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Shouldn't the mask have a little bead at the bottom if it's a cock ring?

It's a great miniseries, but I do think McKeever was doing most of the heavy lifting on that one rather than Milligan carrying the whole thing...

On 4/16/2024 at 10:12 PM, JasonT said:

Hopefully every second story will be credited to a pseudonym, like T.B. Grover or Curt Vile.

Maybe so. I think Alan Grant holds the record for that one, doesn't he? Alvin Gaunt, Craig Lipp, Stavros...

Sounds kinda cool, but an anthology mini series by a single writer and artist might be kind of missing the point...

11 hours ago, JasonT said:

Ouch!

That was pretty much what I thought, to be honest: betcha they never did that to Brian Stableford or Clive Barker...

This might amuse some on here: I've just acquired a copy of Cordwainer Smith's Norstrillia with a foreword by MR Carey which introduces him as Mark Carey at the start of the introduction.

Maybe he should have stuck to Mike?

Ordered a (phat) PS3 off ebay as I've finally worked my way through all of the 360 exclusives that took my fancy, and it's now time to start in on The Last Of Us, Resistance and the like.

While I'm waiting for its arrival, I'm playing through some JRPGs on the PS2, which the particular model of PS3 I'm waiting on might or might not be backwards compatible with...

Maybe the Extremist as well, but I admit it's taken me the best of a year to think of that...

If it's the first one in that series, it isn't half bad.

If it isn't, I can't even remember anything about it...

That sounds interesting.

I wonder if the recycled material means that he's trimmed down The Dreamthief's Daughter, The Skrayling Tree and the other one? There were a lot of complaints over those being overly complicated, so maybe he's streamlined the Elric bits and reduced the others down to just the von Beck stuff?

I think they're concentrating on Morrison stories for the collections, for some reason. Which is weird, as speaking as somebody who adored those things as a kid, I was always drawn to the artwork more than the scripts...

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Morrison did quite a bit of work for Starblazer. I have a couple of the ones he did, but for some strange reason the Morrison ones seem to go for a lot more than most second hand Starblazers, which have been steadily rising in price since the '90s. Maybe the reason DC Thompson are making a point of including a Morrison reprint in each of the two collections so far is to make it easier for collectors to find those stories? It'd be nice to think that was at least part of it...

16 hours ago, JasonT said:

Nothing here either. 

Lately I've been reading a lot of old Battle Picture Library comics I scored on eBay. Used to love 'em when I was a kid.

 

EDIT: Batman Dark Age #1 (Of 6)
It's written by Mark Russell & drawn by Mike Allred, so it's a no-brainer for me. 

Have you seen these, Jason?

I made a point of buying the first two collections immediately, despite not being over fond of Mikaal Kayne as a character. Maybe if they get the right encouragement they'll do big collections of all the Hadron Halley or Planet Tamer stories...

Completely. Either I've got boring or the comics have.

IIRC, there was something about the dead guy he digs up to have a word with having been cursed to his undead state by the Ribbon Queen because he did something or other that upset her.

Nothing takes me fancy there, but that's pretty normal these days...

Ten fucking minutes and I turn the PC on and off again four times to rip a CD.

Fine I appreciate that it's Captain Beefheart I'm not supposed to be wanting to put old fart's music like Doc At the Radar Station on P3 but fucking Hell...

I'm going through the collected Valerian again, myself: got hold of the third volume yesterday so I'm rereading the first two first as that's uspposed to be where the plotting starts getting hard to follow and a freshening my memory first won't hurt...

Started in on as big collection of Nikolai Gogol's short stories.

Very Russian indeed, but in a way that's a lot more fun than Dostoeskovsky or Tolstoy so far...

Is this the samean entirely dissimilar and creator owned ribbon queen he mentioned back in The End Of The Line when he was writing Hellblazer?

Nope.

Don't worry, it's not just you.

You're thinking he might have rehearsed his answers a bit, Jason?

Now that's some good news...

And the third trilogy has defeated me: Melinda Snodgrass can stuff her Doctor Tachyon novel where the sun don't shine because I'm certainly not reading it.

Might be of interest to some for reasons other than Morrisonism, but I've just acquired a couple of (sadly, slightly overpriced) reprints of the fondly remembered '80s Starblazer comics. Both reprint two of the original digests at twice the size (which is nice as there's some glorious Alcatena artwork on show, along with the one Starblazer Mick McMahon drew) and both have one of Grant Morrison's stories as half of their content and his name on the cover.

It's really nice to see some of this stuff reprinted at last, and hopefully enough copies will be shifted that they'll do a few more. Thicker books containing all of the stories involving some of the recurring characters would be rather fun...

Going through all the Wild Cards stuff (again).

Big drop off in quality after the first three, but the next four have their moments.