Kenny Evil

"Dr Manhatten, you can teleport anywhere instantly, why are you walking? And put some pants on, for God's sake!" Also Doc Manhatten will describe how leaving wet socks in the shower helps him envision the whole of space and time.

Chris Weston's cover for 2000AD's 35th birthday Prog Based on this Brian Bolland piece from 1983 Apparently there's two variants. Normally I see variants as a way to cynically bilk customers into paying for the same comic twice. In my case, it will probably work. Damned 2000AD. They should be revealing the other one soon.

I won't be buying any of these but I like a lot of the talent involved and I'm interested in seeing the Kuberts' art. I don't see the point, but I fully endorse Gibbons' reaction which is to wish the people involved well even if he has nothing to do with it. As someone else said, with JMS involved there's a good chance two of these projects will remain unfinished.

I've only recently found out about Mike Kunkel's run on Captain Marvel. That seems like a fantastic fit, shame that they killed it after four issues. DC's finally announced their worst kept secret since Superman coming back to life Got to give them this: That's a very strong set of talent. It'll be great to see Andy and Joe Kubert team up. Other future DC projects: V: The Larkhill Years Dr Gull, Medicine Man Evey Hammond and the Mystery of the Disappearing Patels

Nice work. Get DevilDinosaur Jr on here.

Looks like Chris Weston's next project after finishing The Twelve is a Judge Dredd strip. Awesome.

Are we having fun yet?

Walking Dead volume 15. A relatively quiet trade as life in the gated community continues. Generally how it goes with Walking Dead in that odd trades act as a set up and then even trades work as the pay off. Not entirely sure how much longer the perpetual bleakness can go on but I'm sure that Kirkman will find a way. The Boys issues 61 & 62. Things are definitely moving towards the endgame here, with Butcher giving Wee Hughie the ultimate test of his new found pacifism. As much as I've enjoyed Butcher, Baker, Candlestick maker it'll be nice to get Darick Robinson back on the series proper. 2000AD Prog 2012 and Prog 1764. The year end prog is once again a fantastic piece of work with a Judge Dredd story that doubles as a Choose Your Own adventure strip. Artwork by Higgins is fantastic, The other strips are also particularly good with the only duff one being Sinister Dexter. Nikolai Dante begins the first part of his final tale "The Wedding of Jena Makarov" and it looks like it'll be explosive. In Prog 1764 the final prelude to "Judge Dredd; Day of Chaos" ends and I'm not sure where it's going. The East Meggers have their hands on a virus that will make Block Mania look like a polite scuffle and PJ Maybe on the loose, I have no idea where this story is going, but I'm excited for it. Nikolai Dante continues apace. Not too sure about Grey Area yet, but I felt the same way about Kingdom which turned out to be one of Abnett's best stories in years. Comics: 5 || Collections: 1 || Graphic Novels: 0

e-mail me if there's anything you need to be caught up on with 2000AD. With where you're starting, you'll be coming in on the closing chapters of the final Nikolai Dante story and the action should just be kicking off for the latest Judge Dredd mega epic "Day of Chaos."

This article is fairly ridiculous but if you read it with Ron Swanson's voice it becomes pretty funny.

Cheers YKW. I'm just hoping that we've managed to pick books that will actually stick to their release schedule this month.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/10/fanboy-rampage-jms-vs-steve-wacker/ Oh dear, it appears JMS took a swipe at the current Spider-Man team and Steve Wacker didn't appreciate it. Got to love Mark Waid's slam at the end there.

If you're willing to step outside of Superhero books, I can highly recommend Box Office Poison as a great slice of life book. It's the size of a telephone book,(about 600 pages) so should keep you going for a while. I keep threatening Tom with it as a previously collected trade for WFTT. As a celebration of everything great and goofy about the Silver Age, you can't go wrong with Supreme by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch et al. I was fortunate enough to find both books in quick succession a couple of years ago The fella in my avatar is Nikolai Dante and there's been a US edition of his first collection that was printed a few months ago. Nikolai is a young thief making his way through a 27th Century Russia which is at the head of an interstellar empire. He gets caught up in the dynastic struggle between the two main houses, the Makarovs headed by Tsar Valdimir the Conqueror, and the Romanovs, the oldest house in the Empire headed by Dmitri Romanov who dreams of becoming Tsar himself one day soon. It has a great mix of comedy and action and has a lot of dramatic weight to it as well. It's been going for 14 years in 2000AD and, while it doesn't run in real time like Judge Dredd, it does progress so that, as of the latest story about 11 years have passed, It's actually a story I've grown up with, which is why I've dedicated twice the word count to it than the other recommendations.

D'Israeli really is a brilliant artist. So far every story he's done with Ian Edington has turned out gold. Starting with Kingdom of the Wicked, then Scarlet Traces, this and finally Stickleback (which should be starting its fourth series soon.) I'd say Leviathan was where D'Israeli made his biggest strides art wise. As Tom said, the artwork in the book is just gorgeous. He has a blog where he discusses some of his work. It's really worth checking out just to see some of his recent work, which, oddly enough, includes some Kaiju.

For my sins, I just looked up Imprinting as explained by Twilight experts. There is no way to write about it that doesn't sound like grooming.

Good fucking gods! Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?!? My housemate's girlfriend loves these films. I'm judging her harshly now.

Must. See.

The Renesmee bit had me howling. As per Stavros, the only tangible benefit of the Twilight series is that it's helped produce the greatest Rifftrax of all time (although Last Airbender is pretty close) I read a thing a few years ago about how someone was really looking forward to Breaking Dawn because he didn't see how they were going to keep all the batshit insanity in. From the sounds of your review, they found a way.

Ah, the more you learn... Cheers YKW. We're on an acronym basis now aren't we?

Thanks YKW.

With regards to River Song and further adventures: http://www.phoebenorth.com/2011/10/05/steven-moffat-youre-the-timey-wimiest/

Nice show guys. In a weird coincidence you managed to pick the only issue of Spiderman 2099 that I'd actually read. I remembered it as well, which is definitely a testament to the writing quality. Can't wait for the next one.

I'll give you advanced warning now. It's called Box office Poison and it's really good but the thinkness of a telephone book. Also From Hell is great, get through it already!

Let's see what we can do. Any that you'd recommend? My only experience with hawkMan was when he turned off the bomb in Animal Man.