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Bertrand Russell's 'A History of Western Philosophy', though a hefty tome (somewhere over 900 large pages), is an excellent starting point. Deceptively accessible, eloquently and wittily written and well-devised, it not only describes the theories of most of the western world's most significant...

Sorry, can't offer a comparison there; I'm no comic buff (I simply can't afford to be - they're so expensive...) and haven't read The Invisibles. I personally connect his work to Garth Ennis', but that's quite possibly simply because of their friendship and similar names!

Tasteless, beautiful, overblown, understated, vibrant, decaying genius. Brilliant stuff. I am constantly advised by psychometric tests to be a journalist and if that meant being Spider Jerusalem, I'd be on that course already. Any other thoughts?

Oooh, excellent! Having said that, I haven't read the Liveship Traders yet, so I've got that to look forward to anyway - I hate 'running out' of an author's works (though obviously there are those written as Megan Lindholm too), so that's always a nice situation to be in.

I recently returned from Norway where the snow was metres thick, the temperature was -15C at the height of the day and on top of some of the hills the winds were incredible, so all this seems somehow very tame. School was an exercise in futility today, as barely anyone turned up and so we had no...

I really hate how accurate my prejudice can be. It's sad, really, that people are so willing to be pigeonholed and modify their character so that any extraneous elements that do not fit into the niche are conveniently amputated. I'll always prefer the awkward, shapeless, ill-defined blob of the...

There's one immensely powerful scene (won't spoil it for you, but it epitomises 'all power corrupts' etc.), some downright weirdness and the rest is ultraviolent trash. Do yourself a favour and buy something by Miyazaki or the Patlabor films instead.

Burrich from the Farseer/Tawny Man trilogies Rorschach from Watchmen Salvor Hardin from Foundation Master Yupa from Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa

Anyone given up anything for Lent? For me it's goodbye chocolate, sweets, cake, biscuits, alcohol, crisps, nuts and other things of that ilk. Not exactly a problem, as I live off orange juice, coffee and muesli anyway.

Argh, I've never actually had to recognise the existence of the celebration before, but if I don't I'm going to be in the bad books of someone whose affections I would rather keep. Stupid festivals.

I'm a relative newbie really, having started with prog 2003, so I've been reading for just over 2 years. In that short time, there have been a great number memorable strips (enough to keep me going despite the sheer rubbish that often populates the magazine). Judge Dredd vs. Aliens was simply...

USSR. I officially rock. Only to genuine Socialist music, though. I would not dream of endorsing the degenerate produce of the decadent, capitalist west.

I've never been drunk, but managed are fair few idiocies despite that. Setting the fire alarm off in a department store wasn't the best of ideas (I was bored), creating a precariously balanced pile of 40 chairs and then running into it was a little sore (also bored), and many more (usually when...

I'm actually pretty much the opposite in my tastes; Dante is fun, but I wouldn't miss it, Slaine annoys me immensely (the script is frankly appalling and the computer art doesn't show the same degree of love and artistic involvement as line-drawing for me) and Total War, though entertaining, was...

The gratuitously ultraviolent and generally quite poor Akira nonetheless features one outstandingly potent scene: The President's denouement amidst the chaos of the coup d'état as the full brutal extent of his corruption is exposed, the dead bodies in the bathroom of his office near the fire of...

A strip whose introduction coincided with the first prog I decided to purchase, Caballistics, Inc. has been a staunch favourite throughout the last couple of years, bested perhaps only by the incomparable Asylum. The hybrid of Lovecraftian gothic horror with wry humour and the numerous...

Definitely, a thoroughly good read, if rather alarming.

I'll be needing a set of those selfsame staples, for somewhat different reasons - my acid tongue is at its most fluid when being insulting... Only ever in jest, of course.

Duke Ellington - Jack the Bear OK, so I'm an eclectic.

I always read in the bath, it's the single most relaxing activity I know. However, expensive editions are never to be read in such an environment (I won't even take my LotR into the bathroom as the increased humidity might damage the pages!), the dangers are too great; I do have a few wrinkly...