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Your odds may be changed because Quitely is only drawing the first and last arcs.

The day that you and Charlie Brooker meet and/or have a writing conference is the day that Satan sends his armies into the offices of media empires everywhere to drag the bullshit back where it came from.

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Strangely, despite being a huge Brooker fan, I really didn’t like Dead Set. I didn’t even get all the way through the series.

Then again, I was expecting more comedy and less drama, so that may have thrown me.

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What about Plants Vs. Zombies?

That’s pretty good.

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I’m still on the fence with Batman and Robin. It was an okay issue, but like just about everything Morrison’s done with Batman I enjoy the ideas behind it far more than I do the actual final product. Because it was just a normal sized issue Morrison didn’t really have room to show a lot about the new status quot, or for Dick to come off as having much personality. Also, I probably would have preferred that the villain be a more familiar Bat-villain for this first time out to have a common connection between the old and new during the transition. Of course this is all my opinion.

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know_access said on June 7th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

I completely agree about Will Ferrell. Stranger Than Fiction is the only movie of his that I absolutely love. The only other movies that he is in that I can stand are Elf because his whole “boy stuck in man’s body” schtick work there, and The Producers because he isn’t in it much.

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Simon K said on June 7th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

I pretty much wanted to say exactly what BringTheNoise said. I love Brooker, I have 2 books of his columns, I watch his TV show, hes fantastic. Dead set pretty much just left me cold for some reason. Good premise, but… I think it was really just that I was expecting more comedy in my comedy zombie drama. The making of stuff from screen wipe was fantasticly interesting though.

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cameron said on June 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Agreed on ‘Pontypool,’ and it’s nice to hear someone else say so, because many of my friends have refused to see it because of the, apparently, bad reviews in Sunmedia publications especially. It’s a solid film, and does what few horror films in recent experience have done: actually scared me (as compared to the continuing and baffling dominance of the slasher, which don’t frighten so much as disgust…not the same emotions). The entire first half is an excellent example of how to increase tension and fear with the most minimal of effects, a single set, and numerous close-ups.

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My reaction between paragraph two and three was was “I see he liked Dead Set. I should ask him if he’s seen… never fuck mind.”

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Maybe you’re conflating “making the cut” with “above the fold”?

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I really liked sex drive, if for no reason other than james marsden.

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