[Being the second, and final, part of the "I was home sick so I watched the Planet of the Apes Box-set" reflections]

Given that Star Trek films tend to range from the awful (…

What, I ask, does one do when home for a few days with "the sickness"?

Huddle sobbing …

News has reached me of a tremendously groovy conference being organised by the good people from The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (a publication that fills a significant gap in Irish …

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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from the sunlit plains of munificence to the shadowy valleys of …

The naming of those fantastic (and hideous) creatures that routinely crawl from the earth's dark chasms or slither from the depths of its briny seas is a process both mysterious and (occasionally) spontaneous. Granted there are some, like this chap, …

August 4, 1997: The computer defence-system "Skynet" is brought online for the first time.

August 29, 1997: Skynet, fearing threats to its intelligence, launches nuclear weapons at Russia …

A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no conscious design on my part a "Jesus" theme seems to have sneaked its way into proceedings. …

2) "Casting The Ruins (pdf), (html)

The path by which I came to know and (greatly) enjoy M. …

While the fústar/Tuppenceworth crossover FIZZOO!A girl's comic by boys…and maybe some girls. slowly gathers momentum (quietly bubbling and fizzing away) I thought I'd fill an idle hour by launching another partially baked …

Back when Manky Toy Monday was but a weak and mewling infant I suggested (by way of a partial mission statement) that:
Special attention will be paid to those delightfully crappy knock-offs and pastiches of …

9.00 - Hup! Hup! Quiet down now.

Welcome dear friends, lads and lassies, boys and girls, mices and meeses, to the first ever fustar.info Manky Toy Show. We have a great live program (un)prepared for …

Like a deep, dark, weirdness-filled mirror the world of Bunty (and girls' comics in general) continues to hold fustar.info in its thrall. The more I look, the more wonders (and terrors) I see returning my gaze.

Two weeks ago …

Was complaining recently to my wife, brother-in-law, the milkman (etc) about the new Doctor Who's unimaginative use of time travel. The formula of the show is (basically) this: Our daring duo arrive in the past/future, encounter dangers and dilemmas, solve …

Back in our conker-playing, football sticker-collecting days, my primary schoolmates and I were in clear and enthusiastic agreement as to the funniest thing ever dreamed up by humankind: The campfire farting scene in Blazing Saddles. It had no serious …

And so it ends. After 18 days of squinting at shifting, swirling, pixellated blobs of colour and light on the lousy bbc.co.uk feed, the World Snooker Championship packs away its balls and white gloves …