Cheap Thrills!

[Colin YNWA]

Alas XL fits me just fine. Got my box of delights this morning and all mightly wonderful.

[Hoagy]

Looks like I'll be ordering a t wednesday week. I got 2 out of 3 GNs through the post today. Happy x2.

DR and Quinch and Fiends of the Eastern Front. Much obliged Mr Tharg.

[Mardroid]

I reread Fiends yesterday. I rather liked Stalingrad. Red Menace was kinda silly but good fun with that kind of alternate timeline story. [spoiler]"That looks like Durham Red", I thought. (And didn't Ezquerra draw her well! Phwoaaar!) A bit of internet research later I find out it was her. Well... sort of.

I understand the Scarlet Apocrypha series is about putting Red in different time-frames, a kind of Elseworlds. If that's the case I wondered at her resilience to the cross as her vampirism here would be of the supernatural rather than mutation kind. Or is this the mutant version doing a time-job? Considering her Russian(ish) uniform (again, "phwoar")and machine guns (double phwoar) I think she's from this time period though.) Then again the Iron Cross is hardly a Christian icon. Constanta himself wore one in the Stalingrad strip.[/spoiler]

The original is a classic but I find myself liking the last few chapters [spoiler]when Rumania changes sides[/spoiler] much more than the earlier stuff. I'm not keen on the fact they utilise coincidence to resolve certain issues. (One Example: [spoiler]Schmidt enters the barracks building to find all his mates there dead, and realises the 'Rumanians' are present. Cue, his mate turns up with some garlic he happened to find outside...[/spoiler])

I'm happy with the purchase though.

[Emperor]

I reread Fiends yesterday. I rather liked Stalingrad. Red Menace was kinda silly but good fun with that kind of alternate timeline story. [spoiler]"That looks like Durham Red", I thought. (And didn't Ezquerra draw her well! Phwoaaar!) A bit of internet research later I find out it was her. Well... sort of.

I understand the Scarlet Apocrypha series is about putting Red in different time-frames, a kind of Elseworlds. If that's the case I wondered at her resilience to the cross as her vampirism here would be of the supernatural rather than mutation kind. Or is this the mutant version doing a time-job? Considering her Russian(ish) uniform (again, "phwoar")and machine guns (double phwoar) I think she's from this time period though.) Then again the Iron Cross is hardly a Christian icon. Constanta himself wore one in the Stalingrad strip.[/spoiler]

I'd have to check to see if there is anything more specific out there (might be in the last trade) but I believe the idea is [spoiler]that the stories are apocrypha, in line with the idea that Saint Scarlet has acquired a whole range of spurious tales and legends which have her cropping up throughout time. It is in keeping with the general thrust of the main story and is ironic as the return of Johnny Alpha seems to have relegated the whole reboot of the character to mere legend.[/spoiler]

[Mardroid]

[spoiler]I'd have to check to see if there is anything more specific out there (might be in the last trade) but I believe the idea is [spoiler]that the stories are apocrypha, in line with the idea that Saint Scarlet has acquired a whole range of spurious tales and legends which have her cropping up throughout time. It is in keeping with the general thrust of the main story and is ironic as the return of Johnny Alpha seems to have relegated the whole reboot of the character to mere legend.[/spoiler]

Okay. I haven't read any of the Durham Red GNs but I understand the gist from reading the synopsis from The Vermin Stars.  I probably don't need to spoilerise this but...[spoiler]I understand she wakes up after millennia in hibernation to find outs she is worshipped by mutants as a goddess. So the Scarlet Apocrypha stories are basically fictional legends from the DR universe's point of view?[/spoiler] An interesting idea.

[I, Cosh]

Two weeks and still no parcel. Anyone else still waiting for stuff?

[Hoagy]

Still waiting on GlimmerRats if that helps with the mental divergence?

[Emperor]

Two weeks and still no parcel. Anyone else still waiting for stuff?

I put in an order right at the last minute so it might be a bit if they had a last minute rush

[kraken]

I got my Anderson figurine! Very happy!

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Two weeks and still no parcel. Anyone else still waiting for stuff?

Me too!




Although Stevie's being in Auxtralia may have something to do with it.

[Hoagy]

Heh. Just reading DR and Quinch Get Drafted for the first time in years. The escape is hilarious. Tell me someone please; Am I a bad father, to want to send it to my 13yr old daughter, as the whole, like attitude, is soooo her right now. Talking to her, anyone would think she is rehearsing for a job at Homebase. Every question is answered with a shrug and one mono-syllable word response!

On a seriously funny note- DR and Quinch could be the students of tomorrows survival handbook in no uncertain terms. The hardcore of cool.

[w3bz]

If any of you lot are still waiting, send me a message with your details and I'll chase it for ya

[Emperor]

Got mine today and I must have been one of the last people to get an order in

[JUDGE BURNS]

DAMN...I didnt know there was a sale on..I've missed it again !!!

I could've done with a few more xtra larger t-shirts as my old ones are shrinking, or is it my waistline getting bigger?, and a few GN's too.

[Mudcrab]

Got mine today, in a big box with lots of plastic Wotsits, mmmm.