That was Akhenaten - Aten was the god.

Better than the old trend of running out of ideas, but continuing for six years because the network likes the money.

I haven't actually caught up on new Archer yet! - I've so much else to be watching (Blake's 7, Doctor Who, DS9, Twin Peaks…) I'm happy to wait until it appears on Netflix. Probably won't be too long now.

You mean Archer? Or something else I haven't thought of?

Three strong years is pretty great, but I really wanted a Prohibition-era season 4 gangster epic. Ah well.

Damn.

There's an A in the middle of it, and he's doing a South African accent. So "Wakanda", not "Wokonda" like an American.

I love Phonogram. Though it's so English I sometimes wonder how well it translates to an American audience. I mean, even for (Irish) me it's so incredibly English sometimes - which I like, but only because I'm just young enough to remember the tail-end of Britpop being a thing.

A rich and powerful walrus like you can call me whatever he wants. *wink

You "not getting that vibe" from Kitty and Rachel is interesting, because I once read Claremont talking about how their relationship is specifically a massive unrequited crush on Rachel's side that Kitty either missed or ignored.

Ever since I got into war comics I really want to read The 'Nam. Between being written by actual veterans, and the conceit of having the issues take place in real time as they count down the months to rotate home, it sounds like a really interesting book.

No, it was Claremont, but he was going for the laconic, hard-boiled style that Miller loves too. (You can tell, anyway, because there's a bunch of Claremont tics in the writing. And check out Wolverine's spotlight issues of Uncanny - same style. If anything, he was doing it first.)

Upvoting for American Barbarian. I really want to read that in print, but the only copy I saw was pretty expensive. Two Tank Omen is indeed the greatest. I really want to see what Scioli does next.

Honestly, the funniest/worst thing is that there do seem to have been good intentions there. Northstar is gay. Okay, explicitly saying it was a big step at the time. Northstar has AIDS. Stereotypical as hell, but basically okay as a story idea, that was a major issue. But I assume it was editorial who had the…

"He doesn't have AIDS, he's actually a fairy!" might be one of the most misjudged retcons ever. A fairy? Really?

Aw, really? I always like Candy hanging around in the background of Claremont's run. He was great at having a civilian supporting cast who showed up from time to time. Like Candy, or Kitty's dance teacher Stevie, or Jean's sister. Hank was on-again/off-again with Trish Tilby for years, wasn't he? All of whom are…

Gay, Québécois, Olympian Quicksilver-esque jerk without all the Inhuman baggage and who can fly, though. That's pretty interesting.

Wolverine stopped calling people "bub"? That's just wrong.

Pretty okay this week. I got a full two week's work on Evita, which is great because I'm dangerously close to broke after having a fortnight of no work, and the ten days in the UK for Brighton Fringe (for which I got room and board, but not paid, so it was more like a holiday with some light work). And I'm meeting a…

I started Gilbert Hernandez' Palomar stories again. I got Human Diastrophism a while back, and decided to read Heartbreak Soup again first to get re-acquainted with the giant cast. It's funny, I thought before I read them that I'd be more into Jaime's Californian punks, but I actually enjoy the people of Palomar more.…