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And why he chose to write that treatise on The Legs of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I'll never know.

It wasn't as if their legs were the extraordinary bits of any of them!

I always thought that 'Dr Manhandle' was an odd name for a superhero.

Many of you are, I know, fans of good music. This is why I reccommend listening to this here radio show from 6Music t'other night*. I haven't heard it yet, due to my home computer being busted and Dell being lazy, but you all should, because my friend Frank got played there, and she's lovely.

Then, if you wanted, you could vote for her to be played again. Just something to think about.


* Not a guarantee of the music on this show being good, bar the one track I'm pimping. Even then, it might not be your sort of thing. Why not? What's wrong with you?

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/tracklisting_20080113.shtml" target="_blank">'Introducing' with Tom Robinson

Lalla Ward.

It's the shiny new(er) Ultimate range of TPs for me. Ultimate Spidey's very good - like an American high school teen drama, but with spider-powers, which is good if you happen to like that sort of thing. Handily, I do.

The Ultimates and Ultimate X-Men are also surprisingly good, as far as I've read. Ignore the first issue of each storyline and anything an English character says (because it's almost certainly the word 'git' or 'bugger' used in a bizzare context) and the Millar-man provides!

As concept albums go, it wasn't a bad idea; twelve songs charting the successes and misdemeanours of the dozen fiercest criminals who haven't been born yet. There's even a toe-tapper or two in there, with Albert Carr's Nicked the Most By Far and The Ballad of Bicycle Neddling particularly standing out as well-written tunes. The problem really lies with Stephanie Plonkties's singing, which appears to cover a vocal range of about six different notes, none of them next to each other. Robbers There Will Be? Robbers they are, because this album certainly isn't worth your £12.99.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/Fegbarr/roflbot.jpg">

The Academy was something of a vanity project for frontman Nathan Truffles of Horse Meets Banjo fame, and, unfortunately, it shows. Confusingly, the album was intended to be listened to backwards for the first half, normally for the next quarter, backwards for the next eigth, and so on. Alas, Truffles failed to take into account the fact that this would result in an infinite regress, leading to the album being essentially endless.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/Fegbarr/roflbot-j3k8.jpg">

Beanies for three golden quids?

Awesome to the max!

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Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7172016.stm" target="_blank">The Avengers aren't exciting enough, apparently.

Damn you, Simpleton! Damn you all the way to the hell especially reserved for people who beat me to punchlines!

It's Chris Hecker who's in that article you reference there. Will Wright loves the Wii.

But you did make the game, right? That's what's implied there.


Probably.

Also astonishingly brilliant - Lego Star Wars. All six films with six levels apiece plus dozens of shiny bonus bits, all rendered in everyone's favourite plastic toys.

I may be being dumb, but I take it star points are the ones you get on the bit of card with every new game, yep?

In the name of all that is good and holy, steer well clear of the Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy. It's clearly written by a man who's never even seen the films, yet alone read any of the (by then) fairly big canon of books set afterwards - you have faux pas like lightsabers cutting off limbs causing blood to spurt everywhere, people wearing personal shields nicked out of off'f Dune, and worse.

I'd agree with everyone else, mind: go with the Zahn trilogy. The X-Wing books are also good fun, too, particularly the Wraith Squadron trilogy.