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...nah, I'm afraid he got back in.

Not with the simple chat. Wake - I'd be happy to suggets work-arounds for this.

But lack of user authentication means wall to wall Scojo.

My guess is its the firewall. This new version is either ActiveX or Java based, and therefore requires the downloading of executable code to your machine - a lot of firewalls prevent this.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many pages worth of Big Dave actually exist?

How about Alan McKenzie then?

Interesting fact: Alan McKenzie, former 2000ad editor, is now - amongst other things - a web designer. One is almost tempted to hire him and then act like a ridiculously awful client as a kind of cruel prank.

I stand corrected.

Its still a shit town though. And the naval museum is overpriced.

Yeah, Portsmouth is not the only shit town, and as such its perhaps unfair to pick on it, but the paedotrician thing has let to it being kind of symbolic of the shit town mentality.

Heh... I actually I had an idea for a Innsmouth/Portsmouth related Futureshock/Terror-Tale. Probably I'm not going to submit it (not twisty enough) so heres the synopsis for your enjoyment...

"The Calling"

Our story starts in 1998, in Pallsmouth, a town who's entire adult population consists of drooling tabloid reading dole-claimants who stumble around like zombies. The last interesting thing to happen in Pallsmouth was the lynching of the local paediatrician.

Tony Brite, a young teenager, still full of hope, declares he's going to leave and go live in London. His mate, Dave, is shocked and horrified -
people from Pallsmouth just don't go that far, who knows what's out there? Despite Dave's warnings Tony packs his bags and goes.

Five years later Tony is a successful Professional in London with a great job, A great flat and a great girlfriend. Yet things start to go horribly wrong. As Tony tries to pick up the Guardian on his way to work one day, his hand is seized by some irresistible, nameless force and he ends up buying a tabloid instead! Later that day someone asks him an important question in a
meeting, yet all he can do is stare into space and drool...

Tony tries to tell his Girlfriend about all the horrible changes that have been happening. However it's not his girlfriend, it's Dave! And Dave starts telling Tony he must go back to Palls mouth, he can't resist "The Calling". Tony flies into a rage and smashes Dave's head in with a heavy Ikea lamp, only to find he's actually killed his own girlfriend.

Horrified, Tony goes on the run. Hunted, alone and afraid, he lives in ditches and scavenges whatever he can out of litter-bins. AT one point he smashes a stop store window and steals a shell suit.

Eventually his wandering leads him to a familiar town... Pallsmouth. The inhabitants have gathered to welcome him, and in the final frame we see that
his face has changed to that off a drooling Pallsmouth resident.

I'M TOP BITCH NOW!

(a) Its awesome. Favourite bit for me: The idiots being led off to safety by playing early 90's techno at them.
(b) Reviews have beengood for it so far. Really good. Check out the link in the Minority Report thread.
(c) Thought the pilot was a bit shit, I've seen 1 episode since and it was so-so, but like all trek-variant it has its fans... The theme music is fuck awful though.
(d) Believe it or not, before my current cool suedeheasd cut I used to have very spikey predator like braded hair... Ah, university, those happy days when one could feel free to look a twat.

Perhaps its should be not so much "Dear Tharg, Please get rid of Sinister Dexter" so much as "Dear Tharg, whenever A new Sin/Dex story is pitched to you, please do not automatically commission it, but instead check to see if its actually any good, and if not then please throw it in the bin".

I feel the reduced number and higher quality of Sin/Dex stories produced would be pleasing to those on both sides of this argument.

Strangely, http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=fan&page=poll&choice=1024298896" target="_blank">51 people who frequent this very site disagree with you.

What I want to know is who are these people? Where can we get a list of their names and addressesso we can beat them into submission and teach them the error of their ways? And how did they come to a conclusion that deviates so far from common sense in the first place?

My understanding is that though i regard Sin/Dex as a complete waste of time, and tehrefore skip it whenever it appears, some people are  deeply in love with it because "it used to be really good" and so we must treat it as if its still as good, like a favourite aunt that no one really wants to admit is going insane.

Of course that doesn't explain why we can't get  rid of Teleguthies. AFAIK no-one likes that, no one has ever liked it and no one is every going to like it, ever.

I dunno, If it was Hitman two wankers fighting a dog in a sewer would be outrageously funny i reckon the problem isn't the subject material so much as Dan Abnett executing it in a really boring way.