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Is that a Knob whale?

All of which makes me think I'm more rather than less happy with the current set-up. Do I like everything in Regened issues? No. But then that's true of the main Prog as well. But I like it enough for four issues a year. 50 of the things, though, feels like overkill, and having them as a literal part of the main comic doesn't make any sense to me.

This from me too ^^^^

Mind you, 'a punch of Scotsmen' seems like a reasonable collective noun.

There's always one trouble maker in every crowd...

The venue - which is a bar-free sports and leisure centre - currently closed as it's being used as a vaccination centre.  No word on whether it'll be open by August.

Enjoy your Perth Comic Con, guys.

Thanks Gordon, so that's that ruled out, maybe leave it and see what the next round of level reductions are?

Prog drought officially over! Saturday delivery for both Prog and Magazine! Well done TMO and Royal Mail!!
And the new bestest team on Dredd the Big W and Happy Shrapnel droids!!

Given that the Perth con on in the last weekend of August, you'd think there would be some more info kicking about the interweb by now... evidence perhaps of the GRennie's droids lack of faith?

How about we say Perth on saturday 28th August 1pm in a boozer yet to be named....

Now who's in?



Build it and they will come!

So my code was waiting for me, I bundled 70 quids worth of stuff into my basket and, got a fiver off!!
Aparently the three 20 quid Treasury books don't count   

I'm thinking this is the inspiration, possibly, but there's another bell ringing that I can't quite place - might be a false alarm, though.

Vertigo's definitely the inspiration but that's not the version of the poster/cover I'm familiar with. Was thinking there had been a previous Prog cover riffing on the same source. Really & Truly maybe? But this was the closest I could find.

TV's Timetunnel?

I did see a Policeman deal with one of these very efficiently with a sweeping brush and a few hefty swipes, to much cheering from the surrounding houses

Does any of these ever sell?
Are these just ways of getting partners to think that a comic collection is worth something?

Second Jag yesterday, no side effect, all good!! and a week's hols next week.

Second Jag?  What are you, a deputy prime minister?

Nope, Scottish: so its a jag not a jab (which is a punch). Jags are prickly things little thistles, bunnets or jumpers

All this, a letters page and Tharg pays his respects to Bolt too.

So glad to hear that. Well done TMO.

I'm continuing through Season 5 of Fear The Walking Dead and like the parent show, it continues to delight and frustrate in equal measure.

Delighting you have Lennie James who can grab you by the heartstrings with just an "Ummm" and a glance to the side as in 210 Words Per Minute (Episode 10 I think where he and Grace are in a shopping mall).

Frustrating are the pathetic shark villain of Logan/Matt Frewer (a non-Lethal version of The Governor/Negan), ott cheese (John Dorie's trick shot*) and storylines you know will only last three episodes otherwise they've painted themselves into a corner (e.g Alicia's conscientious objection).

But overall, I'm still on board as the diverse cast resembles that of Superstore more and more. We just need a fussy Mateo in there now.

* if the "splitting the bullet" trick shot had actually been that; a trick (maybe two shots fired very quickly in succession) then I'd have bought it more. And hey, that might have even added a more believable theme about things not being what they seem in Humbug Gulch. I suppose John Dorrie character relies on a charming performance from Garret Dillahunt and you just rolling with the unbelievableness of his character. Which mostly, I do.

This^^^

Joking! He's fine and still firing off his pistol,  he is the shows moral barometer after all.