#Dickie Davies

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Kendo Nagasaki's return bout could be knock-out for Fairfield

Our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, on how a geriatric grappler is the latest sign of a declining reputation at the council-owned arts venue Knock-out: Kendo Nagasaki has dusted off his Samurai gear one last time The “jewel in the crown” of Croydon Council’s arts offering, the Fairfield Halls, will be used to stage all-in wrestling later this month, when the headline act will be an 83-year-old…

[weaversweek]

Really enjoyed Eat The Town. Comedians Dazza and Natalie Erskine visit some other town, take each other to meals and give each other fun activities. With wit and warmth, they make the mundane quite watchable.

Scotland’s Greatest Getaway tries to find the best holiday break, by visiting three possibles and showing their best sides. A cross between Home of the Year and Holiday '82 - a nagging sense that we’re seeing things preened and plumped to be the best. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s a bit artificial.

Plus! Eurovision hosts, obituaries for Dickie Davies and John Motson, and Jessie Cave is the best new game show host we’ve seen in ages.

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Dickie Davies R.I.P.

Gone, but thanks to Half Man Half Biscuit’s biggest hit, will always be remembered:

Mention 'The Lord Of The Rings' just once more, and I’ll more than likely kill you. ‘More cock, more cock, Michael Moorcock!’ you fervently moan Is this a wok that you’ve shoved down my throat, or are you just pleased to see me? Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium.

And all those people who you romantically like to still believe are alive Are dead So I’ll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair as you put another Roger Dean poster on the wall

[Other band members however are singing in the background ‘as she puts another Roger Dean poster on the wall’ - hence why it sounds like they are actually singing ‘So I’ll wipe my snot on the arm of your jersey, put another Roger Dean poster on the wall.’ Get your mondegreens - fresh today two for a pound!]

God I could murder a Cadbury's Flake but then I guess you wouldnt let me into heaven or maybe you would 'cause their adverts promote oral sex.

A romany bint in a field with her paints, suggesting we faint at her beauty, BUT SHE’S GOT DICKIE DAVIES EYES!

And all those people who you romantically ...

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[sealinne]

Alright, Raylan, alright, you win. You wanna find Dewey here's what you do. First of all go to a gas'n'go or whatever and get yourself a map of Kentucky. Follow route 9 southbound with your finger, follow it way way down until you're pointing right at… your asshole, and then what you gonna do is you're gonna take your hand and just go ahead and cram it right up inside. You gotta make sure, Raylan, that you do it in a way so that the rest of you just keeps on following your hand right up your ass, right up inside all that shit you're so full of, Raylan. And then what you gonna do is you're just gonna [whistles] wink out of existence forever.

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DICKIE DAVIS  (1928-Died February 19th 2023,at 94). British television sports presenter who anchored World of Sport from 1968 until 1985,becoming an easily recognised face and voice on tv and admired by sports fans  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie_Davies

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A Personal History of the British Music Industry 108 - Larry Page

Larry Page, born Leonard Davies, who has recently died in Australia, is best remembered as the charismatic manager of the Troggs, but was part of the UK’s answer to rock’n’roll in the late 1950’s, and started life packing records, rather than making them. He emigrated to Australia, but this interview was conducted before then in West London over twenty years ago. I had already learned that his…

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Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes

[icarus-suraki]

It was a rainy Monday night when she came up to my office. I saw her silhouette on my frosted pebbled glass door and I knew this was going to be trouble.

They don't make frosted pebbled glass doors like they used to. I had to source this one specially. I cut the door to fit it in myself. The landlord didn't like that but he doesn't understand aesthetics. Same reason I keep my blinds half-open all the time for those angular and linear shadows: aesthetics.

I put the decals for my name up on the door too: Harry Cross, Researcher. The letters were backwards for me on account of being inside my office: ɿɘʜɔɿɒɘƨɘЯ ƨƨoɿƆ γɿɿɒH

Then the letters were ||||| ||||| ||||||| when she opened the door.

"Hello, Hodie," she said.

"Hodie" is what they call me if they know me: Harry "Hodie" Cross. It was a long-ago yesterday that I got that nickname. I'll tell you why tomorrow.

"Hey, kid," I said.

You could call her a leggy blonde. Blondes come in only a couple of flavors in these kinds of stories: icy and honey. But she wasn't a blonde. She was pretty leggy, though, considering she had two of them. She'd be leggier if she had more but you take what you can get. So you could call her a leggy blonde if you wanted but I'm not about to. She was maybe somewhere between 17 and 43 and she looked like she had a lot on her mind. I'm telling you all this for your benefit; she's my cousin so don't get any ideas.

She took my hat off the rack and put it on as she walked over on those two legs; the hat looked better on her than on me.

"How're your brothers?" I asked.

"Fighting," she said as she sat down on the other side of my desk.

"Too bad," I said.

She shrugged. "It happens every night."

This kid here, Issy, she's got two brothers, Shem and Shaun and they've each got a share of the city. Shem's got a lock on the stationery business in this town and Shaun's got a mail delivery racket going. It never ends with those two and sometimes I think Issy just plays referee when they're brawling.

I kicked my feet up on the desk. "So what brings a girl like you to a nice place like this? The rain? The park? Other things?"

"I need you to find someone for me, Hodie."

"Yeah?" I lit another datura cigarette. I couldn't find the one I'd just had in my hand. "Who?" I lost my cigarette again.

"Ellmann."

I gave her a look. Two-ells-two-enns Dicky Davy Ellmann was another big man in this town, but for the right reasons. He was smart; he knew his stuff, and if he didn't know, he knew how to find out. A regular tome, that guy.

I found another datura cigarette in my hand and lit it. "With that blue and black jacket of his, he should be easy to find." I paused for a second. "You don't think he's…I guess some people would call it 'recycled'?"

"I don't think he's in the box."

We all know the old cardboard box where you end up when it's time to leave the city of letters.

"Still in the old place, then, huh? Why're you looking for him?"

"Because of this."

She slid a Tumblr post across the desk towards me:

I read it and gave a low whistle.

"I need to know if it's true, Hodie. And if anyone's going to know, it's Ellmann and nobody knows where he is."

I leaned back in my chair, which I also had to source specially as a vintage piece since the aesthetics demand something other than a pink gamer chair in this establishment, and kept looking at the post.

"Why not just ask the usual crowd?"

"With Artie out there causing trouble?"

She was right: Artie Intel was a thorn in everyone's side these days. He liked to talk but only about three words of what he said were true. It was all good language but it was all wrong--not even fiction, just plain wrong. Real gift o' the gab with this one. And a town like this might run on fiction but sometimes you just need facts. The problem was that people were starting to listen to old Artie and starting think what he was saying was making sense.

"Hodie, please?" she said. "You've got a nose like a bloodhound."

"It's not that big."

"You got droopy eyes, though."

She had me there.

"And droopy ears."

That was maybe going too far.

"All right," I said. "I'll take the case."

"I knew you would, Hodie. And I know you'll find him."

I tossed the post back onto the desk. "When I set out to find somebody I find 'em. That's why they pay me."

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Oooh ok headcannons/questions/ideas?

- Millie knows more about mechanics and engines than John. Millie is the one that is asking all the questions/buys the car for the family/the kids when they are teens/adults. John is standing back with big ‘my wife is amazing’ eyes and glaring at anyone who is rude to her. Also Millie teaches her kids about maintenance. (Maybe with Kenny teaches them to make a car?) idk but Engineer!Millie is amazing.

- Millie already has her ‘behave!’ mom glare down

- Uncle Ham once told the Brady kids that his facial scar was from being bit by a shark or something similar. The Brady kids believe it for a long time? (Maybe would work better with Uncle Curt saying it about Uncle Dickie?)

- Doctors and hospitals are an ordeal for Millie for the rest of her life. Especially when it comes to pregnancy. They have to shop around for a doctor that will respect Millie’s boundaries and to have her support people with her (1940s societal rules and have John nearby/with her for labour wouldn’t exactly mix) Maybe home births? Even so it is John that takes the kids to most of not all of their doctors appointments.

- I don’t know how long John remained in the army after the war, but if he stayed into the 1950s I could definitely see Millie struggling with the conflicting roles of former service member and officers wife, especially with the 1950’s cookie cutter housewife stereotype.

- at some time post war, someone tries to tell a salacious version on Millie’s story, based on like stereotypes and shit. Some threats are made (I don’t think Millie would know?)(having a war hero/lawyer with many connections on your side is kinda great when you need it)(bombers are scary when they want to be) It doesn’t get made and pretty much anyone who wants to tell a story/book/media on the bloody hundredth knows to tell the truth if they want cooperation. Or something like this? Thoughts on the 50+ years difference between the end of the war and the book coming out, whether women serving would have changed the perception on women in society and media, and the fact that the 100th will protect each other from anything, including the media

- I haven’t got around to reading Crosby book yet but I feel like Cros would have feelings about M’lle Zig Zigs Crew being POWs and their condition back home? He thought he was going to be on Brady’s crew for the entire war, seeing what happened had to have messed him up at bit. Especially with Solly being the navigator? Knowing that if a few things had changed you would have been there with them? I saw that ask about M’lle Zig Zigs crew with the cold and PTSD and early January and just a weird outside looking in moment. Idk

- would Millie have been held up as an example for any women replacements? Like would Maggie and Winks or maybe an officer have talked about her? Especially if there was a female flight engineer, would Millie have been an example or a hero or something to them?

- if there is any kinda outside looking in moment on the 100th who were at Stalag Luft III especially when talking about PTSD and stuff, I think it would take a while for them (especially Brady’s crew) to not automatically put themselves between Solly & Millie and people. Especially if there is a loud noise or something, all of a sudden they are behind like 5 people.

- are Hambone and Millie the youngest of the group at the Stalag? The thought of them having a quiet kid/chaos gremlin kind of sibling relationship is very funny to me!

- Millie in my head either dies within a year or two of John in the 90’s or lives long enough (into her 90’s) that when they figure out they are going to base MOTA on the 100th (2012/2013 ish) the production team is told that she is still alive and manage to get her on video somehow before she dies. But when I thought of that, the thought of her living a decade plus without John is too sad so. Someone makes a documentary or video tapes her for a book about the woman’s cabin at Thorpe Abbotts. ? Either way there are tapes of her talking about her experience. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Anyway this is a lot I’ll leave it there! 🥰🥰

Hello, Nonnie! Thank you for the ask!

And apologies to my followers for clogging up your dashes a little bit with this, as lengthy as it is, but I won't do it often, and I didn't particularly want to do a lot of copy-pasting to divide it up.

(And, no, that's not a criticism of anyone sending me long asks. I love long asks!)

Everything else is beneath the cut.

On Millie knowing more about cars than John:

Yes, Engineer!Millie in her element is awesome, and it is already canon, though the work isn’t posted yet, that Millie is the one fixing the cars post-war, and I should add a reference, given your brilliant idea, that she’s the one buying them, too.

I would imagine that John knows a reasonable amount about cars just from the culture of the day for men, but even if I’m right, that’s still different than growing up on a farm like Millie and Kenny and being responsible for keeping machinery running.

On Millie having her mom face down pat:

Corralling grown boys (cough, cough, the other enlisted on her crews, if they don’t outrank her) is not the same thing as managing your own children, but I can definitely see how she would have developed her hands-on-hip behave/disappointed mom face at Thorpe Abbotts, especially with the local children running around too.

On Hambone telling the Brady kids whacky stories about how he got his scar:

Spinning yarns for kids definitely sounds like something Hambone would do, so definitely canon stamped. The man gives off gremlin vibes, and we’ve seen a bit of it already in Sunward I’ve Climbed.

After reading https://theveteransmuseum.org/howard-hamilton/ and https://theveteransmuseum.org/part-2-of-howard-hamilton-story/, I’ve already been thinking about a friendship between Gerry Hamilton and Millie, so this would definitely add a fun addition to any post-war story where the Hamiltons star.

On Millie's struggles with hospitals and doctors:

Definitely canon, though I haven’t gotten to it yet and am not sure yet how it will all play out. (I remember I had another ask/section of an ask along these lines, but I can’t find it right now in my archive.)

A big shame that there were not more female doctors then…

But yeah, John would be largely the one taking them to their doctors’ appointments, which might raise a few eyebrows, I don’t know yet. And Maggie might be a real support to Millie here, but I still have a lot of post-war details left to hash out.

On Millie and John post-war:

So Brady does not remain in the military long after the war. He’s out by at least 1948 from what I know, largely from https://www.voicesoflaurel.com/post/john-brady-from-wwii-hero-to-laurel-city-council, and probably earlier.

And yes, I could see some tension there. Thankfully, Brady is good about always backing her up and not expecting her to shape herself into someone she is most definitely not.

On "a salacious version of Millie's story" and other issues:

While the drama, angst, hurt/comfort, and good helping of Laywer!Rosie would be delicious, one immediate question I have would be whether the female officers of the 100th lost over Germany (or even Switzerland, maybe) or female officers from other Bomb Groups, for that matter, would be more at risk for such attacks than the enlisted women. I’m really not sure.

(And while thinking about this question, I learned that conditions in the internment camps in Switzerland, where Lilian and Florence the two surviving officers of the 100th’s original complement of women were imprisoned, wasn’t exactly great, and some were awful. https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/world-war-ii-internees-and-pows-in-switzerland/).

And since newspapers and journalists can be just absolutely awful sometimes, this could definitely happen. I believe @precious-little-scoundrel is having something similar happen to her genius POC engineer OFC (although I’ve gotten a bit lost in the sea of the brilliant asks she gets). Her Integrated MOTA AU is darker and much more graphic than mind, but if you can handle such topics, you might want to check her series, Those Who Can, out.

My other issue would be, except if they are constructing the story out of whole cloth, no one really has details to write a salacious story on. For several decades, the only people to whom Millie tells the full or almost full story of what happened to her in Germany are Brady, first, and Maggie, later.

I don’t think I would ever write a story like this, because I’m more interested in the internal and more personal struggles of Millie and John post-war, struggling with PTSD and that multi-faceted can of worms, but if this were to happen, there’s no direct line of connection between Brady and Rosie, so I could see Crosby hearing from Brady about what was happening and then subsequently giving Rosie a call and being like “are you seeing this ***?” and putting him and Brady in contact.

I think the gap between the end of the war and when books started coming out gave the writers time to process what happened to them and find some semblance of peace before they started having to talk about it to a wider audience. No getting a camera shoved in your face in the relatively immediate aftermath as could happened today in some cases.

And yeah, feminist movements in those intervening decades and the natural opening of military positions to women, which could potentially happen faster in the Integrated AU, definitely would have changed the perspective on women in WW2, which in the intermediate aftermath could always be tried to be spun as an anomaly because … the entire free world was at risk and you have to pull out all the stops to keep the Nazis from running roughshod over … everywhere.

On Crosby and his thoughts about M'lle Zig Zig's loss:

This is Crosby’s reaction to hearing that M’lle Zig Zig has gone down.

The weatherman breaks the code. “Egan’s gone. Your old crew is gone. The whole group is gone. The only one who came back was that new crew in the 418th. They call him Rosie.” I drop the phone. I can’t believe it. Brady, Ham, Davy and Hoerr, all gone. Cruikshank gone. Old southern-boy Murph, gone. All my friends. Every crew who went through training with me in the States is gone. I tell Blake and the crew. They say nothing. They just look at each other. “Okay,” says Old Beady Eyes. “R&R is over. Let’s go home.”

He was definitely impacted by the loss of almost the entirety of the original 100th and of all his friends, as shown in this quote.

If you want to read more about Crosby, his book, and the effect the war (including the loss of his friends) had on him, may I recommend @thatsrightice's blog? She's got a lot of great MOTA posts, including the following which your questions made me think about especially:

https://www.tumblr.com/thatsrightice/742523502387658752/harry-crosby-put-a-lot-of-time-and-care-into-his?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/thatsrightice/743481573136056320/theres-a-little-paragraph-in-a-wing-and-a-prayer

https://www.tumblr.com/thatsrightice/751909141652602880/hi-have-these-pages-from-harry-crosbys-memoir-a?source=share

On Millie as an example for the later female members of the 100th:

Maybe. Maggie or Winks talking about her would be more likely than an officer, since all the officers who really knew her are all dead or POWs.

On the flip side, I could see the ground crew judging other female flight engineers by Millie a bit. They liked her a lot and not just because of Kenny or because of her easy willingness to spend most of her spare time helping out down at the hardstands.

On the 100th looking out for Solly/Millie after the war:

Habits, especially ones that have potentially life/death or other extremely serious implications, are hard to break, and PTSD would especially complicate things there. I could definitely see this happening.

And maybe you would see this playing out in less overt/drastic ways: e.g., if they’re walking as a group on some occasion, then Millie and Solly would end up in the middle.

On Hambone and Millie:

As far as I know currently, yes, Hambone and Millie are the youngest, although I haven’t found birth month/years for everyone yet. In the main storyline, the only one I know of so far who could be potentially younger than them is McKay, but he was in a different compound at Stalag Luft III. Jefferson, once the Red Tails arrive, is the next closest in age for certain, but he was born in November 1921, which makes him a little over a year older than Millie. It’s possible that Dennis might be closer in age, but I’m not certain I’ve found the right John C. Dennis.

I’m not sure whether that dynamic would quite work in the camp, because of how traumatized she is, but after the war, especially with your idea about Hambone telling the Brady kids whacky stories about his scar, I could see it.

On Millie's death and MOTA Production:

So Millie dies in the spring of 2000; she outlives John but not by much. I couldn’t bare the thought of either one long outliving the other. After everything they went through together and a marriage of like 54.5 years, it’s not that they would literally give up after the other one died, but it’s that much harder to fight tooth and nail without your person there.

However, two of her and John’s three children are still alive when the production team is kicking into gear, AND Maggie is still alive, so they can get first and second hand knowledge that way.

Also, there are audio recordings of Millie telling her story (i.e., the italicized portions of Sunward I've Climbed). I don't know whether she would want to go on camera, though. And we will see some other ways that her experiences are recorded in “A Hometown Hero: Millie Brady.”

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because i have an incessant need to curate lists....

i feel like short films, in general, get sort of overlooked. so for halloween, here are some horror/horror-adjacent recommendations. i split the list between animation and live action, and i ordered them by length. also, a general tw: blood, gore, etc... not all of them have any of that, but just a heads up.

Animation: Perihelion (2013) - dir. Nick Cross (2:51) [Nick Cross was the art director on Over the Garden Wall] There's a Man in the Woods (2014) - dir. Jacob Streilein (3:35) Teeth (2015) - dir. Tom Brown & Daniel Gray (6:02) Winston (2017) - dir. Aram Sarkisian (6:24) 100.000 Acres of Pine (2020) - dir. Jennifer Alice Wright (7:13) The Backwater Gospel (2011) - dir. Bo Mathorne (9:32) Coyote (2021) - dir. Lorenz Wunderle (9:55) Ghost Dogs (2022) - dir. Joe Cappa (10:45) Jack Stauber's OPAL (2020) - dir. Jack Stauber (12:30) [this one's a mix of live action and claymation]

Live Action: The Cat with Hands (2001) - dir. Robert Morgan (3:31) Portrait of God (2022) - dir. Dylan Clark (7:30) Creep Box (2022) - dir. Patrick Biesemans (9:16) Curve (2016) - dir. Tim Egan (9:51) Unedited Footage of a Bear (2014) - dir. Alan Resnick & Ben O'Brian (10:28) Eyes of Eidolon (2020) - dir. Davi Pena (11:02) This House Has People in It (2016) - dir. Alan Resnick (11:55) Angel (2022) - dir. Dicky Chalmers (16:10) Moshari (2022) - dir. Nuhash Humayun (22:05) Zygote (2017) - dir. Neill Blomkamp (22:23) The Chair (2023) - dir. Curry Barker (24:22)

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Justified 03x02: Cut Ties.

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Losing my mind over this

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Cholo - The Sartorial Identity of Los Angeles.

Often affiliated with the Hispanic gangs of Los Angeles, the Cholo style is now represented all over the world. Dickies, Cortez and Pendleton shirts ... this is how we could summarize this aesthetic. However, the Cholo style is governed by codes that have evolved alongside the Mexican community in the USA.The contemporary Cholo style has its roots in the "Pachuco" style. The "Pachuco" was embodied by an active Latino community in Los Angeles in the 1930s. They met to dance swing and wore suits with very large pants: the "Zoot Suit". Reinterpreted in our time via workwear, the cholos use "Khakis" Dickies or Ben Davies 1 or 2 sizes too big to wear them high on the waist with a belt. The folds on the middle of the leg reproduce the aesthetics of the Zoot Suit pants. For some gangs, the standard is 1 pleat in the front and 3 pleats in the back, to form the number 13 in reference to MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha). The jeans are starched so that they sit on the leg and do not wrinkle at the knees. Pleats similar to khakis are also ironed in.The Cholos place great importance on cleanliness in their clothing. An immaculate white shirt and an ironed chino are among the outward markers needed to be respected on the street. As in the 1930s, this respect is achieved through clean, well-cut clothes. This Cholo aesthetic has inspired other movements even beyond California's borders.In the 1970s, skateboarders like Tony Alva wore Dickies with Pendleton shirts and bandanas inspired by the West Coast Hispanic community. However, the Cholo style really took off in the world thanks to the explosion of California Rap in the late 80s. The members of N.W.A and in particular Eazy E took these codes and applied them to Gangsta Rap. Their imagery has largely contributed to the diffusion of this style in the world and in Japan where a Cholo community is concentrated today.Nowadays, independent brands continue to keep this Cholo clothing heritage alive. Born x Raised and Willy Chavaria each in their own way evolve the classic Los Angeles style by incorporating elements of sportswear.

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I have now read slightly more than half of Miracleman: The Silver Age.

I don't believe what I'm reading.

Now, let me be clear: I am, at heart, a seeker of simple entertainment. I am not incapable of depth, but it must be depth with signposts; I do not like the trackless. So it is possible that I am missing too much.

But Avril is still an overconfident manipulator (not Hera or Aphrodite, but Loki), and Miracleman is still just incredibly dumb. Dicky's reaction at the end of chapter two is as obvious and predictable as it was in 1993. The visit to the Black Warpsmiths held no awe, mystery, or even alienness. Dickie's dreams are just Johnny's in MM book 3 all over again, almost to the letter. There's a tremendous volume of churn over the questions that have been obvious since MM 16. Moore gave us Winter, who is like nothing before; Gaiman gives us "The Zapster" and "Meta-Maid", who are exactly the sorts of parodic superhero manques that MM book 1 was about refuting.

And Dickie has just been given the instruction to give us "Who Is Donna Troy" redux. From 1984. What can Gaiman possibly expect to do?

Moore's dialog and narration in this series was crackling fire along the nerves. Gaiman's is flat. Just flat. There's not a phrase or a turn or a line that makes you go "that's a great sentence".

Now, some of this has to be credited to me no longer being sixteen reading Moore's evolutionary leap in superheroes for the first time, to that evolutionary leap having forty years to be normalized (a passerine is a boring little brown bird, not a biomechanical miracle even though it IS).

But I read Gaiman's Golden Age back then, and I read the first two issues of Silver Age back then and they were still flat. In particular, as I said elsewhere, what Gaiman was doing in Golden Age, he was doing at the same time in Sandman, and better there in every respect.

And there are books and stories and comics that make me thrill even at the jaded far end of a half-century.

I think it's just bad. I think it's a bad fit for Gaiman, I think he's not giving it his best, I think it's had what it's worth already wrung out of it.

Maybe I'm wrong. But I'm more than halfway, and if I haven't hit the unexpected yet, I don't have a lot of confidence that it's coming. And, literally, Gaiman taught me, in Sandman, that stories were shaped to fit their purpose. And the shape of this story is not special.

(Buckingham's art is very nice. If you lined me up against a wall, I'd pick Leach and Davis a thousand times over Buckingham, but that is personal; it's objectively perfectly fine here, in service of whatever it is in service of, which I can't figure out.)