Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Party Decrees Execution
So I turn my back for five minutes and suddenly we’re executing Saddam?
I’m almost afraid to go on holiday, there would be nothing worse than getting home to discover everyone had spent the whole time I was away holding Kim Jong Il’s head down the toilet and pulling the flush.
Still, I see that the news has gone over well with those whose fierce commitment to universal human rights flops like a stiffy in a scissor factory the moment we, the Americans or the Israelis rev up our war machines to unleash some kick-ass whizz-bang upon lunatics and civilians alike.
Posted on November 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am
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He’s alright that rodent, isn’t he?
Very alright, the bastard.
Excellent 2000AD taste old chap, you’ve changed your picture to Devlin Waugh! Who’s next, Nikolai Dante?
No, let’s go old school - Nemesis!
Moai, if you refresh the page the images change - there’s six or seven different ones there at the minute.
Andrew, I’ve been through all my old Nemesis back issues and couldn’t find anything apposite, alas. I’ll keep hunting though - new ones occur to me all the time.
You used to be able to find, on the net, the frame where Halo Jones says “I just realised I have to trust a bunch of rats” and her friend says “You been a woman for seventeen years and you only just realised that?”.
Here you go then, after a flick through the stack:
‘I have to trust a bunch of rats‘ for ejh and a bit of Nemesis for Andrew.
Appearing in a masthead near you soon…
Is “every time something nice happens, a fight starts” also Halo Jones? First book rather than second?
(The third, by the way, draws heavily on a couple of other sources - Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War”, from which the sequence with the heavy war suits is taken, and Michael Herr’s “Despatches”, which contains Life Sentence’s “you’ll porbably die” anecdote.)