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but what system are you using?

•Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
•Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
•Colon classification (CC)
•Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

or the classic Two Ronnie's Colour coding?

Dear Grud, Hawk what have you done? 

WTF is Butt'man anyway? off round the Festival no doubt trying to get on TV shows... 

Heading for Perth for the Southern Fried Festival at the end of July so will give that Indian a go, should I mention your name when booking?
will avoid that Oor Wullie themed place if over your way 

I was quietly asked to leave, but only allowed out once I'd given up Butt'man's address...

Or Dark Satanic Pat Mills...

oh I like that... that's his unofficial biography title sorted out!

Big bit in the Herald:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/15459194.Netflix_and_thrill__Entertainment_giants_buys_rights_to_the__quot_iconic_characters_and_stories_quot__of_Scottish_comic_master_Mark_Millar/

The idea of a Banksyesque Millarworld in Coatbridge is rather appealing 

Pat Mills or Satanic Mills? you decide!

Not read any of his stuff other than 2000AD. Any good?

I thought all his creator-owned stuff for Marvel's Icon imprint was horrible. Cheap, mean-spirited, cynical and nasty.

Aren't you confusing him with his brother Frank?

Why does nobody think about the children, Mumsnet was right about Fidgets

You need more comics!

all the Tintin stuff?

There are only so many stories, Smith, some say as few as seven basic narratives (for example, the story of Gilgamesh is basically identical to any number of James Bond stories and Beowulf is virtually the same as Jaws), so the only things that can be changed are the characters and settings and, I suppose, the weirdness quotient. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you will never read a new story, only an old story told in a new way. When you recognise the story, I think, that means it hasn't been told in a unique enough fashion and not that the story form itself is old - all the stories are old. A cloak of weird is just one of the tricks writers use to dress up these ancient forms and sometimes, I agree, they can go too far - or not far enough.

And there is always the same story from a different PoV... Beowolf from the Grendel's mother's PoV becomes a Revenge story... James Bond from the redshirt's PoV  was quite touching in the Spy who shagged me, etc

Deadworld, Kingdom and Defoe have a ratio of action to chat that would have found favour in any era, while Brink, Hope, and Indigo Prime allow Tharg's droids to hang with Image and Boom at the convention bar, instead of staying at home out of shame, like whoever edits Commando.

I can tell you now Frank, the men who write and edit Commando do not stay at home out of shame but lead the charge to the bar at Conventions and indeed drink the half-pint craft beer hipsters from Image and Boom under the table...

Not that I would do anything like that or encourage such, irresponsible, macho behaviour 

& therein lies the problem. 2000AD doesn't appear to want to attract a new audience.

No, sorry, that's rubbish. Rebellion's stewardship has seen the installation of a dedicated PR team, US-style mini-series of indivual strips, a serious presence at all the major cons here and in the US, actually getting a decent Dredd movie made, loads of home-grown and licensed merchandise, a vigorous reprint strategy, the Hachette deals, and the acquisition of the IPC back catalogue to expand the reprint volumes to a potentially wider audience.

What do you think they should have been doing instead of all that?

How about taking advice for a some online fanboy whose idea is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and whose track record at comic success is zero? 

Its that, or continue building and expanding the brand under Matt's firm hand and Rebellion's confident proven business success.

Just because the new target audience isn't ten year olds pestering their parents in Asda in the already crowded 'plastic gift with coloured pages attached' battlefield,  but possibly is cash rich forty something returnees, doesn't mean new audiences aren't being sought...

I'm lead to believe The Mighty John McShane will be in attendance 

What happened Muskie?