Day 20 - Favourite super power or skill.

Invisibility is creepy, and there's the whole clothes and food issue. Super strength seems a bit pointless apart from impressing blokes in a pub. Teleportation is a possibility. But come on, it's flight isn't it? Although they never seem to address the problems of warm clothing, goggles and just getting lost in the air. I think you would need a decent flying jacket and some goggles with a heads up GPS system. That would work.

Day 19 - Comic book city/universe you wish you lived in

Well I may as well plug my annotations page again. The Scarlet Traces universe contains such a neat idea that I almost slapped my forehead when I first read about it. The idea that the British Empire took the Martian technology left at the end of the War of the Worlds and used it to maintain and extend the empire is so obvious that I would be surprised if hadn't been used in other fiction. Let me know of any other examples. Now it has to be said that by the time of the third volume the British Empire is not very nice but there are suggestions towards the end that changes are afoot. It would be an interesting place to live, especially if I could have the cool car used by the two men from the ministry at the end of the book.

Day 18 - Favourite B-list character

I guess my comic book reading is limited because I keep returning to the same stories and creators. Captain UK was a parallel universe version of our own Captain Britain. Linda McQuillan came from Earth 238 where all super-heroes had been wiped out by the lethal creature know as the Fury. This massacre has left her so emotionally scarred that she was unable to use her powers until the events of the Jasper's Warp forced her to re-don her costume. She briefly went on to join a team called Excalibur but I don't think she has been used much since the 1980s. A B-list character but an interesting one.

Day 17 - Most useless Villain

It's the Silver age Marvel villain who took on the Fantastic Four with his pot of super-glue. Yes, it's Paste Pot Pete, and no matter how Marvel later rebranded him as the Trapster (tah-dah!) he has always been rubbish.

Day 16 - Funniest comic book/comic book scene.

It's the beardy weirdy again and a strange strip he wrote for 2000AD called D.R. and Quinch. Illustrated with fab Alan Davis art it includes a story about the reprobates of the title managing to get into the movie business and tempting a legendary, mumbling movie star called Marlon to star in their picture. It culminates in this bizarre and hilarious moment involving a pile of Oranges. You sort of had to be there, you know?

Day 15 - A Picture from the comic you’re reading right now

Reading right now? I'm too busy unpacking boxes. However I have just been reading the latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume Century: 1969. So how about this image of the Nautilus, yup the one from Jules Verne.

On that subject check out the excellent annotations from Jess Nevins here.

Day 14 – Favourite comic book panel

'Nuff said!