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Right. The plan is in effect. I'm dropping the boys for a couple of months, and picking up when the next (ie, first proper) arc picks up.

I'll go out on a limb here. I thought the first three or four issues of Transmetropolitan were complete shite. Pointless, lacking any kind of cohesion, and set in a sci fi setting seemingly because it allowed ridiculous toilet humour and huge plotholes to get papered over (not that this happened mind. I have a very cynical sense of potential) moreso than anything else. After about twelve months I picked it up again and loved every page, and retroactively bought every one. It's probably my favourite book of all time now.

So, (and don't think for a minute I'm saying the Boys and Transmet are equal) I think it might be fair to let The Boys settle into rhythm before judging. After all, Ennis has been known for a great Opening followed by an average middle and finally a shite end (Preacher Anyone?). Maybe by "out-preacher Preacher" he means he's going to improve as he goes, and retain some kind of stability in tone and narrative. Cos at the minute, I don't want to think he's using up the Violence that was cut from Punisher in combination with spare dick jokes from Kev. He's too talented for that...

(apoligies for writing a novella there!!!)

Thanks for dragging this thread from the depths, by the way. I saw Thomas Truax not too very long ago, and didn't realise he had cut some videos as well.

Cheers!

Mainly browsing this thread when it occured to me. Garth's portrayal of the Punisher has so much to do with growing up in the North of Ireland, it's uncanny. For years we had to put up with exactly this kind of [over-used word]. Serial killers, but they where alright (to some assholes anyway), cause they only killed "themmuns" and defended "us" (The secret history of NI, by the way. Themmuns started it. We only acted in defence. Works for all persuasions!). Maybe it's just the way I read it, but having read a lot of Garth down the years, and lived through a good deal of the same shit, I'd be really surprised if it wasn't in there somewhere...

Although if Bradstreet starts doing murals in Belfast...

On the subject of the Title Puns, where's the pun in "Hang Up on the Hang Low"? or am I being exceptionally dense?

From out of her forgotten life came....Conjob himself.

Am I being particularly thick in what I've been reading into this whole arc?

Is the third place the catholic purgatory? Going back to the victorian flashback, the guy who discovers the "Third Place" is real, is warned by his father in an earlier scene, whilst praying not to "Clasp his hands like a papist"? is there finally going to be a play made by hell for the souls resident in purgatory?

Isn't empathy such as this the ultimate extension of the Purgatory doctrine, that you must atone for your minor sins before passing on to heaven?

The Ellis Scripted game with Tom Baker's narration was "Hostile Waters", a kind of "Carrier Command"-ish strategy/ Vehicle sim/action game. It was fucking brilliant. You controlled a big ol carrier, had gunships and hovercrafts and stuff you could buzz about in, and AI mates called "Soulchips", which could be put into the vehicles etc to run them. Very "Rogue Trooper" in a way. i remember one of them looked very Jesse Custer-ish and swore constantly.

Dig it out if you can. It's a tad buggy, but it's absolutely brilliant.

Dunphy on Kewell:

"I think he should have been given an early bath. In boiling water"

He's a shitheawk, but at least he's our shitheawk.

Hmmm.

Getting revenge at a later date?

Who the feck does he think he is? Roy Keane or Something?

It's a really tidy bit of work alright, but....

Why does John still have the lighter in hand when that fag's been lit a good thirty seconds?

Apres Match is the ticket alright. Like so much RTE comedy, you couldn't imagine anyone else doing it, or letting it out.

That's some purely awful writing right there.

Check out bbc ulster where someone (who may, or may not be me)pulls the resident christian blogger for his slamming of the Da Vinci Code's enemies as "Comic-book" like, and he publishes his meal mouthed apology the next day