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  1. Its being offered for an absurd amount, how many people are actually paying that? One was up on ebay last month for £30 but didn't sell.

     

    but it seems to have gone in and out of print very quickly indeed.

     

    It's really not very good and has stuff in it that was printed in other trades (like the xmas story) it's not very good VFM at any price, I remember being very disappointed when I got my copy, which could explain why it's not in print, also you know they are re-numbering and reprinting all the trades so it could be absorbed somewhere else.

  2. I believe the question was, who had written three creator owned comics that have gone over fifty issue.

     

    I love Terry Moore but he's only done one,The Hernadez brothers only did one and Chaykin only did one, and counting non C-O is cheating.

     

    My gut tells me that no one has completed this feat because of the dubious status of Hitman.

  3. If you're a magically minded sort you could imagine that the camera has translation powers and when people move away from it they are no longer translated, as happened this week at the beginning with the car smashing into the door and later on the bit of waste ground. If you're capable of thinking that then you can also come up with your own reason for the accents.

     

    Hate to break the news but David Crane is the creator of Friends, Veronica's Closet and Joey, he had nothing to do with Frasier, His writing partner is Jeffrey Klarik who created Mad About You. Distinguished gentlemen indeed.

  4. I taped Episodes, so I'll watch it later this week.

    Sunday's Zen episode, Cabal, was a step down from the first week. Can't remember if the same problem was evident in the book, but it just seem to tie up in the end up a bit too neatly. The bad guys creeping around after Zen might as well been brought in from central casting's "shady-looking characters" section. The dialogue too was just too cheesy. In places it seemed to suffer from a notion of getting as many plot points or exposition into as few words as possible, but it often just seemed unnatural.

     

    Still, I'll watch the final episode (which, if I've read the publicity correctly is actually the first book, Ratking. Might make Caterina Murino's role a bit of an anachronism, but maybe it'll slot in nicely if it's been adapted with care)

     

    It's wasn't as good as the first episode, it was a bit of a mess with the way the Zen manipulates the government while passing the truth off as the lie that's the truth not being as satisfying as in the first one. What saves it is the glee that Rufus Sewell plays Zen with, when he gulps down the champagne behind the back of the public prosecutor before leaving her flat or the meetings in the coffee shop with Tania, or the way he spoke to his soon to be ex wife, there's a great sense of fun.

  5. BBC's adaptation of Zen looks promising. Aside from my concerns about Rufus Sewell being too young for the role, as I watched it I realised he looks exactly like I saw Aurelio Zen in my head, except younger. A little bit of grey hair would've made him perfect.

    Another side of the "too young" concern was that Zen's triangular relationship with his mother and his lover Tania Biancis is an ongoing situation in the early books, but the woman that played her looked too young to be the mother of the Sewell-Zen, never mind the book-Zen. I can only imagine they're trying to avoid the cliched italian mama situation, but it is a big factor in how his relationship with his lover develoips.

     

    As a big fan of the books I enjoyed Vendetta - trimming the plot so that it fitted the 90 minutes running time didn't harm it in the slightest. Very stylish looking programme, good performances and the smoking hot Caterina Murino are all excellent reasons for tuning in for episodes 2 & 3.

     

    Overall, a promising 7.5 / 10

     

    I just started watching it, I'd agree the mother does look young, but apparently she's Catherine Spaak born in 1945, Rufus Sewell was born in 1967 so could quite easily be her son, shes just good looking for her age.

  6. Yet the top results in a Google search of "anthropic global warming" returns websites of Climate Change deniers, accept that Global Warming is their term now, because it's easier to say the globe isn't warming then point at the snow out the window than dispute the the climate isn't changing, because to prove the climate isn't changing you'd need facts to support it rather than anecdotal observations.

     

    Fair enough, Matt, but the phenomenon IS in fact global warming.

     

    Currently yes but actually "Global Warming" is a temporary state of affairs, as green house gases and particulate distribution increase in the atmosphere the ice caps melt, this reduced land mass increases the albedo of the planet (water reflects heat and light back in to space more efficiently than land) the earth will experience rapid cooling, that some scientists believe may lead to a "Snow Ball Earth" scenario.

     

    Considering the long term unknowns it's wiser to use the more ambiguous term Climate Change, as there is not a guarantee the warming will continue and regional variations mean that it's harder to convince people of global warming than climate change. The use of climate change is a combination of social engineering and bet hedging that I for one believe is completely justified if it can silence these people that would be happy to see everyone in the Maldives drown just so their Exxon share dividends continue.

     

    Global warming may be an aspect of Climate Change but it is the change in climate that is the global problem, like a turning your thermostat down a little bit, a small change in the language we use may have a long term impact.

  7. So if next winter is warm, will he say that global warming is real?

    Sadly, a lot of people think like that: they're not aware that AGW means more weather, not just hotter weather. I remember when the fuss started over this in the media around the turn of the millennium: it was talked up massively when there were a couple of hot summers and mild winters in a row, then dropped the next time there were blizzards in the UK. Depressing, but understandable.

     

    Hence the preferred term is Climate Change and not Global warming, the idea being to head off at the pass that retarded argument. We can all help by not referring to Climate Change as Global Warming at all any more. As Alan Moore would tell you, words have power. Close the loopholes and the tiny cracks in your argument and it makes it increasing difficult to be argued against in any rational manner. As for those who argue in an irrational manner, well fuck 'em, let 'em drown.

     

    Look how many of these fucktards use Global Warming instead of Climate Change and how it plays exactly into their anecdotal nonsense http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/mar/06/climate-change-deniers-top-10

  8. What the hell happened to Warren Ellis?

     

    The last Planetary Trade just came out in TPB so I'm re-reading the books before I start on it (they smell old). I just got through the story where he morphs John Constantine into Spider Jerusalem (incredibly arrogant given everything that's come since). Then the following couple of issues and just being reminded how strong and promising a writer he was 11 YEARS AGO!

     

    What the fuck Warren, what the fuck, seriously, what the fuck.

     

    This is a list of his current output:

     

    http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7158&page=1#Item_0

     

    Supergod #5 comes out this week, that's it, 9 ongoing titles, all of which are on some form of delay/hiatus, only two of which I was ever interested in. What does he do now? what's going on? how big was that Red cheque that he can sit on his arse and do nothing, have no output and say nothing interesting.

     

    It's weird and just a little bit sad.

     

    Just like that Planetary story where Constantine is an 80's anachronism past his best, who's Warren Ellis going to morph into?

  9. The two years in question are from 60 to 62, 60 or even 62 is no age to retire at, you're still perfectly healthy (hopefully) why should the state start supporting you? with modern medicine a 60 year old today could be facing 30-40 years of life, and not the rubbish sitting around and dribbling life, a decent standard of active living.

     

    The French school kids should be rioting because they have to work and pay social security to keep a bunch of 60 year olds in retirement dossing around sipping sauvignon blanc.

     

    coques to France.

  10. Nah, I'm guessing you're seeing the v-brake stems which are a bitch to remove (I'm seriously tempted to take a hacksaw to mine), you can see the disc caliper obscured by darkness on the bottom of the frame.

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