Paul Cornish

Currently strapped into my CPAP like a mug when I could be tooting my way to a good night's sleep.

Batman falling from the Moon to Earth was a real highlight for me. And I liked seeing Jim Gordon making bad decisions again towards the end of the run.

Yeah, I enjoyed it too. I thought I'd love Joker Year One and hate Gotham War but it was the other way round. I thought Year One was bobbins, but Gotham War (and the rest of the run) was great.

What did you think of Zdarsky's run?

I'm seeing much more hype for the upcoming Fraction run. Nobody seems bothered either way about Hush2.

Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim.

🎵 "Will AI bring about the end?"

"That's not a useful term, my friend!" 🎵

"We've invented a new form of travel called OPEN FTL. It's amazing, we're going to MAKE you use it, give us all your money now." "Is it fast?" "No, it's probably worse than normal travel." "You mean it ISN'T faster than light?" "Absolutely not and honestly we don't think FTL is a super useful term."

Of course, what those superhero equivalents are is a case for debate.

I sometimes wonder if our current superhero movies will be seen the way we see old Westerns today. Whatever the superhero equivalent of the Searchers or Shane or The Good the Bad and the Ugly will still be available, but your Ant Mans and your Black Adams will be largely forgotten.

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Labour members need to hold their nerve. There is no way arresting nans on terror offences won't be a vote winner in 2029

It's still in my top 5 films. I first watched it over 20 years ago after a breakup, and I just clicked with so much of it.

MARVELLOUS MEN OF MARS. MARCONI believes that within a decade it will be possible to send a message through 50,000,000 He thinks that the first agency miles of space. capable of reaching Mars will be the heliograph. Why? Because it is an accepted scientific fact that light carries a much greater distance than sound or its equivalent. But, while the heliograph will be the path-finder through the immensities of space, there is every reason to believe that it will simply be the forerunner of wireless telegraphy as H it is now being developed. It may occur to some people that Mars may not e be inhabited by intelligent creatures who could understand or answer us. For instance, our earth e before the age of steam was not in a condition to be introduced socially to the other planets. As answer to this Marconi refers to Professor Lowell. Only very recently he succeeded in photographing the so- called Martian canals. From their straightness S he is certain they are not natural, but the work of intelligent beings. Their stupendous size, he asserts, proves that the diggers are not only creatures of great size and strength, but greatly advanced in the use of mechanical devices. Such beings could easily communicate their answer to our planet. 9 Week

I was looking through old photos & found this scan from a magazine from 1906. It's so cool that we know so much about Mars now, but sometimes I sort of envy the certainty some Victorians/Edwardians had that intelligent Martians were right next door & all we had to do was find a way to speak to them

This made me think about the bar I went into in Cardiff circa 1999 where they'd tried to class the place up by painting famous quotes on the wall but had put the quotation marks around the author's name rather than the quote.

I can resist anything except temptation - "Oscar Wilde"

MARVELLOUS MEN OF MARS. MARCONI believes that within a decade it will be possible to send a message through 50,000,000 He thinks that the first agency miles of space. capable of reaching Mars will be the heliograph. Why? Because it is an accepted scientific fact that light carries a much greater distance than sound or its equivalent. But, while the heliograph will be the path-finder through the immensities of space, there is every reason to believe that it will simply be the forerunner of wireless telegraphy as H it is now being developed. It may occur to some people that Mars may not e be inhabited by intelligent creatures who could understand or answer us. For instance, our earth e before the age of steam was not in a condition to be introduced socially to the other planets. As answer to this Marconi refers to Professor Lowell. Only very recently he succeeded in photographing the so- called Martian canals. From their straightness S he is certain they are not natural, but the work of intelligent beings. Their stupendous size, he asserts, proves that the diggers are not only creatures of great size and strength, but greatly advanced in the use of mechanical devices. Such beings could easily communicate their answer to our planet. 9 Week

I was looking through old photos & found this scan from a magazine from 1906. It's so cool that we know so much about Mars now, but sometimes I sort of envy the certainty some Victorians/Edwardians had that intelligent Martians were right next door & all we had to do was find a way to speak to them

Apropos of nothing, here's a picture of Frankie Howerd being strangled by the Sugar Puffs Honey Monster... from November 1980...

The cover of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath. A cute, anthropomorphic bear is dragging a blood stained bag through the woods.

Now and again, I'll venture beyond the type of comics I usually read, and I'm always glad I did. Can't recommend this enough for fans of serial killer/detective stuff.

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I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

We're not meat robots. We're the divine fingers of the Universe, capable of love & art & faith & philosophy & scientific enquiry and self-sacrifice. "I'm biologically compelled to be a certain way" is such a cop out.

Even if this guy's claptrap about "physiology and neurology" were true, it's pretty depressing that so many people seem to have no desire to even attempt to be more than what they perceive to be their biological programming.

Dave Lister saying "Spin on it!"

me when journalists suggest that Bluesky's lack of user growth is due to it being "an echo chamber."

Dave Lister saying "So?"

me when journalists write articles about how Bluesky's user numbers are down:

But the real answer is Predator. One of those films that is just completely perfect.

I love Kindergarten Cop and I won't apologise for it. Although I will say that it contributed to me deciding to train to be a primary school teacher, which turned out to be one of the worst decisions I have ever made.

Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US

Superman has joined the Brownshirts. The USA is determined to abandon every ideal it ever pretended to stand for in the most 'on the nose' way possible.

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Love how tech bros are trying to convince us that AI will change our lives when they can't even invent a spellchecker that knows that nobody on Earth ever wants to type "ducking hell."

The trade Paperback of Absolute Batman vol. 1: The Zoo.

Oh wow. This is the best Batman story that Scott Snyder has ever written. And he's written some pretty great Batman stories.

Growing up in the US, I had no familiarity or nostalgia for this show.
I was dreading covering this low-budget silly kiddy show 90s adaptation.

Fortunately, @paulgcornish.bsky.social & @erroneousbosch.bsky.social help me discover what a delight this show is on ep 60 of Into the Greenwood! Out now!

There's no way to prepare you for this. "Kindle edition now complete with cover!! Raphael, a young man in his mid-thirties, returns to the rustic coastal village of Hopetown, where he spent the last few days with his son, Clay, before his son suffers an unfortunate, near-sudden death in a devastating car crash, and during which he, the father, was driving.  Join him as he relives the anguish, the blatant incredulity, the consequent meltdown and intermittent pangs of guilt, and which are then followed by an unfathomable void alternating with a sudden surge of emotion, all in that order, on realising that things had forever changed. While reviving memories, he also crosses paths with a roaming woman spirit of the sea, who claims that he needs her and that she knows Clay's whereabouts, and who is continuously transforming as the relationship grows.  The story also teases a complex interplay of emotions and secrets, as some friends also introduce him to Celine, another young woman, who initially seems to be the perfect antithesis of the other woman, and yet is vaguely similar to the other woman in some ways, also setting the stage for an unpredictable narrative in subsequent parts." Actually sobbing and it's like the ninth time I've read this lol

I got served this incredible advert over on twitter. It's a book summary written by AI but I bet the book is AI too. It's just so incredibly stupidly funny and every time I read it I start WHEEZING