Tag: unashamed-geekery
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I have to admit, I saw this picture of a proposed Energy Island in the Guardian on Monday and my first thought was “what happens if they roll a 7?”
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One of the truly awful things about conference this week was music used for the video photomontages – all three of them – that they insisted on playing before the leader’s speech, all three of which were to the tune of the most vein-opening soft rock I’ve ever come across. Personally, I’d never heard of…
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2000AD is beginning a 6 month countdown to its 30th anniversary with a new Judge Dredd story which for the first time explores the origins of the Judge System, Mega City One and Old Stoney Face himself. Probably the most hyped Dredd strip since Necropolis, and deservedly so due to its subject matter and being…
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I was very saddened to learn that Tom Frame died earlier this month. Tom was a letterer (literally someone who writes the text in comics) for 2000AD and several other UK comics. For me, he was the letterer for Judge Dredd, and like a lot of early-2000AD stalwarts for a whole generation he will be…
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I do worry that certain bloggers are getting too big for their boots. I’d draw an analogy here with one of my past obsessions: Robot Wars. I used to love the show for the simple reason that it involved lumps of metal sawing the crap out of each other. Another entertaining feature was seeing the…