Thanks, got the email. Just need to get Clokes to download it or whatever it is he will do with it, and put it on something, even my laptop, so I can read it. Will get back to you.
OK Clokes is on it. He says he has a comic book reader which sounds promising! I will be busy until after P's exams but then I promise I will and we can discuss. How do you want to do the discussion. Is there a number of books/chapters or defined sections?
As to the format, it started in 1982, as a serial in one of many pommy comics anthologies (which were great). It's split into 3 volumes (called "books"), each of which is divided into a number of chapters (what would have been printed per issue of the parent publication). These were later collected into 10 physical books (represented by the 10 files). The chapters are probably too short to discuss individually. Maybe we go by physical book (individual file)? Either way, I'm not too fussed.
Ideally, I would be reading it on November 5th (remember, remember (did you do that at school?)), but I probably won't get to it until the weekend after. So that should work out nicely, I guess. At any rate, there's no real rush. This page isn't going anywhere.
I remember remember, yes we did it at school. OK well I will aim to start reading the first book around then. Let's do it book by book. Looking forward to it. Back to chat when I have something to say about it!
Hey, it strikes me that the original point of Guy Fawkes night was supposed to be a celebration that the good king had survived an assassination attempt by evil terrorists.
But when I learned about it as a kid, the point seemed more to remind common people that their rulers should be afraid of them, and not the other way around.
Was that the message you got as well?
I went reading about the history of the celebration on Wikipedia, and where the change happened, and I found this interesting line:
Guy Fawkes is sometimes toasted as "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".
I can't remember what my take on it was. I think that he tried to take down the govt and was a baddie, but not really.
Also, P heard me and Clokes talking about the comic book and she goes 'what comic, what comic?' and I said 'my blogger friend Alex is sending me a comic, something about V for Vendetta.' 'Oh I LOVE that movie,' she said. 'It's so good!' So might be another reader of the comic in the house.
Yes, and she will although tonight she was reading The Walking Dead comic on the reader (which turns out to be her tablet, the one her father got her, apparently it's the one with a proper 'comic book reader' thingy on it.)
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Thanks, got the email. Just need to get Clokes to download it or whatever it is he will do with it, and put it on something, even my laptop, so I can read it. Will get back to you.
I might get around to it some day, but on paper as can't stand reading a screen. Also, I've seen the movie
Even the bloke who wrote comic said the movie was a load of bollocks that missed every crucial point he was trying to make.
OK Clokes is on it. He says he has a comic book reader which sounds promising! I will be busy until after P's exams but then I promise I will and we can discuss. How do you want to do the discussion. Is there a number of books/chapters or defined sections?
Hooray for Clokes!
As to the format, it started in 1982, as a serial in one of many pommy comics anthologies (which were great). It's split into 3 volumes (called "books"), each of which is divided into a number of chapters (what would have been printed per issue of the parent publication). These were later collected into 10 physical books (represented by the 10 files). The chapters are probably too short to discuss individually. Maybe we go by physical book (individual file)? Either way, I'm not too fussed.
Ideally, I would be reading it on November 5th (remember, remember (did you do that at school?)), but I probably won't get to it until the weekend after. So that should work out nicely, I guess. At any rate, there's no real rush. This page isn't going anywhere.
I remember remember, yes we did it at school. OK well I will aim to start reading the first book around then. Let's do it book by book. Looking forward to it. Back to chat when I have something to say about it!
Cool.
Hey, it strikes me that the original point of Guy Fawkes night was supposed to be a celebration that the good king had survived an assassination attempt by evil terrorists.
But when I learned about it as a kid, the point seemed more to remind common people that their rulers should be afraid of them, and not the other way around.
Was that the message you got as well?
I went reading about the history of the celebration on Wikipedia, and where the change happened, and I found this interesting line:
Guy Fawkes is sometimes toasted as "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".
I can't remember what my take on it was. I think that he tried to take down the govt and was a baddie, but not really.
Also, P heard me and Clokes talking about the comic book and she goes 'what comic, what comic?' and I said 'my blogger friend Alex is sending me a comic, something about V for Vendetta.' 'Oh I LOVE that movie,' she said. 'It's so good!' So might be another reader of the comic in the house.
Well, she's more than welcome to join in, if she wants.
Of course, she should finish up with her exams before she starts worrying about comics. Obviously.
Yes, and she will although tonight she was reading The Walking Dead comic on the reader (which turns out to be her tablet, the one her father got her, apparently it's the one with a proper 'comic book reader' thingy on it.)
*sigh*
Oh well, better reading than other stuff, yes?
First exam day after tomorrow.
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