What did you say originally? (I only saw your edited comment.)

(I thought Lego was older than the Ice Warriors, so I checked - Lego bricks are from the 40s like I thought, but yeah, the minifig only appeared in the late 70s - early 80s. So Lego minifigs do indeed have Ice Warrior hands.)

I think a lot of the actors find their groove when they put something of themselves into the Doctor, and Capaldi (who's an old punk himself) found it there.

Ice Warriors are back! That looks like an updated "Ice Lord" (or whatever you want to call them) from "Seeds of Death".

No. Ireland has never figured very heavily in Doctor Who. There's only about four stories set here, and they're all Big Finish. (And none of them are in North.)

And McCoy.

And I just did watch it tonight. And yes, it is great.

I haven't read it either, I only learned about it recently. I might pick it up myself if I ever see it in a bookshop.

Starring Jim Broadbent? No.

Except they didn't throw them out. They half-assed it. There's still a Logan running around, and I assume teen Cyclops is still knocking about somewhere. I'm saying throw them out completely. Give me a core X-book with, say, Jubilee, Anole, Rockslide, Quentin Quire, Tempus and Sunspot. Really shake things up.

I have a friend who's the absolute spit of David Kohl, and he's really into music. I'm tempted to lend him my Phonogram, see if he likes it.

And frankly I don't think phonomancy needs to be explained - it's just some sort of sigil magic involving music and that's all I need. I care about the characters.

If you're in Canada, feel free. James Bond's out of copyright there.

Not been reading much comics this week (or the past couple) but I caught up with the latest issue of Doom Patrol, and read the Tintin Flight 714 To Sydney album.

Mike Yates.

Copyright law when Chandler died would have put ol' Phil in the public domain in the 90s. Currently, due to the extensions to the term in the US, it won't be until the 2030s.

And Perchance To Dream, an original plot by Parker that's a sequel The Big Sleep. There's also a short story collection.

Well, strictly speaking, Capaldi's neither A, S nor (I think) P. He's a White Scots-Italian Catholic.

The thing is, I think the answer to fixing the X-Men is to do what Wein and Claremont did way back when - throw out almost all the older characters and start over with the younger ones. Because nobody needs any more Wolverine or Cyclops or Jean Grey stories.

I only (re-)read Phonogram last week! (Well, re-read v.1, read v.2 for the first time.) It does really bring back the "music-obsessed twenty-something" side of me, too. And The Singles Club structure is great.