Nah, Long Halloween isn't as great as many people believe it is… but it's pretty alright if you like "Batman vs the Mob" stories (and I do). Even if the "mystery" ends up making not a lick of sense. And (like I think I said to you before) Tim Sale makes up for a lot.

If you don't mind digest size you could probably get the Panini collection "Love And Madness" from the UK. I have Uncanny all the way through from Giant-Size #1 to the Asgardian Wars in that format. (One of them is actually the first X-Men I ever read, from #113 to the Savage Land arc.) They actually read great in…

Gotta work all day today, so I'm going to miss talking to the usual Friday crowd. So if you all see me commenting 24 hours from now or something, have pity on me.

The trailer for Hellboy was on the DVD of Spider-Man 2 we had. I bought it, loved it and it started off my lifetime interest in Mike Mignola.

Wasn't he some kind of electronics or battery pioneer in the post- Doctor Manhattan world? I can't remember either, but that sounds right.

I'm not sure it's worth skipping "The Ribos Operation" and "The Pirate Planet". The others, maybe.

If you go back to the 20s and start with his dad you'd spare even more people a whole lot of misery.

I wouldn't even say "equal to", but it certainly could have been a lot worse than it was. I liked the typically realistic Pixar "message" too, when Mike learns he's not much good at scaring - sometimes, you're just not cut out for your dream job. But that doesn't mean you'll never find something you do like.

The title screen of the movie does actually render it with quotes as IV wrote it:

Yeah, 1911. But it was basically a completely standalone "sequel" to Red Dead Revolver. So I was hoping they'd jump back in time and do another story altogether, rather than connect it to Redemption. (Which they still might, given there's no plot details about RDR2 yet.)

An inconsistency in Doctor Who? Unthinkable!

I'm pretty sure the "Flood" was just in that one place, it's not something that's all over Mars. The episode implied it was the Ice Warriors who had frozen it there in the first place (meaning they're not immune, either).

Holmes himself thought that one was lousy, and I'm not going to argue with him. Particularly not when he wrote the infinitely superior "The Ribos Operation" the same year.

I'm still a bit disappointed this wasn't the premise of the Red Dead Redemption sequel.

This was an unexpectedly lovely thing to find on the AV Club. Thanks, IV!

My fiancée actually bought it for me as a birthday present yesterday!

I've always had a soft spot for Gatiss. Sure, he's written bad episodes, but so has everyone. (Robert Holmes wrote "The Power of Kroll", remember? "The Two Doctors" isn't that great either.)

Yeah, but Rusty was a proud advocate of lying, to keep people on their toes.

There's a cute bit in the Sixth Doctor/Jago & Litefoot crossover where they go to ancient, Burroughs-esque Venus and it turns out that actually is the tune to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" because Henry kept humming it.

It kinda works as a fitting and timely throwback to the Peladon stories too, given that "The Curse of Peladon" was seen as an obvious analogy about the importance of joining the EU.