The story is wholly original, a wonderful alternate history of England. The language, the setting, the eccentricities of "polite society" is very Austen, only with, you know, magic, faeries, ancient sorcerers and so forth. It is a sizeable volume, more than a thousand pages, with copious footnotes which are nearly all…

I want to see Hugh Dancy or Rupert Friend as Jonathan Strange and (although he is busy doing 2nd unit directing on The Hobbit) Andy Serkis as Mr Norrell. Paul Bettany (although he might be too old) for the Gentleman with the Thistle-down Hair.

The footnotes definitely rock the discotheque.

It is kind of an alternate Earth where at one time magic was a real thing but fallen completely out of use by the 18-19th century. Two magicians arise to bring back magic, first as master and apprentice then as rivals. It is EXTREMELY well-done. I often describe as a story made up of all the best things Neil Gaiman…

Speaking for myself, Geoff Johns is unworthy of the title "writer extraordinaire." Any good he might have done creatively in the past is utterly wiped away by his engineering (with Jim Lee) of the The New 52. Complete rubbish.

I experimented for a while with a stack of Piracetam & Hydergine. It worked wonderfully but the price made it unsustainable.

Here's hoping that it is an original story and not based on JL Dark, which is absolute rubbish. And I am sick about the cancellation of Hellblazer. Sick, I tell you. Absolutely inconsolable.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he will get down with both girls and boys. I am excited that this show has Lara Pulver, who played Irene Adler in BBC's "Sherlock."

And that is what Dexterity 18 looks like.

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons!

I bought this title because I love Constantine. Mind you I only made it to about issue 7 before I gave up, so it might have gotten better. When I last checked in with JLD, it was truly, deeply terrible.

I can buy that he is in great physical shape from running around the island and subsisting on a diet of fish and veggies so he gets to be runny and jumpy, but where did he get the awesome hand-to-hand skills? Who exactly was he fighting on the island that gave him the opportunity to practice? And why didn't he take…

Nostalgia. My first copy of Dune looked exactly like that. That one is about 8-10 months from losing its cover.

Carrie Fisher responds to this story on Twitter! " I never used my fingernail for drugs. I used dollars or tiny spoons like any other respectable former drug addict." https://twitter.com/CarrieFFisher

YES! I greatly miss Carnivale. Hopefully, someone will teach Rhys Meyers to act instead of shout (a la the Tudors.)

I was not impressed by the episode at all. All of the aliens were way over the top (more than usual) and I found myself wondering if someone had brought hash brownies to the VO session. I may just have a bad attitude because I am irritated by the survival of Maul from TPM and the very idea of "Savage Opress."

Just for you, Violet! https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71923800/pussy_riot.mp3

The stimulator is supposed to increase the powers of Alphas. When Nina resurfaced earlier this season, she had some memory issues and the strength of her Push had increased greatly. Has Nina run into Stanton Parrish and not remember it? Maybe Dani is not the only mole. And I thought one of them was supposed to die…

Painting the spots on Dax is a job that I envy.

There was the Dax/ Former-Lover-of-Dax( who showed up in a female body) relationship, which I believe was the first gay kiss on Star Trek.