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Albion

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2011, 06:18:46 PM
Album you played
Levelling The Land, by The Levellers.

I listened to that last week for the first time in years. Great album but I soon got bored by the Levellers.

Anyway.....

Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Hellboy - The sleeping and the dead

Graphic Novel you read
Judge Dredd Case Files 17

Book you read
Dresden Files - Small Favor by Jim Butcher 

TV Show you watched
Harry Hill's TV Burp

Movie you watched
Inception

Game you played
Mario Kart, today with my niece

Album you played
Neil Young - Harvest

Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side.

Daveycandlish

Comic would be Sherlock Holmes Year One

Graphic Novel I've just finished Hot Rock by Lax and Donald Westlake which has some of the worst lettering I've ever seen, by Andy Huckle - opaque squares with a single thin line poiting to the speaker which often gets lost in the art. Good story though.

Book was Cabal bu Michael Dibdin. One of the Zen novels that has just been adapted for TV starring Rufus Sewell

Film watched a French comedy last night called French Twist which I really cannot recommend. I watched The Black Hole yesterday sfternoon which is much more my thing

TV show The Saint has just finished on ITV3

Game - I'm not a gamer so that would probably be ten pin bowling on my four old nephew's Wii (he whupped my arse)

CD Imelda May
An old-school, no-bullshit, boys-own action/adventure comic reminiscent of the 2000ads and Eagles and Warlords and Battles and other glorious black-and-white comics that were so, so cool in the 70's and 80's - Buy the hardback Christmas Annual!

Keef Monkey

Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Whatever Happened To Baron Von Shock?

Graphic Novel you read : Case Files 17, but if we're ignoring 2000AD then it was Aliens Omnibus Volume 1.

Book you read : Simon Pegg 'Nerd Do Well'

TV Show you watched : Lost (almost there)

Movie you watched : Hobo With A Shotgun (instant classic)

Game you played : Red Faction Guerilla

Album you played : Mogwai 'Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will'

Richmond Clements

Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Viz

Graphic Novel you read : The Chimpanzee Complex vol 2

Book you read : Drop Dead Gorgeous

TV Show you watched : 10 O-Clock Live

Movie you watched : The Island (that that one, this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851577/)

Game you played : Assassin's Creed Brotherhood- all the flags and treasures will be mine...

Album you played : Probably the Tron soundtrack.

stacey

Albion I LOVE the Dresden files, good call!




Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Fallen Heroes

Graphic Novel you read : half way through 10thology which I picked up in Cardiff at weekend

Book you read : Turncoat by Jim Butcher one of the Dresden Files

TV Show you watched : Iron Chef America (shudduup, I love it!)

Movie you watched : The Other Guys - which I loved, very funny

Game you played : Angry Birds

Album you played :  I can't remember isn't that terrible. I have my ipod on shuffle almost constantly!

Richmond Clements

QuoteGame you played : Angry Birds

Ah! (I forgot about these games!) In that case, I change my anser to Fruit Ninja.

Spaceghost

#21
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)- The Beano. I bought the latest issue because my lad wanted the 'free' playing cards that came with it. We read the comic together and both enjoyed it.

Graphic Novel you read - Defoe. Just brilliant. I love Leigh Gallagher's art and he signed my copy of the book at Thought Bubble. Pat Mills' writing is off the hook in this. It reads as one long battle with hundreds of zombies with a few breaks to catch your breath. Can't wait for the next collection.

Book you read- The last book I read was Zima Blue, a collection of short stories by the excellent Alastair Reynolds. Some lovely stuff in there. At the moment I'm reading Judas Unchained, part 2 of The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton. It's brilliant. Even better than the first part, Pandora's Star. It's a hefty book, about 1000 pages but I'm flying through it as the story is so gripping.

TV Show you watched- errrmmm...don't make a point of watching much TV but the last program I actively decided to watch was the second episode of Outcasts. I didn't bother watching any more.

Movie you watched- Return of the Jedi on TV on Saturday (after saying I don't watch TV! I meant I don't tune in specifically to watch certain programs.). Me and the kids loved it. This is their favourite Star Wars film, mainly because of Jabba the Hutt. And, I quote, "Daddy, I love the Ewoks!"

Game you played- Sonic episode 4 part 1 on the Wii. Me and my boy have been playing this and we finished it after about 2 hours. We still haven't got all the Chaos Emeralds though. It's ok. Very old school but I suppose that's exactly the point.

Album you played- Tobacco - Maniac Meat. Tobacco is the side project of the lead guy from Black Moth Super Rainbow, a weird, psychedelic rock band. Tobacco is more beat driven. Almost hip hop (without rapping). Beck does some vocals on a couple of tracks. It's great. I'd recommend it to people with less pedestrian musical tastes.
Raised in the wild by sarcastic wolves.

Previously known as L*e B*tes. Sshhh, going undercover...

House of Usher

Thr last...

Comic I read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) was John Short's Armageddon Patrol Life & Death Special starring Maiden America and featuring Octobriana in a cameo.
Graphic Novel I read was Grandville.
Book I read a bit of was War of the Worlds.
TV Show I watched was King of Queens while sewing leather armour prior to going to out to the Cardiff Comic Con.
Movie I watched was Leap Year.
Game I played was Wii Fit Skateboarding. I was rubbish.
Album I played was Combichrist, What the Fuck is Wrong with You People?
STRIKE !!!

Colin Zeal

Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read
Just finished Invincible 13, now moved on to the X-Men Mutant Massacre trade. One of my favourite stories of any comic.
Book you read
Never Let Me Go. Forgotten the author's name. Interesting story but a bit too emotionally detached for me. I couldn't really care about any of the characters and their experiences.

TV Show you watched
Highlights of England v India in the cricket world cup. Cracking game that I watched live but it was so good I watched the highlights as well.

Movie you watched
Three O'Clock High - had a few beers and a smoke last night. excellent way to wind down the weekend.

Game you played
Some version of Fifa but would be about ten years ago. I haven't played a computer game in years.
Album you played
Mega City Four - The Inspiringly Titled Live Album.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: Colin Zeal on 28 February, 2011, 11:11:21 AM

Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read


Is this any good? I'm a fan of the original (from the Showcase I've read) and so always been intrigued by this one.

Van Dom

Comic you read
Neon Genesis Evangelion 12. In Japanese. I gotta feel for the artist of this manga, he's been adapting this series since the anime aired in 1999. That's over ten years of his life working continuously on it. And its still not finished. That's dedication for you. I dont mind that it takes him about a year to draw each book -- it takes me about six months to read one!


Graphic Novel you read
Actually haven't read one in ages, its hard enough finding the time to keep up with 2000ad at the moment!


Book you read
Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom. It's a kids book, but one of the better ones I've read, so much so that I will now be tracking down the other books in the series. I'm so glad my daughter has moved on from "Rainbow Magic" and the like and is now into mystery and ghost stories. This one was great, had a Mummy, a haunted house, the lot. Recommended to anyone who has kids around the 8/9 year old mark.

TV Show you watched
The Forgotten. This is a show from 2 years ago that only ran for 1 season, but its pretty good. I only found it because I heard Christian Slater was in it and I usually like him in stuff. My Own Worst Enemy was his previous show, which I thought was great but also got axed very quickly. The Forgotten made it through a full season though. Its about a team of volunteers who take over looking into cases involving Jane/John Does when the police have done all they can and run out of leads. Seemingly this is a real thing in the States. In the process of the investigations they put a face and name to the corpse and inevitably end up solving the whole crime. It's a decent idea with a decent cast and some solid storytelling, though I can see how one season would be more than enough for it. There's only so many ways of going about identifying unknown corpses you can come up with.

Movie you watched
Autopsy. Something I found on the horror channel one night last week. Horror channel movies dont tend to keep my attention for more than ten minutes or so (coz they're usually shite) but this one was pretty good. More plotholes than you can shake a stick at, but the acting was sufficient and Robert Patrick was creepy enough as a weirdo doctor. The gore was exceptional, and thats what mainly kept me watching. Not a bad little flick, if you are into that kind of thing.


Game you played
Metroid Prime Corruption. Yeah this is old, I actually bought it 2 or 3 years ago but my Wii broke so I couldnt play it. Finally decided to dig the Wii out and get it repaired though and this was the first game I put on. Its freaking awesome! Takes a bit of getting used to the Wii-remote controls but once you do its a real treat. I'm only about halfway through but its reminiscent of Halflife to me and I'm loving it.

Album you played
Less than Jake Hello Rockview. Because I love me some ska and I love Less than Jake and this is one of their best albums. Every song on it is a gem, I just have this on repeat on my ipod and I've probably listened to it twenty times in a row by now. Never got bored of it and I've had no reason to change to another album for days now because every time it goes back to the first track I just get into it all over again. Brillo!
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davethomson

Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Shaolin Cowboy #2 - I love Geoff Darrows art, the story may not be up to much but it lets Darrow go wild!

Graphic Novel you read :
Les Naufrages d'Ythaq - Nothing beats spending a month slowly reading a French graphic novel with dictionary and verb tables at hand. It gives you plenty of time to take in the lovely art and you get better at a foreign language as well.

Book you read :
"Telling Lies for Fun and Profit" by Laurence Block. Trying to become a better writer and this book came recommended.

TV Show you watched :
Top Gear. I don't know much about cars but still love this show.

Movie you watched : Kamikaze Girls. Taped it off Film 4 on a whim and discovered that it was really awesome.

Game you played : Killzone 3. I love the multiplayer! Give me a ruddy great machinegun and let the chaos ensue!

Album you played : Helmet "Betty". Can't believe I missed this band for all these years. I have much catching up to do.
Everything I know about life, I learnt from old school hip-hop. Don't sweat the technique!

Noisybast

Comic you read: Spider-Man: Fever. That was a while back, wasn't it? Seems I don't read a lot of non-2000AD stuff!
Graphic Novel you read: If we're counting trades, then it was Case Files 14.
Book you read: Currently reading Clive Barker's Cabal in fits and starts, in the face of incessant interruptions.
TV Show you watched: Mad Men. Not my usual kind of show, being neither SF or comedy and featuring very little in the way of ultraviolence and scary monsters. It does, however feature the lovely Christina Hendricks in a variety of figure-hugging outfits, which is more than enough to keep me watching. Ahem.
Movie you watched: Punisher War Zone, I'm afraid. I thought it would be a good way to kill an hour and a half on a car journey. Turns out I'd have been better off just looking out of the window.
Game you played: Fable 3. Mixed feelings on this one. I loved Fable 2, and this has some nice improvements over the last one. It also has a heaping helping of game-limiting dumb-downs and shortcuts which I'm not sold on at all. Frustrating stuff.
Album you played: Feeder - Echo Park in the car on the way to work this morning.


Dan Dare will return for a new adventure soon, Earthlets!

Satanist

Comic you read: CROSSED:Psychopath, just seems to be trying too hard to be nasty, and the cover does have children going down a slide into a woodchipper.

Graphic Novel you read:  Some of Captain Britain.

Book you read: Aint read a book in ages but think the last one was a Lovecraft collection which I really enjoyed.

TV Show you watched: Madmen, half way through S3. Its taken me 3 attempts to get into this show but now I am I really enjoy it.

Movie you watched: Independence day. Yes I know its rubbish but it kept the kids quiet.

Game you played: MvC3. I press buttons and mental stuff happens on screen. I don't know how I'm doing it yet.

Album you played: I have no idea, I think it was by a band called And you will know us by the Trail of The Dead. Maybe not?
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Colin Zeal

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 28 February, 2011, 11:44:38 AM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 28 February, 2011, 11:11:21 AM

Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read


Is this any good? I'm a fan of the original (from the Showcase I've read) and so always been intrigued by this one.

It's ok. Very much of it's time though - i.e. very 80s cold war topics covered. I got it cheap - issue 1 was £1.50 with the other issues being £1. Definitely worth it at that price.