I'm well attested as to having hated The Phantom Menace, well the entire prequel trilogy, and to having been incandescent with rage at Rise of Skywalker's racist, misogynistic bullshit. I'm pretty clear too that The Force Awakens took a turn far too far into fan service and nostalgia rather than seeking to reinvent the story for a new generation with new ideas and challenges.

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I recently finished watching the rather excellent Wonderman, the latest Marvel entry which sits in their 'Spotlight' space which focuses entire runs on a single hero. I had low hopes for Wonderman going in - it's been sat on a shelf at Disney for quite a long time and that normally suggests a lack of confidence in the product. When the maker of the story doesn't believe in it...well, it doesn't bode well.

Gorse by Sam K Horton is set in Cornwall in 1786. All I know about that is this: Cornwall was a long way from London at that time and unlike somewhere such as the fens in East Anglia, it was far harder to reach as well. Horton's story is set in a small village on the moors called Mirecoombe, away from the sea and full of bogs, stone, windswept hills and huge skies.

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