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Oh, I like the references to each of the 'banned' episodes!

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing issues were never published under the Vertigo banner on their first printing since the imprint didn't exist at the time and are firmly ensconced in the (then) mainstream DC continuity as evidenced by the appearance of Batman, Superman, the JLA, Demon, Phantom Stranger, Zatara, Zatanna, Hawkman & Hawkgirl and Adam Strange as well as crossing over with the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series.

Moore's Crisis episode didn't make a whole lot of sense (but then that's how it was presented from Alec's PoV too).  Was that one of the many DCU reboots?

Swamp Thing, Hellblazer Shade, and Lucifer are all clearly part of the DCU, just somewhat estranged aspects.

Don't forget Doom Patrol!

As I'm too fond of arguing, Gaiman's Sandman is deeply enmeshed in the DCU proper, even leaving aside Doctor Destiny, the early crossovers and the guest list at Morpheus' funeral. Indeed Daniel Hall, the physical vessel for the 'current' Sandman is the grandson of both the pre-Crisis Hawkman and the Golden Age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, or if you prefer just the son of the post-Crisis Fury and Silver Scarab.

I had no idea of that - thanks for the enlightment!

Looking at the later stories (Endless Nights; Overture), it's clear that the destruction of Krypton, the foundation of the GLC and even life on Earth itself all arise from events set in motion by the various intrigues of the Endless.

And death made a guest appearance in a couple of panels of a DC comic.  Can't remember what it was called, but it had Legion in the title, I think it was set in the fifty-somethingth century, and the earth got destroyed...

Comix Creatrix: 100 Woman Making Comics, Granary Square, Kings Cross (five minutes walk from the British Library).
Features Alison Bechdel (Bechdel Test), Angie Mills (not sure why they didn't call her Kincaid...), Tove Jansson (Moomins) and 97 others.

Also a programme of events which is about half way through, but upcoming are Bryan and Mary Talbot and female creators who worked on British girls comics of the 1970s (presumably including Misty).

I think actions getting its numbering back in that rebirth thing dcs doing in the summer

In the same way that Rebellion did with the Megazine (putting the nonsense from Fleetway / Egmont / whoever behind us)?

It's getting hard to care about DC plots because you know there's a good chance the twice-a-decade reboot will be coming along at some point. It's hard to invest in that. Because Dredd's world never went down that route, it was always easier to invest emotion in. And it does provide many opportunities to feature past continuity.

The only 'mainstream' US titles I ever rated were generally one-offs (Killing Joke, Arkham Asylum, etc) and Vertigo / Epic, which even when they were officially part of their respective universes, weren't really part of it.

Funnily enough, even stalwarts like the Dandy (continuing in digital form) and the Beano (3,828 as of 26th of March) haven't yet reached 4,000 issues - it's strange to think that 2000AD already has over half the progs as pre-war comics.

Last night I watched the Comic Relief Sarah Jane Adventure, followed by Burke and Hare, both featuring Ronnie.

Welcome back into the fold (unless you get digital, which don't have folded pieces of paper)!

...now if only I can find somewhere that is taking part. It seems that my local shop isn't taking part this year...

Likewise, and I don't fancy hopping on a train to London, just to pick up a Prog. (I can't imagine Mrs IP would be thrilled at me doing so.)

Well, it wouldn't just be to pick up a prog surely?  You'd come along to the Southern Contingent gathering as well?

Now I reckon Jonny Alpha will be killed by a big monster thing and then resurrected a bit later. Hershey not to die but to have a massive epic devoted to her all about a mysterious past nobody knew about (like she's actually Tweak in disguise or an android controlled by a mysterious cabal of disgruntled judges that has only just come to light...)

Hershey can make a big error of Judgement, leave the Big Meg on the Long Walk, then crop up a few years later, with a goatee!

Prog 20 - will it take me less than three months to put up the next one?

I won at Munchkin last night for the first time. Kneel before Zod!

Congratulations!

We are almost probably definitely going to play X-wing this weekend and I also need to read up on basic D&D as they want a game up and running in time for Easter hols.

Hadn't seen the Basic Rules before - I'm not au fait enough to actually DM a game (despite having played various versions of D&D since red box days (!) but shall have to go through that.

Didn't realise that was by Mark Harrison

About fifteen years later he published a colour version online - available on the 2000AD.org website.

Traveller was a great game - I created a new Strontium Dog character type. I imagine it's very outdated now - when building spaceships you had to buy computers by the ton!

...and was the basis for the Strontium Dog RPG (not long after the Traveller Judge Dredd RPG came out).

[Travellar]

Travellar about a old scifi role playing game. The hero is Baltech a genetically modified dog man slave. Professor Rickets the evil guy who made him & others like him.  It's like a space opera ( Another old scifi role playing game that David Braben was into.) almost comparable to Rocky Horror Picture Show, but not!

Would that be Traveller?  Which is still published by a subsidiary/sister company to Rebellion?  And which inspired a comic strip written and drawn by Mark Harrison?  Not sure what the other RPG you mentioned was though...

I've been seeing large amounts of coverage of the Ankara attacks, although that may be because I once passed out on the Irish Ambassador to Turkey's couch back when he was a lowly Third Secretary and possessed of the first 1 litre beer stein i had ever seen, and thus am unintentionally sensitised to news that involves his patch.  Point being, what catches the eye and makes it to the RIP thread and elsewhere depends on who's looking. It's understandable that attacks at the heart of the EU would attract more attention here. Doesn't mean nobody is paying attention to what goes on elsewhere.

This also applies to the famous people who appear more regularly on this thread.  There's been a few times when the news of the death of somebody famous has been reported, but whom I've never heard of.  In those cases I would not post the link as it would seem meaningless to me to do so.

This is starting to remind me of the time our characters had to hide out in a toadmen brothel, waiting for a Todorini naval officer to turn up so we could blackmail him... It was fine until we started thinking about how a toad brothel would actually work, biologically...

Frogspawn all over the (knocking) shop!

I was going to say I wasn't familiar with Dragon Warriors, but a quick look at wikipedia reveals it's set in the same world as Blood Sword, of which I have the first book.

1. From the Battlepits of Krarth - a werewolf pack?
2. From a random encounter generator for Dragon Warriors:

   
• 15 elves
• a bear
• 3 pazuzus
• a boar

3. From a Dragon Warriors Wiki:

   
• Apemen
• Bats
• Centaurs
• Fell Toads
• Mermaids
• Pigeons (!)