Have you ever underrated someone while praising them to the heavens? A friend perhaps, someone whose dress sense and confidence you’ve long admired without realizing that in doing so you were also ...

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Join Rosie, Adam and Mark as they discuss part 11 of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. The sky spins open*, the street spits up its sickness, and a sweet fraternity brings life to ...

Welcome to Diane… number 9. Rosie, Mark and Adam’s spirits are revived by the eighth episode and Season 2 opener of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks, May the Giant Be With You. Greater powers ...

Man walks into a bar. Wants to find someone to talk to about comics. He is shunned and dismissed as an irritant. The man leaves the bar and goes on the internet and tries to find someone to talk to ...

Before we start, a quick apology – I didn’t get to write a piece yesterday as I had planned. I tried to go to sleep on Thursday night, but just couldn’t – I ended up finally sleeping from about 9:30AM ...

Doctor Who season twenty-two is not, as we saw in the previous essay, a particularly loved season, and its opener is no exception. It’s one of the most reviled Doctor Who stories ever, and in my ...

This is a difficult one to write about, in two different ways. The first is that, of all the stories in this season, it’s the only one I’ve written about for this site before. The second is rather the ...

A new comic experience as (very kindly) discussed in Kieron Gillen‘s latest TinyLetter email: Not Because of the People – the collected Looking Glass Heights comics. If you enjoy the comic, please ...

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While widely reviled as one of the worst things Doctor Who ever broadcast, Timelash is in fact a masterpiece of postmodern avant-garde art… No. I can’t do it. This is the one story from season ...

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