General / Re: ximoc.co.uk competition - win ...
27 July, 2002, 12:45:55 AM
That looks like  a pretty good site... except the 15 odd identical flash movies are doing odd things to my browser. Any chance of ditching them?
#8710
General / Re: FAO Bish-Op and Frazer.........
22 July, 2002, 04:44:32 PM
> Also, with a US (?) writer, the layout will be > different, of course.

Now if you were comparing old school 2000ad with american comics I'd agree with you, but these days
Tooth generally uses 5-7 panels for page, the same as American comics, and generally have a similar density of text. The layouts for Tooth are generally the same as you'd see in an American comic, albiet scaled up.

(BTW I saw the European Graphic Albulm version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at the weekend, my god it looks gorgeous at the larger size. I almost bought it, desapite already having a copy and it being in French)

The big differences come from page count - with Tooth stories being told in 5 page chunks as opposed to 32 pages in American comics.

Although some writers shamefully seem to pretty much ignore this and just write a story of X pages and chop it up arbitarily, the good ones work with this episodic structure and so you'll have as much going on in those 5 pages as you do in some American comics.

#8711
General / Re: Simple Chat Room...
17 July, 2002, 11:30:42 PM
Theres currently (5:32pm) an astonishing 3 people in there, if any one sees this and wants to join in the fun click on "Simple Chat Room".
#8712
General / Simple Chat Room...
17 July, 2002, 10:24:16 PM
Though the simple chat room isn't quite as nice as the HTML one we had a while back, it does seem to be fairly workable, though empty for long stretches of time. This means the only way to have a conversation is logging in and lurking till someone turns up, which  can be a long wait... Also, if your waiting for someone to turn up your probably doing something alse with your computer at the same time, so you might miss someone as they  pop in, see nothing happening, and then leave again.

To get round this may I suggest we all try logging in around about the same time? Say about 12ish and 6ish each day?

Just a thought...
#8713
General / Re: Notice to Scott (scojo).........
08 July, 2002, 11:31:51 PM
He briefly turned up on the current chat-room. Nothing to be alarmed by and it won't happen again. Nothing very interesting.
#8714
General / Re: Notice to Scott (scojo)...
08 July, 2002, 10:56:33 PM
Dude, you are getting rabid. Stop giving him so much attention.
#8715
Website and Forum / Re: Chat Room
08 July, 2002, 09:34:16 PM
Trust me, you're not missing much.