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Just read Jonathan Lethem's book of film criticism about John Carpenter's They Live. It's nice of them to write books just for me. Next they'll be doing a collection of all The Taxidermist stories or something 

It's a good laugh IF you really love the film, like what I do. It can be a bit full of itself with it's fancy talk and store bought britches but it's a perceptive look at one of my all time favourite films. And not a book I ever thought would exist!

I liked Walter Feeling's Shatneresque performance of House of Ill Repute. 5 top thrills this week greenbonce.

It's on BBC2 right now!

On a similar note the name of the uplift called Tang did give me a sly chuckle. Is there a Zingzillas fan somewhere in Chateau Abnett? 

are her initials I.P. ?

sorry.

I read that article and he did cite 2000AD as one of his main inspirations. He had particular praise for Future Shocks I seem to recall...

I wasn't saying that at all, I was simply saying forget about the comic shop route for a minute and look at the availability of trades in bookshops, and reprint titles in newsies, stuff that people can just walk into a shop and buy like they would a dvd or whatever. My local newsie and bookshop are full of this stuff. That's the way to go in my unclear opinion

EDIT that's not even mentioning the digital route, which I'm increasingly using myself.

That's just the direct market though isn't it, with all the problems and insularity that goes along with it that have been discussed a bazillion times on this board. People use this broken, crazy system to state that comics are dead etc when in the real world that isn't the case at all. It's not the medium that's the problem. If I had to order 3 months in advance a top ten album or DVD and then make a 50 mile round trip to go and get it, if it actually turned up at all thanks to an incompetent monopolistic distributor, I'm not sure I'd bother.  
There is an appetite for comics. I'm sure there always will be. How to get them into people's hands is the issue.

I imagine almost everybody who is ever going to buy 2000AD is collecting/has already sampled it? UK comics have an increasingly limited audience.

Except that isn't the case at all. Comics are one of the few parts of the print market in this country that are doing well.

I watched Monsters last night. I watched it again this morning. What an incredible film. I'm about as predisposed to giant monster films as a human can be like  but this wasn't what I was expecting at all. Intimate and thoughtful and scary, it's the best film I've seen in ages.

Farewell to the mighty Brigadier, very sad news. I always loved his character and he seemed like a really good guy too. At least he got to live a long life I suppose, unlike Dwayne McDuffie. Absolutely tragic.

Yeah I wondered who cut the diamonds  
I thought it was a good episode with a lot going for it, some follow through on the fossils and the Solaris stuff and thickening of the plot with what happened to Earth with the cliffhanger. But that's after 5 hours of television. If the first half of the season had a bit more zing about it they might not be struggling in the ratings and facing almost certain cancellation. Ah well. I do hope we get some kind of resolution if this is the only season we get.

Scotland's more like planet Horst surely?   

Like it! Is this the same film as that one with the exact same plot that was going to be called Dark Moon?

Either way made me think of this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOP9wFPJizc&feature=player_embedded#at=13

Just watched Robots of Death in my restarted watchathon, enjoyed it a lot. Loved the Agatha Christie vibe, though I guessed who the killer was. (it isn't hard to recognize him/her/it on the viewscreen in episode 3!) Still way not keen on the Doctor sneaking out without saying goodbye at the end though, something that marred Troughton's tenure for me. It's like the Doctor saying "right, that's these insects problem sorted, on to the next lot" when he clearly does all this bullshit to meet people.
Apart from the next story, I haven't actually seen anything in this period before, all before my time, so I'm having a lot of fun. It isn't until the aforementioned Keeper of Traken my actual memories of watching it as a kid kick in. Though I do have a vague scary memory of Davros in a cupboard covered in cobwebs.