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I'd assume the next room is another fun room and continue.  Though of course, what I'd be worried about is if the rooms just get worse and worse with no respite.

Hah - just saw Big Trouble in Little China the other day - in honour of the year of the fire monkey - we followed it up with a few episodes of 1970/80s Monkey!

Why do I not remember Nem appearing in an Anderson story?

A1 got re-launched about ten years after the original run (by a different company and presumably with no involvement from the original editors other than the brand).  Can't remember how long it ran for, but I don't think it was long...

I'll just repost what I put on facebook...
"I first knew you through your work in 2000AD and saw your name in books on Goth. Later, on social media, I saw your name pop up on as friends of a few of my friends. I never got to meet you in person. Now I never will."
Not much, but what can you say - it's been so heart-wrenching seeing Tony's struggles, with the occasional glimmer of hope.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93

I only need a few to completely complete the collection, which is quite nice. Many thanks to the people on here who've already helped me get this close, and if anyone has all these and wants to sell the lot, that would be ideal. I'll do bits and bobs, of course. The finishing line is so close.

2000AD - 9, 10, 1794

Sci Fi Specials - 1978, 1980

Summer Special - 1977

I think that's it, anyway.

While you're waiting to fill in the last gaps, here's a review/impressions I posted not too long ago on the Summer Special Supercomic (as it was called).  Actually something I only purchased in the last three or four years, despite having first heard about it in the 1980s!

I was thinking of this photo the other day - the only thing which could make it more perfect would have been if they'd had a copy of Moby Dick on the table...

Going to have a meal and watch that romantic classic called Deadpool.

Description of Deadpool: "A cancer victim can't bear to leave the one he loves, so he undergoes an experimental treatment that tests the limits of their relationship."

Never been - why is it so bad?

Provincial town with provincial attitudes (the kind of place you will get attacked by random strangers for not being like them.

did anyone read the non-waggner/grant daily strips? or the metro dredds?

were they any good?

Lots of people will have read them.  Once.

I always think significantly less of anyone who accepts an honour. I think of them as little yapping dogs overjoyed at getting a pat on the head and a biscuit from their masters.

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^ This ^

I'd mostly agree with that, unless it's for services to charity, in which case the letters after the name can come in handy in future fund-raising / lobbying.

[Armageddon 2419AD]

Armageddon 2419AD - the novellas from the 1930s that introduced Anthony "Tony" Rogers to the world - although we would later know him better as "Buck" from the tv show from the 1980s.  It's a surprise to see the enemies here are the Chinese, constantly described as a shrunken, cowardly race prone to brutality and every conceivable vice and sin, with the final leg of the first book dedicated not to a battle against the invading hoards that have conquered post-apocalyptic America, but to wiping out an enemy even more vile - those who would collaborate with them.  Clearly this was a product of a time when people had a bit of an issue with the idea of foreign chums, and it does kind of make it difficult to view the searing hatred of all non-white humanity that radiates off the page like toxic poison of the soul as a charming throwback to "simpler times" when at one point the characters speak of a savage and feared tribe called the "Negrons" that indulge in some suspiciously stereotypical behavior, and then the book signs off with the hero standing over the burning corpses of collaborators announcing that now the race traitors have been disposed of, he can turn his attention to the Chinamen and "We shall live to see America blast the yellow blight from the face of the Earth."
Well anyway, they changed a few things before it got to tv.

Uh, interesting - not heard of the history of Buck before.  Past the HP Lovecraft-style unfortunate relics of the time, is it any good?

i live in ipswich uk.

Can I be the first to offer my heartfelt condolences.

I used to live there.  *shudder*

We somehow missed watching the Big Dave (how could it have been I missed that one...) and Bix Barton episodes.  All caught up now.  Shall have to dig out the Black Siddha floppies in a bit.