I could be happy/Or in distress/Depending on the company

[hirez]

Didn't camp, but the campsite was splendidly far away from everything, given it's just round the back of Bath.

Formulated a theory about why they're called kebabs here and gyros in septic-land, posed around in a cloak, drank beer and talked shite. All very satisfactory indeed.

Generally, when I've been reading a comic graphic novel, I feel like

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[stilettowhore]

Not only do they call it the wrong name, they can't even pronounce the wrong name they do give it - who ever asked for 'a yearo and chips' ?

[hirez]

Well, quite. See also 'Des Moines' and 'Devon'.

[jarkman]

Cloak ?

[hirez]

Yes.

[jarkman]

Photo ?

[hirez]

Oh, more than likely.

[mr_tom]

The Filth totally blew my mind. And not necessarily in that nice way, either.

Have you read alexdecampi's fantastic "Smoke" trilogy? It is several shades of awesome, and would be right up your darkened alley. Perhaps.

Post-Chandler: Auster. NYC*3 doubleplusgood.

[hirez]

I can't say as I have.

Hm. Part of the attraction of Chandler is the feel of 30s/40s LA. I guess James Ellroy would be the next most obvious move, but who can say?

[andrewducker]

The Filth is a fascinating negative companion the The Invisibles.

[hirez]

Yes. Echoes of the adventures of Animal Man beyond the fourth wall, too.

There was a thingy in Deadline some years ago, about a bloke on the top deck of a Sheffield bus who was staring out across the pleasant and sunlit moors and remarking upon same. Whereupon the scenery fell down to reveal a grim and rain-swept factory landscape. The pensioner in front of him turns round and goes "Children, small dogs and absolute concepts of reality'll allus make a liar of you, pet."

Which, yes.

[hirez]

Yes.