Jon South

Thief 2 rather than the first?

Did you practice your gazing also?

Quadrat deployed. Now what are we counting today?

BELAZU

Peter Greenaway's From Hell

Devastating use of the 'blue man sitting in a desolate wasteland of red' visual there. Kudos.

My daughter starts with "Interrupting Cow", then repeats the joke with different interrupting things until we beg for mercy.

If you have diplodocus in your bloodstream, you're not going to be worrying about gonorrhea.

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

Ours now has a post office and a toys-r-us crammed in. Which means it's somewhere I actively avoid if I have a small person in tow, or I'll never get out again.

Good call! I need to re-listen to Susan's War anyway, it was terrific.

We're a few books behind but E is currently doing Egypt at school and very enthusiastic about it - it wouldn't be bad to skip ahead, right?

I grew up reading old issues of Punch.
It's just a coincidence that my dad is a retired dentist, they weren't from his waiting room.

The dissonance between the name and the actual colour of the computer bothers me, though.

Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."

Did you see Flow? That had an excellent capybara.

And I've just solved the metapuzzle!
Rewarding myself with a cookie.

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
"OK," you say. You take a step forward.
He takes a step back.
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

Next week: Tom Homan heads into the woods to show the bears how it's done.

God bless the Prince Charles.

Same. I think #1 and #10 were my favourites.

I was listening to the Buffy one yesterday, it was great.

On his way to buy an envelope.

Would have come in handy to protect me from the brutal ginger shot I had with breakfast.

"I woke up and one of us was crying"

Hey folks! How about supporting Jack and Talha in creating something weird and horrible? Go on, it'll be brilliant.

Imagining Capaldi delivering the "In The Pale Moonlight" speech now. Goodness.

YES!

This is supposed to be an incentive to finish on time?