Kevin Pyle, 35, gets his son to drive him slowly around the block while he holds a lead attached to his bull mastiff Bruce. He also reportedly shouts down the stairs for someone to come and change the TV channel for him, and was nominated for the Great North Bum award by the aforementioned son. The article ends: "Competition bosses say he won by a landslide."

How the uber-talented American comedian will not be able to put up with her serendipitous resemblance to Republican fundie-monster Sarah Palin for four years if the latter is elected to the vice-presidency. "If she wins, I'm done," she says. "And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth." Fey and quite a few others, I should think…

This experience of a female bodyguard of having to stand on the windpipe of a flunkey of the King of Saudi Arabia to prove she is the real deal is the kind of thing that was a constant feature of life for Modesty Blaise…

Hmmm. No Alan Moore? Nor Alison Bechdel? Oh well – the man – "an expert on superheroes" no less – is entitled to his opinion, I guess… Can't say his list is going to have me rushing out to buy his book, however.