tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.comments2024-03-18T22:26:38.621+13:00The Tearoom of DespairBob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger972125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-60716024056807171582024-03-18T22:26:38.621+13:002024-03-18T22:26:38.621+13:00bring iiiiittttbring iiiiittttUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01882273078839537592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-38327521757797908962024-03-06T04:02:25.257+13:002024-03-06T04:02:25.257+13:00I wouldn't say skip it...I wouldn't say skip it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-67849168516849021052024-03-05T11:09:43.413+13:002024-03-05T11:09:43.413+13:00I'm glad to hear that 2000AD still seems to be...I'm glad to hear that 2000AD still seems to be publishing quality comics.<br /><br />I'm an American, so I've never really come across any issues of the magazine in comic stores, but old trade paperbacks of Nemesis the Warlock and Sam Slade Robo Hunter are some of the best comics I've ever come across.<br /><br />While the 2,000 issues of 2000AD is a bit daunting to me, I've managed to piece together a complete run of CRISIS and Toxic and it's mind boggling to think in the late 80s and early 90s that it was the standard for British comics to be painted. <br /> Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446482572128270024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-64375697421290871312024-01-29T15:11:56.814+13:002024-01-29T15:11:56.814+13:00I liked your blog thanks for sharing this. I liked your blog thanks for sharing this. Fog PHDhttps://medium.com/@fogphdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-17198026325054854702024-01-19T14:11:55.875+13:002024-01-19T14:11:55.875+13:00I liked joe dirt 2 I watched it twiceI liked joe dirt 2 I watched it twiceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-58197275592076574152023-11-28T08:19:17.677+13:002023-11-28T08:19:17.677+13:00I was about 11 when Adric died and I was shocked a...I was about 11 when Adric died and I was shocked and distraught! I couldn't believe it and it still hurts to this day.Pieter Warmingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471228774270833461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-39082463150572012052023-10-25T04:18:16.597+13:002023-10-25T04:18:16.597+13:00Great article! Thanks for sharing I added some tho...Great article! Thanks for sharing I added some thoughts on <a href="https://www.alcalasandiego.com/" rel="nofollow">skin wipes</a> sometime agoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-64743253331493373002023-10-06T08:43:32.987+13:002023-10-06T08:43:32.987+13:00Great reeading your blog postGreat reeading your blog postLilxquangstahttps://lilxquangsta.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-37714617898622330162023-09-16T19:04:56.207+12:002023-09-16T19:04:56.207+12:00Thanks for this. Kieslowski's Blue is one of m...Thanks for this. Kieslowski's Blue is one of my favorite films. She's absolutely brilliant in Clouds of Sils Maria and Certified Copy and High Life, as well as the last film I saw her in: Both Sides of the Blade. She's absolutely compelling in everything she's in. Like you, I'll watch anything she's in, so this was a delightful post.peccauihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250256541018614409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-83211788960496881752023-09-12T16:03:55.290+12:002023-09-12T16:03:55.290+12:00Hi great reaading your blogHi great reaading your blogThe Ivy's Thoughhttps://ivysthough.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-3890453150069270402023-08-30T02:27:32.564+12:002023-08-30T02:27:32.564+12:00Away and take yir face fir a shiteAway and take yir face fir a shiteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-81823021231843313592023-08-29T20:10:36.677+12:002023-08-29T20:10:36.677+12:00Don't forget that the Director's Butcher d...Don't forget that the Director's Butcher didn't end there- Kelly also swapped out The Church "Under the Milky Way" in the scene where Donnie and Gretchen are on the stairs at the party. (This is where "The Killing Moon" was shuffled to.) I share your sentiment- INXS "Never Tear Us Apart" is a great song. The 80s gave us bangers aplenty but INCS is just tonally out-of-place. It is so bizarre to me that they crafted the perfect atmosphere in the original release that was as important to the unforgettable impact of Donnie Darko as the story and actors. And then ruined it. <br /><br />"Refining" something should make it purer but what Kelly achieved feels more like adulteration to me.<br /><br /><br />Catsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-43095107521301529072023-08-17T07:01:59.808+12:002023-08-17T07:01:59.808+12:00I love that Excalibur issue of Captain Britain roa...I love that Excalibur issue of Captain Britain roaming around New York after Inferno. Claremont at his goofiest.Maxwell Murdocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-634421469755086872023-06-23T18:14:31.806+12:002023-06-23T18:14:31.806+12:00Michael put me onto this channel, via the excellen...Michael put me onto this channel, via the excellent 'Blake's 7' review - very funny, but thoughtful too: https://youtu.be/7B2NXFtM_YAUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807998228198315503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-53862543050296254602023-06-20T16:22:16.422+12:002023-06-20T16:22:16.422+12:00Great post. Left me a tad teary myself.Great post. Left me a tad teary myself.peccauihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250256541018614409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-52641688493360155642023-06-14T01:25:34.490+12:002023-06-14T01:25:34.490+12:00I stumbled across your post while trying to (again...I stumbled across your post while trying to (again) search for an excerpt of this scene, as I remembered it being one of the few that shows what <i>real</i> gun violence must be like.copyleftisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343006031202271045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-7243468941878622092023-05-25T08:25:59.728+12:002023-05-25T08:25:59.728+12:00Yep, would agree it's one of Ennis' best c...Yep, would agree it's one of Ennis' best comics, maybe even his best ever. My theory is that because it was an all-ages title he couldn't just resort to lazy shock value and had to work harder at the storytelling. Also McCrea and Leach are up there with Kirby and Sinnot as the greatest penciller - inker pairing everTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09025289184864042978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-27068393811660206132023-05-13T23:07:48.701+12:002023-05-13T23:07:48.701+12:00Yes it is. Go to a narcotics anonymous meeting.Yes it is. Go to a narcotics anonymous meeting.ITALO SLEAZEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15140599096129768075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-12741490438932742902023-05-01T20:17:38.770+12:002023-05-01T20:17:38.770+12:00When I go back to Beckenham, my home town in south...When I go back to Beckenham, my home town in south London, I sometimes walk or drive past the corner building that used to be the newsagent that sold American DC comics, where I bought Detective Comics #526 sometime in the spring of 1983 (along with other Batmans, Tecs, Legion ofSuper-Heroes etc). The newsagent is long gone, but I still like to go past its former site, and even on occasion point it out to my disinterested daughter.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-12324454174991835122023-03-11T02:24:22.708+13:002023-03-11T02:24:22.708+13:00Hi Bob Temuka,
I read your post about the Watcher...Hi Bob Temuka, <br />I read your post about the Watcher and I liked it. If I had to write a post about this series, it would probably be a bit different from yours, of course. But there is one element of your post that would, for sure, be an element of mine. That is the following. <br />I read articles about The Watcher on the web and they all (or they mostly) deal with that series as one would deal with an ordinary thriller. They analyze the primary meaning of the series and they wonder who is responsible for what’s happening in the series (in this case, for writing the letters). For them, what’s important is trying to unsterstand which person (or persons) is the Watcher. <br />On the other hand, your post analyzes the series on a different level (maybe one can say on a deepest level). The Watcher doesn’t have to be a person, but it can also be something other than a person. Therefore, the question becomes, not WHO but WHAT is the Watcher. <br />The title of your post makes that point clear. You write : “What if… the Watcher was actually a decent metaphor for the meaning of life?“ Whereas the other articles on the web write “we don’t know WHO the Watcher is“, you write “we might actually know WHAT the Watcher is“, and that is, in your opinion, a metaphor. You are even more spectific, writing that it might be a metaphor of the “meaning of life“. <br />I would competely agree on both points, which are 1/ it is more important to know WHAT the Watcher is than to know WHO he is ; and 2/ there seems to be a link between what is is and a philosophical notion, such as, for instance, the meaning of life. <br />I could write a lot more on the subject, but I prefer to stop here, and content myself with those only two points, because I feel sure that we agree on those two points, and because that makes our analyzes very different from so many analyzes on the web, which keeps wondering WHO the watcher might be, or lament that the series doesn’t tell us who he is and why he wrote the letters. <br />If you want to discuss more about the series I would be glad to do that. <br />I also liked the phrase on the top of the blog but I don’t know if it’s from you (the rats inside one’s head discovered through college). Been there. <br />Sorry for my english which isn’t my first language.<br />Best regards, <br />MJSegment 4https://www.blogger.com/profile/14409652231860476767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-72615816675257961982022-12-19T19:40:18.120+13:002022-12-19T19:40:18.120+13:00Beautiful collection! Beautiful collection! Maxwell Unnaschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-114162843570063932022-12-07T00:22:44.765+13:002022-12-07T00:22:44.765+13:00Got to love a letters column. The ones after Batm...Got to love a letters column. The ones after Batman: Year one are a testament to the stupidity of those bothered to complain.<br />Greg Capullo got really down with McFarlane showing hate mail in the letters page of Spawn. But it was bait by McFarlane to draw out the supporters. "I don't know what he's talking about. Greg rocks" and that sort of thing.<br /><br />McMahon is god tier. The biggest crime is his slow/erratic output.Will Shynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04954843416997683983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-17330846061520494192022-11-17T13:55:47.983+13:002022-11-17T13:55:47.983+13:00Wowsers, this really looks like my cup of chai! W...Wowsers, this really looks like my cup of chai! Will track this down, thanks!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807998228198315503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-71867824693521772612022-10-26T16:54:26.919+13:002022-10-26T16:54:26.919+13:00Crap. Very sorry to hear this. Hope you all feel...Crap. Very sorry to hear this. Hope you all feel a lot better soon, and there's no lasting effects. I'm relieved I'm in a city that still values mask-wearing when inside with strangers, and I'm very grateful masks and vaccinations have helped me dodge the 'rona completely even when (in retrospect) it's been clear that I'm been smack bang in the middle of a superspreader event. Best thing is that people with regular colds more readily consider wearing masks, cos it's NOT FUCKEN DIFFICULT. AT ALL.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807998228198315503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-69831655238597609422022-10-26T06:53:43.790+13:002022-10-26T06:53:43.790+13:00Fuck off.Fuck off.Bob Temukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.com