Julian

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• Nestor commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  We've been over this before, I find it depressing people can think Dredd is anything but satire. Sure it's 35 years worth of comics from a multiplicity of authors so you can find pretty much any variation of tone and theme in there somewhere but honestly if your left wing friends like Dredd it's probably more because they have a sense of fucking humour rather than being male. Oh and last year's Dredd starring Karl Urban is a far better adaptation than the Stallone flop. He doesn't take the helmet off....
• skaffen commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  "...immiserated" Fantastic verb, that :-) Have a search for "The rise of the warrior cop" - Schneier, and others, have some interesting thoughts on the militarization of police forces....
• ARNOLD commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  "Children of Arnold's sort sometimes make me feel horribly old. " Well now...that’s,er, very .. generous?.. of you. Actually I'm 64 years 6 months and a bit old Antonia. I'm old enough to be named after an uncle who was killed in Operation Market Garden in World War 2, whilst my Grandfather volunteered to join the Durham Light Infantry at the commencement of World War 1 and fought with the Durham Light Infantry until the end of the War To End all wars. Oh, and another of my uncles survived having three ships sunk under him. So I will admit...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  ARNOLD & others ( btw I'm 67 & I had 2 unlces in WWI - neither even injured ) Eastwood is interesting. After the Leone films, he started making his own & the character is strangely sympathetic. He gives (especially the minor ones) "villains" a chance, he most emphatically is not shoot-first-&ask-questions-afterward. WHhich makes the final, inevitable showdowns that usually follow, that much scarier. Which reminds me, I'm told that the new "Lone Ranger" contains many tributes to Leone & also sends ths "manifest destiny/american dream" right up into orbit in shreds. Which is why, it is thought, it will...
• paws4thot commented on Marking time, more thoughts
  175 .. 179. 175 specifically. Oh I agree that Halo Jones is much better than Dredd (and than fair chunks of the other stuff that's been republished). As to "wet dreams about Judge Anderson"; How much of that is due to her intended resemblance to Debbie Harry of period rather than the politics of the scenario? 176 - It is possible to view The Green Berets as a hymn to the USian Paras rather than pro-Saigon, anti-commie propoganda. 177 and 179 - Again, you have to have actually read it to find the satire rather than just the fascism!...