I kind of feel like we're never going to see the Freys (or the Riverlands) again? But we're getting a Kingsmoot, so who knows?

It seems like we might be going to find out about Rickon next week? The preview promises Umbers, who are possibly offering a gift to Ramsay, and I believe we've been told at some point that Rickon is with the Umbers. So maybe Ramsay will get to brutally murder him?

Kingsmoot! Kingsmoot! Kingsmoot!

I mean, what they did is shitty too - killing off the interesting characters and leaving the Sandsnakes might be the worst of all worlds, and the ridiculous unexplained presence of Obara and Nymeria in King's Landing was just an insult to everyone's intelligence. But an entire Trystane based plotline would somehow be…

Could be a physical transformation rather than a glamour, I suppose, if that's not a distinction without a difference.

Wait, seriously? You want them to kill Doran, and then spend a bunch of time on a fucking Trystane sub-plot? Really? The Dorne plot has been shitty start to present, but your idea promises us *much more Dorne*, and focused around a completely uninteresting character with no clear connection to the rest of the story.…

Asgard's kind of Kirbyish, no?

It is a pretty clear "British guy doing an American accent" accent. Somewhat overly enunciated "r's" are key.

What gets confusing about restarting is how they still like having the 500, 600, 700 issues and such, so you'll jump from issue 23 to issue 600, then do about a year with the old numbering, then start a new volume. This makes keeping track of things confusing. As does jumping to tell the main story in some limited…

The way to make stories accessible is, you know, to make stories accessible. Cutting out characters' doesn't actually do that - it just makes things more confusing, especially when you're doing it inconsistently. You're alienating your existing readers on behalf of new readers who won't actually get anything out of…

Janson was his co-artist for his first run on Daredevil, as well, no?

I don't think they ever are like that in any continuity, I think Bats is way too paranoid for that.

Marvel has included a ton of real presidents over the years. Dubya shows up in Alias. Kennedy and LBJ both, I think, appear in early Fantastic Four comics. So does Adlai Stevenson, as UN ambassador.

There are arguments to be made that superhero comics are fascist in some vague, general, inchoate sense. DKR is *explicitly* and *gleefully* fascist.

The fascist aesthetic is intensely queer, isn't it? I'm not sure queering it up really undercuts the fascism.

Is Millar better than Bendis? Bendis's Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man seem to be better regarded than anything Millar has done.

To be fair, they then immediately went back to being terrified of Russia as soon as Napoleon was gone.

William Hurt sleeps through his part as Leto, and Paul and Jessica aren't much better in the Sci-Fi version (bad enough to use "SyFy" for the current channel; I'm not going to use it anachronistically). What was actually surprisingly decent was the Children of Dune follow-up, which covered Dune Messiah and its…

I mean, Eric Saward couldn't manage it, certainly. (I'm looking at you, Earthshock, where you just keep Nyssa sitting around in the TARDIS for most of the episode. And also The Visitation, where you also, um, just keep Nyssa sitting around in the TARDIS for most of the episode. And also Kinda, where Nyssa feels sick…

Clara spent considerably more time with Eleven than Mel did with Six. She may have spent more time with Eleven than Mel did with Seven.