Carruthers Ten Years On: April 2012

April 2012 on the Carruthers blog continued in the same vein as March. More treading water: Sherlock Holmes, quoting luminaries and Fast & Furious, which I clearly spent a lot of time researching and have never seen a single instalment of, all because of a reference in the FistKrammer sketch.

Carruthers Ten Years On: March 2012

March 2012 on the Carruthers blog was the worst yet. I contributed almost nothing, alternating between Fast & Furious posts and quotes from various celebrated figures.

Carruthers Ten Years On: February 2012

February 2012 on the Carruthers blog featured videos of The Fast And The Furious (not that one) and its remake The Chase. I didn't watch either of them and tacked a Doctor Who video on to the end of the latter. There's also a post about X-Men references.

I quite like Love And Death and this English translation of Vin Diesel.

Top Ten Bond Pre-Titles Sequences

Every James Bond film since 1963's From Russia With Love has opened with a teaser sequence before the titles that has been sometimes intrinsic to the plot of the film, sometimes not even slightly. I watched the beginnings of all of the films up to and including Spectre and ranked them, then I wrote this article about the top ten. I would love to have had the time to watch the full films, but I have a toddler and so needed to watch these snippets while he napped. 

There's no No Time To Die, because I hadn't seen it and this was written to tie into the the ever-changing release date of the film. I'll have to watch No Time To Die again to decide where the pre-titles sequence might fit.

Maybe I'll post the full ranking when the next Bond film comes out, but in the mean time here's a top ten.

Marked

BBV Productions have tweeted a pair of bookmarks, or I suppose if you put them back-to-back, a double-sided bookmark. Below is the one featuring what increasingly seems to be the cover for Auton, alongside those for Cyberhunt, Cybergeddon, Republica, The Rani Reaps The Whirlwind and The Airzone Solution.

Auton is available for pre-order with two other books here if you are in the UK and here if you are not.

Big Damn Heroics: R. Tam, Session 416 - Second Excerpt & Episode Death Tolls

Spatial Anomaly also covered the first of The R. Tam Sessions, Session 416 - Second Excerpt.

Accompanied by an article about episode death tolls exclusive to patrons.

Please consider popping over to Spatial Anomaly for a butcher's.

Auton Artwork Not Final

Here is the cover for my Auton novelisation that was featured in the pre-order announcement is very clearly stated to be NOT FINAL. I don't know if it is likely to remain, but I would be pretty happy with it if it did.

They are available for pre-order in the UK here or not the UK here.