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Thanks for the answer - we just don't get enough stories about the Nerve Centre since the glory days of Eric Bradbury...

Though we do get quite a bit on Nerve Centre life away from script and art droids in Droid Life of course!

[Google Sheet]

By all means go for it. I suspect people would be happy when the collection ends to have some kind of usable index. That said, perhaps a thread here could be run in tandem with a publicly editable Google Sheet or something? A bunch of people I know use that system on a magazine we all contribute to, and it works well. It also means you can reorder the list by volume, story title or Prog.

I started doing something similar, but haven't kept it up, so I've changed the sharing options for the Google Sheet I started.

Also, this from the (unofficial) 2000AD wiki.

Great stuff, as a matter of interest on who could potentially appear in upcoming thrillcasts, how many people who we haven't 'met' work in the Command Module?
- Tharg
- Cyber-Matt
- Molch-R
- SAM 2.0 + OZ-BRN-1
- graphic novels editor Keith Richardson and head of publishing Ben Smith (absence of droid names (that I can recall) suggests they work more for Rebellion than 2000AD, if that makes sense?)
- reprographics droid Kathryn Symes
- K-T Rex (has appeared in a thrill-cast but it was ages ago and I can't quite remember what this particular droid does, sorry!)

Just realised I never answered this: Keith is officially designated Robo-Keef, Kathryn is Kat-Scan, and Ben is B3N. K-T Rex is a part-time droid construct that we reactivate for US conventions.

Thanks for the answer - we just don't get enough stories about the Nerve Centre since the glory days of Eric Bradbury...

Pangean surely?

My favourite nationality!

So my native American roots are of no interest round here?

Speaking personally I'd say it's interesting if you were you brought up in a native american culture.  For myself, I have bits of paper saying that my ancestors came from all over the place, but I never met them so it doesn't actually make any difference where they were born.

I've actually asked some friends here about this very thing and all I get is blank stares - they don't see how its different to how I say it!They also are seemingly oblivious to how they pronounce Graham as 'Grem' or 'Gram'.

Pronouncing 'mirror' as 'mirrr' also.

Some cute adverts on those signs, particularly like the 'Red Alert' wallet 'tribute'.

I liked the Tombs ad (from 'What if Judges did the Ads?')

What I find curious about these events, is I can spend a large portion of the day there ( in my case between around 11:00 and 17:30-45) and I'll see one Souther. (In this case I saw him twice, first in his civvies, and later in Judge mode.)

Then I go to the pub later (boy, wasn't that noisy!) and there everyone is.

In our case it's because (for the second year running) we only went to the pub :-)

( You can see one of our contingent attempting to crown his lady love with the Judge Punnisher helmet, above.)

That'll be Rachael and myself.

A previous 2000ad comic con T Shirt. (The one with the large Judge Mek on the front.)

Not familiar with that one...

We've not left home yet (obviously not going to the con itself) so shall see y'all at the Fox when we get there!

I flicked through an issue at the time but was put off by the painted art published in B&W combined with the price.  I've since picked up a collected copy of one of the stories which was printed in colour.  If I had any idea where it was I'd dig it out and share a few details.  Probably in a deeply-buried box in the front room.

[;-)]

Some Kleggy Dredd posted from the floor of the LSCC at the Excel

On the floor already?  What time did you start drinking?  Well, if you can get yourself stood up again I'll see you in the Fox in an hour or two ;-)

I never realised how colourful the Falcon is!

Me neither! Weird, isn't it. I watched the original trilogy recently (and paid particular attention to the scenes with the Falcon in) and all the colours are there!

Then again I must have noticed some colour at some point, as I have a rust-strewn airfix model of the Falcon somewhere (painted on, it's made out of plastic, and I must have painted it on the energetic side of ten years old!)

[The Art Of The Deal]

The Art Of The Deal - Johnny Depp stars as Donald Trump in a movie following the orange one's mid-80s pursuit of the real estate he needed to build his own version of the Taj Mahal ("the most beautiful thing ever made by a muslim"), only in casino form in Atlantic City.
It's made by Funny Or Die so hilarity rarely ensues, but Depp's Trump is a surprisingly watchable bigot and I'm a huge fan of artificial artifacts and false history stories, so with an intro by Ron Howard, a proprietary theme song by Kenny Loggins, and cameos from Alf, Dr Emmet Brown, and the surviving Fat Boys, this is like catnip to me, and is probably the best way to revisit the Worst Decade In History: briefly, and not really.

As in Alien Life Form ALF?  I've never even heard of this film...

[Tordels & The Shark]

Tordels & The Shark sounds like an American telly programme from the 1980s about a pair of comically mismatched private investigators with wildly differing methods, forced to work together, initially due to reasons outwith their control, but they grudgingly develop a mutual respect for each other over the course of the series, which is probably set in San Francisco.

Wasn't it on at the same time as Dalziel and Makepeace?

I never realised how colourful the Falcon is!

An aged Ford does not mean that he isn't a replicant with the four year kill switch turned off.

The four year kill switch can't be turned off, even if the creator of the replicants / god of biomechanics could save their life by doing so (or at least buy themselves some time).
Ford could play an artificial person built to the same spec but without the kill switch engaged in the first place, a la Bishop.

I watched Soldier (1998) for the first time a few weeks ago, which I was surprised to discover is considered a kind of successor to Blade Runner by writer David Peoples (co-writer of the script for Blade Runner).

Containing several spoken references to Blade Runner, apparently a Spinner vehicle can also be seen amongst the junk on the main setting for the film (I didn't spot it).

Never heard of it, but a few seconds googling (image search) has revealed Russell's character fought on the Shoulder of Orion.