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(Or possibly it was the other way around - and JFK shoots Nixon.  Either way, it was a major Art Fail.  And a reminder not to write stories that depend on Randomly Assigned  Artdroid's ability to deliver on one crucial element.)

There's a dreadful Part Imperfect featuring JFK & Nixon.

I remember that one.  The twist was that it was Nixon who shot JFK.  Unfortunately, whoever drew it couldn't do a likeness of Nixon if their life depended on it, making the final shock-reveal panel a bit of a "Sorry? Who's that again?" puzzler.

IIRC, Brit-Cit Brute was created editorially (and I think was inspired by the film Demolition Man) and then farmed out to promising new talent

I heard that story slightly differently, in so far as the strip was called 'Demolition Man' for much of its early development, before the upcoming Stallone film forced a hasty name-change...

Yeah, that makes more sense.  I didn't think the timeline made sense for the strip to have appeared after the movie, and be derivative of it.

I admit it. I've been indulging in schadenfreude (oo-er missus).  Trawling through right on luvvie web sites and laughing my evil black heart out as the losers lament their loss. How could working class Yanks not be swayed by the political giants of er Jay Z and um, Katy Perry? Quite.  The demoflats should have stuck with Bernie Sanders who did quite well in the mid american towns. But they wanted their bit of history too much. Clinton failed miserably because she was Clinton, unconvincing and too reliant on Hollywood etc.

She could never escape from herself.

Now the world is stuck with a political pygmy for a president. Four more years... 

I think people are seriously kidding themselves on if they think Sanders would have beaten Trump. The Republicans pretty much swept the board - White House, Congress, Senate. 

Sanders' own state of Vermont put a Republucan into the governor's mansion. Where was Bernie's magic shield of political invincibility to stop that?

I get that the residents have to be robots rather than actors in case the guests want to have sex with them, but why are the horses robots?

Because the park is a completely controlled environment where nothing can be left to chance and allowed to harm a guest. Real horses can throw a rider, panic and trample someone etc. 

Veteran actor and Biddy impersonator Clive Dunn dies at the grand old age of 92.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20239694

Four years ago

I think the traditional reply is "What, again?

Btw, does anyone know how Tony Hart's doing? I heard he'd been poorly recently, but hopefullly the old fellow is in the mend.

Young Death and Calhab just turned up. Forgotten that Calhab featured Brit-Cit Brute, something clearly everyone has been waiting for to see his story resolved...........

Hur. 

IIRC, Brit-Cit Brute was created editorially (and I think was inspired by the film Demolition Man) and then farmed out to promising new talent - in this case, it was Robbie Morrison left holding the short straw - to develop and write.

++RUMOUR CONTROL ++ RUMOUR CONTROL++

Not sure where the "Williams is quitting Dredd" rumour has come from, but it's bunkum.'

Yarp. Not true. I want to do more Dredd.

Frank/sauchie/Butch/Wullie/whatever in 'talking bollocks with falsely assumed air of authority' shocker.

Huh, thats a tad odd, meeting Dale for the first time he'a clearly an amicable guy

The several droids he's threatened might disagree with you there, I imagine.

How can someone be banned from a convention?

By threatening people with physical violence, for starters.

Make Absalom even better than Outlier?

Wow. Talk about raising the bar on me.  It's a big ask, but I'll try my damnest.

For anyone optimistic about WW, beware.

A few months ago, this open letter from an ex-Warners employee hit online, basically slating the Warner Bros CEO for his terrible creative decisions, mostly involving anything to do with Zack Snyder. 

Here's the pertinent part about WW:

Maybe Wonder Woman wouldn't be such a mess. Don't try to hide behind the great trailer. People inside are already confirming it's another mess.

Full letter here:  http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/an-open-letter-to-warner-bros-ceo-kevin-tsujihara-about-layoffs-zack-snyder-and-donuts.php

I wouldn't have thought so. Watching the judging panel then read through a script doesn't sound like the most thrilling spectator event for the audience there.

Besides, even for the winnner, the judges might suggest some improvements to your story before you take it to full script.  (Although there's nothing stopping you writing your story up as a script beforehand, to make sure it actually works, but don't expect anyone to read it on the day.)

Contributor droid copies arrived bright and early yesterday.

The main problem with the Hit as I remember it (could be wrong without that re-read!) is that the aliens who hire Rogue are the same ones behind the Beamers.  The beamers kidnap the Genies and Rogue then kills one of the Beamers, only to discover to his horror it was one of the Genies. 

The main problem with The Hit is that it's fucking pointless and rubbish.  Even its own writer thinks so.  I found an interview Bishop did with Simon Geller where  Geller sums up what's wrong with it--

It was a mistake to ever kill off the Traitor General, which completed Rogue's arc and removed his raison d'etre as a character.  (The great comparison Geller gives is The Fugitive TV show; once Richard Kimball catches the one-armed man and proves his innocence then the story is finished. Same with Rogue and the TG.)

That Rogue only really works as a character in stories set on Nu Earth. Send him to another planet or off into space as an interstellar assassin, and there's very quickly nothing really remarkable about him.

That The Hit was written "out of desperation".  Editorial knew it had been a mistake to kill the TG and that the strip really had nowhere to go now, but it was still popular with the readers, so some kind of new Rogue adventure had to appear. 

Is Hunted an attempt to create a world for Post Traitor Rogue that explains some of the events of both the Re-gene/Horst/The Hit period?

Simple answer: no. I've no regard at all for The Hit or, really, any of the post-Traitor General RT stories, so no reference will be made to them.

Also, I should point out that Jaegir's set slightly further ahead on the RT universe timeline - about 8-10 years - and that the war's still going on. So, as far as I''m concerned The Hit didn't happen.  (Although Rogue is also absent in Jaegir's present; whatever happened to him, he's not around anymore.)