Here Comes the Rain Again — This Week’s Links

Features Clark Burscough | August 21, 2026 Travel chaos lately, as climate change shifts the UK into a land of wildfires, and government warning alerts blaring out of phones with zero preamble, so, a lot of fraught commuting the last few days, that involved frowning at my ubiquitous comms device for items relevant to this week’s links, below, while delayed, and thinking, “Why is the comics internet talking about C-3PO?” before tracking back on the timeline and discovering the exasperating/originating thought experiment that had been posed, regarding Artificial Intelligence, frowning even deeper, to a frankly comical extent, and returning instead to the simple task-at-hand of trying to avoid eye-contact with anyone else in the tube carriage, as the universe intended. Life is simply too short. — Alariko (@alariko.bsky.social) 2026-08-19T12:40:44.114Z This week’s reviews. TCJ • Tom Shapira reviews the arbitrary passivity of DC’s Shade the Changing Man by Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo Omnibus Volume 2 — “Oddly enough, despite the problem of the shifting artists there isn’t a page of bad art throughout this book. Just look at this list: Glyn Dillon, Richard Case, Steve Yeowell, Miche...