He remembers everyone else lol. He even remembers the names of English teachers - I can barely remember mine!

Currently reading The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King. It's OK.

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ION, I'm starting Superman VS Aliens next I think...

The new Harry Potter book

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ION, I'm reading a Clive James memoir of some description... there's an odd anecdote where he talks about him and his chum wanking each other off when they were small boys, watching each other pee and so on. WTF?

Apart from that weirdness, the book is loaded with references that twenty people in the whole world will get, so I don't know if I'll carry on.

Have just read Spider Man: Torment. Art and writing were both awful. It's a five part story where pretty much nothing happens.

Unreliable Memoirs. Now that is an old book....I thought it was very funny!

That's the one. Think it's a first print from 1980 IIRC, it's the world's smallest paperback autobiography and yet the RRP is £5

Read through the entirety of Dark Horse's Fire and Stone run (Alien/Prometheus/Predator), and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have bothered. Motivation and characterisation changes on a whim, and it's page after page of mutations over any kind of plot. Also some of the artwork is that lazy-ass, personality-free, graphics tablet BS. And that's when it's being consistent, it changes within panels!

As ever with the worst adaptations of these characters, you only plough on to see what new canon is being added.

I'm ploughing my way through the Dark Horse Aliens comics. Most of them are great one way or another, but it eventually gets to the point where the only way forward is to tell you more about the Alien, which is a bit like learning about Hannibal Lecter's entire childhood and it making him less interesting as a result. These things are much better deployed in tiny little snippets.

Also, as the series went on, characterisation pretty much went out the window.

Vince Flynn - Consent to Kill. Bit of a Reacher clone but the main character (Mitch Rapp) is less interesting. Even the cover design looks like a Reacher book.

Kick Ass TPB. Story is OK but I don't like the art at all.

From Hell TPB. - Re-reading this and it's an awesome piece of work.

Note: While checking the details of the Vince Flynn book on Wikipedia, I accidentally saw a massive spoiler. [LIFTED]!

Finished Aliens: Xenogenesis earlier. It's one of the worst comics ever, and as it turns out, killed the line for a full decade. For four issues it's simply one team killing Aliens and the run just ends. Not even a pay-off as it looks like they knew they couldn't handle it month to month, it just ends. I've never been so disgusted with a comic in my life.

Happily, The Fix is a new comic that at least tries to be funny and consistent. It's about two corrupt cops and worth a look for those who partake.

Have any of you read priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan?


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Yes - some time ago - If you like her Magician series then this is of a similar style so you will enjoy it

Predator: Life and Death - They forgot to make the Preds in any way interesting. Especially annoying since they've borrowed some of the better action figures. Once again the whole thing is an exercise in world-building, linking this to Aliens/Prometheus with way too many generic characters. An entire platoon's worth as it happens. Dire.

The Punisher - Yeah, the latest reboot. It's friggin' dull and drawn out. Two books in and you've forgotten it as you've read it. And it's monthly! Hasn't even established the beginning of a plot yet.