I think the main problem with an Iceman book is that he's always been the fourth most popular of a five-person team. There's a reason he and Angel were the only two Claremont didn't really use - they're just not that interesting as people. He's one of those characters who's just better filling out the ranks of an…

They thought it was a vampire, but then it just turned out to be Richmond in the server room.

I'm going to give an honourable mention to the movie and pick a line that only works in that particular version:

I doubt there'll be more Wallace & Gromit now, without Peter Sallis.
Arthur Christmas is great, too. Probably the most emotionally affecting one they've done, at least I thought so.

If you haven't seen Flushed Away, then you are in for a treat!

On the features for Were-rabbit, they talked about how they'd digitally erased the fingerprints for Chicken Run… and then decided to leave them in for Were-rabbit, because it just didn't feel as authentic without them.

You might be the only person I've ever seen to think the Anton Furst production design is terrible! (Personally, it's the only thing I do like about the Burton films).

I believe more recent research has shown that domesticating the dog was more of a two-way street than we initially realised. (Something we already knew about cats.) From their perspective, we love them because generations of working dogs gave an advantage to dog-lovers.

Oh you poor sweet innocent child. They are tripping over themselves in stupidity. It's just America's politics have drifted so far right and so far stupid none of you have a sense of proportion any more.

Damn right we're not thrilled. Just remember that (aside from his West Dublin constituency) Ireland didn't vote for him - Fine Gael did. Hell, he didn't even win the FG grassroots vote. They're the most arch-capitalist, conservative and neoliberal mainstream party we have, and only managed a minority government in the…

That honestly doesn't bother me. Music being magic is one of the most ancient tropes we have. The only thing about Tolkien's songs that's ever bothered me is that I'm no good at setting written lyrics to a working tune, so I have no idea how they're supposed to sound. (One thing I appreciate the movies for).

I've not actually read any of the Lost Tales/History of Middle Earth material, but some of his really early, fairy-tale and Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the story - Sauron's incarnation as Tevildo, Prince of Cats; Aelfwine the Mariner; the Orc tanks you mention - sound interesting in their own right.

Alright. Still, in Ireland, "gall" historically just means "foreigner". You see it in placenames like Fingal (fine gall - foreign tribe, ie Vikings) or Donegal (Dún na nGall - Fort of the Foreigners). I suppose to the Irish it probably became a generic term for "not from here" and was broadened to include Vikings and…

I have the first two issues of Casanova in floppies, and I really want to catch up with the rest of it at some stage. I love spy fiction, and a bit of mind-bendy psychedelic spy fiction is always welcome.

Apparently Tolkien always wanted to release those two and "The Fall of Gondolin" as standalone volumes one day. So I wonder if Christopher (who's in his nineties now) plans to get "Gondolin" finished too in the next couple years.

It might have been Tolkien himself:

There's no massive armies involved, but yeah, "Beren And Luthien" does have an evil dark lord and a talking dog who beats the Lord of the Werewolves, the Greatest Werewolf Who Ever Lived and Sauron himself in a fight.

He really has done a pretty singular job. If nothing else, he's the main reason we have the Silmarillion at all. JRR always talked about the Narn, B&L and "The Fall Of Gondolin" being the three he'd fix up to be published as standalone books - I wonder since he's getting on in years, is Christopher planning to produce…

After flying up there on the back of Thorondor, Lord of the Eagles, who had a sixty-foot wingspan or something similarly awesome.

I'd love to see a bunch of interesting animators let loose on it. A live-action Game-Of-Thrones-y take would suck all the wonder out of it.