Blake’s 7 on Blu-ray

Oooooh! Blake’s 7 is coming to Blu-ray, with digitally remastered episodes and new bonus content. In the same style as the Classic Doctor Who series Collection Blu-ray boxes. Series 1 is released in November. I’ve just preordered it.

Howl's Moving Castle playing cards

I picked up a deck of these a while back, while reading the novel for a book club, but not having seen the Studio Ghibli film yet, which the cards are based on. Now having seen the film I've dug them out again, and had another look through.

I really like them, but they'd only really work for folks who've seen the movie, and not just read the book. They capture a lot of the nice visuals and character of the animated film. Though some of my favourite images are missing.

Best of all there are different images on every single card, even the number ones. And running through the suits in the order in the deck they recap the story of the film, from start to end.

I collect playing cards, and am always keen to get another set with particular resonance for me. This is a very nice deck. And I'm very happy to have bought it. I got mine via Amazon UK, from a Japanese reseller.

The picture below shows some of my favourite card images in the deck, below the other cards spread out.

Big Finish in comic art form

Finishing relistening to Doctor Who audio "The Chimes of Midnight" from Big Finish, while revisiting some of the comic art previews drawn for the early Big Finish audios in their Doctor Who Magazine coverage. Those were such a treat to see each time in the magazine, back in the day, a couple of decades ago.

Here are those for audios "The Chimes of Midnight" (2002), "The Stones of Venice" (2001), and "...Ish" (2002). Others can be found in the Doctor Who Wiki.