There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...

Man, I love being a geek. It's great. OK, there are downsides; school wasn't much fun, for example. Neither is writhing under the blank, pitying stare of a girl who has just learned that you're a grown man who enjoys reading stories about be-tighted, superpowered folk.

'Comics? Like Spider-man and stuff? But aren't they for kids?'
'Well, yeah, some of them, but the genre has changed a lot and there are loads of really clever writers out there who...'

At which point you trail off, realising that she's right. You're a fuckhead, a socially inept man-child, a pube clinging to the toilet bowl of life and, moreover, you were a fool to ever think otherwise. So you leg it, escaping to your room to bury yourself in old back issues of The Flash in the forlorn hope that the whole horrible world will just forget you and go away.

But then something wicked happens, like the release of the first official picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker from the upcoming Batman movie, and suddenly it's all worth it. Stuff like this shouldn't be important but, for some reason, it is. And I love it.

Also, check out his socks.

Quote of the Week

I just want to burrow into his beard and build a little cottage in there. Actually, forget I said that.

Alan Moore, from an interview about the upcoming 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier'.

'Orwell was exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.'

Good old Alan; he's a freakin' genius. Unfortunately it looks like those of us outside the US won't get to read 'The Black Dossier' due to some very boring and irksome copyright problems. That, my friends, is a gold-plated, sixty foot high, all-singing all-dancing pisser. Interested parties can get the full story here and here. Thank Glykon for the grey market, eh?