Kenny Evil

Alice Eve looks the spit of Sally Kellerman. I think Cumberbatch is definitely playing Gary Mitchell.

I'll be getting it obviously.

Yeah, DC might not make Warner a lot of money in and of itself but the films, toys, animated series and so on have to make it more than worth keeping a hold of.

"Fine, we shall make a concession to this 'digital' fad we've heard so much about but only if we can turn the parasites' computers into a part of our weather machine!" Also found out why eBooks are subject to VAT and physical books aren't is because ebooks are considered a service rather than a good, so are subject to VAT. Of course, Amazon doesn't provide a breakdown of how much of the list price is VAT on their website for some reason, so I'm not sure if we're paying the 20% UK rate or the 3% Luxembourg rate (as that's where Amazon EU is based).

I think Karl Urban let that one slip didn't he. Personally, I think Gary Mitchell is a great choice in the same way Khan was for the second movie.

Would Warner really let them go? Look how much money Nolan's Dark Knight films made them.

Seriously, a company that pushes Bob Harras to the top and pushes Karen Berger out of the door has problems. I can't imagine that she'll be out of work for long unless she chooses to be. Dark Horse or Top Shelf would probably make a decent home for her.

Karen Berger's stepped down from DC. Sad but kind of inevitable given how much DC has bled Vertigo over the last few years. She really made Vertigo a line to be proud of.

The Hawkeye Initiative

I will never understand you people who watched this without the aid of three caustic comedians.

Terrible news from Chris Ryall I really loved his art on the Spike miniseries and Angel: After The Fall.

You have described my other LCS to a tee. Once I got all the old 2000AD annuals and specials they had, I never went back. Third LCS is a chain which is generally run by a mixture of people from the first two. Excelsior (my LCS of choice) was set up by former employees of LCS 3 who were frustrated by the manager. At the last comic convention they had a table at, he insisted on dedicating a large portion of their limited space to Watchmen GNs and merch, refusing to listen to the guys who rightly pointed out that the majority of the attendees would already have read it or own it.

I'm still getting into them myself. I really enjoyed The One Doctor that starred Six. It's a comedy and actually quite a good one at that. I mean, it has Bonnie Langford in it and I still enjoyed it.

I love my LCS. Happy to pay a little bit extra to get stuff from them rather than Amazon because they're nice guys and they go out of their way to treat all of the customers well. Since it is also their shop, they do make sure to treat it that way, which includes staying open later to accommodate people with office jobs like myself and helping out customers who are out of their element (eg mums looking for presents for their kids). That said, I think the attempts to make certain that the LCSes don't get crushed by cannibalised sales from the digital marketplace is badly ignoring the potential pool of customers who currently aren't going to those shops at all. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to give digital comics a try but are being put off by the price tag.

TLS, there's a 6th Doctor adventure starring Jago and Lightfoot, called Voyage to Venus, which is available for £1 from Big Finish. Had an Earthly Child recommended to me, so will give that a listen soon (it's an eighth Doctor adventure featuring Susan and partly set around Bristol, hence my bias). They've also released a box set for the Eighth Doctor called Dark Eyes that looks like it will be amazing.

Hooray, another convert! Yeah, the current run is tremendous. A lot of people are claiming that it's probably one of the strongest runs ever, and I'm one of them. I usually look forward to getting the prog each week, but this is the first time I've ever felt impatient waiting for a week to get it. The ending of prog 1811 was spectacular and I can't wait to see what happens in 1812.

I'm up for this.

I only read the first series when they reprinted it in the Megazine a couple of years ago. I'd say it didn't age well, but I doubt that it was that well received at the time. I read the second series which was written by Kek-W and it was much, much better and the improvement that Weston made between the two series is mind boggling. I think Mark Millar was massively upset with the second series, mostly because he reckons that he never signed over the rights to Fleetway when he wrote it, a position shared by Grant Morrison in regards to Zenith. Given how disorganised Maxwell's companies were, I would not at all be surprised if Millar was right about this.

I picked up Voyage to Venus and enjoyed it immensely. I've asked my brother to get Dark Eyes for me for Christmas. I've got The One Doctor which is just incredibly funny and well worth anyone's time and I have An Earthly Child stashed away, still requiring a listen. Outside of Doctor Who, I've also listened to Judge Dredd: Solo, where the entire cast list is Toby Longworth, and Strontium Dog: Back to Earth with Simon Pegg providing Jonny Alpha's voice. I'd highly recommend both.

Doctor Who is 49 today. If JFK had to die so that the Doctor could be born, I am fine with that.

Seen the 7 page preview. They've gotten the tone right but the pace is a little slower than I'm used to, which is understandable given it's a 22 pager. Definitely going to pick it up. Also interesting that they've set it 34 years before the current strip time. The real time nature of Dredd does mean there's a lot of space for untold tales, especially given that Dredd was a twenty year veteran at the point the strip started.

Getting my review for 2000AD progs 1808-1811 ready and all I can say at the moment is OMFG OMFG! I'm loving this! This may well be the most excited I've been while reading it in years.

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I was ill this weekend (awesome) so I burned through a load of early episodes of Cheers and all 13 episodes of Lucky Louie. The first episode of Cheers is one of the best pilots I have ever seen. The characters are introduced in order of importance to the show and already very well defined and the humour is incredibly sharp, even 30 years later. Lucky Louie was pretty good as well, though not as good as Louie. I think it's one of the rare breed of sitcoms where the main characters are dirt poor. First time since Roseanne where I can remember the characters struggling with paying bills. I laughed quite a bit and it's a shame there was only the one series.