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Brilliant Brett!
Nothing more to say, so FWIW?... here's a link to a visually apt dub reggae remix version of Bowie's 'Golden Years'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Mh...
Not sure how to take that.
An item spotted in my local mini mart.
I wish this toy existed when I was a nipper. Back then, I always dreamt of flinging a face.
I'm also curious to know what it reminds me of.
Well done!
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Judge Sladek was the last member to join the disco act, Village People in 2101 AD; although the line up had changed many times since 1977.
Famously, Ron Sladek also penned their final hit, 'Get Off The Sked! Dredd! (& Don'tcha Come Yet)' which made Billboard's Hot 100 that year.
Not in the slightest.
XTC
This was the wall of my Earl's Court student digs back in 1986. It was a bit over whelming to wake up every morning with Dredd crashing into your tiny bedsit.
Extra points if you can tell me who the band is on the poster reflected in the mirror.
Would you include *batteriesnotincluded. on that fine list?
Movie ad on the back of 2000AD comic forty years ago this month.
Daryl, is an acronym for "Data-Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform." An artificial intelligence experiment created by a government company.
Topical.
I never saw it. Any good?
He's not my favourite 2000 AD contributor.
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'Clash Of The Teeny Titans' was the prequel to the 1981 sword-and-sandal fantasy movie classic. Think Jason & The Argonauts meets The Muppet Babies.
And this children's TV music cue used at the utter despair at humankind's madness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNN...
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Sorry to be negative, but everything about this cover is completely lame. What's going on with the black ice lolly in the bottom left corner and Kwik Save* Toyah crushing on Tolkien's Wilfred Bramble.
*a 1980s disparaging reference before Poundland.
For me it's this tune when CB gets analytical and serious for a moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0fu...
Pretty much the same in my manor. If I purchased every chazza shop Val Doonican album I saw and then placed them on top of each other they'd reach the moon and back. Or at least would make a two foot high pile of LPs. The occasional gem makes an appearance now and again.
Bought this LP for a quid yesterday.
Telly speaking to the record company.
"Ok guys, I'm thinking "romance" for this. Front cover? The evil Captain Kazar from Horror Express wielding a revolver and...um...for the back, that great shot of me bound half naked and injured from A Town Called Bastard."
Wish granted.
I'm convinced one of the staff members in my local Aldi is a fan of "The Beatles" (White) album. It's the specific plummy way she announces to the customers that self checkout till number nine is currently available.
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The way the Ian Gibson captures the disdain in her face with just an ink pen is remarkable. Hats off to the colourist too.
Why aren't so many cartoonists or illustrators celebrated as much as some other overrated artist rabble?
I'll get me lowbrow coat.
Boo!
I see 'Scream 7' is in the cinemas. I think they should've made this new one as the long awaited sequel to the 1970 horror film, 'Scream and Scream Again'.
They could've then called it 'Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream and Scream Again'.
Busy.
You have impeccable taste.
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Ooooo, la-di-da! 2000ad getting very highfalutin now with their cultural references to 19th century German opera.
Not off the top of my head. It was a large globe on fire rolling down a hill. There were a lot of extras that day too. I think ITV were hoping it was going to be their 'Blackadder' and looking to make more episodes but suddenly got cold feet, so instead just made more series of Cold Feet.
I remember one special effect cost so much that they had to drop making one of the episodes because of budgetary restraints.
ITV lost faith in it after poor viewing figures of the first episode so quickly bunged out the whole run in one week at some ungodly hour in the schedule.
I was sorry to hear we lost Rob Grant yesterday. I was in a sitcom he wrote back in 1999 called Dark Ages. Rob stuck around most of the time on the shoot, so we spent many a night together propping up the hotel bar.
A very clever, very lovely man.
R.I.P. fella.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wouT...
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2000 AD was always at its devilish best when it subverted the latest trends. Sue Townshend's Adrian Mole bestseller books had recently been made into a hit TV series a few months before this issue.
