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The Dark Tower starts well and descends into self-indulgent pap. Any book where the author is a character should be ignored.

As I say, I didn't enjoy The Dark Tower much (though the fact that it was an audiobook probably didn't help), but I'm not quite on board with your second point. I consider Grant Morrision's Animal Man run and Paul Auster's New York Trilogy absolute classics, for example.  Not to mention Psmith's Farewell...

Well, now you say it...

Good to know - might put that on the list.  Of the Stephen King books and stories I've read, I'd say my favourites are It (again, until the spider / turtle stuff), The Long Walk*, and possibly Carrie.  The Body is a classic story too - nobody writes kids like Stephen King, apart from maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone.



*Which features a character I've just realised is probably Randall Flagg.  I tried the audiobook of The Dark Tower's first book but didn't like it.

I had that reprint comic years ago.  It's a fairly admirable Cam Kennedy impression.

I AM THE LAWN.

That Father Earth fella gets made an honorary judge, or something.  I don't know.

Aye, you did say that, and you weren't far wrong. I've very recently left a part time English teaching job too- it's not the main reason I left, but a part of it was that my classes on CVs and cover letters used to be hugely valuable to my students, whereas now that can be done instantly without any classes at all.

Now, I obviously don't know how you do it, JBC, but I have gleaned that some artists see the images they want to create in their heads and "copy" those mental images onto paper.

Not me, I'm afraid - how comic book artists do that is beyond me.  For a supposed professional artist I'm not particularly creative.  When I'm commissioned, I have a very, very sparse and vague picture of the whole scene in my head, then for the components I turn to Google for similar images to copy.  And even then the scene rarely ends up as I imagine it. Maybe I have a small dose of aphantasia too, who knows.

[Rouge Trooper]

Rouge Trooper

Rogue attempts to conceal his blue skin with makeup so he can infiltrate enemy base unnoticed.

Unfortunately pun does not work as majority of readers do not realize the misspelling of Rogues name.

Droid Life had that one covered 

Speaking as someone who makes a living out of drawing and painting, AI art is deeply worrying .  Fortunately mass-produced AI systems can't climb ladders and paint murals yet.  They can, terrifyingly, make massive stickers with similar content within minutes.

What you might see as a fun and whimsical way to illustrate throwaway jokes, Sharky, I see as another step towards the complete redundancy of all the skills and techniques I've spend decades trying to learn and hone, not to mention potential unemployment.  That's how technological progress works, I suppose, but I don't have to like it.

Fair play, best of luck with it. I wonder if it's the same Parisian ninja master I know, Arnaud Cousergue? I've trained at a couple of big events in his dojo in Paris.  Standout memories include him demonstrating the effectiveness of his conditioned fingernails on my sternum (ow), and him telling me that the knot in my belt 'must look like a p*ssy'.

Well hello old thread. Just got a million notifications and remembered this existed! 
Well I might as well post my latest image. 'It's not meant to be historically accurate' she said hastily in case any archaeologists are blowing a gasket.

Ah, that's lovely. Whatever that untranslatable Portuguese word is for 'nostalgia about something you've never experienced', I have it.

[Harry 20's High on the Rock.]

Harry 20's High on the Rock.

Harry becomes addicted to crack-cocaine.

Well, I laughed out loud.


Cassandra And 'Er Son - well, you can fill in the rest.

Turkey Murder- It's Christmas on Termight.

My one starts with the guy trying to save his wife and kid. Now you say it, the beginning where Stu and Co are drinking beers at the petrol station may have been the better beginning, as I'd already forgotten the first bit.

My one is also set in 1991. Ah well.   And it has The Kid, who for some reason looks more like a 50s thug than a 90s one, or even a 70s one.

Oddly enough, as I was reading this, a man who looked exactly like the young Kev O'Neill walked past.

Also came across this on FB the other day; apologies if it's been posted here before.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/bUbsZmrR3exWdDAC/

Funnily enough, it didn't really occur to me at the time how fucked up it was, presented as it was as an impromptu magical ritual for... I can't remember, but for something. But yeah, it was fucked up, and clearly the product of King's coke addict phase.

King dicked around with The Stand, then?  Hopefully not in a George Lucas way.