In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

In a move so inept one has to wonder how accidental it was, it appears that a significant number of Epstein files redactions can be undone by the simple process of copying and pasting the text into another file, they changed the font colour, but that was it. In a possibly even more bizarre twist it seems that the reason the redacting was so slipshod is that DOGE slashed the budget for Adobe Professional licences and they had to use the much less fancy basic free version instead. Once again, satire can't keep up with reality.

Not that impressed with the Christmas TV selection this year (and missing my usual "Doctor Who" fix), but did catch up with a few films, including FINALLY getting to watch the new "Superman".