Subj : Re: The Forever War To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 13:53:31 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Trouble wrote in news:XOOdnQKafPvpF4DeRVn-rw@comcast.com: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> There were a series of stories in a comic over here called 200OAd > > Don't think I've ever read it, heard of it though It's responsible for showing good Scifi to a generation of people my age. Started in 1977 ish and has had a long history of innovative and smart stories. Judge Dredd is the most famous but it went through a long period of classic comic book characters. Rogue Trooper about a genetically altered cloned trooper able to breathe on a war torn ravaged planet wear toxic chemicals have poisoned the air to the extent that without a chem suit death is instentaneous. Slaine a warrior celt. Zenith about a super hero in Thatchers Britain. In a sort of echo of thalidomide, a bunch of super heros were born in the sixties.They were all killed or went into hiding, apart from one, a sort of leader who has become a member of the government, hiding his abilites to alter peoples perceptions. Zenith lives his life as an 80's type pop star, until all hell breaks loose. Graham could give you more examples. >> she ends up on the worst combat zone in the galaxy, a heavy >> gravity planet. The have to wear suits to fight and when they come >> back after a mission they find the months/weeks have passed in their >> sheilded bases. The upshot of this is so although on base time they >> have served the enlisted period in the soldiers personal timeline >> only hours have passed. Guess which one the army uses to calculate >> how long they have left to serve? > > I'll have to look that up when I buy the B7 DVDs. In the beginning it was pretty much hated by some people, who thought nothing happened the slang was to difficult etc. for some reason I always liked it. Have you read V for Vendetta? writen by a chap who did a lot of work for 2000AD. > I don't mind a tour of enlistment that is based around time relative > to ME because if you did it the other way, you'd never keep a single > troop for longer than a few fights... Horrible way to fight a war if > you had to, HOWEVER, they get paid by Earth standard calendar which > means sixty years pay for four years of work, but everyone you knew > before you joined is very likely dead. And this is a bad thing? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .