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Paul Cornish
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Science communicator, writer, village scallywag, blackguard of the neighbourhood. he/him
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Robert Eggers after building a 70 foot lighthouse in a remote part of Nova Scotia and then filming two intense actors under grueling conditions only to see me put Dirty Work higher on my list than The Lighthouse:
Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse looking tired and defeated.
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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On Doctor Who Day, let's have your favourite Earth 2 Doctor(s).
John Lennon filming Magical Mystery Tour in a pinstripe blazer with badges, a scarf and a hat with feathers in it. Paul McCartney in black suit with big white buttons in front of black and white spiral umbrellas - a promotional picture for the 'Who Cares' video. Ringo Starr in a Tommy Nutter check suit. George Harrison in a William Morris floral print jacket.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🎵You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin...🎵
The Pope at the mic looking like he's singing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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In honour of Doctor Who Day, here's me hamming it up in the Planetarium for my work's TikTok account.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Green Arrow's chilli was a great success! Food photos on the Internet usually look bad, so trust me when I say it tasted great. Thank you to Oliver Queen & @scottmccullar.bsky.social.
Chilli on a jacket potato.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Today, @jennylmorris.bsly.social is making Green Arrow's chilli (recipe by @scottmccullar.bsky.social). She's following the updated recipe from Scott's blog, with a few minor substitutions for ingredients not easily available in the UK.
www.scottmccullar.com/2019/10/upda...
Comic page: "Ollie's Stupendous Chilli Recipe." Beneath the chilli recipe, Green Arrow is dishing out the chilli while the Justice League are depicted struggling to handle the heat of the chilli, except for Batman. Updated recipe available at the link in the post.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Apparently it was inspired by this Fred Ray cover to Superman #16.
Clark & Lois walk past a statue of Superman. Lois sighs "oh Clark, isn't he wonderful."
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Just when I think I know everything there is to know about Superman, I learn that Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem about him in 1942 that got rejected by the New Yorker.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
The Man of To-morrow's Lament I have to wear these glasses - otherwise, when I caress her with my super-eyes, her lungs and liver are too plainly seen throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here, a banished trunk (like my namesake in «Lear»), but when I switch to tights, still less I prize my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs, the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow, the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now my fatal limitation ... not the pact between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact which makes me shun such an attractive spot as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not that little business of my draft; but worse: a tragic misadjustment and a curse. I'm young and bursting with prodigious sap, — and I'm in love like any healthy chap - and I must throttle my dynamic heart for marriage would be murder on my part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman's life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more. But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame - what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he'd break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he'd dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace - and survive; at eight, he'd ruin the longest railway line by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I'd try to break his head — and fail. So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves - and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs - somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms - «Oh, Clark ... Isn't he wonderful!?!», I stare ahead and long to be a normal guy instead.
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This was great - while it plays with the concept of Deadpool's fourth wall breaking, it's basically a Grant Morrison Batman story where Wade is just along for the ride, which is absolutely fine with me! Taylor & Redondo's Nightwing/Laura Kinney story is fun too.
Frank Quitely's variant cover featuring Batman & Deadpool.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The owner of the cracker factory in the Simpsons firing Milhouse's dad while saying MAYBE SINGLE PEOPLE DRINK COCKTAILS; WE DON'T KNOW. FRANKLY, WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW. IT'S A MARKET WE COULD DO WITHOUT.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"What the phub are you doing here? You're ruining our phubbing relationship!"
An angry couple in bright shell suits tell off Father Ted at a picnic area.
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I would absolutely love it if Pierce Brosnan turned up again as Dr. Fate. If we can keep him, and Fonzie as the Atom, but ditch the rest of Black Adam that would be great.
r/DCcomics u/Youngstown_Wu Tang 2h⚫ gq-magazine.co.uk • [FILM/TV] Actor Pierce Brosnan said he's heard talk about a Doctor Fate movie, a series, and even the character showing up in Superman: Man of Tomorrow Film + TV 57 "No, I'm not [ banging down the door of a Marvel movie]," said Brosnan. "I've never banged down anyone's door. I mean, they know where to find me. I've heard that Dr Fate was going to have his own show, or his own movie. I've heard that he's going to be in the next Superman... I enjoyed that, the philosophy of that character, very much, and I would definitely be open to it."
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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"You're the submarine, pal!"
The Bee Gees, walking off Clive Anderson's show.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Dean Jones, mid-transformation, in the Shaggy D.A.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Screenshot from Look Around You. A bird beneath a question mark. The subtitles say "What are birds? We just don't know."
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Paul McCartney in the movie Help, sat at a piano with Superman comics in front of him.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This was fantastic. Ollie is written exactly how you'd want him to be written. It's such a huge improvement considering how poor this series was under the previous writer. And such a shame it's been cancelled, presumably because of people like me waiting for the trade. :(
Green Arrow: Fresh Water Kills trade Paperback.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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My Frankenstein review:
Homer Simpson crying on the couch: "It's so unfair. Just because he's different."
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I'm reading this and I'm really enjoying it, but for some reason the one thing that's too silly for me to handle in this novel about a man who fights crime while dressed in black rubber is the fact that Batman has built himself a van to drive around in.
The cover of Batman Revolution by John Jackson Miller.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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In 1962, Hawkgirl and Hawkman invented debit cards.
Hawkgirl: OR IF THEY KNEW WE NEVER PERSONALLY HANDLE MONEY ON THANAGAR--BUT "PAY" FOR EVERY- THING WITH OUR IDENTI-CARDS! Hawkman: THE MONEY THAT WE EARN BY WORK- ING IS AUTOMATIC- ALLY DEPOSITED TO OUR ACCOUNT IN THE PLANETARY BANK! AS LONG AS WE HAVE A FAVORABLE BALANCE, OUR PERSONALIZED IDENTI-CARDS ENABLE US TO PURCHASE ANYTHING WE WISH!
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Found this on Ebay for surprisingly cheap. I bloody love the Atom.
My hand holding the Atom Archives vol. 1. Inside the book, the cover of a comic showing the Atom trapped in a wrist watch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts
Bart and Lisa with a sad, confused, and pleading expression.
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Me: It's actually a good thing if not every comic book is aimed at me and it's exceedingly tedious when fans moan because something isn't exactly to their specific tastes.

Also me: This is the least tempting first issue of an Iron Man series that's ever existed and I am personally insulted.
First issue of the latest Iron Man series on the shelf in the comic shop. It's called Iron & Frost because he's teamed up with Emma Frost and it's somehow already crossing over with an X-Men event.
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Got the best film of 2025 in the post today! (Also the second best Superman film and the second best superhero film ever made)
James Gunn's Superman on Blu Ray.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Once again, Mr Tawky Tawny sums up my feelings exactly.
Comic panel: Mr Tawky Tawny, a talking tiger, kicks his typewriter across the room and says "I'm tired of toilet and sweat! I'm going to Hedonist's Hollow."
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM