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Phew, that Star Wars cover...

Possibly the Bolland droid's finest moment for 2000AD.  The way he's managed to capture the feel of the characters being stiff, static, cheaop and badly moulded plastic figures is almost uncanny.

>>Link Star Wars to Ant Wars.

They've both featured as covers for 2000AD.

>>And, though god knows I've had this argument before, I'll state once more for the record: RESIDENT EVIL is, IMHO, the worst zombie film ever made*. And you really DO have to go a long way to beat ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE, or, for that matter, the utterly awful CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN.

Yeah, but do either of those two other piss-poor zombie flicks have Milla Jovovich in a really short dress or Michelle Rodriguez in a sweaty vest-top?

I rest my case...

Hey, I actually like (and...erm...own) some of those movies.  They're fun, in a cheesy kind of way.

He didn't direct the second Mortal Kombat film, btw, which isn't a patch on the first one.

And, if you squint a bit, it's not too difficult to see Soldier or Event Horizon as basically being stories that wouldn't have looked too out of place in 2000AD.

>>Now all I need to do is find a shop that sells em

WS Smiths, Waverley Station.

>>Hey, last I heard, the website was still "under construction". For the record, I left Titan in January...!


Heh.

Is it true Simon Furman's left/leaving?  Who does that leave to put the bloody graphic novel collections together then?

...'cos, like, it would just be too easy and predictable for them to put the same info up on a Titan website somewhere...

>>There's a Slaine hardback due in the next couple of weeks reprinting 'Time Killer'. Good timing that. Just as it finished in the Meg.

Heh.

>As for any further plans, dunno.

In what must surely be some kind of cunning PR plan, Titan seem to conspire to keep this sort of information from exactly the people most likely to buy these books.

It's marketing genius, I tell you!

>>He's working on me takng him to the 'event' AHEM at the wherever it is in B'ham in September.

It's in the Birmingham Indoor Arena, and it's worth going just to visit the VERY PLACE where they filmed Gladiators.

What, you mean writing Warhammer books or begging you to get your kid to buy them?

>>He'll only waste it on Warhammer, I said. Can't he by comics like me?

Make sure he wastes some of it on my Warhammer novels then.  They're fab (no, really...) and I get royalties.

But don't let him buy any of Dan's books.  He's rish enough already, and I need it more.

Nah, that's okay.  I've been sitting on it for ages, and never bothered doing anything, so it's entirely my usual lazy fault.

Besides, being an experienced pro, I've...erm...got...uuuhhh....lots and lots of other fantastic alternative ideas to submit to The Mighty One.

Yeah, let's just go with that...

-points off in other direction-

"Quick, everyone!  Look over there!"

-ducks out before anyone notices-

Oh dear.  For a while now, I've had this idea about suggesting to Tharg that he do an FS-replacement stream of short one-offs about the end of the world, kinda like in the same spirit as the Past Imperfects.

Naturally, I haven't got round to doing it yet, and the only reason I've thought about it is of course because I've got some story ideas to submit along those exact same lines.

Erm.....not a chance.

But what 2000AD scriptdroid could possibly write the continuing adventures of a sensitive boy-child who experiences many traumatic and moving experiences on his path to adulthood?