I looked that up in the shop at the weekend (I’ve started reading King for the first time) and IMMEDIATELY panicked it was 1200 pages! You’d recommend it?

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A posho picks his nose and eats it "Gosh, mm -- why do bogies taste so nice?"

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Come on out everyone, time to get yourself some war trauma comics which also have disco dancing in them

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There is some news you don’t know about yet! Wonder which news this one will be…

Which one??

Robophobic

There’s an AT-AT one next month!!

I’m a rational person but I weirdly always want to buy those silly popcorn buckets

I’ve written a press release for the big Shelfdust news

All Nowhere Men: Collective Grief, Social Death, and the AIDS Metaphor in Daredevil #249 By Holly Raymond 1987 saw the formation of one of the most radical and tenacious blocs of AIDS activism, the New York City-based ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power). Incensed and frustrated by…

“He stole the music out of a life,” Wolverine laments on the opening page, cradling the mutant composer Gerhart’s broken violin and looking over a wash of dramatically framed, blood-stained sheafs of compositions. “He’s killing our geniuses.”

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Either you had friends who warned you about the Forest Temple or you had nightmares for weeks. It’s one or the other

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I've added Shelfdust on there and I'm looking for people to follow! If you're happy to share, what's your account please?

I've added Shelfdust on there and I'm looking for people to follow! What's your account please, if it's a public one?

Do any of you lot use Tumblr?

a man with a beard is holding a rope and has a quote on his face . Alt: Gingers are beautiful. We are kissed by fire

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I’m barrelling through all of it! No discretion and no sensible choices here, although I guess it sorta is my job though

The cover for Strontium Dogs volume two

Johnny Alpha and Wulf are dead, Feral is a fugitive, the Strontium Dogs are over, and… et, wait… why does The Gronk have a gun?

We’re entering a weird era in Strontium Dogs Vol 2, by Garth Ennis, Peter Hogan, Steve Pugh, and Nigel Dobbyn

I need to read more to be helpful with this! My first instinct honestly was “is that the initial premise of DR & Quinch”?

Sneck yeah Nigel Dobbyn rules

This volume adds more to the picture of Finn shown across the spines. Huh… Finn, you say…

This was Ennis’ final work for 2000 AD in his early years, as he went off to go do Preacher instead. Probably a wise move. Peter Hogan takes over for the final story here, and will be in charge for volume three, I think.

But for now - onto the shelf it goes!

Feral blasts a monster right in the face with his gun

And what do you know? Gronk 3:16 gets Feral back into his groove, and they storm the enemy base together, guns a-blazing!

They race off to kill their enemies

Feral, now a drunk, is found by Gronk. Gronk tells the kid to toughen up, because they’ve got a mission to finish

Feral and Gronk head off into a trap, aware that it’s a trap

Gronk’s quest puts him into Feral’s path, and the two meet for the first time. Gronk sobers up the drunk mutant, and tries to fire him up and get him ready to take on the men who arranged Johnny’s death

Gronk picks up a blaster and fires explosives at some of his enemies

Gronk vows to get revenge for Johnny and says “now let’s kick some ASS”

But wait! It turns out that sometimes when a Gronk has a heart attack, it triggers something in their brain?!

Gronk wakes up, and he’s no longer timid and scared. Now he’s A BADASS

HE VOWS TO GET REVENGE FOR JOHNNY AW HELL YEAH GRONK 3:16

Gronk escapes the destruction from “The Final Solution” storyline where the space station was destroyed. He steps out his escape pod and takes a nervous look around

A group of kids tell Gronk that Johnny is dead, prompting the poor little alien to faint immediately, because he has a weak heart and can’t take the strain

Anyway, let’s put a pin in Feral for now. With his friends dead, what happened to Gronk, the cuddly anxious critter who used to hang out with Johnny and Wulf??

We finally catch up to him… and in turn he finally hears what happened to his friends, and his poor little heart can’t take the stress

Feral recounts what he’s been up to - he joined a team of mutant, but they were all killed except for him. Then he calls himself a monster AGAIN

His new ally tells us her backstory. Her husband was shocked when she gave birth to a mutant, and shot the baby. Now she’s going for payback

This story is a bunch of various character worrying about being caught, worrying that they are monsters, just generally worrying. Weird that this is Garth Ennis, really. There’s nothing wrong with it - it’s better than the typical X-Men comic of course - but it isn’t as dynamic as you’d expect

Some mutant hunters kick down the door of a house, looking for Feral, who is hiding in the loft

Feral hides, and calls himself a “monster” in his narration

First things first! Feral is still a fugitive, and he’s still got a bunch of issues about himself, and what can only be described as an “x-men level” of mutant angst.

Whiny kid. Great visual though