James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 4hHardly the only problem here, but I think that’s a result of “want to show a stop in Wales” vs “most of Wales’ big population centres are in the South.” Wrexham might have seemed a *bit* less silly. 100
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Still better than that time he added a nose to it. 1100
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can’t judge the execution, but I can see why it’s been so hard to market. 070
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You know he’s written a followup, The Remembrancer’s Tale (and another called The Scryer’s Tale next year)? Only recently spotted that myself. 110
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Philip K. Dick one where he discovers there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo. 040
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well, they were distracted by having to build all those different street sets. 100
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No, I’m pretty sure it’s Gnosia with fewer cat hybrids. 010
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The names there are something like Lightlong, Hierophant, Ignite Leo, Drillnohorn and Sky Report, making up Optimus Link Prime. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean, we’ve been eating their feet and claws for years, we may as well use the whole monster. 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s an alphabetical list of authors with occasional topic sections included, T. H. White isn’t being put under ‘justly forgotten’. Though putting that section right before Dennis Wheatley may be more of an editorial choice. 130
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Flipside of Dominick Hyde and Shakespeare or Bust are two good light ones I’ve seen. Seriously, despite the darker instalments setting its reputation, the ‘new play every week’ thing did provide a mixture. 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They’re not evil in themselves, it’s just that his favourite snack has to be *something*. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of Hokkaido place names are incomprehensible if read for meaning, because they’re written with characters that approximate the sound of the original Aynu placename (very loosely - Nupur-pet becomes Noboribetsu, for instance) 160
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And the largest city on Hokkaido is what the hell is that. 030
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Numbered panels persisted into the early 50s — Tezuka’s rental-library books didn’t have them but his magazine series did. 100
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comDo You Have Any Idea How Little That Narrows It DownAlt: Do You Have Any Idea How Little That Narrows It Down 100
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The emphasis on the aura and the Hulk only being coloured in one shade of grey make him look more ghostly or symbolic than the final version. 010
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Though I wouldn’t believe them if they posted ‘matcha wa nan desu ka?’ 010
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Which is more than she managed during part of AAI2. 011
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I got a matcha latte from the local Japanese takeaway last time I was up in Orkney. 120
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’m reading Demons (aka The Devils/The Possessed), which is rather more taken up by social satire than I was expecting. 110
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“I’m a little concerned you’re writing in to LITTLE ARCHIE with this.” 1121
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Japanese title was the less creative “Wan Wan Sanjuushi” (Woof Woof Three Musketeers) 030
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kara giving a thumbs-up from beneath the collapsed giant penny. 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Managing to get the intent of the post completely wrong is what I’m doing. 110
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bit of that is cameos for *everyone* because it really is the end of something, bit of it is more DC characters who’ve had ups and downs in relevance since than the cast of Secret Wars, and another bit is just plain messiness. 110
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Most of them, but you know William Morris would complain about all the visible tech anyway. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Don’t know why everyone keeps getting on her case: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairouz...en.wikipedia.orgFairouz Ai - Wikipedia 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Arthur Dent feels like he belongs to the tail-end of a sort of English stoicism that was around for several decades, and a fair bit of the story is in how he reacts to things from that position. (There are also plenty of riffs that don’t go through his POV, and they’ve often aged better.) 350
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There’s a Ballard story that does a similarly straightforward take and a PKD that rings weirder changes, in fairness. 130
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Being an atypical story for 2000AD helps it to stand out — the way the emotional sympathy takes precedence over the more standard dark humour, and not actually being science fiction in the end. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Gaiman in the early Sandman issue with the duel in Hell. 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My first thought (admittedly a massive stretch) was about how ‘nighthawk’ (yodaka) was an Edo-period term for ‘streetwalker’. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In two cases at the tail end of the Fox X-Men, though. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That was my last full day in Denmark, flying back to London tomorrow and home the day after. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dessert was a traditional Danish dessert, æblekage. It’s stewed apple topped with cream, and restaurant menu translations disagree about whether it’s a cake, a stew or a crumble. 020
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tenderloin stew with paprika, bacon and sausage for dinner (no lunch today). 010
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Foodposting — as the park didn’t open until 11 I made a leisurely start and had pastries and filter coffees for breakfast. 120
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The most recent coaster, called The Demon, is much faster and has much sharper turns even before it starts combining those with upside-down loops. 000
James Moar @jamesmoar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It dates from 1914, is wooden, and it’s interesting that it’s very train-themed, maybe suggesting rollercoasters hadn’t become fully abstracted from their trainlike elements yet? It has turns and peaks, but is *relatively* sedate compared to the later coasters. 101
