Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

Okay, people. Season finale time. We begin with a neat recap of the entire season, thereby rendering the previous twenty-one episodes obsolete. Neat. That’ll save on DVD production costs.
Then we begin the episode proper. Like all good season finales, this one begins in Quebec with a dying old man. He is being read his last [...]

What has become clear to those with the common sense and single-minded determination to open their souls to its magnificence is that the first season of Heroes is the single finest piece of televisual fiction ever to foist itself upon us, the eternally grateful viewer. Nobody sane disputes this.
The challenge will be the second season. [...]

Table of Contents

#151 - Here Comes Tomorrow, Part One Of Four
#152 - Here Comes Tomorrow, Part Two Of Four
#153 - Here Comes Tomorrow, Part Three Of Four
#154 - Here Comes Tomorrow, Part Four Of Four

Issue One Hundred And Fifty-One - Here Comes Tomorrow, Part One Of Four
Next thing you know we’re one hundred and fifty [...]

Duets. Like me, you were probably under the impression that this movie was ninety-odd minutes of mindless pap, centred around Huey Lewis training young Gwyneth Paltrow in the mystical ways of karaoke, with the pair of them slowly (but oh so surely) climbing their way up the ladder of the world karaoke circuit, to ultimate, [...]

We open with a Luthorcorp facility under attack. Sirens are blaring, sections are being compromised, security teams are being killed. Heck, even the (frankly misplaced) china cabinet has been destroyed.
Sinead and a panicky scientist watch the intruder’s progress on various computer monitors. Finally, the intruder breaks into their room.
“Mission accomplished,” he says.
“Hell yeah!” says Sinead, [...]

If you, as a drug-addled Smallville fan, have been clamouring for some kind of black and white dream sequence featuring Jimmy-James Olsen as a gritty 1940s detective, trying to unravel a vexing mystery that features noirish versions of all our favourite Smallville characters (plus Lana), then this is the episode for you.
The rest of us [...]

As a big game hunter of some (eg ‘no’) experience, I can confirm that the most feared animal to have in one’s sights is not a lion. Nor is it a grizzly bear or a rhino or Paris Hilton. No, the most fearsome animal we stalk is the Giant Snail of South America. Because, heck, [...]

While lazing about on holiday the last few days, I was introduced to an exciting new hybrid fruit. It’s a combination of a plum and an apricot, and it goes by the startling hybrid name of ‘pluot’. You may think that’s a terrible name for a fruit, but, on the other hand, the alternative was ‘apricum’.

Most people pooh-pooh the antics of Jack the Ripper and his incessant slaughtering of Whitechapel prostitutes. But has anybody else considered the possibility that his actions were simply a justified and long-sighted pre-emptive strike against the movie Pretty Woman?

Dear Dr Dan,
I have been with my bf for 2 years but still constantly think about my ex– even though at the end of that relationship, he treated me like crap. What should I do?
– Enjoying The Rear View
Dear Enjoying The Rear View,
I assume that by ‘treated me like crap’, you mean that he used [...]