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2000AD Prog 295: "Die, Dredd!" Look out – there's a "jimp" about! Zarjaz news for video gamers – inside!

A game-changer for the nascent video games industry (primarily US) gets a few lines - little did they know!

Same thing has happened to our gooseberries - reduced to sticks in a week by little caterpillary bastards  Luckily our raspberries in the same bed have escaped so far - is it separate species of sawfly for each? (he asked hopefully)

No idea - but I'll let you know if the nemotode thing works.

All my sweet pepper seeds have failed to germinate!

I really need a soft, long ... hosepipe (Stop it! I've re awakened my old knee injury and I can't cope with all the watering I need to do.

Yup - a knee-trembler isn't going to help




Meanwhile, sawfly have attacked my beloved gooseberry bushes.  Gooseberries are my favourite fruit, so the utter lack of them in shops mean I thought finally having a garden would allow me to actually have some each year.  Currently waiting for some highly specialised living culture thing to arrive in the post - but it might take seven days in which time the bushes will be stripped of leaves.

...I'm quite proud of the fact that I'm familiar with the stories and characters from the bible. I know people who are equally proud of their atheism, but sadly it's often coupled with ignorance of the very thing they don't believe in.

Much the same thoughts here (although you don't have to know about a thing to justifying not believing in a thing - lack of belief is a priori).

To play *hah* devil's advocate for a moment - as an atheist should I learn more about the christian bible because I live in a christian country or the Bhagavata Purana and Qurʼān because those are the two dominant religions in my neighbourhood?




















p.s. as far as learning about religion goes I'm more interested in the wide range of beliefs from prehistory to the present rather than focusing on any one religion, as long as that one religion doesn't try to stop me living my life.  I don't see why I should be restricted from going shopping because somebody else believes, erm, something about sky fairy needing a breather after six days of work or something?

I definitely agree with you that the compressed nature of the storytelling, particular the rather "WTF?" im media res opener didn't help it. Also, you have to be in your 50s to remember anything other than the Leopard from Lime Street from your childhood. It was slightly surreal to buy a comic in my late 40s and think, "maybe this is intended for an older audience than me"!

I'm under 50 and remembered the Leopard from Lime Street and Death Wish.  None of the others meant anything to me other than possibly having read their names in articles.  Having them all shoved together in one comic (for me) was like watching the Avengers or Justice League films without ever having seen or read anything involving the characters previously.

Thanks Lobo - I'll have a look for them on spotify as well!

Meanwhile, 2000AD Prog 294: A Tale of Two Cities! In Mega-City 1 requiem for a vigilante In Brit-Cit The sound of music E.T. Review and Freebie – This Prog!

A new series.  Well, series of shorts - Tharg's Time Twisters!

I've just seen the clip. Truly deplorable.

Just unbelievable. If you were his SPAD, you would surely nip the fecker the minute that interview had finished up. The arrogance, nonchalance and superior attitude. Christ.

Disgusting. They really have no concept of the suffering and horror they have helped bring about. They'll get away with it, too. I have no doubt of that.

They have a concept.  They just don't care.

Company of Wolves has been one of my favourite films since it was first broadcast on Channel 4, (I think), in the 80s, not least because they couldn't have packed more 'genuine' werewolf-lore into it if they'd tried. I consider the disjointedness, artificiality and visual non-sequiturs as points in its favour, because the bulk of it is intended to be a dream and it's very similar in 'feel' to some of the freakier dreams I've had.

The first video I ever bought.  Not a fan of the 'toybox' start but I love the rest of it.

I suppose what irks me is the arrogant side of national pride in general. Like when George W claimed that his enemies-du-jour 'hate us for our freedom' - I seriously doubt it was jealousy that drove the terrorist attacks.

...and nothing to do with proxy wars which had effectively "bombed them back to the stone age".  The single biggest cause of anti-Western terrorism is the resentment caused by Western governments (not the only cause, but if the UK and US didn't gallivant around the world expecting everyone else to capitulate to their demands the world would be a substantially more peaceful place).

Cheers Funt, glad I didn't cause offence.  I do find the ceremony you describe fairly chilling - I'd heard a while ago it's a relatively recent introduction into schools but had shut the whole thing out of my mind.

Yeah - always seems really fascist when I get reminded of it (having just watched the Man in the High Castle TV adaptation).

My primary school principal, by the way, was an unmarried ex-Christian Brother and a violent psychopath - most teachers hadn't quite adjusted to the corporal punishment ban, but this prick smashed heads off radiators for talking in class. I heard he was eventually given a thorough hiding by local parents and I'm afraid, for all my pacifist tendencies, I was pleased to hear it.

Seems to me that only the most committed pacifists would shed a tear at a child abuser getting a taste of the treatment they mete out...

2000AD Prog 293: "Starbase one under attack!" Win the video game that talks to you!

Computer games everywhere!  Even in Rogue Trooper!

Trump's latest hissy-fit row is against Twitter.   

Perhaps now Twitter will finally ban him. 

It will have only taken several years of him repeatedly breaking their own rules of conduct.

I wouldn't like to be in Twitter's shoes - the most powerful person in the world, a megalomaniac and now having a bone to pick with you (and only too willing to use Executive Privilege to abuse that power).

The Human League - Dare

I Am the Law!  So says Phil Oakey

I posted over on my back prog hack thread, but this one also belongs here.  My back prog slog blog has got to the point where Project XXX was revealed in late 1982, and that means it's time to take down Judge Death for scrawling!  Or more likely get sent to Intensive Care).

And for good measure, the corresponding White Dwarf (features a Judge Dredd boardgame takeoever).

Meanwhile Johnson regrets the 'confusion' caused by Cummings' actions, because You People aren't sophisticated enough to understand which particular laws can be broken willy-nilly.

He regrets the proles not knowing their place. Cummings is allowed to break the law, but we are not. It's really that simple. I just wish he'd have the balls to come out and say it.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up on this thread or the main politics thread, but one of the main elements of a sincere apology is to regret what you've done.  Not regret how other people feel about what you've done - that's shifting the blame to them.