Party badges on your overalls

The colourisation is AMAZING. This alone makes it worth investing in the DVDs or Blu-rays. Condensing 10 episodes into a standalone movie was always gonna result in the odd jarring moment. I those with live can. The rejigged soundtrack ranges from adequate to intrusive/annoying. Room for improvement on the next such release. The continuity tweaks didn't bother me. It's not like they're doing a George Lucas and trying to bury the original B&W serial - you get that as well, along with a heap of extras. I like the new background shots. But most of all, I love the new colour.

Been waiting for this collection ever since peeps I respect raved about the debut issue. It absolutely did not disappoint. Basically, it's about misfit teens finding surrogate family, freedom, fun and, on occasion, a farkload of trouble in the skate scene of 1980s USA. While the events in the kids' lives escalate beyond the point of believability, their attitudes and feelings consistently ring true. Similarly, though the pop-culture timeline might have minor anachronisms, and there are NO LEVELS in "Pitfall", neither do the references feel cynically inserted. I could happily reread it right now.

I played countless hours of squash as a lad. Was initially skilled for my age...then never grew any better. School friends who took up the game years later rapidly surpassed my abilities. This suspect old-timey advert ("A bigger sweet spot"?!) reminds me of the teen queens at my local squash centre who always appeared put out if they were matched against a gangly, spotty boy like myself rather than a grown man or woman. Star players with posh names like MARGOT and RENAE. They'd swan onto the court, dispense a merciless beating (quite possibly with a Pro Kennex racquet), then swan off again. Even the bolder lads who punched arms or hid bags for no reason were slightly scared of them. Squash was a very blokey world then, so these gals had probably learnt to take zero crap in order to excel.

DL's latest zine was provocatively, dark-humorously entertaining.

Guess I lied about the LEGO freeze. But it was only a wee kit. The chassis design was so intricate - 'tis a shame it's hidden in the completed model.

ScarJo has a message for ya. (Credit in the bottom left suggests I pinched this from a certain online tabloid. Woulda been many, many moons ago.)