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Well there goes the Vegans hate kitty kats rumour. Above and beyond there Tip. Z

There was a rumour?  My girlfriend is vegan (vegetarian through choice, vegan through medical stuff) and the third (and feline) member of our household is here due to her.

The main reason I'm not getting the Hachette partworks is I wouldn't have anywhere to put them (and even less opportunity to put them somewhere they can a) be displayed so the spines line up and b) can even be easily read).  I have 'lost' progs I simply can't get too without an engineering project of the scale that Bazalgette invisaged to excavate enough earth to build the Victoria and Albert Embankments and construct the Victorian sewer system much beloved of Stickleback.

The weirdest thing about living in Ireland is that ANY kind of English accent is considered super posh and evidence of vast absentee estate holdings.

Really?  Even gor-blimey, luv-a-duck accents?

That is one truly awful cover. Why draw his body as if it's a face?

How is the body a face?

and I wish deeply the outside world (outside our nerdsphere) would do the same and gave equal credit to the other quite brilliant works that were being done at and around the time of... well certain deified works (can you deify a comic? Well since when did I worry about the specifics and detail of language huh!?!). Fandom doesn't help itself by not being exposed to, or not really pushing the exposure to really significant works like this and so we go around in the same bubble thinking... a certain writer... is the only true great thing that happened to comics and people look in and see us saying that and don't bother to look any further.

Its a really short sighted view and really to the detriment of the medium as a whole.

Agreed - at the end of the day, Watchmen is a four-colour superhero comic.  We know it was produced by two great creators who graduated from 2000AD, but if you're one of those 'normal' people then you won't look much further than the surface.  Comics like Maus or Persepolis are much more accessible to the general public.  Not sure how the recent rash of superhero films (mostly Marvel) may have changed this, if at all...

I've always enjoyed teasing out the real-world aspects of wild fiction, and visiting such locations as there are (see also Star Wars, Slaine, Ghostbusters...)

You've been to Tatooine!?

Bacchus may be wildly uneven (it is), but for me it is one of the greatest comics projects of all time, the comic I wish more than any other that I myself had written (if not drawn).  I've vanished down more rabbit holes chasing ideas and throwaway details from Bacchus than anything else I've ever read; I've been inspired to follow Bacchus around the islands of Greece on four wonderful occasions (including a holiday that changed my life completely)

My guess is that you met your future spouse 

It's in the latest Meg

Not to mention in the Thrill Mail, splashed all over the Facebook page, posted on the Tumblr page... It's been hard to miss!

F'rinstance:

[Angelic:]

Angelic: Particularly pleasing to get to this after wading through the previous tale!  Nice clean lines, and a much more traditional 2000ad type feeling to Carter's art.  The tale itself, loving it.  Did wonder though......my memory may be hazy on this...but wasn't Fink the oldest, then Linc, then Mean, then Junior?  So ask Pa awakes to the infant Linc.....and call's him Junior....mm, I guess we'll have to wait and see what's going on!

I thought his saying Junior as he was waking was due to the vision that Sully had given him.

Rising Angel: Amazing the sympathy you can feel for a character who's an utter bastard!  Great art from Percival, and I can't help wondering.......if he had drawn 'Reaper', would it have been a bit more palatable?  Similar style to Langley....just clearer ad less 'busy'.  Who knows!

I'd always felt sympathy for Mean (well, since we got the 'origin story' for him) - it wasn't his fault he was part of the Angel family, and that his Pa had him operated upon.  I'm hoping whether he returns or not, he stays as Not-so-Mean (because his having lobotomies and then turning bad was done too many times).

Really enjoyed that prog - just about every thing in it worked for me.

The DREDD was particularly good but, I can't help thinking that the maths and the logistics just don't add up. Mega City 1 is gigantic. How does Dredd get to that junction every day when he could be a thousand miles away? Similarly, as some one has pointed out, how does all of that traffic get through it? Don't people make short journeys in MC-1?  A couple of tweaks would have made it add up; it just needed to be at the busiest intersection in whatever Sector Dredd was currently in.  And the drop in crime would be attributed to that sector.  Bit if I stop being a nit-picking prick for two minutes, I really enjoyed story and art.

I'm going to tell myself that:
a) the tutor is getting on a bit and gets hazy on details
b) he's talking about a raft of mythologies
c) he meant six point five per cent or the sector's traffic (or both)

Loved the Piranesi reference, just a shame about the 'statistics' - it'd be like saying sixty five per cent of UK traffic passes through Trafalgar Square each day :-(

Great opener, Molch-R!

I am a third Irish (roughly)

The maths on this one escapes me. Irish step-parent? Genetic splicing? Bitten by a radioactive shillelagh? From Dublin?

Five out of 16 great, great grandparents would (roughly) equal a third.

my gears grind my gears, after dusting off the pushbike after a year in hibernation I remembered the gears are crap, probably my technical ineptitude as its a nordend mountain bike, I don't need all those gears and the handle bar mounted changer is annoying it keeps slipping and chucking me in the wrong gear wich is annoying going up hill when it suddenly becomes impossible to pedal or on a flat when I suddenly go into hill climb gear causing me to nearly come off due to foot slippage.

If you replace your chain, it may work better. You may have to replace the derailleurs (gears) too, maybe front or back. Depends how much wear. But replacing your chain will keep wear and tear on the rest down to a minimum... as will cleaning it after use or oiling it up before you start out after hibernation.

Still I am one to talk I never get around to doing this myself due to lazyness

Pro tip: use old toothbrushes for cleaning chains (I never throw a toothbrush away - well, not until it's covered in grease, grit and oil).

Very good, great to hear Alan's background to the story.

Looking forward to that tonight - it was rather different to any Anderson stories we'd had before...

I only got to spend an hour or two at a time in London when I was a kid, so only had fleeting experiences of 1980s comic shops.  I got to go to Forbidden Planet on New Oxford Street (not surprisingly), Top 10 Soho in St Anne's Court, Comicana (did not like - old American children's superhero comics and not much else), Comics Showcase when it was on Charing Cross Road and Gosh! on Great Russell Street. Plus Mega-City Comics which is now my local (walking distance and friendly staff).