Orangutans are amazing creatures. Please don't compare that idiot to an orangutan.

You know, I hadn't consciously spotted it, but you're right, I can see a bit of Jaime Hernandez in Doom Patrol - the early Locas stories, maybe, back with HR Costigan and dinosaurs hanging around.

I feel like this section's gotten quieter since it became a once-weekly feature. Didn't we used to regularly top 1000 comments? Now it seems to be just the cadre of regulars and a lot less passers-by.

Not really - I'm enjoying the story, and it's a whole collections of things I love - historical conspiracies, fun characters, lost cities, daring escapes, globetrotting adventures… All the good stuff.

Morrison-Waid-Kelly era, probably. Certainly I can't think of a JL era since then that people would consider near that level.

I'm currently on the Seaward (hey, an Arrested Development joke!) in Uncharted 3. For the past two weeks I've been playing through all three Uncharteds for the first time and they are an absolute blast! Some of the most sheer fun I've ever had in a game. Now I only wish I had a PS4 to play A Thief's End.

I saw Hell On Earth is finally being collected into hardbacks at the end of this year. I've been holding out for those for a couple of years now!

I think you mean Keith Giffen there, do you? Not Busiek. I quite liked what I read of Giffen, personally. He tried to revisit something by everybody who'd worked on Doom Patrol. And I still like their status quo as the island's resident Science Cops, and adding yer man the priest from Challengers of the Unknown to the…

Read Garth Ennis's Battler Britton the other day. Dependably solid Ennis war story. Going to go into town to pick up the new Doom Patrol tomorrow, too. Other than that, not reading much. I'm going through a sort of comics dry spell with a corresponding increase in prose reading. I tend to oscillate between the two.

I'm enjoying Doom Patrol, but yes, my one main criticism is that it treads awfully close to G-Moz fanfiction at times. Show me something new. And if anything, it's not weird enough for me. Still, if Way and Derington are in for the long haul, I'm hoping they're just getting the groundwork in first. I appreciate that…

Oh, man. That is easily one of the best live albums I have ever heard. From anyone. Anywhere. Hot damn is right.

Bright blue.

You know, a Vegas-set Bond should look exotic, but it just looks cheap. That whole film looks cheap, unfortunately. The satellite effects, in particular, are awful. And I love Doctor Who, I don't mind cheap effects! But a Bond film really ought to look better.

You should probably cover the '67 Casino Royale too so. Then you'll have every single Bond movie.

That one's a bit bland, but I wouldn't put it in the Worst Of pile. It's just a solid "lower half of the mid-list" Bond, like Thunderball. It gets some points for having a genuine twist, too.

I've always found Moonraker to be "good terrible" though. Sure, you might think James Bond has no business being in space, but that movie is so much fun! Snappy pacing, great stunts, it looks good and something's always happening. I think when Film Crit Hulk reviewed it way back, he pointed out how something tries to…

You'd count Diamonds as "good" Connery? Really?

The fact that the movie visually compresses the geography of Mordor doesn't help. It looks like they could just hop over the mountain, fly ten minutes and they're there. Wasn't it a few days' march in the book? That means it's miles of flying, and Sauron can literally see you all the way.

I'd watch Final Frontier because it has a certain silly fun factor. And Nemesis… well, it has Ron Perlman in it, I suppose? And Tom Hardy's actually pretty good in it. But nothing could make me watch Into Darkness again.

Avatar's dead, Jim.