I was going to mention the lead singer of The Sisters of Mercy, but in all likelihood that is also a Lovecraft reference.

"would emulate the book's style of writing constantly"

If you buy the special edition a stranger breaks into your house at night some weeks later and whispers parts of the book into your ear while you sleep. They can't quite pronounce their esses, but not so much that it bothers you. It wouldn't, you're asleep.

I loved GenX at the time and, in thinking back, it was because the art was so wonderful it completely elevated the story. A real example of the collaborative power of comics where simple scripting can be elevated by gorgeous art and inventive layouts.

I'm kinda annoyed I read this because it has sucked out all the enthusiasm I had for reading "The Familiar". A fleeting impulse, now quashed.

Having had the pleasure of discussing this very topic with Mr Buckingham a few years back, despite his humility, the answer seems to be yes. Buckingham also pretty much drew the lot of the second Death mini-series when Bachalo turned in art that was far different than what Vertigo expected.

Fans ruin pretty much everything.

You have a master's in pretentiousness? What a twat… :P

But to extend the analogy, what if for the difficult second album I wore really comfy trainers and played olingos. Then after what most fans regarded as a disappointment I had a brilliant return to form on my third album when I wore velvet slippers and played on an arrangement of coatis and ringtails?

I think any act of creation requires a degree of pretension, especially something that challenges the norm. I don't think it would be possible to write the kinds of books Danielewski writes if he didn't attach a (perhaps false) sense of importance to them.

In thinking about this I wonder if we would apply those same labels to other forms of art? When a band releases album after album of essentially the same style of music, musical progression and all that, but basically variations on a theme. Did someone go up to Picasso at some point and say "dude, we get it, you're…

For a first novel House of Leaves was remarkably adventurous yet managed to remain (relatively) comprehensible because of one very strong and clear narrative, The Navidson Record. I sometimes wonder if Danielewski had the idea for that story first and decided to play with it rather than writing a straight horror…

Johnny Depp, an Edgar Wright and a Neil Gaiman get lost in the jungle and captured by these cannibals. Well, I think you can guess how this ends…

Shakespeare and Chaucer both used "autumn", not this "fall" barbarism, so I'd guess that's the safer one with which to stick.

Only in the sense that in order to get somewhere else now he'd have to fly "from New Zealand". In most other senses, he's from England.

I think maybe more research is required on the part of the writer into said "British lyricist" because I have a feeling Richard O'Brian is/was intimately familiar with those terms.

I thought these Jesse Stone things looked a bit naff, but if you like those and Wambaugh (who I think is great) maybe there's something to them.

Larry the Cable Guy.

Wheatley hasn't made a bad film yet. I remember watching thinking "this is brilliant stuff, hope the bloke makes another interesting film" BOOM "Kill List" and I'm thinking "ok, how's he gonna top this then?" so he provides "Sightseeers" not as flat out bonkers, yet far more insidious, but maybe he detected my feeling…

The commonly held view is that for general intelligence gathering torture is not very effective at all, but where the subject holds specific information that is relatively easily verifiable it's a more useful tool.