And four issues in, it's confirmed. They should have just fucking killed him off. What a mess. Crappy plotting; fussy, inconsistent art; Dick van Dyke standard cockernee-style dialog. Cancel that shit, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth!

Been stockpiling this since #1. Maybe I should start reading it.

I'll never knowingly pass up an opportunity to namecheck this fine song from the 1977 album of the same name by Alvaro, the Chilean with the Singing Nose.

I'd watch.

Right. That Bond film. What was it called… 'Quantity of Polish', 'Condom of Wallace'? No. It's gone.

It's an interesting portrailt of an irreparably damaged man trying to hold on to a little island of sanity in a sea of violence and madness. Shannon's performance holds it together, but yes, the whole film is poorly focused and muddily plotted.

Of course Smith needs to maintain his hard-won 'non-threatening black man' persona. Otherwise Don Cheadle's going to march in there like a 21st century Poitier and rip it right out of his [epithet] hands.

The theatrical remake benefits visibly from having a second run at the same source material, being tighter and sharper than the TV version - although the original location is far more visually interesting than the generic-looking setting used for Scum 1.1.

Fortunately (for both me and my spouse) I fall into the high-scoring category for intelligence and self-control. 24 years of marriage have provided plenty of opportunity for conflict and strife, and by Christ the bitch has got a sharp tongue on her at times, but even under extreme duress the worst I've done is throw a…

I used to read a lot, but life changes seem to have gradually eroded the time and inclination I have to sit down with a book. The one author totally exempt from this literary atrophication was Iain M Banks. I loved the worlds he created and the light he shone on the human condition.

A classic, sir.

Let's not forget that many women have a talent for razzing up the men in their lives when things aren't going well for them at home. They can fry a man's brain with their (often incisive and annoyingly partially truth-based) words until all that's left functioning is the engorged stump of the brain-stem and any…

Sometimes there's a need to preserve stuff that was really shit so that future generations may learn. This is not one of those occasions.

It's PG so that it doesn't offend the Chinese, is what I read.

Bless you for this sanity.

"Though he was never a full-fledged member of the UK punk movement, Elvis Costello’s output circa 1977 was still powered by the same “-ations” as the safety-pin set: frustration, irritation, and, on occasion, penetration."

Extreme animals in this context would include porcupines, crocodiles, giant squid and any species of large, engraged carnivore.

Yes. Loving this mash-up is wrong. How dare you besmirch the radiant purity of Julianna Rose Mauriello by disseminating this filth here!

Vinyl should be cherished for its durability. Some CDs I bought in the late 80s and early 90s are already oxidising around the edges, or developing patches of rot where the protective lacquer was imperfectly applied. I've inherited records from my dad that were pressed in the 40s and 50s. No sign that they are…

A record that starts out really edgy and promising and then gets slack and lazy and throws in a couple of comedy tracks just to really piss you off before closing with a cynical reprise of the first track? VinDiesyl