I'll second that. I'm currently working my way through the NML series and it's pretty fantastic.
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I'll second that. I'm currently working my way through the NML series and it's pretty fantastic.
Jedeye Sniv
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Yeah I re-read it a few months back and was blown away by how it holds up. I think a big part of the strength (other than the superb Bob Gale/Alex fuckin Maleev intro arc) is that once Greg Rucka comes on full force the storytelling and character-driven nature of it is really pushed to the front. So instead of traditional bat-stuff of villains being eeeeevil, you have stuff with Gordon and his wife arguing, or Harvey's obsession with Renee and then the stuff with Helena a bit later on too. Turned it from dumb superhero stuff into a damn decent drama by the end.
Exactly. Superhero books are often about trying to prevent the big cataclysms from happening, so when it actually happened it was a good take on how Gotham pulls together and the struggles that take place.
dapperbandit
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I wish I'd made the effort to read No Man's Land.
I had a philosophy teacher who was using it as a way to get us thinking about that social contract and "man in the state of nature" period of thought occupied by people like Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke.
I had a philosophy teacher who was using it as a way to get us thinking about that social contract and "man in the state of nature" period of thought occupied by people like Hobbes, Rousseau and Locke.
QuicheFontaine
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I accept. Choose your weapon.
Nerdkiller
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Discussions of American comics in a British thread? PUH-SHAW! You know we're to only talk of Judge Dredd here.
dapperbandit
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The context of this is important to our understanding.
Where have you been today? A Nursery? A Cancer Ward? A Zoo? A Synagogue?
Fixed.
Jedeye Sniv
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British comics are the primordial ooze that decent US comics come from. All the notable British authors did their best work for the dirty yanks.
BackwardsSuggestions
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Russell Crowe is coming to the cinema I work at in Cardiff. Provably the biggest star to come here for ages.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
They do exist!
Yes. Yes this evening will be adequate.
Yes. Yes this evening will be adequate.
broadwayrock
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Repeatedly shout his Neighbours character's name 'Kenny' over and over like that Alan Partridge scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU
I'm at work, so: colleagues, delivery drivers, Dell representatives, customers and a guy from some office supply company who wouldn't fuck off when I said we're not taking his shitty leaflets.
I'm going to save my rage up an torture some civilians on Infamous tonight instead.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
They do exist!
Yes. Yes this evening will be adequate.
The greatest self portrait ever made. SALUTE
dapperbandit
Banned
I always go evil the first time if I get a choice
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Little Old Man
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They do exist!
Yes. Yes this evening will be adequate.
Haha awesome! What games did you get to go with it?
broadwayrock
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On BBC 6music Lauren Laverne has a segment on her show called Memory Tapes where a listener gets to pick their own playlist. Today a man made a playlist for his friend who was born deaf but can now hear music after 40 years due to getting cochlear implants.
This is a video of her hearing for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznPCR4CB3E
Article about this woman:
http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/heartwarming-video-of-woman-hearing-for-the-first-time#image-rotator-1
This is a video of her hearing for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznPCR4CB3E
Article about this woman:
http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/heartwarming-video-of-woman-hearing-for-the-first-time#image-rotator-1
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Sent.
SALUTE'd. I never liked British comics much beyond tie-in franchise stuff as a nipper, so don't mind the american comic thread leaking into here. Comic Shops were a revelation to me when I discovered them around like 12 years of age. I've been checking out kinda cool small English press stuff like NOBROW though recently.
Got Resogun ready to go from PS+ and Ground Zeroes. Infamous is on the way, but won't get to play it til Monday because I'm off to spend some time with Momma Pie and Beans for Mother's Day weekend.
Which might serve as a reminder to some thread peeps. Never forget Mother's Day. Scars happen.
Mine are Italian... Rogue Trooper > Dredd personally.
NinjaBoiX
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Mikeside and shorty, if you guys are digging Daughter at the minute, how about some Lucy Rose:
Lucy Rose - Lines
Lucy Rose - Middle Of The Bed
I love the breakdown around 1:40, it goes all balearic, love it.
Bonus Laura Marling track:
Laura Marling - Blackberry Stone
Her voice on this track man, she just nails it from that first line all the way through. So lush.
Lucy Rose - Lines
Lucy Rose - Middle Of The Bed
I love the breakdown around 1:40, it goes all balearic, love it.
Bonus Laura Marling track:
Laura Marling - Blackberry Stone
Her voice on this track man, she just nails it from that first line all the way through. So lush.
Congrats on getting Neon now you never need change powers again. They made Neon so OP it crazy plus of good karma when get paragon you get endless sprint which makes travelling map a breeze
I love BF4 even though first time I'm getting rubber banding badly is with new naval strike add on. Other then that had no real issues with Ps4 version
Little Old Man
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Just made a list of my backlog (less Steam because the odds of me living to 122 are slim).
Conclusion: it could be a while before I need a PS4.
Conclusion: it could be a while before I need a PS4.
Musha_Soturi
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This deserves more love. That video brought happy tears to my eyes.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
phisheep
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Was in the local Coroner's Court today. Interesting experience. Coroners courts don't seem to have the strict rules about representation that other courts do, so you don't need to be a proper solicitor or anything - basically if the bloke in charge thinks you'll have something interesting to say he'll let you say it.
So I did of course.
And it seemed to go down reasonably well - to the extent that I'm more or less bound (I think the polite word the Coroner used was "expect"!) to be there for subsequent hearings.
Curious the way the formality of court proceedings settles the nerves. The best part is that once you have started they let you finish, so it is entirely unlike business meetings where people are clamouring for attention all the time and muttering in the corner and you're always scared of whoever is in the chair. The whole thing was beautifully run. Very slick.
Horrible temporary courtroom though. It felt initially like I was due for a dressing-down from the temporary committee of a particularly ill-appointed and faded golf club.
So I did of course.
And it seemed to go down reasonably well - to the extent that I'm more or less bound (I think the polite word the Coroner used was "expect"!) to be there for subsequent hearings.
Curious the way the formality of court proceedings settles the nerves. The best part is that once you have started they let you finish, so it is entirely unlike business meetings where people are clamouring for attention all the time and muttering in the corner and you're always scared of whoever is in the chair. The whole thing was beautifully run. Very slick.
Horrible temporary courtroom though. It felt initially like I was due for a dressing-down from the temporary committee of a particularly ill-appointed and faded golf club.
One of the best albums ever. Song tears into your soul.
Jedeye Sniv
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Yup! I'm gonna give my mum a shout out from the stage, I figure that makes us even. And some gin. She loves gin.
No love for Dennis the Menace or Desperate Dan?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Meh.
Desperate Dan is now most relevant to me since it was apparently a big influence on Frank Quitely's Superman design. Otherwise those comics felt like they were too young for me even when I was 7.
It was always the artwork more than the stories which were the draw of the Beano and Dandy I always felt. Especially Ken Reid, Leo Baxendale and Dudley Watkins.
Have you ever seen Electric Soup? It was kind of a Glaswegian Viz, and the lead strip was Frank Quitely's take on the Broons, the Greens.
Dudley D. Watkins drew the Broons (among other stuff for DC Thomson such as Desperate Dan & Dennis The Menace) for years and the influence is apparent (IMO) on Quitely's work.
dapperbandit
Banned
I know what you mean about feeling too old for the Beano/Desperate Dan while at a young age, Jed.
Personally I also always felt too middle class for stuff like the Bash Street Kids.
Personally I also always felt too middle class for stuff like the Bash Street Kids.
There was another school based strip like this IIRC, but with kids in uniform. And I'm pretty sure I'm not thinking of the rival Posh Street School.
The Jocks & the Geordies was more my level.
Some interesting stuff here, but I still can't quite find what I was looking for.
http://lewstringer.blogspot.ch/2012_12_01_archive.html
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
And you didn't become a deviant furry? You did well to escape that life-trap my friend.
Oh man, I thought Sonic The Comic was pretty rad although I, too, only read a few issues. The only thing I really remember was a strip detailing a "Day in the life of Doctor Robotnik".
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