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They're not in Forbidden Planet, London. They're in Gosh! Comics on a high shelf where customers can see but not reach them, because they're not actually going to start selling them until Saturday for some event (a signing I suppose). The website only has the John Higgins cover but I want the other one. Fuck it, I'll wait a month then look on eBay.

[Chimpsky]

They're very different, and there's much more of Lawless than there is of the relatively new Chimpsky.

But I enjoy Chimpsky more.

I thought Hope was really good this week.

Looking forward to that write-up!

I didn't like Blanche's art when I was a kid but now I think it's fabulous. I think Scholastic Books have replaced it though.

That's very cool, I might have to give that a go!

"Your mouth is full of wrong."

Thank you Mr Boots, I have bought my own copy on eBay on the strength of your review!

Brilliant, I live that you went all in!

If the head of state has no political power, does it matter if they are elected or not?

If the president has no power, won't election turnouts be low, since most voters will conclude that it doesn't really matter who wins?

Jayzus makes a fair point about King Andrew. We could introduce impeachment for the monarch.

You'd still have those prime ministers even without the monarch, surely?

I meant that if people vote for shitty candidates for PM, then they will also vote for shitty candidates for president. I assume we would be like Ireland and have a prime minister and a president. But we'd end up with Boris and Nigel.

The Mind of Wolfie Smith is right of course. But if we had first last the post for presidential elections, we would  still have presidents elected by 30% of the voters, who would usually be Tories.

I don't know what republicans expect to get from having an elected president, but given the public's track record of electing prime ministers during my lifetime, I would much prefer the system we currently have.

What does Father Ted have to do with Ricky Gervais?

[Nemesis]

They're both great, but it's got to be Nemesis for me. Stand-out moments are the bleak setting of the end of the world and the ultimate fate of mankind, Torquemada's greatest crime, and the episode about one of his earlier incarnations, the real life Colonel Chivington and his massacre at Sand Creek. All of which happens in Book VI, one of the best thrills ever published, with fabulous art by Bryan Talbot.

It's a great write-up, and the Mungo tribute above it made me laugh. "Doing a Mungo" should become a phrase.

Looking forward to reading about Talisman of Death.

Good point!