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The new war/superhero/sci-fi/animal-hatmaking/horror anthology comic, featuring contributions from many forum regulars, including Steven Denton, David Frankum, Bolt-01, Richmond Clements, John Caliber, Owen Watts, Dee Cunniffe and Nikki Foxrobot.

More details here: http://massacreforboys.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/action-special-running-order.html

Just launched at Bristol Expo, available online whenever I remember to update the website soon.

I didn't detect any rudeness in Trout's post. If he wants to withdraw from a discussion, having said his piece, that's his prerogative. He didn't say you couldn't continue in his absence. The fact that Trout chose not to take issue with your allegation of rudeness speaks volumes about his politeness and diplomacy.

He disagreed with me pedantically over several posts and then signed off with the equivalent of "talk to the hand".

However I see he has posted a lot of times so presumably is tight with the mods.

I fail to see the purpose of your intervention except to highlight that I am not welcome here, a message I assure you I have fully understood.

cfm and chris «haters gonna hate running man dance» awww yeah.

Wouldn't say CFM was being a hater, it's more a "metacaption".

"This is what I think of Before Watchmen, Mr DiDio."

but my vote goes to CrazyFOxMachine.

In my opinion, there is parochialism in it. I already said so.

It's not nationalist because it's not a political story. It's also a common theme in newspapers here, just as newspapers in, for example, Cornwall will write about people from Cornwall. I already said that, too.

As for whether it's true, that's a matter of opinion. I think it would be more accurate to say that a lot of people who trained at DC Thomson, a company which happens to be in Scotland, went on to work for 2000AD. That's because DC Thomson was good at that kind of training.

That's my last contribution to this discussion.

- Trout

I figured I'd get a response like that, which is a shame as I think beneath your rudeness you're probably making a good point, but you seem to think I am a half wit and therefore incapable of discussing it.

I didn't say the paper didn't have a political agenda. It does, and it's not a nationalist one.

I said the article's focus on Scotland isn't political. A lot of people in this country think that way. It's part and parcel of the shared heritage that gives Scots a national identity.

Okay, so not not parochial because it relates to the Scottish nation, but not nationalist either because the Herald does not overtly support Scottish independence.

But it's not true, though, is it?

You'll be English, then?

And wrong.

This newspaper article doesn't display a political agenda. It's a Scottish newspaper writing a story designed to interest its market. Every newspaper here does it. It's perhaps a little parochial but you shouldn't look for an agenda that simply doesn't exist.

Mind you, you should look up the Sunday Herald's ABC figures. Ouch.

As for Scottish nationalists, I believe they do recognise that Britishness exists, but they see it as something that other people have. It's easy to assume that their focus on Scotland and its people involves some negativity towards England but, frankly, England isn't on the radar. That's kind of the point of it all.

Maybe I am wrong. A newspaper without a political agenda is a rare thing, but what could be more British than parochialism?

Splitting the contributions between English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Scots is a totally reductive way of looking at British comics, but then we're going to see more and more of this from Scottish nationalists whose agenda is there's no such thing as British.

Personally I think the Spanish contribution has been pretty strong, which I guess makes me a lilly-livered Europhile.

I liked that Batman movie adaptation! You're right about the Trek movie prequel though, totally redundant.

Wasn't the 70s Star Wars adaption quite good? I'm not sure I ever read all of it, but I seem to recall it's fondly thought of.

This is great news, I do hope there's no further reference to Leah Moore's famous father though.

Digital is undoubtedly the future, but I hate it with a passion.

As a small press publisher myself I most certainly do read small press comics, most notably the FQP titles but a wide variety of other stuff too. Dick Turpin and the Restless Dead was probably my all time favourite.

I felt the comment about the Meg's small press section efforts being badly written was very unfair, and not just because I wrote one of those! Very many pro comics seem to be better drawn than they are written, it isn't a problem exclusive to the small press, if it indeed is a problem at all.

Oh and one other point I'd like to pick up: Giving away free comics may seem like a good idea but it's a great way to ensure a large proportion go unread.

I always thought that alternating art duties on Black Hole between SMS and Bisley was weird, but I liked both of them. The script, on the other hand, I wasn't so keen on...

Thanks, Prof.

Moore is pretty good at falling out with people, so I can't really ascribe this rift to any particular fault of Morrison's, much as I would tend to side with the beardy one. Creative differences, pure and simple.

However, Arkham Asylum is absolute crap (and it's only that good because of McKean's fantastic artwork).

Moore talks about Before Watchmen on his recent webchat: http://vimeo.com/36211102
I'd have had more respect for him if he'd vented to Bleeding Cool in a cloud of bitterness, but he makes a total jerk of himself by responding intelligently and politely incidental to raising funds for the widow of Harvey Pekar, a move which just increases my contempt for Moore as a human being and stiffens my resolve that no matter what objective evaluation of his work comes to the conclusion that he is actually good as a writer, I will forever hate him and vocally point this out at any opportunity in the hope I feel less small.

Although his comments about Grant Morrison were fun: Morrison has gone out of his way to engineer a feud with Moore in recent times, and it would seem that it's because of passing comments made in 1988 that Zenith might be a bit derivative of Miracleman.  That Morison has held a grudge about this for 24 years is utterly hilarious.

I love Zenith, but it definitely owes a lot to [Marvel|Miracle]man. It's also by far the best thing Morrison's ever done. There may be a connection there.

What does Moore actually say about GM? (I would watch the webchat but it's 150 mins long and, somewhat ironically, certain commenters seem annoyed that video even exists.)