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Tyrion: 'Is faced with a supernatural force he knows is capable of raising the dead.'

Tyrion: Everyone! Lets hide in the crypts!

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In my personal estimations GoT fell off way before anyone was willing to acknowledge it, Seasons 1 through 4 are all excellent but you can basically time the entropy of the shows shelf life in direct correlation to how cold Tywin and Oberyns bodies got.

TLDR version: Its all fucked, I'm going to the pub.

You're too hard on yourself, Colin! I think a conservative but honorary position for Watchmen on anyone's personal ranking is pretty much the norm today.

As IP put is far better words than I could, it's an incredibly concise and impactful moment in time with ripples still being felt throughout the industry to this day, for good or for ill.
Though I stand with you in the assessment though an excellent work in its own right, more than a little of its potency has been lost over the years, and I don't think Moore would disagree with anyone on that assessment.

I do, however, withhold the right to admonish you for this apparently equally scandalous next entry, whatever it may be!
Consider this a warning!

I wish I could have got around to the Big Finish dramas at some point, may still get the chance to yet.
If ever there was a company that hasn't just consistently hit the mark on how to do science fiction as an audio drama, but largely codified in the contemporary sense, its Big Finish.

Purely out of dumb curiosity I've been watching the original run of Robot Wars from 1996 through to 2004. Might be a bit on the more recent side compared to some nostalgic musings before but for sprogs of a certain age it holds a significant distinction as being one of the sickest things a kid of 8 and under could see from the comfort of their own home.

And yup, it still holds up! Completely madcap carnage and that's what it's remembered for, Craig Charles just cinches it as the manic host (it's public knowledge he was using a lot of the blow at the time, for all the good he was doing here and on Red Dwarf the 90's weren't a good period for the poor guy, glad he got clean) but its particularly funny to consider Jeremy Clarkson as the host of season 1 nearly got decapitated by a faulty razor disc on a house robot imploding and sending shrapnel everywhere.

Another vote for Goodnight PunPun, honestly based off the merit of what I have read thus far it could be a top 10 all timer for me. Devastatingly good. Would have made my own honourable mentions list where not for the fact I prioritised work either complete or in a state of indefinite hiatus, but so long as I was up to speed on it they made the grade.

Speaking of which uuhh I should probably wrap up a few WIP write ups of my own huh...

I was oohhing and aahhing about if I should trade in my Titan HCs for the improved Rebellion editions and all this buzz (and the hard graft of Jim and co.) is pushing me in that direction...
Maybe come next shelf purge I can push myself to make the change, but for now they stay.

Brass Sun was one of the 'new' strips on the block when I started reading the prog in late 2011/early 2012, and holds a very special significance as a result of that, being among the first ongoing strips I got to engage in from the ground up.

The fact a decade on I'm still eagerly awaiting the next instalment despite all the delays is testament to how powerful that feeling is, one of the greats of the prog in my estimation.

Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, passed away due to surgical complications at 68 years of age.

We can go back and forth between who is 'the' most influential comics creative. Is it Kirby, Moore? maybe Miller or Eisner? Salient arguments can be made for all of these and more, but has anyone else in the industry had world leaders acknowledging their contributions to culture and the arts?
We lost one of the greats this week, a real generation defining figure.

This reads like the type of comic I would have wanted in my life as a kid, and even got that little excited fizzle you feel when discovering something like that, anything that can awaken that sort of unfiltered glee in my blackened sick bones must surely have 'the juice'*. Maybe we're all just kids at heart.

Six volumes you say? Oh I think I can make room for that on the 'too read' pile.

*Are kids still saying that, god I'm getting old.

Palestine: A Video Essay by Shaun

Probably one of the best at-arms-length reflections on the ongoing massacre and Israels damnable attempts to downplay or outright whitewash it, and in addition to the evergreen issue at hand it also addresses something I see precious few people considering, that of the antisemitic policies of Israeli law enforcement and the IDF in the Gaza strip and West bank that either proactively decry the governments actions or offer aid to Palestinians in their immediate communities.
Harrowing, monstrous.

Oh aye Doomsday goes hard. It plays out like a zero budget genre project in the vein of Michael J Murphy and gives it a cash injection without skimping on the absurdity.
It is, as previously stated, pap but the sort of big budget genre pomposity that we sadly just don't see major studious taking a risk on anymore.

Some real weirdos here

Aye, you don't want to know what some of them get up to with their iPods and a block of Wensleydale! 

Oy! I told you what happens in the Lawless Secret Hot Tub Party stays in the Lawless Secret Hot Tub Party!

Some real weirdos here

I blame the lack of news regarding a Dredd show myself.

Urgh! My absolute worse nightmare, my sympathies Jade.
I sometimes get anxious I make too much noise, I live on the top floor of a low rise and only share a wall with one neighbour, and a hallway with another. But its the people below me I worry for, loud footsteps, the weekly washing machine cycle, I even took the time the check with the residents right below me when I got stereo speakers that it wasn't too loud. It's not hard to not be a dick about such things especially when you've already been made aware of noise disruption concerns.