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disrepdog
08-04-2009, 05:01 PM
From orbitbooks.net:

CCTV:Have you been paying attention?: It’s all coming to a head on the Orbit YouTube channel. Stay tuned. http://tinyurl.com/cq4ket (http://tinyurl.com/cq4ket)
RedKing
09-04-2009, 02:12 AM
V Strange.
edash
09-04-2009, 09:28 PM
He's hiding in here (http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9781841497334).
RedKing
10-04-2009, 08:48 AM
That sounds like a Neil Gaiman book to me.
Deep Black
10-04-2009, 01:45 PM
Yes, I've seen it compared to Neverwhere, but also favorably so...
disrepdog
10-04-2009, 08:50 PM
This is the full ad:

http://www.youtube.com/user/orbitbooks
Champagne Socialist
23-04-2009, 07:52 AM
where'd he go, where'd I go.
Bleh.
I'm going off topic I know, but I haven't got long, but Wooo! I found somewhere with a net connection!
I'd forgotten just how painfully slow dialup is.

I'm in Mali with RedR (Civ Eng charity) building a barrage to improve soil conditions for the farms at a local village, 90% of Mali is Sahara desert so they really need to make as much of that 10% of cultivatable land as they can.

So Hi! From sub Saharan Africa.

Sheesh these Malaria tablets are really messing with my head.
Haven't been on them since I was in Sri Lanka after the tsunami hit.
Now I remember why I avoid them.
Conscious Bob
23-04-2009, 10:09 AM
You better do a good job, fully guaranteed. Don't want a guy from the village logging in telling us what a crap job you did.

Kidding, work hard, play hard.
Deep Black
23-04-2009, 11:07 AM
Good to hear from you champers, take care out there
BeckyH
24-04-2009, 02:52 AM
remember to stay hydrated! And keep up the good works.
Champagne Socialist
09-05-2009, 08:46 PM
Hey guys.
I'm back.
Knackered!

Favourite Lariam (spelling?) induced nightmare had to be the one where I was shaving, but my stubbly beard hair was actually poisonous spider legs, antennae (I know spiders don't have antennae) and other bits. As I shaved they'd wriggle and squirm then when the blade caught them would bleed blood and poison down my face.
yuck.
I hate Malaria tablets.
disrepdog
10-05-2009, 08:45 AM
Welcome back:)

Nasty little dream that. You need to speak to Morpheus ;)
Deep Black
10-05-2009, 10:37 AM
Nice dream. Welcome home :D
Champagne Socialist
10-05-2009, 11:43 AM
Welcome back:)

Nasty little dream that. You need to speak to Morpheus ;)

Not sure whether it was Morpheus or his sister delirium (nee delight), or the two of them having a party in my head.

Either way I'm not on speaking terms with them at the moment.
They're well off my Christmas card list.
disrepdog
10-05-2009, 02:07 PM
I'm so glad you got it, I had a worry after I posted that you might not :o

I'm steadily become more and more hooked on Sandman. Is it wrong to think he's hot ? :eek:
Deep Black
10-05-2009, 03:18 PM
Only if I can think the same of Death ;)
Champagne Socialist
11-05-2009, 08:01 PM
Death is definitely on the cute side of hot, she's smart though, which is hot, and certainly more hot than Desire.
I wouldn't fall for Morpheus if I were you, he sent one of his girlfriends to hell. Literally.
Deep Black
11-05-2009, 08:38 PM
& comes across as a bit of a jerk sometimes, but you know what they say - women love a bastard :D
Champagne Socialist
11-05-2009, 09:49 PM
Sometimes?
Girlfriend in Hell counts as sometimes?
Fwew, that's me in the clear then.
He's still not as much of a jerk as Auberon, but you may not have got into the Timothy Hunter series.
Deep Black
12-05-2009, 11:26 AM
Girlfriend imprisoned in hell, yep that's pretty bad, but what about all the good times...?

Don't know Auberon
Champagne Socialist
12-05-2009, 05:46 PM
I can kind of understand his harsh attitude toward women, they were the cause of most of his pain and problems.
I can sort of empathise.
I swear my wife's housemates were the kindly ones.
Deep Black
12-05-2009, 06:54 PM
They were the cause of his pain? I'm not sure they'd agree there ;)
Champagne Socialist
12-05-2009, 07:41 PM
k

maybe it was 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other...
disrepdog
13-05-2009, 07:08 PM
Death is hotter/cuter than desire. And less flighty. Don't forget Desire can be a bloke at times.

Don't know Auberon either.

Thinking he's hot and falling for him aren't the same thing. But the gf to hell thing, well he warned her and gave her a choice, even if she was between a rock and a hard place....... (assuming you're referring to Nada, not another gf further on in the series that I've yet to meet)
Champagne Socialist
13-05-2009, 10:49 PM
Desire is androgynous isn't... it

From Wikipedia

As part of his comic The Sandman, writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him. Having introduced Shakespeare, Gaiman then decided to tell the story of the first play that the writer wrote for Dream in payment of the bargain. He turned to his favourite of Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream creating analogues of the play's main otherworldly characters and inventing the fiction that Shakespeare wrote the play to Dream's instructions to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie and its rulers, Auberon of Dom-Daniel and Lady Titania.

Now Titania, she was a feisty minx that you wouldn't want to pick an argument with.
disrepdog
14-05-2009, 07:55 AM
Yes Desire is androgenous.

The Midsummer Night's Dream one is the one I'm about to pick up.

I do love these books, something quite magical about the way the words and the pictures gel together so the result is greater than the sum of the individual.

Hark at me waffling at 8.0 am! :o
Deep Black
14-05-2009, 10:45 AM
Well it's better than changing a nappie at 8am like I was :)

Have you guys read all the Sandman books? I'm up to No.7

I love graphic novels, but they are so expensive for the amuont of time they take to get through
rac
14-05-2009, 11:26 AM
Yeah, they're pricey!

I managed a good bargin at the Bristol con at the weekend though- Charlie Adlard was selling the Walking Dead omnibus for £15- and not the £45 it usually retails at!

Only trouble is that I'm pitching a zombie story at the moment, and don't want to read this just in case...
Conscious Bob
14-05-2009, 11:44 AM
Only trouble is that I'm pitching a zombie story at the moment, and don't want to read this just in case...

Yeah, you wouldn't want your zombie story falling apart.
rac
14-05-2009, 01:54 PM
Yeah, you wouldn't want your zombie story falling apart.

BOOM and god help me BOOM!
disrepdog
14-05-2009, 03:50 PM
Yeah, they're pricey!

I managed a good bargin at the Bristol con at the weekend though- Charlie .

I missed a con at Bristol?????
Champagne Socialist
14-05-2009, 06:54 PM
Well it's better than changing a nappie at 8am like I was :)

Have you guys read all the Sandman books? I'm up to No.7

I love graphic novels, but they are so expensive for the amuont of time they take to get through

Up until the move before last I had all of the original comics, as well as the graphic novel collections and spin off novels. Also had all of the books of magic and hellblazer, theologically iffy, but good fun.
I had them carefully boxed and wrapped in bin bags to keep them dry.
The removal men thought they were rubbish and tossed them in a skip.
RedKing
14-05-2009, 09:08 PM
Ouch.
disrepdog
15-05-2009, 08:07 AM
Up until the move before last I had all of the original comics, as well as the graphic novel collections and spin off novels. Also had all of the books of magic and hellblazer, theologically iffy, but good fun.
I had them carefully boxed and wrapped in bin bags to keep them dry.
The removal men thought they were rubbish and tossed them in a skip.

I think I would have cried if that had been me. Then got seriously angry with the removal firm :eek:
rac
15-05-2009, 10:45 AM
I missed a con at Bristol?????

Yup- the Bristol International Comic Expo is every May!
Conscious Bob
15-05-2009, 10:47 AM
I collect stuff then clear it out. The 2000ad's, Judge Dredd Megazines, sci-fi novels too numerous to mention all went the way of Oxfam. Still it was my decision to get rid.
disrepdog
15-05-2009, 02:07 PM
Yup- the Bristol International Comic Expo is every May!

D'oh, remind me next year in April please !:)
rac
15-05-2009, 03:06 PM
D'oh, remind me next year in April please !:)

Will do!
198505
15-05-2009, 03:21 PM
I collect stuff then clear it out. The 2000ad's, Judge Dredd Megazines, sci-fi novels too numerous to mention all went the way of Oxfam. Still it was my decision to get rid.

Really no prompting from your beloved?;)
Deep Black
15-05-2009, 10:23 PM
The removal men thought they were rubbish and tossed them in a skip.
:eek:I get miffed if the cover gets bend of the spine cracked
Champagne Socialist
16-05-2009, 12:00 AM
:eek:I get miffed if the cover gets bend of the spine cracked

and of course I didn't find out till weeks after while still unpacking things.
jag
16-05-2009, 02:06 AM
I sold all, and I mean all, of my comics to my mate Joe for £40.
Now Joe is disabled and spends lots of time reading, and loves graphic novels, so I know they've all gone to a good cause.



So what's worse, charging him because he's disabled, or me giving them to him for a bargain.
disrepdog
17-05-2009, 03:18 PM
Have you guys read all the Sandman books? I'm up to No.7

I love graphic novels, but they are so expensive for the amuont of time they take to get through

Nope, I've just read No. 3. Death was very cool in that. Midsummer Night's Dream was good, esp Robin Goodfellow.

I'll be getting the rest as soon as I can I think.:)

Jag, possibly the former, but the latter kind of makes up for it, if that makes twisted sense?
Deep Black
17-05-2009, 04:21 PM
I see no reason not to charge someone just because they are disabled :confused:
RedKing
18-05-2009, 09:43 AM
Indeed, equal rights for all.
Conscious Bob
19-05-2009, 12:40 PM
So what's worse, charging him because he's disabled, or me giving them to him for a bargain.

Forty quid for ten copies of the Beano, all bought in the same week and rescued from the cat litter tray.

He should be thankful.