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Just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. God that's harrowing. And grim. And more harrowing.

Now re-reading my Transmetropolitan trades.

So far, I think the only person to have been prosecuted for this was that guy who wrote 'erotic' fan fiction about how he'd go about torturing and raping Girls Aloud. Now I think we'd all agree that probably raises some alarm bells about the guys mental health.

Although interestingly he was aquitted.

Here we go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/2 ... aloud-blog

I was actually thinking about this after the first (double) episode and had my suspicions reinforced by the second: there is a fundamental problem with Krod Mandoon and that is that everyone involved, from the writers through to the cast, seem to think that the fantasy genre is fundamentally silly.

Krod Mandoon seems to be made by people who don't actually like (or, I suspect, even understand) the genre and, as such, it was always going to be crap.

I think you're spot on here Jim. I was talking to a colleague who'd worked on this last week. Apart from telling me what a nice guy Sean Maguire is, she also said that she'd read an earlier version of the script which was apparently little more than Farelly Brothers gross-out gags in tolkien-land, and that the whole thing seemed to have been cleaned up before filming.

A couple of funny moments/lines. But generally awful.

Nice idea. I've not seen the Preacher covers book, but I do have the Sandman covers collection. I think that covers about 75 issues plus trades, so it's filled out with extra pics and notes by Mckean and Gaiman, comes to 208 pages.

Happy Birthday youngling!

[Cradlegrave]

Cradlegrave is kind of frustrating me - why on earth was the decision made to make the three lead characters look almost identical? I just can't tell them apart and its ruining the story somewhat. Why not at least give them different haircuts or something? It should have been very easy for the artist to make each of them visually distinctive (one of them having a slight goatee doesn't count!).

Ah, glad it's not just me then. That said, I'm really enjoying Cradlegrave and other than this, the rest of the art is fantastic. The only downer is it keeps reminding me of the little bastards that ruined the 18 months I spent at the last house I lived in.  

Caught the first arc, couldn't afford after that, was going to pick it up as trades (eventually).

Great shame though, top work from Cornell.

I'm looking forward to seeing this, since several friends worked on the puppet build.

There was an interesting new approach to the puppets, the heads were hand sculpted, then scanned into computers, refined in 3D Modelling programs then built using rapid-prototyping machines.  A lot of the facial expressions were replacements - plugging in & out of the head mechanics - these were adjusted from the original sculpts in the modelling progs, rather than hand sculpting each one individually, which must speed development up.

They must have spent a fortune retouching every frame to remove the separation lines where the replacement parts attach though, from pics I saw, the entire lower half of Coraline's face comes off!

There was a brief text story in the Battle Action Force comic telling how Baron Ironblood had become Cobra Commander to try and keep a bit of continuity

Here we go:

//http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/comics/baf/034/index.html

I've been watching this, great fun!

But the thing is, even though I've got a big pile of Marvel UK's Action Force comics (& a few Battle Action Forces) in a box somewhere, I have absolutely no recollection of the cartoon. When was it on? What channel?

Nice to see that Ellis was allowed to actually kill off a few characters [spoiler:16zh8ix0](and Moscow)[/spoiler:16zh8ix0], but turning Storm Shadow into a petty, jealous thug was too much of a personallity change for me.

Some of those COBRA soldiers had a serious case Stormtrooper Syndrome though!

Those page counts. Handwritten or typed?

Either. If you're doing a straightforward English or English literature single GCSE you have to submit 3 pieces of written coursework. If you're doing a combined double English GCSE I think it's 4. There is a requirement that ONE of your coursework submissions must be handwritten. The rest may be typed. My student's 10 page Macbeth essay was handwritten.

Interesting. With my lousy penmanship, filling 10 pages handwritten would be a lot less work than filling 10 pages typed.

Still, GCSEs seem a long time ago now, no typing option back then.