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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.

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.

Er... I think maybe you're missing the point a little...

Ooh! Has it happened? I see the clicky DB chatroom is back...

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.

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.

> 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.

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?

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?

> 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.

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".

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...

He briefly turned up on the current chat-room. Nothing to be alarmed by and it won't happen again. Nothing very interesting.

Dude, you are getting rabid. Stop giving him so much attention.

Trust me, you're not missing much.