I'm afraid I haven't read any new Discworld books since Unseen
Academicals, which unfortunately didn't really impress me on
the whole.

I used to like it (and to some extent still enjoy bits of it for trivia), until I came across one of the old mock threads from Something Awful which (while goony as hell, as you'd expect) made it kind of hard to look at it in the same way again.

I haven't read so many new comics lately. I've been reading the hardcover collections of Alan Davis's ClanDestine series. It's nice to look at (obviously) and I've long been a fan of the whole "superhero family" concept; it's fun stuff.

So much so that, for a very long time, DC shunted everything Haney wrote into "Earth-B" because it was literally impossible to square with everything else going on in their universe.

Obviously Alan Davis is a great artist, but his DC work in general seems so thin on the ground (he did a bit of Batman work, The Nail Elseworlds miniseries and its sequel, and then a bunch of Legion of Super-Heroes and JSA covers in the late 1990s, and that's about it) focusing a collection on him seems like an odd…

The one that ends in ".org" I suppose.

I didn't think it was possible that there would be a "less competent and substantial dispensor of writing advice than TV Tropes" but if that's an accurate assessment…
Welp.

Nah, she doesn't say that.

If they'd wanted to update Superman's costume, they should've used Val Semeiks's 853rd century Superman suit from DC One Million; just replace the symbol on his chest with the "S" shield and it would've looked just fine.

Shooter actually tried to buy Marvel in the 1990s but lost out to Perelman's slightly higher bid. I often wonder how things would have turned out if it had gone the other way.

I think that was a stipulation of Kane's contract with DC; they're legally obliged to list him as the sole creator of Batman in any media that features the character.

"Here's one! The Jumping Jews of Jerusalem!"

"I liked Bernard the Rabbit-Baiter."

I think he'll be very hurt.

I remember when I was nine or ten, my family was on holiday in London and we visited the Millennium Dome. Seeing Blackadder Back and Forth was the highlight of the experience but that's probably more of an indictment on the Dome project than a positive comment on the episode.

There was a documentary on the BBC a couple of years ago (I think it was called Days of Our Lives) where they featured some pretty rare colour footage of the "These Are the Days of Our Lives" video… and Freddie looks absolutely terrible in it.

There's also "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" which is a pretty good song but has one of the worst professionally produced music videos of all time.

I've heard that they weren't going to release "Another One Bites the Dust" as a single, then Michael Jackson met Freddie backstage at a concert and basically said, "Go for it, it'll be a hit".

I'm a big "Dragon Attack" fan. May's guitar playing sounds great on that one.

As far as I am aware, Axel Alonso's big idea is that comics need to take more cues from other forms of media, which has manifested in this approach of treating each new volume as a "season" like a TV show.