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Citi-Def by Tony Lee

Oh dear God...

It sounds great, the reviews have been good and maybe we need more games like this than shoot-the-terrorists stuff.  But, unfortunately, sales have been poor so far - 80% down on what the first one sold at launch.

In fact, it's one of several big franchise releases recently - Gears of War 4, Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, even the new Call of Dury - that's looking at seriously missing its expected sales numbers.

Something's changing out there in videogameland.

Fairly sure that's Sean's wife in that picture...

Amstor is right - a series or two ago (don't remember when, I'm not really following the story), Claw Carver strongly that implied Joe, from the original 'Flesh', was Reagan's lover. Reagan didn't deny it.

Well, this puts Reagan's struggles with Old One Eye into a whole new light.

Aye, artists seem to get frequently fucked over for creative rights.

You'd be amazed how many 'creator owned' books are actually 'writer owned' with everyone else involved on WFH contracts.

Yes.  Just remember - when you see some people banging on about creator rights, what they really mean is my rights, and they'll happily exploit other creators further down the industry food chain.

Alan's bold stance on creators' rights gladdens the heart.

How strange, though, that he didn't try to reform a system he feels so strongly about while he was still part of 2000AD editorial.  Or that he actively enforced work-for-hire practices on other creators while apparently privately trying to ensure those same conditions didn't apply to him.

Quite. To put it charitably, he is a bit inconsistent on the issue,

Or him claiming the creators' rights mantle, while also saying he's the sole creator or the work, thus actively trying to screw John Ridgeway out of any participation in the rights.

Alan Moore, he ain't.

Alan's bold stance on creators' rights gladdens the heart.

How strange, though, that he didn't try to reform a system he feels so strongly about while he was still part of 2000AD editorial.  Or that he actively enforced work-for-hire practices on other creators while apparently privately trying to ensure those same conditions didn't apply to him.

Next step, buttering up McKenzie* to write some more...

They'd never ask him, and he'd never accept.  Alan McKenzie's had a serious downer on the prog ever since he was fired left Fleetway.  Hence his non-involvement in TPO, the Future Shock docu etc.

I just checked with my good friend John McShane, who confirms that Robin Smith owns an equal share of The Bogie Man.

But, again, what would he know?  He's only the publisher of the original series, who put the creator-split deal together and who retains his own financial stake in the work.

Now off you beetle and find some obscure interview that says otherwise.

Robin Smith owns an equal share of The Bogie Man, and his current intransigence on the matter is the reason why the work is currently OOP.

But what do I know?  I don't spend my life scavenging the internet for precious scraps that make me seem like an authority.  I just know all the people involved.

** ... and Grant. Smith is credited as sharing copyright on the first series, but I don't think he shares ownership of the character, since he was frozen out of the Toxic series

Robin Smith owns an equal share in The Bogie Man, so that'll be you talkng bollocks again.

The other two owners of The Bogie Man long ago apologised to him over the Chinatoon story that appeared in Toxic.  That story was completely redrawn by Robin, and the original Cam Kennedy version will almost certainly never see print again.

Awww and here's me missed the whole thing! Z

Creepy sex pest uses false online identity to disguise who he really is.

Remind you of anyone else you've encountered this year?

Scavenging screen-grab scraps from people's FB pages.

Classy.

Obsessive detailing about the minutiae of your daily life - check
Personal/financial problems (none of which is ever your fault) - check
Wall o' text posts - check
"Someone is stealing my stuff!" - check
Obsession with fantasy tat - check

Don't worry, though,Michael. No-one will figure out it's really you.

[Accident Man]

Scott Adkins, who was recently seen in Doctor Strange, has joined the cast of Accident Man, an action title based on a character from the graphic novel by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner from the defunct monthly UK comic Toxic!.


http://deadline.com/2016/11/scott-adkins-accident-man-ashley-greene-jesse-johnson-doctor-strange-1201856204/

Pat and Tony Skinner drew Accident Man all themselves,  did they?  I assume so, since no artist is credited as one of the strip's creators.

It was my friend the late Martin Emond who created the visual look of the character, followed in later stories by Duke Mighten.