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Kris Vyas-Myall
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Reviewer of books, bunny snuggler, Non-Binary & Genderqueer (they/them), god of excel & filled with geeky squee.
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Mirror, Mirror on my screen, is this the best Trek episode you've ever seen?
Schedule 15/11 (BST):
17:00: Marine Boy: Rustlers of the Deep
17:25: Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror
18:10: Dad's Army: The Big Parade
discord.gg/GFhPBwfe?eve...
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I've been reading the post-Bats: Year One, Catwoman stories in order. 2 things that have struck me so far:
1. There are not many of them
2. Most of them are not actually that interested in her.

This is the title page of issue #5 of her ongoing series. Catwoman doesn't actually turn up until page 6.
Azrael-Batman posing on a rooftop of Gotham. Title: Nun Better! Captions: He is the Batman and Gotham City is his. In the past, in a part of his life that seems like a dream, he was Jean Paul Valley... ...a student who dreamed, modestly, of glory in silicon valley. Jean Paul became Azrael, living sword of the Knights Templar, forged by secret legacy into a flawless fighting machine.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Brit Trek this week has a new assignment, on Earth:
Schedule 08/11 (BST):
16:50: Marine Boy: The Stolen Island
17:15: Star Trek: Assignment Earth
18:00: Psychedelia: A Collage: Threshold of a Dream
discord.gg/3WCyz2um?eve...
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Okay they really are going as far as they can with this, without actually giving us two women making out!
Close up of Jeanne de Valois saying: As in...a "Lesbos" fashion... Close up of Jeanne de Valois saying: Well, you see...Her majesty has a taste for women. Close up of Jeanne de Valois saying: and though she dresses like a man, she's a genuine woman. Close up of Oscar as Jeanne de Valois saying: Her Majesty has her lover dress as a man and keeps her close as a companion.
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Brit Trek is loving and giving this week, with Friday's Child:
Schedule 01/11 (BST):
16:50: Marine Boy: The Stolen Island
17:15: Star Trek: Friday's Child
18:00: Psychedelia: A Collage: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out
October 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Good morning, dark Lord of fluff. Are your preparations for spreading chaos underground and Overground going well?
A couple of books reading for review, The Snow-White Soliloquies by Sheila MacLeod and Quark/1 Ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker.
Snow White Solliquies by Sheila Macleod showing a woman asleep inside an apple with a missing bite inside concentric circles. Quark/ #1 A quarterly of speculative fiction Adam Bailey Benford Bernott Bouchet Bryant Delany Disch Dozois Eklund Fitzgerald Gilden Hickey Lafferry Le Guin Link Priest Russ Stanley Van Vogt Covet shows a brown arm peaking out from behind a tattered Confederate flag. The hand has an afro behind it and is reaching round to inject itself with a needle.
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Whilst I am enjoying watching the 1979 anime of Rose of Versailles, I have a sneaking suspicion the subtitles are not 100% accurate.
1970s anime, two people in a period mansion, one in a military uniform sitting on a sofa, one in a red dress standing up. Subtitles read: "Jeanne , you never C8888 to amaze me..."
October 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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After a hiatus for such important events as Horse of the Year, The BBC of 1970 is bringing back Star Trek, and so are we:
Schedule 25/10 (BST):
16:50: Marine Boy: Operation Deep Deep
17:15: Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer
18:00: Psychedelia: A Collage: Shape of Things
discord.gg/yQumbgSN?eve...
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I just learned that the first season of the Bill and Ted animated series actually had Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin and Bernie Casey doing their voices, not impersonators as I had assumed.
That is just so wild Hanna Barbera managed that.
Bill and Ted animated intro with fists raised. Bill and Ted live action with fists raised.
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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What I think whenever I get messages about voting in the Labour Deputy Leadership election.
Two identical clones at election podiums. One named Jack Johnson, one named John Jackson.
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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My four favourite DC Characters:
Green Arrow - Oliver Queen Black Canary - Dinah Lance Superman - Clark Kent Shade - Richard Swift
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Good morning, trying to catchup with works I haven't read from 1970 so finishing off Recall Not Earth by C. C. MacApp and Dread Companion by Andre Norton before moving on to And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ.
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Good morning, I am reading some more Superman comics, up to Lex Luthor being elected president and all feels far too real. I feel like I have heard these exact lines spoken in earnest many times over the last decade (with just a certain name changed).
Two square panels, one on top of the other. Panel 1: Superman from behind, Loise Lane from side, Batman from the front: Bats: Do you have anything we can use against Luthor? Lois: No, but... Supes: Is that what we do now? Panel 2: Same scene opposite side, Batman from behind, Superman and Loise Lane from front, windows in background: Supes: Dig into people's personal background so they can't run for political office? Bats: We are talking about Luthor. Supes: Yes. And that's why you have to put some faith in the American people to do the right thing. Four vertical panels in a row, all showing Superman and Martian Manhunter watching a variety of video feeds. Panel 1: MM: You don't suppose that Luthor could be serious? That he has the best interests of the American people in mind? Panel 2: The two look blankly at each other. Panel 3: Superman bursts out laughing. Panel 4: Superman wipes tears from his eyes Supes: Ha-Aha Thanks J'onn. I needed that. MM: Any time. Perry White walking into his office at the Daily Planet looking despondent: PW: Let's get a move on people. Just because this country is about to go to hell in a handbasket doesn't mean this newspaper does too!
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Good morning, reading two things for review.
Early Michael Swanwick in Gravity's Angels and the anthology The Disappearing Future (near-future fiction and futurist speculation).
August 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I started recently reading Galactic Girl by Fiona Richmond from 1980. 1 of ~10 new SF books from a British woman author from a British publisher in 1980, as it was really in the doldrums. However she is more well known as a glamour model and the book is weird. It has rainbow genitalia by page 3...
August 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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One thing I love about The Amazing Digital Circus is how each episode manages to get:
1. Emotionally deeper
2. More unhinged in the plotting
This week being prime example. Also I need a buddy action comedy starring the wonderfully violent pairing of Zooble and Gangle.
TADC screenshot of Zooble reloading a sniper rifle. TADC screenshot of Gangle wearing her comedy mask shooting a tommy gun wildly whilst laughing maniacally.
August 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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As far as I am aware there is only 1 further appearance which muddies things more than anything. In Reign In Hell limited series Linda shows up working for hell and Shadowpact fight her. So presumably does exist in this continuity and is dead? Or the Matrix is deatched? Or anything else???
August 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Now you could maybe do some hand waves of your own, like it is Superboy punching the walls of reality but I am pretty sure it has never been explicitly mentioned. Occasionally turns up in evetns like Convergence and in histories of the DCU but how or why I don't believe is ever explained.
August 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Even when she interacts Connor, who Matrix used to work with a lot, it doesn't come up. Not even a "that uniform looks familiar" or "you have to earn the right to use that name"
August 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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1 Year later (in release time, probably shorter in universe) a spaceship crashes in Gotham. It contains Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin from Krypton. She wears a uniform not dissimilar to Matrix's and uses the same name. A fact no one seems to comment on.
August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Supergirl's ongoing comic ended with issue #80 in 2003. In this there was a lot of cross-universe shenanigans involving the original SG. Perfect time to remove her from the timestream.
But instead Linda (as she's now called) retires & goes into hiding, giving her Supergirl stuff to Lois & Clark.
August 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The Matrix itself however survives and eventually, with help from Supes and Lex, becomes the main universe Supergirl. I don't want to go through all the twists and turns, but let's just say things got complicated.
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Now Byrne's run ended with Superman going to that universe and everything one dying, including Supes executing the genocidal Zod there. In that universe though, their Lex had created a version of Supergirl via Protoplasmic Matrix.
August 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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2. John Byrne wanted no other Kryptonians hanging about and no early CK. Last Son of Krypton meant 1 survivor.
Instead of a hand-wave (like Power Girl is secretly Atlantean) they created a weird pocket universe that the Legion time travelled to always. Mostly just for Time Trapper to mess with them.
August 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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For those not in the know, after the original Supergirl dies in Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Superman title was rebooted there were 2 problems:
1. They didn't reboot the Legion of Super-Heroes, as it was their 2nd biggest seller, even though it was heavily tied to Superman history.
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM