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>>I'd be tempted but I've still got the bruises from Gladiator.

For real?  Paul Jeacock, who used to be called Paul Staples and who drew some Finn and Slaine stuff, was an extra in Gladiator.  He was a German barbarian in the opening battle, and he's got the photos to prove it.  he said he's never had so much fun - being paid to run about the woods for a couple of days screaming and roaring and waving a bloody big axe.

He also said that they filmed many scenes that were a _lot_ gorier than the stuff which made it into the finished film.

Oops.  Scratch 'alien'.  It was 'Android', wasn't it?  

Maybe the other two members are 'alien' and 'synapse'...   ;->

No, they're not.  That's royalties for graphic novels or, sometimes, depending on the contract, overseas reprints or other media rights.

If Rebellion republish You Are Mean Machine in the Meg (and this applies to all the stuff you've seen reprinted in the Meg or elsewhere over the years) then the creators receive a flat fee per page of reprinted work.

In any case, it doesn't matter if there's no profit involved, as with this site.  If you reprint a story for free on the site then you've devalued it, with the creators (who have contracts about these sorts of things...) getting absolutely nothing out of it.  Alan Barnes at the Megazine is less likely to choose that story for reprint in the Meg if it's available for free on the website.  Jamie B at Titan is less likely to want to buy that story from Rebellion for inclusion in a Titan book if Rebellion themselves are giving away for free on their website.

Anyway, I don't want to start a fight about it, Wake, but there have been vague droid murmourings of discontent over this point...

Y'know, it would only take one unhappy droid to point out that sticking the scanned pages of entire old stories up here on a Rebellion-run site could be easily defined as an electronic reprint, said unhappy droid probably expecting a reprint fee for the otherwise free use of their labour and creativity.

Maybe we could organise a whip-round to pay John and Carl the money that would be rightfully due to them if the story was reprinted under any normal circumstances...

'You Are Mean Machine!' was a Dredd story, although IIRC Dredd only featured rather obliquely in it.  It's probably just been mis-labbeled on the profiles page.

It was pretty funny, too.  Mean broke out the Cubes (again...) went on the rampage (again...) and, you, the reader wewre supposed to decide his actions using a, b and c choices.  No matter what you chose, Mean always did the same dumb predictable thing, and argued back at the captions too.  Much head-buttin' hilarity ensues.

On a bench in Washington Square, in Greenwhich Village.  The only place in NYC I could find which actually sold 2000AD only got them in once a month and sold the four weekly progs together as a monthly package, so I got to read a month of thrill power in one sitting, in between being approached by the very polite local drug dealers, whose patch I was apparently sitting in the middle of.

I wasn't interested.  Thrill power was better and cheaper.

>>currently writing the secret history of Toxic

Oh boy, now *there's* a whole can of nasty squirming worms you don't want to do opening up without good reason!

There's various reasons, some of which you astutely touch on, but I think the main problem throughout that era really comes down to three words:

'Burt & Mackenzie.'

Unfortunately, great as they've been so far, David's articles might not shed as much light as we'd hope on what undoubtedly went wrong during that period in the comic's history, since I understand both gentlemen declined to be interviewed.

Which is a pity, since apparently there's some real (and very illuminating) horror stories waiting to be told about some of the shennanigans going on back then.

All this just my humble and personal opinion, of course.  

>>Any chance of seeing some old Rogue supporting characters? I reckon Major Magnum deserves another outing.

Doesn't this belong over in the 'which 2000AD characters are gay' thread?   ;->

No, no plans to bring back any of the old series' rather small cast of supporting characters, althouth the Traitor General might make a small cameo in the next series.  But I'm not sure yet.

No, Staz put it in.

I thought it was quite funny, but it's not the sort of thing I would add into the script.

You are, I'm afraid.  Bio-wire was a GFD idea, and a pretty cool one too.

I just got a whining, 'why are you being so nasty to this person scojo' email from 'synapse'.

Amazingly, he has the same email address as scojo.  Who'd have believed it?

I guess they just don't grow 'em very bright on Planet Scojo, do they?

Actually, on the subject of guys like straight-to-video actors like Billy Dee Williams etc, I just found out today that Rutger Hauer might be one of the voice talents working on the computer game I'm scripting.

I might be writing dialogue for Rutger Hauer.  And get to meet him at the recording session.

Cool!!!!  

Obviously, film companies have already started pilfering ideas from scojo's scripts.