Also doing something good can be a good defence against the news.

The CNN account of the online how to commit rape and monetise with video broke, involving thousands of men using their girlfriend, partner or wife as a commodity, and bragging about it online.

It is every bit as goddamn awful as you may wish to imagine and then some.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become less interested or impressed by the big, superhero event stories. Sometimes they can work, sometimes they fall flat.  This one? Middling. Art is generally very good, its the story where its weaker.

Part of the problem is it has to cover and recap events from multiple books. The other problem is…Read more

One problem is the oddity of missing beat ’em up staples. There’s no grab or throw attacks, no weapon pick ups and little in the way of destructible items.

Another is over-complication. The dual…Read more

This manages to be both a good part of the Massive-verse while feeling like a very independent superhero book. It’s also one that continues to have great use of colour and a sharp script.

It’s choice of villains are both traditional and very fitting, loaded, rich, selfish bastards who couldn’t be content with that, but…Read more

• Hungary telling Orban to get fucked.
• The Artemis moon trip showing space, Earth and the moon in ways that were impossible in 1972.
• Also, you think you’re aging too much, or can’t contribute, the Artemis crew ages were 47, 49 and 50.

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Next, Farage and Reform, Trump and co, all the other euro-bastards.

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Aside from the main point that games can now change drastically for the better post-launch, it also makes reference to the sheer amount of games now out.  That th…Read more

Israel does its usual sledgehammer brutality, claiming its both justified by terrorism and any criticism is anti-semitic, cue global revulsion and criticism. Then some idiot attacks a synagogue, cue Israel using that as further justification for brutality. And around it goes, technical…Read more

Ambiguous stories are hard to pull off, not least as we tend to look for one individual or group to support and define oppositions from there. Gillen succeeds in deploying a cast of interesting characters, but none entirely secure the reader’s backing. That results in a more intellectual story, one that is cooler…Read more

It is both a tragedy and truly stupid of Marvel to axe this title. The ten issues here are a good set of stories, with an ensemble cast that lives up to the title and a very surprising high level of artistic continuity. Musabekov provides art for all 10 issues and the book is far better for it.

What the book…Read more

DC may not always make the most of their Black Label line, but it does allow for some fun riffs on superheroes and this is one. There’s relatively few writers willing to poke fun at the genre. There’s Ennis, Ellis, plus DeMatteis, but together, these are a handful of books. Enter Starks and Pugh.

Across six issues they…Read more

My completions for AC games is patchy. AC2 and Brotherhood, yes, Revelations, AC3, Black Flag, no. Origins onwards, yes. I can’t say I expected to complete this one.  And it got close to that.

Syndicate’s world design is design, its gameplay OK, as is the story, but its main missions are frequently awful and the…Read more

It’s a funeral, it be dead again. Sets are scrapped, no new series.

More seriously, get this bastard out of office, stick a banana skin on the stairs, send him through a window, whatever’ll do the job.

“Hi, can I count on your vote for Reform in the 7 May elections?”

“…Probably not, bye.”

They would be booting this guy’s arse out of the country if they got in and he’s helping them!

Excellent news.

Texan Republicans consistently run on a platform of fixing broken systems, but have been in power for an unbroken span of at least 20 years. So who broke that they’re claiming to fix? They did, but they still get votes.

The same is true over here with the Tories and they still get votes…Read more

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Of note, two Vertigo trades in there, End of Life and Ezra Cain.  The next round of Absolutes.  DC mainline trades too.

Plus some stunningly priced Omnibuses.

“Middle East crisis live: Trump says military action helping people of Iran because ‘they want to hear bombs because they want to be free’”

Did anyone predict the US losing a propaganda war to AI-created Lego attack shorts, created with US AI tools?

“i swear this administration is a TV show. the head of the department of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. the head of domestic intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. and now former head of homeland security is grappling with her husband’s secret…

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Ultimately, sad to say, this is a missed opportunity and one that manages to make the new twist ending even worse.

First, Dark Ties main plot with Kanda and Mine is incredibly sleazy, still, you, as Mine, get to go Highlander on Kanda, right? Nope. Mine’s arc is flat: He starts as an arse, he refuses all opportunity to…Read more

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This was a surprise in that, relative to the other DC books read, it’s one of the weaker ones. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s a perfectly fine story. Though reading it monthly chunks may have been more of a drag.

It’s also been a long time and several runs later since I last read JSA. Wait, weren’t a couple of these…Read more

It’s as if Megatron went into politics, he who cares not for rights now pleads for them.