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My biochip keyring came very quickly.
However, I'm still waiting for my cap for my Good Company picture printed in prog 847.  That was August 1993.

The Two Towers (AGAIN!)
Man & Boy by Tony Parsons (but I haven't started it yet & probably won't until I've got through Return of the King so it'll take a while).

Maybe Tharg'll turn up with the biggest, longest, most thrilling post ever!

Awww!
Don't make me blush!

S'okay.  Don't matter now.

UKD - meet me in the chat room NOW!
11:30AM 01/July/2002

Nothing to do with the previous post, but I wanted to say that the current poll is only six votes away from being the most voted on poll.

Wasn't really worth starting a new thread for so I thought I'd hijack this one.

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=fan&page=poll&choice=1019828249" target="_blank">The current most voted on poll

[truth]

Someone back there said we don't give kids the credit they deserve, and that's true.
Yup - that was me.

Tu-plang, you have spoken the truth.  Everybody take note.

(From out of the mouths of babes...)

Blackblood probably didn't mean offence, but he probably assumed that you were a twenty or thirty something, and as such not likely to really know *what* 'kids' are up to.

However, seeing as you're 15: How would you feel if they slapped a 'NOT FOR SALE TO UNDER 16'S!" notice on the front cover because they'd gone all "Adult"?  I remember the hassle I had in tryin to get the "sex" issue of the Megazine because I was under 16 at the time.

Kids usually have a lot more intelligence then adults give them credit for.  They can handle "Adult" topics without any problems, and I'd bet they all swear far more filthy words then we adults do nowadays.  They can listen to Slim Shady or Limp Bizcuit if they want swearwords or they can listen to Destiny's Child or Geri Spicegirl if they want hardcore pornographic imagry.  Making 2K officially "Adult" would harm its reputation & lose a lot of its adult readers, while not really attracting anyone new.  It's a good mix the way it is; certainly don't turn it into the Beano, but don't make it full frontal Ennis tosh.

Jock, I noticed you slipped in a few double pagers in the last few Tor Cyan episodes.

(SD Journey to Hell had about 4 pages of strip each episode AND colour centre spreads.)

The thing which made the centre spreads work was the fact that the rest of the comic was in monochrome and the middle was a splash of colour, a feast for the eyes.

There's no reason why double page spreads can't be used in other places than just the middle pages (so long as the letterer know's elbow from arse & doesn't stick the speach bubbles in the centre).
Let's have Dredd as the opening story, starting with a normal first page (opposite the Nerve Centre) and have the 2nd & 3rd Dredd pages as a double page spread.

Whatever happens, the centre page spread won't ever regain the impact of days gone by unless the colour pages are reduced substantially.

Anyone want to post up "the Insult that Made a Wobot out of Walt" advert just so we can compare?

Quite right - it was Michael in Hallowe'en, wasn't it?

Still - not much difference really.

On the subject of kinda sci-fi films; I saw a trailer yesterday for the new Hallowe'en film - set in the future in deepspace the crew find a frozen lifeforce.  They defrost it only to discover Jason.

O dear.