tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67366643260593524372024-03-12T23:49:37.134+00:00Straight From The Thrill-Pipe!Tharg's hard-working droids steal precious seconds to moan about their livesPye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-8142955311898207542010-08-09T16:19:00.002+01:002010-08-09T16:22:52.597+01:00Ow.Just got whipped...didn't enjoy it this time...<br /><br />On a brighter note, the store seems to be holding up under the masses - the downside of course has been the thunderous mini-quakes caused by KING-SLAY1 having an extra happy stomp up the office.<br /><br />I need a holiday...w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-15219115907684307552010-07-05T11:08:00.003+01:002010-07-05T11:29:46.574+01:00Upcoming Zombo Graphic Novel!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/TDGzHxLYzpI/AAAAAAAAADs/irDKK5a_oU0/s1600/ZOMBO+AL+AND+HENRY.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 189px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/TDGzHxLYzpI/AAAAAAAAADs/irDKK5a_oU0/s400/ZOMBO+AL+AND+HENRY.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490366366782901906" /></a><br />In the ultimate sacrifice to their craft, Both Al Ewing and Henry Flint have given their lives to join the stinking ranks of the undead in preparation for Zombo: Can I Eat You, Please? released October 2010!<div>All 1st editions of the book will contain a small amount of a weaponised zombie virus in the ink, turning the reader into a drooling corspe within 24 hours of reading the last page. </div>Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-6990739871791029012010-06-25T19:06:00.003+01:002010-06-25T19:06:59.493+01:00Hmm??Oh yes...here:<br /><br /><a href="http://shop.2000adonline.com">http://shop.2000adonline.com</a><br /><br />Now...where did I put that other site down...w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-85238092276118402482010-06-23T19:00:00.002+01:002010-06-23T19:02:15.885+01:00Shop...Apparently the shop's been redone...I suppose I'd better tell people where to find it!<br /><br />Please point your browsers to...What?...Tea? Yes I'd love one...<br /><br />What was I saying....oh, nevermind...w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-63881812295100926132010-06-22T17:11:00.002+01:002010-06-22T17:12:17.790+01:00Robo-K33f's tribute to the Harlem Heroes...In the year 2050 Aeroball is the game,<br />Where the team Harlem Heroes put all others to shame,<br />Those jet-packing players are second to none,<br />It’s b-ball and kung fu all rolled into one,<br />Giant’s the captain – that cat’s outta sight,<br />He’s dunking and scoring from morning to night,<br />Some punk went and messed with the teams’ hover car,<br />Now Louis is so light, his brain’s in a jar!<br />So the team had to go and start up from scratch,<br />Don’t jive me ‘bout fielding dead men at a match!<br />The Heroes got Hairy, Zack, Slim and King,<br />Once up in the air, those guys do their thing!<br />So watch out the Bulls, the Wolves and the Cats,<br />‘Cos next to the Heroes you chumps are all wack!Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-2801013672284633402010-06-02T11:13:00.002+01:002010-06-02T11:15:40.215+01:00SpellcheckYou know you're one of 2000 AD's lackeys when your copy of Word states that "Zarjaz" isn't a spelling mistake and "Facebook" is...w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-56482731873167994852010-05-18T13:55:00.000+01:002010-05-18T13:56:39.670+01:00Damage Report 1686Cyber-Matt enjoys sourcing inspirations for this week’s cover, trawling through Amazon for such true-crime classics as Gangs of Britain, Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan, Real Hard Cases, Kill Grandma For Me, Blades Business Crew 2, and other such titles that need to be read aloud in a Danny Dyer accent. Robo-K33F, of course, has them all...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-7871049819892668732010-05-12T14:12:00.001+01:002010-05-12T14:12:46.955+01:00Damage Report 1685PYE-01’s live-in fembot has been scooted away for the week to mercilessly dish out ‘upgrades’ to some poor office runts elsewhere in the country and as a result his hab-unit is starting to look akin to the feeding chamber of a particularly slobbish Glarvian slime digestor. Also, R1F4’s exhaust has cracked off and the faster he designs, the louder he’s getting...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-24574386731728233232010-05-12T14:10:00.000+01:002010-05-12T14:11:56.943+01:00Damage Report 1684Bi-annual server madness descends once again, and the IT ‘bots arm themselselves to the teeth for a perilous voyage into the bowels of the 2000 AD Thrill-leviathan to install an OS update, hopefully ironing out some pesistent niggling problems without causing ten more in the process. They pretty much fail. I’ve had to write this twice already, and it’s only 11am...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-21251252439872847972010-05-12T14:09:00.000+01:002010-05-12T14:10:45.366+01:00Damage Report 1683Icelandic volcanic ash claims its first Nerve Centre victim as Robo-K33F’s much anticipated holiday in Lanzarote is kiboshed. Unsurprisingly, since Eyjafjallajokull’s eruption, suddenly the droids are using clogged servo-motors as an excuse to avoid work. ‘Sorry, Yer Mightiness, but me pipes are crusted up with Scandinavian magma...’Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-10705251779537943192010-05-12T14:05:00.002+01:002010-05-12T14:09:26.336+01:00Damage Report 1682The problem with being a droid, as any newly constructed ‘bot soon discovers, is that memory files are hard to delete. Once something passes by the optical sensors, it gets lodged in the cranial cache forever. So pity the poor minions who foolishly viewed the trailer for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmTv2nqTHo">The Human Centipede</a> on Youtube, shortly followed by cries of, ‘But WHY?!?’Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-73192840153539611452010-04-21T10:18:00.006+01:002010-04-21T10:35:39.742+01:00THRILL-PIPE EXCLUSIVE PROG 1683 SNEAK PEEK!Ladies, gentlemen and filthy internet dwelling vermin, I, Pye-01 the fortunate, am so blown away by the latest 2000 AD cover I'm working on that I feel it's only fair to share my excitement with everyone. The Mighty One have given me permission to show you a sneak peak of the totally zarjaz cover art for prog 1683, a good 2-3 weeks before you would normally get to see it. Totally exclusive to the Thrill-Pipe!<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/S87EgUz7UdI/AAAAAAAAADk/LMdudlhNanM/s1600/1683+cover+art.png" class="hideme"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/S87EgUz7UdI/AAAAAAAAADk/LMdudlhNanM/s400/1683+cover+art.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462519457668354514" border="0" /></a>Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-17836807406800724612010-04-19T14:18:00.000+01:002010-04-19T14:19:29.855+01:00Damage Report 1681PYE-01 plans a visit to the Gadget Show exhibition at the NEC tomorrow, and relishes the rare opportunity for a day off galavanting about. The only potential blot on the horizon is that he might get categorised as stock rather than visitor, and get snaffled by some unscrupulous hume inventor intent on furthering (admittedly limited) A.I. research...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-61812025571177774362010-04-19T14:17:00.000+01:002010-04-19T14:18:29.806+01:00Damage Report 1680Relief sweeps the Nerve Centre when the news breaks that the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on and we haven’t all been sucked up into our own wastepipes. The Mighty One regards the particle experiments with bemusement, reasoning that he’s been firing high-energy Thrilltrons into this reality every week for three decades and no one’s combusted yet...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-13328129193475121922010-04-19T14:16:00.000+01:002010-04-19T14:17:54.339+01:00Damage Report 1679Cyber-Matt returns following two weeks’ leave on apocalyptic nappy-changing duty for his and Em-bot’s newly constructed droidling E-V (thanks to the reactivated AALN-2 for covering the progs in his absence). While it makes a change not to have fizzy yellow poo squirted at you at regular intervals, The Might One ensures there’ll always be plenty to hit the fan...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-12752670729368001692010-04-19T14:15:00.000+01:002010-04-19T14:16:50.205+01:00Damage Report 1678File naming confusion this week, as R1f4 assumes “The King’s Bastard” is a piece of comedic file naming from PYE-01 and much amusement ensues. It joins the pantheon of other classically named files on the 2000 AD server, including: “OPERATION MOTHERF***ER” “WON’T DELETE FOR SOME REASON” and the near legendary “f**k knows what this is” ...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-67738359328865164332010-04-19T11:09:00.002+01:002010-04-19T11:21:41.659+01:00Job DescriptionWhile <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">meandering</span> in the kitchen, making a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">drokking</span> strong cup of coffee, the fear inspiring KING-SLAY1 charged over and ordered my immediate cleaning of his empty milk bottle as he was running late for his daily bellowing. Leaving a collection of trembling droids in his wake he shouted something about how I shouldn't worry as my contract had been rewritten to include <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">potwashing</span> - effective immediately - as a way to quantify my <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">existence</span>.<br /><br />Coffee was nice though...w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-14821548271183777452010-03-24T14:19:00.004+00:002010-03-24T14:34:20.497+00:00What's this quiz all about then?While duly noting that there is a distinct lack of droids on the results page, should you wish to find out what sort of 2000 AD related personality disorder you might suffer from, you can peruse this web url:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/apps/application.php?id=324780278666">http://www.facebook.com/#!/apps/application.php?id=324780278666</a><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Facebook</span>...what a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">peculiar</span> name.w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-14507535872654062010-03-22T15:41:00.003+00:002010-03-22T15:43:26.509+00:00The Mighty One #2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/S6ePyx5D0hI/AAAAAAAAADc/V57Qjoh7BKE/s1600-h/skyscraper.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5G9V11yduZo/S6ePyx5D0hI/AAAAAAAAADc/V57Qjoh7BKE/s400/skyscraper.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451483976504168978" /></a>Tharg oversees construction of the first Earth skyscrapers, and gives workers something to read on their lunchbreakPye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-26873693874838276622010-03-19T15:33:00.001+00:002010-03-19T15:33:49.584+00:00Upcoming Thrill - The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10285272&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10285272&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10285272">The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3412408">w3bz</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p>w3bzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059163592452680537noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-4300383528394972262010-03-16T14:01:00.000+00:002010-03-16T14:02:06.859+00:00Damage Report 1677All the droids brace for impact as Cyber-Matt starts his Droiternity leave! Pye-01 bears the initial brunt, scurrying around answering e-mails left, right and centre whilst simultaneously pouring 110% Thrill-power all over the six other projects he’s working on. The good news: AALN-2 has been re-constructed to cover the shortfall, and will be in tomorrow!Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-48799233219799485852010-03-16T14:00:00.000+00:002010-03-16T14:01:08.393+00:00Damage Report 1676Damage Report: One of the Nerve Centre droids casually mentions that TV singalong series Glee has become a guilty pleasure, and suddenly the forces of hell, to paraphrase the Chancellor, are unleashed upon him. The ‘bot in question remains unbowed - it’s one of the best high-school comedies since Heathers, he states emphatically, fooling no one...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-21962937717629846192010-03-03T16:35:00.001+00:002010-03-03T16:37:00.430+00:00Pye-01 says...A small and sweaty doughnut is better than no doughnut at all.Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-25594296863924711752010-03-02T18:10:00.001+00:002010-03-02T18:12:07.084+00:00Damage Report #1675PYE-01 excitedly bounds into the Nerve Centre recommending everyone check out <a href="http://www.rat-look.com">www.rat-look.com</a>, the premier website for transforming your vehicle into a rusted, post-apocalyptic skankbucket that Max Rockatansky would be proud of. Sales of saline solution and wooden roofracks suddenly rocket. Remember, rust isn’t a crime...Pye-01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12629187321931975459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736664326059352437.post-82018782389342509492010-03-01T17:09:00.002+00:002010-03-01T17:14:58.809+00:00GAH!Kat-Scan attempts to integrate successfully with the droids that work in the call centre for her mobile phone company, and almost blows a gasket trying to exchange simple information with some 48k jargonbot cretin.<div>She hasn't experienced this kind of ineptitude since the last time she had to deal with HUMANS. </div>Kat-Scanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486409633475699035noreply@blogger.com1