After this long I'm afraid it is well known where your buttons are.

Chapter 9: Hallie.




Rhiannon alone immediately caught the key line in Valeria's prophesy, even if Queen Mab didn't: "There is no real chance of stopping him." Sorry.




Noted. But can you really say "No" when Yo is that entusiastic?




Proceed.




A couple of years back I was commissioned to write a novalla that was eventually published as The New Adventures of Richard Knight: Race With Hell. The title character was created by aviator Donald Keyhoe (the man whose UFO sighting started off the 50s saucer scares), whom often called him by his codename, "the man called Q". Since I was trying to pastiche Keyhoe's style I did the same - except that for some reason throghout the 45,000 word manuscript I referred to him as "the man called X". This error made it through beta-readers, proofreader, and two editors. It was only when I got a print galley for final approval that I happened to spot the mistake! We all felt a bit sheepish after that.







I've seen it now (but not the "improved" extended edition). Going in with such low expectations I was mildly entertained by it - a "watch once" movie. The ruins of a good film are somewhere in there. I'd rank it as more watchable than Batman v Superman, but leave both your brain and your sense of outrage at misuse of characters at home.

The only thing I particularly objected to was the presentation of Joker's relationship with Harley Quinn as being a great romance, not as the mental, physical, and sexual abuse we actually saw on screen. Jared Leto did come close to a competent the Joker for me, but the script and direction didn't help.







I suspect that, having now significantly annoyed Mumprhey, we may not be seeing much more of the character.







Looking forward to the tie-in.







I'm not sure if I quite get the US nuiances of the current political/creative turbulence across the pond. I do look forward to Alt-Writer's vicious henchman Rabid Puppy however.