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oh and Strontium Dog

No argument with that one: I was quite annoyed that the last round of reprints (the ones they've just pulled the plug on) managed two slim volumes before giving up. It'd be nice if they reprinted that Titan collection from the '80s of all the Starlord stories as well.

Fair enough. rebellion are pulling stuff in and out of print at the moment in a mad hurry.

I don't do adaptations.

I also don't mess with other peoples' characters.

Now, granted J.C. is another person's character, but John is open to numerous writers putting their stamp on the guy's personality.

A Jamie Delano J.C. story is a Jamie Delano J.C. story. I don't mind using J.C., but once Jamie Delano wrote a script, that version of John belongs to Jamie Delano.

So, the John who exists in your script is now your John Constantine. I don't feel I can rightly make the John Constantine in your story into my own character.

You've never met any editors, have you Christian?

I thought pretty much all of the ABC Warriors stuff was in print at the moment?

(Or further collected in the case of incomplete sets of bind ups...)

Myself, I'd like to see all of the early black and white Slaine stuff gathered up (possibly even the crap choose your own adventure strips out of the short lived Diceman) and the rest of the Ian Gibson illustrated Robo Hunter in print. They're happy to keep Verdus and Day of the Droids in print most of the time, but a couple of bind ups of all the Brit Cit stories (even the musical wasn't quite as bad as it's made out to be, after all) would be a useful addition to those.

It was better written than Preacher, without those annoying tics of Ennis' that Test mentioned, but I thought the core concepts Delano ended up using in Outlaw Nation were concepts used in Preacher, and Delano wasn't following up on the premise he had outlined for the series.

I don't recall any deliberate hatchet jobs on Christian mythology (aside from one poster getting misinterpreted, which was a pretty minor plot point, and Reverend Hell, who never got developed as a character), or Buddy movie cliches in Outlaw nation. Maybe I wasn't paying attemtion? Delano's ideative core for the comic seemed a lot more concerned with the death of '60s radicalism in the cold light of the present and science fiction. There were a few western tropes in there, but they seemed to be derived more from unpleasant and gloomy '70s westerns than from John Wayne.

I always thought it was Roald Dahl who held the record for American school library bannings, so that's quite interesting.

Reading Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days at the moment: a couple of novellas by Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe.

What? That it read like Preacher or that I didn't enjoy Preacher?

It didn't read like Preacher. At all. I really can't see that one.

Won an auction for a copy of Lady Constantine on ebay yesterday, but obviously I can't read it until they post it to me.

Yeah I think Colin Baker's clown costume was one reason which lead to the end of the first run ofDoctor Who. And Slyvester McCoy's question mark jumper didn't help much either.

The sweater was crap, but at least it was a bit better than Baker's outfit: I remember there being one episode with the master informing a henchman that "He wears ugly trousers and a brightly coloured coat..." or something like that.

Outlaw Nation I consider to be a monumental failure.

Whyever is that? The only real failure there was down to DC pulling the plug on it too soon and leaving him screwing all sorts of plot elements up in a rush to bring the story to a conclusion.

I didn't feel that the story accomplished what Delano outlined that he wanted to do.

It read as an imitation of Preacher to me.

I didn't enjoy Preacher that much, I didn't want to see Delano play Ennis too.

Preacher? Come off it.

Yeah, it's a real shame because at his peak (the hotel issues from Shade) he was astounding.

No question. Given a lot of that seemed to be down to his linework, it rather spoiled the effect when he started drawing with a bloody chinograph pencil and inking with a marker pen.

Bachalo's art did go down the toilet when he started picking up on cutsey manga/animation influences, rakshadefrommeta is dead right on that one: you can see the break between those two Death series.

I didn't even know there were BIG SPOILERS.

I'd imagine the Master reappearing for the series' forty fifth anniversary (or whatever it is) is one, if they're doing that.

andy isn't far wrong about Nathan Turner's taste for crap costumes, though: Colin Baker was particularly hard hit by this one.

A 12 year old boy walks into a brothel carrying a dead frog, and demands to have sex with a girl with genital herpes. The madame explains that this is completely out of the question: "First, you're underaged, and second all of our girls are clean. Forget it." The boy starts counting out twenty pound notes onto a table until she admits that he might be older than he looks and some of her stable perhaps aren't all that clean.

The boy quickly does the business, and on his way out is stopped by the madame. "Why on earth did you come in here carrying a dead frog and demanding a girl with herpes? What is your problem?"

The boy sighs heavily. "Now I have herpes," he explains "I can have sex with the babysitter tonight and she'll catch it. Then, when my dad runs her home, he'll have sex with her and he'll catch it. Then he'll give it to my mum, obviously.

"In the morning, she'll have sex with the milkman and he'll get it, and he's the bastard who ran over my frog."

Outlaw Nation I consider to be a monumental failure.

Whyever is that? The only real failure there was down to DC pulling the plug on it too soon and leaving him screwing all sorts of plot elements up in a rush to bring the story to a conclusion.

I don't understand, though. His HellBlazer was SO GOOD. Most of my favorite comics ever are from his run. And I almost always like more than one effort of a writer/director/actor/musician. Help me! Did he write anything at least HALF as good as his HB?

Outlaw Nation, World Without End, 2020 Visions, Man Bat, Animal Man (which the lesbian commune aside was rather good and just looked a bit limp as the poor bastard had to try and follow Milligan), Ghostdancing...

Prior to all the memory/empathy stuff, they were heading a certain way and events took over. By my reading, John has gone off to do his own thing with a suggestion that he'll see Angie again, perhaps only to end it properly. I would certainly expect Angie to be continuing her support of Gemma (hey vertigo, perhaps they are Lesbanians now ? Quick, get on the transgender hotline!)

 

HA! I'd love to see Gemma trying so hard to become John II that she tries to woo his ex..

That's delivered as a joke, but it could be an interesting story.

Seriously, how on earth does me criticizing Israel for saying that they represent all Jews even come close to "exonerating anti-Semites as simply being victims"?

True that. The "anti semitism" chorus Israel strikes up the second it's criticised about anything is reminiscent of one of the more obnoxious rap bands coming out with a "200 years of slavery" refrain the second somebody points out that their attitude towards women/homosexuals/whatever else is a bit out of order.

Nobody's posted this lovely picture yet:

Well, I just finished Morrison's Sebastian o which was grand.

It works well as a pre LXG LXG(ouch).

I would have prefered a six or twelve issue series of this, as the usual Morrison themes are touched upon here.

I know it's his early work.

Still the death of god bit was great.

The LXG thing isn't that surprising given that it started off his Janus Stark story for that Action Special thing before he decided the idea was too good to waste on Egmont.

Wasn't there that Peter Hogan chap...? Whatever happened to him?

He was writing for Uncut the last time I heard any mention of him: his day job is music journalism rather than comics since DC ousted him from The Dreaming, I think.

A deMarvelled Peter-fucking-Milligan.

Come on people, get with it.

Yep indeedy. That's what's needed here.

Ah, Dr. Reed Richards. Well, they more often call him Dr. Richards, than Mr. Fantastic.

 

 

I thought you referred to Mr. Terrific. He's supposed to be a genius as well, which never gets mentioned in his title.

It's easy to confuse two such modest and unassuming gentlemen, isn't it?

What has Denise written that contradicts RSVP?

Can't think of anything offhand: the fact that he's burned all his bridges in London would be one reason at least for him to have buggered off to Scotland, I'd imagine.

Valis is one of his best, Claire: you'll enjoy it.