Never say never to lateshift

23:31 / 11.03.05

I've just shown it to four people and no-one gets it. Don't let me down Lateshift.

Benny the Ball

23:32 / 11.03.05

Part one wasn't great, but okay-ish - part two should be with me sometime in the next 5-14 days.

23:34 / 11.03.05

That's cool! I get it, anyway.

Milligan X-Men? It's... alright. I'm quite enjoying it, but given that a) there's Whedon's run also happening, which is MUCH better, and b) I know Milligan can do better, I'm always left with a vague feeling of disappointment.
I mean, to be fair, it's pretty good... I think I just wanted it to be... y'know, BETTER.

Benny the Ball

23:35 / 11.03.05

opps - cross post.

Triplet's - you've got some upduck on the back of your shoe...

23:37 / 11.03.05

Latté shift

At the moment all the stuff I buy is by Kirkman or Godzilla Morroco. Or Ellis whenever he gets round to it. I expect to finish Planetary sometime after my great-grandkids pass on.

Still need Vinma #2 and Shining Knight #0. Fucking shops and thier more than ten-minutes walkawayness. TWATS.

23:40 / 11.03.05

Shit, I was going to add: I think it's kind of horrible when only three guys in an entire industry produce stuff I enjoy. Or, rather, it's kind of horrible when I can only bring myself to enjoy stuff from three guys, one of whom has a scary secret beard.

23:41 / 11.03.05

Ellis is someone else I have mixed feelings about. I'm loving Ocean, though.

Benny the Ball

23:43 / 11.03.05

I play football tomorrow, so must to bed.

Good night gentle-folk, thank you and may your god go with you...

23:45 / 11.03.05

What issue you up to and how long's the run for? I like the teaser stuff I've seen but I don't trust Ellis in any fashion anymore. The only thing I'll get from him singularly is Planetary which I can afford at 2 quid a decade.

23:46 / 11.03.05

Night, Mr The Ball.

It's up to ish 4, I think there're gonna be 6. So far they've been fairly reliable...

Alex's Grandma

23:49 / 11.03.05

I'm going to schlep off to the off licence in two shakes of a lambs tail, I fear, but I've had a fairly reasonable evening of it so far; Most of the people I usually hang out with of a Friday have gone skiing this weekend so I've been at a bit of a loose end - there are only two things I'm 'never' going to do in life, one of which is going skiing ( the other doesn't really bear thinking about, ) so in the absence of much else to do I got A Room For Romeo Brass out on vid, which is excellent, by the same director but possibly even better than Dead Man's Shoes, and if you've not seen either of those, you really, really should.

And now I must hie myself off to the gin mill, briefly.

23:56 / 11.03.05

What I want back is the swaggering, fearless, I’ll-write-what-I-want-and-you’ll-love-it Milligan of ten years ago. This scaredy, please-don’t-sack-me Milligan horrifies me, and I suspect that's the one who'll be turning up on the X-Men. Yet I dug out Egypt last week, and it’s absolutely *fantastic*. It doesn’t have to always make sense, he’ll happily suspend the internal logic just for the sake of a good joke. Of which there are many, and there's plenty of awful jokes too, and that's just fine. It’s like Sooner Or Later. I want *that* Milligan back again, I want the X-Men he could write, I want an X-Men line up that includes Swifty and Mirkin and which is drawn by Brendan McCarthey.

Arg. I want, I want. And I don’t think I’ve ever actually read an Ellis comic. I read the threads around here, and I kinda feel it’s too late now, that I’ve missed the Ellis boat.

23:57 / 11.03.05

ooh, I loved Dead Man's Shoes, but I've not seen Romeo Brass. This must be rectified.

00:00 / 12.03.05

Bed Head- you've totally summed up my disappointment with PM's X-Men.

00:03 / 12.03.05

Hello everyone! I've spent a busy night mole-fancying. Are y'all talkin' 'bout funny books agin? Tch.

00:09 / 12.03.05

Guess who's back!

It's really easy, my name is by the side of my post and everything.

00:11 / 12.03.05

And guess what?!

I am feeling the pain of one of my traditional "it's late at night but I'm hungover - what, you can't be hungover!? It's night! BUT I AM! -hangovers!"

00:13 / 12.03.05

Aww, here Suedey, have a soothe.

00:13 / 12.03.05

Hangovers suck. This is my fifth consecutive day without booze (well, I guess technically the sixth has just begun) and it just feels weird.

D Terminator XXXIII

00:14 / 12.03.05

Of which the only remedy is raw fishlungs stuffed with porkfat.

You'll never feel bad again, I promise*.

* = cough

00:15 / 12.03.05

I AM MADE OF ROCK AND ROLL!

I do wonder how I manage to have hangovers that are so stubborn and powerful. It is possible, however, that I am merely weak.

00:20 / 12.03.05

Maybe someone’s slipped kryptonite in your beer.

Now, who do you know who’d do a thing like that? Think, man, think! the fate of countless worlds, etc etc yadda

00:24 / 12.03.05

To be honest, the places I go to... I wouldn't be surprised if it was the beer. I might stop drinking it. It's bad.

I stole around 4 drinks last night. I wish I felt shameful about that.

What can never be beaten, is leaving the club when it shuts, and pulling a full pint out of your coat pocket. This possibly makes me happier than anything else. In the world.

00:35 / 12.03.05

But don’t all clubs everywhere now give you rubbishy plastic cups instead of proper glasses? Whereas if you pocket a full pint at the pub, then by the time you’ve got home you’ve another pint glass for your shelf. Surely that’s the best thing ever. Plus clubs are so faceless, but with a pub there’s an actual red-faced landlord who you know you’re nicking your glasses from.

00:42 / 12.03.05

Yeah, you're right. Plastic isn't quite the same.

However, I am thankful for it, because I once had the pleasure of a glass in the face, and plastic ones are rather more pleasant in such a situation. However, I was drunk enough to think it was a plastic cup, rather overlooking my incredibly bloody face...

All I meant, was the pleasure of a whole fresh drink, as if appearing from nowhere. It pleases me so greatly.

00:53 / 12.03.05

Well, I can’t really disagree with that. That is a wonderful feeling.

Any gazillionaire worth his salt should surely keep someone on the staff who’ll hang around wherever they go with a drink ready in case they should need it. Just like Galactacus has his herald. Had I the means, I’d happily pay some dude to hang around in a silver bodystocking, always ready to put a glass in my outstretched hand.

Heck, I’d do that job. We could take turns.

00:56 / 12.03.05

I like your style BH, I like your style.

00:58 / 12.03.05

Not just you and me, of course. It’s *such* a wonderful feeling, there must be lots of people who’d want such a service. It’d be like a torrent. Only with superheroes and public drunkenness in place of sitting alone in a dark room in front of a computer.

There must be a really obvious flaw here that I'm not seeing.

01:02 / 12.03.05

It would get warm really quickly.

01:06 / 12.03.05

Aaaaaaaannnd there it is. Curses, foiled again, etc

01:22 / 12.03.05

Hey! Anyone want to join a Special Rescue Mission?

01:39 / 12.03.05

Depends who we're rescuing ... aww fuck it, count me in. I trust you.

01:48 / 12.03.05

OK. It's like this. Remember years back when Michael Jackson bought the skeleton of Joseph (not John- Lynch, bless 'im, got the name wrong) Merrick, the "Elephant Man"?
Look at pictures of "Michael Jackson" now. That's not Mikey. That's Merrick.

Merrick, in cahoots with Bubbles, has had poor Mikey locked in the cellar for the last few years, while he's been out and about interferin' wiv da kids an' that.

We must save poor Mikey Jackson from the evil Joseph Merrick and his monkey.

Aertho

02:00 / 12.03.05

Shifted.

Rescue mission? Shall we draw slips? I want to be Water.