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[Also the Title itself has all sorts of negative connotations]

Korky the Cat: London Rioter?

No I don't think the Pat Mills treatment would work really. Take something quaint and beef it up is not going to save the Dandy which was very much of it's time. Also the Title itself has all sorts of negative connotations politically incorrect though that might be to say so.       

Not for one minute would an average Nintendo Junkie brat be caught dead reading a comic with that title. Oddly phrased Japanese game related characters Yes; Dandy -No.

It's a dated word, sure, but does the word 'dandy' have some other meaning that I'm unaware of?

McNulty: "You know what they call a guy who pays that much attention to his clothes, don't you?"
Bunk:     "A grown-up."

http://www.carlislemegacon.blogspot.co.uk/

One-day con in Carlisle, extremely handy for earthlets in Gretna, Dumfries and other such major metropolitan areas.

They haven't exactly been pushing out the publicity for this (that I've seen) but guests include myself, Andy Diggle and Sean Phillips.

Any word on who'll be at Edinbra?

If only there were some kind of listing somewhere of who's signing where...

...like lead item on the site's news page, for example.  But, no, that would just be crazy thinking.

My I suggest:



just round the corner fi FP, reasonable priced for the middle of toon and a eclectic bunch o drinkers.

But, meanwhile, all the cool kids will be at the Brass Monkey, which isn't the size of your living room and has a refreshing lack of folkie twats with acoustic guitars who, while sitting right next to you, have an alarming tendency to start singing without warning, forcing you to fall into a would-be respectful silence until they've finished interrupting your conversation.

I don't expect a Prometheus sequel to ever materialise - Scott has the Counselor, Blade Runner sequel and whatever else in-between to keep him busy so he either passes on the directing mantle to someone else or it's just left as one of those just in case on-the-shelf projects.

And not forgetting that he'll be 75 later this year, and, well, how old by the time Prometheus 2 rolls round?

Seriously, how many of these huge projects does he think he has left in him?

Shirely, he was just the first Caesar?, but your right he would have had a digital watch by then

Well, Caesar - meaning 'hairy', and probably a nickname given to an ancestor that stuck as a family name - was his cognomen, identifying which branch of his clan (Julius being his nomen, identifying him as a member of the Julian clan) he belonged to. His first name - or pronomen - wasn't Julius at all, of course. It was Gaius, although, traditionally, only close friends or family members would address someone by their pronomen.

Later emperors would use the name as a title, not a surname, although none of them were of the Caesar family, and - strictly speaking - only Augustus could even claim to be a true-blood Julian, and, even then, that was on his mother's side.

Historically, when we now talk about 'Caesar', we mean Gaius Julius Caesar, although, at the time, the name would have been taken to mean the emperor of the day.

i.e. "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's". Which, at the time Jesus was supposed to have said this, would have been the Emperor Tiberius.

Oooh, but I love Roman stuff...

Yeah, Caesar must've found it a bugger winding his watch on from BC to AD.

Fortunately for him, he died 44 years before this could have developed into a real problem for him.

So where you going to explain exactly what makes Jimmy Carter a vicious anti-semite (or even a cuddly one) or are you just going to let questionable quotations from Martin Luther King do the job for you?  I'm genuinely curious about this.

I was wondering that too, especially since he's tried trolling with this apparent nonsense elsewhere on the board. Some chapter and verse evidence on the theme of Jimmy Carter: Well-Known Anti-Semite would be useful here.

When faced with two similar-sounding and identically-titled stories, you should generally choose the one written by the idiot whose knowledge of the historical period in question at least stretches far enough to know there's no such thing as "the year 0 AD".

Maybe my history is a little off, but I'm sure MLK died before I asked you the question.
So following this logic- I think Robert Mugabe is a bad man- does this make me anti-black?

Did you even read his post? He TOTALLY quoted Martin Luther King, who TOTALLY used the word 'truth' twice there. So, you know, it must be true.

...don'tcha think...?

...dude?

...and that news is not going to be positive, I'm afraid.

What Richmond said.

Can we not just fuck right off with this puerile shite?

#1 will have a GNR cover for a story by Gordon Rennie:

www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/16/margaret-thatcher-brain-snatcher-at-kapow-this-weekend/

...co-written with my Big Finish co-writer Emma Beeby, with whom I've currently got something new in the works for 2000AD.

- Gordon (Not Dead, Yet)

Having read that article it does read a bit

"My stuff was nicked, I'm pissed"

which is understanderble but still coming across like a bit of a hatchet job

No, it doesn't. He's just saying something you might not want to hear. He's not saying no-one went along and didn't have a good time, but he is directly addressing the elephant in the room at UK comic cons.

Cardiff was noticeably poorer this year, and it can't be any coincidence that they're shifting their dates for next year to avoid going up against one of the new London cons again. I wasn't at Bristol this year, but feedback I'm hearing tallies pretty much with what Tim says in his blog - low footfall, no big pubishers, stall holders struggling to break even, few real name professionals, a lot of people pretty much keeping their powder dry for Kapow next week.

Dredd games haven't been as bad as Superman or Doctor Who ones but I think I think Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors and Strontium Dog are more suited to gaming than Dredd.

... and Harlem Heroes.  It's not all FPS out there.

If EA can release a video game based on Quidditch then aeroball is a no-brainer.

They released a game based on Quidditch because, thanks to the globally successful franchise of Harry Potter books and films, Quidditch is pretty much a household word, and everyone knows what it is.

Aeroball doesn't come remotely close to that.