Crystal Tipps

Statue of Desperate Dan & Minnie the Minx

5 statues of penguin waddling along a church wall

Statue of a man with a telescope

Statue of a man clutching a book being caught by a polar bear.

Nobody does statues like Dundee ♥️ 🥧 🐧 🔭 🐻

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss"

"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Released 45 years ago
"Holiday in Cambodia", the second single by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (Live At Target Video)

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

Prog 254

An extremely rare sighting of a (non-vocal) sound effect on a 2000 AD cover.

"PZZOOO!"

Bit weedy. Should have been...

"DrrrrrrrrrRRROOOOOOZZZZZZOINOINNNNGGG!!!"

"Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles," reads the lawsuit. "In so doing, Defendants can, and do, accelerate the rate of depreciation of the value of Tesla vehicles and also the expiration of Tesla vehicle warranties to reduce or avoid responsibility for contractually required repairs as well as increase the purchase of its extended warranty policy."

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service

Just incredible grift

Good luck x

Prog 233

Come on, KP, bring back Griddles, so we can forget about this swimming pool vending machine maize-based snack all over again.

Prog 224

Judge Death returns!
He brings war, famine, pestilence, and a price hike of one penny to 2000 AD.

They sell them so far in advance! I’m still waiting to see Adam Ant, was supposed to be last October, but he rescheduled until September .

Have a great time x

Prog 207

I used to visit Croydon with my mum for 'the big shops' We'd always have a slice of coffee cake in Allders *sigh*

O! Carlos Ezquerra, 2000AD artist lived in Croydon. Whoever this creep was, needs to have a word with themselves!

Clearly, mice got to this issue. Definitely most un-zarjaz!

Prog 203

That speech bubble. The jokes write themselves. Over to you.

Prog 202

The background imagery is a bit close to the bone today, is it not?

Prog 201

So, business as usual for Joe Dredd.

The assassins mode of travel looks technologically backwards for the 22nd Century, a bit 'Little Nellie' to me. I thought they had hover vehicles in that Mega City One.

YouTube video by theaceface The Jam - The Dreams Of Children

Night X
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2U...

Prog 198

If this issue had come out two years later this herbert would probably be wearing a shell suit and eating a Filet-O-Fish. I never forgave Weetabix for turning the Weetabix skins into breakdancing casuals.

Prog 196

This Dave Gibbons front page is very reminiscent of the days when Dan Dare dominated the cover spot week in, week out. That's not to say this isn't a dynamic piece of art. I'll post the Angel Gang pin up later tonight. It's mint.

Prog 193

Judge Dredd heralds in 1981 by pointing his Lawgiver in our faces to distract us from the one pence price hike.
Happy new year Earthlets!

I hope you all had a great Xmas. In 1980.

I can imagine Jim Di Griz at the back there, whispering to Wulf Sternhammer,
"They just barged to the front. Look at them both jostling to be in the centre of the cover. Pair of divas! Nick Stone is fuming. Pint later?"

"Ja."

Television's Marquee Moon cassette tape.

Lordy, lordy look who turned forty-eight today. Television's Marquee Moon.

Prog 190

I remember my father looking at this particular prog cover over Saturday morning breakfast and wearily muttering to himself, "Charming."

Prog 188

Return To Armageddon is another 2000 AD strip I've scant memory of. Revisiting these old issues has made me realise the comic had quite a large turnover of different stories beyond the likes of Dredd, Strontium Dog et al.

Ian Gibson's use of light and shade here is spectacular.

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Prog 185

This was the 2000 AD strip of the Nickelodeon cartoon adaptation of The Dogs Of War' movie that was released that same year. Christopher Walken was great as the one-armed vampire turtle thing.
No, of course it wasn't. It's a Strontium Dog story with art by Ezquerra.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Prog 177

The Scots droid is about to sucker punch 'Tornado' off the front page as this is the last appearance of the very short-lived comic title on a 2000 AD cover.

Goodbye.

This is why Eagles are always photographed from the side. Because they look very silly from the front!

Thank you x

YouTube video by The Specials The Specials - Too Much Too Young (Live)

2 years since we lost the great Terry Hall. May he rest in eternal peace🙏