Queen & Country

[GordonR]

>>but I just find the idea of a book about a bodyguard to be one step beyond for me. I think Kevin Costner has a lot to answer for.

Exactly.  Where will those fools of novelists stop?  Next they'll be writing books about cops and criminals, or secret agents, or something like that.

PS.  Kodiak's an area of Alaska.  And a species of bear, an Alaskan one, presumably.

[JamieB]

THE BODYGUARD it ain't. Imagine the same kind of sparse tone of Q&C applied to the bodyguarding industry and you're pretty much where the AK series is. SHOOTING AT MIDNIGHT, especially.

(CRITICAL SPACE I found a little disappointing, as it goes. It's a page-turner, all right, but the character work was a bit sketchy and the core concept is weaker than pretty much all the others. But then again, I really didn't like the ending, and that may have utterly coloured my perceptions.)

Have you read WHITEOUT? That's pretty cool (and ISTR the sequel, WHITEOUT: MELT, introduces a character called Lily Sharpe, who may or may not be a work-in-progress version of Tara Chace).

J-Bo-1

[Art]

PS. Kodiak's an area of Alaska. And a species of bear, an Alaskan one, presumably.

Natural diet: Capsules

[GordonR]

BRING BACK SHAKO!!!

[Slippery PD]

PS. Kodiak's an area of Alaska. And a species of bear, an Alaskan one, presumably.

Natural diet: Capsules

see a bear up close, shit yourself thats natural diet!?!?!  

[GordonR]

And for $15,000, you too can can travel to Kodiak Island and bag yourself an Alakasn Brown Bear.

'Fair Chase Hunts'?  Does that mean the bears have landrovers and telescopic-sight rifles too?

And check out the photos section.

Link: Yeeee-haa!

[Byron Virgo]

But why would you name a bear after a brand of film stock?

Those crazy Alaskans!

"Exactly. Where will those fools of novelists stop? Next they'll be writing books about cops and criminals, or secret agents, or something like that."

Yeah. Bloody John Le Carre and Len deighton - who do they think they are? Novels should be about genteel people drinking tea, possibly in submarines whilst cataloguing types of imaginary fish, and eating buttered scones. All this action, excitement and intrigue is not for the world of the novel. I don't spend upwards of ?5.99 on a book to read a story which has a plot, or where something actually happens.

[Quirkafleeg]

I'm sure this isnt a spoof but you'll be praying it is...

Link: Hunters for the Homeless

[JamieB]

Leaving aside the entire debate about the morality of hunting (I'm opposed), as far as I'm aware Ted Nugent is actually quite a "responsible" hunter - he eats what he kills (i.e. he's not a "sport" hunter)  and he doesn't go after endangered species.

The charity sounds like a bit of a logistical nightmare but every little helps...

J-Bo-1

[Quirkafleeg]

Yeah well I actually felt a bit guilty after posting it remembering stories from older relatives who had to go poaching to suppliment their incomes in the 20s and 30s...

And I've eaten plenty of rabbit and pheasent myself so it's a bit hypocritical...

[JamieB]

Yeah, we had rabbit on CCF camp. Alright, but a bit stringy. The squaddies with us told the less disciplined kids that it was rat.

Pheasant and all other game birds* taste ace, though. Had wood pigeon once. Mmm.

J-Bo-dammit-now-I'm-hungry-1

*Insert comedy photo here

[Byron Virgo]

Wait.

I'm a bit confuesd.

At what point did this thread stop being about Queen & Country and instead switch to rangy old geezers wandering around pelting mangy old bits of furry meat with buckshot?

[Tweak72]

"Queen & Country, for me, comes only behind Walking dead when it comes to current U.S. comics "


hummm in that case...

[JamieB]

Clearly you've not yet read the fourth Q&C story arc ;)

J-Bo-1

[Quirkafleeg]

Ahhh Rabbit is one of those things that needs to be cooked properly to really taste good... long and slow in a mustard saurce... delish. Makes having the bastard - bite and piss on anything - monsters as pets almost worthwhile






... that's a joke in case anyone ALF types are reading