They tried that with 007: Legends and by all accounts it didn't go so well - it got worse reviews than either nu-Goldeneye or Blood Stone. If I ever see it cheap somewhere I might still pick it up out of interest, though.

Oh, it isn't, not really. I subscribe to the "don't take the piss" ethic when it comes to downloading - I only download something if it's too old, or ridiculously expensive, or unusually hard to get, or such a popular title the writer's getting paid anyway (ie, DC or Marvel, but any Big Two titles I do read - just…

Is it weird that I want to read Cerebus, but don't want to pay for it? And because I don't want to just download it either, I'm basically waiting for Dave Sim to die so it falls into the public domain.

I'm not really a cryer, but I've definitely reached the "damn, there's something in my eye!" level.

Thank you for the history lesson too. (And I mean that sincerely, that's a really interesting subject, even aside from the political relevance.)

That's a different David Mitchell again, David Robert Mitchell.

Hey, I've been through it myself. I even went to a college counsellor once. Even if your school doesn't have one, I guarantee you they'll have the facilities available to find you one.

I'm sure there will. Stay strong, man.

Doctor Who thread:

No, it's not Mitchell & Webb David Mitchell, it's Cloud Atlas David Mitchell.

Well, yeah… the ones who were Red Peril stereotypes.

He was already in a movie! He cameoed in Batman Begins, in Arkham. I can't be sure, but I think he's the one who threatens Rachel and that kid after the asylum breakout, too.

After praising Paul Cornell further down, I discovered he was responsible for this character too. I feel like he betrayed me.

Condiment King's in the weird position of being the go-to guy if you need a cameo by a suitably silly, Silver-Agey obscure Batman villain…

I bet you never get to reverse the polarity of a neutron flow, though.

'66 Batman basically gave up pretending their Gotham wasn't LA rather than New York, which I find charming. So you get palm trees and surfers and loads of sunny West Coast stuff.

And some of the rest are just nicked off Spider-Man. Blight's basically Norman Osborn. Shriek is just like Shocker. And Spellbinder is part Scarecrow, part Mad Hatter… so he's a lot like Mysterio.

Denny O'Neil, man. Best thing that ever happened to Batman.

There was a while there when almost everybody's method for bringing back old Batman villains was "but now they're a psychotic murderer too!"

Nick Fury fought a black supervillain (whose name I can't remember…) during Steranko's run. And did any of Black Panther's rogues gallery besides Klaw debut before his solo series?