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Is peak hubris tweaking the nose of the Cyclops for no reason and telling him your name when you were away clean, or is it spending a week and several pages arguing passionately about the flaws of a film you haven't seen?

Well, it is at least visually spectacular.

Guess Matchbox is coming for Fast and Furious's throne.

Finally leaning into the comic-booky aspects in this trailer. Not sure about the personality of Hal, who's an asshole in different ways to the usual Hal, but in and of itself that looks really good.

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan, a recent debut. Had a great time. It's a fantasy retelling of the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan. Bit of gay love story, bit of myth-horror adventure. Bit of Joe Abrecrombie, bit of Susannah Clarke. It's witty and heartbreaking and thrilling and irreverent you should read it. Also: manages the neat trick of feeling like an elegant story even though it's telling it via three timelines simultaneously. It's not totally free of issue- the writing of women doesn't match the writing of the main male characters. I also suspect the way it approaches religion might annoy people on both sides of the aisle, being both deeply non-reverential and fairly obviously blasphemous in some respects, and also hyper-critical of the organisation itself, and yet somehow also seeming oddly, deep-down respectful of the basis of the religion (which may or may not go another way in the obviuously-planned sequels). I'd call that good writing more than bad, but the tonal swerve might throw people. Minor thing though.


All in all it's a ridiculously good time. If you like The Devils you'll like this, and if you don't like The Devils you'll probably still like this.