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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7530 on: 24 March, 2020, 02:05:00 PM »
Asterix was a major part of my childhood and I still have all of them. The humour of those books is still priceless. Albert Uderzo gave us all a great gift. RIP.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7531 on: 24 March, 2020, 07:15:35 PM »
Sad news  :'(

Asterix was one of my favorites growing up.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7532 on: 24 March, 2020, 07:28:12 PM »

So sad.

When I was very young, about 8 or 9, I came across two Asterix books in a tourist shop in Southport. I could only afford one, which I bought, and then (I'm ashamed to admit) I stole the other. It's the only book I ever pinched - and got a good hiding for it when I got home. It didn't dampen my love for Asterix, though, a love which has only grown over the years. Goscinny and Uderzo were the first comic creators whose names I learned and Asterix was the first comic I fell in love with.

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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7533 on: 24 March, 2020, 08:13:20 PM »
Wow. Another part of my childhood gone. On the plus side, I just bought an omnibus of the first three Asterix books for my son's 10th birthday on Monday.
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« Reply #7534 on: 24 March, 2020, 08:32:25 PM »
.... which you will may well remember to give him in 10 years time?     ::)
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« Reply #7535 on: 24 March, 2020, 10:05:15 PM »
Quote from: Tjm86 on 24 March, 2020, 08:32:25 PM
.... which you will may well remember to give him in 10 years time?     ::)

Don't be daft. Of course I will give it to him. Just like the 13th Floor Collected edition he got from Santa. The fact that he has a bedroom bookcase circa 90cm from the bathroom door is pure coincidence.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7536 on: 24 March, 2020, 11:23:49 PM »
Asterix was brilliant!

Maybe as a tribute Rebellion could reprint in the floppy the spoof Asterix strip that appeared in one of the Crisis specials.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7537 on: 25 March, 2020, 09:49:17 AM »
Stuart Gordon of various Horror movies fame has died. Rotten news about Uderzo's passing as well.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/stuart-gordon-dead-dies-1203544356/?fbclid=IwAR2AwQzFFLJ5_c51K8OdFmWzT9L7QrHX3qoX8Byei2Nx6hHMR19vPh0tVf8
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7538 on: 25 March, 2020, 10:22:54 AM »
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 24 March, 2020, 01:18:39 PM
Albert Uderzo one of the all time greatest comic artist and that's not hyperbole at all, just an artistic genius.

A rather timely and fitting tribute to the great Albert Uderzo, I believe. 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner-1.4211198
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7539 on: 25 March, 2020, 10:56:51 AM »
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 25 March, 2020, 09:49:17 AM
Stuart Gordon of various Horror movies fame has died.

That's sad news - he was the ultimate Lovecraftian director. Dagon, From Beyond, and, of course, Re-animator are all classics.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7540 on: 25 March, 2020, 11:19:48 AM »
He was also the director of Robot Jox, which I watched once and thought was alright.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7541 on: 25 March, 2020, 12:51:21 PM »
Quote from: Professor Bear on 25 March, 2020, 11:19:48 AM
He was also the director of Robot Jox, which I watched once and thought was alright.

Not seen it but I have heard it's very 2000AD in tone (from the late seventies, early eighties.
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7542 on: 25 March, 2020, 06:36:06 PM »
RIP Bill Rieflin drummer with Ministry, NIN, and KMFDM (amongst so many other great bands).  Fuck this year.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bill-rieflin-king-crimson-r-e-m-ministry-dummer-dead-obituary-972751/
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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7543 on: 26 March, 2020, 01:25:08 PM »
A good tribute to Albert Uderzo:

https://downthetubes.net/?p=116451
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Old age is the Lord’s way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death’s in case we didn’t take the hint.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

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Re: RIPs
« Reply #7544 on: 27 March, 2020, 10:57:15 AM »
Mark Blum, actor, 69, COVID-19.

(you may know him from Desperately Seeking Susan and Crocodile Dundee)
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