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Sadly you are correct. Jezza is indeed from Donny. In fact we very nearly had our airport named after him.
It's been named after Robin Hood. No, I don't know why, either.
An airport almost named after Jeremy Clarkson?
Surely it would be more apt to name a road after him
Its a bit like naming a cycle lane after Roy Walker.
Doncaster has been trying to claim Robin Hood from Nottingham and Lincoln for a while, hasn't it ?
But Arsehole International would have been a dreadful name for an airport.
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Well there's Bride of the Reanimator and the rather remarkably good Beyond The Reanimator. The latter following directly on, over a decade later, as Herbert West is incarcerated after the first two, and (of course) begins to experiment on his fellow convicts. It features a reanimated disembodied penis.
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Incidentally, I liked the story, but the art has me giving it a 7
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Didn't I say that All His Engines comes after all this business ?
Maria was always the most Constantinian of the Triplets of Evil.
And my favourite one.
Perhaps we'll see her, Gemma and Angie as "Constantine's Angels" at some point in the future ?
When the solicitation & our discussions identified Cheryl as the probably Hellbound one, I'd observed that she would not be likely to go to Hell after she died, so this way makes sense, and it's almost certainly a trap.
Although I like the idea of Nergal protecting "his" nemesis (while sneakily fucking up his life via the Chas thing as much as any of the kids have done - other than the Cheryl thing).
Finally for now, I really do not like Camuncoli's art.
Someone said upthread, the brooding Chas scenes needed something else ...
perhaps David Lloyd.
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That's quite a compliment Ade.
Here's a look at the finished version.
One of my favorite Gianni works is the illustrated "Strange Tales of Soloman Kane" from Wandering Star. Amazing. Man, I'd break into a clan meeting in black face to get him to do an issue of Hellblazer.
Yep!
(And doesn't that image I posted look like a certain publicity still from a certain film ?)
I guess your covers just look like covers and not just wildly inaccurate teaser images from what lies within.
One day I'll get to one of these US convention things and meet up with some of the good folks off the internet ! (We're getting as far as NYC in May, but only plan half a day of visiting the comic shops of Olde New Yorke Towne.) Hopefully we can get you to Bristol 2006 - if the Hellblazer and Alan Moore panels I have been involved in go well enough.
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Man I love that guy's work.
They've got some good folks doing very nice covers.
How come your "slightly unfinished version" looks better than many mainstream "finished" covers ? :-)
Nice stuff.
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Hahaha. It is going to be fun, make him sit through the credits, won't you?.
No fucking way are we staying through the credits.
There's not enough charity money in the world.
(Not after them surfer dudes in Thailand had it all away.)
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She's six years older than me, but when that picture was taken - ie when I had the crush on her, she was in her mid twenties.
Cleo Rocos certainly caught my interest then, but very much does so now.
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I can't do old pull lists, but here's a list of everything I ordered at some pointin 2000.
Although Planetary and The Authority seem to be missing for some reason.
TITLE subtitle type publisher start year
HELLBLAZER
DC VERTIGO 1987
STRANGEHAVEN
Abiogenesis 1997
STRANGERS IN PARADISE (vol.2)
Abstract Studios 1997
KABUKI Images
Image 1998
Hellboy Chained Coffin tpb
Dark Horse 1998
Invisibles vol.2
DC VERTIGO 1998
Sam & Twitch
Image 1999
Invisibles vol.3
DC Vertigo 1999
HEART OF EMPIRE LEGACY OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT (/9)
Dark Horse 1999
Heavy Liquid (/5)
DC Vertigo 1999
JSA Liberty Files (/2)
DC U 1999
GIFTS OF THE NIGHT (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
Four Horsemen (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
Jonah Hex Shadows West (/3)
DC Vertigo 1999
Brave Old World (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
Blaze of Glory (/4)
Marvel 1999
HUMAN TARGET (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
TRANSMETROPOLITAN
DC Vertigo 1999
Promethea
Wildstorm ABC 1999
100 Bullets
DC Vertigo 1999
SUPERMAN & BATMAN GENERATIONS (/4)
DC U 1999
Witching Hour (/3)
DC Vertigo 1999
Batman Dark Victory (/13)
DC U 1999
GIRL WHO WOULD BE DEATH (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
Horror of Collier County (/5)
Dark Horse 1999
Proposition Player (/6)
DC Vertigo 1999
Strange Adventures (/4)
DC Vertigo 1999
Faith (/5)
DC Vertigo 1999
Day of Judgement (/5)
DC U 1999
Lucifer
DC Vertigo 2000
Ozzy Osborne tumbler
merchandise 2000
Scene of the Crime tpb
DC Vertigo 2000
Berlin
Drawn & Quarterly 2000
Spider Jerusalem statue
DC direct 2000
Strange Kiss scripts tpb
Avatar 2000
Wonder Woman Real Worlds
DC U 2000
Paradise Too !
Abstract Studios 2000
Go Girl
Image 2000
Powers
Image 2000
Rumble Girls (/7)
Image 2000
Legends of the DCU
DC U 2000
JLA (mini JLA DC Johnson)
DC U 2000
The Simpsons
Bongo 2000
Beginning of The End (/4)
AFC Studio 2000
Superman Bizarro World tpb
DC U 2000
Doom (/3)
Marvel 2000
Astronauts In Trouble Live from the Moon
AiT/Planet Lar 2000
Movie Maniac figure ASH, Edward Scissorhands
Toys 2000
Delirium soft toy
DC Vertigo 2000
Bart Simpson comics
Bongo 2000
Adventures of the Rifle Brigade (/3)
DC Vertigo 2000
Murder Me Dead (/8)
El Capitan 2000
Finder
Lightspeed 2000
Deadenders
DC Vertigo 2000
Punisher kills the Marvel Universe
Marvel 2000
Punisher (/12)
Marvel 2000
Aria / Angela
Image 2000
Weird War Tales
DC Vertigo 2000
Vertigo Visions
DC Vertigo 2000
Xmen : Hellfire club (/4)
Marvel 2000
Jack Staff
DANCING ELEPHANT 2000
Scary Godmother Wild About Harry (/4)
Sirius 2000
Dexter’s Laboratory
DC U 2000
Ring of the Nibelung Valkyrie (/4)
Dark Horse 2000
Swamp Thing vol 3
DC Vertigo 2000
Ring of the Nibelung Rhinegold (/4)
Dark Horse 2000
Threshold (Dark Blue Cover)
Avatar 2000
Dark Horse Presents
Dark Horse 2000
Gotham City Secret Files
DC U 2000
Secret Files and Origins
DC U 2000
Scary Godmother postcards
x 2000
Footsoldiers tpb
AiT/Planet Lar 2000
The Atomics
AAA Pop Comics 2000
The Disavowed (/6)
DC Wildstorm 2000
Mr Monster’s Gal Friday
Image 2000
Sandman Presents Petrefax (/4?)
DC Vertigo 2000
Gotham Knights
DC U 2000
Gahan Wilson’s Grimm Tales
x 2000
Sentry (/5)
Marvel 2000
Superman
DC U 2000
Superman Man of Steel
DC U 2000
Nobody tpb
AiT/Planet Lar 2000
DC Two Thousand (/2)
DC U 2000
Superman Last Son of Earth (/2)
DC U 2000
Oni Press Summer Vacation
Oni Press 2000
Smack Dab tpb
Crazyfish 2000
Action Comics
DC U 2000
Adventures of Superman
DC U 2000
Space Circus (/4)
Dark Horse 2000
Maverick 2000 tpb
Dark Horse 2000
Mysterious Suspense
DC U 2000
HELLBLAZER Bad Blood (/4)
DC Vertigo 2000
Radioactive Man
Bongo 2000
Marvel Boy (/6)
Marvel 2000
HELLBLAZER Secret Files
DC Vertigo 2000
Petra Etcetera
Gratuitous Bunny 2000
Planetary / Authority Ruling the world
DC Wildstorm 2000
Astronauts In Trouble Space 1959
AiT/Planet Lar 2000
Batman Legends of the Dark Knight (/3)
DC U 2000
Batman of Arkham
DC U 2000
Last Days in Vietnam ogn
Dark Horse 2000
Accelerate (/4)
DC Vertigo 2000
Re-inventing comics
DC Paradox 2000
American Splendor Bedtime Stories single
Dark Horse 2000
Jenny Sparks Secret History of the Authority (/5)
DC Wildstorm 2000
Blair Witch Chronicles (/4)
Oni Press 2000
Battle Axes (/4)
DC Vertigo 2000
Hellboy Right Hand of Doom tpb
Dark Horse 2000
Love in Tights
Slave Labor 2000
Silver Age 80 page special
DC U 2000
Silver Age JLA
DC U 2000
Marvel Knights
Marvel 2000
Silver Age Secret Files
DC U 2000
Silver Age Doom Patrol
DC U 2000
Mallrats trading cards cards
merchandise 2000
Safe Area Goradze ogn
Fantagraphics 2000
City of Silence (/3)
Image 2000
Witchblade
Image 2000
The Marquis Danse Macabre (/5)
Oni Press 2000
Superman / Bugs Bunny (/8)
DC U 2000
Lazarus 5 (/5)
DC U 2000
Castle Waiting
Cartoon books 2000
Big Book of the Seventies
DC Paradox 2000
X Man
Marvel 2000
Generation X
Marvel 2000
The Nevermen (/4)
Dark Horse 2000
JSA 100 page spectacular
DC U 2000
JLA Real Worlds
DC U 2000
Louis - Red Letter Day ogn
Metaphrog 2000
Book of Twilight
Cartoon books 2000
Superman Mann and Superman
DC U 2000
Occupational Hazards tpb
CBLDF 2000
Treehouse of Horror
Bongo 2000
Swamp Thing Secret Files
DC Vertigo 2000
Sunburn tpb
Alternative 2000
Breakfast Afternoon (/6)
Oni Press 2000
Channel Zero tpb
AiT/Planet Lar 2000
The Coffin (/6)
Oni Press 2000
Outlaw Nation
DC Vertigo 2000
Batman The Doom that came to Gotham (/3)
DC U 2000
Rose (/3)
Cartoon books 2000
Stranger Kiss
Avatar 2000
Dark Horse Presents
Dark Horse 2000
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Okay folks, the big day is tomorrow.
Please light a candle in your window for Poor Thomas.
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11th question for Tim Bradstreet.
Where can I get MORE Gary Gianni stuff ?
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It's excellent.
As Kris said, one of the best films of last year, combining the British version of Guy Ritchie films (sic), a sense of humour ("IT'S A FUCKING ELEPHANT!") and some genuinely moving pathos.
I'll be buying it and copying it to DVD for a friend in the US, so might be able to assist anyone in the US, perhaps a "round robin" copy that gets passed around the VfB forum folks.
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And kinda gay. Was he meant to be?
Considering the Conservative Christian bent that pervades the film, it wouldn't be out of place, would it? Satan's all things evil, right?
Any association of Peter Stormare's Satan with "gay" comes down to the viewer's prejudices rather than anything in the film. It's probably the whole "european actors" = "camp villains" thing that's going on with Hollywood for the last twenty years. ;-)
But John's comment is taking it one extrapolation of prejudices too far.
Not least because the film's concepts of redemption, heaven and hell and Satan are just plain old christian, rather than "conservative with a big C" (clever pun intended).
Other than the suicide=damnation matter that the film mis-handles, which aspects of the theology would you say are Conservative ? Rather than basic catholic law.
I would like us to differentiate between the political movement of politicians using (their) religion as a method of control (big C) versus those christian-folk who want their religion to not move with the times (small C). There is a difference.
At least in the often-exposed hypocrisy stakes.
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Here is one I read about, sounds really good, I just need to find it.
BERSERKER: THE WILD HUNT
By Jens Altmann & Harris O'Malley (Studio Underhill)
Here is a link to a story about it and other indie comics:
I've got some copies of that, as I know Jens and Harris from the magic of the WEF.
Do you want to let me have your address ?
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He wrote them a letter so they are distracted at the moment.
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It took 50 rewrites to get the exact muddled feel everyone was shooting for. Thank god some were willing to go that extra mile to get there.
So i assume that what you're saying now Tears is that all those inconsistencies in the script were actually intentional are you?
Oh for bloody arsing cock's sake don't you (and James) recognise sarcasm when you see it ?
If the bloke doesn't want to say "the studio fucked up" because, you know, he might want work in the future, but he is prepared to say what he was saying when Kris quoted the punchline above, I think there is slack that could be cut here.
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only if everyone replies to their emails
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Well, everyone knows that rabbits have nine loves.
Except Christian who thinks they breed like repetitive strain syndromes.
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Unless I've missed a post by you or Mark:
Mark pointed out the use of the film was an assault on "women as victims".
You postulated that Mr Carey had forgotten that "the empowered woman" was (becoming) just as much of a cliche.
Several people commented, as you noticed, on your use of the word cliche (especially as you were suggesting the writer did not consciously juxtapose the two "cliches".
You denied the negative connotations of the word.
To answer your possibly rhetorical question, yes, you can use reverse cliches to attack cliches for political gain. The extremist version of this sort of action is so-called" positive discrimination".
Furthermore, let's look at the story.
The set up is that the boyfriend is going to kill Gemma.
They watch a film full of cliches about women as victims which Gemma comments on.
AT THAT POINT in the story, the reader is invited to take two perspectives:
(1) Mike Carey is about to set up a satirical comment by having Gemma overcome the very cliche that she has observed in the film ...
(2) Ooh, Gemma is being so cocky and the same thing is about to happen to her! ...
With the benefit of hindsight and previous knowledge of the way Mr Carey works, most of us went for option 1, but either way would have been in keeping. The latter has already been dealt with in Wes Craven's post-modern horror series, Scream, but it would not have been out of place here.
Except that I am pleased that Gemma is maturing into Kid Constantine.
Oh and I was speaking against the school of thought that one can criticise a story for being cliched because it has an aspect that has been used before. Or that you can select that aspect out of context and say that it is cliched.
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Well, everyone is jumping the gun because I used the word CLICHE (collective GASP), which is a clear example of how mass media exposure to words makes one immediately conjure an image based on popular opinion.
I didn't once say it was a BAD thing that Carey used the "empowered woman overcoming the male attacker" cliche,...
The word cliche has always had perjorative meaning.
In the absence of the sort of development you are now adding to your statement, your original comment was negative. Nothing to do with "mass media" or any other way you might seek to patronise those who responded to your comments.
(Note the use of certain perjorative terms in my previous sentence.)
If the "woman as victim" is a cliche - employed because it contains many assumptions as a result of most of our societies' gender roles - then it can be assumed as over-used. Therefore, any attempt to address those assumptions will by its nature become over-used for a while, but the end result is that "cliche" becomes less common and we get a more accurate balance of the way people act in stories V the way people act in real life.
For me, a more important use of the term cliche in respect to this story is to say that Gemma's behaviour is cliched Constantinian behaviour. But that's about the story not about the mechanics of the writing.
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As was mentioned earlier, it seemed like she was turning into a "plot-device" character (how do we get John to be become invovled in the storyline? Oh, I know, Gemma is in trouble and he has to rescue her! This device has now been used twice in Carrey's run).
Nah, just in Red Sepulchre, surely? In the latest storyline, John was already involved before Gemma became a target, and in the end she proved to be more than a match for Simon.
In Bred in the Bone she carried the entire plot on her shoulders. In Staring at the Wall she played a similarly strong, proactive role. She appeared briefly in Out of Season, when she tried to contact John. And yes, she was killed in Happy Families but that wasn't real.
One of the biggest regrets I have about Mike finishing so soon (!) is that I won't get to see any more of his John/Gemma interaction, which I find to be one of the most interesting things in his run. I hope Mina decides to take on Gemma as part of her cast when she starts her run.
I was going to say that.
Lest we forget, even Luis has grown to see that Gemma's depth has increased since he habitually misread Red Sepulchre - either that or he's just changed his mind randomly (which I doubt). I'll repeat for the new people: If you go looking at actual human behaviour that is employed by a writer within a story, you will always find it being used as a plot device. However, you should not merely go looking for such mechanics if you wish to enjoy a story. When you look at a painting, do you first examine the brush strokes and the frame ?
To claim, as Christian did, that Gemma was "the empowered woman overcoming her misogynistic attacker (which) is just as much a cliche by today's standards" is heading towards suggesting that you can't have people in stories because they ALWAYS have people in stories.
Regarding the "Women in Refrigerator" nature of this arc, when EVERYONE is getting killed, there's only so far you can avoid offing the ladies.
This is - after all - coming soon after that Sue Dibny murdering thing that was going on in the DCU. It is clear that Cheryl's death is not to be treated so shallowly. And as most people have pointed out, Mr Carey has not so much foreshadowed (or misdirected) the so-called misogynistic* murders of women as set up a great big neon sign with an arrow saying "comics cliche about to be subverted".
*yes, and Basic Instinct is homophobic because of the way it portrays female murderers. <irony off>
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That's probably because her novels are about very dark and emotive subject matters (abuse, sociopathy etc) whereas the concept outline for her arc that we've seen so far is less based in realism.
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http://just1page.blogspot.com/2005/03/24-m...m-mile-end.html
An excellent comix event in London, with the added advantage of ...
The 24 Minute comic.
24 pages drawn in 25* minutes !
And on sale within three hours of starting.
(* due to clock-reading error.)
Ever Fallen In Love With Someone
in Bring the Noise
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Oh damn, first Karen (the missus) and now The Pookah !
(At least I get to watch the occasional nymph and Bruce Campbell.)