When I read “ we as a society may have simply become too nice” I couldn’t work out if it was sarcastic, naïve or deliberately baiting the readers of the site. I’m guessing it’s the latter, but eh, maybe I’m wrong.

Early on someone described Arcade Fire as U2 crossed with David Bowie and The Polyphonic Spree, which is sort of accurate but I don’t think they’re anything that unique either.

They should just go down the Doom Patrol route, where they cut off Timothy Dalton’s character’s head, and and then just had him delivering his lines down the phone.

That’s a good point, and, well, yeah, you’ve convinced me that it does seem quite an odd / poorly thought out decision.

I think it wasn’t linked to the work itself, more the shittiness of auditioning for other jobs, being a celebrity and mocked (even after all these years people remembered his “Our you having fun yet?” line), and if you’re too successful a lot of jobs are difficult to get as employers presume you’ll only stay there unti…

I liked aspects of del Toro’s Pinocchio and don’t have an issue with it winning, but if Phil Tippet’s Mad God had been nominated I’d have been over the moon if it had won, as it’s an insanely bizarre creation which is filled with jaw dropping moments.

I’m a bit confused by the above claim that “Clarkson, a man who famously presents himself as very dumb”, as though I haven’t seen any of the farming show in Top Gear his persona was “the arrogant know it all”.

A friend met him at a garden party once (she was doing the catering, rather than being a guest) and said he…

This sounds great and I can’t wait to see it, but I want to know when Schmigadoon’s second season is going to air

Fake edit: Ah, April 5th. So that’s cool.

I’ve been thinking about the whole “superhero fatigue” thing and I’m starting to think it’s just an excuse not to tackle the fact that many of the films have been repetitive re-treads of earlier movies. I mean, I’ve been reading comics for 40 odd years (albeit not always superhero comics) and haven’t become fed up of…

I was an extra in The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret (yeah, I sure know how to pick them up), but they treated us really well, and as I was standing next to Will Arnett and Blake Harrison I just got to hear them take the piss out of each for about three hours. A friend worked on it a different day and…

Um, are you aware of Bryan Cranston’s career? Trust me, any actor who has been in a US sitcom for seven seasons, and then had an incredible hit with a high profile drama, and then starred in a number of high profile films, will have made (post tax) more money than I would make in a hundred lifetimes.

And of course he…

Well now I’ve lost all respect I ever had for Bryan Craston. And I used to have a lot, like a fucking boat load, one of those cruise ships which look like a floating city.

I’d not known of Morrison’s Action Comics run, but love his All Star Superman, so that’s something else I’ll try to find!

Snyder’s Swamp Thing and Animal Man have quite a big crossover story so I’ve read a fair bit of it and liked it

Ah, right, thanks for the clarification - I grew up as a huge DC / Vertigo fan but lost track a bit in the 2000s. I’ll have to try and track down that 52 series (which I’m guessing will be expensive, but I’m such a big Booster fan that I’ll get round it sooner rather than later).

And I remember that series with…

I wasn’t reading many DC comics when the whole 52 thing came around, but over the past year or so I’ve picked up a fair few at charity shops and really enjoyed some it - Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man run is superb, as his Frankenstein Agent Of S.H.A.D.E., I Vampire has a great first volume (though it’s a bit poor by the…

Thanks for that, I’ll have to give the pilot a go, and if I struggle with it just jump forward to the Blue Devil episodes.

I never got round to watching the Swamp Thing show (despite loving Alan Moore’s run, and hearing good things about the tv series) and had no idea Blue Devil was in it - I loved the goofy Blue Devil comic in the 80's, but I’m guessing this is a much darker, bleaker take on the character?

Except that it’s a tv series. And I understand your snark, but in the comics there’s a really great storyline involving Booster and Rip Hunter that would make for a fantastic tv show, though I’ve no idea if Gunn’s intending on using it or not.

This reminds me of when British comics merged with each other, like 2000AD and Starlord, or Eagle and Scream, but a couple months down the like they reverted to their original title, and just kept the odd series or two from the other comic going.

Also, Showtime managed to make Twin Peaks The Return happen, so they’ll…