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Additional note to this: it appears that Rebellion are gearing up to collect the complete and utter Nemesis The Warlock in the same format as those year by year complete and utter Judge Dredd collections.

That's interesting as it means they may finally reprint the Redondo artwork in book two, which they've never bothered reprinting yet.

The last album by VAST.

Wasn't Jaymes more concerned with Homer's account of the Trojan war than religious texts in any case?

Apparently the producer quit and his successor decided that sort of thing was far too nasty for a children's programme.

The wanker.

 

Me cause brain damage product with? A little!

Shamed by you English?

I know Inferno is (they have all of the colour episodes intact, apparently, it's just a few of the earlier ones they're missing) and was thinking of Tomb Of The Cybermen. I saw a video of it a while back where they'd filled in missing chunks with stills and narration of the dialogue: I shall have to get hold of that now they have filled in the gaps.

(Those early Pertwee stories are wonderful, Mark: it's a terrible shame they immediately went of their way to tone them down, isn't it?)

To be fair, they weren't even five minutes long - only 60 seconds. And he obviously had virtually no budget to work with (what little he did was spent on the werewolf one).

 

I do seem to recall some that were a bit longer than that, but true enough the memory does cheat on me...

 

In other news I watched a full Patrick Troughton serial the other day, Tomb of the Cybermen! It pretty much validated my suspicions from his anniversary appearences that he was a totally ace Doctor... Pretty damn good story too, I find the early (not the earliest) Cyberman design to be surprisingly effective...They had made some changes from the Tenth Planet design here, but its not the familiar design that it would later become...

 

In fact, one of my siblings has been buying loads of classic Who DVD's lately, Jon Pertwee's Inferno puts the parallel universe story of the last series to shame...

Do they even have all of that story? I thought a coupler of episodes had been wiped.

Fuck, what is it with this guy. With the Christmas episode, he practically writes half the next series. Nothing new I know, but I kinda hoped he would scale back his writing duties a bit as time went on...

You're giving the megalomaniacal little tosser far too much credit there.

Diesel only woke me up once last night.

 

And I thought he had the hang of going outside to do his doggy business but he has just peed on the kitchen floor.

 

Nice.

Oh well: at least you probably don't have a carpet down in the kitchen.

It's a pity, but I doubt that racist hard right fuckwits will ever go entirely out of fashion.

As another point of Ennis handling social commentary, that reminds me of the race elements in Tainted Love and Rake At The Gates Of Hell: that was a bit more effective, Christian, surely?

I'm guessing it won't be for a good few years yet. I'm not actually bothered by the colouring, but I may well be tempted to replace it with the nicer versions if only because it'll be easier to lend out without people immediately being put off.

The couple of sample pages of recoloured Sam Keith art in Previews did look a lot clearer.

I'm dubious that they're going to recolour the other collections when they can make more money by keeping these ones in print, though.

Since the ABSOLUTE books aren't intended as a market-place replacement for the standard-sized, standard-price trades, I'm more curious as to whether they'll eventually replace the colouring in future editions of Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll's House.

I'm assuming that they're not planning to, which is why I'm a bit suspicious of the exercise. As James says, it's only the first couple of collections that need the colouring correcting in the first place, isn't it?

(And no, I don't think I have bought any DVD special editions.)

If someone cares so much about the colouring that they are willing to pay out loads of money to get comics they already own, I say either they have enough money that we shouldn't care, or they deserve to be taken advantage of by DC.

Possibly, but as I say, I find myself wondering why DC didn't fix this previously.

I don't do this high tech stuff: in fact I'm connected to the internet using a teletype machine and a '70s fax the size of a fridge freezer.

Yeah, they even call it the Sandman:Special Edition #1....

It's just a cheap reissuing of the first issue of Sandman. Don't give it an all-important sounding name, like it's the long-lost issue of Sandman first seeing the light of day!

I do wonder why they couldn't be arsed to do anything about the colouring errors before now, though. One would almost suspect it's an attempt to sell the same material to the same people again, for slightly different money.

Only to plug these fat overpriced bind ups where they've fixed the colouring mistakes, though.

 

 

Yeah, just like all those other #1 issues they've been putting up on the Vertigo site...oh WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE

They made a thing of reissuing the first issue for 50 cents or something. No indication of them doing any further issues at that price (or at all) it's one of those teaser things.

 

SANDMAN #1 free download.

Only to plug these fat overpriced bind ups where they've fixed the colouring mistakes, though.

One wonders why they didn't do that on any of the occasions where they've changed the existing bind ups: presumably DC feels that unified cover designs are more important than the contents, as a rule.

Trace speaks the truth.

 

Karen O is great, in just about every sense.

I've always felt that she's ripping off the fat lass out of the Gossip, and is probably a man. This has turned me against her, somewhat.

*(I'm saying nowt about Millar's approach.)

 

Excellent, that means I get to say it.

 

MARK MILLAR'S AUTHORITY WAS FUCKING SHITHOUSE.

 

There.

I was trying to do tact, Mark. It's a skill I fear has atrophied entirely in my case and I'm trying to exercise it a little with a defibrillator in the hope that I can raise it from the dead.

But yep: you're dead right there. It was a dress rehearsal for the worst bits of the Ultimates, only not quite that good.

In honor of the honorable Sethos, I'm giving heavy rotation to Show Your Bones and Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

 

I think I'm in love with Karen O.

She doesn't strike you as looking like Iggy Pop in drag, then?

I didn't really care for the Establishment either.

 

MONARCHY's problems were numerous, but I liked a few things about it. It just kept introducing psychotic idea after idea, but no matter how good any idea might be it doesn't in itself make a story. It took all the superficial aspects of Ellis' work on The Authority and Planetary and pasted them onto the pages with no fundamental content or narrative to hold it together.

At least the way in which Ellis* pasted space opera into superhero comics in The Authority seemed novel at the time. That can't be claimed for the first issue of the Monarchy and probably the rest of it.

*(I'm saying nowt about Millar's approach.)

So it repeated the exact theme of "Hold Me", only in a far more heavy-handed manner?

Arguably, but at least Constantine's presence was far more relevant to the story than it was in Hold Me.

Don't try telling me you've never thought about doing that, Trace.

I sorta liked the faux ending to Constantine's story in Ellis' PLANETARY - he fakes his death and becomes Spider Jerusalem, gonzo journalist for the next century.

Ellis or Constantine?

Started in on Agent Of Evolution (a biography of Bill Hicks that doesn't seem any great improvement on the other one I've read thus far.)