Bull Throttle

You broke my sarcasm detector...it's usually pretty good but now it's just shrugging its shoulders and glaring with a slightly suspicious air at "two of the biggest concerns in the game".

So I'm going to have to answer you twice, just in case:

I agree: there are better things to fix.
I agree: - and Huge bull heads are too small.

...and yet to ordinary filmgoers who know nothing of Lantern comics, it will be the whole "in blackest night yadayada" that they'll roll their eyes at...

I like the "Pledging to a lantern" scene, he feels stupid talking to it -wouldn't you?

I see what you did there.

Well played sir!

You old grump!

This is me, sunbathing on your lawn.

Rats, that means I pay to lose.

I suggest you check that.

Well they're not going to.

I'm not having a go at you Wytch, but the number of people arguing over the wrong thing in this thread is amazing; if your @global conflicts you'll get a new one based on whatever character you log in as, if that conflicts too, then they'll chip characters off until it doesn't; so as has been mentioned, we can all look forward to greeting FFM's mum, FloatingFatMa

In the absence of complicated 'who had the name first' rules, I would have thought the fairest way to do this would be to add NA_ or EU_ to every single global name, then issue a rename token to every non-trial account. Everyone then gets a fairly equal (time-zones aside) chance to reclaim their global - including from long abandoned accounts on either side.

Heck the game could even make some money if some of those players re-subbed for a month to keep their names.

I was thinking of reactivating my EU account when the server lists merge, but I don't want to be known as @Sugar_Rus !

...from the sticky in announcements.

Sort of makes sense, but I really don't care what it is, I just know I like mine.

I don't read books on my iPad, that's what I have a Kindle for; e-ink is where it's at, the Nook linked somewhere above isn't an e-reader, it's a cheap tablet.

I don't read PDFs and comics on the Kindle, or watch iPlayer, or sketch, or shop, or play silly games, or browse the interweb; it's either not something it does, or does very badly; I do all of that on my iPad.

I don't have an iPhone - or any kind of 'smart-phone' - and I gave my laptop to my wife after realising I hadn't turned it on since I got the iPad - I will never buy a laptop again; I may not buy another iPad, but I know my next convenience-PC will be some kind of tablet - a proper 10" one, not one of those apologetic 'big phone' things.

My only problem with them at the moment is they're under-powered and over-priced; but so were mobile phones, laptops, cars, washing machines, televisions - just about any new technology you can name, when they first arrived; I'm looking forward to seeing where they go.

This bit of the general public wouldn't! As much as I love Spider-man, I've always hated the idea of web-shooters. If Peter had invented that stuff, he should license it to Stark and buy his aunt a nice house.

I approved of the move to organic web shooters in the movies, as it solved a lot of what I consider clutter, but even then I had a little voice in the back of the had telling me 'yeah, but silk doesn't come out of a spider's leg it comes out of its...' (remembering Kevin O'Neil's take on a Spider-man character in the Marshall Law comics didn't help with that of course!)

To be a true icon, yes, I think it has to transcend the originating medium - there's really no point asking comic fans about iconic comic characters - ask them about iconic opera characters and the opera fans about comics, then you'll be getting somewhere!

Batman is an icon because stuff like this never has to be explained to the audience, even if they haven't picked up a comic in their lives.

It's a very good question - I don't think he could ever be seen to lose against a law breaker and didn't he already do the long walk?

(I cant remember the name of the strip but it was about a very burnt/scarred guy wandering through the cursed earth, eventually revealed to be Dredd to no-one's surprise)

They've tried cloning him and that didn't work out... they've tried making him Chief Judge at least once, twice? (Haven't read it for over 10 years) I guess he'll be retiring with his Law books with fluffy slippers and Walter (or did they finally kill off the wobot?)

I suppose he'll get a re-juve and start again.

I suppose it depends on how you term 'iconic' - the number of people who would recognise them? The number of media forms they span?

Dredd certainly hit the mainstream conciousness over here in Brit-land long before the movie - from people wearing Dredd T-shirts on TV to newspaper headlines, but I feel he's faded away a lot now. I doubt the average-man-in-the-street would recognise him - same with Tank Girl; both great characters who were all over in the media (until sunk by a sub-par movie ).

Dredd and Tank Girl pretty much lay the ground for Lara Croft, she was everywhere - now, most people would associate her with the films rather than the games. They were all iconic - but are they still? Does iconic allow for a time-limit or is it forever?

The only British Comic character I would happily sit next to Spider-man now with any hope of the average brit knowing who they were would be Dan Dare - possibly along with stuff from The Beano like Dennis the Menace; I've no idea if any would cross the pond - the US have their own Dennis so I doubt they'd recognise the UK version and he's about as iconic as they come here.

Yeah I agree; I read the Postman quite a while before the movie was made and so was very keen to see it - I think they read another book, the film missed the point entirely; Costner was terrible casting in that, but the story and characterisation, motivation...was all off.

Plotwise, I did prefer the ending of the film over the book though; no spoilers, but the book sort of lost me towards end down a huge credibility gap.

There's a sample of issue 1 available on the ComiXology store, it seemed like it could be okay, the reviews look positive.

As for the movie: they keep putting Bruce in Die hard movies and I'll keep on watching them. Same with Harrison Ford and Indiana Jones; there are some things where my critical faculties are just left at home.

*cough* http://www.2000adonline.com/ *cough*

I've not read 2000ad for donkey's years, I kinda felt Dredd's time came and went, the stories were all action-pap and not really what he was originally about; the last film came came far too late and reflected what the Dredd comic had become, there were only flashes of 'real' Dredd in there..

If it's done well, a Dredd movie should make you slightly uncormfortable cheering him on..but you will cheer him on.

He's an utter barstool.

Stealth.

Ninja Run & Swift did it for me on my lvl 35 scrapper.

I just run past everything and go straight for the Boss (pause at the last spawn so they don't make the last fight too tricky). Then wait for the timer to run out and kill everything else afterwards.

Sold.

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