MandolinFugwart
MandolinFugwart
MandolinFugwart

I'm assuming the T is superimposed on the W, so the T forms the body and head (crossbar) of the bat, while the two outer diagonals of the W are the wings. That's my guess, however dumb it might be. :-)

I hope so. Judge Winehouse urging Minty to bring law to the lawless would be a great touch of humour. And it's not as if celebrities haven't had analogues appear in the comic: a Stephen Fry cropped up as a game-show host once.

Charlie Jane, I really hope you'll take this advice to heart the next time you review Doctor Who. It's meant to be a thrilling, joyful romp with some serious themes under the surface. Long-term character arcs are great, but they're not the point of most episodes and failure to address them isn't a fatal flaw.

I agree - it was fantastic.

Donnie still looks like a monitor - his story here didn't fit the phone calls he was making last episode. But it's possible both stories are right: maybe he did have an affair, was being blackmailed into monitoring his wife, and was getting rid of the evidence in the fire. Like Paul does now with Sarah, he actually

Exactly. Destroying his home doesn't have to be the only reason he can't return. In fact, having it somewhere tantalisingly out there might even increase the pathos.

Yeah. I remember a DVD commentary where one of the SFX guys mentioned the rope and describing how the shaky quality came from the stop-motion effect. The commentary then cut to Lucas talking about how nowadays they'd do everything in CGI. I heard that and thought, "That's one reason your new trilogy is so bad, George

Women need a separate locker room from men not because anyone's straight or gay as such, but because men are often (not always!) physically more powerful than those women, either individually or in groups, and there's a history of some straight men abusing that power.

Yeah. I was a thoughtless and passionate teenager who'd not long before got his dad to stop smoking. I was determined to save my loved ones from evil corporations profiting from addiction and completely oblivious to how this situation was different.

I have completely given up trying to understand the morality behind this show. It keeps bringing up the killing issue, but there's not even a spark of logic in it at all.

Man here. A long time ago when I was young and self-righteous, I read an article about how women's confidence levels dropped if they left the house without make-up. (It was one of these, 'Studies have shown...' articles.) I hadn't thought about make-up until that point, and rarely consciously noticed it, but I saw red

Sadly I think you're right about SAG and Emmy. They won't recognise genre shows, and her characters aren't sympathetic enough.

If I remember the phone conversation with Cosima correctly, she didn't say they had identical fingerprints, just similar enough to match. Given the fact that fingerprint identification isn't done by comparing them minutely, but just by looking for points of similarity, I don't see that as a gigantic stretch. And they

Yeah. I like the first half of season 4, pretty much up to the mutiny. With Cally's murder, Dualla's suicide and Gaeta's execution, there was a real sense that anything could happen to anyone. Then God did it.

That last one is actually of a city in Tilea, Warhammer Fantasy's equivalent of Italy. There's a lot of really good cartography for WFRP, not least iAltdorf and the giant map of the Empire (amongst many other fantastic maps) at Gitzman's Gallery.

And the fact that Councilman Jamm stops in the doorway when the Lando and Leia sex starts!

If he was at peace with his brother's death, I think it wouldn't be such an issue. But that's still so much a focus of the story and of John Diggle's character that it looks odd that he's moving on with regard to romancing Andy's widow but not in any other respect.

I've heard good things about it, but they've almost all concentrated on how adult and edgy it is. The art looks beautiful, but is the story any good? Are the characters compelling? I've read the first issue and it was intriguing, but not more than many other good issues.

Yeah. That relationship really is creepy. And you're right about their chemistry: she's funny and he, unlike Ollie, has a sense of humor. Meanwhile she's out of her depth in this dangerous new world, whereas he's seen worse. They fit together really well.