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Well..., not complaining, but they'll stop sending them eventually (this is the only way I found out the last time) and I'll have to pay sooner or later. I'd rather do it bit by bit rather than in big clumps.

Dunno if anyone is having this "problem" but...

About a year ago the sub dept stopped charging me for the various progs and megs that were being sent my way. Got it sorted out in the end though. Just noticed this week that they've done the same thing again!

So, question the first: what is the email address of the nice lady in subs (Debbie?)?

Question two: is this a good sales model?

This is where I started collecting, but I do remember having a few earlier ones (one of the Starborn Thing, 309-ish, ones, scared the bejeesus out of me as a nipper). http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/mediumres/377.jpg">

Normally I can sit in a cinema and enjoy just about anything. I don't really apply any critical opinion until well after seeing the movie. I went to this movie (EpIII) knowing that the advance word on it was not so great, so given the normal run of events all I have to do to really enjoy the movie is set my expectations a wee bit lower. I was horrified to watch the film and actually be bored by it. I wasn't expecting much, and I'd switched off any part of my brain that might give a considered honest view of the quality of the movie, and still I was bored by it. God only knows what I'd have thought of it if I'd turned the knoggin' on.

Any big set-piece exciting battle bit just has too much going on on the screen for you to take it all in, and it just becomes frustrating. There are way too many lightsaber duels, which wouldn't be so bad if they didn't all look the same. Whirling blades, jump around a bit, can't work out what's going on or who is winning, whoops there goes a hand, lather, rinse, repeat. The original episodes spend a whole movie building up to a single ligthsaber duel, and are the better for it. Maybe a couple at the beginning and a couple at the end would have been enough, but every five minutes was too much. They lost their special-ness.

Naturally, the dialog was all over the shop, that just made me feel sorry for the actors, so it didn't bother me too much.

Also, did anyone see anything in this movie that they weren't expecting? Was there any element of the story or sequence of events that you couldn't have predicted before going into the cinema? I mean we all know what had to happen, but surely there could have been a slightly twistier route taken to this outcome.

Actually, thinking about it, it was a bit like Slaine's worst excesses recently, fancy imagery that's difficult to fathom, the same fight over and over again, and some shaky dialog (I do like Slaine really though!).

In conclusion, I think I would have enjoyed EpIII if I hadn't acted the eejit and watched Empire Strikes Back that very morning. Dumb, dumb, dumb!


 

Can anyone explain why after sending all his people through to the "different density" after the big battle a few issues back, Slaine has to travel all over the countryside finding more people and zapping them if they're carrying beasties, or (presumably) abandoning them? They seem to not be too interested in bringing these other people along anyway.

We really need to find a movie no one has *anything* good to say about. There's a number of films mentioned here that weren't all bad (at least not in my eyes!). I'm still waiting to see mention of something really hideously bad...

I saw Batman and Robin for the first time recently, and I was genuinely shocked to see that it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I thought it was dire alright, but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't that bit rubbisher.

I like the art, but why the holster on the hip? Practically speaking, maybe the judges should have two holsters, but I was always fascinated by how weird, awkward, futuristic, and great the old boot holster looks.

In a vaguely similar vein, I'm not sure that I like the Ciudad Baranquilla uniforms by Ezquerra in the Meg. I mean, it's Ezquerra, they couldn't be any more authentic, but I think I prefer the previous attempts (like Will Simpson's). When stood next together, the MC1 uniform and CB uniform are almost indistinguishable from each other. I feel they should be a bit more unique. Whaddya reckon?

There is some website that will take a scanned pic of anything (Mars bar wrapper, etc.) and give you back a font you can use in the same stylie. All I have to do is track down the link on my PC at home...

Good point! Although, I may have been thinking that the the money wouldn't be spent on anything more civic minded rather than arty/media-y, like hospitals, or donkey shelters, or homes for deranged mechanoids, perhaps?

Mmm, Wicker Man? I like.

How about the a giant reconstruction of "Northpool's" ship pilot robot Charlie, standing astride the dock, swinging a bridge grider over his head at a Terra-Mek?  

"The Roman Standard - which features a small bird on top of a four-metre high bronze pole - is a tribute to the city's famous symbol the Liver Bird."  
I thought the Roman standards were supposed to have eagles on them, and that the Liver bird was a kind of crane type of thing, where does a wee sparrow fella come from in this situation? I would like it if it looked like some  inspiration, or skill, or effort went into designing it. It looks "effortless", not in the sense that there is a creative mind who is firing out fantastic work at will, but more in the sense that no effort went into it! Having said that this type of work would look far more interesting in the flesh.

I wouldn't mind the price too much, it's not money that would be spent on anything else anyway so it might as well be ploughed into something the public can see. However, wouldn't it be nice if they gave the money to some 2000AD types to knock up a set of MC-1 style road signs: Judges Only, Caution! Overzoom, Kleggs Crossing, No Peeping, Muties Prohibited. That kind of thing. Whatchoo think?

Wouldn't the Dredd movie in the alternate universe be, y'know, really good? They'd ignore all the rubbish bits that had crept into the stories in AD2000 and make a movie about a stone faced one man justice machine trying to keep control of a crazy city?

If there was only some way we could have even more categories... some way of further subdividing the threads into groups... very small groups... perhaps even an unique group for each thread... which you could identify by some kind of information that was contained within... like a subject...
hmmm, it'd never work! ;)

I've seen the way categories work on some larger messageboards for things like particular PC games where you have maybe a minimum of 50-60 punters on it permanently. They have a main page where you can see the kind of volume of people on each section. However, I don't think there are enough people using the board to justify having the sheer number of different categories (maybe some stats here could be helpful). The 2000AD Review site only has a few categories, something like 2000AD, non-2000AD comics, and general. If it is determined that the categories are the way of the future, I think fewer categories would be the way to go.

In the meantime I think I will be reverting to the old style board when I get a minute, as it is far too much effort to trawl through all the different sections at the moment.

Aieeee! Blakee Pentax! (and so on). I seens it just now. It's real I tells ya, real!

Quite a bit more impressive than I was expecting too. Only drawback was that the envelope contained THIS week's prog as opposed to LAST week's, which still has not arrived (should I have been expecting a meg also last week??).

Anyone got Johnny Subslady's email address? Ta.

Judging from the site, he does appear to have a uniquely identifiable style which runs through all of his work... that seems to involve being "inspired" by very close examination of other artists work.

I think the description of the item on eBay is at best misleading, but then again, not many seem to be biting. I think the kind of people who would buy this would catch on pretty quickly as to the nature of the item, and avoid purchasing it.