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"Dignity... always dignity..."
How do, chaps. Firstly, what’s with this whole clergy rawring at female bishops? What possible reason could there be for saying women can’t be bishops? Arsemonkeys, say I.
Secondly, I wanted to apologise generally for being totally incommunicative recently and ignoring everyone (except Katie, who doesn’t get that luxury) and being a bit crap. Personally, I blame working in radiology in the evenings and TV. Maybe the other way round, thinking on’t… Anyway, I will try to be better.
Thirdly, my hair is looking particularly splendid today. I will be getting it cut before we go to France, but not short, do not fret. Just a bit of a trim and a shape.
Fourthly, thank you to people for expressing sympathy about Grandma (sorry, that sounds dreadfully stilted!). She was very ill at the end, and I don’t think any of us are hugely weeping-sad, but it’s still woeful. The funeral is next Tuesday. Actually, it will be the first one I’ve ever been to, which is weird. The last person to die in the family (excluding Great Aunt Margaret, whom I didn’t really know that well) was GG (my great-grandmother) when I was 11, and my parents wouldn’t take us to the funeral. Heigh ho, anyway, that’s got nothing to do with anything.
Fifthly, we’re going to see Candide tomorrow, which I’m very excited about!! And next week it’s Hancock at le cinema, ditto. And we saw Major Barbara last week, on a whim, and that was really good. The motto of one of the main characters was “Unashamed”, and Katie and I have adopted it for FT, as it is peculiarly appropriate to our household.
Sixthly (as an addendum), interest has been expressed (OK, by Lorraine, but I want to share) in my newfound comic-reading habits. Thus far I have read Watchmen, V for Vendetta, vols 1&2 of Buffy Season 8, vols 1&2 of Y: The Last Man, vol 1 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (didn't like it much), vol 1 of Hellboy and Bite Club. They rock.
Secondly, I wanted to apologise generally for being totally incommunicative recently and ignoring everyone (except Katie, who doesn’t get that luxury) and being a bit crap. Personally, I blame working in radiology in the evenings and TV. Maybe the other way round, thinking on’t… Anyway, I will try to be better.
Thirdly, my hair is looking particularly splendid today. I will be getting it cut before we go to France, but not short, do not fret. Just a bit of a trim and a shape.
Fourthly, thank you to people for expressing sympathy about Grandma (sorry, that sounds dreadfully stilted!). She was very ill at the end, and I don’t think any of us are hugely weeping-sad, but it’s still woeful. The funeral is next Tuesday. Actually, it will be the first one I’ve ever been to, which is weird. The last person to die in the family (excluding Great Aunt Margaret, whom I didn’t really know that well) was GG (my great-grandmother) when I was 11, and my parents wouldn’t take us to the funeral. Heigh ho, anyway, that’s got nothing to do with anything.
Fifthly, we’re going to see Candide tomorrow, which I’m very excited about!! And next week it’s Hancock at le cinema, ditto. And we saw Major Barbara last week, on a whim, and that was really good. The motto of one of the main characters was “Unashamed”, and Katie and I have adopted it for FT, as it is peculiarly appropriate to our household.
Sixthly (as an addendum), interest has been expressed (OK, by Lorraine, but I want to share) in my newfound comic-reading habits. Thus far I have read Watchmen, V for Vendetta, vols 1&2 of Buffy Season 8, vols 1&2 of Y: The Last Man, vol 1 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (didn't like it much), vol 1 of Hellboy and Bite Club. They rock.
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Actually, I just remembered its name and while linked to Hellboy it seems Brainiape appears in Savage Dragon, which was another one Ross collected and I liked:
BrainiApe takes “high concept” and kicks it into the stratosphere. Try this one on for size: BrainiApe is a super-gorilla with Hitler’s brain. And the brain happens to sit outside the skull in some sort of fishbowl. That, my friends, is probably the greatest idea Erik Larsen ever had. No offense to Mr. Larsen. I’m just saying BrainiApe is brilliant.
First appearing in Savage Dragon #23, BrainiApe started as a super-gorilla crime lord, like all good super-gorilla villains, before it was revealed, in this crossover with Hellboy, that it was really Hitler’s brain in there all along! With mind powers! Ooo. Turns out Hellboy had finally killed Hitler in 1952… or so he thought. Naturally, like with all villains from times past, they saved his brain and put it into a new body. A gorilla’s body.
Like I said… genius. And when BrainiApe was defeated again, Hitler’s brain hopped out and ran away. Later, the gorilla body reappeared with a different brain in it, and naturally, it just wasn’t the same. Nothing can top a gorilla with Hitler’s brain unless it was an albino gorilla with Stalin’s brain, but that would only be really cool if it fought the Hitler-brained gorilla, you see.
Luckily, Hitler regained his gorilla body and lived to fight another day. There was another storyline taking place in an alternate reality where BrainiApe was the Prime Minister of Australia and forces Dragon to fight in the Arena of Death! And Madman was there. Then, that BrainiApe blew up.
I don’t know if he’s appeared since, but dammit, he totally should. Hitler’s brain in a gorilla! C’mon! The idea really speaks for itself. Either you love it or you don’t. Obviously, I love it.
Here’s another cool image by D’Israeli:
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There wasn't an ape in the story, no. Lots of frogs, though...
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Ooh, now I've got you into this I should take you to a comic fair - they're well fun and you can get loads of random crap for 25p each. Well possibly the prices have gone up in the past 3 years but you get the picture.