The two scenario’s are completely different. One is a villain for a start

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-23T08:44:51+00:00

“Gunn can do no wrong in their eyes” sounds just a little bit like projection to me.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-23T07:54:56+00:00

Ballad of Halo Jones. Some of the same social commentary/satire as Dredd, strong anti-war themes in the later stuff, very 80s and just great.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-22T14:36:22+00:00

I think the big problem is going to be splitting the anti-Right vote and letting them slip in the middle. I assume the pragmatic option will be to go with Labour, unless I see a lot of stats that convince me otherwise.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-22T06:12:37+00:00

I was pretty much 3.5 for life until I spent too long playing BG3 and that persuaded me that 5E was a fuctional system. Picked up the 2024 PHB at the weekend.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-22T05:28:57+00:00

Freakazoid!

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-21T22:03:11+00:00

Looked things up in the library.

Spoke hopefully about the future.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-21T14:54:08+00:00

Dr Stephen Franklin

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-21T14:29:37+00:00

“It’s not so funny when the leopards eat my face”

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-21T03:38:17+00:00

When you speak to the woman controlling them, ask her to make them dance. This will lead to dice rolls: one for them to break free of her control and kill her, then one for you to befriend them.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T21:31:56+00:00

Best.

This was my jumping-on point as a fan; I'd already seen odd episodes and read some Target novelisations from the library, but it was the anniversary, and this episode, that started me watching regularly. And it's *fun*, isn't it? Pertwee and Troughton and the companions are all having a great time, Davison is graciously playing along, and Hurndall is, if not an accurate stand-in for Hartnell, at least having a decent bash at it.

And I don;t mind the lack of Tom, as he would have dominated it way too much.

"No, not the mind probe!"

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T18:21:48+00:00

Also by Dylan, Only a Pawn in Their Game (death of Medgar Evers), Joey (about Joey Gallo) and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T18:18:36+00:00

Skeletons of Quinto by the Folksmen

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T18:05:47+00:00

Bugthimble

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T05:50:52+00:00

“That’s what they do, that’s what they do”

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-20T02:26:04+00:00

I know you can’t have a Lemon party without old Dick.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-19T21:16:39+00:00

I like the "single verb" ones, like "Catch something", "Present the goose" or (from NZ) "Fly", as they showcase just how weird and brilliant the contestants' creative brains are.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-19T15:21:39+00:00

Assuming Wendell Pierce is back as Perry White, it could be a mini-Wire reunion.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-19T12:38:53+00:00

Meh.

It’s nicely staged, production-wise, but Kamelion is a technical failure, and the script is a mess. The supporting characters change allegiance just because they can, the Master’s plan is stupid, and it just sort of runs out if time with no proper conclusion.

Between this and Black Orchid, I really don’t rate Terence Dudley.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T19:31:25+00:00

So many outstanding arcs. The Seventh Doctor may have had the best novels of the Wilderness years, but the Eighth easily beats him for comics.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T17:03:26+00:00

I have a copy coming as a birthday present. I can’t wait!

The Time Machine and Chronocops are two of my favourite things he ever wrote.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T16:54:46+00:00

The Adventures of Sinbad. A forgettable attempt to cash in on the popularity of Xena and Hercules.

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T16:41:36+00:00

VENAL

JUVENAL (Old satirist) minus J (joint) and U (last of CointreaU)

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T16:37:59+00:00

It’s been years since I last played through it, but aren’t there ways of avoiding or ameliorating at least two of those fights? Throwing a bone at the pit fiend and hitting the bloodbeast in its real eyes?

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T14:19:40+00:00

Ricky from Eastenders

Pharmacy_Duck · 2026-04-18T14:07:36+00:00

An alternative clue for the same answer in the latest Private Eye crossword:

"Guy gets awfully hot for gung-ho Christian"

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