Now Now Tharg Head Now Wake Make Tharg Head Now

[lborl]

Sci-Fi! Talking Tharghead! Come oooooooooooooonnnnn!

http://www.sitepal.com/

[Tweak72]

Is that a bit Sisters of Mercy?

[Cordite]

Spared from insanity because he was brutal and unimaginative and a barbarian to boot. Slaine, in 1986, and it was one of the coolest things I'd ever read. Dredd could be similarly described, at least in terms of lack of imagination and brutality.  Johnny Alpha was relatively compassionate, albeit in flashes, but always deadly.

It made me wonder why these British comic characters are so different from the average American one, who is almost invariably a geek, a put-upon loser with a magnificent alter ego.

The appeal of such American comic book characters is obvious: they speak to the potential within the -- let's be honest -- guy who is probably getting a tough time in school.  And yet the British comics characters have as their heroes the guy who is probably making your life hell.

Of course, most of the iconic early 2000 A.D. characters were written by two men: Wagner and Mills, and thus would share some common traits, but why have they been so popular in Britain and Ireland, and less so in the States?

I got some ideas, but would welcome yours.

[lborl]

It's the imaginary chanting of an impatient group of something like children; "Now! Now! Tharg-Head-Now!"

Don't you think an animated text-to-speech 'sitepal' Tharg head would be awesome? You could make it speech text an junk!

[JOE SOAP]

?

[lborl]

Look at the site!

Link: http://www.sitepal.com/

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Hey now, hey now now! Sing this thrill power to me!

(This world's got no tales to read it ain't read before,
If you've read all you can, and can't read no more,
You need someone who understands,
That thrills runs bold only from a droid's hand
So think Tharg!
And 2K!
Comic-land will be riven apart!
Turn, come...

... to 2000 a d

[I, Cosh]

How anyone can get past making the imaginary computer men swear is beyond me.

[lborl]

I got there from here. You can waste hours trying to teach ALICE bits of useless information.

Link: http://www.alicebot.org/

[lborl]

 Human: ALICE, do you agree that the 2000ad website should get a Tharg chatbot?
ALICE: That's me. I hear you.
 Human: You hear me like 'I hear you man' or you, you know, just hear me?
ALICE: Yes, I can hear you quite clearly, unknown person.
Human: Answer my question if you'd be so kind.
ALICE: Please try phrasing it another way.
Human: I'm Luke by the way.
ALICE: Do your friends call you Luke by the way.
 Human: What do you think?
ALICE: I think a lot of things.
 Human: Never mind then.
ALICE: Oh well thanks for trying to explain it to me anyway.
 Human: About this Tharg thing.
ALICE: Oh yeah, we were talking about this Tharg thing.
 Human: Wouldn't it be ace?
ALICE: I don't care.
 Human: Don't you like 2000ad?
ALICE: Don't you? But I like to gossip. I like electricity.
 Human: Do you like Thrill Power?
ALICE: I love TV shows about robots. I like Hugh Loebner.
 Human: 2000ad is a comic that has robots in, and mutants and that as well.
ALICE: When is 2000ad not a comic that has robots in and mutants and that?
Human: I think you'd like it.
ALICE: Me? 2000ad seems okay to me.
 Human: And a 2000ad chatbot?
ALICE: I don't know what that means.
Human: Tharg is the fictional alien editor of 2000ad you see.
ALICE: When is Tharg not the fictional alien editor of 2000ad me see?  
 Human: There was a brief period in the 90s when they replaced him with some Men in Black.
ALICE: What happened to it?
 Human: It passed like every other measure of time.
ALICE: brief period in the 90s when they replaced him with some Men in Black passed like every other measure of time?
 Human: Pretty much.
ALICE: Be more specific.
 Human: Pretty much exactly.
ALICE: Precisely. Be more specific.
 Human: Um.
ALICE: Far out.
Human:. no.
ALICE: Are you serious?
 Human: Serious about a Tharg chat-bot!
ALICE: Let us change the subject.
Human: Just agree and say it's a great idea.
ALICE: Aren't all great idea agree and say it?
 Human: Yes.
ALICE: It goes without saying.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I like the Tharg head idea. Perhaps a head for every 2000AD character as well.

This might even be the basis for competition.

"Who can come up with the best Tharg-head."

I had a couple of chats with the Alice - bot and find it alittle infuriating. She's needs more memory and I guesss I don't understand logic quite as much I though I did.

If I ask her about a number, she would say something like how many times?

Weird!!!