Reaky

À la Recherche du Liège Perdu

Have you been to the Musee Carnavalet, where you can see the reconstruction of his cork-lined bedroom?

To be exact, she sings about how much she hates him personally.

Serge, le lapin pas agile.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Either he doesn’t understand the verb, or this is a confession that the US has barely put a dent in the Iranian military apparatus.

Second face to melt, after his orange boss.

Of course, there actually is an Arctic Monkeys song called Batphone.

“Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino—Bruce speaking. Please tell me, how may I direct your call?”

Between the first Domino cover you posted and this one, Domino seems to have had some… enhancement.

Fish & chips van, Haddenham Steam Rally Country Fair, 1993, by Richard Heeps.

Classic Stan recycling. How many Silver Age Marvel characters are “poor bastard gets hit by radioactive thing”?

#NowPlaying This is great - a spacey, sometimes heartbreaking beauty. #AlexisTaylor

I honestly cannot fathom how he’s able to insure tours.

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Indiana Jones, simply walk into the temple and take the golden bust, taking due care and attention.

I move to reintroduce the expletive Cor! To common parlance. Modelled by Terry Scott, naturally.

Ye gods! I’m Medea.

Autocomplete fucked up “Irredeemable”.

#NowPlaying The lost Next Big Thing of the early 90s (see also The House of Love).

I’ve gone full Pluribus today.

Thinking about Diabolik makes me ask, where’s my Spider movie?

Just watched the first, and really enjoyed it. You’re right about the pacing, but it was actually refreshing in the modern hyper-kinetic Marvel/DC era. And Miriam Leone is fantastic.

Manuel Agnelli - La Profondità Degli Abissi YouTube video by ManuelAgnelliVEVO

I really like the 2021 Manetti Bros Diabolik film, and one of its pleasures is the theme song La Profondità Degli Abissi, by Manuel Agnelli. Think Richard Hawley and the Manic Street Preachers doing a Bond theme and you’re close. Oh, and he wears a gimp mask in the video. youtu.be/9StT87befcE?...

Thunderbirds if it was set not on Tracy Island, but in Surrey.

“You know—for kids!”

That’s what makes the 70s Lee edict “If I don’t write him, no one does” so galling. Being proprietorial over a character not of your making.

Huh, seems not, though I imagine no more than a Lee transcription of Kirby’s usual border notes and dialogue.

Didn’t Kirby write the last issue?

But when Kirby’s scripting him—