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p.s. my view is that Toxic! would be more relevant to 2000AD - the early 1990s comic, not the children's comic which I think is still being published.

Interesting - why have you added The Phoenix?  I presume it's the children's comic available in selected supermarkets, bookshops and buy mail order by an independent publisher and (as far as I know) having no creators in common with 2000AD?

Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime-Fighting in Mega-City One

Slight change of pace and format as I go in to Project XXX AKA what it says in the title!

Tornado and Starlord weren't specials though.

Yes they were - one summer special each, two Tornado annuals and three Starlord annuals.

Plus Tornado and Starlord!

Glad that Fox's reservations regarding the Horned God only lasted through the preachy bit.

2000AD Prog 286: "We got yer wife, Dredd!"

Project XXX revealed!

2000AD Prog 285: Robo Hunter goes football crazy! "What's the score, Sam, huh?"

The one I've been dreading - this has not aged well.

Until that is a man with a laser sword can be the saviour when needed most and can give the spark of... and I hate to use the most over used term in the whole 'Skywalker saga' ... hope.

Oh, I thought it was "I've got a bad feeling."

I too am an absolute fan of this book. My first experience was the 50s movie, which blew me away. I then realised we had the book in the house, a rare sci-fi gem amongst all the boring crap - it was a 1966 hardback ex-school library edition which I still have. It's worth nowt, I  doubt even a charity shop would take it, but I adore this battered old book, especially the single illustration at the front:

£26.00 (if this link works.

2000AD Prog 284: "Howdy! This here's a hijack!"

I find out where I got the quote: "Guess great minds work alike?" "Some don't work at all."

One of my problems is that TLJ has to rewrite many of its characters to make them joyless assholes in order to try and promote its viewpoint, when, as you suggest, elements of that viewpoint were always present in the franchise, albeit employed in a far-less cack-handed way.

The things that helped elevate original Star Wars beyond a standard sci-fi B-movie haven't come in to play in non-original trilogy films.

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He let his friends (among them director Francis Ford Coppola) read the scripts and tape-recorded their comments in order to get some advice. However, the suggestions from his wife Marcia (a film editor who later won an Oscar for Star Wars) were the ones he took most seriously, even though her criticism sometimes made him angry.

Lucas had consulted his co-writers from American Graffiti (Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz) to sharpen the dialogue, which he felt lacked humour and bounce, and although he rejected most of what they came up with, their new ideas gave Lucas renewed confidence in his work.

Lucas later commented on the contributions of Huyck and Katz, in the book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays

Dialogue has never been my strong point, and so I talked to Willard and Gloria and asked them to do a quick dialogue polish. I gave them the fourth draft of the script, and they just improved the dialogue where they felt they could make a contribution. Then I took their changes, and sometimes I rewrote some of their lines. Some of their dialogue of course changed again when we started shooting. Some of it survived; some of it didn't. They did about thirty percent of the dialogue.

No she won't - what? Creepy Lando - does he want to adopt her or screw her?  What?  Why?  Where?  Who?

Apparently it's because Jannah is his daughter.  Which obviously doesn't come across well in the actual film itself because you have to read the Visual Dictionary to get clued in* (and a forthcoming novel, unless it's come out now) and just looks creepy, as you say.


Other than having to access other material to get what's in the film (which I don't approve of - not least because the other material may not be available - as with those webpages set up to tie in with TV series or films - and which don't exist now) I also dislike this as it appears you can't have more than one black person in the universe of billions of planets without them being related to each other.  We don't know who Finn's parents are either, so it's only a matter of time...




* or media speculation about the Visual Dictionary.

Feel like I'm watching all the good work unravel here in RoI, as construction sites, hardwares, garden centres, farmers' markets (how do you maintain social distancing in a farmers' market?) and pet-hate fecking golf courses set to reopen Monday,

As a matter of interest, why do you hate golf courses?  I've never played anything past crazy golf-level, but I can think of worse things to 'build' on a flood plain - like paving and tarmaccing leaving rainwater nowhere to run to.  Though I may have a skewed perspective in that I used to walk through a municipal golf course which merged in to common land when I came home from school (just been looking in to it, not entirely sure how it works that they charge to play a game on land that you can walk through anyway) - so my perspective of golf is that it isn't entirely over-privileged elites jetting off to Scotland to play a round, or whatever a match of golf is called.

2000AD Prog 283: The shedding – Tharg as you've never seen him


"Neek!"