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I signed up years ago but I think I've only twat* 4 or 5 times.  No intention of ever doing so again.

*Past participle of tweet, according to both Viz and Stewart Lee.

I meant Anne alright, but I see where you're coming from.

Boyle - boil, as in zit. Which you squeeze.

Took me a while too, as Boyle is both a fairly common name and a town in Ireland.

My word. It's almost as if money and power allow one to punch way above one's weight.

Lulu?  Hershey?  Though not really in the right clobber for either.

So, do you UK types have King Chuck on your coins or stamps yet?  Shame to replace the profile of Liz in her youth - she was a bit of a looker (though her sister Anne was a stunner in her day).

The exception that proves the rule being Revival. Brrrr.

OK, I've read Revival now.
Our Stevie's still got it.

I've finished The Stand and made a nice dent into Revival on your recommendation.  My god, I'd forgotten how Stephen King could turn down-home folksy chuckles into vicious brain-drippimg horror so quickly.

Just gave blood, so now I'm riding high on a wave of smugness and free snacks.

I really must do it again. The last time I did was when they used to give you a free bottle of iron-rich Guinness with your chocolate biscuits.  So a very long time ago.

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.