Genuinely bummed out about this. Spend a fair amount of time on the music and various movie/tv show boards. As people have pointed out, trolls and loonies were plentiful, but tended to stick to current blockbusters or the more controversial topic forums, such as Religion ("judge not, lest you be judged", indeed). Most…

I can't say I agree with some of the people here regarding Dixon ("good writer, but…"), at least with regard to his Batman stuff. Personally, I find the mid-to-late 90s Batman comics to be pretty dull, and Dixon was definitely a part of that. I much preferred to Animated Series tie-in comics to the "proper" Batman…

The Communion alien terrified me as a kid, too. And we definitely weren't the only ones!

Saucer Country was great, glad to hear it's coming back. I particularly loved that issue where we get a history of UFO and alien encounters.

I grew up with a fascination for this stuff, and, despite growing skepticism over the years, paranormal subjects have a tendency to pull me back in every now and again. Recently I read "Dark White" by Jim Schnabel, a journalistic account of "abductionologists" like Budd Hopkins, which was written just as the subject…

The first two Supergrass albums, and maybe even some Super Furry Animals, though I may be stretching the "Britpop" definition there. Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers fit well in the Britpop era too, even though the band themselves were definitely outside it.

Modern Life is Rubbish is still my favourite Blur album overall, with Parklife and the s/t coming close behind. There are moments of brilliance on all the albums, but some are considerably patchy.