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Go about your normal business, one man has been caught. Nothing to see, the earth still turns!

You're wrong, John. The Internet located and identified the culprits days ago, via a 'crowd-sourced investigation' on social media - the Tsarnaev brothers must be patsies.

[Ming]

McCarthy's issue of Solo looks as if it will make The Filth seem as odd and packed with original ideas as The Famous Five. Cheers, Ming, but you're costing me a lot of money:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000XXXHSQ/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

[Goaty]

That was old school, Goaty - even Flava Flav wears his hat pointing forwards nowadays. The sun was splitting the trees as I drove around for work today, and the first single from Daft Punk's new record - Get Lucky - was all over the radio, giving me an idea of what my Summer's going to be like. It's a departure from the purely electronic sound of their last few efforts (including their brilliant Tron soundtrack), landing squarely halfway between the repetitious robot funk of Homework and the shimmering swimming pool disco of Discovery, and it features NILE-fucking-ROGERS (!), from Chic, on guitar - which is awesome.

No video yet, just this TV promo demonstrating that I was wrong to dismiss the idea that I would ever buy anything featuring the airless whine of Pharrell Williams again. The Neptunes made some great records in their time, but he didn't sing on any of them.

Bruce Parry integrating into Sandpeople culture.  I wonder what strange drugs THEY take?!?

They toot on those wee sachets of silica you find in the box when you buy a new pair of trainers - they lock away moisture. A serious drug fiend like Parry wouldn't let that bullshit warning they print on the packet about not ingesting the contents stop him from respecting the Sand Peoples' ancient culture, beliefs and rituals by getting properly ripped to the tits.

Regarding Disney's plans, this must be how Star Trek fans felt in the late eighties; broke and resigned to the inevitability of it all. I have a theory that the apparently limitless growth and exponential inflation experienced by capitalist economies in the last thirty years is a result of nerds' inexhaustible appetite for the tat spawned by their pet sci-fi/fantasy franchises.

[Pro]

Got mine today and had a wee read.  Amazing how much Mills shat all over the superhero concept... and yet one chapter into Fear And Loathing and it's like a blueprint for modern comics rather than the searing indictment of their politics it was supposed to be.  All the same, it's not Pat's fault that the trappings he uses to highlight the shortcomings of traumatised superhero lynch mobs as a concept was later taken and used as the unironic template for 70 percent of contemporary Marvel comics.  I think I didn't really get on with the later zombie stuff and it retroactively coloured my opinion of the earlier material, but this is fantastic stuff.

You've just made the pain of coming home to find a wee red You were out when we called card from the postie a little more acute, Pro. Must remember to get my shit together and collect it from the depot before it closes at 12pm tomorrow.

[Andy]

Cheers for my providing my breakfast reading material, Andy. No-one thinks about comics conceptually like Brendan, and some of his observations regarding the way Grant Morrison's borrowed his clothes were brought a little more sharply into focus by reading that interview. I can't wait to get my hands on the actual strips now.

Video of the suspects: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/18/boston-bombing-fbi-images-suspects-live

[Jayzuz]

Sh-sh-sh, Jayzuz; I think I got away with it. The FBI have confirmed this is one of the guys they're looking for:

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/the-fbi-has-confirmed-an-image-is-of-a-suspect-for-one-of-the-boston-marathon-explosions/story-fndir2ev-1226623977978

[Pro]

Brian Glover is always watchable, though, and apparantly a top bloke in real life.

I think you mean 'John', Pro. I've never seen such slack wok in my life, Casper.

[all]

Imagining Schindler's List as a Taken prequel now.

Bryan Mills would have kicked Voldemort's arse and freed all the Jews, gypsies and political prisoners.

[Pete]

Nice entry, Pete; Flint's always interesting, and I love the more graphic approach he's using for this story - it's this year's Zaucer. I'm not as sure about the cover line as you; All You Need is Love wasn't even on Abbey Road, but Here Comes The Zom was.

[Goaty]

I think the Dude is the best thing about the trailer.

I'd have said Rooster Cogburn, Goaty. There are lots of examples of actors following up an Academy Award-winning performance by appearing in a piece of shite popcorn flick (Monsters Ball > Die Another Day), but that's the first instance I know of an actor delivering exactly the same performance which won them the Oscar in a piece of shite popcorn flick.

It's like Daniel Day-Lewis popping up as Christie Brown again in Back to the Future part 2.

[Jimbo]

Wow! That's fantastic, Jimbo. All the action seems to be centering around Kano and Thrax - and I suppose they're the most visually arresting characters - but is there really no love for Wallbanger, zombie Malcolm, or Sheeva, with her tits-like-nuclear-warheads?

Well done to anyone who depicted the Krool, one of the best character designs in the comic's history, and more than enough to pin a story which didn't use any of the original human cast upon.

Although I knew McGruder was a Thatcher analogue, I never connected her referring to herself as 'we' and Thatcher's 'we are a grandmother'.

Does that make Dredd Geoffrey Howe?

Excellent catch, and topical - use of first person plural is grounds for sectioning. Shurely Shojan's the Howe analogue; making Dredd the Hesseltine figure who delivers the coup de grâce.

[Jim]

Aye, I know, and that's fine in theory and under Earth conditions

Pah! You bother me with details?! Where's your sense of adventure, man?

You're right, Jim; I'm a paranoiac wimp. I'm still taking a wooly hat and gloves on my walk to work just in case, and every jacket I own has an emergency pound coin in one of the pockets.