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LOL! Aye well, I think you'd really have to push the boat out to beat Preacher for shock scenes. Especially in tooth. Best not go there eh? Armadillo anyone?

I'd imagine the Texan giving the nazi salute while saying "God Bless America" might swing things a bit though.

Well, we don't want tooth banned in the states do we :o)

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Cover: Bolland. 'nuff said

Dredd: Good start. Feels VERY like Dredd's trial in Doomsday but the other way round, which I suppose is what it was always going to be. Good start though, typical enjoyable Dredd.

ABC Warriors: Well, it just doesn't seem right to me. I keep expecting Johnny Alpha to appear. Having said that, nice Joe P start, expecting more weirdness next week. Artwork seems a bit rough compared to what Carlos is capable of though.

Snow/Tiger: Very good start, nice and gory (very Preacher as someone else said). I loved the last couple of pages though. Some nice cutting remarks about a certain nation. Last page, wow, stunning image. That should be a cover! Anyone fancy scanning that it, would make a wonderful wallpaper :o)

Roll on next week. Another new story! We are spoilt we are!

"very Iain M Banks"

Coincidentally, reading Look to Windward just now (see other thread :o). There's a caste system the Chelgrians have, one of which being Decider. Aha, I thought, Decider Jad!! Very very old idea that, although a lot of Banks names for things 'seem' to be fairly unique.

I wasn't overly keen on Book 1, but given (Given, another caste :o), but I've enjoyed Book 2 a lot. Looking forward to the 3rd one.

Impeccable logic there, I also wear my 2000ad beanie on occasion and...

Go on then, who said it originally? Or is it just "traditional".

Homer Simpson's one:

"If I could just say a few words...
...I'd be a better public speaker!"

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I used to love Mean Arena. But after Killer...

...bring back Mean Arena. He he, with Grandpa Matt (senile old twat) Tallon :o)

Look to Windward, Iain M Banks.

Latest Culture book, still fairly indescribable at the moment, although basically, a species is which was involved in a civil war in which the Culture intervened is trying to get one of it's dissidents to return, for some reason. Centred round a Culture Orbital, where the light from suns destroyed towards the end of the Idiran war has just reached (8000 light years). Much to be revealed yet. Same kind of thing as the other Culture books, same dark humour, more amusing starship names.

Strangely enough, it's dedicated to "The Gulf War Veterans"

Grand, it's lunchtime, off to read some more :o)

It's easy! :o)

Don't wanna give it away though :o)

Had a meeting with the neighbours the other night and there were a load of old postcards in the cellar, that had been kept since the 40's from an old hairdressers downstairs in my building.

Anyway, quite a few of them are those old 'cheeky' postcards you used to get (and still do no doubt), some fairly dodgy for the time I'm sure. Not the funniest things in the world, but on the front of them is written "Bamforth comics", which amused me greatly. Any relation Adrian? They're all postmarked in the 40's/early 50's.

Aye, too right. Saw them at the Hackney Marshes festival thingy a couple of years ago. Supoib!

Enjoy!

Cool! Happy Birthday!

I'm going out for a mate's birthday on Saturday, then seeing Public Enemy on Sunday night (Aberdeen). You seeing them in Belfast or Dublin?

Plus the collected versions appear on ebay fairly frequently. As do early Crises :o) You could easily get them for the price of a meg or 2.