Let's help bring Worldcon back to Dublin!

Comic book cover with the IDW company logo and the title "Orphan Black Helsinki", showing part of the Helsinki skyline under a portrait of MK's scarred face partially visible under her hoodie.

There's also the comic series, split into various miniseries which took place in parallel to the TV show. You won't have gotten the benefit on your binge, but one of the cool things about MK (in the sheep mask) is that it's the first time a character from the comic crosses over into the TV show.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

A Fendahl action figure - a Lovecraftian worm type monster, rearing up, cobra like frills out, tentacles spewing from its hole of a face - sitting on a bookshelf next to Doctor Who Blu-ray boxsets.

It's why the Fendahl is one of my favourite action figures. Because they appear in two sizes in the story, it's *both* a Fendahl in scale with the figures *and* a full size Fendahleen to menace your bookshelf.

Oh, always happy to get people into Orphan Black! One of the best shows of the 21c so far and Tatiana Maslany deserved every award going.

There is a sequel series that lasted one season, following the next generation of some of the characters, but I haven't seen it yet.

People are always showing off their arm day bicep pumps, but nobody warms gym newbies about the leg day calf pump, because what in the HR Giger is THAT sticking out of your leg?

Believe it or not the novelization of the 2024 finale expands the action to include a return to Vortis!

My assumption has been that they're popular with people that otherwise don't really bother with genre stuff or maybe even cinema in general. So they're almost entirely absent from places where movies and SF are normally discussed but are just, like, somewhere else.

Begging for an edit with footage from Jaws really.

The current show runner has said they always used to reset so they could feel tethered to a sense it could be the real world. But he changed his mind when he saw that audiences happily accept the MCU.

As of the most recent episodes, everybody knows about aliens and UNIT is a very high profile organisation. The idea that aliens *don't* exist and an excuse for the existence of UNIT - which they see as ICE style authoritarian enforcers - is a major conspiracy theory though.

Loose pen sketch of a man looking toward the viewer and saying, via word balloon "May his grave never be free of piss."

And featuring comic strip art by Frank Bellamy, creator of some iconic Doctor Who illustrations for the Radio Times.

Peter Nolan in his Zephon cosplay (black monk style hooded robe, amulet with overlapping ovals in a square and hands that seem covered in seaweed like fronds, arms out his sides.

Peter Nolan in his Zephon cosplay (black monk style hooded robe, amulet with overlapping ovals in a square and hands that seem covered in seaweed like fronds, arms stretched out towards the camera.

Peter Nolan in his Zephon cosplay (black monk style hooded robe, amulet with overlapping ovals in a square and hands that seem covered in seaweed like fronds, one hand stretched out menacingly towards the camera.

Part of a page from DWM, with a box out "Become Zephon - Master of Zephon" with a picture of the original, Peter Nolan's Zephon cosplay, and a closeup of the homemade Zephon medallion.

Good time to remember my most niche cosplay: Zephon from Doctor Who episodes Day of Armageddon and Devil's Planet for DWM (Had to take out all the @gossjam inspired jokes about everything on Zephon being called Zephon though )

And thanks to the new recovery, we've finally seen his face!
#doctorwho

I think it's nice that she clearly adores the Doctor in a way that doesn't show up on audio and pleased with herself when she understands something or gets something right.

If she'd stayed I think it could have been a very interesting arc.

Catholics here eat tons of hot cross buns and Irish shops are covered with them from about Feb to May.

They're basically the Mince Pies of Spring, eaten right through the season.

One good thing about having to come to an empty office today is that the corporate network reads as American. So new old Doctor Who came to Ireland after all!

Just remembering the time years ago when I attended an Easter party in San Francisco and instead of chocolate we were all given hard boiled eggs to decorate. Which was weird.

Anyway, I covered mine in drawings of the Endless in the style of P Craig Russell, but lost for being in black and white.

DWM 628, along with the bag it came in. Cover shows the Fifth Doctor and Tegan as they appear in Destination Daleks. The bag is the same image but with text.

Yup!

We're approaching real NOMFuP levels here.

Apparently, there's a building where some tables and chairs are in the wrong place for a meeting next Tuesday. For some reason, they reckon the best way to address this is for me to make a seven hour round trip to that location on a Good Friday to move them from one part of the room to the other.

From an Honor P20 Pro to an Honor 400 Pro. Before that I'd had a Huwaei with an *amazing* camera so I was very disappointed the P20 Pro's one, seeing as they're essentially the same manufacturer. Fortunately reviews said those issues had been sorted out and they certainly seem to have been.

Ennicorthy Castle, seen from the opposite street corner, about 50m away.

Enniscorthy Castle as before, but zoomed in to fill the entire image.

Enniscorthy Castle, as before, but zoomed in to show the entrance, where people inside the door are clearly visible

Close up of the old fashioned lamp post lamp outside the door of Enniscorthy Castle.

For the last few years I've been stuck with a phone where clarity just collapsed even on x2 zoom or any kind of shade or half light.

Fortunately the new one performs much better. All these were taken from the spot, at various zooms up to x50, only getting a little soft even at the x50 mark.

Sounds like Sparacus has been at the niche fan fiction again.

The episode's called 'Ease for Idle Millionaires,' but Orphan Black was a highly serialized show where all five seasons are basically one huge story. So I wouldn't recommend dipping in and out.

Fantastic show though and the less you know going in the better.

Cosima, a young woman with glasses and dreadlocks, wearing Victorian white tie men's formal attire, and Delphine, with long wavy blonde hair, in a white Victorian lace dress, holding hands.

Still one of my favourite unexpected references when, years later, Orphan Black has Cosima and Delphine trapped at the sinister mansion of an allegedly immortal, evolution obsessed Victorian scientist intent on taking over the world. When ordered to dress 'appropriately' for dinner, this happens:

Well, from over here, get to hear the joy of everyone in the UK seeing them at least.

I think my favourite gag must be "Besides! We've covered the set change by now!"

Oh wow, I used to go to school around the corner from that but it looks like they've cleared out the surroundings to make it more prominent. IIRC it used to be in what was basically an alcove formed by the buildings and trees around it so easier to miss, even passing by.

This signed Sam Kieth print has moved with me from flat to flat and house to house for the best part of 30 years. His energy and imagination were incomparable and the savage, strange beauty of his art is unique in the history of comics.

His death is a huge loss to the worlds of comics and art.