In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

For those of us unable, or unwilling, to pay to watch the UFC Freedom 250 event which "happened" to coincide with POTUS47's 80th birthday, it seems to have been everything that we thought it might be, tacky, shamelessly crass and with strong echoes of the declining days of the Roman Empire's gladiatorial games.

But not to worry, visitors to Washington could visit the newly renovated Reflecting Pool, and possibly take home some souvenir algae bloom.

The US/Iran war is apparently over.... again... possibly... still being worked out... waiting to be signed... is still general rather than specific. It's a freaking "Choose Your Own Adventure" that's what it is.

The UK is looking to ban major social media access to those under 16

I meant to mention the passing of Marcia Lucas, the film editor who truly made "Star Wars: A New Hope" the blockbuster what it was, though she always insisted that she had only fixed a scene or two.