[Andrew999]

Let's share some recommendations for quarantine catch-up:

On TV, I'm catching up with Supergirl - I missed the series first time around, so I'm still on series 1 - very impressed with Melissa Benoist's ability to switch persona so completely - I suppose you call that acting!

For movies, I'm about to watch Jupiter Ascending - am I wasting my time?

For novels, I've just finished Jonathan Coe's Number 11 - not my favourite book ever but a pretty good read. If you've never read Jonathan's What A Carve Up, that's even better

But what about comics - which comics / graphics novels would you recommend? Shall we categorise it - let's say, stuff from the last ten years - and then stuff from CB+ ?

[paw broon]

Good idea, Andrew. As for books, I'm re-reading Robert Rankin's Brentford trilogy, which is funny, weird and well written with a cast of characters designed to entertain.  If you like Pratchett, you might enjoy these tales.  Not fantasy, more a slightly shifted modern world where things are just a bit offset from the norm.
Comics: I have been re-reading  Planetary and The Authority, the latter in French as I only have the French hardback collections, and only the Warren Ellis written stuff as the Millar stories just don't cut the mustard.
I can't rate Planetary highly enough.
Other reading pleasures include PC49, the eagle strip.  Great light entertainment with, in the later tales, excellent art by John Worsley. And Dan Dare.  As I have all the hb vols, I'll be dipping in and out, but the books are too big to read in bed.
If anyone has them, the Superman, End of Kryptonite series is worth a read.  A good story for the time but the highest quality of art on many issues from Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.  A lesson in how to draw comics?

[The Australian Panther]

I have, on loan from my local library, which is currently closed, Scott Mcleod's  The Scuptor, which you have just prodded me into reading before I need to take it back.

On Books, my reading can be highly esorteric, these days I have morw than one on the go.
Currently,
Greg Bear's, 'Moving Mars' - into that one now.
Charlie English, 'The Storied City' [ The quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past] Very Dry, so I'm taking it slowly.
Alfred Hitchock's Anthology, ' My Favorites in Suspense' 1959 hardback.

Bought from my favorite Second Hand bookshop, I have waiting for me to read them,

Jack London, 'The Faith of men'
Jack London ' Best Short Stories'
E.F Benson ' Spook Stories'
And wait for it,
Lou Cameron, 'The Bastard's name is war' Yes, that Lou Cameron. He quit comics and became a paperback writer and this is the first of his I have managed to find.

Don't know if that helps anybody else!

Cheers!         

[Andrew999]

The reviews for The Sculptor are breath-taking - I've added it to my list of books to read.

Yesterday, I read Elly Griffiths 'The Zig Zag Girl'. Enjoyed it immensely. It's set in the area where I live which of course is always a buzz - as are the Lynne Truss Constable Twitten comic (as in ha-ha) series. Strongly recommended - a twitten, by the way, is the local word for an alley.