After Kracklite and I gave you that opening

Too much information for me, thanks. :P

After Kracklite and I gave you that opening. Give in to the dark side, Annie, it feels nice! :)

Well, since you asked so nicely....but if I get in trouble, it's all your fault.

Jekyll just arse-raped the Invisible Man to death!

rimshot?

No, I expect he'd have had to…

Must....resist...urge.....to post...horrible...joke....

After Kracklite and I gave you that opening. Give in to the dark side, Annie, it feels nice! :)

Judge Dredd

My bro-in-law used to work for a computer games company. There was an artist at the company who'd had one of the shortest job interviews ever:
"Thanks for your portfolio. So, what else have you worked on?"
"I used to draw Judge Dredd."
"You're hired."

And so the…

rimshot

Must....resist...urge.....to post...horrible...joke....

Dodged the attack of that killer turkey, fortunately.

"OMFG — Jekyll just arse-raped the Invisible Man to death!"

You might say that he gave him a right Hyding [rimshot].

Personally, I feel that is sf and fantasy aren't being…

Dry your eyes, a re-boot is in the offing!

Eyes are now dry!!! But does waiting twice for them to get it right really improve our chances?

But Starship Troopers made rooting for the fascists so much fun! Love the adverts that they threw into the movie.

Reminds me of these easter eggs in Verhoeven's earlier effort Robocop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSSVt7Mfkk
"Pakistan is threatening my border!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVNyYb1SE
"An American Tradition. 8.2 MPG."

Oh no, hang on, I'm not being as stupid as I thought: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...

And even if that movie hadn't been a great steaming shit-pile and realised with Zac Snyder-style neurotic fidelity, I have a funny feeling the sequels would never have seen the light of day.…

Many a true word said by accident. That's what the Surrealists thought.

Mind you, I have often thought that the Comedian was a sort of cross between Captain America and the Joker – even more…

Not sure. May be in the Lower Devonian strata of my files. Dave Gibbons has put out a beautiful book called Watching the Watchmen (of course) that details the creation of the comic, so no doubt it's in there. I'm thinking of buying…

I know that it is hard to talk about ( Stallone left a bitter taste , ( my vote at the time was with Eastwood ) ) but for me Judge Dredd was 2000AD!!!!!

Dry your eyes, a re-boot is in the offing! I actually thought Stallone could have worked…

Judge Dredd was 2000AD

He is the Law, Citizen!

(I'm one of the few people I know who actually says "Drokk!" with feeling)

Thank's Mum for fronting my monthly subscriptions at the newsagent

Saved you from winding up in the juve cubes?

. . . Ozy, for all his genius, is a similarly ideologically adolescent utilitarian.

Now that you mention it, that Ozy sure is one mean Benthamite bastard.

Rorschach is the Question,

The abyss is the answer. Ha hah hah. … ehh, sorry.

….Nite Owl is the Blue Beetle (not Batman as most people think), Doctor Manhattan is Captain Atom and so forth.

Who was The Comedian based on, btw?

I wasn't aware of the Question/Steve Ditko connection…

like the Montessori secondary school in Wellington that has recently closed due to lack of money,

Wa Ora Montessori School in Lower Hutt — a state integrated school — started its secondary programme this year. They currently take the 12-15 group but as they grow will extend to 15-18 also.

Of course, I also used to get asked whether I was male or female when I was in China in the mid 90s.

Still fucking with people's heads after all these years, Jack? Good onya.

the VUW BBS

Blimey!

Excellent.

If I disappear and someone called DSCH turns up, you'll know who it is...

You know, the third movement of the Eighth Symphony at 6 AM is great…

One day somebody is going to give Peter Greenaway and Terry Gilliam and Michael Cimino a blank cheque to make a film together. That ought to finish bankrupting the western emisphere so we can get…

Well, I never hear that one.

Or was it a really strange part of China?

the VUW BBS...

Oh, you're that linger. scfbbs was a while ago, wasn't it... I used to get asked if I was a real girl on the BBS all the time. Mainly by people who'd read the part of my profile that said my name was Susan, but hadn't read…

The perennial nerd question is "are you a real girl?"

Too true. It's amazing how often I got asked that on the VUW BBS, having deliberately chosen a username that did not signal gender (both to minimise the overt male dominance of that environment, and also because I don't consider…

Dave Gibbons' artwork was an evocation of the artwork of 'silver age' comics, as the characters themselves were based on characters of that time. Rorschach is the Question, Nite Owl is the Blue Beetle (not Batman as most people think), Doctor Manhattan is Captain Atom and so forth.

Thanks Kracklite.…

Or possibly "have you got sheep for wheat?".

I totally LOLed.

The perennial nerd question is "who would win in a fight between X and Y?"

Nuh-uh. The perennial nerd question is "are you a real girl?"

Or possibly "have you got sheep for wheat?".

So what student centred model/s would be practical which educates those non-standard model kids but doesn't require too much parental energy or expense? And still complies with the Education Act.

My son's in the Manawatu Project Pilot, which essentially supplies learning material from Correspondence School, but students are enrolled at…

Nite Owl is the Blue Beetle (not Batman as most people think)

I always think of Ozymandias as a bit Batman-ish. As in, this is what would really happen if you had loads of money, a secret headquarters, and a tendency to think that the ends justify the means.

(Similarly,…

Geek tank moment:
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEU_201IfI|
Working replica Rhino APC from the Warhammer 40k universe. Running…

Have to say that this was deliberate, Joe. Dave Gibbons' artwork was an evocation of the artwork of 'silver age' comics, as the characters themselves were based on characters of that time. Rorschach is the Question, Nite Owl…

Report to your nearest Reggio-Emilia re-education facility immediately.

You will be given a wooden pencil. When you get to ten pencils, you will be given a tank.

Trick question, citizen. We are at war with Eastasia and have always been at war with Eastasia. The Oceanians are our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms, and always have been.

Report to your nearest Reggio-Emilia re-education facility immediately.

I lol'd so hard. All the way home last night I was thinking…

We have always been at war with Oceania?

Trick question, citizen. We are at war with Eastasia and have always been at war with Eastasia. The Oceanians are our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms, and always have been.

Report to your nearest Reggio-Emilia re-education facility immediately.

Charter schools are obviously a pretty labour-intensive answer (I'm intrigued by the Discovery School in Chch and would love to hear from anyone with direct experience of…

All right, let's try that again... I'll send google maps directions,…

Then I show up with a tank and annex their neighbourhood.

I can send you google maps directions to New Haven!

If this particular exhange hasn't triggered some sort of flag at Langley, it means they're not doing their job.

I think they're too scared to make flexible, alternative education available in case *heaps* of students take it up and leave all those classrooms empty.

I'm really interested in ideas about what is realistically possible in NZ given the current environment, busy parents, stretched resources etc. As Russell has shown,…

Then I show up with a tank and annex their neighbourhood.

I can send you google maps directions to New Haven!

Just had a quick look at Reggio-Emilia stuff

Whenever somebody points out to me that Italians must have been crazy to vote communist in such numbers, I respectfully point them to those schools. Then I show up with a tank and annex their neighbourhood.

Something that really bothers me about all the rhetoric around enhancing creativity and better quality thinking is that the politicians, business people & economists etc who…

Kerry, I hope you're right... I'd love to see a radical reassessment of what school is for. And who it is for. Everywhere.

Am idly fantasizing at the moment about starting a Reggio-Emilia school in my front room (I haven't studied it…

With the proposed national testing regime, perhaps 1984...

Question a: How long have we been at war with Oceania?

Seems to me this should be some sort of human right, enshrined somewhere, but I bet it isn't. Sigh.

Indeed. I've got a gut feeling "school" is going to have to change drastically in the coming years – I've come across a lot of families with kids struggling with v.…

As long as he can manage his own environment & work at his own pace, he is okay.

Seems to me this should be some sort of human right, enshrined somewhere, but I bet it isn't. Sigh.

I'm so glad to hear about these atypical kids that by official measures aren't…

When you think of how much of 2000AD's output was basically violence-porn, what Alan Moore managed to do with The Ballad of Halo Jones was pretty special.

IMHO, the best of Alan Moore was a Future Shock about a couple of time detectives. Several frames are repeated with different emphasis…

What's nice is that it suggests that the fact that he's been out of school for two and a half years and basically dysfunctional there for three years before that might not matter too much.

Amazing, really.

Yes and well done to Leo, says it like it is, doesn't he!…

I'm still wondering what happened to my own childhood box of Bunty, Tammy & June, Misty,my brother's Whizzer & Chips..

Yes! These!

Sadly, I know for a fact that mine have all disappeared back into the endless cycle of school fairs from whence they came.

My sister and I especially liked Misty.…

When you think of how much of 2000AD's output was basically violence-porn, what Alan Moore managed to do with The Ballad of Halo Jones was pretty special.

For me the excellent Halo Jones is the best Moore ever did. Never could warm in the same way to Watchmen or Extraordinary…

Look, if you're not going to store contraband visibly on a high shelf, how will the offspring discover the illicit thrill of snagging forbidden literature?Surely once they have the height/engineering skills/curiosity to winkle the naughty stuff down, they're probably old enough.

Nope, your children are old enough for Bobby Mapplethorpe's…

Look, if you're not going to store contraband visibly on a high shelf, how will the offspring discover the illicit thrill of snagging forbidden literature?Surely once they have the height/engineering skills/curiosity to winkle the naughty stuff down, they're probably old enough.

And a fair point, and I did the same…

Borag Thungg, Earthlets!

Now I don't know about you, but Alan Moore reminds me…

/not entirely tongue in cheek

why not invest in a brightly coloured plastic crate and keep SFW Asterix & Tintin at ground level and well away from the *ahem* grown-up picture books?

Supernanny!

when to let them near my comics?

It's funny I never even thought about my Asterix or Tintin books. My (as yet non-existent) children can have those as soon as they want, after all I grew up on them (and my uncle's hardcover Tiger Annuals, full of football and WW2…

'Look and Learn" were the stuff of my childhood.

Not least for the truly bizarre fusion of Dan Dare and Gibbons that was... The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire! Another triumph of the English urge to educate the young while they weren't looking. :)

Back in those days the local suburban shopping centre had a bookstore to go with the dairy, haberdashery, fish and chip shop, post office, local hair dresser, and chemist. They were wiped out by Rogernomics of…

Buster and Valiant — excellent stuff, full of bellowing sergeants-major, toffs, speccy swots, spivs, flogging teachers, and all sorts of other cultural elements I hadn't expected to have to explain for years. And could barely explain.

As I might have observed recently in this very space, you haven't really plunged…

I'm still wondering what happened to my own childhood box of Bunty, Tammy & June, Misty,my brother's Whizzer & Chips..

Oh lordy, if only I still had my original Whizzer & Chips #1, with the flip-book. I'd be rich!

I did love that comic.

and whether they really were all written in a…

now I've got another question: when to let them near my comics?

Ditto what Giovanni said. If you're not planning on eBaying the comics, let them at 'em as soon as they can read or look like they want to read.

My older boy pretty much taught himself to read…

Russell -You must be a proud Dad. I love the way the abilities and creativity of our children sometimes/often surprise us.

What's nice is that it suggests that the fact that he's been out of school for two and a half years and basically dysfunctional there for three years before…

By the way for those looking for an event in Wellington I hear that Drinking Liberally has its first outing of the year at the Southern Cross Bar on…

Our eyes met across the table at convention panel, and it wasn't love at first sight.

Eventually, we began collaborating on a hardcore…

he's thought himself to read in Italian with those

Let's make that "taught". He's not a mentalist yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5cInmK6LQ&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WsciSNVS0&feature=channel_page

It's pretty psychedelic and has Moore wafting through puffs of smoke saying things like "... culture is turning to steam." Mesmerising.

love it.

if you liked that try any of the spoken word pieces [for pure intersemiotic brilliance try reading the adaptation of snakes and ladders while listening to the…

Here I was talking with friends about the order you should show the Star Wars series to your children (answer: IV-VI and then hide the others forever)

Exactly what we did. To do heavy drugs, vote National and watch episodes I to III our progeny will have to wait until…

And folks, that complete run of 2000AD, original series of Alan Moore works (and the 'Maxwell the Magical Cat' collections) et al sure did stoke the housefire... but at least I have the memories...

But the 'Watchmen' collection made…

It's pretty psychedelic and has Moore wafting through puffs of smoke saying things like "... culture is turning to steam." Mesmerising.

21 of 21 holds

I raged.

Regardless of the eventual quality of the movie, it will ruin your enjoyment of the only graphic novel in TIME's list of "Top 100 novels of the 20th Century" if you…

Signed by Alan Moore???! Well, my nerd spleen has just erupted all over my Marvelman collection. Did you meet the sage himself?

In the transitory fashion in which one "meets" one's heroes at a signing desk at a convention. He was well hairy.

(Of course, if we're talking geek envy, there's the charming Andrew S., late of the Cuba Mall comics shop, now working at Gosh Comics at London where Alan Moore and other such luminaries signed his birthday card...)

Interesting to see you namecheck Nexus given your post last Thursday…

And what a review!

I'll say! Is there some sort of blogger gene running in the family? At any rate, I believe I've found my information source on the videogame world. Currently I'm stuck to... can't say for sure, but some time before Leo was born I fear.

. . . if they're really bored, they can set about sorting all those back issues of 2000AD into chronological order.

The Brotherhood of Trash makes it to another generation.

Teehee

Great start, much more informative than most...