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So as I say almost exactly as we were. 4 for 5 and those 4 make it feel like a five for... reviewing the Prog these days is getting a bit samey, but what a good samey.

I agree exactly. It's a testament to how good the rest of the prog is that I'm enjoying it immensely even though I'm skipping one story entirely (and I literally never skip stories).

A shame that Pg1/Pg2 transition in Brink couldn't have come on a page turn, but I'm sure that would have occurred to TMO — sometimes the pagination just won't play ball.

I've decided it's shit and I'm not going to actually watch it, because then I might have to change my mind.

AKA: The John Carter Effect.

In my defence, I really like John Carter. :-)

The ingredients are in place for a tasty cake mix, but I didn't enjoy it, and I'm not sure why.

I'm pretty sure that if you can't get through writing an issue of a Batman comic without delivering a 'hot take' like this...



...You probably shouldn't be writing a Batman comic. I mean, yes, intellectually that's true, but it's just another "who pumps the Batmobile's tyres" moment — in the context of a shared-universe pulp character, it's just wank.

I've decided it's shit and I'm not going to actually watch it, because then I might have to change my mind.

I think The Molch was just referring to the impending end of the con season and his general state of frazzledness...

My query is would these strips be covered by the satire laws.

Given that (I believe?) you've been explicitly asked by the rights holder not to do a published version, for profit or not, I'd suggest that looking for some loophole to circumvent that request may not be the smartest idea anyone's ever had.

Currently about halfway through S1 of the complete box set of Stargate: SG-1.

As I remembered it is, for the most part, tremendous fun. Its efforts to prove it's not sexist due to the inclusion of Samantha Carter are oddly really quite sexist on a regular basis, which makes some of the episodes quite a lot less fun than they might have been, and it seems strange now to think of a science fiction series stretching its budget over twenty-two forty minute episodes when almost no one attempts even half that nowadays...

But, for all that, really not a bad way to kill forty minutes every other night or so at the end of the evening. A shame that the franchise fizzled out so ignominiously with the dull and murky "Universe" but it's nice to go back the bright and sparky beginning.

...because I got hit with a massive round of 'corrections'* literally five minutes before I went in to see the Psychedelic Furs live for the first time in thirty years of being a fan. The Furs were great, but drinking water for 90 minutes in a night club because I knew I had to work when I got out took the shine off a bit.

*If you want to know what fucks letterers off more than anything else, it's a stealth re-write sent through as "corrections".

Minty is great — it feels like the best 'proof of concept' thing you'll ever see and I love it. The Strontium Dog short, though... that honestly feels like a pilot for a show I could happily watch a full series of. I've seen lots of SF stuff on cable that doesn't even come close to what you folks did here. You should be rightly proud of them both.

Where was the misogyny in it? Not doubting you at all, I just don't remember.  It was fairly plain to see in the first one.

I thought Wallace giving a speech on how he couldn't make replicants fast enough and then disembowelling a naked female replicant was pretty unpleasant. The introduction and almost immediate dispatch of the replacement Rachel for having the wrong colour eyes. Just all the way through, women seemed both sexualised and disposable. I didn't like it at all.

I can't think of a film I wanted to like more than Blade Runner 2049... and didn't. Empty, soulless and dull. There's a thread of vicious misogyny running through it (which, TBH, doesn't separate it from the original movie) that I found utterly repellent.

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Supreme Court: "The PM's advice to her majesty was unlawful, void, and of no effect... The prorogation was also unlawful, void, and of no effect. Parliament has not been prorogued."

It's worth mentioning that the rulings of the Supreme Court were unanimous. No one... NO ONE, not even the most optimistic legal commentators thought that would be the case.

In any normal circumstances, Johnson's position would be untenable and he'd be gone by the end of the day. I have little doubt he'll be in front of a lectern in the next thirty minutes going "FWAH! Enemies of democracy! Do or die!" and emphatically NOT going.

Just wanted to mention the tie-in comic to the Netflix series, which rewinds to some years before the time the show is set and focusses on several characters' earlier lives. I mean, yes, I'm working on it, but it looks amazing. The art by Matias Basla (also artist on Sparrowhawk, which you should totally buy) and colours by Miquel Muerto are just gorgeous:

Even Jim Campbell who doesn't mince his words and regularly gets infuriated by your stance, never (okay rarely) resorts to personal abuse

No, I absolutely have, and far too often. I've been in places where I was an ugly stress monster who was drinking far too much and was pouring rage into my keyboard. That doesn't excuse anything that I said but I've been trying to do better in recent years, which is all I can do, really.